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Well that explains why my exclamation points stopped working, that guy used up the internet's quota.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:58
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These are the people you shared a road with? http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/21/lorry-driver-given-parking-ticket-despite-being-dead-at-the-wheel-5766372/ Metro.co.uk posted:A lorry driver who had parked up with his hazard lights on was given a parking ticket despite being dead at the wheel.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:19
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Been a while since I saw any really dumb driving, but got a twofer today; first I saw some fool driving a goddamn tractor (the farming kind, not the truck kind) at <20km/h on the motorway this morning. Then this evening, some idiot a few cars in front of me comes to a dead stop on a roundabout exit, sits there for a bit blocking the exit while cars start queuing up behind him, then finally pulls an illegal U-turn to go back into the roundabout. 
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Mar 21, 2016 19:33
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How else do you expect him to move his tractor from one place to another?
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Mar 21, 2016 19:38
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PCOS Bill posted:How else do you expect him to move his tractor from one place to another? Using literally any of the other roads in the country where it's perfectly legal to drive a tractor, instead of a 120km/h motorway where it's not legal to drive tractors (or anything else that can't go at least 50km/h). He got on at the Newport roundabout, too, right outside Limerick city, so it's not like this was out in the boonies. No idea what the guy was thinking.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:58
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Yeah I saw that video earlier of the old man swerving into the biker but I didn't see the part with the old man being a dick. What a loving rear end in a top hat. He deserves at least one kick to the balls, probably several. It's also probably good that the filming cyclist kept his cool because he was probably packing.
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Mar 22, 2016 01:41
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LloydDobler posted:Yeah I saw that video earlier of the old man swerving into the biker but I didn't see the part with the old man being a dick. What a loving rear end in a top hat. He deserves at least one kick to the balls, probably several. Everyone involved probably was.
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Mar 22, 2016 02:40
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On the other side of the problem, with spring in full force all the morons are starting to bring their crotch rockets out of hibernation. Commute home this evening some twit was cruising two feet off my rear bumper at ~40 and kept drifting around in the lane to poke around me and see if there was an opportunity to pass. He also kept doing that wobble left and right thing that riders sometimes do when showing off. I lost sight of him when he dove into a gas station to cut around a red light and floored it off into the distance. gently caress off, whoever you were.
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Mar 22, 2016 03:00
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kastein posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LreWfR_p__M That was actually local to me. The guy is a massive piece of poo poo and tried to run down a couple of 13 years old several years ago (tried and convicted in 2007), and has plenty of other charges over the years. His criminal record goes back to the 1980s... quote:Records show he has also faced charges for everything from family violence assault, to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, reckless driving, abusive calls to 911 and making a terroristic threat.
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Mar 22, 2016 05:27
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Almost had my bumper removed by an idiot in a two lane roundabout. I've never felt good in a two lane roundabout, someone is always about to do something insanely stupid
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Mar 22, 2016 06:51
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The crotch rocket crowd bothers me less than the Harley crowd who feel that no muffler and just BRAAAAAAAAAAAP down a residential street at night is an acceptable thing to do ever. gently caress those goddamned things.
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Mar 22, 2016 06:59
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Javid posted:The crotch rocket crowd bothers me less than the Harley crowd who feel that no muffler and just BRAAAAAAAAAAAP down a residential street at night is an acceptable thing to do ever. gently caress those goddamned things. Loud pipes save lives. I had an interesting thing on Sunday night, though not quite the road. I drive a boat for a living, and While making a passage, in the pitch black, I just happened to glance to the port side and see a sailboat with no lights cruising away from me. The boat barely showed up on the radar, and we were set to .75 kn. Morons.
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Mar 22, 2016 09:20
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Mar 22, 2016 16:59
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They should mount a flashlight behind it.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:03
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SpannerX posted:Loud pipes save lives. The problem with that is they only save the lives of the assholes who ride around with loud pipes. Maybe my car isn't luxurious enough to have top tier sound deadening but I can hear normal motorcycles in my vicinity just fine.
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SpannerX posted:Loud pipes save lives. No they don't. If people aren't looking, they also aren't listening. It just annoys the poo poo out of everyone. http://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/stop-saying-loud-pipes-save-lives http://www.motorcyclecruiser.com/last-word-loud-pipes-tech-matters http://www.autoevolution.com/news/most-common-motorcycle-myths-debunked-part-1-45969.html
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Mar 22, 2016 18:16
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listen man you just dont understand the freedom of the road nothing makes me feel more alive than just cruising and splattering my brains across the road because helmets are for pussies SHARE THE ROAD
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Mar 22, 2016 19:49
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go3 posted:listen man you just dont understand the freedom of the road nothing makes me feel more alive than just cruising and splattering my brains across the road because helmets are for pussies SHARE THE ROAD
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Mar 22, 2016 20:35
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SpannerX posted:Loud pipes save lives. Try living on the corner of a busy intersection in a car / motorcycle town for a few years then tell me if you agree. I love being woken up in all hours of the night because they decide they want to rev the engine and take off like a rocket at the stoplights. gently caress those guys and their compensation bikes and cars. Solar Coaster fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 21:22
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KozmoNaut posted:What an unmitigated shitheel. I originally wrote something far harsher but decided to tone it down. Either way, gently caress that guy. He deserves to be drowned in a bucket full of ticks that are on fire.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:39
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davebo posted:The problem with that is they only save the lives of the assholes who ride around with loud pipes. Maybe my car isn't luxurious enough to have top tier sound deadening but I can hear normal motorcycles in my vicinity just fine. nitrogen posted:No they don't. If people aren't looking, they also aren't listening. It just annoys the poo poo out of everyone. Solar Coaster posted:Try living on the corner of a busy intersection in a car / motorcycle town for a few years then tell me if you agree. I love being woken up in all hours of the night because they decide they want to rev the engine and take off like a rocket at the stoplights. gently caress those guys and their compensation bikes and cars. Uh, I was joking. I live on a main st. with a large hill beside me, and I hate large pipes. They suck.
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kastein posted:Hope this fuckass pulls that kind of poo poo with some Hells Angels one day and gets what he has coming to him Guys like that tend to pick their targets carefully, so they won't pull their bullshit on anyone who looks like they'll gently caress him up proper for doing so.
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SpannerX posted:Uh, I was joking. I live on a main st. with a large hill beside me, and I hate large pipes. They suck. Around here it's a mix of purposely installed loud exhaust, and someone being too lazy or cheap to replace a busted muffler. Even the other night I was watching a movie and heard some godawful metal screeching behind my apartment, and some guy rolling down the street in typical fashion with a half-beaten mid 90s Lexus that had rims that were probably worth more than the car. Looked like the front passenger wheel was a bit saggy and that's where the screeching was coming from...so I watched the dude stop a couple times, get out, look at the wheel, drive up the road again, then turn around in a driveway and (I assume) head back the way he came to go home. If it's not one of those things, it's dipshits that don't understand right-of-way - like the jackass that sat at a green light yesterday and decided not to use a turn signal when making his right, and someone in the opposite left turn lane almost hitting them because neither idiot could decide who should go first. Dude, right turn has right of way, don't get pissed at me and flip out at the wheel when I tap my horn because you don't understand that poo poo and should've been the one load your mom swallowed.
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Well that's not gone right. (spotted on reddit with no backstory unfortunately)
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SpannerX posted:Uh, I was joking. I live on a main st. with a large hill beside me, and I hate large pipes. They suck. I got that you were joking, but that's a thing people do say so it was a good a time as any for us to all dogpile on idiots who don't actually read this forum.
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xzzy posted:Well that's not gone right. No boat on the trailer, so boat launch successful!
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On loud pipes, part of its morons that want to just have their penis extension be known far and wide. My first bike had an aftermarket exhaust installed which is louder yes, but the guy that installed it removed the baffles in the muffler to. That made the muffle be just a straight pipe and sounded horrible, made the bike actually perform worse, and was a friggen cop magnet. first thing I did as the owner was junk that exhaust and install stock exhaust. Sounds way more natural sometimes and no one around here could hear loud pipes anyways. My new bike has aftermarket pipes from the first owner but I can install the original anytime I want, the pipes are a bit louder but not obnoxious. Main reason I want to change the pipes is because I feel like a dick at night riding home since I work nights.
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Saw a woman waiting to turn out of a gas station, but due to traffic being backed up at a red she didn't get her chance. I guess she felt slighted because no one just let her in, so she used a right turn lane to go move in front of line and blocked off both lanes all through the green light. She then flipped them off and ran the red. I swear to God, I did not make up on bit of that. What an utter oval office. loving Florida, man.
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xzzy posted:Well that's not gone right. The issue here is that he backed up too long while turning and the trailer "jack-knifed", meaning the tongue of the trailer is in contact with the bumper. If the tongue is bent, the trailer can become unstable, and frankly he should disconnect the trailer immediately and repair the damage to the tongue before driving again. Very dangerous.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:The issue here is that he backed up too long while turning and the trailer "jack-knifed", meaning the tongue of the trailer is in contact with the bumper. If the tongue is bent, the trailer can become unstable, and frankly he should disconnect the trailer immediately and repair the damage to the tongue before driving again. Very dangerous. I think a bent tongue is the least of the owner's concerns.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Saw a woman waiting to turn out of a gas station, but due to traffic being backed up at a red she didn't get her chance. I guess she felt slighted because no one just let her in, so she used a right turn lane to go move in front of line and blocked off both lanes all through the green light. She then flipped them off and ran the red. I swear to God, I did not make up on bit of that. What an utter oval office. This happens all the time on my commute home, but due to far right lane changing to a right turn only at when it intersects a major road. There are signs all the way back to the stop light before it cuts off, but people still use it and merge in at the last minute because the lane typically moves faster with people turning right. https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9973113,-96.828941,71m/data=!3m1!1e3
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SyHopeful posted:I think a bent tongue is the least of the owner's concerns. 
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These are the people I share a parking lot with. Check out the all new electric Chevy Blazer. 
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He is daring you to tow it. He probably doesn't want it back. It is like a free trailblazer disposal spot.
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sleepy.eyes posted:loving Florida, man. all you really need to say there.. 
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GutBomb posted:These are the people I share a parking lot with. I've seen "alternative energy" parking spots before. Those are really dumb. Completely unenforceable and not really useful. Now the electric parking spots with charging stations, you should probably get tickets for parking in those if your car doesn't drink lightning. Does that spot have a charger?
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um excuse me posted:I've seen "alternative energy" parking spots before. Those are really dumb. Completely unenforceable and not really useful. Agreed, although I've considered making an "Alternative Fuel Vehicle" sticker for my Jeep just to gently caress with people.
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um excuse me posted:Now the electric parking spots with charging stations, you should probably get tickets for parking in those if your car doesn't drink lightning. Competition for EV charging spots is fierce, man. Volt owners will straight up cut a bitch.
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um excuse me posted:I've seen "alternative energy" parking spots before. Those are really dumb. Completely unenforceable and not really useful. Now the electric parking spots with charging stations, you should probably get tickets for parking in those if your car doesn't drink lightning. Yeah, these have charging ports. Our parking garage has 3 tiers. One set of spots for Electric cars (there are 4 spots), One set of spots for cars that score a 50 or higher on Greenercars (There are 20 of these) and hundreds of spots for every other kind of car. The rules state that if an electric spot is vacant after 10 AM you're allowed to park in it if you have a car qualified to park in one of the other low emission/fuel efficient spots. I took that picture at 9:20 AM. Meanwhile there was a BMW i3 (an electric car) parked outside, presumably because this guy, a boring subaru sedan, a volt, and the guy in a CRV had taken the electric spots before he got there. And besides, this blazer wouldn't have been eligible for that spot even after 10. The rules about the fuel efficient spaces are loving dumb. They don't give a permit or a sticker or anything, it's all the honor system. They should have their electric spots with the chargers and the rest of the spots should just be a free for all. My former FR-S, Miata, and Fiesta ST all qualified for those "special" spots so it's kind of a joke anyway because none of these cars are all that fuel efficient anyway. I get around 26MPG on a good day on each of them. GutBomb fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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