If we gonna go with that I'm going to identify myself as Equine, please don't refer to me as humans as I am changing species.
Why is it??
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That will be next....
People are marrying their dogs and cats....so anything is possible.
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Can anyone tell me s face book down .?
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My cousin in Germany told me all of face book is no longer on line
Probably a good thing.
Facebook's very, very bad day: Services go dark and stock plunges in wake of whistleblower revelations
Facebook Inc. services experienced unprecedented outages for more than six hours Monday, adding to the social network's already miserable day.
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Well, well, well......things have come full circle....
I went to the grocery store as part of my domestic duties and who did I see at the grocery store working as an employee....none other than "man bun" himself.....
As I walked down the isle he was stocking he immediately recognized me and acknowledged me...I said I am glad he has decided to become part of normal society who works each day for a living instead of harrassing people in the parking lot....
I know the manager of the grocery store well and mentioned to him I was glad he hired "man bun" as it might help him grow up...the manager had a good laugh at the "man bun" moniker so I filled him in on our first encounter to which he said he's glad the guy is still alive to hire....
I went to the grocery store as part of my domestic duties and who did I see at the grocery store working as an employee....none other than "man bun" himself.....
As I walked down the isle he was stocking he immediately recognized me and acknowledged me...I said I am glad he has decided to become part of normal society who works each day for a living instead of harrassing people in the parking lot....
I know the manager of the grocery store well and mentioned to him I was glad he hired "man bun" as it might help him grow up...the manager had a good laugh at the "man bun" moniker so I filled him in on our first encounter to which he said he's glad the guy is still alive to hire....
Drove the granddaughter to her mother's house last night, boss lady (and little boss lady) asked me to make a couple stops along the way for various reasons..
While awaiting them in my truck, I had time to people watch...I saw a few eye raising spectacles;
A young fella in an older Cadillac STS with a large obnoxious fart can exhaust on it...and to add insult to injury it was a V-6 and sounded awful...
It was darker than a witches heart out last night and yet idiots were still driving around without their headlights on. I know the new cars (2022) will have auto headlights (by law) even if you don't turn them on and the dash lights will not illuminate until the headlights go on...
I saw a Tacoma sitting near me which had huge 5" tips sticking out on an angle and it had a v-6 and clearly not enough engine to push those tips as it sounded horrible when he took off like a crazy person..
I was sitting in one spot with my windows down and two bikes were sitting beside me, one was an older Kawi 250 (or 300?) and a metric cruiser...I could hear them speaking and the rider of the Kawi was boasting of his prowess and power of the bike...it was all I could do to not actually burst out laughing. The cruiser was loading up and taking a very large lady passenger and watching her try to figure out how to get on the bike was entertainment in itself...she just couldn't figure out which foot to put on the foot peg to get on it...and when she did, the headlight was shining high...no suspension adjustment there and that bike as maxed out for weight. But off they went in a cloud of gas fumes (obviously not well tuned either).
While awaiting them in my truck, I had time to people watch...I saw a few eye raising spectacles;
A young fella in an older Cadillac STS with a large obnoxious fart can exhaust on it...and to add insult to injury it was a V-6 and sounded awful...
It was darker than a witches heart out last night and yet idiots were still driving around without their headlights on. I know the new cars (2022) will have auto headlights (by law) even if you don't turn them on and the dash lights will not illuminate until the headlights go on...
I saw a Tacoma sitting near me which had huge 5" tips sticking out on an angle and it had a v-6 and clearly not enough engine to push those tips as it sounded horrible when he took off like a crazy person..
I was sitting in one spot with my windows down and two bikes were sitting beside me, one was an older Kawi 250 (or 300?) and a metric cruiser...I could hear them speaking and the rider of the Kawi was boasting of his prowess and power of the bike...it was all I could do to not actually burst out laughing. The cruiser was loading up and taking a very large lady passenger and watching her try to figure out how to get on the bike was entertainment in itself...she just couldn't figure out which foot to put on the foot peg to get on it...and when she did, the headlight was shining high...no suspension adjustment there and that bike as maxed out for weight. But off they went in a cloud of gas fumes (obviously not well tuned either).
Here we are in the fall....0700 and it's pitch black out then this evening at 1900 it will be the same....
Cloudy, dark, dreary and to top all that off, the Hallmark channel in their infinite wisdom has started their Christmas romance shows of which the wife enjoys watching.....at least I can disappear into the rec room. To get her back, I'd look for and find the Canadian Superbike series races, she started getting into the races and knowing the rider's names, she even asked me if my CMA license was still current.....she said if it was maybe I could pick up a race bike and go into the grandpa class....
Soon there will be no grass to cut or snow to blow or bike to ride (due to rain and cold). I will soon have to hide and scare the wife to amuse myself....I can get pretty creative doing that, but of course it soon gets old.
I may have to build a man cave/workshop next summer.
Cloudy, dark, dreary and to top all that off, the Hallmark channel in their infinite wisdom has started their Christmas romance shows of which the wife enjoys watching.....at least I can disappear into the rec room. To get her back, I'd look for and find the Canadian Superbike series races, she started getting into the races and knowing the rider's names, she even asked me if my CMA license was still current.....she said if it was maybe I could pick up a race bike and go into the grandpa class....
Soon there will be no grass to cut or snow to blow or bike to ride (due to rain and cold). I will soon have to hide and scare the wife to amuse myself....I can get pretty creative doing that, but of course it soon gets old.
I may have to build a man cave/workshop next summer.
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Why is it the US has never adopted the metric system yet build products using metric bolts..
My new Cub Cadet snow blower built in the US uses metric bolts. I had to tighten up a couple bolts the dealership missed. In finding these, I went over the whole machine as a precaution.
My new Cub Cadet snow blower built in the US uses metric bolts. I had to tighten up a couple bolts the dealership missed. In finding these, I went over the whole machine as a precaution.
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sheer stubbornness
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Adoption is a matter of practice. Anyone who has a 10 mm nut driver for our vehicle batteries has in fact adopted it. But we remain an unfortunate mix.
Ironically, our engineering studies have been in purely metric for a very long time!
The new tools and dies that created your snowblower were manufactured in metric but no one is going to throw existing manufacturing equipment (there is some left) and tools and dies in the garbage just because of this reason, and rightfully so. For repairing US goods including old vehicles, tool makers must still sell Imperial tools. Thus Imperial knowledge cannot go away completely. The US was a huge manufacturer for a long time and thus by pure volume, Imperial system attrition will be slow for us.
In contrast to that the US federal government is in charge of all major standards in some form. If they ignore an idea it will not happen. If they have any sort of initiative then POOF! it will happen like magic. The last major metric-related incident on a federal level (that I know of) was a petition for metric conversion to the White House in 2012. The Federal advisor responded to the petition that metric/Imperial is a choice for individuals. Think of a White House that sees fit to issue a mandate that individuals must get a vaccine but which called the measuring system so unimportant that we should still choose as individuals.
So the federal government has detached itself from the issue they claim? The National Weather Service goes back to the 1800's and is a veritable part of our federal government. Temperature measurement is significant in weather and science but our country still reports in Fahrenheit. There are infinite regulations and fees, including for "global warming" originating at the Environmental Protection Agency, another federal agency. They significantly affect the cost and complexity of manufacturing and the making of vehicles. But these bodies do not see fit to push for reporting temperature like the entire rest of the world does?
Our General Accounting Office performed studies indicating that a change to metric would cost too much. Since we print money on demand, the idea of excessive cost is outright vapid. Look where the money goes to. That is the issue.
Not just twenty-two years ago NASA lost a Mars orbiter due to Imperial/metric translation issues. We only have brief respites of this idiocy since then. NASA's new effort to replicate our last manned moon mission appeared extremely promising two years ago. But in an instant it appears that it may actually die on the vine due to defunding. Our leaders are actually repeating 1966 and 2010 (the cancellation of, at the time the most recent rocket replacement program) for the umpteenth time, taking cash from the very precipice of the human endeavor and allocating it to social wealth redistribution.
Why not switch to metric? Because science, the human endeavor, math, and metric unification are distinctly not a priority for the majority who have shaped our government and country for the last 100 years. The federal budget allocations and the leading ideas coming out of the mouths of our leaders on television right now distinctly reflect this vile fact.
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AND my 2019 Ford truck Still has standard And metric fasteners, lol
wth
wth
I cussed my Dad's '98 Dodge truck a few weeks ago too...standard and metric fasteners.
I guess it all depends where that particular part was made if it has standard or metric..
HD bikes suffer the same I am told as some parts are made off shore and are metric.
I had a die hard HD rider knocking my "rice-burner" once until I pointed out all the Japanese components on his HD....
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I was in fact distinctly wondering about Ford and Chevy today, knowing their history. Thanks for that input.
Sooooooo...are the Imperial parts currently made overseas from equipment that was originally made and used here? Or are those parts still made here? Just curious.
I'd imagine parts are made in the US and other parts are made all over the place.
My wife's 2010 Ford Focus has lots of parts made in Germany...it's been an awesome car for her and very hard for me to get her to get a new vehicle as she likes it so much...
Lots of parts on my last F-150 were made in Mexico...
Yep
My truck sticker says 100% assembled in Michigan...with 60% U.S parts
It's a Lariat too, so different trim levels come from different plants.
I know they make the XLT in Mexico and Canada.
i think you and @Hayabusa Wannabe
are correct in leftover tooling still in use for certain parts.
What baffles me is for some reason it is cheaper to ship the raw materials off-shore, get the product made and ship it back than to make it here in North America....
It makes a thing like "quality assurance" a thing of the past.
This was my first new vehicle.
It has a 6 year/100k mile warranty and maintenance plan, so the first vehicle I don't have to do anything to but drive...and get ready to drive far to the dealer I got it from, as the locals are idiots on a whole different level.
Regardless, when I got it, I went over it with some standard and metric wrenches out of curiosity, and yeah...Ford still uses both, lol.
It has a 6 year/100k mile warranty and maintenance plan, so the first vehicle I don't have to do anything to but drive...and get ready to drive far to the dealer I got it from, as the locals are idiots on a whole different level.
Regardless, when I got it, I went over it with some standard and metric wrenches out of curiosity, and yeah...Ford still uses both, lol.
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