The washing hair debate

[jough]

It's around $2.90 in Philly.  It's a bit cheaper in South Jersey.

[side_show]

96.5 cents a litre here, but was $1.12 for most of summer.  Sucks.

[AugustWest]

$2.36/gal here.

[slink]

$8.56/gal here.

Thank you, and good night!

Ugh, and that after spending about six hundred bucks taxing, MOT'ing and repairing my car. I wish I didn't need the fuck*ng thing sometimes.

[theinevitable]

Walking is now my primary means of transport! I am like what would happen if we forgot how to make the wheel!

[linnea]

$8.56/gal here.

Thank you, and good night!

Ugh, and that after spending about six hundred bucks taxing, MOT'ing and repairing my car. I wish I didn't need the fuck*ng thing sometimes.

Holy fuckin' hell, slink! Where the fuck do you live that petrol costs that goddamn much -- a place whose government doesn't subsidize your oil? I heard that it costs like $8 a litre in the UK (and there are about 3.785 litres per US gallon). Crazy.

Also, with the hair-washing I have found that I need more detangling products as my hair gets longer. It has been forever, or at least 4 or 5 years since my hair was long enough to pull into a ponytail. I think I'll keep growing it out.

[slink]

Holy fuckin' hell, slink! Where the fuck do you live that petrol costs that goddamn much -- a place whose government doesn't subsidize your oil? I heard that it costs like $8 a litre in the UK (and there are about 3.785 litres per US gallon). Crazy.

No, it's at least only $8 a gallon here, but we buy it by the litre. If we priced it by the gallon we'd have riots happening. As is we occasionally have truckers blockading fuel depots in protest at the ever rising prices. And at least I think Norway is more expensive than here, not that that's really any kind of consolation! It's still pretty much the cheapest liquid here too.

As for the topic, I still don't know whta I'm doing with my hair. Washing it yes, but it's getting to a frustrating length and I can't decide whether to just leave it be, dread it or cut it all off again. I need something for warmth in winter, I'm missing that subcutaneous fat.

[Hobot]

Holy fuckin' hell, slink! Where the fuck do you live that petrol costs that goddamn much -- a place whose government doesn't subsidize your oil? I heard that it costs like $8 a litre in the UK (and there are about 3.785 litres per US gallon). Crazy.

Finish that tank, kids; there are oil-starved people in Europe.

[Drygioni]

To be fair, in the UK we really don't need much petrol. You can get from A to B in most places on a single full tank, depending on the size of your car. As an aside, I love the fact that Britain is so comparatively small. There is really quite a lot to see and do, and yet it is all within a distance smaller than the average US state. Exquisite.

On the news they sometimes have reports on rising prices in America which seem paltry to us, but that's rationalised with distance. Unless you're one of those wankers who live and work all year in the city yet commute with an SUV. To be fair, we get a lot of those; Chelsea tractors is pretty much the standard colloquial.

Christ, in my area of the country there's a ton of rich families who merely live 5 miles from the nearest town and think that gives them an excuse to drive one of those petrol guzzling bitches of vehicles. They never take them off-road, and get pretty angry if you quiz them about why they have such a vehicle. Standard excuse is that they have kids, but people carriers are better for that! What the hell people.

Basically, fuck people who own SUV's for stupid reasons.

Man, now this is completely off-topic, and I have nothing to say about hair. Sorry.

[Asherdan]

Basically, fuck people who own SUV's for stupid reasons.

I basically hold them in disdain, but here in the land of suburban comando cruise family vehicles I'm definetly in the minority. Saturday we did ~55 miles of dirt/fire/off road in my jeep cherokee scouting our hunt area (again!) with great success. We found 4 streams/valleys where we mapped out deer travel ways, as well as plenty of coyote, raccoon and black bear sign.

Of course, this kind of driving tends to ugly up the jeep a little, what with mud, dust and brush pinstriping. I've already had two conversations with neighbors along the lines of 'What did you do to the car?'. When I told them the topic changed off pretty quickly, I think because I'm in the hunting/off-roading non-PC minority around here.

Anyways: gas dropped under $3 a gallon last week for the first time this year.

And geez, I wash my hair every day 'cause I'ma sweaty bastard.

[CortJstr]

Sometimes I really really wish I was a cop just so I could pull over people driving Humvees on roads like I-66 where no trucks are allowed. They have such an insanely high GVW that they are considered trucks but none of the real cops ever call them on it. I'd also pull over the fucktards who drive in the rain with their headlights off. No matter how sunny it is they have to be on. It's not that difficult of a rule.

Judy: "people carriers"?

[Drygioni]

Judy: "people carriers"?

Maybe you call them MPVs?

[theinevitable]

"Van" or "minivan."

my mom drives an SUV. But she is buying a Hybrid to replace it. Her excuse (for the SUV) is that driving a minivan is basically like driving Shit. I do not understand this, as driving her SUV (land cruiser) was fuck*ng impossible. I can attest. I do not want to imagine what an even larger vehicle would feel like.

[Asherdan]

Mini Vans as they are commonly called here.

I think constantly that many to most of the SUV status drivers would be as ably to better served with one of these and a snappy V6 motor inside. It's not like all the important parts of the SoCal basin aren't paved over and civilized.

[linnea]

I scoffed at people who owned SUVs when I lived in Colorado, because Colorado has one of the highest SUV per capita rates in the nation. There were only a few occasions where even my Buick couldn't handle mountain driving. I could understand if you lived in the rural parts of the Colorado mountains, but come on.

Living where I do in rural Alaska, everybody has a truck. The people who don't...well, they cannot get anywhere during the winter. Most of the people who have regular passenger vehicles drive a truck in the winter. I have a 1986 1/2 Nissan Pathfinder, the oldest vehicle I've ever owned, and I love it. I have to admit that when I do move back to Colorado, I've been spoilt by the 4WD and I would probably buy another SUV or truck as my next vehicle. Yes, I am a hypocrite!