What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[BleedingOrange]

Gas prices that jump up 3-5 cents a litre every holiday and long week-end in Canada. Nobody with any authority to control this gives a crap.

 

[Jstpssng]

Gas prices that jump up 3-5 cents a litre every holiday and long week-end in Canada. Nobody with any authority to control this gives a crap.

They will be going up here in another month. Election year always brings the prices down.

 

[kenmbz]

The funny thing is that, despite being the most famous of our many local chocolatiers, it's probably the worst among them. Hershey became big by finding a cheaper way to make chocolate, namely taking old spoiled milk back from dairies, and then adding so damn much sugar to it, to tip the sour/sweet scale. It has a unique sour aftertaste that many have come to love, no other chocolate is quite like it there, but give it to any Swiss or German and they almost immediately spit it out!

Another local company, Ashers Chocolates, makes world-class dark chocolate that I'd put up against even Lindt from Switzerland. But they've never gone national, as far as I know, they only sell regionally.

I grew up on Hershey, so I still appreciate it, especially breaking off half of their traditional 16-square bar to make S'mores.

Ashers is fantastic, haven't eaten Hersheys in many decades.
Hersheys was one of the first to go corn sweetener,

 

[Jstpssng]

My latest is the dome lights in vehicles which automatically shut off. I turned it on because I wanted the damned thing on! If I forget to shut it off that's my problem.

They likely have changed over time but the relays used to drain the battery almost as much as the light; except you couldn't see that you had left it on. Then it would come back on at 3:00 in the morning, you'd look out and think somebody was in your truck.

 

[mrmikey]

My latest is the dome lights in vehicles which automatically shut off.

I see your point but I've got a habit of forgetting I turned it on so in my case that is a good idea. One thing I don't get is the manufacturers list the dome light working like "theater lighting" it comes on gradually and goes off gradually, why? Who the he77 gives a rats backside how fast or slow the dome light comes on or off.

 

[Runner]

I see your point but I've got a habit of forgetting I turned it on so in my case that is a good idea. One thing I don't get is the manufacturers list the dome light working like "theater lighting" it comes on gradually and goes off gradually, why? Who the he77 gives a rats backside how fast or slow the dome light comes on or off.

They could give us the carburetor that yields 300 mpg, but no, they have to work on the dome lights. I think the bed light on my truck comes on and auto off too when you open the door. BS

 

[mrmikey]

I think the bed light on my truck comes on and auto off too when you open the door. BS

I know mine ('19 Ram) comes on when you open the tailgate, never thought to check if the doors turn it on.

 

[WinterDeere]

My latest is the dome lights in vehicles which automatically shut off. I turned it on because I wanted the damned thing on! If I forget to shut it off that's my problem.

The words of someone who doesn't have kids... or maybe even a wife.

The number of times I accidentally left a dome light on overnight could be counted on one hand, in 30+ years of life before kids. But now, it's several times per month that I walk out to the garage and find at least one car door or trunk left open, because one of the kids was hunting for a lost phone, book, or eye glasses case. So, I really appreciate the auto-off feature on my interior lighting.

If I had any pet peeve regarding vehicular lighting, it would be the A-holes who sit in parking lots with the lights on, or even high-beams. Yeah, we're all waiting for our kid to come out of Karate or dance, but I don't need your high beams in my face for the 10 minutes we're all sitting there. I always switch mine down to parking lights only, and a few get the hint, but so many are oblivious.

 

[Runner]

The words of someone who doesn't have kids... or maybe even a wife.

Yup, no kids and wife won't drive my car.

 

[JethroB]

I see your point but I've got a habit of forgetting I turned it on so in my case that is a good idea. One thing I don't get is the manufacturers list the dome light working like "theater lighting" it comes on gradually and goes off gradually, why? Who the he77 gives a rats backside how fast or slow the dome light comes on or off.

My refrigerator interior lights do that gradual thing.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

My refrigerator interior lights do that gradual thing.

Must be a halfway large fridge for you to be in there and find out.

 

[gstrom99]

New(er) pickup trucks that always have 4 headlights on, that are BLINDINGLY bright.

 

[Oaktree]

My latest is the dome lights in vehicles which automatically shut off. I turned it on because I wanted the damned thing on! If I forget to shut it off that's my problem.

Can't say dome-light timeout has been a big concern for me, but a related peeve is keyless-start vehicles' "accessory" function (ie-when you push the button without pressing the brake). Many has been the time I've been sitting in the car trying to listen to the radio while my wife's shopping only to have it time out every 10 min.

 

[mrmikey]

Many has been the time I've been sitting in the car trying to listen to the radio while my wife's shopping only to have it time out every 10 min.

Mines adjustable thru the radio for 5 to 60 minutes I believe....it's been awhile since I set it.

 

[Jstpssng]

Can't say dome-light timeout has been a big concern for me, but a related peeve is keyless-start vehicles' "accessory" function (ie-when you push the button without pressing the brake). Many has been the time I've been sitting in the car trying to listen to the radio while my wife's shopping only to have it time out every 10 min.

It's the same thing.

 

[BravoXray]

They could give us the carburetor that yields 300 mpg, but no, they have to work on the dome lights. I think the bed light on my truck comes on and auto off too when you open the door. BS

Unless you use a fusion reactor to fuse the hydrogen in the gas, it's not possible. Not enough heat energy in a gallon to move a vehicle 300 miles, unless you can do it on less than a 1/5th of a horsepower. Simple thermodynamics.

 

[Jstpssng]

Unless you use a fusion reactor to fuse the hydrogen in the gas, it's not possible. Not enough heat energy in a gallon to move a vehicle 300 miles, unless you can do it on less than a 1/5th of a horsepower. Simple thermodynamics.

Oh, come on. That story has been around for as long as I can remember so it has to be true!
Some guy out in California Michigan Florida invented it. The oil industry auto manufacturers DEP didn't want us to have anything which worked that well so they bought it stole it imprisoned him on false charges.

Aside from the reasons you mention, I assume that generating so much heat would fry a conventional engine just as you burn your valves when the timing is too far advanced.

 

[WinterDeere]

Oh, come on. That story has been around for as long as I can remember so it has to be true!
Some guy out in California Michigan Florida invented it. The oil industry auto manufacturers DEP didn't want us to have anything which worked that well so they bought it stole it imprisoned him on false charges.

Aside from the reasons you mention, I assume that generating so much heat would fry a conventional engine just as you burn your valves when the timing is too far advanced.

lol... just like everything is a "disrupter" in today's advertising, and turning "industry on it's head".

I didn't check Bravo's math, but wouldn't be surprised if it's right. There's a fixed amount of potential energy in one gallon of gasoline, and forward motion requires an amount of energy to equal friction (rolling + air resistance), which is proportional to speed. Ignoring acceleration, which is where most fuel is consumed, even a 100% efficient engine is going to use fuel in proportion to speed. With a rolling start, it may be possible to travel 300 miles of flat land on one gallon of fuel, but only at an unacceptably low speed.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

With a rolling start, it may be possible to travel 300 miles of flat land on one gallon of fuel, but only at an unacceptably low speed.

Please, don't let logic and pesky facts stand in the way of such a great invention.

 

[Eagle1]

VW claims 300 mpg or 100k per liter in 2014