And American Cheese (Velveeta, Singles, Cheese whiz etc.) is not cheese, they have none of the bacterial culture that makes up cheese.
So they call it "Processed Cheese Food"

I drove a semi sometimes for a couple years for my family farm. Didn't drive a whole lot, and pretty much all on back dirt roads and in lots/fields, to get some experience before possibly getting a CDL. Never ended up getting the CDL because I moved and changed jobs. I was around and learned from skilled drivers (my dad for one), so I know a little bit, but I'm certainly no expert. That being said:

Backing up a vehicle with a trailer is quite difficult because compared to a normal vehicle with no trailer, all your intuition is wrong and little mistakes get amplified quickly.

Backing up a car and want your tail end to go right? Turn the wheel right. Want the same thing to happen in a semi with a trailer? First turn the wheel left while you back up, which will push the tail end of your tractor left, causing a reaction like pressing on a lever that pushes the tail end of the trailer right. But don't overdo it, because that same lever-type action causes more movement the further you get away from the fulcrum point, so a tiny move there can result in a BIG swing.

Complicating that, you have no central rear view mirror. Side mirrors work, but distance can be obscured by the huge trailer very quickly.

Basically, backing up is one of the most daunting things about learning to drive a truck, particularly for people new to it. The "pull ups" he mentioned are the best way to overcome that. Pulling forward a short/medium distance gets the tractor and trailer back into alignment, so that straight back should result in the trailer going straight back. From that point, you can try to make small corrections. If it starts to swing a lot, pull up again and straighten out, lather rinse repeat.


The guy in the video does a good job (way better than I could do), but he seems to think he's the shit. I don't think you earn real trucking community bragging rights until you can reverse double trailers, or even triples if you want to be worshiped as a god.

Here's a video with doubles:


One of the full-timers on my family farm was quite good with doubles. Not "obstacle course" good, but I saw him reverse a slow circle around a grain bin. And he liked to tell stories about a some semi-mythical whiz guy that could reverse triples around a corner, etc.

This is just as funny as the "Hitler Reacts..." series (which is to say, not at all) but without all the hammy acting and gee-whiz-even-Hitler-dislikes-the-X-Bone-(or whatever)-get-it thing.

Hitler, Meet Hank and Marie.

Oh, jood jod, it's "JIF"! It always has been "JIF"! It always will be "JIF"! Jetting all anjry and calling the coiner names because you and shitloads of other people have been pronouncing it INCORRECTLY all these years is gust as joddamn silly as... jetting all anjry because you've been pronouncing it incorrectly all these years. Jee whiz!

@ant - "yewtoob"

Gee whiz, wandn' it dandy?!!

Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW6rENTfaU

I loved it!

Was it perfect -no. But it struck a chord with the creativity and invention which makes Britain Great, while sending out a timely reminder of what we have accomplished and given to the world.
So much to enjoy, lots of creativity and not afraid to be self deprecating, humorous and actually fun!

The abide with me tribute to 7/7 victims and those who could not be there was genuinely moving. Even if NBC thought that an inane interview by Ryan Seacrest was more important. Disrespectful dicks. I wonder if they'd do the same during a 9/11 memorial..?

The whole of the UK was grateful for the Great Olmond Street Childrens Hospital and NHS routine. Something to make our PM - whose so keen to downgrade the National Health Service to a privatised model that no one wants - squirm in his seat.

Because we don't need to prove ourselves to anyone the ceremony could focus on the achievements of the ordinary Briton. Unfortunately this meant it may not have been whiz, bang, sparkle, sparkle, pompous bollox enough for those with tiny attention spans. But as trade offs go..I can live with that.

>> ^ctrlaltbleach:

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Drats. I can't find a replacement. Thanks.

If you're looking for an all-in-one online service that handles hosting and all the backend stuff, you're probably going to want to use http://www.wikia.com. They use MediaWiki which, as said above, is widely used and established.

If you're looking to set up and host your own wiki, I recommend http://www.dokuwiki.org. While it doesn't have some of the whiz-bang of MediaWiki, DokuWiki is much easier to maintain and has a much easier syntax. If you're just looking to create documentation (it sounds like you are), it's perfect. Even if you need some of the whiz-bang of MediaWiki, most of it can be accomplished with the plugins.

I liked Red Faction Armageddon. Sure the plot was silly and all that, but it had good old fashioned blow-the-hell-out-of-everything arcade shooter gameplay that worked pretty well.

It came out at a good time for that, right in the middle of a big lull, so I don't see anyone buying it now with all sorts of whiz bang stuff like Deus Ex coming out, but when it goes on sale on Steam for $20 or less, I recommend fans of mindless action checking it out.

At first I'm thinking, this has to be Satriani, but it's new and I haven't heard it. Then I kept listening and the licks got more "gee whiz look what I can do, I played in the 80's!" and I knew it wasn't Joe. Then I realized who it is, and it all makes sense. Steve, rock as you do, you imitate too closely.

Cool painting technique! Very tempting.

Gee whiz!

"g-whiz"... IMPOSTER!!