The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Duke87 1,070]

(5071)

The name "Upper Peninsula" is fairly well known, but the abbreviation "UP" seems to be mostly used by people from Michigan.

 

 

[Muck308 55]

I'm about due for an avatar change. Anyone care to guess what building's room 308 my current avatar is from? It's a place you may have heard of...

5072

Main branch of NYPL. I don't know why I thought anyone would be able to guess that.

Hey hey I bought a "new" car today. 2011 GMC Terrain. I'm rather fond of it.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5073

Congrats. 308 in the license plate?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5074

 

Fun fact: People who live in the UP are called Yoopers.  In fact, if you go to Craigslist, their UP address includes the term "Yoopers" in it.

 

We got a new car.  We gave up our Mazda Premacy in Japan and now in Michigan we've got a Mazda5.  It's the same thing, except the steering wheel's on the CORRECT side.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5075)

How many miles does your 2011 car have on it, Muck? Mine has 52,000 and change... half of them put on it in the last year since I purchased it. Yeah, I drive a lot. The previous owner didn't.

[Vahr 341]

5076

We got a new car.  We gave up our Mazda Premacy in Japan and now in Michigan we've got a Mazda5.  It's the same thing, except the steering wheel's on the CORRECT side.

Gotta love switching driving sides

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5077

 

It was a weird sensation switching to the left side when I got there 4 years ago, and it's still a little weird switching back right now.  I always wonder if I'm walking up to the driver's side when I approach our car...

[Duke87 1,070]

(5078)

Correct side indeed. There are two kinds of place where people drive on the left: former British colonies not on the North American continent, and Japan.

Interestingly, though, there is a place in the US where people drive on the left - the US Virgin Islands, where they drive on the left to match the nearby British Virgin Islands, which they have much closer ties with than to the mainland US.

[astronelson 339]

5079.

Correct side indeed. There are two kinds of place where people drive on the left: former British colonies not on the North American continent, and Japan.

And the UK, which I don't think was ever a British colony. Perhaps more accurately non-North-American places formerly owned by Britain, except Caribbean ones, with some other exceptions (like Egypt, where British rule didn't really stick for long and drives on the right).

And also East Timor, which was Portuguese, then independent, then Indonesian, then independent again and only borders Indonesia; Indonesia, which was Dutch but only borders left-hand-driving countries; Macau, which was Portuguese but imported most of its cars from Hong Kong (which was British); Mozambique was never associated with Britain (but for some reason is in the Commonwealth of Nations, the only country not once owned by Britain to be so), all its neighbours drive on the left; Suriname for reasons that no-one knows (it was partially British, but Dutch since the 17th century, it didn't change when the Netherlands did in the late 19th); Thailand was never British and is almost entirely surrounded by right-hand-driving countries, still drives on the left for some reason.

 

EDIT: and Samoa switched from right to left in 2007. Just because something is popular, like driving on the right-hand-side of the road, doesn't mean it's the correct thing to do.

  Edited July 2, 2015 by astronelson  

[Muck308 55]

5080

It's weird switching. Before I drove in Ireland several years back I was so worried I wouldn't be able to shift with my left hand. I had absolutely no trouble doing so. Parallel parking was tough to get used to though. Coincidentally, I must, once again, refresh myself with parallel parking because the Terrain is a smidge bigger than the Honda Civic I was driving.

phil; naw, not even close. That would have been a happy coincidence.

Duke: I bought it with 48,865. It's from Quebec. The onstar personality was speaking to me in French which, despite studying for 4.5 years, I am not fluent in speaking.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5081)

From Quebec? So does that mean the speedometer is in metric only?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

5082

A friend of mine bought a Camry from Ontario.  The speedometer was in metric.  My speedometers were in metric while I was in Japan, too.  It takes a lot longer for my 5 to get to 45 mph than it did for my Premacy to get to 45 km/h.

[Prophet42 1,501]

5083

I used to have a 93 Camero.  It could go from 0 to 60 in about 5.5 seconds.  It had a top speed of 157 mph, but I only had it up to 140 mph once.  That is about 225 kph if we are talking metric.  The Camero had both mph and kph on the speedometer.

[Larks2242 251]

5084.

 

lol people are shooting fireworks down the road from my house and I can look out and see them.

 

I  got my backpack all packed and ready for tomorrow, who else is set?

  Edited July 4, 2015 by Larks2242  

[Duke87 1,070]

(5085)

Backpack? What is the backpack for?

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5086

Backpack? Full of fireworks?

How do people across the country enjoy the 4th? Around here people typically do one of 3 things.  Trip down the shore, trip up to the mountains, or backyard bbq.

[Muck308 55]

From Quebec? So does that mean the speedometer is in metric only?

5087

The speedometer reads both kph and mph but only one at a time. I have it set to mph obviously but I can change it if I like. There is only one meter so when the driver switches it just makes the needle move more or less along the meter which goes as high as 220. At first I said to myself "I don't think this thing can do 220 mph." Then I figured it out. It kinda "shrinks" the usable part of the meter(when set to mph) making it difficult to read which is why a digital speedometer is also included.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5088)

Now that's funky. I've seen purely digital speedometers that could be switched between English and metric, but I've never seen a mechanical one that could be switched like that!

I do find it interesting that it can do both, though. A lot of cars sold in Canada are in metric only, and therefore (I presume) could not legally be registered in the US without first being retrofitted to fix that.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

5089: Should adopt the metric system already :p

I drive about 800km a week so the mileage racks up quickly. Currently sitting at 235 but the car goes strong, just do some maintenance.

In other news, I have a date!who knew you could find nice people on tinder? fi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Larks2242 251]

5090.

You could find nice people in the bottom of the ocean too, Just got to look hard enough.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5091)

Some people do actually have serious relationships that start on Tinder, even if that is not its typical usage.

 

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

5092: Didn't realise how slow it is to type on the mobile site, sometimes funny things happen. Sorry bout the semi-nonsensical post.

[Skimbo 304]

5093

[wrong happyness]

Great!  My computer broke down 2day. Waiting for parts will "just" take 2 weeks! yay!

My laptop doesn't run skylines so it's lots of Dota for the next two weeks!

[/wrong happyness]

[timmie 988]

5094

I actually met my partner on a dating site. And look, we've been together for more than 1,5 year now! (Still, gay dating sites or apps are strange places with strange people.)

[philforhockey51 4,211]

5095

I know some people who met their husband, wife, partner, live in etc. on Dating Sites, but most I know who used tinder were not looking for something serious, recently it seems as it's gained popularity it might be changing, but in the end it's just a tool that can be used how you wish to use it.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5096)

I took a block of graphite out to dinner recently. I was carbon dating.

[Vahr 341]

 5097

Ha ha Duke

[wrong happyness]

Great!  My computer broke down 2day. Waiting for parts will "just" take 2 weeks! yay!

My laptop doesn't run skylines so it's lots of Dota for the next two weeks!

[/wrong happyness]

 Two weeks!? What kind of shipping is that? And that sucks, what parts need replaced?

[Muck308 55]

5098

My sister met her husband on a dating site. Circa 1999.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5099)

I suspect some of the parts may be non-stock items and therefore need to be procured before they can be shipped.

[Skimbo 304]

5100

 

 

Jup, one of the parts I just bought half a year ago went out of production.