SultanOfSwing

Wait, they're charging $40.00 for a wooden letter with a name stuck on the front of it, and people are paying for that?

That shit needs some lemon juice poured on it, because it's basic as ****.

Pulaski

Here's another vote against tattoos - they seemed kind of exotic when they were rare, and a butterfly or hummingbird somewhere discrete wasn't offensive, but tramp stamps (isn't the name enough to put most women off ever getting one? ), fake bows, and sleeves among other body art, on women!

Shard

Yes it's really gone a bit too far, a kind of body defacement fashion. It must be a generational thing, because I really, really cannot understand the point of writing trite phrases around the neck or doodling on the back etc.

Back in the day, it was only the Japanese yakuza that sported full sleeve, full body tattoos. That was a spillover from a somewhat racist Japanese practice of socially tattooing members of the burakumin (untouchables) class. Times have changed when so many top celebrities choose to tattoo themselves for effect.

Teaandtoday5

Check out person (female) in Costco had a piercing on her cleavage/sternum.

DandNHill

A friend from NS was here for a week in June to learn the art of piercing...just about anything and everything...now she advertises on FB and puts lots of pics I would rather not see

Anian

They only gained that name when they became popular among the type of person who would wear clothes that would show them off. The same type that got belly button piercings, most of which went septic. No one gets them these days, the fad has passed and everyone knows that they all look naff. Lots of cover-up tattoos now done to hide them - full-back with an unusually large amount of darkness near the bottom.

I like tattoos (never had one myself) but there are a heck of a lot more bad ones than good ones.

steveq

As someone who works in lubricant research I can assure that its quite possible to buy very crappy oil in the UK. The secret is the amount of the additive package they add to meet spec can be exhausted in a few weeks of motoring, and you have an oil with no anti-oxidants / corrosion inhibitors/dispersant or friction modifier.

I could name names, but I'd probably get in big trouble.

steveq

I hear ya. Its a frickin cult thing

Steve, in the home town of Penn State.

mrken30

I thought high compression engines had tighter fitting rings and therefore allowed less of the combustion products to mix with the oil. The US were late to the market with high compression engines.

uk_grenada

Just admit it, either you are copping out or talking cr1p, you think you are going to get sued - get real - the standards produced by the consuming manufacturers exist, and in the uk you arent likely to get away with breaking them as the testing regime isnt bad, laindon did their own - frequently and i worked in Abingdon for a while too... You know who they both are?

petitefrancaise

ok guys. Which oil should I put in my prius?

uk_grenada

Canola... surely it has to organic and green - actually olive might be better?

steveq

There's a spec-manship involved. There are tolerances on the main grade spec, and the length of time the active ingredients are expected to last are not very tightly specced, so you can meet "the spec", at the point of use, and JUST enough for its continuing use, with a poorer product. It actually takes a fair amount of skill, and sophisticated equipment to do it, but the savings in material are considerable.

steveq

The answer is, for an engine in good condition, the best you can afford. Don't put a Walmart-own-brand in it, plump for an oil from a major, known supplier.

uk_grenada

Put up or shut up... the specs say you stay within tolerances for the expected lifespan of the oil, used to the standards like temps specified.

Even the supermarket brands are compliant, out of spec will get you in legal bother with the state - goods not of mercantable quality, or misleading labelling, and the govt will screw you royally, as they did BP, and the company labs will happily shop conpetitors - remember their water in fuel attempt?