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Ozz81 posted:Unfortunately I've seen a LOT of beat up (and some nice) vehicles with drat near bald tires driving near me. They're usually easy to spot though, because like you said, they're going 10-15 under in the rain or snow, or go way too fast and lose control because of a combo of stupid driving and bad tires. I still love seeing SUVs and 4WD trucks stuck in the ditches or wiped out on the side of the road during winter, always a guarantee of some clown with no understanding of physics going balls-out on an ice covered road and losing the battle of human vs. nature. This is don't get. You mention to Americans that its ok to change the oil at 6k miles you get looked at like you are speaking Cantonese yet they run their tyres smoother than Patrick Stewart's head
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Dick Trauma posted:What does "kooiaap" mean? It looks Finnish!
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I nearly merged into a car driving on a highway at night without any lights. Hell, I don't even think his dashboard was lit. And of course he looks at me like I'm the dangerous lunatic.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I nearly merged into a car driving on a highway at night without any lights. Hell, I don't even think his dashboard was lit. Well you are, you nearly crashed into him!
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Oct 29, 2015 20:07
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InitialDave posted:It's one of those specialist fork lift trucks that go on the back of a lorry. Ah, thank you. I'll make sure to remember that the next time I put my rubbish in the boot before I take the carriageway down to the tip. 
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Sunny beautiful day, just a little wind. Time for everyone to do 20 in a 35 with their hands over their eyes to shade from the sun.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:12
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PCOS Bill posted:Sunny beautiful day, just a little wind. My abiding memory of Pittsburgh was that everyone drove really drat slow. That and the Pittsburgh Left, and that pedestrians are targets.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:21
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antisodachrist posted:My abiding memory of Pittsburgh was that everyone drove really drat slow. That and the Pittsburgh Left, and that pedestrians are targets. It's all true, and I hate it all.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:51
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88h88 posted:Well you are, you nearly crashed into him! His car was an early 90s domestic sedan (I think), so it's quite possible he didn't have any lights that worked. Which only raises other questions, honestly. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Oct 29, 2015 23:08
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:His car was an early 90s domestic sedan (I think), so it's quite possible he didn't have any lights that worked. Pretty sure the answers to your other questions are: Chrysler, no insurance, Old Milwaukee, and "because how else am i gonna get to work?"
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Wamsutta posted:I have a Jeep and love driving in the snow but I work from home literally every time there's snow on the roads because I don't trust anyone else for a second, and I will for sure end up sitting in a two hour gridlock to travel 8 miles home, so why even bother. I was the only one who actually read the weather forecast before Atlanta's "Snowpocalypse" a couple years ago and decided to work from home. Everyone else in the office drove to work, bailed at noon along with the rest of the city, and spent the next eight to thirty-six hours sitting in traffic. 
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Driving in snow is fun and pretty easy, but the retards we share a road with scare me so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
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dennyk posted:I was the only one who actually read the weather forecast before Atlanta's "Snowpocalypse" a couple years ago and decided to work from home. Everyone else in the office drove to work, bailed at noon along with the rest of the city, and spent the next eight to thirty-six hours sitting in traffic. I loved it. Some good samaritans thought it would be a good idea to regulate the traffic on the two lane road by my old house. This road dips down to go under a train bridge so there is a hill on both sides of the bridge. They stopped one lane at the top of one hill and the other at the bottom right under the bridge. The idea was to let one car go at a time so nobody hit each other. Problem? Yeah, you guessed it. Stopping one direction of traffic at the bottom of a snow and ice covered hill meant I got to watch 20 cars become abandoned halfway up the hill.
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Powershift posted:Pretty sure the answers to your other questions are: Chrysler, no insurance, Old Milwaukee, and "because how else am i gonna get to work?" I didn't realize Old Milwaukee was easily available in San Diego but other than that this is 100% believable.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I didn't realize Old Milwaukee was easily available in San Diego but other than that this is 100% believable. Old Milwaukee phases into reality from the aether wherever cheap alcoholics exist. I've even seen it here in Canada.
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antisodachrist posted:the Pittsburgh Left What is that?
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PT6A posted:Old Milwaukee phases into reality from the aether wherever cheap alcoholics exist. I've even seen it here in Canada. The Canadian version is "brewed" in Guelph, Ontario. It's my go-to cheap swill beer because it was the only thing my roommates in college wouldn't steal and drink. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 09:03
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dee eight posted:What is that? When someone makes a quick unprotected left right when the light turns green.
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antisodachrist posted:When someone makes a quick unprotected left right when the light turns green. Oh so just "every light that has ever happened." Another regional driving thing that actually happens everywhere.
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GutBomb posted:Oh so just "every light that has ever happened." I have seen it maybe once in Atlanta and never when I lived in central VA. People here are too busy staring at their phones to make any quick moves.
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Could've used that today!
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I don't get people who drive with lapdogs. I doubly don't get this guy driving with an almost full grown Labrador in his lap, half hanging out of the car window, while he holds onto the collar to keep it from jumping out completely. (sorry for the poo poo photo) 
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The dog is looking for cars in the blind spot hth
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Oct 30, 2015 15:34
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Plate is legible, I say you forward it to your friendly neighborhood police department. Maybe one of them is bored enough to go pay that idiot a visit.
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GutBomb posted:Oh so just "every light that has ever happened." Uthor posted:I don't get people who drive with lapdogs. I doubly don't get this guy driving with an almost full grown Labrador in his lap, half hanging out of the car window, while he holds onto the collar to keep it from jumping out completely. xzzy posted:Plate is legible, I say you forward it to your friendly neighborhood police department. Maybe one of them is bored enough to go pay that idiot a visit.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Pro-tip: Your license plate is visible every single time you drive, I really don't see it as a big deal to post a license plate online.
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That's not why I brought it up, I think plate censoring is stupid. I'm just saying there's plenty going on in that picture for a bored cop to write a ticket if they were in the mood.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Sorry you live surrounded by assholes but that actually does not happen here. I have only seen one person (with out of state plates, naturally) try to attempt that dick head maneuver. There is a light I have to turn left at every day on my way home from work, and about 50% of the time if I am the first car in line I do this. There are three reasons for this. 1: The light is short and has no protected left. 2: The layout of the intersection is such that someone waiting to turn left cannot leave enough room for cars behind them to go straight, effectively blocking the intersection. 3: I can usually get through the intersection before the first car of the oncoming traffic even starts moving, and their stop line is about 10 feet back from the intersection. The upshot of the first two points is that if the first person in line is turning left, 75% of the time they won't get to turn until the light is yellow, and *NO ONE* else coming from that direction will make it through the light without running the red (happens almost every light cycle). Call me an rear end in a top hat if you want, but I'm just trying to save everyone's time. The reason I say I only do this 50% of the time is that I won't risk it if the first person in the oncoming traffic looks like they're actually paying attention. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Cage posted:Could've used that today! Your license plate is excellent.
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GutBomb posted:Oh so just "every light that has ever happened." Absolutely does not happen on the west coast.
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Uthor posted:I don't get people who drive with lapdogs. I doubly don't get this guy driving with an almost full grown Labrador in his lap, half hanging out of the car window, while he holds onto the collar to keep it from jumping out completely. Every Monday I used to see this old guy with a white poodle on his lap with its paws on the steering wheel. It was super adorable. It was in a GT-R.
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GutBomb posted:Oh so just "every light that has ever happened." I've only ever seen that once here in Calgary, and I chased the fucker down on foot and gave him a piece of my mind because he nearly hit me in the crosswalk as he was doing it.
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antisodachrist posted:When someone makes a quick unprotected left right when the light turns green. I don't see those often in Florida, but in Rhode Island they do that, especially where they don't have protected lefts at all. Sometimes it's a co-operative thing, sometimes people just gun it and dare you to ram them just to make the point.
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davebo posted:Every Monday I used to see this old guy with a white poodle on his lap with its paws on the steering wheel. It was super adorable. When someone crossed a double yellow and rammed me head on, the first thing I saw as I came out of the haze was some old fart with a little white poodle on his lap. gently caress idiots that let their pets wander around inside a car, restrain them in the back seat or install a cage.
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At large intersections it isn't so bad cause the other side of traffic is usually distracted anyway but at smaller intersections there just isn't enough room.
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Part of the concept of the Pittsburgh Left isn't just that people here do it, it's also that other drivers at the intersection often expect it and leave the space to allow it. If I'm first at a light, and the guy across from me is turning left, I'm going to delay my start at the green with the expectation that he's going to turn as soon as the light changes. I've seen (and pulled) the same maneuver in other states, but it just doesn't seem to have the same level of mutual agreement between the drivers.
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you ate my cat posted:Part of the concept of the Pittsburgh Left isn't just that people here do it, it's also that other drivers at the intersection often expect it and leave the space to allow it. If I'm first at a light, and the guy across from me is turning left, I'm going to delay my start at the green with the expectation that he's going to turn as soon as the light changes. I've seen (and pulled) the same maneuver in other states, but it just doesn't seem to have the same level of mutual agreement between the drivers. I think it's funny that I had never heard of the phrase "Pittsburgh Left" until today but I immediately and accurately guessed what it was buy just thinking what's the most rear end in a top hat way to make a left turn at an intersection.
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I pay attention at intersections, and know just how long it is from a red to my green at all the ones I go through regularly. I'm ready to go the instant it's green. When some chucklefuck turns left across in front of me I'm inevitably already deep in the intersection and it becomes a near-miss.
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People here in Albuquerque tend to sit for a long time when their protected left goes green, which is infuriating, but maybe it's because there are a lot of drunks and idiots around running red lights.
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