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I loving wish cops would enforce the "keep right except to pass" law we have here in Colorado. There are a lot of fuckers in the Denver area that make a point of driving slow in the left lane and it's loving infuriating.
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sting operations are sometimes so satisfying. I remember seeing years ago on Cops where they setup a thing in this high crime projects area where a semi would breakdown and the driver would get instructions from his supervisor to walk to the nearest service station (not an absurd situation) as then locals had devised little hand tools to jimmy open the back and start taking the cargo. But the cops set up a false interior with a trap door with like a half dozen cops hiding and would wait til guys were fully in the car before jumping out and arresting them. That was a fun episode.
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Anora posted:Roommate: Did you know I'm moving to California QA is a really poo poo job. Just testing bits of games over and over and over and over and over to find bugs and/or verify that bugs have been fixed. "IT" can have many meanings, but is quite often a sort of systems maintenance/repair guy who keeps the computers and network running. Not nearly as poo poo a job. Neither of which you need to program for, mostly.
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Bip Roberts posted:absolutely huge gif maybe link that?
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Hyperlynx posted:QA is a really poo poo job. Just testing bits of games over and over and over and over and over to find bugs and/or verify that bugs have been fixed. "IT" can have many meanings, but is quite often a sort of systems maintenance/repair guy who keeps the computers and network running. Not nearly as poo poo a job. Neither of which you need to program for, mostly. IT/QA is a beta tester who is sometimes asked to put toner in the printer.
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Hey, chef! Every story I've ever heard about chefs has them as raging lunatics or quiet psychopaths.
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flosofl posted:You monster. Hey, I'm not the one pacing the drat truck. I'm the one fuming behind the bluehair who is. Fortunately in NJ every single person gets into the left lane and drives there at all times no matter what their comfortable speed is, leaving the right lane open for miles 
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Turtlicious posted:IT/QA is a beta tester who is sometimes asked to put toner in the printer. Now, of course, actual QA is a real engineering discipline that involves programming and writing unit tests and basically doing supporting development. I hope that guy lands a job where he has to write Scala or some poo poo, that would be the most entertaining week the rest of the team will ever see
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Gorilla Salad posted:Every story I've ever heard about chefs has them as raging lunatics or quiet psychopaths. That's because normal dudes aren't usually good for many "listen to what this rear end in a top hat pulled" type of stories. People who drive slow in the fast lane are the real psychopaths. When somebody cuts you off or causes a close call, you honk and get pissy for a minute and then get over it. When some clueless turd is blocking the fast lane you just have to sit there and take it and stew in your own building impotent rage, made worse by the knowledge that said turd is probably some blissful idiot who has no clue that they make dozens of people miserable on a daily basis. Human Tornada has a new favorite as of 06:02 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Choco1980 posted:sting operations are sometimes so satisfying. I remember seeing years ago on Cops where they setup a thing in this high crime projects area where a semi would breakdown and the driver would get instructions from his supervisor to walk to the nearest service station (not an absurd situation) as then locals had devised little hand tools to jimmy open the back and start taking the cargo. But the cops set up a false interior with a trap door with like a half dozen cops hiding and would wait til guys were fully in the car before jumping out and arresting them. That was a fun episode. A good one I saw was this thing where they set up an easily stealable car in high crime areas. Eventually someone comes along and steals the thing. It's also fitted with cameras and a remote kill switch, and the looks on the criminals faces when that thing shuts off is hilarious.
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Saints Crow posted:I love the bass drum pegging the riot cop from the first page, so I made this  Here, have some double cop schadenfreude to go with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYh8WsFcd0 Basebf555 posted:In Baltimore people who live in the shittier neighborhoods seem to have adopted this "gently caress it, if I get hit I get hit" attitude and they treat the street like their personal sidewalk. They just saunter across at an extremely slow pace, and a lot of times they almost make a point of looking in the opposite direction on a one-way street as if they are challenging the universe to make paste out of them. People do that in pretty much every poor neighborhood in America. I'm pretty sure the reasoning is usually "everything sucks and I don't give a gently caress", or "i'm drunk and/or high and don't give a gently caress", or "I'm crazy and don't give a gently caress", or "I'm a bad rear end tough guy and don't give a gently caress, so now you have to wait for me, and if you have a problem I DARE YOU TO RUN ME OVER MOTHERFUCKER I WILL ONLY BECOME STRONGER".
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Rah! posted:People do that in pretty much every poor neighborhood in America. I'm pretty sure the reasoning is usually "everything sucks and I don't give a gently caress", or "i'm drunk and/or high and don't give a gently caress", or "I'm crazy and don't give a gently caress", or "I'm a bad rear end tough guy and don't give a gently caress, so now you have to wait for me, and if you have a problem I DARE YOU TO RUN ME OVER MOTHERFUCKER I WILL ONLY BECOME STRONGER". Jaywalking is your goddamn American duty. DR FRASIER KRANG has a new favorite as of 06:36 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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moist turtleneck posted:Thug Life I had never heard of that channel, but yeah, this is is a lot of stuff there that seems like it's straight out of a movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEAmKR7bsAU&t=1m29s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYYbV9kZhgHEY NONG MAN posted:Jaywalking is your goddamn American duty.  Except for all the lovely loving dumb suburban places where no one walks anywhere and the bored cops will actually give you a ticket for jaywalking.
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I'm not surprised it was the lemon juice that did him in, but I am surprised he managed to get so far into the bottle.
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Re: Jaywalking, I'm from the Ann Arbor area in Michigan. The city has been NOTORIOUS for people giving zero fucks crossing the road, to the point where around five years ago they passed a law that if you're driving anywhere in the city limits, ALL streets count as crosswalk zones for you to yield in, just because they were fed up with trying to stop the pedestrians. I've heard of people getting tickets for not slowing down when someone was standing on the curb because they might have been crossing. Years ago a coworker of my dad's went to DC on business and started crossing streets the same way Ann Arborites do. Day ONE he gets hit by a car and breaks his leg.
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the director of the CIA’s emails were shared online by someone who is not yet old enough to buy beerquote:The WikiLeaks page includes Brennan’s application for security clearance, which has many personal details, including his Passport number, his past residencies and information about his acquaintances. WikiLeaks also published documents outlining the U.S. policy in Iran, as well as letters about U.S. torture practices.
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ultrabindu posted:the director of the CIA’s emails were shared online by someone who is not yet old enough to buy beer Maybe he'll get lucky and the NSA will hire him before the CIA injects him with a radium pellet.
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It didn't even take weeks. Trollologist posted:
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ultrabindu posted:the director of the CIA’s emails were shared online by someone who is not yet old enough to buy beer So that's the kind of person keeping AOL in business?
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Don't break check police cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE
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Foxhound posted:Don't break check police cars. Literally last page.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Literally last page.
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Basebf555 posted:In Baltimore people who live in the shittier neighborhoods seem to have adopted this "gently caress it, if I get hit I get hit" attitude and they treat the street like their personal sidewalk. They just saunter across at an extremely slow pace, and a lot of times they almost make a point of looking in the opposite direction on a one-way street as if they are challenging the universe to make paste out of them. This happens a lot at one of the grocery stores near me. The people who like to feel like a bad-rear end so they walk really slowly across the lot from the parked cars to the store, staring at you the entire time as if they are daring you to have a problem with it. Mentally patting themselves on the back because "I sure showed him who's boss" when the only control they really have over anything or anybody is to cause random strangers a minor inconvenience in a parking lot. Human Tornada posted:That's because normal dudes aren't usually good for many "listen to what this rear end in a top hat pulled" type of stories. God, this. I live north of Baltimore and work south of it. Every day there's at least one idiot coasting along without a care in the world. They have all day to get where they're going, so you and everybody else get to take all day too. Then there are the ones who are well aware that they are holding a long line of cars up but "gently caress those people, they don't get to decide how fast I have to drive. I'm driving the speed limit."
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Data Graham posted:Hey, I'm not the one pacing the drat truck. I'm the one fuming behind the bluehair who is. Where in Jersey? Because North Jersey was complete hell for driving and no lanes were ever clear or like, made any sense at all. South Jersey was hell too but for different reasons. The truest Schadenfreude is living in NJ at all
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Choco1980 posted:Re: Jaywalking, I'm from the Ann Arbor area in Michigan. The city has been NOTORIOUS for people giving zero fucks crossing the road, to the point where around five years ago they passed a law that if you're driving anywhere in the city limits, ALL streets count as crosswalk zones for you to yield in, just because they were fed up with trying to stop the pedestrians. I've heard of people getting tickets for not slowing down when someone was standing on the curb because they might have been crossing. Years ago a coworker of my dad's went to DC on business and started crossing streets the same way Ann Arborites do. Day ONE he gets hit by a car and breaks his leg. Sup fellow Ann Arbor Goon buddy! I was going around UM's North Campus for work earlier this week and saw this in action: some guy in a truck is trying to pull out on a boulevard. He's looking to his left and is ready to pull out when this student just walks in front of him. Driver lets his foot off the brake, then jams it back down to avoid splattering this kid all over the place. The kid? He starts muttering to himself like he was just so wronged. I share a look with the driver and start laughing as I wait for the truck to pull out and go on his way. Ann Arborites don't even look both ways when crossing the street, they just go. A few of the exchange students, however, are smarter than that or at least exercise some common sense. I think people are still fighting that stupid crosswalk law as it pretty much puts all the onus on the drivers for pedestrians simply not giving a poo poo.
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Catnipped posted:Where in Jersey? Because North Jersey was complete hell for driving and no lanes were ever clear or like, made any sense at all. Weird, because that's what I'm talking about. Garden State Parkway in Bergen County. Left lane is perennially a parade of Camrys and RX350s puttering along at 62, driven presumably by people thinking I AM A GOOD DRIVER, I BELONG IN THE FAST LANE, and the right lane is wide open as far as the eye can see.
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Choco1980 posted:Re: Jaywalking, I'm from the Ann Arbor area in Michigan. The city has been NOTORIOUS for people giving zero fucks crossing the road, to the point where around five years ago they passed a law that if you're driving anywhere in the city limits, ALL streets count as crosswalk zones for you to yield in, just because they were fed up with trying to stop the pedestrians. I've heard of people getting tickets for not slowing down when someone was standing on the curb because they might have been crossing. Years ago a coworker of my dad's went to DC on business and started crossing streets the same way Ann Arborites do. Day ONE he gets hit by a car and breaks his leg. Between this and the constant construction I enter a boiling rage every time I cross Ann Arbor's city limits. Now I live in Chicago where either a) pedestrians slowly and brazenly cross in front of four lanes of traffic because there was 1 second left on the meter or b) pedestrians cross when they're supposed to but the guy behind you honks and flips you off for not plowing them over when you're waiting to turn.
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Catnipped posted:Where in Jersey? Because North Jersey was complete hell for driving and no lanes were ever clear or like, made any sense at all. I don't know if they exist elsewhere but there are two major traffic circles in Monmouth County in the Wall area that are ripe with schadenfreude because nobody loving understands them. There is always someone cutting off someone, or an accident, or a line of traffic backed up all the way around the circle because some idiot is sitting there in the center blocking both lanes and too terrified to merge.
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I like to use the middle lane to pass the retard that is sitting in the left lane, then get over and slow down to about 50 until they move over.
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Require More Fire posted:I don't know if they exist elsewhere but there are two major traffic circles in Monmouth County in the Wall area that are ripe with schadenfreude because nobody loving understands them. There is always someone cutting off someone, or an accident, or a line of traffic backed up all the way around the circle because some idiot is sitting there in the center blocking both lanes and too terrified to merge. I stayed in Paris last year and my hotel overlooked a four-way junction where all four sets of lights would apparently turn green at once. There was a constant knot of gridlocked cars in the middle blocking each others turns while the drivers hurled abuse. Priceless entertainment and definitely better than French TV. It amazes me anyone would continue to choose to drive in Paris though. That same trip I saw a driver lose a front wheel and drive off into the distance without stopping.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Want to hear the sound of pure northern-English schadenfreude? It took me a while to figure what the gently caress was going on. I guess even the fast lane is different, makes sense.
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darkwasthenight posted:I stayed in Paris last year and my hotel overlooked a four-way junction where all four sets of lights would apparently turn green at once. There was a constant knot of gridlocked cars in the middle blocking each others turns while the drivers hurled abuse. Priceless entertainment and definitely better than French TV. It amazes me anyone would continue to choose to drive in Paris though. That same trip I saw a driver lose a front wheel and drive off into the distance without stopping. Pure stubbornness? I've been to Paris a few times and the only time I've ever been there in a car is when we landed in Paris and then had to drive to a destination and it was awful. Central Paris is full of rich people who believe that they own the roads and tourists that don't know what they're doing. When my parents came to visit me in high school, I took them up on to the top of the Arc de Triomphe and we spent most of an hour watching confused people try to Frogger their way across Place de l'Etoile and then a caravan of police vehicles trying to get through by going on the inside of all of the traffic. It was beautiful, like a ballet gone horribly wrong.
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Eponine posted:Pure stubbornness? I've been to Paris a few times and the only time I've ever been there in a car is when we landed in Paris and then had to drive to a destination and it was awful. Central Paris is full of rich people who believe that they own the roads and tourists that don't know what they're doing. When my parents came to visit me in high school, I took them up on to the top of the Arc de Triomphe and we spent most of an hour watching confused people try to Frogger their way across Place de l'Etoile and then a caravan of police vehicles trying to get through by going on the inside of all of the traffic. There's 12 roads going on or off that roundabout, plus France's "Give way to traffic entering except not always because France" laws. They tried various ways of making it a saner junction then eventually went "gently caress it" and ripped out all the lights and markings and left it up to people to work out for themselves. Now any collision at the Arc De Triomphe is automatically adjudged 50/50 fault by French insurance companies, because even if someone killdozers the wrong way round it and destroys a hundred cars each of those hundred cars were being driven by someone dumb enough to try and get around the Arc De Triomphe so are just as to blame.
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Gross Dude posted:I had never heard of that channel, but yeah, this is is a lot of stuff there that seems like it's straight out of a movie. So many good videos there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KroxfDhnk8s
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Does Russia/Europe have a lot of pedestrian walking the street PSA commercials? This poo poo gets grounded into your brain in America European PSAs are pretty intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNL6t-Eu-IY I can't tell if the cartoon SPLAT at :44 was in the original commercial or added by the uploader, but either way I approve.
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Scruff McGruff posted:So many good videos there. It's baffling how many people have the audacity to be pissed off at the other driver whose path they are blocking by being doing the wrong thing.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's 12 roads going on or off that roundabout, plus France's "Give way to traffic entering except not always because France" laws. They tried various ways of making it a saner junction then eventually went "gently caress it" and ripped out all the lights and markings and left it up to people to work out for themselves. On the flip side to that, when I lived there, my rugby team had a game in Brussels and we were super confused trying to get to this field and ended up almost going down a one-way street and stopped in the middle of a 6 way intersection. No one even honked at us! All four of us were just waving at them like, "yes, French plates. We are from out of town. So sorry! Very sorry!"
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