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Proteus Jones posted:But exit numbers are aligned with mile markers, aren't they? Carbon dioxide posted:I have no idea how Americans navigated before GPS, did you need to stop every 5 minutes to go look at a paper map or something? Start by opening it up to the index, and find the state and region you need to navigate  Traveling a long distance and want to know how long of a drive it is from city to city? Use the mileage chart  Where are you heading? now go to the map.  This is the left page when you have the atlas open. The Jacksonville inset is a zoom-in from the right page, but they put it there because you're probably not driving in the water. Since these are Amazon preview images, you're just going to have to trust me that Jacksonville is over there. Let's say you're going from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. You can see that I-10 runs east out of the north part of Tallahassee, so you're going to take that Jacksonville . You can find the distance between the two on the mileage chart. Now you're probably not familiar with Tallahassee, but you're in luck! There's a light grey box around it labeled "51" so you just have to flip back to page 51 and you'll get the zoomed in box like there is around Jacksonville. Since you're in Florida you most likely want to spend as much time as possibgle getting away from wherever you are, so you'll probably want the whole state Atlas and Gazetteer https://www.amazon.com/DeLorme%C2%A...s=books&sr=1-22. It has the same convenient numbers across the top and letters down the side, and you can use those to find towns and individual roads. They used to all be laminated, which was convenient because you could use a dry erase marker and wipe it off after each trip. Or have a passenger navigate and completely ignore their directions, then scream at them once you realize you wasted half an hour by not listening. Also, don't forget to have a good number of quarters, dimes, and nickels plus a bunch of singles on hand for tolls.
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Jonny 290 posted:witness the worst infrastructure crime in the united states i feel like it would be funnier to steal this one though
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this Exchange date thing is so goddamn stupid but good lord I’m glad I’ll be retired before 2038.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:There is a secret on the Eisenhower interstate System, exits are just mile markers too. i was wondering when someone was going to point this out
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its also weird that no one mentioned that the whole reason the 911 operator is asking is because maybe you know offhand and the whole point is to tell the police dispatch which exit is the last one they can use to access the highway and which is too far down the road that would they would be unable to encounter the individual the point is to eliminate opportunity for error since its a literal game of telephone
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if that was the case they'd say "marker 125, that's between Farttown and Buttston, right?" saying "we don't use mile markers" and asking for the exit information cold is an indication that they're too organizationally dysfunctional to figure out where a particular mile marker is
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california doesn't (or didn't) use real mile markers
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Proteus Jones posted:But exit numbers are aligned with mile markers, aren't they? not some of the older interstates, which just number them 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4, etc. nj turnpike & ny thruway still do that can recommend https://www.aaroads.com for all sorts of road nerd needs.
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animist posted:i feel like it would be funnier to steal this one though it’s not as funny
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Jonny 290 posted:witness the worst infrastructure crime in the united states what about the renaming of us-666
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GWBBQ posted:nope An effort post that I started to feel was a poo poo post until I realized that there really may be some people here who are actually too young to remember these and 
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Volmarias posted:An effort post that I started to feel was a poo poo post until I realized that there really may be some people here who are actually too young to remember these and
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pre-ordering a “TripTik” from AAA before a trip their office had a library of thousands of pages of maps of segments of interstate and they would assemble a custom map all bound up for you. then when you come in to pick it up they walked you through it and highlighted the route on every page with a yellow highlighter, usually telling you where a good place to stop would be or the like too
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I loving love maps, i remember the big atlases, hell yes
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I'm old enough to have navigated with a roadmap lol. My point was that having sign posts as well makes it a hell of a lot easier.
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the first real road trip i took by myself was in 2000 this girl i was in love with was 'stuck in joliet' and wanted to come back to hot springs, and i thought that if i drove like a thousand miles she'd go out with me so i got in my $500 chevy nova and blasted across the midsouth corridor, cranking White Pony on my sony cassette deck the whole way halfway through my rear brakes failed. i pulled over, crimped off the lines with a pair of vise grips, and carried on She took me to a couple of house parties and that's when i was introduced to midwesterners 'having a drink' by filling a 32 oz big gulp cup with straight vodka, adding a splash of 7-up, and just downing it. Holy poo poo everybody in the cheese belt is a loving raging alcoholic anyways that was a fun trip and that old piece of poo poo still broke 26 mpg at eighty miles an hour the whole way. Whole cost for the week long trip was under $300 and we got burgers a few times. The girl, eh, hope she's well, havent talked to her in like 20 years.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I'm old enough to have navigated with a roadmap lol. entire eastern europe navigated like that until like mid 2010s, excluding truck drivers and fat cats who could afford a tomtom
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Jonny 290 posted:the first real road trip i took by myself was in 2000 Road trips are the best part of car culture. Everything else is the worst.
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when i was an organizer i spent a lot of time with maps talking to workers in rural areas. i remember those times very fondly. maps and backroads own
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i don't miss going to the post office to figure out wtf for rural routes though
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did you know that a lot of young people also don’t know how to read analog clocks
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Wild EEPROM posted:did you know that a lot of young people also don’t know how to read analog clocks
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Wild EEPROM posted:did you know that a lot of young people also don’t know how to read analog clocks to be fair, neither does the 46th president of the united states
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Jonny 290 posted:to be fair, neither does the 46th president of the united states I think that's drawing one
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Wild EEPROM posted:did you know that a lot of young people also don’t know how to read analog clocks That's actually pretty sad since analog clocks are useful even if you can't speak the local language. But really that's on the parents. Analog clocks arne't complicated, you only have to teach them once, and then maybe a quick reminder. E: Actually I guess I'll need to get an analog clock for the future child. It also helps with Geometry and learning angles. ate shit on live tv fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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jesus WEP posted:company i worked for came up with a whiteboard question to write a function that takes in a datetime and returns the number of degrees between the hour and minute hands of the clock. literally the first candidate we used it on was partially sighted and obviously had never learned to read a clock so it was working as intended as a plausibly deniable way to reject handicapped people I take it?
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:That's actually pretty sad since analog clocks are useful even if you can't speak the local language. But really that's on the parents. Analog clocks arne't complicated, you only have to teach them once, and then maybe a quick reminder. are digital clocks commonly shown in the local language or something
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like you take a trip to rome and everyone's watch is showing XI:XIV
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Shame Boy posted:are digital clocks commonly shown in the local language or something is there anywhere that doesn't use arabic numerals?
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Shame Boy posted:are digital clocks commonly shown in the local language or something You may know the numbers, but you may not know what 12:00 is in Lebanese  You may also not know how to convey "in 3 hours" in the local language.
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RFC2324 posted:is there anywhere that doesn't use arabic numerals? i'll tell you in a minute, it's time for my 四:二〇 break
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:You may know the numbers, but you may not know what 12:00 is in Lebanese i dont think sexuality has anything to do with basic math skills friend
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Shame Boy posted:are digital clocks commonly shown in the local language or something are yours not 
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RFC2324 posted:is there anywhere that doesn't use arabic numerals? ask a republican family in Ohio
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Wild EEPROM posted:did you know that a lot of young people also don’t know how to read analog clocks
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circle time lmfao
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GWBBQ posted:My mind was blown when a student worker looked at a clock, pulled out his phone to check the time for me, and explained "I'm not good at reading circle time." holy poo poo lmfao
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GWBBQ posted:My mind was blown when a student worker looked at a clock, pulled out his phone to check the time for me, and explained "I'm not good at reading circle time." im in genuine angst from reading this
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GWBBQ posted:My mind was blown when a student worker looked at a clock, pulled out his phone to check the time for me, and explained "I'm not good at reading circle time." Owns.
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