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ijustam posted:School bus was picking up kids this morning and opposite direction stopped, as they're supposed to. Everyone traveling towards the stoppage slammed on their brakes as they didn't see the stoppage occur, 3 cars had to go onto the shoulder, and a dump truck almost took the cake. I'm going to get rich selling a software / hardware combination to the masses. it includes a forward mounted bluetooth camera, and a program with SMS and facebook connectivity which has a background with a live feed from the camera. PATENT PENDING People piloting huge slabs of mass need to pay more attention to their surroundings.
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General_Failure posted:People piloting huge slabs of mass need to pay more attention to their surroundings. This, a million times this. It scares the poo poo out of me all the things that people do or think are more important instead of piloting their 4,000lb kinetic missile. I was almost hit by one of those fuckers today, dude looking into his lap didn't see a slight s-curve and I had to drive onto the sidewalk to avoid a head-on collision. 
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Sep 8, 2014 23:48
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nsaP posted:I know people love the entitled cyclist but I just met an entitled jogger. Running toward me in my lane in the street, I see him coming and have my two left wheels on the center line paint, and he makes a motion to me that appears to be "Get over". The best (worst) is when there is a sidewalk RIGHT THERE they are ignoring and choosing to be in the road with vehicular traffic. Apparently its some voodoo about asphalt being softer than concrete, and therefor easier on joints, but just doing a quick risk analysis comparing negligible joint saving asphalt vs the very real increased risk of being hit by a car shows you how ridiculous it is.
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Sep 9, 2014 00:23
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sbyers77 posted:The best (worst) is when there is a sidewalk RIGHT THERE they are ignoring and choosing to be in the road with vehicular traffic. Running on sidewalks can suck because it's full of cracks and there are all these ups & downs from driveways, but it's still better than running in the road because, you know, the sidewalk isn't full of 2-ton vehicles traveling 30 mph. Usually. As this thread shows, sometimes the sidewalk does have cars on it.
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Sep 9, 2014 00:38
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sbyers77 posted:The best (worst) is when there is a sidewalk RIGHT THERE they are ignoring and choosing to be in the road with vehicular traffic. It is in fact softer, but not soft enough to make any appreciable difference if it's a human running on it. That bullshit myth needs to go away, the only time pedestrians should be in the road is when it's an area that does not have sidewalks at all.
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Sep 9, 2014 00:41
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Roads are often crowned too so running on the side isn't great for your body.
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Sep 9, 2014 01:13
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At least around here, the problem with running on the sidewalk is that people often park their cars two deep in their driveways, so the second one is in the part of their driveway that crosses the sidewalk. Then you have to run in the street to go around it, so you might as well just run in the street the whole way instead of darting in and out.
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Sep 9, 2014 01:28
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What kind of suburban hellhole do you live in where blocking sidewalks isn't a ticketable offence? Remind me to never move out of the city.
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thelightguy posted:What kind of suburban hellhole do you live in where blocking sidewalks isn't a ticketable offence? Remind me to never move out of the city. In the US, I believe it's ticket-able anywhere, as it's against the ADA (Americans with Disabilites Act) to block a sidewalk with your car.
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Sep 9, 2014 02:15
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It may be illegal, but it requires someone to enforce it too. Which either requires someone to call it in or a cop who gives a poo poo to roll by. Basically people can probably get away with it 99% of the time.
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Sep 9, 2014 02:22
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Uthor posted:People can break up on good terms, you know. And I could sledgehammer my nads, but that would make about as much sense as doing favors for an exgirlfriend.
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Sep 9, 2014 04:07
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sbyers77 posted:Apparently its some voodoo about asphalt being softer than concrete, and therefor easier on joints, but just doing a quick risk analysis comparing negligible joint saving asphalt vs the very real increased risk of being hit by a car shows you how ridiculous it is. The majority of roads where I live are concrete. So are the sidewalks. If you get into the older parts of DFW, then yeah, you run into asphalt. But any street around me, put down in the past 25+ years, is going to be concrete (with asphalt patchwork for potholes, until they can get out and do a proper concrete repair). Plano has been pretty good about responding to pothole/street/sidewalk repair requests when you submit them online; they'd come out and marked the sidewalk in front of my house within 24 hours with neon paint after I'd submitted a request just asking "Who's responsible for a section of sidewalk lifting - homeowner or city?" and included my address. It'll be a bit before it's fixed, so it's still a trip hazard, but that section is also spraypainted bright rear end neon green. Even Main St, through downtown, in the city I work in (Frisco TX), is cement now; it's a city that dates back to the late 1800s. Main St is still a 2 lane road through downtown, they've just modernized it. I rarely see asphalt in that city except on the oldest side streets and alleys in town. It's a much noisier ride than asphalt. Oh yeah, people still run in the street in my subdivision. The entire subdivision is paved with concrete, with perfectly usable sidewalks. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:Running on sidewalks can suck because it's full of cracks and there are all these ups & downs from driveways, but it's still better than running in the road because, you know, the sidewalk isn't full of 2-ton vehicles traveling 30 mph. I see joggers in the street even though the sidewalks here are perfect. Not that much of anything in metro Phoenix is truly old, but the oldest in-use infrastructure in my part of town is maaaaybe 20 years old and that would be pushing it (15 is more realistic and a lot of it is newer than that). The sidewalks are straight, smooth, no trees to push them up or anything, but you'll still see some jackass jogging in the bike lane. If you really want to run on a smooth and softer surface, find a high school and run on their track. At least here the school tracks are open most evenings / weekend days for whoever wants to run on them.
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Sep 9, 2014 07:19
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fakeaccount posted:And I could sledgehammer my nads, but that would make about as much sense as doing favors for an exgirlfriend. your paradigm's a bit narrow there mate
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atomicthumbs posted:your paradigm's a bit narrow there mate That's because he's been sledging it.
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Sep 9, 2014 17:33
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At least you haven't had a guy going against traffic on rollerblades weaving back and forth on the busiest street in the area. That chode is asking to get hit, but at least he was wearing a helmet 
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Sep 9, 2014 18:39
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sbyers77 posted:The best (worst) is when there is a sidewalk RIGHT THERE they are ignoring and choosing to be in the road with vehicular traffic. Oh yeah, there was a sidewalk there. If there wasn't I probably wouldn't consider him to be dickish but there was. Apparently that's not how it works tho, and even though I was nearly in the oncoming lane, that's not enough. When Jimmy Jogger is coming down the road I'm supposed to get the hell out of his way with no regard for anything else.
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Sep 10, 2014 01:05
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Hey lady that almost hit me as I was following you out of the parking lot, maybe you should check your mirrors before slamming on your brakes and throwing your car into reverse. There might be someone behind you! At least I know my horn works.
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Sep 10, 2014 18:58
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xzzy posted:It may be illegal, but it requires someone to enforce it too. Which either requires someone to call it in or a cop who gives a poo poo to roll by. Call the non-emergency police line and complain. We did this to a neighbor at my parents house a few years ago (grandma lived in a care facility a block away and we would wheelchair her back and forth). A patrol car was there within half an hour talking to the neighbors. Never had them do it again.
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Uthor posted:Hey lady that almost hit me as I was following you out of the parking lot, maybe you should check your mirrors before slamming on your brakes and throwing your car into reverse. There might be someone behind you! Same thing happened to me in a Chic-Fil-A parking lot in my friend's shitbox Tercel. The horn didn't work, but I discovered that when I'm panicking, I yell "BEEEEP!"
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The Door Frame posted:At least you haven't had a guy going against traffic on rollerblades weaving back and forth on the busiest street in the area. That chode is asking to get hit, but at least he was wearing a helmet We have a group of people who have been rollerblading in the street all over the city, and they aren't making any attempt at doing it safely. Blocking lanes, wandering into oncoming traffic, running red lights that have crossing traffic, etc. They'll be in a clump, filling their lane, and just cruise leisurely down busy streets in the middle of downtown during midday traffic. What, do you want to get hit by a car? Who even rollerblades any more?
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I hate State Fair time in my city. On my route to and from work, they just swap the 40 MPH signs by the fairground with 25 MPH signs and do nothing else to warn people about it. I got a speeding ticket there last year because I'd just come back from a month-long trip and wasn't on the lookout, so now I notice the signs and drive down that stretch at 25 MPH. Of course everyone else is still driving at 50 MPH and road raging like loving crazy at me, tailgating and cutting me off. What the hell do I even do besides go miles out of my way to take a different route?
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I saw this after class in the grocery store parking lot: My guess is the guy came in the entrance way where the truck is pulling out and turned left into the parking lot. Must have had his head down texting or something, and plowed right into the light pole, knocking the light pole and concrete base right over. Thank god there wasn't anyone under it.
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:I hate State Fair time in my city. On my route to and from work, they just swap the 40 MPH signs by the fairground with 25 MPH signs and do nothing else to warn people about it. I got a speeding ticket there last year because I'd just come back from a month-long trip and wasn't on the lookout, so now I notice the signs and drive down that stretch at 25 MPH. drat this sounds super annoying and dangerous (creating such a large disparity in speed). Is there somewhere you can call your State DOT and complain?
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Not my pic, but these are the people you share the road with in Pittsburgh. 
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antisodachrist posted:Not my pic, but these are the people you share the road with in Pittsburgh. You're just jealous that his sun visor is bigger than yours. And external.
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Haha, I had the page scrolled all the way to the bottom and thought it was a picture of mr tank commander there. Then scrolled up.
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Sep 11, 2014 04:25
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 Just an average commute in Los Angeles. Not shown: Complete lack of break lights or signals
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Sep 11, 2014 04:27
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sloshmonger posted:
I might be talking a bit too much sense here, but why not put the old, disgusting water heater, you know, inside the van? Fake Edit: Don't want to get rusty water all over your mobile rape dungeon carpet. That would be gross!
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Goddamn, I forgot Food Lion even existed. They shuttered all of their stores here in the 90s. The one down the street from here is now an alternative school for the local ISD, another one nearby is a Goodwill store. I've even seen one turned into a post office.
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some texas redneck posted:Goddamn, I forgot Food Lion even existed. They shuttered all of their stores here in the 90s. Where are you supposed to buy your sweet breads and other questionably edible animal parts from now? (or was that just the one by me when I lived in NC?)
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I saw a whole frozen rabbit in a Food Lion a couple months ago.
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One of my favorites was when i found whole cow tongues and licked my wife with one of them (in the package). She's like "what are you doing? OH EWWWWW THATS DISGUSTING WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?"
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Sep 11, 2014 20:54
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Lengua is delicious and I will hear no opposition to that fact 
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The Door Frame posted:Lengua is delicious and I will hear no opposition to that fact Of all of the 'weird' ingredients you can find in a burrito at a taco shop, lengua is the best. Tripas and cabeza can gently caress off.
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pkells posted:
Having finally tried chicken feet, I see no reason to eat them unless you are in desperate need of food AND you're raising your own chickens so your choices are to eat them or throw them out. We had chickens when I was growing up, I've seen what they step in with those feet, I'll pass. (hint: it's their own poo poo, constantly)
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My impression of it was it was a waste of time. Almost all bone, you spend your whole time searching for meat. No special flavour the rest of the chicken doesn't have either.
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Some of the Sheep posted:My impression of it was it was a waste of time. Almost all bone, you spend your whole time searching for meat. No special flavour the rest of the chicken doesn't have either. I've never eaten them, but just looking at them this is the impression I get. The only thing I can see using them for would be to make some stock.
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