Silly Picture Thread.

[onetrack]

The safety levels of vehicles today is so far in front of the 1970's vehicles, it's not funny. In the old days, we had crap crossply tyres, drum brakes, no airbags, no crumple zones, and metal projections in the cabin everywhere. But the old vehicles still went fast - and the roads were narrow and twisty.

 

In those days, you could repair anything and put it back on the road. A mate is restoring an FJ Holden sedan - it was written off 3 times in the 50's, 60's and 70's, and rebuilt each time!

The amount of body filler in the car is  amazing! And the body is twisted out of shape, no-one ever checked it for twist of alignment ( and yes, the manufacturers had data that you could refer to for twist, and diagonal measurements, and all sorts of reference points - but many smash repair shops ignored them).

 

Today, cars are made of high tensile steel and it's thinner than ever, and if it's torn, and a "structural component", it cannot be repaired - both legally and physically.

The metal is too thin to weld or braze, and heating via welding ruins the heat treatment of the metal.

With todays high-technology in cars, even immersing in as little as 150mm of water over the floor means the vehicle is a statutory write-off - because many electrical components associated with safety devices are mounted in footwells or under seats, and once they're immersed in floodwater, they can stop working, or only work intermittently.

 

[spacesailor]

Like a light bulb .

Most electrical systems can be replaced .

Who, would scrap a house . Because the wiring & metre box  took a ' lightning ' strike .

I have seen a flooded car , rebirthed, with second hand 

( wreaker-yard ) electrical parts .

A 3 month old car,  with seat-belts eaten by rats ,

rebirthed the same way .

Both would have been  write-offs, by their insurance companies . But some people prefer what they have saved for .

Better the devil you know, than what you don't .

spacesailor

PS  :  those insurance companies source used parts from the same wreckers. 

Edited Saturday at 10:55 PM by spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

It's all about money, spacey. Make it cheaper to replace than repair

 

https://youtu.be/Vk8x0iRr2ek?si=bprTeyDuNGeiVO06

[facthunter]

What O/T says is spot on. . You cannot legally put a structurally written off car back on the road  unless it's of the older type where structural parts can be fabricated , cut from  other vehicles and welded, rivetted  bolted in. Wiring harness  would be extremely difficult to replace where heat or Rodents damaged it. Even hosing an engine bay can damage microprocessors Mud silt and just water render mechanical parts useless unless you got into it  quickly and completely dismantled All moving parts. A creased High tensile steel  part of the structure makes it a write off. No If's or buts.    Nev

[red750]

Thread drift, derailed by Spacey.

[ClintonB]

[ClintonB]

[pmccarthy]

I had a wooden whistle but it wooden whistle.

The I got a steel whistle but it steel wooden whistle.

Then I got a tin whistle and now I tin whistle.

[old man emu]

If tin whistles are made of ton, what are fog horns made of?

[red750]

[facthunter]

Figs?  Nev

[red750]

[Jerry_Atrick]

I must be as dumb as dog ship

 

[spacesailor]

It is wrong !.

Intelligence is learnd & without the right education you cannot get a high Intelligence mark .

I am brainy but not intelligent. My mark is dismal ,

I cannot fathom those questions from " the one hundred"

After the answer is given , I see how it makes sense , to get that answer .

spacesailor

PS. : just a different learning  methodology 

Edited Monday at 10:54 PM by spacesailor
PS added

[old man emu]

I believe that we are equally intelligent at birth. It is not intelligence that is learned, but it is how that intelligence is developed to remember what a person needs to remember, and also the ability to call on what is remembered and apply that recall to new situations. I reckon that if I did an IQ test, I wouldn't do so well because that test looks for abilities to problem solve in areas that I have never needed to enter. However, if you look at what I've done with the renovation, I reckon it shows my ability to solve problems in that area.

 

It is now known that there is great variation in the ways that a person is educated, that is, how information that needs to be remembered is presented. Unfortunately, that knowledge may not have trickled down to the places where our young are sent to be educated. 

[Marty_d]

11 hours ago, red750 said:

I think Spacey's right, it's just different learning methods.  I ripped through that like Snoop Dogg through a baggie of weed, but then I read LOTS of books.  However from Jerry's comment I'm guessing he had problems with it, but Jerry is far more intelligent than me (based on his posts about finance and coding).

 

[rgmwa]

I had no problem reading it either but there are others on here who are far smarter than me about lots of subjects. If there are two things I’d like to be able to do it would be to understand everything I’ve been taught or read, and then to remember it all. I’ve failed at both.

Edited yesterday at 12:18 AM by rgmwa

[red750]

I'm surprised Jerry had a problem with it, I read it more easily than I read most of Jerry's posts. 

[facthunter]

Intelligence depends a lot on who your parents were. if all their tribe wayback had to be mart to survive the  kids will be smarter. That garbled stuff is quite easy to read for me if I do it fast. I have no idea what that proves. I've always wished I were more intelligent than I am. Intelligence is just the ability to process inputs. They used to talk of "aptitudes" Skills and interest in certain areas. Now it's bad news to suggest some have more abilities than others but in athletics it's fairly obvious. Not so much in other abilities. Why?  We used to GRADE students. That's not the fashion now, but it can be done. I went through heaps of specialised tests on the road to flying.  Coordination, Reaction times , Hypoxia Baro  and decompression tests. Middle ear balance function colour blindness glaucoma astigmatism. etc  Nev

[old man emu]

It is interesting that when writing most European languages, all the letters of the alphabet are used. Europeans are taught to translate those written symbols into sounds. However, languages like Arabic and Hebrew do not use the vowels. They are written using the consonants, and the meaning of each group of consonants representing the sound of a word is created by the context of the idea that is written down. 

 

The fact that Europeans can read something written with only the first and last letters in their 'correct' places suggests that putting in the vowels is not essential to the ability to decipher meaning from writing.

[red750]

All this leads to the assumption that spelling is inconsequential. Not so. There are too many words that sound the same, their meaning determined by the spelling. There/their/they're being the most obvious. And for pedantics like me, use of the wrong one is particularly galling. Like finger nails on the blackboard. The same applies to words spelt the same but meaning different things. An example is 'mine'. Ahole in the ground/it belongs to me/an explosive device (noun), laying out such devices (verb). Reading posts on social media is enough to make my head explode.

[spacesailor]

There you go ,

None or almost no physical human interaction,  from 3 to 7 ish . 

Then thrown into a pit of cannables (  school ) .

And teachers out of the 'army ' with their big stick, 

Who could learn properly While keeping a low profile. 

spacesailor

[onetrack]

After being in business for many years and dealing with many clients, business partners and associates, and employing (and also training) a lot of people, I can only say that every person has a peculiar and individual set of skills pertaining to "intelligence". Some people are fast learners, some are slow learners, but they often end up better at their job.

 

People take in instruction and teaching in different ways. Some are good at graphics, some are good at written communication. Some people need things explained to them in different ways, so they can grasp the principles.

 

I can remember learning a huge amount as youngster simply by watching, and I think many others do, as well. I struggle with deep, abstract ideas, and written teachings. I'm slow to pick up on them. 

But in my military training, when I did the (standard for the time) military testing to determine aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and general intelligence, I was marked as "highly intelligent, suitable for highly skilled training".

 

Of course, as a "Nasho", I never got anything like a recommendation for a Commission, because very few Nashos got Commissions, and the primary requirement for Officer training was being in possession of Tertiary qualifications, which I never acquired, because I left school at 16 to go into business for myself.

I would imagine that Officer training was very useful, as all the blokes I knew who went through Officer training, ended up in major positions.

[onetrack]

Interestingly, the U.S. military found that using "comic-book" style instruction was a very important educational tool during WW2. This style of education seems to have taken a back seat to more intensive text-based education in many areas since the end of WW2.

However, I'm always amused by the number of Americans who claim to have a "college education" or even a degree, but they lack the ability to spell properly, and they're "just plain dumb", in many other areas of knowledge. I've always believed the University of Life and Hard Knocks is your best educator.

[red750]

I have to admit, I have a short attention span, and get truly lost in some of the posts on this forum, particulaly from OME and Jerry. If they go more than 10 lines, I'm pretty much lost. They are pretty much aeroplane posts, over my head.