There could be a lot of smoke in the room before it's activated, also as it's lower than the top of the door, the smoke could be going into the next room.
that smoke alarm goes off if I think about toast, let alone touch the toaster
if you work on a graveyard shift you will have ample opportunity to train
you can stare at mandatory posters and learn all about
Factories, shops and railways premises act
you could amaze your friends by reciting The 1920 conveyance of petrol by road tanker act
and for an encore swap anecdotes about the 1972 liquified petroleum spirit regulations
this will keep you entertained between drunks, vagrants, assorted drug addicts and misfits who will try either to entice you to join them in the night by giving oscar winning performances through the glass window, or try every trick in the book to gain access to the premises
if you work on a graveyard shift you will have ample opportunity to train
you can stare at mandatory posters and learn all about
Factories, shops and railways premises act
you could amaze your friends by reciting The 1920 conveyance of petrol by road tanker act
and for an encore swap anecdotes about the 1972 liquified petroleum spirit regulations
this will keep you entertained between drunks, vagrants, assorted drug addicts and misfits who will try either to entice you to join them in the night by giving oscar winning performances through the glass window, or try every trick in the book to gain access to the premises
Been there, done that, and I still have no friends...
If you work in a petrol station then, you probably already know, but it's all your fault.
I don't work in a petrol station BUT I'll take the blame for your whole list of complaints (that you probably reeled off in an "adam bolton" angry voice ;) ) if it'll make ya happy..
but well the fact remains..... ya still hung that smoke alarm wonky :lol:
I tell you what grinds my gears about people at petrol pumps - the muppets who pull up in front of you at the only free pump and then go into the shop to buy fags/crisps/milk etc and not actually dispense any petrol! This happens no end of times at my local station, and there's a whole bank of free parking spaces in front of the shop that are usually available for use.
I challenged one driver about it once to be told "I'll park where I f**king like", which was of course a clever response. I did consider parking right in front of him and stretching the pump hose to fuel up, but decided that given the state of his car and attire he'd probably ram me, so chickened out :p
We too get queues where people won't use the pump on the other side, although to be fair when I've gone around them to do just that there's never been any abuse about it. I just look smug when I drive away and they're still queuing there....
We too get queues where people won't use the pump on the other side, although to be fair when I've gone around them to do just that there's never been any abuse about it. I just look smug when I drive away and they're still queuing there....
You would think by seeing others do it they would learn that filling up on the other side does not incur undue effort, that the pipe reaches and that it does not take the paint of their car.
Well thats the weird thing, in todays day and age people SURELY must know not to smoke at a petrol station. Granted not every car with its engine running or someone on a mobile will go up in smoke, but for just 5 minutes turn off the engine or simply wait a few minutes to ring up your mate about some gormless rubbish.
No mobile will go up in smoke, the risk is ludicrously overblown. So much so that Mythbusters put a bunch of phones in a room with a stochiometric mixture of petrol and air (i.e. explosive) and nothing happened when they were all ringing away happily. In any case whether you're talking on the phone or not, it's still actually switched on and the risk is no different. There is nothing in a mobile phone (save one that's being smashed to bits) that will cause a spark, the current used on the keypad (if the phone even has one, mine is touch screen) is far too tiny to cause a spark. You're more likely to cause a static spark closing your car's door.
The fuel/air mixture around a petrol station is far too lean to even burn, if it were not, on dry winter days petrol stations would be burning down everywhere each time someone got a static shock when opening or closing their car door. The risk of starting your car causing a fire is dozens of orders of magnitude higher - why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
No mobile will go up in smoke, the risk is ludicrously overblown. So much so that Mythbusters put a bunch of phones in a room with a stochiometric mixture of petrol and air (i.e. explosive) and nothing happened when they were all ringing away happily. In any case whether you're talking on the phone or not, it's still actually switched on and the risk is no different. There is nothing in a mobile phone (save one that's being smashed to bits) that will cause a spark, the current used on the keypad (if the phone even has one, mine is touch screen) is far too tiny to cause a spark. You're more likely to cause a static spark closing your car's door.
The fuel/air mixture around a petrol station is far too lean to even burn, if it were not, on dry winter days petrol stations would be burning down everywhere each time someone got a static shock when opening or closing their car door. The risk of starting your car causing a fire is dozens of orders of magnitude higher - why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
Whilst true, the risk of some dozy twat walking in front of (or directly behind) a moving vehicle and getting knocked over on the forecourt is higher if you let them use their phones.
why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
where's the "like" button ;)
of course some people will then blame the microwaves from the phone, at which point I point out the cell tower bolted to the roof of the petrol station :)
it's actually a miracle that no one lost their life as it's not that far from people and the M1 is pretty near.
the tap water out here is so hard and disguising out here it comes out of the tap looking for a fight. I drink bottled water due to some nasty after taste with the stuff out here.. One thing I do miss when I'm not back in London (the water)
No mobile will go up in smoke, the risk is ludicrously overblown. So much so that Mythbusters put a bunch of phones in a room with a stochiometric mixture of petrol and air (i.e. explosive) and nothing happened when they were all ringing away happily. In any case whether you're talking on the phone or not, it's still actually switched on and the risk is no different. There is nothing in a mobile phone (save one that's being smashed to bits) that will cause a spark, the current used on the keypad (if the phone even has one, mine is touch screen) is far too tiny to cause a spark. You're more likely to cause a static spark closing your car's door.
The fuel/air mixture around a petrol station is far too lean to even burn, if it were not, on dry winter days petrol stations would be burning down everywhere each time someone got a static shock when opening or closing their car door. The risk of starting your car causing a fire is dozens of orders of magnitude higher - why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
i thought the idea of the petrol stations suggesting that mobile phones caused explosions was a myth in itself. i thought the real reason they ask you not to use your mobile, is so you can concentrate better on pumping the fuel?
No mobile will go up in smoke, the risk is ludicrously overblown. So much so that Mythbusters put a bunch of phones in a room with a stochiometric mixture of petrol and air (i.e. explosive) and nothing happened when they were all ringing away happily. In any case whether you're talking on the phone or not, it's still actually switched on and the risk is no different. There is nothing in a mobile phone (save one that's being smashed to bits) that will cause a spark, the current used on the keypad (if the phone even has one, mine is touch screen) is far too tiny to cause a spark. You're more likely to cause a static spark closing your car's door.
The fuel/air mixture around a petrol station is far too lean to even burn, if it were not, on dry winter days petrol stations would be burning down everywhere each time someone got a static shock when opening or closing their car door. The risk of starting your car causing a fire is dozens of orders of magnitude higher - why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
Not a good idea to take Mythbusters results as the definitive answer!
EDIT: As a side note on Gas station safety..last night I went to fill up and the gas pump was sat in it's holder trickling gas....an attendant walked over to me a said
"Hello sir, this week we are having a safety awareness week"....
I pointed to the pump and said, 'doesn't seem to be going very well...".
petrol costs around 17 pence per gallon without tax
That is what fuel companies would have you believe....
A 0.76p increase on the 1st January 2011 brought the duty rate for the main road fuels up to 58.95p per litre. OK, so there is 20% VAT on the full amount you pay for your fuel as well.
But take 130p per litre, as it is now in some places around here - say 21.6p VAT, 58.95p fuel duty, and 49.05p per litre for the petrol company.
I'm still waiting for someone to misread the thread title and quote chapter and verse on ginsters pasties :D
ah well , worth a try
Ooh those Ginsters Spicy chicken or Pepper Steak slices are really nice, they're even nicer when you stuff them down your pants without paying for them on your way home from a nightclub at 4 in the morning (have to remember to pay for the Vimto though that stops the garage attendant from thinking you've been nicking :D).
Oh don't microwave them before you stuff em' in yer strides though it hurts :lol:
Yes ?2.22 per gallon for the petrol company - the rest goes to the government - now how much is a barrel of crude oil worth on the open market I wonder (ok there is refinery costs to take into account but they can't be that much surely...)
Yes ?2.22 per gallon for the petrol company - the rest goes to the government - now how much is a barrel of crude oil worth on the open market I wonder (ok there is refinery costs to take into account but they can't be that much surely...)
well they all have to make some profit heh. They'll sell it for what the market can bear, and since we're totally addicted to oil, they can charge whatever they want. :)
I can't bring myself to hate the oil companies etc, cause I know that at the end of the day I'm just massively jealous :p
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that smoke alarm goes off if I think about toast, let alone touch the toaster
yeah but pulling off the motorway halfway through a journey to top up adds road miles :p
you can stare at mandatory posters and learn all about
Factories, shops and railways premises act
you could amaze your friends by reciting The 1920 conveyance of petrol by road tanker act
and for an encore swap anecdotes about the 1972 liquified petroleum spirit regulations
this will keep you entertained between drunks, vagrants, assorted drug addicts and misfits who will try either to entice you to join them in the night by giving oscar winning performances through the glass window, or try every trick in the book to gain access to the premises
Been there, done that, and I still have no friends...
I don't work in a petrol station BUT I'll take the blame for your whole list of complaints (that you probably reeled off in an "adam bolton" angry voice ;) ) if it'll make ya happy..
but well the fact remains..... ya still hung that smoke alarm wonky :lol:
We are your friends.
lololol
I challenged one driver about it once to be told "I'll park where I f**king like", which was of course a clever response. I did consider parking right in front of him and stretching the pump hose to fuel up, but decided that given the state of his car and attire he'd probably ram me, so chickened out :p
We too get queues where people won't use the pump on the other side, although to be fair when I've gone around them to do just that there's never been any abuse about it. I just look smug when I drive away and they're still queuing there....
You would think by seeing others do it they would learn that filling up on the other side does not incur undue effort, that the pipe reaches and that it does not take the paint of their car.
No mobile will go up in smoke, the risk is ludicrously overblown. So much so that Mythbusters put a bunch of phones in a room with a stochiometric mixture of petrol and air (i.e. explosive) and nothing happened when they were all ringing away happily. In any case whether you're talking on the phone or not, it's still actually switched on and the risk is no different. There is nothing in a mobile phone (save one that's being smashed to bits) that will cause a spark, the current used on the keypad (if the phone even has one, mine is touch screen) is far too tiny to cause a spark. You're more likely to cause a static spark closing your car's door.
The fuel/air mixture around a petrol station is far too lean to even burn, if it were not, on dry winter days petrol stations would be burning down everywhere each time someone got a static shock when opening or closing their car door. The risk of starting your car causing a fire is dozens of orders of magnitude higher - why don't they insist we push our cars away from the pumps instead?
Trust you to come up with a full explanation. :)
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where's the "like" button ;)
of course some people will then blame the microwaves from the phone, at which point I point out the cell tower bolted to the roof of the petrol station :)
if I didn't see a proper explanation I'd think something was wrong.. :)
but well speaking of petrol stations , currently I live down the road from probably the most famous one.. for the wrong reasons..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire
it's actually a miracle that no one lost their life as it's not that far from people and the M1 is pretty near.
the tap water out here is so hard and disguising out here it comes out of the tap looking for a fight. I drink bottled water due to some nasty after taste with the stuff out here.. One thing I do miss when I'm not back in London (the water)
i thought the idea of the petrol stations suggesting that mobile phones caused explosions was a myth in itself. i thought the real reason they ask you not to use your mobile, is so you can concentrate better on pumping the fuel?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/tech/main617547.shtml
Not a good idea to take Mythbusters results as the definitive answer!
EDIT: As a side note on Gas station safety..last night I went to fill up and the gas pump was sat in it's holder trickling gas....an attendant walked over to me a said
"Hello sir, this week we are having a safety awareness week"....
I pointed to the pump and said, 'doesn't seem to be going very well...".
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/uk-researchers-invent-artificial-petrol-costing-19p-per-litre-50002478/
19p vs ?6 a gallon hhmm but thats pre tax perhaps.
but it is a good idea to take CBS as one? :)
that article is rather lacking in any actual news :)
petrol costs around 17 pence per gallon without tax
the guy set on fire while he was using a petrol pump. what more do you want? :p
lololol!!!
That is what fuel companies would have you believe....
A 0.76p increase on the 1st January 2011 brought the duty rate for the main road fuels up to 58.95p per litre. OK, so there is 20% VAT on the full amount you pay for your fuel as well.
But take 130p per litre, as it is now in some places around here - say 21.6p VAT, 58.95p fuel duty, and 49.05p per litre for the petrol company.
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ah well , worth a try
Ooh those Ginsters Spicy chicken or Pepper Steak slices are really nice, they're even nicer when you stuff them down your pants without paying for them on your way home from a nightclub at 4 in the morning (have to remember to pay for the Vimto though that stops the garage attendant from thinking you've been nicking :D).
Oh don't microwave them before you stuff em' in yer strides though it hurts :lol:
[strike]which is around 11p per gallon[/strike]
?2.22 per gallon?
Yes ?2.22 per gallon for the petrol company - the rest goes to the government - now how much is a barrel of crude oil worth on the open market I wonder (ok there is refinery costs to take into account but they can't be that much surely...)
www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
www.sellmyretro.com
well they all have to make some profit heh. They'll sell it for what the market can bear, and since we're totally addicted to oil, they can charge whatever they want. :)
I can't bring myself to hate the oil companies etc, cause I know that at the end of the day I'm just massively jealous :p
... or a shareholder ;)