Things that annoy me

[Midniteoyl]

 

[bandaidmd]

I agree 100%. Nothing pi*ses me off more than a smoker throwing their filter cigarette butts down in my yard, etc. I make it a practice when I see someone do that is to pick it up and hand it back to them. Or if they're sitting in their car, I just toss it into their back seat! Filters don't deteriorate like the old time cigarettes did. They'll be lying there for years.

Want to know why it chaps me so much? 'cause I smoke. And I don't do that in their yard nor in my own. Mine gets field stripped and the filters go in my pocket until I get to a trash can. If it's not too much trouble for me - then they can do the same.

By the same standards - I don't smoke in their house if they don't smoke in their house. Simple courtesy IMHO.

Thanks, If all the smokers were this thoughtful us non smokers would be way more tolerant.

 

[bandaidmd]

How about people that are so proud when they screw with the pumps on there diesel trucks thinking that smoke equals Horsepower.
Banks diesels are the fastest on the planet and they burn the fuel not blow it out the pipe unburned. do a youtube search.

 

[txdon]

Enjoy my fossil fuel burning global warming smoke you lemming. I make lots of money and could care less about mpg. When you crash that sardine can, I hope that it's not into a full size truck that is gonna squish you till your innards are in the outside. But then again.........

Smoke does not bother me but your post is an excellent come back! I surely can't top it, so I (and the other million) will just have to be content to be a your continuing annoyance.

 

[Egon]

Goodness; do we need to return to the "hand pump" filling the glass tank. The exercise may help relieve some of those tensions many folks seem to develop at the pump.

 

[aczlan]

How about people that are so proud when they screw with the pumps on there diesel trucks thinking that smoke equals Horsepower.
Banks diesels are the fastest on the planet and they burn the fuel not blow it out the pipe unburned. do a youtube search.

All depends on how much fuel you put in... Smoke means that you are putting in too much fuel and wasting $$$$. You can get too much fuel with a Banks system just like you can with anyone else's.

Aaron Z

 

[txdon]

... Smoke means that you are putting in too much fuel and wasting $$$$.

Aaron Z

Yes we know, but for some it is therapeutic. (see above posts) If they didn't spend it on fuel they would spend it on treatment.

 

[dmccarty]

All depends on how much fuel you put in... Smoke means that you are putting in too much fuel and wasting $$$$. You can get too much fuel with a Banks system just like you can with anyone else's.

Aaron Z

My truck barely smokes now when I put my foot into the pedal because of the ULSD. With LSD, the truck would belch black smoke, now it is just a merest whiff. I thought only white smoke was unburnt fuel? Not sure either annoys me though. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[Midniteoyl]

Diesel engines can produce black soot (or more specifically diesel particulate matter) from their exhaust. The black smoke consists of carbon compounds that were not combusted, because of local low temperatures where the fuel is not fully atomized. These local low temperatures occur at the cylinder walls, and at the outside of large droplets of fuel. At these areas where it is relatively cold, the mixture is rich (contrary to the overall mixture which is lean). The rich mixture has less air to burn and some of the fuel turns into a carbon deposit. The full load limit of a diesel engine in normal service is defined by the "black smoke limit", beyond which point the fuel cannot be completely combusted. As the "black smoke limit" is still considerably lean of stoichiometric, it is possible to obtain more power by exceeding it, but the resultant inefficient combustion means that the extra power comes at the price of reduced combustion efficiency, high fuel consumption and dense clouds of smoke.

 

[CliffordK]

I've had this happen to me a couple of times, usually in Government Offices.

CASH NOT ACCEPTED.

In this case, Visa was not accepted either.
And I typically don't carry check blanks with me.
And, of course, I was 100 miles from home