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Post by graham on Aug 22, 2020 18:15:35 GMT -5
There are undetectable until the blue lights come on. Not entirely, there are clues if you know what to look for, such as two male occupants possibly wearing Hi Viz.
They tend to be up to date powerful saloon cars and sometimes they'll have what appear to be roof bars (but actually conceal blue lights) and a second "sharks fin" antenna at the back as well as the usual radio aerial.
There may well be a second passenger side mirror (lets the non-driver check out what's going on behind)
Also, if you see a personalised numberplate, stickers or tints on the windows, blue tinted headlight bulbs or someone smoking, it's *not* an unmarked car.
They'll be sticking to the speed limit (or just below) which is very often a dead giveaway on motorways.
Oh, and they're clean!
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Post by MalcolmR on Aug 23, 2020 6:44:11 GMT -5
If you are observant you can recognise them by checking out the driver and passenger. If they are that close, it's too late!
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Post by Bomber on Aug 23, 2020 14:56:27 GMT -5
There are undetectable until the blue lights come on. Not entirely, there are clues if you know what to look for, such as two male occupants possibly wearing Hi Viz.
They tend to be up to date powerful saloon cars and sometimes they'll have what appear to be roof bars (but actually conceal blue lights) and a second "sharks fin" antenna at the back as well as the usual radio aerial.
There may well be a second passenger side mirror (lets the non-driver check out what's going on behind)
Also, if you see a personalised numberplate, stickers or tints on the windows, blue tinted headlight bulbs or someone smoking, it's *not* an unmarked car.
They'll be sticking to the speed limit (or just below) which is very often a dead giveaway on motorways.
Oh, and they're clean!
In the days of white wall tires, you could usually tell the unmarked car by the black wall tires. This no longer applies.
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Post by frodi on Aug 23, 2020 15:29:59 GMT -5
If you are observant you can recognise them by checking out the driver and passenger. If they are that close, it's too late! Not if you are coming up behind them.
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Post by fritobandito on Aug 30, 2020 11:51:46 GMT -5
A screen between the front and back seats is a clue around here.
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Post by graham on Aug 30, 2020 14:38:32 GMT -5
A screen between the front and back seats is a clue around here. That's a taxi
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Post by mank on Aug 31, 2020 8:41:08 GMT -5
Not entirely, there are clues if you know what to look for, such as two male occupants possibly wearing Hi Viz.
They tend to be up to date powerful saloon cars and sometimes they'll have what appear to be roof bars (but actually conceal blue lights) and a second "sharks fin" antenna at the back as well as the usual radio aerial.
There may well be a second passenger side mirror (lets the non-driver check out what's going on behind)
Also, if you see a personalised numberplate, stickers or tints on the windows, blue tinted headlight bulbs or someone smoking, it's *not* an unmarked car.
They'll be sticking to the speed limit (or just below) which is very often a dead giveaway on motorways.
Oh, and they're clean!
In the days of white wall tires, you could usually tell the unmarked car by the black wall tires. This no longer applies. I know the police in my township drive Ford Explorers with black-wall tires and no hubcaps. Their wheels are plain metal. Even their unmarked cars are easily identifiable.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 20, 2020 15:23:00 GMT -5
A straight question for you 'Mericans. How do you make tea? A program here has just shown an American woman showing "How to make a proper cup of hot tea" This involved:- a) Boiling a mug of water in the microwave. b) Adding milk. c) Adding a tea bag. I think the penalty for this in the UK would probably to be hung, drawn and quartered. I do know that one of the worst cups of tea that I have ever had was served to me on an American plane. It had a frothy head, somehow. I also know that no hotel/motel/cabins that I have ever used in America have been equipped with a kettle. :Edit:: I have found the video. It is the first half of this. Christ knows what the fuck the second half is.
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Post by Jim on Sept 20, 2020 16:14:47 GMT -5
My mom always made hers with a coffee maker. If I remember right, she just used the coffee maker to heat up the water rather than boiling it on the stove.
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Post by Juli on Sept 20, 2020 18:52:34 GMT -5
Several in my extended family are tea drinkers or drank instant coffee, so I grew up with a whistling kettle on every stove. In boarding school I had an immersion heater. In college and after I used an appliance that could be used to percolate coffee, heat soup or just heat water. Now I have a hot pot, basically the same thing but doesn't do the coffee, that I use when I want hot tea, put the tea bag in the mug and pour the hot water over. I also have a Keurig-type coffee maker, I could use that, now. I have never used the microwave to heat water for anything. I tried milk in my tea when I visited England 7 years ago, and, sorry, M&S, I'm not a fan.
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 20, 2020 22:06:43 GMT -5
I would never make tea in a microwave unless there were no other possible way to heat the water.
Always in a kettle. Always pour over the bag the moment it stops boiling. I never add milk or sugar to tea.
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Post by Bomber on Sept 21, 2020 10:10:32 GMT -5
I would never make tea in a microwave unless there were no other possible way to heat the water. Always in a kettle. Always pour over the bag the moment it stops boiling. I never add milk or sugar to tea. I make mine the same way, making sure to let it steep for at lease 4 minutes. Nothing added for me. My wife, on the other hand, puts the teabag in a mug of cold water, then puts the whole thing in the microwave.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 21, 2020 10:35:35 GMT -5
The problem with using a coffee maker to get hot water, is that it always tastes of coffee.
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Post by marm on Sept 21, 2020 10:49:23 GMT -5
At work, I have a coffee pot that only ever has tea brewed in it, the same as you'd brew a pot of coffee. It took a little trial and error to find one that would keep the tea in the pot warm enough, without scorching it in 30 minutes. At home, on the occasions I have a cup, I'm fine with nuking the water to boil, then adding a tea ball after heating to steep, adding honey after steeping.
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Post by Jim on Sept 21, 2020 11:08:44 GMT -5
The problem with using a coffee maker to get hot water, is that it always tastes of coffee. Not when you've never run coffee through it! She has her dedicated coffee maker for her tea, he has his own for his coffee.
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Post by frodi on Sept 21, 2020 14:54:39 GMT -5
We have two teapots here. Always use a kettle and pour on water as soon as the kettle boils. The bigger pot is for me or when B wants some real tea. The smaller one is for B to drink her flavoured hot water. I made the mistake once of making myself some in in her pot, never again.
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 21, 2020 20:16:13 GMT -5
The problem with using a coffee maker to get hot water, is that it always tastes of coffee. Not when you've never run coffee through it! She has her dedicated coffee maker for her tea, he has his own for his coffee. Made me think of a funny story. When Lisa and I were first dating we went to an ice cream parlour for a treat. She ordered a cup of tea after which was served as normal over here in a small stainless steel tea pot. But on this one occasion the server must have grabbed the coffee pot instead of the boiling water pot. She had a pot with a tea bag that had coffee poured over it.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 22, 2020 5:57:58 GMT -5
Mmmmmm! Nice. You know how to treat your dates right, don't you Marty?
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Post by martycanuck on Sept 22, 2020 11:47:37 GMT -5
Mmmmmm! Nice. You know how to treat your dates right, don't you Marty? Well we got it corrected! But it was pretty funny to us at the time.
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Post by frodi on Sept 22, 2020 15:28:26 GMT -5
One of my techs makes herself a mixture of tea and coffee for breaktime. Whatever lights your candle.
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Post by mank on Sept 25, 2020 13:44:30 GMT -5
I am not sure where else to put this but I figured since this is a question this thread was the appropriate place. I read the obituary of the Austrailian batsman Dean Jones but, I don't understand the statistics of 44 and 210. I have watched cricket a lot but still have no clue what is going on most of the time. So, can someone explain the rules, statistics, and strategy of pitching, batting, etc. It makes me laugh that a batter can hit the ball backwards and it is in the field of play. I am a sports junkie. I played football, basketball, and baseball in high school and on a east coast traveling baseball team, and the thought of hitting the ball backwards seems so foreign to me. I have played a ton of sports in my day, semi-pro football, semi-pro rugby, and semi-pro softball. I played football until I was 37 years old until kids and running the basketball program at my kids' school got in the way (plus it took longer and longer to recover from pain after the games - I played both ways the entire game, center and middle linebacker). If it is too much to put in a thread the rules and strategy of cricket, maybe email me, or send me links that talk about the nuances of the game at mhmank@verizon.net. Thanks in advance.
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Post by frodi on Sept 25, 2020 15:08:53 GMT -5
I'm not an expert but this might help. Cricket Explained to a Foreigner
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes there are men still in and not out. There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out. When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 26, 2020 10:19:16 GMT -5
Mank, I hope you realise that the Oirishman's answer was tongue-in-cheek. Answering your questions, the stat of 44 was quite simply the average of all his scores at international level. The 210 was simply a score that he got during a particularly memorable match. In terms of how the game is played. Do not make the mistake of thinking that cricket is a weird foreign version of baseball, it isn't. Cricket was first described in about 1700. Baseball wasn't played until 1850. It makes me laugh that a batter can hit the ball backwards and it is in the field of play. Why? It actually makes little sense to me that baseball plays on only a quarter of the field. Surely there is more skill in having to place fielders across a whole ground rather than just a quadrant. This link is Australian, but they seem to explain the rules very simply.If you want the full laws, then Wiki is your friend.Oh, and Mank, you didn't play football, you played American Football, which is completely different. There is only one country in the whole world who have a game which involves throwing and catching a ball and call it football.
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Post by frodi on Sept 26, 2020 13:54:13 GMT -5
It's the one sport where the commentator can say "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" linky
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Post by mank on Sept 28, 2020 5:48:35 GMT -5
Mank, I hope you realise that the Oirishman's answer was tongue-in-cheek. Answering your questions, the stat of 44 was quite simply the average of all his scores at international level. The 210 was simply a score that he got during a particularly memorable match. In terms of how the game is played. Do not make the mistake of thinking that cricket is a weird foreign version of baseball, it isn't. Cricket was first described in about 1700. Baseball wasn't played until 1850. It makes me laugh that a batter can hit the ball backwards and it is in the field of play. Why? It actually makes little sense to me that baseball plays on only a quarter of the field. Surely there is more skill in having to place fielders across a whole ground rather than just a quadrant. This link is Australian, but they seem to explain the rules very simply.If you want the full laws, then Wiki is your friend.Oh, and Mank, you didn't play football, you played American Football, which is completely different. There is only one country in the whole world who have a game which involves throwing and catching a ball and call it football. Malcolm, I do realized that Frodi was kidding but that same explanation could be applied to American baseball. I haven't clicked on the links yet but 44 what and 210 what? In baseball I can say he batted .300 or was 8 out 14 at bats for a series against another team. Thanks for the links.
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Post by MalcolmR on Sept 28, 2020 5:51:32 GMT -5
It's 44 and 210 runs.
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Post by Jim on Oct 16, 2020 18:54:56 GMT -5
I just applied for a job with Timex, the company my dad worked at for 26 years. Weirdly, today I also got a Facebook friend request from my dad's old boss who has long since retired. I applied after he messaged me. This guy is also friends with some of my aunts and uncles. Is there a way to tastefully make use of this connection? I barely know him.
It'd be really cool to get in there if just because when I was a little kid dreaming of working with daddy, that would have been at Timex. Also, I had a lot of family work there over the years. My grandmother painted watch faces during WWII. My grandfather worked there until he got his plumbing company started and then they were his customer after. A handful of uncles had various roles there as well. My dad was the most recent connection and he left in 2001.
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Post by martycanuck on Oct 16, 2020 22:26:48 GMT -5
I just applied for a job with Timex, the company my dad worked at for 26 years. Weirdly, today I also got a Facebook friend request from my dad's old boss who has long since retired. I applied after he messaged me. This guy is also friends with some of my aunts and uncles. Is there a way to tastefully make use of this connection? I barely know him. It'd be really cool to get in there if just because when I was a little kid dreaming of working with daddy, that would have been at Timex. Also, I had a lot of family work there over the years. My grandmother painted watch faces during WWII. My grandfather worked there until he got his plumbing company started and then they were his customer after. A handful of uncles had various roles there as well. My dad was the most recent connection and he left in 2001. Can’t help with connections Jim but back in ‘95 when a big public company bought my Dad’s company they also bought a company in CT. The town name escapes me now but they were west of Hartsfield Int’l. Maybe slightly NW. Before they got bought they were called Coating Sciences Inc.. Anyway they played a part in the Timex Indiglo wathces. They provided the adhesive system that kept the Indiglo stuff on the watch face.
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Post by MalcolmR on Oct 17, 2020 3:39:47 GMT -5
Jim, I'd send a message along the lines of "Hi, good to hear from you after so long. . . . Do you ever hear from? . . . .Funny you should contact me, I had just applied . . . . "
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Post by MalcolmR on Oct 22, 2020 12:22:02 GMT -5
How do you barbecuers/grillers get your grill clean?
Years ago I was given an ice-cream tub full of a white powder (!) by a chef at a local restaurant with the instructions: 1) Never use it indoors. 2) Dissolve it in boiling water, don't breathe the fumes. 3) Soak everything for 12 hours minimum. 3) Don't let pets near it.
It works a treat, but I'm running out, and the chef has moved away. Any ideas what it might be?
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