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| coppercone2:
how about equipment chassis wall thickness? The walls are getting so thin, you don't need to panel beat anymore if there is damage. Just puff up your chest and give it a good exhale. Altoids tin is starting to look like anti tank armor with all the use of plastics. Mechanical engineers are slowly robbing us :scared: right.. to keep 'weight' down. One of the computer towers I got was so floppy it looked like a bugs bunny cartoon, you can sneeze on the thing and dent it. :-DD You used to need a dial indicator to see pressure waves in metal.. now you set down a equipment chassis and it looks like your unrolling the red carpet (and you are, to some persons ferrari). now stuff will sound like a Chinese gong if not for the powder coat Fucking stain calculators... and how houses are built... :popcorn: |
| SparkyFX:
--- Quote from: ataradov on November 21, 2019, 03:27:10 am ---I wonder how long they can go on like that. --- End quote --- These topics are partially in the responsibility of the national metrology institutes, as long as there are "slack fill" regulations about package size indicating more volume than actually present. So not only the net weight labeling counts, but also the volume of the container. There is however not much to do if both shrink for the same price, that's the rule of the market then, don't buy it. What i find helpful is that stores need to state prices per 100g or per kilogram additionally to the price of the item over here. Its much easier to compare. |
| Muttley Snickers:
--- Quote from: SparkyFX on November 22, 2019, 07:03:50 am ---What i find helpful is that stores need to state prices per 100g or per kilogram additionally to the price of the item over here. Its much easier to compare. --- End quote --- I keep an updated list in my phone of what to buy and from where as many products are exactly the same but labelled and priced differently, for instance Aldi sells Topz biscuits which are identical to Ritz but on average are a dollar cheaper, it's the same for many other products as well. I shop at all three major chains, Aldi, Coles and Woolworths and the latter is the only supermarket where we need to use two shopping trolleys, one is for the shopping and the other is used to cart around the mantis microscope so we can read their prices, the price per unit fonts are tiny. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Gyro on November 21, 2019, 11:48:16 am ---It's curious that, despite the shrinking sizes, the consumers of these products seem to keep getting larger. :D --- End quote --- A simple rule applies: if you want more, buy more. I reckon that's why. It's not as if there's wartime rationing in place. |
| eti:
Also on the horse shit bandwagon, here in England (and I am sure in other locales too): -- "Artisan" food -- "Dairy-free" / "Gluten-free" food -- "Finest" bollocks - Tesco & Sainsburys use this ALL the time (I trust Sainsburys way, way more though; they're a decent lot on the whole) . My Mum even said to me, last night - "It's one of their 'finest' pizzas, it's luxury, it has proper mozarella, and..." yadda yadda... yeah, I sighed inside :palm: sorry, WHO says they're the "finest" products/ingredients? Oh yeah, THE BRAND DOES. -- "Organic" veg/fruit (erm, ALL fruit grows organically - duh) etc, won't be too rhetorical. |
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