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The intersection near my old house had a persistent problem with it's crosswalk where the traffic in the lane closest to me would stop, so I do my little pedestrian wave and start crossing.... but the other three lanes just kept roaring on by. This is my least favorite situation: in front of a short-tempered two-ton murder machine, my destination blocked by cars going both ways, sheepishly turning back to the sidewalk. İt happened about once a month and only ever at that crossing.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You live in australia. Come here and say you don't have to do (anything) to a cop that pulls you over and enjoy your ticket. Since we moved on from "yes, at designated crossings pedestrians have right of way", are you suggesting that you also have to give way (and stop) for anyone jaywalking? Because jaywalking laws were specifically anti-pedestrian laws, made so cars weren't expected to slam their brakes on every time someone wandered near the road outside of crossings. That's still different from "fucker is jaywalking, that means I can run him over" So if I stand at the side of a highway/freeway, I should expect cars to stop and wave me across? Or do pedestrians not always have right of way?
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Jun 17, 2019 06:39
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It was not a police escort. He was followed not long after by an ambulance and firetruck. It was just a jackass taking advantage of a cop trying to get somewhere in a hurry. HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A POLICE ESCORT That is something cops will do, especially if it's, like, the husband and they're on the way to deliver a baby. Yeah, they really should have him ride in the cruiser but poo poo happens, people (and especially cops) are dumb as gently caress. (I was a medic in an ambulance for five years.) Guess what: ambulances with hosed up people in them (like active deliveries) drive slower than you'd think, so the cops go first to clear the intersection. Smooth is better than fast. And we never, NEVER had family follow the ambulance, because an ambulance itself may make emergency hard-slowdowns and stops to either do a procedure, or clear an intersection slowly before crossing. Also sounds like you admitted to pulling into the road after pulling over without checking if the road was clear, considering there was 1: another car right behind the cop car, and 2: an ambulance and fire engine not far behind them. That's another reason we never had people follow, because there's always drivers like you that pull back into the road or intersection after the first flashing lights without checking, and they'd then hit the tailing vehicle. With a cop and an engine, it's another story, and their safest place (there is truly no safe place, but stick with me here) is in the middle, after the booboo wagon. PancakeTransmission posted:
Highways and freeways are controlled access; cars have the right of way.
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Jun 17, 2019 06:50
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I know pet peeves usually come from a place of anger, but man, it is such a bummer to see a service offer a sale on something (say, Steam suggesting a game on sale, or whatever), only to realize you don't like the product. Like, especially if you had no idea about the product, you wouldn't have spent money on it at full price if you had..... man it stinks.
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Jun 17, 2019 07:52
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I don't understand how people get so worked up about pedestrian/driver right of way poo poo Yes the pedestrian has right of way because if they walk straight into your car nothing will happen, whereas if you drive into them it could be lethal. But outside of clearly marked crosswalks, it is better for everyone to just drive on and have the pedestrian wait. I say this as a frequent pedestrian. Don't drive straight into a crosswalk moron, but if traffic laws and physical reality allows, no right-thinking human is going to randomly bolt into the street while cars are moving. Even if they slow to a crawl- no, I don't want to just suffer broken bones instead of death. I'll wait. Be aware of kids and such obviously, but that's a rare happening. 99% of road interactions are solved by cars just driving on as usual and then pedestrians walking when there are no cars. Never one have I preferred playing chicken with traffic rather than just waiting for an opening. Never once has some "considerate" driver slowing down allowed me to safely walk, even in a loving parking lot. Just drive.
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Jun 18, 2019 12:23
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My pet peeve is that we haven't just banned cars yet
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Jun 18, 2019 14:11
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Drivers. We need to ban drivers.
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Jun 18, 2019 14:23
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Memento posted:Drivers. We need to ban drivers. driverless cars already killed at least one pedestrian
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Jun 18, 2019 14:30
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Imagine being given two feet by God for going anywhere on the earth you want then turning and saying 'it is best if we disallow walking anywhere we want so the rolling death machines can go faster'
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Jun 18, 2019 14:34
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DizzyBum posted:I've been sitting in a meeting for the last 45 minutes. My boss brought his lunch and he's a notoriously noisy eater. He's spent almost the whole time chowing down and talking with his mouth full, and it's taking so much willpower to not completely blow up on him right now. Noisy eaters need to have their mouth stapled shut and be fed intravenously I hate when a place is described in a guide or something as "a city of many contasts". You can say this about anywhere ever.
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Jun 18, 2019 20:16
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Killingyouguy! posted:Imagine being given two feet by God for going anywhere on the earth you want then turning and saying 'it is best if we disallow walking anywhere we want so the rolling death machines can go faster' I like my rolling death machine
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Jun 18, 2019 20:27
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Shibawanko posted:Noisy eaters need to have their mouth stapled shut and be fed intravenously “You can say this about anywhere ever” applies to so much poo poo I see “Only in X is it hot one day and then cold the next day!” “Only in X do 20-somethings get wasted and then do dumb poo poo like THIS!” “Only in X will you find people with such opposing political views living as neighbours!”
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Jun 18, 2019 20:30
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20XX: a year of highs and lows.
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Jun 18, 2019 20:35
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:“You can say this about anywhere ever” applies to so much poo poo I see I hate it especially when people say about Tokyo that it's "a city where the old meets the new" or whatever, and then usually a picture of zoujouji temple with Tokyo Tower in the background next to the paragraph. I mean, yeah, it's not wrong but it's such a loving obvious point to make that it doesn't make the city actually sound interesting to anyone. It's the same as saying that Istanbul is "where East meets West", it's such a basic bitch observation. I saw the "city of many contrasts" thing most recently in a guide about Amsterdam. It's not a city of contrasts at all, it's a city where people smoke weed and gently caress and where nearly all buildings are in the same style. There are no major contrasts to speak of.
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Jun 18, 2019 21:12
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Using "rock" as a synonym for "wear" makes my blood boil. I know it's ubiquitous at this point, but it still instantly calls to mind some tryhard douche who spent $2,000 of his parents' money on a hoodie.
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Jun 18, 2019 21:20
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Shibawanko posted:I hate it especially when people say about Tokyo that it's "a city where the old meets the new" or whatever, and then usually a picture of zoujouji temple with Tokyo Tower in the background next to the paragraph. Even more dumb is that most of the temple complex is newer than the Tokyo Tower. The main hall was rebuilt in the '70s. While we're on exceptionalism, how about "oh, you think that's hot? When it's summer here in Bumfuck, we get up to x every day!" where x is a temperature ten degrees higher than anything ever recorded on the Earth's surface? Whiz Palace has a new favorite as of 21:41 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Jun 18, 2019 21:38
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Queen Combat posted:HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A POLICE ESCORT I get that goons want to find a way to shoehorn in knowledge about their job (former or otherwise), but this is simply not the case. I did check. I was clear - if the guy in the lane behind me (and the people behind him, it wasn't just one car) were doing the speed limit. They were far in excess of even the standard "go with the flow of traffic" excess standard - and guess what, none of the people on the honker's rear end tried to get around me after letting me back in. If they were in a police escort train they would be honking, flashing their lights, etc. This was right before the capital beltway onramp, a road that has tons of accidents every single morning. It is far, far, far more likely based on common sense and general knowledge of idiot maryland drivers that the cop was responding to an accident and they were drafting behind him to get to work faster. Hell, I would've done it (after making sure no more cops are coming and if a sufficient number of other people were doing it too). Anyway, less potentially fatal peeve: People who seem to intentionally be spiting you in particular by the way they park. Like when you come out and find someone backed in and makes it nearly impossible to get in your driver side door because they're over the line. If it didn't also dent/scuff my own door i'd just swing my door open without a care, but unfortunately it does, and usually worse than theirs. Either these people have the skeletal structure of a cat and can squeeze in between impossibly narrow spaces or they're getting out of the passenger side and just don't give a poo poo.
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Jun 18, 2019 22:58
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InediblePenguin posted:driverless cars already killed at least one pedestrian Oh poo poo I guess that's something a car with a driver in never did, better just cancel all research into autonomous cars everywhere.
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Jun 18, 2019 23:09
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I get that goons want to find a way to shoehorn in knowledge about their job (former or otherwise), but this is simply not the case. I did check. I was clear - if the guy in the lane behind me (and the people behind him, it wasn't just one car) were doing the speed limit. They were far in excess of even the standard "go with the flow of traffic" excess standard - and guess what, none of the people on the honker's rear end tried to get around me after letting me back in. If they were in a police escort train they would be honking, flashing their lights, etc. Yeah based on driving in NYC it’s 99% more likely that angry idiots are flooring it behind the emergency vehicle rather than racing to get their pregnant wife to hospital. Unless there are hundreds of police escorts racing between Brooklyn and the Bronx every day
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Jun 19, 2019 00:14
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah based on driving in NYC it’s 99% more likely that angry idiots are flooring it behind the emergency vehicle rather than racing to get their pregnant wife to hospital. Unless there are hundreds of police escorts racing between Brooklyn and the Bronx every day It's dumb anyway because even if it was a police escort, I could have sued the poo poo out of the cop who trusted some random civilian to plow through a heavily congested area. Police escorts happen, but they aren't legal and no good cop would give one unless it was truly something worth losing your job over.
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Jun 19, 2019 03:36
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I think I've said this one before, but: nearly any time people, especially otherwise credible people, try to make predictions about the future development of society thousands of years into the future. I like to watch PBS Space Time and I think it's a great show, but i completely tune out when the guy starts talking about "type 2 civilizations" and "multi planet species" and Dyson Spheres and other Musky bullshit like that. They're obviously inspired by sci fi cliches, based on very crude assumptions about technology and social developments, and usually believed by white pasty I loving Love Science type people.
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Jun 19, 2019 08:17
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I don't disagree but man, The High Frontier made for some top tier bathroom reading for a while for me. It just seems so optimistic about our ability to reach and exploit asteroids and what we could do with all that material. Like it would just be used to further enrich the wealthy for some reason. It all seems so plausible in the book!
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Jun 19, 2019 09:09
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Shibawanko posted:I think I've said this one before, but: nearly any time people, especially otherwise credible people, try to make predictions about the future development of society thousands of years into the future. I like to watch PBS Space Time and I think it's a great show, but i completely tune out when the guy starts talking about "type 2 civilizations" and "multi planet species" and Dyson Spheres and other Musky bullshit like that. They're obviously inspired by sci fi cliches, based on very crude assumptions about technology and social developments, and usually believed by white pasty I loving Love Science type people. What bothers me specifically is people hoping we end up with some kind of Star Trek-like society. It just seems so boring to me. They have a big universe at their disposal but they seem to spend most of their time in holodecks when they aren't getting their rear end kicked by other societies that don't intentionally hamstring themselves with lovely weapons+shields on their main ship. and when they do use the holodeck it doesn't even look fun, like playing sherlock holmes with a robot or talking to an annoying lounge singer or watching baseball of all things. why do scifi nerds aspire to a world where the most fun thing people can think of to do in their spare time is watching a simulation of the worst spectator sport on earth.
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Jun 19, 2019 13:13
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having the freedom to be exactly as boring and niche in your interests without people gainsaying you for them is the fantasy
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Jun 19, 2019 13:15
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yeah I eat rear end posted:What bothers me specifically is people hoping we end up with some kind of Star Trek-like society. It just seems so boring to me. They have a big universe at their disposal but they seem to spend most of their time in holodecks when they aren't getting their rear end kicked by other societies that don't intentionally hamstring themselves with lovely weapons+shields on their main ship. and when they do use the holodeck it doesn't even look fun, like playing sherlock holmes with a robot or talking to an annoying lounge singer or watching baseball of all things. why do scifi nerds aspire to a world where the most fun thing people can think of to do in their spare time is watching a simulation of the worst spectator sport on earth. That's just because they can't show people loving in the holodeck all the time on TV
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Jun 19, 2019 13:24
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I’ve said it before but as soon as we invent Holodecks I am out. Why the gently caress would anyone do anything else?
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Jun 19, 2019 13:36
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Google maps, when trying to walk from A to B. Seems every time I try it, either the app or my (various, over the years) phones are unable to determine my direction and it invariably ends in sweat and sadness. "OK keep going to this road and then turn right. Wait, you haven't been moonwalking the last ten minutes? I meant go the other direction. Or not. I'm going to assume you're spinning around every five minutes."
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Jun 19, 2019 18:10
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The sound of the door shutting in Doc McStuffins is the same as the AIM "close door" sound.
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Jun 19, 2019 18:42
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Brawnfire posted:The sound of the door shutting in Doc McStuffins is the same as the AIM "close door" sound. The fact that I have to start googling things only to find out I don't know what something is because I have no known children.
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Jun 19, 2019 19:00
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Iron Crowned posted:The fact that I have to start googling things only to find out I don't know what something is because I have no known children. There's a universe of culture that opens up when you have a child. There are pros and cons to this, weighted towards the latter.
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Jun 19, 2019 19:05
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When people never remember your preferred form of name. It's extra annoying because there's no way to say "could you please stop calling me (full formal version of my name that I only use on IDs) without coming off as someone who cares way too much about what they're called. I mean, I do care way too much but I can't have people knowing that. I'm not the archangel, you can call me by the name I always introduce myself as and sign my emails with. You're not my parents when they get angry at me.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When people never remember your preferred form of name. It's extra annoying because there's no way to say "could you please stop calling me (full formal version of my name that I only use on IDs) without coming off as someone who cares way too much about what they're called. I mean, I do care way too much but I can't have people knowing that. I'm not the archangel, you can call me by the name I always introduce myself as and sign my emails with. You're not my parents when they get angry at me. Yes Mr. Eat rear end sir
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Jun 20, 2019 00:55
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It's a general peeve of not wanting to be called any formal title. I'm an idiot, don't call me anything that implies respect. Like every time someone address me as Dr. yeah i eat rear end in an email it triggers me, like my mind jumps to "this guy is mocking me, time to get real mad".
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Jun 20, 2019 02:53
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's a general peeve of not wanting to be called any formal title. I'm an idiot, don't call me anything that implies respect. Like every time someone address me as Dr. yeah i eat rear end in an email it triggers me, like my mind jumps to "this guy is mocking me, time to get real mad". Most of my emails consist of a screenshot these days, I don't even type poo poo, I just take a screenshot of my work and send it to someone
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Jun 20, 2019 12:49
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My pet peeve is how people are constantly misspelling my name (Alastair) despite having it readily available to reference. My name is in my company email, you literally can't send me a message without seeing how it's spelled. I know it's not a common name here in the US but I'm asking for the bare minimum effort.
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Jun 20, 2019 14:35
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When people never remember your preferred form of name. It's extra annoying because there's no way to say "could you please stop calling me (full formal version of my name that I only use on IDs) without coming off as someone who cares way too much about what they're called. I mean, I do care way too much but I can't have people knowing that. I'm not the archangel, you can call me by the name I always introduce myself as and sign my emails with. You're not my parents when they get angry at me. My cousin requested years ago that all of our family call her by her middle name, and everyone does, except me. I can't help it. I grew up referring to her by her first name, and I will probably continue until the day I die. EDIT: Riatsala posted:(Alastair) The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 16:07 on Jun 20, 2019 |
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Jun 20, 2019 16:01
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When actors who always use American accents in most of their roles speak in their non America voice. It’s jarring to me and I’m not a fan
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Jun 21, 2019 01:52
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Music in public should be banned, Saudi Arabia style. Music should be played at a concert by a band, in a pub, in your house or maybe in your car. It should be illegal for a supermarket or shop to have a background soundtrack, if for no other reason than the sanity of the people working there who have to hear it over and over (even worse when it's just a jingle or announcement on loop). The only exception in the law is for large boomboxes playing rap music, as long as they are carried on the shoulder by someone wearing sunglasses.
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Jun 21, 2019 09:44
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I refuse to live in a world where I'm not shopping to the tinny, barely-audible strains of "You Can Feel it All Over"
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Shibawanko posted:Music in public should be banned, Saudi Arabia style. Music should be played at a concert by a band, in a pub, in your house or maybe in your car. It should be illegal for a supermarket or shop to have a background soundtrack, if for no other reason than the sanity of the people working there who have to hear it over and over (even worse when it's just a jingle or announcement on loop). Speaking as someone who has worked in places where they play a soundtrack on loop, your brain eventually tunes it out and you stop hearing it. It's not so bad, and it's always entertaining when you realize that you're listing to a song that's blatantly about loving, or drugs, or loving and drugs, in the middle of a grocery store. In all my years, there was exactly one song that ever actually drove anyone insane and it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps7xmW-9LXQ
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