Sandy’s R(ant)LOG

I found this blog post when I was researching my last RLOG post….this takes the proverbial biscuit…for gawd’s sake…will someone Nuke LA and make the world a better place ???……OK, so leave Santa Monica….

…she gets 100MPG DOWNHILL in her 2004 Prius…oh F*&king jaysus …..I can switch the engine off in my Range Rover and get a MILLION miles to the gallon going downhill love !!!!!!!!!!…..in fact why don’t you try driving your (2004) Prius off a cliff you’ll be f*^king amazed how economical that is…and getting rid of dumb f*cks like you has to be REALLY good for the planet at the same time !!!

I own a Prius
By Jill in CA
Posted Thursday 7th June 2007 20:13 GMT

Let me preface this by saying I own a 2004 Prius. It does not have the ability to plug-in to an electric socket of any kind.

The Prius does indeed have regenerative breaking. But what most people do not realize is that the Prius can generate electricity WITHOUT USING GASOLINE! Electricity is created by turbines turning at a great speed. Wheels on automobiles also turn at a great speed. Toyota has set up the Prius to make use of turning wheels so they act like turbines. If the car is coasting, it is using neither gas nor electricity. Rather, it is using its momentum to add more power to the electric battery. Every time I remove my foot from the gas pedal, the gasoline engine stops using gas and the battery does not put out any electricity. Period.

If I am going uphill, depending on the number of passengers and the steepness of the hill, I will get anywhere from 12 mpg to 30mpg. But on the downhill side… no matter how many passengers, if I can coast down (and usually I can because I was just pressing the gas pedal to get to the top and I have significant momentum) I will get 100 mpg AND refill the electric battery while I do so (also without using any gasoline!)… until I need to press the accelerator again.

My Prius will sometimes use the gas engine to fill up the electric battery if it is low, but I find that the majority of the time the electric battery gets filled up just by me taking my foot off the accelerator for a few seconds at a time on my commute home.

The Prius’ gas tank only holds 11.5 gallons of gas. I find that if I run it until the “low gas” light is flashing at me and screaming for me to fill it up, the tank will take a little over 9 gallons to fill and my odometer will show that I have gone approx 425-450 miles on those 9 gallons. If we take the low number and divide it by 9 gallons, that would be 47.22 mpg for a tank. The high number gives us 50 mpg for a tank. Those numbers are consistent with my average gas consumption in the 3 years that I have driven this car. Some tanks averaged as high as 54 mpg. It all depends on how often I was stuck in traffic. Interestingly enough, the Prius gets BETTER mileage in congested traffice than in open freeway driving without congestion.

By the way, my commute is 33 miles each way, so I do a LOT of driving. My commute consists of both clear freeway driving where I often zoom along at 85+ mph (yes, it is a very zippy car!!) and very congested freeway driving at 1-10 mph. During the 85+mph driving I will generally get 47 mpg because it will use a combination of gas and electricity depending on how full the electric battery is at the time. During the 0-10mph driving I get 100 mpg because at that speed it will only use the electric battery. If traffic comes to a complete stop, my car uses no gas whatsoever and the only electricity it uses is to keep the dashboard illuminated and my CD player going (plus whatever it needs so that when I do eventually press the accelerator it will go forward).

At this stage in our availability of car types, if my Prius were to be totaled and I had to get another car, I would definitely buy another Prius. The only other kind of car I would consider right now, today, would be a fully plug-in electric car.

I was parking my Range Rover in London the other day when I noticed that some pompous looking cow in a little Japanese piece of crap was staring at me wagging her finger in a very “Teacher” like kind of way (I hate teachers). So, being the concerned citizen that I am, I took a closer look. I might be wrong (could have been my bad driving at fault, which is VERY possible), but I think she was “remonstrating” with me because I was driving a “gas guzzler”…..jeez what is the world coming to ?

Wanna talk carbon offset ??? yeah ????? well I have 2 stinking great fields next to my house that I own and every year my local farmer takes away about 40 tons of hay….at least enough to offset my “green footprint” for a couple of thousand gas soaked miles in my (very comfortable) Range Rover.

Worse still, I bet she buys a tree every time she flies somewhere as a “carbon offset”. Guess what….the tree was there anyway !!!! ….but don’t tell her….

BUT…what about all of the stinking, rotten chemicals in her batteries (Nickle Metal Hydride to be precise)…yeah right….you’ve guessed it…my Range Rover is more eco friendly by comparison with the stinking factories that make these batteries, polluting the atmosphere and our rivers to make these “eco friendly” cars run wihout using petrol for a few miles…and don’ even start to talk about the true recycling cost of all of these chemicals…because that doesn’t count….RIGHT !!

….start walking, cycling or take public transport you conceited cow and DO something REAL to save the planet…better still get a generator fitted to your wagging finger and you’ll probably create enough power to keep a dildo running overnight…it won’t save the planet (just batteries ), but it’ll put a smile on your face before you see your next Range Rover !

Had to admit to being “gobsmacked” by the BBC’s choice of headline news last night…. “Sir Tom Hunter, Scotland’s richest man is giving away £1B to charity..”.  Sounds great, but he’s keeping at least £50M for himself.  They filmed Sir Tom sitting in his “Palace in St Tropez preaching to the camera about the “evils of the poverty gap”.  I had to check my calendar…was it April 1st ??

I’m not against people being generous, but I DO believe we should all keep these acts of so called “generosity” in perspective. Bill gates, Warren Buffet, “Sir” Tom Hunter, lah de dah… they’re all doing it.  WHY ??
….My basic premise is that no human being can reasonably spend a Billion pounds in their lifetime (unless they are totally wreckless … a bit like Prince Geezer and his twat of a brother from a backward little country in Asia).

To “get the plot” you need to do some mathematics…start by imagining you have £1Billion to get rid of…

Firstly …buy 12 beautiful billionaire homes….in 12 countries (one for every month of the year…good for your “tax exile” status…average cost £20M ?…good so you have £240M less cash….still, you haven’t diluted your assets unless you bought all of your houses in the Chernobyl catchment area !!
Secondly, treat yourself to 5 lovely cars for each house….hard to spend more than £1M on these on average…but you could probably blow £20M for your 12 houses….great news is cars actually DEPRECIATE (at least most of the ones I buy do)…now you’re down to your last £760M.

You need to be able to commute of course…so buy 2 planes (in case one breaks down)…bang goes another £50M if you go top end but not TOO extravagant (reckon this would secure a couple of “slightly used” Gulfstream IVs …the “mutts nuts” of exec jets…)…£710M and counting..

Reckon you could take your “spare” £10M and buy a few bits of jewelery and some nice clothes.

Russian wife (inc divorce) might be another £50m (if you don’t get the pre-nup right) …watch out…your down to your last £650M….

Super Yacht…£200M…for those days when you get bored with your other 12 houses…

….and just for laughs, get yourself a premiership football team…Manchester City for £80M, plus a transfer budget of £50M would take out another £130M in cash, but the club is still arguably an  asset ?…actually why not buy Fulham and sell off the ground for a tidy profit ??  Net net maybe it’s “only” £100M cos you don’t really like football (Paul Allen, Roman Abramovich are you reading this ??)

Now you’ve “only got” £350M left to spend….I know, why not find yourself a washed up ex President of the USA and start a charity with £50M to “end poverty” (bit of a laugh that the guy you’re teaming up with actually could have ended world poverty 20 years ago when he had a chance….but he spent it on bombs, guns and “Find the WMD games” instead)…still you get a lot of publicity and some powerful mates who can do clever things with cigars and you still have £300M left to spend ….

So…I’m not picking on anyone who is generous…especially “Sir” Tom, who has only kept a measly £50Million for himself…I just want to point out that these people aren’t as generous as they sound…they ALL keep their lifestyles…they simply CAN’T do anything else with the money…they might as well give it away….

…Knighthood anybody ??… I reckon Sir Sandy and Lady Duncan sounds bloody brilliant…and when I get my big gaff in St Trop  I can get prime billing on the BBC evening news (my mates will be impressed) and tell the world how awful the poverty gap has become….how ridiculous is that ??

Simple Fact…the world’s population has grown from 1B in 1820 to 6.5B today.  Fact (from emedicine.com) “Flatulence….most people produce about 1-3 pints a day and pass gas about 14 times a day.”  Pretty bloody obvious isn’t it…that’s at LEAST 5 Billion pints or 625 Million gallons (mainly Carbon Monoxide) more than in 1820 every single day !!   We MUST act now…we have to stop farting to save the Earth…the implications are far reaching, but we can all do something now ……ban beans completely to save the earth….this is not a JOKE ….I’m organising a boycott and barracade of Waitrose in Romsey on Saturday morning until they stop selling beans ….so if you care about the Earth …join my new organisation “RingPeace” and save the+ Earth !!!    Sign up below ………

How convenient for the FA that Chelsea and Man utd have been kept apart at the semi finals with the “new” Wembley ready to be inaugruated with a showcase final….Chelski v Manu Redskins …..corrupt…??  yeah. well I have my opinion, especially after listening to the commentators on Sky and BBC tonight….the final is being stage managed….sorry for you Blackburn and Watford fans, but I have no idea why your teams are even bothering to turn up for the semi-finals……

…..look on the bright side if you’re already a decided semi “loser”…I bet Graham “three Yellows” Poll won’t be the ref for your match as it’s already been decided (by Poll and Hackett…SO CORRUPT)  that he’s the Cup Final referee, because he can apparenlty choose which games he gets to refreee in “corrupt land” …I’m not against the money the FA is getting from telly…but you have to expect the corruption and match fixing that goes with it….

Finally….a comment for  “young” Harry Redknap..what a tit.. so obvious that Ronaldo (in tonight’s game vs Boro) dived (would have gotten a straight 8.0 at the Olympic 25M pool) but neither “Tit” Redknapp nor his friend Bitch Wilkins could see anything wrong ….come  on !!! ….dive dive dive that’s what I saw…I’m not unhappy to see a BORING team like BORO go out…..bit that was NOT A PENALTY…..I hope that the biggest cheat in football goes to Real Madrid…they deserve him !!!

Bye bye Becks, hello cheat boy (2)…make him the next 23 at Real and tell him to get married and wear his (pig) wife’s pants !!

I’ve been reading the widespread reports of the scrap at the and of the Arsenal v Chelsea (couldn’t) Careless Cup Final on Sunday. 

Thx to the benefits of Sky Plus I’ve been through this in slow motion several times and here’s my conclusion….

Toure was guilty of retaliation and deserved a red card, Mikel did nothing much other than tug Toure’s shirt (badly), but a yellow would have been fairer than red

Adebayour is guilty of nothing but will get his butt kicked by the FA because of his reaction.

Eboue …I didn’t see what he did, but it looks like he nudged Wayne Bridge who went down like Didier Drogba on Ice…..cheating wimp….

 …the guy that got away with setting it off was that little fat thug Lampard….not for the first time in his career…he went steaming in and turned a little incident into a major fight…yet he got a yellow card…so basically walks away unpunished…

I can’t believe how many idiots are turning their houses into the Blackpool illuminations for Xmas.  I suppose it goes with their Adidas shell suits and Burberry caps ?  There’s a village near Reading called Southend Bradfield where they seem to have some kind of competition between the chavvy people that live there (so much for quintessential English villages…this place is a dump in daylight, but you should see it on a December evening after dark !!!).  The chavs of Southend Bradfield are trying to out xmas light each other in the saddest possible way. The winner must be the one who can waste the most electricity and bling up their little semis to the point where they’re one candle and a fart short of bringing down the entire national grid…..I reckon you can see this little craphole from the Space Shuttle…maybe even Mars !!

In their spare time I suppose these are the same kind of prats who take a nice, simple family car and lower the suspension and put an exhaust on it that is SO WIDE that would get you arrested for selling weapons of mass destruction of the geezer who bought it was Iraqi…..coupled with 4 blinging corners that pass for wheels…what are they thinking ??  Check out Maccie D’s car park in Newbury…it’s full of these twats on a Friday night.

Good.  He was a mass murderer and the world is a more peaceful place without people like him. 

My thoughts today and every day are with the thousands of people who died simply becasue they disagreed with him.  In the age of the internet this should never be allowed to happen.  Man’s inhumanity to man is somethig that our species should never be able to tolerate, yet it happens time after time, in the name of politics, race  or religion.

 I have a dream, a dream that one day we will LIVE becasue we have no religion and we have no politicians and that we respect each other for what and who we are…I’m no altruist…. I’m just an atheist and apolitocal…and I wish the rest of you were too. 

 Goodbye General Pinochet…may our rotten memories of you remain rotten longer than your corpse.

Help me…..

…OK, so at 46 I don’t fit the profile of the average Radio 1 listener, but I love music and it’s still my station of choice.  Zane Low, Edith Bowman (gotta luv her, she’s a Dundee supporter !!) and especially Jo Whiley (The live lounge is the best thing that has EVER been on Radio …at least since John Peel ) are amongst a great bunch of hosts…

 …but…and I mean a big BUT…Chris Moyles….who are ya ???   How did this fat, opinonated, prick with a chip on his shoulder the size of Yorkshire get the top slot on Radio 1 ?????

I realise it might be a different audience to the rest of the day, but this guy is so self centered and tasteless…he’s vile.  He’s a sexist pig and I think he should be chucked off the air and sent back to crap local radio where he came from even if it’s just for some of the comments he makes about women…..is it only “lads” who listen to his crap ??

 Scott Mills for breakfast is what I say !!!   SEND THE FAT TWAT BACK TO LEEDS….GOD KNOWS THE FOOTBALL TEAM (AT LEAST) DESERVE HIM !

It gets worse !!

About 3 years ago I upgraded my phone and got sold on TalkTalk at the same time.  Now, we have swiitchboard here at home and at least 4 different numbers…I couldn’t remember which one was my burglar alarm number, so I registered that too as it didn’t cost anything.

Then……….Nothing  happened ….my main 3 numbers that I use every day stayed with BT…..but the 4th number (Redcare) got tranfserred to talk talk !!!!.  18 months of bills for 0p followed.  I made some changes at home and started using the redcare as an ordinary number, but it still didn’t get used as I had reserved it for a bsuiness that i never started.

Sometime later, I upgraded my phone….when I was in the shop I said to the whorehouse rep…can you cancel the TT subscription…”sure” he said and took a note.

I thought nothing more until a few months later I noticed that they were still taking a few pounds every quarter from my account…so I cancelled the DD and got onto them.  All fixed I thought….

 no way!!  I then started getting bills for less than a quid but with a £3 handling charge added because I wasn’t paying by direct debit.

 No way would I pay these cretins MORE for the handling charge than the phone bill was costing !!

 So, we got into what I thought was a polite conversation where I offered to pay for the calls, but not the handling charge….”we’ll get back to you” said the nice lady at CPWhorehouse…

…about 5 days later I get a letter from a debt collection agency demandingf full payment….”BASTARDS” I thought.  After several more letters I sent a cheque for £10 to the debt agency as a “full and final settlement”…this covered the total cost of the calls plus a couple of quid to shut them up.

 They cashed the cheque.

 2 days later they send me a letter saying that they no longer worked for the CPWhorehouse and had sent my file back to them.

About a month later I get a letter from another debt collection agency demanding payment with all the usual threats and menaces….needless to say I’ve sent them a letter pointing out that my cheque was cashed and politely inviting them to fuck off and start harassing other people !

Haven’t heard from them in the last few weeks….but be sure….I’ll keep you posted if I do !!

 Sandy