Full and Complete STOP
Full and Complete STOP
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What is the difference between a "FULL" stop and a "COMPLETE" stop?
Is there something incomplete about a complete stop that it needs to be ANDED with "full"?
Is there something incomplete about a complete stop that it needs to be ANDED with "full"?
TTFN





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A "complete stop" is what you do at a Stop sign, if you want to avoid a traffic ticket.
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TTFN
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They might have made a Full Stop...but the journey isn't complete until the Final Stop. The journey isn't complete until the wands are crossed (for the last time).
Rerig
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rmw
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The Onboard Speedometer may read zero... but the actual velocity of the vehicle is not zero.
If I were driving my car in the cargo bay of a C-141, I would be showing 5 MPH... but actually doing 445 +/- 5 MPH.
My speedometer only tells me what the wheels are doing.
On ice I can get to 15 MPH without moving an inch!
If I'm not moving, I have no acceleration, nor velocity.
(except what the Earth is doing)
Any fool who gets up and opens the overhead bin door prior to the COMPLETE STOP deserves what he gets... but would probably sue the airline anyway.
You guys are a Hoot.
Gotta' love it!
Rerig
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I think they mean it will be "..departing in a moment," or "soon"
Jeff
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Yet, here in UK, the guard/conductor on a train (I'm sure he's now called a client interface manager or something) has come up with new habit.
He used to say "The next stop is Swindon". Now he has to say "The next station stop is Swindon".
By putting in the word "station", they're avoiding lawsuits from a passenger who opens the door when the train stops at signals after the announcement but before arrival. They say this even when there are interlocked doors which don't open until the train is stopped in the station.
Worryingly, some mentally negligible passenger has probably hurled himself from a stationary train because he observed the strict instruction of the guard and inferred that he was in the station, stepping out of the door into a 6-foot void to instant death on the electrified line below. I do hope so.
Luckily, nobody can ever understand a word the guard's saying because of his thick accent and the prehistoric PA system.
What a crazy world!
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Hopefully that is an example of natural selection at work!
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Harrisj,
Is it a COMPLETE station stop or a FULL station stop?
hee hee
rmw
What kind of car has the brakes lock up all the wheels?
I'm in a weird mood today, not enough coffee yet
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The phrase "full stop signs" caught my attention. A full stop sign as opposed to what, a half stop sign, or an empty stop sign?
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TTFN
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Not a full stop...slowly rolling until the light changes to green....or you see no cars coming at a stop sign.
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Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Bung
Life is non-linear...
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Only at stop signs - and I always heard that referred to as a "farmer's stop". So I would expect it to be MORE common in Illinois than in California - unless you're in Chicago, where all bets are off. [I'm still not prepared to drive in Chicago, or Boston or LA. and a few other similarly crazy places.]
Lest you think I'm deriding farmers, my father grew up on one (and I think I first heard the phrase from him - or maybe my mother
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Are there more farms in IL than CA? More farmers?
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must resist....must resist...
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I've seen a lot of GOOD looking female farmers.
Hey, leanne...don't resist among friends.
Let it out!
At least in this forum.
Is that deriding like dismounting???
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Some years ago, a chief engineer we worked under hired a consulting engineer to give a refresher course in engineering statics. Our instructor was telling us a side- story. He was cited for not stopping completely -- full --or whatever you want to call it (I side with bung)-- at the exit from an interstate highway. He pled his case before the judge and explained how nothing ever comes to a stop until it reaches absolute zero and went into some detail durng his explanation about molecular activity etc. The judge asked him if he was an engineer. "Yes" he said and the judge dismissed the case. The impression I got was that he wore down the judge who became bored or whatever with his explanation.
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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"The best example I heard was of a southern USA Policeman who stopped a man for driving through a stop sign. The man clamed he slowed down considerably yet admitted he did not stop. The Big Policeman took out his nightstick and started hammering the offenders hood. Then the man said, "Stop that". The Policeman asked if he wanted him to stop or just slow down?"
I once was watching a set of stand-up comics and one of them did this routine and did an excellent Jack Nickolson voice for the policeman. Made the joke twice as funny.
"Now, would you like me to stop or ... just slow down?"
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To quote bung from above, "Isn't "complete stop" or "full stop" (except for the grammatical term) a tautology? You're either stopped or you are not. Anything else just waters down the concept of "stopped"."
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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It should be "Start to stop"?
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A lot of people "Start to stop.
The problem is many don't complete the stop.
Hence, a "Rolling Stop".
$35 please.
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One time confused Brit in America.
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Full stop in space with respect to what?
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
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