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I feel like this might be the right time for a quote from the DoctorHunter Thompson posted:Rules for driving fast
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PT6A posted:Oh, believe me, I do. I never drive drunk, because it's illegal and stupid, but if I were to try, you better believe I'd be driving (in every other way) within the boundaries of the law. Funny, that's what all of my drunk driving friends say, after they're done blowing into their interlocks.
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Apr 28, 2015 05:16
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I feel like this might be the right time for a quote from the Doctor  except the bit about hash, don't put it off
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Apr 28, 2015 06:55
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I feel like this might be the right time for a quote from the Doctor Why has "your" been abbreviated? 
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Apr 28, 2015 07:37
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Ludicro posted:Why has "your" been abbreviated? It's a Jewish thing, it's a shortening of "Yourweh" to show deference to g-d.
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Apr 28, 2015 15:54
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ohgodwhat posted:Funny, that's what all of my drunk driving friends say, after they're done blowing into their interlocks. I agree they'll probably still get caught due to something a lot more mundane, which is yet another reason why it's retarded to drive drunk, I'm just saying that, if I were to drive drunk, I would be pretty focused on driving legally and safely. I'm not saying this would mean it was actually safe for me to drive drunk (quite the contrary), just that I really wouldn't try to speed excessively or attempt very marginal overtakes. I mean, you're already doing something quite dangerous by driving drunk, why would you make it even more dangerous (to you, as well as everyone around you) by also driving like an rear end in a top hat?
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Apr 28, 2015 16:17
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PT6A posted:I mean, you're already doing something quite dangerous by driving drunk, why would you make it even more dangerous (to you, as well as everyone around you) by also driving like an rear end in a top hat? Because impaired judgement is a fundamental trait of being drunk.
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Apr 28, 2015 16:20
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xzzy posted:Because impaired judgement is a fundamental trait of being drunk. I suppose so. I'm something of an expert at being drunk, and I've done some fairly stupid poo poo while drunk, but I've never driven!
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Apr 28, 2015 16:26
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PT6A posted:it's retarded to drive drunk . . . I would be pretty focused on driving legally and safely. . . I really wouldn't try to speed excessively or attempt very marginal overtakes. PT6A posted:I'm something of an expert at being drunk . . . I've never driven[drunk]! I guess this means I need to go make a donation to the Alberta Children's Hospital.
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Apr 28, 2015 16:49
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The last time I drove drunk I was coming home from a party down the block and managed to spin out on some ice. I'll never do it again, I was inches away from smashing into one of those metal control boxes on the side of the road. Easily one of the stupidest decisions I've made.
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Apr 28, 2015 17:12
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Crotch Fruit posted:I guess this means I need to go make a donation to the Alberta Children's Hospital. Yeah, I drank every day, usually heavily, for 6 or 7 years, and I still drink 4-5 times per week, but because I've never operated my vehicle intoxicated, I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to being drunk. Makes sense. I guess I don't know what goes through the heads of people who actually do drive drunk, though. so you're correct there. Just in general, I think if I were going to do a dangerous thing, I probably would take steps to mitigate the dangerousness of what I was doing. For example, if I were speeding significantly, I would be more focused on keeping a good scan going, and I would keep both hands on the wheel as much as possible, than if I were simply driving the speed limit.
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Apr 28, 2015 17:40
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Who taught people that it was ok to do this?  What's going on here is that I'm sitting in there waiting on the W->E traffic to pass so that I can turn left onto the Hwy on ramp. The fool to the North is exiting the highway and has a stop sign, and he wants to turn left, so he has to cross the center. As I'm sitting there waiting on traffic so I can make my left turn, he pulls directly in front of me, blocking me so that he can go when traffic is clear. This happens at least 3 times a week at this location. I've started pulling all the way forward to where I basically have to make a near u-turn to make my left, but it 100% blocks them out of doing this. The last lady that did it got so mad at me when she realized she was going to be stuck across the lane, blocking the E->W traffic and raged out like it was MY fault. What the gently caress is this and where did people learn it? big trivia FAIL fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Apr 28, 2015 20:02
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PT6A posted:I mean, you're already doing something quite dangerous by driving drunk, why would you make it even more dangerous (to you, as well as everyone around you) by also driving like an rear end in a top hat? I don't know, what if in this scenario someone is going too slow in the left lane?
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Apr 28, 2015 20:08
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-S- posted:Who taught people that it was ok to do this? No idea, that's just unacceptable since you completely have right of way. I can say I did that to someone once, but it's at a place where instead of turning left you could only make a u-turn, so if you're sitting there for minutes being a sissy who can't make a u-turn until there's a 20 second gap in the oncoming cars and all I need is one lane to merge into traffic then you can just keep sitting there all day, I'm leaving.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:34
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-S- posted:Who taught people that it was ok to do this?  But turning left means you have to turn against two directions of traffic, so they need to be in that median the instant they can get to it.Depending on how heavy traffic is in that intersection, they should probably rebuild the thing into a proper interchange & avoid poo poo like that.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:43
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Doing something about a person you share the road with. http://kfor.com/2015/04/27/i-gotta-stop-this-guy-before-he-hurts-a-little-kid-civilian-stands-in-street-to-end-motorcycle-chase/ quote:CHICKASHA, Okla. — A high speed motorcycle chase came to an end when a concerned citizen took matters into his own hands.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:00
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Haifisch posted:
It's a hugely busy intersection, and yes, it really is bad interchange design.
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Apr 28, 2015 21:00
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There was a video posted either here or reddit which showed about 6 cars all going into the median to turn left and blocking the guy already there. It was super frustrating to watch.
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Apr 28, 2015 22:10
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ijustam posted:There was a video posted either here or reddit which showed about 6 cars all going into the median to turn left and blocking the guy already there. It was super frustrating to watch. It would be a trigger warning for me
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Apr 28, 2015 22:30
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ijustam posted:There was a video posted either here or reddit which showed about 6 cars all going into the median to turn left and blocking the guy already there. It was super frustrating to watch. People are just hilariously selfish dicks when they get into their cars. There's a section of highway I usually have to deal with on my way home. There are two normal travel lanes in each direction, but the direction I'm usually going in has an additional slow vehicle/acceleration lane since the whole highway is on an incline. There are signs indicating what this lane is for and normal traffic never flows into it. Part of the reason normal traffic never moves in this lane, aside from people understanding basic signage, is that it eventually merges directly into the right lane. Of course, every single day there are assholes who don't loving get it. Traffic on this section of highway is never particularly bad and at most slows down to around 25-30mph, except for the half mile or so right before that slow lane merges. On any given day, I'll see maybe 10-15 people driving at 60-70mph down this lane while the rest of traffic moves at half their speed. They will inevitably ride the lane until the end (or just continue driving down the shoulder after the lane ends to get one more car ahead) and then force their way into traffic. Seeing a tiny number of people inconvenience several hundred other people every single day is unbelievably frustrating.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:14
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FYI, while it is kind of annoying, you're supposed to use all the lane. You're not supposed to merge until the merge. To do otherwise dramatically reduces the capacity of the highway and makes it worse.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:26
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nm posted:FYI, while it is kind of annoying, you're supposed to use all the lane. You're not supposed to merge until the merge. To do otherwise dramatically reduces the capacity of the highway and makes it worse. Oh God, not this again.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:37
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nm posted:FYI, while it is kind of annoying, you're supposed to use all the lane. You're not supposed to merge until the merge. To do otherwise dramatically reduces the capacity of the highway and makes it worse. The problem is that they shouldn't be in the lane at all, not necessarily that they're waiting to merge (although that creates issues as well). There are piles of "SLOW VEHICLES KEEP RIGHT" and "NO PASSING" signs all along that lane, and about twice a year there will be a cop sitting at the merge flagging down and ticketing anyone blowing by traffic.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:37
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Uthor posted:Oh God, not this again. something something zipper tipping plane on a treadmill hitler.
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Apr 28, 2015 23:40
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Powershift posted:something something zipper tipping plane on a treadmill hitler. .999999999 = 1
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Apr 28, 2015 23:55
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This was fun coming home from work today. I'm the white car coming from the bottom. Blue car whips a uturn across both lanes, then cuts back to the left turn lane right in front of me. He then makes that left cutting in front of the red car about to turn right (who of course wasn't using his turn signals). I get to the left turn and the red car continues to just sit there (without blinkers) staring at me. Before I had even left the work parking lot, I saw a girl pulling out of her parking spot already on her phone. Some days I wish I was as clueless about cars as everyone else so I wouldn't worry about this stuff.
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Apr 29, 2015 00:46
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Had the joy of watching someone reverse down an onramp. Right near the local high school after it got out, girl went flying halfway up the ramp, slammed on her brakes and threw her car in reverse. It took almost 5 minutes for her to back down the ramp as traffic was honking and trying to squeeze around her. This is the teenager I share the road with. 
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Apr 29, 2015 01:37
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I live in a close, which means it goes around in a loop and comes back to the same road. It's barely wide enough for 2 vehicles to pass with cars parked on either side. Somehow, people are still too loving lazy to drive the extra 300 feet around the loving close, and insist on trying to turn around in the middle of it to leave their parking space.  Using this area as an example, instead of following the green line from A to B like a civilized human being, they do a 8 point turn in the middle of the god drat road saving no time, and getting in the way. When i encounter people doing this now, i get as close as i think i can get to them without them hitting me, and force them to either give up and drive around, or struggle to make their turn. some people are learning. It's really the only aggressive thing i do to others when driving because it's so god drat stupid.
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Apr 29, 2015 01:47
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Powershift posted:I live in a close, which means it goes around in a loop and comes back to the same road. It's barely wide enough for 2 vehicles to pass with cars parked on either side. https://youtu.be/iLKR9tCiwvA
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Apr 29, 2015 01:56
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Powershift posted:I live in a close, which means it goes around in a loop and comes back to the same road. It's barely wide enough for 2 vehicles to pass with cars parked on either side. Read: I am a giant oval office.
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Apr 29, 2015 01:59
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 Blue is how it should be done. Red is how every loving retard does it when I am trying to loving leave. And yeah, there are arrows on the loving pavement.
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Apr 29, 2015 02:08
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that's basically it, coupled with cars getting stuck in 6 inch deep ruts mid winter and people who can't back their cars up inching towards the soft curb at 1/4 of a mile an hour.
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Apr 29, 2015 02:19
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These are the assholes you share the road with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQIIgxTVJQ http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/04/27/3763418_suv-narrowly-misses-elementary.html?rh=1
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Apr 29, 2015 02:57
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basically people who go the wrong way down directional parking lots should be executed on sight
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Apr 29, 2015 03:04
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nm posted:These are the assholes you share the road with quote:The bus driver was stopped near 224th Street and 124th Avenue East, with lights flashing and signals up, when the driver of a white SUV passed the bus on the right and almost hit the kids. Behead those who illegally pass schoolbuses.
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Apr 29, 2015 04:36
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nm posted:These are the assholes you share the road with I wish so bad that I could trade a license plate for 3 counts of attempted vehicular manslaughter
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Apr 29, 2015 04:43
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nm posted:These are the assholes you share the road with  I'd be perfectly ok with a vigilante parent (or non-parent) taking that driver out of the gene pool. 
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I swear I'm a magnet for this poo poo. Yesterday: took a nice drive out to an area with a really narrow, long stretch of 2 lane (lanes going opposite directions) fast roads. I honestly like this drive a lot, but it's a road with a lot of turns with no shoulder (drops on either side) with a speed limit of up to 45 mph. Since there is hardly any traffic when I'm out here, I tend to be a pussy and go a little slower. There are plenty of chances for a pass to be made if someone wants to pass. A lot of broken yellow lines and clear sightlines, so plenty of chances. So yesterday, it's only fitting that I'm driving a long stretch with a Jeep Liberty matching my speed (slightly above the speed limit) like 2-3 seconds off my bumper. Basically, they're tailgating me the entire way. I didn't really have any chances to pull over to let them pass since there is no shoulder so I gently slow to the speed limit and basically give them the go ahead to pass. They back off for a little bit. And then come back up on me. So I drop again. They back off. Come back. I drop again and turn my left turn signal on. I flash it a few times. Nothing. They still ride my rear end. gently caress it, so I see a spot to turn off into. I turn my signal on, slow down, pull off, and almost bottom out in a deep pot hole I didn't see until I was almost in it. loving assholes. I caught up to them like 2 minutes later and saw them park. I seriously thought about stopping and asking them just what the gently caress they were trying to accomplish by being a total dick. Today: -I'm going through this intersection at like 25 mph. Just as I start to go through it, this dude in a Mini (red car in the picture) either blows through his stop sign or just pulls out without turning his head. I had about a second to slam on my brakes and lay on the horn or I would have hit him right in the passenger door. He never even looked at me  -I was at a stop sign with my left turn signal on. It was clear so I started to go. The [red] car on the opposite side of the street rolled through their stop sign and tried to make a right turn without a signal at the same time I was making my left. I laid on the horn and they made a "omg sorry" stop. We would have crashed right where the arrows meet.  I like driving. I really do. I just don't like the other people driving. DEAR RICHARD fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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DEAR RICHARD posted:
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InterceptorV8 posted:
There's a relatively easy way to solve this problem but it seems whoever designed the car park decided that the extra $100 on materials wasn't worth it.
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