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AreWeDrunkYet posted:
I can't stand my countrymen to the point I have emigrated not once, but twice. Their driving manners are a non trivial part of that. One of the best ways to ignite an heated argument at any social gathering is to innocently start a discussion whether driving at the posted speed limit constitutes aggressive and/or reckless driving or not.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Was it Carlin that said no matter your age, gender, wealth status, religion, everyone thinks they are a loving amazing driver? I believe it was actually Dave Barry. And yeah god forbid you tell anyone their driving might not be great. People get so angry at that
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Jan 3, 2022 15:23
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:AITA for driving the posted speed limit in a school zone during school hours? Was this happening the week of Thanksgiving? I’m pretty sure school kids get the week off.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:24
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Dazerbeams posted:Was this happening the week of Thanksgiving? I’m pretty sure school kids get the week off. Regardless it was probably less than a hundred meters where the guy drove 20 miles an hour. If that gets you so amped up you are screaming and gesticulating wildy at the car in front of you you should probably drive into a ditch because you are an rear end in a top hat
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Jan 3, 2022 15:28
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B-Rock452 posted:Regardless it was probably less than a hundred meters where the guy drove 20 miles an hour. If that gets you so amped up you are screaming and gesticulating wildy at the car in front of you you should probably drive into a ditch because you are an rear end in a top hat Some people really lose it over the smallest poo poo, it's so weird. The other day I was waiting in backed-up traffic at a highway junction, and this one dude is HONKING and YELLING and WAVING HIS ARMS, meanwhile everyone else is sharing glances between their cars, laughing and pointing. Dude sees this, gets even madder, starts yelling at everyone and starts opening and closing his door I guess "threateningly". It took a few minutes to clear out the backup, in the meantime dude almost bust a forehead vein.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:34
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Cowslips Warren posted:Was it Carlin that said no matter your age, gender, wealth status, religion, everyone thinks they are a loving amazing driver? Carlin's thing was being fascinated by what people will happily proclaim, like not being able to do math or being clumsy, compared to what people will never admit to, like having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:34
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Exceeding the speed limit in a school zone, regardless if school is in session or not, is a great way to get a citation for reckless driving. School zones are well known for being speed traps and for good reason. That guy that was behind the OP is going to kill somebody with his bullshit.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:35
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I am aware my driving skill is subpar so I just... don't. Moving to another country so I'd never need to drive again was one of the benefits
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Jan 3, 2022 15:35
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Barudak posted:I am aware my driving skill is subpar so I just... don't. Moving to another country so I'd never need to drive again was one of the benefits Same, sort of. I've always chosen to live in places where I can avoid driving. I'll also add that, for me at least, being a reluctant driver has been a disadvantage or even dealbreaker in romantic relationships. It's a gender norm/double standard that's kind of taken for granted.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:45
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for telling a bride her wedding dress was average at best? Trying to guess some ages for this: Husband: 30 MIL: 55 Grandfather: 70 Amanda: 45 The age difference seems like a critique of both grandfather's and Amanda's character, though once you really get up in age, it doesn't seem as bad to be with someone younger than your kid. I want to know what the actual ages are.
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Jan 3, 2022 15:47
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If the town is small enough, locals will know where the cops like to hang out at any given time. But yeah, freaking out behind the wheel is never okay. Road rage is for the unhinged, and it’s terrifying how proud some people get over it.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:02
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I really don't quite understand what happened here but in the spirit of 2022 I recommend throwing all of these people in the trash tl;dr - social media turns your brain into mush
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Jan 3, 2022 16:16
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for sending my sil tiktoks to family group chat causing her an anxiety attack "Hey, don't worry about all the videos I'm putting on the internet about how you're a horrible monster. If you end up losing your job or something over it I'll just make a video saying it was all made up." If you're doing a creative thing just use made up people. Sheesh.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:23
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Dazerbeams posted:If the town is small enough, locals will know where the cops like to hang out at any given time. But yeah, freaking out behind the wheel is never okay. Road rage is for the unhinged, and it’s terrifying how proud some people get over it. Road ragers definitely are working themselves up to kill somebody some day.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:35
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Dazerbeams posted:If the town is small enough, locals will know where the cops like to hang out at any given time. But yeah, freaking out behind the wheel is never okay. Road rage is for the unhinged, and it’s terrifying how proud some people get over it. The people I know who tend to get mad at other drivers usually are driving very dangerously themselves. Every slip up is magnified because it could have caused an accident because they're driving in such a way that the person in front of them tapping the brakes can cause them to crash. The scariest drivers, though, are the ones who drive super dangerously and seem calm but are paying attention to nearly anything but the road. Like they don't seem to even notice that they're riding this guy's bumper going double the speed limit down a suburban street.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:51
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I'm still gonna scream at people who stop within the roundabout and you can stop me  The people ENTERING are supposed to yield, not YOU, you dumb motherfucker!
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Jan 3, 2022 16:57
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm still gonna scream at people who stop within the roundabout and you can stop me In situations like this I just go "lmao wtf is this clown doing" and try my best to mitigate the danger. Closest I got to being mad was when someone got mad at me for stopping at a yield sign (to wait for an opportunity to merge into the roundabout).
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Jan 3, 2022 17:04
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Dr. Stab posted:The scariest drivers, though, are the ones who drive super dangerously and seem calm but are paying attention to nearly anything but the road. Like they don't seem to even notice that they're riding this guy's bumper going double the speed limit down a suburban street. In the UK we call these '40mph people'. They drive at 40mph when the speed limit is 30 and they drive at 40mph when the speed limit is 50. The horrifying thing is that this doesn't look particularly dangerous until you realise that they are absolutely committed to doing their own thing and are barely conscious of the world around them as they plough forwards regardless.
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Jan 3, 2022 17:05
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm still gonna scream at people who stop within the roundabout and you can stop me There is a roundabout in the town next to my mom’s and it’s been there since before I was born. There is a DMV in this town that the driving test will take you to said roundabout, or if not that one, the other ones in this town. People still stop in the drat roundabout trying to let people in. ALL THE TIME. Roundabouts are easy once you know that you do not stop in the middle of them. Likewise, the only thing I’ll get angry about is if someone’s driving is putting me and my passengers in danger. The shittiest accident that I’ve been into was because someone “thought they could make a red” and tboned me, when I was the second car in the green lane to have the green. He hit me so hard my car pinballed into a stopped car that had the red in his opposite lane, aka his red, the same drat red. I’ll cop to be an assertive driver - but not “let’s see if I can run a red when it’s been red for 30 seconds”. The other thing that gets me is are my eyes decaying rapidly or why does everyone have those insanely bright halogen headlights? Like it’s rude to have your brights on all the time, you don’t circumvent that rudeness by having your regular headlights ALSO basically brights.
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IME, these people are always going significantly faster than the speed limit. They aren't thinking about the cars around them or pedestrians or "I wonder what's around this blind turn" or "this is a parking lot" they're just thinking "vroom car go fast" and dodging obstacles. The "why does a car have mirrors I never use them" people.
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teen witch posted:The other thing that gets me is are my eyes decaying rapidly or why does everyone have those insanely bright halogen headlights? Like it’s rude to have your brights on all the time, you don’t circumvent that rudeness by having your regular headlights ALSO basically brights. They do that in case you want to read.
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Alchenar posted:In the UK we call these '40mph people'. They drive at 40mph when the speed limit is 30 and they drive at 40mph when the speed limit is 50. The horrifying thing is that this doesn't look particularly dangerous until you realise that they are absolutely committed to doing their own thing and are barely conscious of the world around them as they plough forwards regardless. There was a commute to work I had for a couple years where it started as a 70 mph freeway, dropped to 60 for a dense set of exits, then transitioned into a highway on the way out of town. I tend to go up to 5mph over the speed limit as for most roads in town that's basically the average flow of traffic, so basically every morning I'd be cruising along, passing a couple cars doing closer to 70, getting passed by cars doing closer to 80, but mostly just staying within a pack of commuters. Then we'd hit the 60 zone and basically no one would change their speed so I was always left with the awkward choice of now being a rolling blockade going about 10 mph under the flow of traffic by going 65, or just joining the average that was now closer to 15 over the speed limit as posted. I hated it. ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for sending my sil tiktoks to family group chat causing her an anxiety attack my anxiety!!!!!!
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Dr. Stab posted:In situations like this I just go "lmao wtf is this clown doing" and try my best to mitigate the danger. Closest I got to being mad was when someone got mad at me for stopping at a yield sign (to wait for an opportunity to merge into the roundabout). I usually just yell "Gooooo!" Usually at a high, dismayed pitch because my brain is too busy trying to process what is happening to form other words, let alone sentences. I also do it at one railway underpass that is at the apex of a blind u-curve. There's plenty of room to make it through, even with oncoming traffic, but once a week, some rando is gonna stop in the underpass to wait for cars to pass and just beg to get someone rear-ended.
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Jan 3, 2022 17:35
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for telling a bride her wedding dress was average at best? alright, i admit i would watch this show and laugh at amanda's lines "flush, bitch!!" lol the escalating madness followed by dead silence as soon as someone says the dress looks completely off-the-rack, lmao
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Jan 3, 2022 17:47
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for telling a bride her wedding dress was average at best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXpmHuCE9Ls
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AITA for calling the Police on my fiancé?quote:My fiance (28M) and I (30F) have been together for 3 years, I used to live close to work and used public transportation but after I moved in to his house which is hours away from work I bought myself a car since I'm a nurse and also since there isn't any hospitals close to where we live that I could transfer to. Op in comments posted:When he kept disrespecting my job this was me being fed up because I've done my best to support him and even uprooted my life and moved away just so he could be happy but in return all I saw was disrespect towards my job. He treats my shifts as if they are hang outs with friend that I could cancel or put off which is not okay in any capacity.
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Our first nominee for this year's Petra Jr. award: AITA for telling my niece her grandparents are homophobic? quote:I (28 M) am gay, and my parents disowned me because of it. I haven’t spoken to them in 8 years. However, I’m still close with my sister (34 F) and her daughter (10 F). My sister still has a relationship with our parents.
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Jan 3, 2022 18:56
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teen witch posted:People still stop in the drat roundabout trying to let people in. ALL THE TIME. Roundabouts are easy once you know that you do not stop in the middle of them. These people are called "niceholes". These people will stop on a freeway exit ramp to let you merge if you have a yield sign and they think you've been waiting too long. They will stop in the middle of an intersection while driving straight in order to let you turn left in front of them from the oncoming traffic lane. Niceholes that drive get people killed.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Our first nominee for this year's Petra Jr. award: That kid's a good egg.
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Hughlander posted:AITA for calling the Police on my fiancé? always the rear end in a top hat for calling the pigs
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WoodrowSkillson posted:always the rear end in a top hat for calling the pigs Huge assholes must prosper for sake of mis-applied ACAB.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:always the rear end in a top hat for calling the pigs That's a heck of a take for someone stealing your car. edit: It just occurred to me that it might have been sarcasm.
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before you call the cops you must always ask yourself “does what this person is doing deserve the death penalty” because there is always at least a decent possibility that calling the cops ends in them shooting someone dead. it should be your default assumption of the outcome if the person you’re calling them on is darker than a paper bag.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:21
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WoodrowSkillson posted:always the rear end in a top hat for calling the pigs Set a bastard to catch an rear end in a top hat. I don't think there are a lot of people who can get away with "my fiancé took my car". I'm just surprised that the cops actually went and did something about it rather than just give her a case number for insurance.
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I am an extremely nervous driver, and I would never claim to be a good one. On the other hand, there's a roundabout near our tourist town, and everybody uses it correctly, including (apparently) the tourists. It's a miracle. AITA for calling my daughter's fiance a 'manlet'? quote:So my (48M) daughter (26F) and her fiance, 'Jim', (28M) broke the news to me recently about their engagement. I admit, I was a little surprised that Jim didn't seek my approval before proposing, but I kept that to myself. Moreover, they've only been dating for a year, and I hadn't even met Jim in-person more than handful of times until now.
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Jan 3, 2022 19:23
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Lmao that loser dad got owned by the Alpha Manlet
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am an extremely nervous driver, and I would never claim to be a good one. On the other hand, there's a roundabout near our tourist town, and everybody uses it correctly, including (apparently) the tourists. It's a miracle. lol I hope this guy loses to his son in law at everything ever
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I am an extremely nervous driver, and I would never claim to be a good one. On the other hand, there's a roundabout near our tourist town, and everybody uses it correctly, including (apparently) the tourists. It's a miracle. "We often do recrational 'tall people' activities when we're all together"
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