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I appreciate the "rumble stripes", both on the shoulder and between lanes. A nice reminder that you are not correctly positioned in your lane, especially in fog or darkness (or both).
They are certainly not omnipresent on Norwegian roads, but they are gradually becoming more common. I definitely prefer them to potholes!
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We call it "shoulder" as the edge of the road...
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Yes, the term "road shoulder" is pretty universal, I think.
I was specifically asking about the white line marking the edge of the roadway.
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We call the line and anything beyond as 'shoulder'...
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dontgointheditch ?
Mircea
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"edge line" seems logical - in the spirit of KISS.
And risking being called rude (again) - it took very little time for somebody ( not mentioning any names to identify / embarrass the guilty ) to get off the tangent / subject and talk about CENTER line when the OP was clear about the location of the line.
In my opinion - some people just do not read well...
and it has very little to do with Queens English skills.
Most frustrating part, to me, how can one expect good technical
response / discussion when simple not technical question gets botched down?
(And when I point that out , I am rude....so I will NOT SAY THAT......)
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... and then there are the relatively new members who hijack a thread to climb on their soapbox and flog a dead horse.
(Mixed metaphors, a dime a dozen today!)
This contributes nothing to the thread I initiated.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: What do you call the white line on the outer edge of the road
White line.
The one in the middle is called the (solid or dashed) "yellow line."
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David Crow wrote: The one in the middle is called the (solid or dashed) "yellow line."
Over here it's white. The edge line is white on most roads, and green on motorways (not sure of the US term).
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The Oh Sh*t line?
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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The wife calls it the "WATCH OUT! You aren't paying attention to the road. Are you trying to kill us?" line.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I just browsed my state's driver's manual and it doesn't give a name other than a paragraph describing them labeled "Edge and Lane Lines".
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The edge if the road.
You cross it, then correct, then cross it again - you're going to do a roadside.
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Most roads around here have the white line and then a strip of asphalt that is intentionally grooved so that when you drive over it you hear a sound that helps wake you up. I call it the growler. Pretty sure I'm the only one, though. I've seen many roads with that on the middle line too. I think it's pretty smart.
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I spent a brief time needing to drive on it on purpose because the little one had a minimum speed limit of 55 like it was some kind of internal speedometer. Driving on the 'rumble strip' made 'em happy. Never got pulled over, but kinda wanted to just to explain it.
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Kschuler wrote: I call it the growler.
Clarkson wouldn't.
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You can borrow this one[^]. My house is about 100m from the far end of it.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Looks like somebody was on their cell phone. 
BTW, I've always heard them called fog lines.
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I hate everything mechanical that you connect to a computer.
Especially something that has as many mechanical parts as a printer.
I only have 2 sentences written and already I'm feeling a long rant coming up. I could go in so many directions.
But I'll try to keep it short.
I've wasted enough time and money on this printer that randomly chooses to display this error that just tells you to send the printer back to the manufacturer. Looking up the error suggests that, despite this, the error "might" go away on its own just by replacing the ink cartridges.
Obviously, it's an ink-jet printer. I despise them. The ink always dries up long before I'm ready to print. Last time I printed anything (just a few pages), the cartridges were brand new. This weekend, the cartridges, a transparent plastic container, all show more than 80% of the ink is gone. I replaced them with my last spares, still in a shrink-wrap. The printer still shows the same error.
This is not the first time this happens. I've had enough. The replacement (printer, that is, not cartridges) is coming from Amazon this week. Once that one is set up and prints, I'm going full Office Space on this one.
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Throw it in the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing recycle bin, and get a laser.
It sits there in low power standby all the time. I print, it grabs paper and prints, then goes back to low-power standby. No ink to evaporate, no Epson date-chip expiry, no spending half an hour trying to get enough print lines working to get a recognisable image ...
This is my second laser, and I got it second hand, three years old, still on it's original cartridges (which were low) from eBay for £50. It prints double sided at 16 ppm, single sided at 36ppm (Black and white) or colour at 32 ppm and holds over a ream of paper. A set of aftermarket cartridges cost me £40 six months ago and I still haven't even opened them yet ... 
Only drawback is size: it's pretty big compared to an inkjet.
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I was going to say much the same. I have a laser that's at least 10 years old, and "just works". I'm sure I've seen LaserJet III printers much older than that, just working, as long as you can get toner. Back in the day, HP knew how to build stuff that lasted, and didn't annoy the customers.
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k5054 wrote: Back in the day, HP knew how to build stuff that lasted,
They certainly did: not long ago I had to part ways with my LaserJet 6MP after almost 30 years of faithful service.
Along the way I started to use Canon MF printers (last one is also colour) and they aren't too bad either. However the previous Canon I had to let go because there were no scanner drivers for anything newer then Windows XP  .
Mircea
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