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grumplestiltzkin posted:Not in Florida they don't Well yeah, it's full of old whitehairs going 20 under in ALL the lanes. And mowing people/objects down confusing the gas with the brake.
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one last annoying thing about the freeway. Here in Michigan, it's random seemingly how many lanes you'll get. Like near me is a stretch where the normally two lane interstate expands to three for whatever reason (mostly because after the 8 or 10 miles a left-hand exit pops up) Anyways, nearly every friggin time that I drive those stretches do I see semis who seem to think that means that since it's no longer just the slow lane and the passing lane, that they should move over and continue at their pace of 15-20mph slower than the speed limit in the center lane too. This gets hilariously frustrating when they do it to a point where the left lane ends and suddenly they're the rear end in a top hat in the passing lane going super slow and can't get back to the slow lane because they clearly thought any of that through.
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Fastlanechat reminded me of this video. Skip to 2:10 for the action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7BASFqXIw Cautionary freud for both impatient guys and speedlimit vigilantes.
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Oct 23, 2015 03:33
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Soccer Schadenfeude: http://i.imgur.com/n3bHOA8.gifv
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Blog Free or Die posted:Fastlanechat reminded me of this video. Skip to 2:10 for the action. A person driving that aggressively was probably going to hurt someone/themselves sooner rather than later anyhow 
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Oct 23, 2015 03:53
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Blog Free or Die posted:Fastlanechat reminded me of this video. Skip to 2:10 for the action. I think this was posted before. Camaro was obviously an rear end in a top hat, but the truck in front was obviously trolling him. No one deserves to get hurt in the wreck like that since it became a 4 car wreck, but gently caress both of them. Also that kid throwing the ball at the girls is hilarious. There are few things that I can't stand less than unwarranted assholishness regardless of age. How do people get through life being so evil to other people without provocation?
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Jastiger posted:How do people get through life being so evil to other people without provocation? Usually by being an rear end in a top hat to everyone so they either give in to the rear end in a top hat, or just don't want to deal with the rear end in a top hat and back off. When two assholes collide inevitably poo poo gets everywhere.
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LawfulWaffle posted:God drat, I laughed harder at this than anything else today. It's so comical I'm surprised there isn't a laugh-track, since you (or at least I) expect that maybe the driver will hit one kid on his rush to get where ever, but nope. He goes straight for the multikill/ace. Classic British humor. I'd like to thank the OP for that, because I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The SPLAT makes it all worthwhile. And honestly, that's just lovely luck. Choco1980 posted:one last annoying thing about the freeway. Here in Michigan, it's random seemingly how many lanes you'll get. Like near me is a stretch where the normally two lane interstate expands to three for whatever reason (mostly because after the 8 or 10 miles a left-hand exit pops up) Anyways, nearly every friggin time that I drive those stretches do I see semis who seem to think that means that since it's no longer just the slow lane and the passing lane, that they should move over and continue at their pace of 15-20mph slower than the speed limit in the center lane too. This gets hilariously frustrating when they do it to a point where the left lane ends and suddenly they're the rear end in a top hat in the passing lane going super slow and can't get back to the slow lane because they clearly thought any of that through. It's really weird, but in a lot of cases it's because there hasn't been much thought given to traffic at all. The whole of US-23 could be three lanes due to the congestion all the way through Washtenaw County. For some reason, I-94 shrinks to two lanes going through Ann Arbor and the city won't entertain putting in a third lane because it'll cost a lot of money to deal with the ten or so overpasses that'll need to be upgraded as well. Of course, Ann Arbor attempts to deal with it by blaming it on drivers going too fast, not realizing that the biggest congested area is right near that two-lane bottleneck that happens to cross by the University of Michigan campus. Oh well, stupid highway derail over. Can we get some more of those insane PSAs? Except the Canadian ones. Those are really freaking scarring. Turkey can't take out all the humans, but it can start with the young ones.
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Jastiger posted:Also that kid throwing the ball at the girls is hilarious. There are few things that I can't stand less than unwarranted assholishness regardless of age. How do people get through life being so evil to other people without provocation? You might be surprised how soon in a young woman's life she learns that the only response to "~~hey ladies~~" is "gently caress off".
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Literally Esoteric posted:You might be surprised how soon in a young woman's life she learns that the only response to "~~hey ladies~~" is "gently caress off". Hey, don't be like that. You need to smile more, you want to show me your smile?
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 quote:Bastian Schweinsteiger is considering taking legal action against a Hong Kong company making Nazi dolls that bear a striking resemblance to him. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34606799 Well good luck, I'm sure the Streisand effect won't bite you in the rear end!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzgbZL12VI Probably deserves to be here. Youtuber videogamedunkey is banned after being super over the top mean to some people on the game over and over again. he claims his popularity should give him exemption from the rules. While I think the banning system is stupid and am pretty much https://twitter.com/fucktyler/status/285670822264307712?lang=en when it comes to online trolling, many derive much schadenfreude from his impotent rage.
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Grem posted:*cracks knuckles* Here we go guys.... The best part is the last half-second of video where the fat guy suddenly seems to realize how boned they all are.
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For some mild automotive schadenfreude that doesn't involve speed: I was deployed for a while to Manas, Kyrgyzstan a couple years ago. The base itself consisted mostly of a living area that was about four blocks in size with a 20mph speed limit. I'm driving a van to go drop some folks off and pass right by the main recreation building; sort of an indoor-outdoor sports bar where you could buy your two beers a day and play ping-pong or cards. Ping-pong was fairly popular because there's literally jack poo poo else to do in Manas, Kyrgyzstan when you're passing through. Ping-ong balls, however, were always in short supply because too many people think the objective is to lose or destroy every ball they can get their hands on (for a time, they even made you sign out ping-pong balls and would bill you for each one lost). The road along the bar is only two lanes and a garbage truck was stopped in my lane unloading dumpsters, so I swing around it to pass and creep by going about 10mph with my window down because it's hot as balls in my van. This put my seat about 8-10 feet from the deck where a lively game of ping-pong was going on. As I pass, a woman hits the ping-pong ball off the table and into the road and chases after it, stopping just short of getting Lame as hell but it's not talking about the goddamn fast lane.
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So, remember that shithead Shkreli, who jacked an anti-parasitic drug's price by 5500% a few months ago? http://usuncut.com/class-war/martin-shkreli-explodes-1-dollar-aids-pill Karma came calling.
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mobby_6kl posted:
I'm not sure you completely understand what the Streisand Effect is—the figures aren't exposing some embarrassing truth that he wants to hide from the world, he just doesn't like his likeness to be sold with swastikas on it. He has no interest in burying the very notion of the existence of the dolls.
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Lots of People Complaining posted:I'm impressed people live in areas where this is the worst thing they see on the road. I'm nearly hit every day by someone doing something far stupider and more dangerous. Someone hogging the passing lane is hardly worth noticing.
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Oct 23, 2015 07:39
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mobby_6kl posted:
I'm the intellectual property lawsuit against a Chinese company.
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wayfinder posted:I'm not sure you completely understand what the Streisand Effect is—the figures aren't exposing some embarrassing truth that he wants to hide from the world, he just doesn't like his likeness to be sold with swastikas on it. He has no interest in burying the very notion of the existence of the dolls. It's not literally the same case, of course, but I doubt millions of people would've seen him as a Nazi doll if it weren't for this (most likely futile) lawsuit.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's not literally the same case, of course, but I doubt millions of people would've seen him as a Nazi doll if it weren't for this (most likely futile) lawsuit. It's literally named after him, though? 
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Hah, I didn't notice the name. It's hardly unique but together with the visual similarity, I guess the schadenfreude is having a Nazi doll made based on your likeness in the first place.
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TheRagamuffin posted:It's literally named after him, though? Yeah, I'm definitely with Bastian Schweinsteiger on this one. Streisand Effect be damned, I wouldn't want my name or likeness associated with anyone from the Axis.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8h4UmuN1Q
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Staryberry posted:Soccer Schadenfeude: http://i.imgur.com/n3bHOA8.gifv This needs more attention.
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        Choco1980 posted:This needs more attention. Two-way schadenfreude. Nice.
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Rah! posted:Two-way schadenfreude. Nice. Would that teammate in white be credited with an own goal? That would make it a triple.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's not literally the same case, of course, but I doubt millions of people would've seen him as a Nazi doll if it weren't for this (most likely futile) lawsuit. That's what I mean, his aim is not to suppress knowledge of the existence of the doll, in fact the more people see it the more likely it gets that the company doesn't get away with it—it's not a mistake of Schweinsteiger's that he now wants hushed, people aren't sharing it to say "look at this moron who doesn't want to be a literal nazi doll", or to otherwise defy or harm him, so it's not the Streisand Effect.
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Jastiger posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzgbZL12VI "League of Legends isn't even a good game. it's not fun or interesting." ~moments later~ "I've played over 8,000 matches, so I can speak with authority about this." 
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My favorite bit by far of that is that the chinese company's defense is literally "We thought that all Germans look like that".
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Data Graham posted:My favorite bit by far of that is that the chinese company's defense is literally "We thought that all Germans look like that". "Which is why we named it after this specific one" I mean, honestly it's pretty hilarious but yeah if you're german in the year 2015 I don't think you can be blamed for trying to take action when someone makes a Nazi doll with your name and likeness. It'd be different if he were literally a nazi but if he is, those rumours have not reached me. Maybe the Chinese know something we don't? edit: it's also an impressively correct likeness really. Nice job!
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I wonder if he pissed off somebody in the Nazi soldier doll industry.
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Every time I see somebody speeding I let them pass, and I stay in the right lane on freeways. That being said; I laugh at them when I catch up to them at the next exit/red light. Feel free to speed assholes, but you aren't getting anywhere faster. Speeders are the real schadenfreude.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iSR1Pzm9MQ More road rage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SXAkpxF6_k More, um, what?
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Shitbird that hiked up the price of an AIDS drug to obscene levels ($750/pill) just had a competitor release a similar pill that they sell for $100/bottle, averaging out to ~$1/pill. http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/drug-with-rage-inducing-5000-price-hike-now-has-1pill-competitor/
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Icon Of Sin posted:Shitbird that hiked up the price of an AIDS drug to obscene levels ($750/pill) just had a competitor release a similar pill that they sell for $100/bottle, averaging out to ~$1/pill. I kinda hope the douchebag comes back saying "See what I did there? By being an rear end in a top hat and upping the price, we now have a comparable pill even cheaper than it was before. See how great I am?" 
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Anora posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SXAkpxF6_k  Icon Of Sin posted:Shitbird that hiked up the price of an AIDS drug to obscene levels ($750/pill) just had a competitor release a similar pill that they sell for $100/bottle, averaging out to ~$1/pill. Fantastic, now the problem is over and the country can go back to completely ignoring how every single pharmaceutical company does this practice but gets away with it because unlike that guy have a platoon of lawyers and several congressmen in their pockets.
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I read an article about India purposefully ignoring medicine trademarks and making their own 'pirated' copies of medicines in order to give their poorest citizens the healthcare they need. Lawyers/big pharma are probably angry at this. I certainly am not.
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