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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Dngrsone said:
At least if they had sent me 120 meters I'd be able to fix my plane...
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All of you who use meters and English system had better get your acts together.

Lockheed Martin misread a requirement for the Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed it. Think it was pounds of force vs Newtons.

I just saw a post I can't find now where the same happened again.
 
dontpanicbobby said:
Is it the exhaust or the sound system?
I like a well tuned sound system with no plate rattle. But exhaust is like a super huge Harley.
Potato, potato, potato...
Cars should not make this sound.
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I don't mind a deep, Harley-ish sound, like a V-8 with a big cam, it's the little four bangers with the fart cans that sound like a dirt bike that I find annoying.
 
olbriar said:
Yards, feet, inches, and fractions of an inch suck.. lets face it. However, I think in those terms and just can't picture up in my mind a distance in meters.. just can't do it.
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Totally agree. We were the ones who are backwards. The metric system is much more logical, but when you grow up learning feet and inches, it's hard to unlearn. We had our chance in the 70s to join modern society but wimped out.
 
Gmash said:
I don't mind a deep, Harley-ish sound, like a V-8 with a big cam, it's the little four bangers with the fart cans that sound like a dirt bike that I find annoying.
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Chainsaw with a cherry Bomb, Lmfao.. I still drive a Honda and was given looks of horror by the Muffler Man and Honda guys when I asked how to make it quieter. It's fine & quiet now but was wondering if it was feasibly possible to silence it more anyways.. [emoji41] I don't do Coffee can mufflers
 
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I stopped replacing the resonator on my Spitfire (did have the muffler - lack of ground clearance) and that sounded like the Grand Prix starting up. It was a 4 banger. The Vulcan had Glasspaks on his Chevy. Now he even puts cotton in his ears in a Lexus. I usually have a window open in my truck. I like the noise. He hates riding with me.

I don't like the Harleys that sound like they need a tuneup. You think they are going to die in front of you at a light.
 
LV426 said:
I'm fully metric. My weight is in kilograms, and I run in kilometres.
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But you drive your car and observe speed limits in miles-per-hour(MPH). :thumbsupdroid:

I like confusing them sometimes, when they're enquiring about my weight. 13 stone 3 pounds. And it's often a good subject for a culture lesson about the UK.

BTW ever tried to be clever and attempted buy something like curtain material specified in centimetres, it's still very much yards, feet and inches for that I'm sure in the UK. In Hong Kong supposed to be metric, I have a suit or shirt or something made. they measure me in feet and inches.
 
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mikedt said:
I like confusing them sometimes, when they're enquiring about my weight. 13 stone 3 pounds. And it's often a good subject for a culture lesson about the UK.
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Or approximately 825 Newtons (here on Earth, anyway) :)
 
mikedt said:
But you drive your car and observe speed limits in miles-per-hour(MPH). :thumbsupdroid:
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True, but as I'm buying a car with a new-fangled electronic dashboard, I wouldn't be surprised if it can be configured to display the speed in km/h. I might just try it.
Maybe not though, as you point out, all our speed limit road signs are in mph.
 
LV426 said:
True, but as I'm buying a car with a new-fangled electronic dashboard, I wouldn't be surprised if it can be configured to display the speed in km/h. I might just try it.
Maybe not though, as you point out, all our speed limit road signs are in mph.
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I can change my speedometer into KPH, so there is hope for you.
 
Unforgiven said:
I can change my speedometer into KPH, so there is hope for you.
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Yeah, particularly as this is a French car, and those crazy Euro types are obsessed with metric aren't they? We left the EU to preserve our imperial units dammit! :)
 
Flight levels for aircraft are nearly always stated in feet the world over, and it's only a few countries where the ATC states them in metres and aircraft have to adjust accordingly. China, North Korea, Mongolia and a few others apparently have metric flight levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level


Apparently Liberia is the only other country where metric hasn't been adopted, and is still very much imperial measures for most things. China basically went metric in the 1950s.
 
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