First-World Problems...

Look...I understand how complicated an instruction this can be. I mean...you have to be able to read English, understand what the word "stop" means, translate that to the complex physical activity of stopping your car, AND comprehend that the thick white line painted on the street RIGHT NEXT TO THE WORD STOP is where you have to...um...STOP!

That line isn't just a good idea! It allows cars turning left to be able to negotiate the intersection without contortions. It also provides the sensors that control some intersections' lights with the information that there is a car in the (usually) left-turn lane. Too far from the line and the sensor won't detect a car, and the system will assume that no left turn arrow is necessary.

Is it a capital crime to ignore the stop line? Well, maybe I am a bit harsh, but yes. Although I wouldn't be averse to a 20 year mandatory sentence for the first infraction.

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 I got nuthin.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2024 02:01 PM (u73oe)

2 Had 1 this week, laundry pump stopped being functional.
So replaced it but tub / drain connection is almost not workable. Caulked it and if that doesn't work might be able to make new connections

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:02 PM (w0MX9)

3 I have snappy comebacks for lots of things. Minor traffic violations ain’t one of them.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2024 02:02 PM (u73oe)

4 Called the otters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2024 02:03 PM (u73oe)

5 I would advocate traffic laws after 1:30am should be suggestions, not mandatory.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:03 PM (w0MX9)

6 I got home from church to discover the traditional Easter lasagna in the oven.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:05 PM (aD39U)

7 And with 1/10th of the country illegals without a driver's license all traffic laws might be suggestions soon.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:05 PM (w0MX9)

8 Waaaay back, before I became 29, the State manual that I studied for my driver's license asserted that the rule was that you halted 10' before the stop sign. Yeah, old and busted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:07 PM (XeU6L)

9 That "STOP" sign seems to be kind of crudely stenciled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:07 PM (tkR6S)

10 New suggestive stop sign:

FAFO

Posted by: Vigi Lante Italian Artist at March 31, 2024 02:08 PM (pqOO2)

11 My only problem with putting on the ground without also a prominent sign is that you can't see it if a car is on top of it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:08 PM (PQ4m2)

12 Accelerating uses more gas than than cruising. That is why I don't stop...I do more for the climate than anybody

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2024 02:08 PM (5jPmg)

13 Mighty Putty!

Posted by: TV ad at March 31, 2024 02:09 PM (XeU6L)

14 And it is not so much the stop part but when it says no left turn or straight also.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:09 PM (PQ4m2)

15 "Sundays with CBD" is on my Top 10 list of things I like about the HQ.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 31, 2024 02:09 PM (5AVMW)

16 Waaaay back, before I became 29, the State manual that I studied for my driver's license asserted that the rule was that you halted 10' before the stop sign. Yeah, old and busted.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:07 PM (XeU6L)

As a practical matter, you often have to creep part way into the intersection in order to have an unobstructed view of possible cross-traffic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:10 PM (tkR6S)

17 I have a few four-way stops in my AO.
Not uncommon at all to see some dumb-ass come to a completely in front of the stop bar. If they stop at all.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 02:10 PM (cOq4q)

18 Just lay down a couple climate activist protestors.
Problem solved!

Posted by: Vigi Lante Italian Artist at March 31, 2024 02:10 PM (pqOO2)

19 Oh sweet fancy Moses- don't get me started on the driving public's stupidity

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:10 PM (oCjPU)

20 Accelerating uses more gas than than cruising. That is why I don't stop...I do more for the climate than anybody
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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Yeah, braking waste energy. I never do it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

21 *wastes

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

22 9 That "STOP" sign seems to be kind of crudely stenciled.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:07 PM (tkR6S)
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Looks like CBD took matters into his own hands.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at March 31, 2024 02:11 PM (snyZJ)

23 Most people cannot drive a lick because they were never taught how to drive. They have never had a class on driving and their idiot parents, who most likely "taught" them how to drive, are asshole drivers too.

So you got asshole drivers teaching their asshole offspring how to be asshole drivers and this is what goes on today.

Be careful out there, lotta assholes on the road.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (R/m4+)

24 I would advocate traffic laws after 1:30am should be suggestions, not mandatory.
Posted by: Skip
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Coordinated with last call.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (cOq4q)

25 Attacks on religious sites of the infidel, on religious holidays of the infidel, is a time-honored Muslim Classic. The only thing surprising about their Easter incursion into St. Patricks in nyc was that they weren't the murder/suicide Orcs. This time.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (TIizU)

26 >As a practical matter, you often have to creep part way into the intersection in order to have an unobstructed view of possible cross-traffic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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wait- that goes away when you're retired
you're in no hurry, every day is Saturday
I just sit there with my blinkah on, waiting for the green so I can turn right
doesn't matter how many behind me are leaning on the horn

(Have I told you about my lawn?)

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (oCjPU)

27 Most people cannot drive a lick because they were never taught how to drive. They have never had a class on driving and their idiot parents, who most likely "taught" them how to drive, are asshole drivers too.
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The function and use of turn signals is like some forgotten art.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:14 PM (XeU6L)

28 We used to have 4way stop here and the idiots replaced it with a round-about. the stops were much better

Posted by: vic at March 31, 2024 02:14 PM (A5THL)

29 WHERE IS THE RAINBOW CROSSWALK, HATER?

Posted by: blue haired, nose ringed, tatted up at March 31, 2024 02:14 PM (If76Y)

30 ‘Did you see the sign?’
‘Which sign?’
‘The stop sign you just ran.’
‘Is that why you stopped me?’
‘Yes it is.’
‘Couldn’t you see I’m in a hurry?’

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2024 02:14 PM (NxC5+)

31 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2024 02:15 PM (T4tVD)

32 Oh man right a stop sign..

Posted by: Cheech and Chong at March 31, 2024 02:15 PM (pqOO2)

33 Kidding

If I don't have visibility to cross traffic, I wait for the light

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:15 PM (oCjPU)

34 My driving pet peeve. When I need to make a left turn onto a 2 lane street and some twit from the opposite direction makes a right turn into my designation lane at the same time. Sheesh if you wait a couple seconds for my left turn arrow to go off you can make your turn at any time during the rest of the green light.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:15 PM (wTs+0)

35 Coordinated with last call.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Well, my time went so quickly
I went lickety-splickly
Out to my old '55
As I pulled away slowly, feeling so holy
God knows, I was feeling alive

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:17 PM (XeU6L)

36
Just lay down a couple climate activist protestors.
Problem solved!
Posted by: Vigi Lante Italian Artist

Philip "Speed" Bump

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2024 02:19 PM (63Dwl)

37 My only problem with putting on the ground without also a prominent sign is that you can't see it if a car is on top of it.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:08 PM (PQ4m2)

The same can be said for "Stop" signs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:20 PM (tkR6S)

38 Pots? What do I need pots for? I’m driving, not cooking!

Posted by: A Dyslexic at March 31, 2024 02:20 PM (u73oe)

39 And I'll confess I am not great at 4-way stop signs. I'll be like "I think that car was stopped a fraction of a second before I was" Then if they don't go, I'll assume one of was not paying good enough attention and I should just go and I'll ease forward watching to see if they just had the same thought.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:20 PM (wTs+0)

40 The four way stop is apparently the most difficult mental challenge in the world. Upwards of 75 percent of people can't grasp the concept.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:20 PM (gjGn4)

41 Muslims never would have gotten up the steps of St Patrick's if Al Neri was alive.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 31, 2024 02:22 PM (7leMO)

42 And with 1/10th of the country illegals without a driver's license all traffic laws might be suggestions soon.
Posted by: Skip

They already are. I think half a dozen people in DFW have been killed in wrecks with illegals since the beginning of this year. All apparently the illegals fault.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:23 PM (gjGn4)

43 Happy Easter, everyone!

May the peace and love of Christ be with you all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2024 02:23 PM (If76Y)

44 People who can't park in the approximate middle of a parking space are among the greatest monsters of the 21st century

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:24 PM (oCjPU)

45 And I'll confess I am not great at 4-way stop signs. I'll be like "I think that car was stopped a fraction of a second before I was" Then if they don't go, I'll assume one of was not paying good enough attention and I should just go and I'll ease forward watching to see if they just had the same thought.
Posted by: PaleRider
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I look forward to witnessing 4 self-driving cars arriving at a 4-way stop.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

46 I have a few four-way stops in my AO.
Not uncommon at all to see some dumb-ass come to a completely in front of the stop bar. If they stop at all.

Many neighborhoods around here a few blocks off the main streets have intersections with no signage at all. It's supposed to be effectively a four-way yield but in practice it's "yield to the biggest *sshole" regardless of who gets there first or who is turning which direction.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2024 02:24 PM (/y8xj)

47 These days I'll just be happy if someone on his cellphone or someone under the influence of marijuana or an illegal doesn't blow through the intersection entirely and kill a family of four.

Posted by: The precise point of stoppage is a luxury concern at March 31, 2024 02:24 PM (NcCWh)

48 I recall some left turn lanes in New Jersey that were on the far right and led to a clover-leaf into traffic in the new intended direction. Intended had to be one way I suppose. These were in city streets.

Posted by: javems at March 31, 2024 02:25 PM (c+cQQ)

49 My driving pet peeve. When I need to make a left turn onto a 2 lane street and some twit from the opposite direction makes a right turn into my designation lane at the same time. Sheesh if you wait a couple seconds for my left turn arrow to go off you can make your turn at any time during the rest of the green light.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:15 PM (wTs+0)

If you have a green arrow, then you have the right of way. Bozo facing you is also facing a red light. Yes, he can make a right turn on a red, but he has to yield to any traffic that has the right of way.

A lifted 4X4 with a big cattle guard is the answer here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:26 PM (tkR6S)

50 I'm mostly concerned about people who drink their lunch.

Posted by: Corvette Joey at March 31, 2024 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

51 Many of the people affixing said STOP and lines were not gifted with normal intelligence and so they are often placed where it is not possible to safely see the intersection when you are at the line. This lessens my respect for the demands of strict adherence to these devices.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at March 31, 2024 02:26 PM (tA1/w)

52 Those stop signs need to be in 37 different languages. Diversity precludes learning english.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2024 02:26 PM (wx526)

53 lotta assholes on the road.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (R/m4+)

Actually...no. They were all in the supermarket parking lot yesterday morning.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:27 PM (gSZYf)

54 But Don, maybe they normally do that but they had to deal with someone in the next slot over being next to or over that line when they parked that has since pulled out.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:27 PM (wTs+0)

55 Backatcha Nurse !

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2024 02:27 PM (T4tVD)

56 Todays FWP...Hot tub is up and running but I have to put some towel hangars on the posts of the pergola before it can be used.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 31, 2024 02:28 PM (YRsIm)

57 At 4-Way stops I take the path of least resistance... if it looks like a tie, I wave the other person through just to make sure we are on the same page.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 31, 2024 02:30 PM (5AVMW)

58 Hi Nurse, what did you decide for Easter dinner?

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:30 PM (wTs+0)

59 then find a better spot
I'm very unreasonable about this

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:30 PM (oCjPU)

60 The way it was explained to me, the driver approaching a stop sign is supposed to ensure that proceeding through the intersection is safe. That is not a measurable edict, thus the rules about stop lines and waiting three seconds comes from. That is also why if you are in the middle of nowhere on flat farmland at 4 am and roll through a stop you can be ticketed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (gjGn4)

61 And I'll confess I am not great at 4-way stop signs. I'll be like "I think that car was stopped a fraction of a second before I was" Then if they don't go, I'll assume one of was not paying good enough attention and I should just go and I'll ease forward watching to see if they just had the same thought.
Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:20 PM (wTs+0)

Heh. 4-way stops sometimes lead to a comic episode of "after you, Alphonse". Eventually it resolves when one or two drivers decide to go for it. Rarely results in a collision, though, because neither driver is going so fast he can't stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (tkR6S)

62 Roundabouts would fix this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)

63 4 way stop on a scooter is pretty easy. Sit there with your arms crossed and let the other guy go first.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (YRsIm)

64 I actually took this very thing to court in Wyoming. MP stopped me on F.E. Warren for rolling a stop sign. He walks up to my truck and says "You stopped at the sign, but you should have pulled up to the line and stopped again...".

I got it dismissed. Nothing in the law says how far behind the line you can stop.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 31, 2024 02:32 PM (k6uu5)

65 Never enter an intersection without a plan to get out

if you've ever driven a bus or large truck you know what I mean

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:33 PM (oCjPU)

66 62 Roundabouts would fix this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)

As I said b4, the 4-way stop is better than the round-a-turd

Posted by: vic at March 31, 2024 02:34 PM (A5THL)

67 FWP today. The "warm" setting on the Crock Pot has decided to identify as the "high" setting.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2024 02:35 PM (ju2Fy)

68
Because there was an Easter Vigil Mass last night, this morning's 7:00 AM Mass was cancelled. So the first Mass this morning was the 8:30. While some attendance was hived off last night, this morning we had the usual attendees from the first two services combined. Considering the church for each one individually is pretty full, you can imagine how packed it was.

There was a very long line for Confession; if there wasn't a last minute, nothing would ever happen. Either someone was confessing after 50 years or was an axe murderer because the line didn't move for the longest time.

You know, folks, none of you is a monster so it's not that hard. Did you do something wrong? Say what it was with a minimum of explanation or excuse. Are you sorry you did it? Say so. Are you going to do it again. Say you're not. Do you want absolution? Say so. That's all you have to do. If the priest wants to say something he can, but at least you're not holding up everything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 02:36 PM (MoZTd)

69 > 66 62 Roundabouts would fix this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)

As I said b4, the 4-way stop is better than the round-a-turd
Posted by: vic at March 31, 2024 02:34 PM (A5THL)
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True.

But nowhere near as exciting. Or frustrating. Depending on your level of aggravation.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:36 PM (Q4IgG)

70 Accelerating uses more gas than than cruising. That is why I don't stop...I do more for the climate than anybody
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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Yeah, braking waste energy. I never do it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

You can always scrub off speed by sliding the corners.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:36 PM (aD39U)

71 The problem is that the line many times does not take into account line-of-sight. Good that there is a stop sign to call attention to the danger. But many times I stop, and then creep forward to triple check if the coast is clear.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (8sMut)

72 Roundabouts would fix this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

That is pretty funny. Roundabouts are the proximate cause of most accidents around here.

We have some on highway exits here. The traffic crossing over the freeway has no one to yield to, so the exiting traffic backs up onto the freeway main lanes. Since these were put in, at least three people have died from being hit from behind by a vehicle doing 75.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (gjGn4)

73 2” thick porkchop, Brussels' sprouts, mac’n cheese. Mmm…

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (NxC5+)

74 First World Problems may soon become Second World Problems.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (8sMut)

75 I'm roundabout retarded. There I admit it. Hate the damn things.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (ju2Fy)

76 I have a first world problem. We used to use the free grocery bags to line the trash can under the sink. Since the exofascists have managed to ban plastic bags in some many stores, Ive had to buy bags.
The 8 gallon bags with tie up edges fits and is the cheapest option. But they tend to slide into the trash bin when something weighty gets tossed in.
Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (xH9dz)

77 Yeah, braking waste energy. I never do it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2024 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

Reminded me of the bumper sticker of Dark Helmet's spaceship in Spaceballs: "We Brake For Nobody"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (PiwSw)

78 I drive very carefully because I do not need that aggravation of having to bring my car in for repairs. Also because I am not much of rush really, since I usually an hour early to get anywhere and I drive very defensively since I trust no one

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:38 PM (PQ4m2)

79 if you've ever driven a bus or large truck you know what I mean

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:33 PM (oCjPU)

Now do crossing railroad tracks!

I still stop and look both ways.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:38 PM (gSZYf)

80 30 ‘Did you see the sign?’
‘Which sign?’
‘The stop sign you just ran.’
‘Is that why you stopped me?’
‘Yes it is.’
‘Couldn’t you see I’m in a hurry?’
Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2024 02:14 PM (NxC5+)

Helpfully explain to the fundraiser in blue that "Stop signs with white borders are optional!"

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 02:39 PM (8sMut)

81 >Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

get the next size up

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 02:39 PM (oCjPU)

82 Is there a simple hack to prevent the bag sliding in?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (xH9dz)

One of those rubber bands that the mailmen use is perfect for that!

Or just get the 13 gallon bags.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:40 PM (gSZYf)

83 Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?
Posted by: vmom

Oversized rubber bands.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:40 PM (gjGn4)

84 Here in the country of Wester NY, we suddenly have roundabouts on county roads... literally in the middle of nowhere. Not sure why they did it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 31, 2024 02:41 PM (5AVMW)

85 since I usually an hour early to get anywhere...

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:38 PM (PQ4m2)

I can vouch for this. He is ALWAYS early!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:41 PM (gSZYf)

86 Not sure why they did it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 31, 2024 02:41 PM (5AVMW)

Graft is always a good choice in new York.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:41 PM (gSZYf)

87 We got roundabouts recently, three in fact. Now that people are used to them they are mostly better than the 2way-cross-traffic-doesn't-stops that were there before.

It's basically a 4-way yield.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:42 PM (aD39U)

88 76 I have a first world problem. We used to use the free grocery bags to line the trash can under the sink. Since the exofascists have managed to ban plastic bags in some many stores, Ive had to buy bags.
The 8 gallon bags with tie up edges fits and is the cheapest option. But they tend to slide into the trash bin when something weighty gets tossed in.
Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 02:37 PM (xH9dz)

Large rubber band?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)

89 Here in the country of Wester NY, we suddenly have roundabouts on county roads... literally in the middle of nowhere. Not sure why they did it.
Posted by: SSBN 656

Subsidies. Just like windmills.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2024 02:42 PM (gjGn4)

90 One of those rubber bands that the mailmen use is perfect for that!

Or just get the 13 gallon bags.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 02:40 PM (gSZYf)

What about some binder clips? I use them to reclose plastic bags in the freezer, and to hang calendars, and to keep tubes of toothpaste rolled as they begin to get empty. Very useful little gadgets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:43 PM (tkR6S)

91 I used to have to deliver safety talks to drivers. The National Safety Council advised that when you stopped for a "stop bar," it should be far enough back to see the painted line over the hood. This will enrage some drivers of course, but, in the times I've done it that way enough to remember it, it has saved me from being clipped in the front end quite a few times.

On the business of having to nose out to see cross traffic, any annoyed cop will explain that it's legal to do that, after you've made the full stop at the indicated point.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 02:43 PM (zdLoL)

92 If you're early, you're on time
If you're in time, you're late
If you're late, you're left behind

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2024 02:44 PM (qOTNR)

93 Roadways are marked according to the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices & Street Signs. I'm pretty sure I'm on double figures of getting out of traffic tickets by applying that reference and how those that set up the signs, lights, warnings etc. didn't comply.

On the photo you provided...that "STOP" written on the road. It's not valid or enforceable...unless there is a traditional stop sign at the required location (without obstruction from tree branches etc and at the proper angle, height etc).

My point is that most roadways are NOT marked properly. There is even an exact location for the lines showin in this photo...and guess what....it's too far front. Not enforceable.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 02:44 PM (dIske)

94 Here in the country of Wester NY, we suddenly have roundabouts on county roads... literally in the middle of nowhere. Not sure why they did it.
Posted by: SSBN 656

Subsidies. Just like windmills.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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And bike lanes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2024 02:44 PM (ju2Fy)

95 58 Hi Nurse, what did you decide for Easter dinner?
Posted by: PaleRider

Lamb! Roasted carrots, rice and pita bread.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2024 02:45 PM (qOTNR)

96 Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?
Posted by: vmom

———————

Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2024 02:45 PM (u73oe)

97 13 1/2 people for dinner here

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:45 PM (w0MX9)

98 What's on your table, PaleRider?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2024 02:45 PM (qOTNR)

99 If it were me, I would have the stop line before the word STOP.

Also, is the stop line for your tires or the front bumper?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:46 PM (aD39U)

100 We got roundabouts recently, three in fact. Now that people are used to them they are mostly better than the 2way-cross-traffic-doesn't-stops that were there before.

It's basically a 4-way yield.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:42 PM (aD39U)

Concur. Intelligently designed and properly-implemented roundabouts really do improve the flow of traffic. But of course you get some idiots that think they are a panacea, and put them where can't possibly work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (tkR6S)

101 76 I have a first world problem. We used to use the free grocery bags to line the trash can under the sink. Since the exofascists have managed to ban plastic bags in some many stores, Ive had to buy bags.
The 8 gallon bags with tie up edges fits and is the cheapest option. But they tend to slide into the trash bin when something weighty gets tossed in.
Is there a simple hack to prevent tge bag sliding in?

1. Duck tape, it fixed everything.
2. Move to a non fascist state.

Posted by: Dandalo at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (OO4Og)

102 On the photo you provided...that "STOP" written on the road. It's not valid or enforceable...unless there is a traditional stop sign at the required location (without obstruction from tree branches etc and at the proper angle, height etc).

I see an octagonal shadow.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (aD39U)

103 Roundabouts would fix this.

At a certain point you begin to wonder, when that soon-to-be Apprentice Traffic Engineer did his one-semester study abroad in Great Britain and found roundabouts so quaint -- what other local English habits did he pick up and bring home to bother us with for the rest of his miserable life? Bet it was something kinky.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 02:48 PM (zdLoL)

104 5 I would advocate traffic laws after 1:30am should be suggestions, not mandatory.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:03 PM (w0MX9)

Had a New York city cop tell me that once when I was driving. He said don't stop for lights and if you hit a parked car just keep going.

Posted by: javems at March 31, 2024 02:48 PM (c+cQQ)

105 what other local English habits did he pick up and bring home to bother us with for the rest of his miserable life? Bet it was something kinky.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 02:48 PM (zdLoL)

Driving on the wrong side of the road.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:49 PM (aD39U)

106
Concur. Intelligently designed and properly-implemented roundabouts really do improve the flow of traffic. But of course you get some idiots that think they are a panacea, and put them where can't possibly work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (tkR6S)

If they were commonplace, they might work. The problem is they're not common at all and no one knows what to do with one.

I have a hypothesis that theoretically good ideas that baffles non-residents are concentrated in New Jersey (see also: jughandle turns, pumping gas).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 02:52 PM (MoZTd)

107 I like roundabouts, there is one very near me that is the tightest they could make it. Still like to pretend I'm in a F-1 car going through it.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 02:52 PM (w0MX9)

108 The stop sign near my house has been malfunctioning for years.

Posted by: windbag at March 31, 2024 02:53 PM (XT5oM)

109 The most dangerous traffic incident you will ever witness is an American driver approaching a British traffic circle. Because, you know, we go the wrong way on them.

No radar or camera system will ever do as much good as an aware and well-broken-in passenger in the assistant driver berth. Wife and I were both rallyists (on competing teams) in past life, and have mused that if one of us leaves first -- or we don't go together in a blaze o'glory allision -- the hardest part will be to break in a new front seat partner. "Clear right." Jinks, Moss.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 02:53 PM (zdLoL)

110 Lamb! Roasted carrots, rice and pita bread.

What, exactly, is "Pain In The Ass" bread?

Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 02:53 PM (R8c8l)

111 "Stop" is just a suggestion

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2024 02:53 PM (RIvkX)

112 The other day, as I was heading out to the funeral home taking care of my FIL, a car ran through a stop sign at a T near my house. Now, knowing how many crazy and illegal drivers there are in San Diego, I tend to be over-cautious on the local streets (not to mention hobos that have invaded the neighborhood and the fact that jaywalking isn't illegal in Kalifornia anymore), so I saw him approaching and not slowing and run through the stop sign. Yeah, I honked at him, felt like me telling kids to stay off the lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

113 There are not enough good drivers to justify round-abouts.
Roundabouts are part of the communist conspiracy to herd people into conformity.

Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 02:54 PM (xpWR7)

114 On advice from CBD, I drive a lot safer when I am carrying.

His newsletter has a lot of interesting tips like that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (PQ4m2)

115 111 "Stop" is just a suggestion

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2024 02:53 PM (RIvkX)

It's a micro and macro aggression aimed at immigrants.
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (ynpvh)

116 CBD @ 82-
For all your rubber band needs call-
1-888-the spinners

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (NxC5+)

117 I see an octagonal shadow.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (aD39U)

__________________________

But is the the "supposed" stop sign properly placed according to requirements? That one seems to be too far forward. And, just from the shadow, it's hard to tell, but it might not be tall enough or at the correct angle. I guarantee that if you do a little research, you'll know the requirements better than the municipal workers or the police. My favorite was VASCAR ( glorified stop watch police used to use for speeding...two lines and a stop watch to determine if you passed the two lines too quickly). Simple way to beat it. Ask the cop when he last had a complete physical that included testing his personal reflexes). No test? Ok....please dismiss the charge.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (dIske)

118 113 There are not enough good drivers to justify round-abouts.
Roundabouts are part of the communist conspiracy to herd people into conformity.

Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 02:54 PM (xpWR7)

For those stuck in the inner lane, they've found the inner-circle of hell...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (ynpvh)

119 The most dangerous traffic incident you will ever witness is an American driver approaching a British traffic circle. Because, you know, we go the wrong way on them.
--------
I've been up on the A1 by Scotch Corner. It's a bad place to hit the trunk road doing around a hundred and twenty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 31, 2024 02:57 PM (DeFcY)

120 My county started to put in roundabouts. The first one I came across a couple years ago was where 4 2-lane roads meet. Not at 90 degrees either. Sort of a weird, asymmetrical thing.

There are probably a dozen or more sets of skid marks that go across the middle, raised circle.

And quite a few hub caps strewn around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)

121 Exciting Roundabout driving...

https://youtu.be/704vMj4GVx0?si=tLQ2HyRMrX1SYqnu

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 31, 2024 02:58 PM (k6uu5)

122 117 I see an octagonal shadow.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2024 02:47 PM (aD39U)

__________________________

But is the the "supposed" stop sign properly placed according to requirements? That one seems to be too far forward. And, just from the shadow, it's hard to tell, but it might not be tall enough or at the correct angle. I guarantee that if you do a little research, you'll know the requirements better than the municipal workers or the police. My favorite was VASCAR ( glorified stop watch police used to use for speeding...two lines and a stop watch to determine if you passed the two lines too quickly). Simple way to beat it. Ask the cop when he last had a complete physical that included testing his personal reflexes). No test? Ok....please dismiss the charge.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 02:55 PM (dIske)

In Kalifornia, cops can give you a ticket for speeding based on their "experience" of how fast a car is going. Easier to fight in court, but still...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

123 Just want to congratulate OP on the correct use of "averse."

"Adverse" is a different word.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at March 31, 2024 02:58 PM (PYDX0)

124 roundabouts on county roads... literally in the middle of nowhere.

Allotment of rights of way stemmed from land practices of the Northwest Ordinance, and following territorial doctrine, in the US. The less land that was used for interchanges, the more there was to sell, paying off war debt and funding education. It said here.

In some other nations, real estate by default belongs to the Crown. Great strides were taken after "Kelo." Literally taken.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 02:58 PM (zdLoL)

125 Its just me so I made myself a ham and cheese omelet for easter lunch/dinner.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:59 PM (wTs+0)

126 120 My county started to put in roundabouts. The first one I came across a couple years ago was where 4 2-lane roads meet. Not at 90 degrees either. Sort of a weird, asymmetrical thing.

There are probably a dozen or more sets of skid marks that go across the middle, raised circle.

And quite a few hub caps strewn around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)

Kalifornia has those clover-leaf freeway entries. I once purposely drove onto the freeway, back off, onto the freeway...to complete the cloverleaf. Perfectly legal, but if a cop's there, might not want to to that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:00 PM (ynpvh)

127
Prior to what year were vehicles made without GPS snooping devices? IOW, if I am shopping for a used truck with a manual transmission, up to what year can I search and be confident that my vehicle is not going to be blabbing away about where I am?

I am not going to be hanging around here due to familial goings-on, but I would very much appreciate having any knowledge put to me about this.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2024 03:00 PM (CBWGS)

128 If they were commonplace, they might work. The problem is they're not common at all and no one knows what to do with one.

I have a hypothesis that theoretically good ideas that baffles non-residents are concentrated in New Jersey (see also: jughandle turns, pumping gas).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 02:52 PM (MoZTd)

Well, they are becoming commonplace. They are all over the Metro Phoenix area, and elsewhere in Arizona. Mostly well-implemented, save for a couple near Wickenburg. And back home in Alberta, they are popping up all over where two secondary highways cross. Usually, a net timersaver, in my experience. For years and years, the only roundabout I had ever seen was in Edmonton, Alberta, and the dumfucks on Edmonton Council fitted it with traffic lights!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:00 PM (tkR6S)

129 125 Its just me so I made myself a ham and cheese omelet for easter lunch/dinner.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 31, 2024 02:59 PM (wTs+0)

Not the food thread, but...
Made myself bacon, chorizo & egg, and fried potato tacos for breakfast. Yum.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (ynpvh)

130
I look forward to witnessing 4 self-driving cars arriving at a 4-way stop.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

It will be like Captain Kirk talking Nomad and Landru into blowing themselves up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (63Dwl)

131 And for all you dyslexic folk out there...that is POTS!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (W/lyH)

132 127
Prior to what year were vehicles made without GPS snooping devices? IOW, if I am shopping for a used truck with a manual transmission, up to what year can I search and be confident that my vehicle is not going to be blabbing away about where I am?

I am not going to be hanging around here due to familial goings-on, but I would very much appreciate having any knowledge put to me about this.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2024 03:00 PM (CBWGS)

If you carry a cell phone, it'll blab for the truck anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (ynpvh)

133 I like roundabouts....at least when operating a car....but I know for a fact that 18 wheelers hate those things...too many squeeze plays (especially if the roundabout is a little too tight with the angle of the curve.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (dIske)

134 problem with roundabouts is the lack of standards. Learned to drive with roundabouts in Edmonton. Rule was vehicle in the roundabout has right-of-way. Years later in Quebec came upon a roundabout. Opposite rule - vehicle in roundabout yields to incoming traffic. Nuts! (of course, Quebec)
Seen variations in NJ, AZ and other places, and no common rules.

Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (R8c8l)

135
I have a wonderful idea! Traffic circles with bike lanes! It will work perfectly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 03:03 PM (MoZTd)

136 130
I look forward to witnessing 4 self-driving cars arriving at a 4-way stop.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

It will be like Captain Kirk talking Nomad and Landru into blowing themselves up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (63Dwl)

LOL. Bonus points for getting all four to go ballistic.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

137 I know a town that put a roundabout in front of a school that was too small for a school bus to negotiate without going up on the curbs

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:03 PM (oCjPU)

138 Stopping is a sign of the white supremacist patriarchy.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:03 PM (wGHSB)

139 131 And for all you dyslexic folk out there...that is POTS!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (W/lyH)
OPTS
POST
POTS
SPOT
STOP
TOPS

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

140 photo at top:

the placement of the sign determines where you are to stop without going farther

not the lettering

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:05 PM (oCjPU)

141 Had an interesting experience in a grocery parking lot yesterday. I had maybe three plastic bags of groceries and was tryng to put them in the back seat when a very attractive, very fit, 29 year old woman asked if she could use my cart. I immediately replied, "umma bolaba do" as I dropped a half gallon of ice cream on the ground. As I picked up the ice cream she handed me my receipt. As I had both hands full I opened my mouth and she stuffed it in there, laughed and walked away with my cart. Some people should not wear yoga tights, she was not one of those people.

Posted by: javems at March 31, 2024 03:07 PM (c+cQQ)

142 134 problem with roundabouts is the lack of standards. Learned to drive with roundabouts in Edmonton. Rule was vehicle in the roundabout has right-of-way. Years later in Quebec came upon a roundabout. Opposite rule - vehicle in roundabout yields to incoming traffic. Nuts! (of course, Quebec)
Seen variations in NJ, AZ and other places, and no common rules.

Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 03:02 PM (R8c8l)

Logic would dictate, short of a stop sign or yield in the roundabout, that traffic coming into it would have to, at a minimum, yield to traffic already in it. The again the French aren't always the most logical.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

143 Prior to what year were vehicles made without GPS snooping devices? IOW, if I am shopping for a used truck with a manual transmission, up to what year can I search and be confident that my vehicle is not going to be blabbing away about where I am?

I am not going to be hanging around here due to familial goings-on, but I would very much appreciate having any knowledge put to me about this.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2024 03:00 PM (CBWGS)

GPS itself cannot snoop, because I am pretty sure the GPS satellites cannot receive signals sent out by ground units, nor can ground units send any. The spy gadgets, like GM's OnStar, communicate via the cellular networks. So if the truck does not have a baby shark fin on the roof, it probably cannot spy on you. My 2008 Suburban does not have OnStar, but it was available then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:07 PM (tkR6S)

144 135
I have a wonderful idea! Traffic circles with bike lanes! It will work perfectly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 03:03 PM (MoZTd)

Especially if the bike lane is the innermost...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

145 You know, John Prine wrote a song about four-way stops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9RTTGq1eY

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (FEVMW)

146 I like roundabouts. My big and the burgs surrounding us have all been building them for about 10 years. People complained first but now nobody gives it a second thought. And it has reduced traffic and more important serious accidents significantly. Hard to have serious accidents when everyone’s going 15 mph.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (wGHSB)

147 140 photo at top:

the placement of the sign determines where you are to stop without going farther

not the lettering

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:05 PM (oCjPU)

Limit lines. If there's a white solid line before it, you're supposed to stop at that line.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (ynpvh)

148 LMAO.....smooth Javens....smooth.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (dIske)

149 Quebec also doesn’t allow right turns on red. They’re just all sorts of freaky. Every roundabout I’ve ever know in any jurisdiction is car in roundabout has eight of way.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (wGHSB)

150 146 I like roundabouts. My big and the burgs surrounding us have all been building them for about 10 years. People complained first but now nobody gives it a second thought. And it has reduced traffic and more important serious accidents significantly. Hard to have serious accidents when everyone’s going 15 mph.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (wGHSB)

Montec likes roundabouts, and he cannot lie,
You other Morons can't deny...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

151 I opts to not stop at this spot, it’s not tops for this post, old pots.’

Posted by: Eromero at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (NxC5+)

152 I picked up the ice cream she handed me my receipt. As I had both hands full I opened my mouth and she stuffed it in there, laughed and walked away with my cart. Some people should not wear yoga tights, she was not one of those people.
Posted by: javems at March 31, 2024 03:07 PM (c+cQQ)

You were THOT'ed.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (R/m4+)

153 Wingnut Quebec are idiots
In roundabout has right of way, other way just put back stop signs

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 03:11 PM (w0MX9)

154
If you carry a cell phone, it'll blab for the truck anyway.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I know that

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2024 03:12 PM (CBWGS)

155 I like roundabouts. My big and the burgs surrounding us have all been building them for about 10 years. People complained first but now nobody gives it a second thought. And it has reduced traffic and more important serious accidents significantly. Hard to have serious accidents when everyone’s going 15 mph.
Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:08 PM (wGHSB)

And such collisions as there are tend to be sideswipes or oblique T-bones, with the relative velocity between vehicles being fairly small.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:12 PM (tkR6S)

156 149 Quebec also doesn’t allow right turns on red. They’re just all sorts of freaky. Every roundabout I’ve ever know in any jurisdiction is car in roundabout has eight of way.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (wGHSB)

I was in Toronto once, at A T-intersection. One sign said no right turns, the other, no left turns. I guess it was a dead end...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

157 149 Quebec also doesn’t allow right turns on red. They’re just all sorts of freaky. Every roundabout I’ve ever know in any jurisdiction is car in roundabout has eight of way.
Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (wGHSB)

_____________________________________________

With the notable exception of Budapest....Montreal was easily one of the worst places to drive. You'd be hard pressed to find a single vehicle in that city without at least one dent on the body.

Posted by: Orson at March 31, 2024 03:13 PM (dIske)

158 How's this for a first world problem: I hit four numbers of today's midday Take Five. The prize $666. On Easter. You can't make that up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 31, 2024 03:13 PM (Fol4f)

159
Montec likes roundabouts, and he cannot lie,
You other Morons can't deny...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

Now do ice ice baby…

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:14 PM (wGHSB)

160 Wingnut Quebec are idiots
In roundabout has right of way, other way just put back stop signs
Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 03:11 PM (w0MX9)

I have never driven in Quebec. And never set foot there, for that matter. I see no reason to change that, at this late date.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:14 PM (tkR6S)

161 NYC driving is very easy once you understand the two rules: keep it moving and don't make contact. You really can do whatever you want.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 31, 2024 03:15 PM (IG7T0)

162 158 How's this for a first world problem: I hit four numbers of today's midday Take Five. The prize $666. On Easter. You can't make that up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 31, 2024 03:13 PM (Fol4f)

Well, there was this flight to Helsinki a few years back:
"Finnair Flight 666 flew to HEL on Friday the 13th" as I recall, it landed at 1:13 p.m. (13:13).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

163 Oh god,

That JP song should have a trigger warning:

They don't know how lucky they are
They could have ran into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority

Posted by: pawn at March 31, 2024 03:15 PM (QB+5g)

164 This morning after mass, at a red stop light, I'm first in line. As soon as the light turned green, driver behind me beeps.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 03:16 PM (xH9dz)

165 159
Montec likes roundabouts, and he cannot lie,
You other Morons can't deny...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

Now do ice ice baby…

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:14 PM (wGHSB)

I ain't white enough to do that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

166 You know, folks, none of you is a monster so it's not that hard. Did you do something wrong? Say what it was with a minimum of explanation or excuse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 02:36 PM (MoZTd)
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Sorry, it was so long and sordid I had to make a PowerPoint slideshow.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 31, 2024 03:18 PM (3e3hy)

167 164 This morning after mass, at a red stop light, I'm first in line. As soon as the light turned green, driver behind me beeps.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 03:16 PM (xH9dz)

I had a co-worker tell me the Phillipines worked that way too; he said, "How much time passes from the light turning green in front of you to when the car behind you honks in Manila? One nansecond."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

168 >As soon as the light turned green, driver behind me beeps.
---

Lean out the window and say 'how may I help you?'

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:19 PM (oCjPU)

169 Internationally the red octagon is not universal. Ask me how I know.
In Chicago on the Southbound Fullerton Exit was a 3-way lane split and for at least 20 years the center lane read SOTP.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:19 PM (9yXr+)

170 My FWP is Amazon and McMaster Carr overnight everything.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 31, 2024 03:20 PM (IG7T0)

171 166 You know, folks, none of you is a monster so it's not that hard. Did you do something wrong? Say what it was with a minimum of explanation or excuse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 02:36 PM (MoZTd)
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Sorry, it was so long and sordid I had to make a PowerPoint slideshow.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 31, 2024 03:18 PM (3e3hy)

So many jokes on the subject, so little time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

172 I grew up outside of the capitol city. There are roundabouts (they're called "traffic circles" there) all over the place. Some multiple lanes deep with more than just 4 roads hitting them.

You learn real quick to be aggressive, pick a hole and run with it.

I've only had one accident in a traffic circle and I attribute that to wet roads and an Asian driver with lousy peripheral vision.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 03:21 PM (Q4IgG)

173 The nanosecond beep doesn't happen much in NYC. People will drive around you in 2 nanoseconds.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 31, 2024 03:21 PM (IG7T0)

174 Sorry, it was so long and sordid I had to make a PowerPoint slideshow.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 31, 2024 03:18 PM (3e3hy)

It was the signing of the NDAs that took so long

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 03:22 PM (xH9dz)

175 168 >As soon as the light turned green, driver behind me beeps.
---

Lean out the window and say 'how may I help you?'

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:19 PM (oCjPU)

I had a co-worker do that too. He was at a red light in the right-turn lane, but the guy behind him starts honking (there were cars coming the other way). So he gets out of the car and walks back as asks the guy, "what's the problem? Do I have a broken tail-light?". During this time, the light turned green, then went red again by the time the coworker went back to his car...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:22 PM (ynpvh)

176 169 Internationally the red octagon is not universal. Ask me how I know.
In Chicago on the Southbound Fullerton Exit was a 3-way lane split and for at least 20 years the center lane read SOTP.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:19 PM (9yXr+)

Must be the same workers that wrote "SHCOOL" near a school on the roadway. Or painted a yellow line over a dead 'possum.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (ynpvh)

177 Some comedian had a bit about Usain Bolt beating the world record by 0.02 seconds. He goes it’s hard to fathom such a small amount of time. You know the amount of time between a light turning green and an asshole honking his horn behind you? 0.02 seconds is twice that amount of time.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (wGHSB)

178 During this time, the light turned green, then went red again by the time the coworker went back to his car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Hah!
Love it

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (xH9dz)

179 I have never driven in Quebec. And never set foot there, for that matter. I see no reason to change that, at this late date.

AOP ... that was back in my RCAF days. Once I left, never had occasion - or desire - to return. Found the French villages in Alberta bad enough.

Now I find Arkansas highways just dandy and have no desire to go back to Trudeauland.

Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (R8c8l)

180 172 I grew up outside of the capitol city. There are roundabouts (they're called "traffic circles" there) all over the place. Some multiple lanes deep with more than just 4 roads hitting them.

You learn real quick to be aggressive, pick a hole and run with it.

I've only had one accident in a traffic circle and I attribute that to wet roads and an Asian driver with lousy peripheral vision.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 03:21 PM (Q4IgG)

I would joke with my wife that the worst driver would be a old asian woman on a cell phone.
1) old
2) asian
3) woman
4) cellphone
Let's just say that would be a force-multplier...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

181 157

Belgrade Serbia has reached gridlock.
At some points of the day traffic simply stops completely for hours. Nothing moves.
I've gotten off buses and walked 2-3 km and checked the BG app, the bus hadn't moved.
Nikola Tesla Airport has a business where people get hotel rooms in New places within walking distance of the airport because during the day it is flatly impossible to drive anywhere

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:25 PM (9yXr+)

182 177 Some comedian had a bit about Usain Bolt beating the world record by 0.02 seconds. He goes it’s hard to fathom such a small amount of time. You know the amount of time between a light turning green and an asshole honking his horn behind you? 0.02 seconds is twice that amount of time.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (wGHSB)

Comedian said this:
"If you have a 'Honk of you Love Jesus' bumpersticker, and an athiest is behind you, and the light turns green but you don't move, does the athiest honk his horn?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

183 You are very authoritarian with your "rules" about driving...but these things are much more complex then your black and white view of the world works.

Are you an urban yute? A young military aged newcomer? A Democrat officeholder? A celebrity? A professor? A "public servant"?

Well then a stop sign is more of a suggestion, because how dare you, a white cisgender straight man set rules for your betters!

Posted by: Some leftist at March 31, 2024 03:27 PM (ibTVg)

184 So, bought a Dell laptop, refurbished. The price was good, and the intentions is to put Linux Mint on it. Came with Win10 Pro. Fired it up and it seems fine. 8GB ram, 256GB SSD, Intel Processor. Nothing major. Just a backup laptop for the other, slightly finicky, backup laptop (Linux Mint), which is backing up an old, creaky Windows 10 Home laptop I've had for 7 years. No documentation for the refurbished laptop so I'll have to go to Dell and download it. Should be able to do that. I'm wondering if I can upgrade the SSD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at March 31, 2024 03:27 PM (sAmhv)

185 Turn signals and stop signs are not for the other guy you see, it's for the other guy you don't see.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 03:27 PM (cOq4q)

186 George Carlin on the Catholic confessional

https://tinyurl.com/ftc2eezy

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:28 PM (oCjPU)

187 185 Turn signals and stop signs are not for the other guy you see, it's for the other guy you don't see.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 03:27 PM (cOq4q)

In traffic school, the teach said we didn't have to use a turn signal if nobody else was around. Then again, if a police car is hiding nearby, it's always a good idea to use it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

188 This morning after mass, at a red stop light, I'm first in line. As soon as the light turned green, driver behind me beeps.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2024 03:16 PM (xH9dz)

Honking the horn is a high insult in the south. Don't do it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2024 03:29 PM (w6EFb)

189 Having not lived in an east coast shithole city for a long time, I’ve been acclimated to people driving politely. When I go back every now and then it’s a culture shock how fucking rude they are. And then I think shit was I like that too?

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:29 PM (wGHSB)

190 Classic misspellings see: Plover, Wisconsin when the water tower painters painted
PLOEVER

Vote was to keep it but the contractor insisted on fixing it.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:30 PM (9yXr+)

191
Now I find Arkansas highways just dandy and have no desire to go back to Trudeauland.
Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (R8c8l)

I'm seeing more testimony - so to speak - that Canada is in a decline worse than the US. Unaffordable housing, inflation, drugs, radical immigrants and a government well on the road to leftist authoritarianism run by a stupid, corrupt baby-man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 03:30 PM (MoZTd)

192
I'm seeing more testimony - so to speak - that Canada is in a decline worse than the US. Unaffordable housing, inflation, drugs, radical immigrants and a government well on the road to leftist authoritarianism run by a stupid, corrupt baby-man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 31, 2024 03:30 PM (MoZTd)

As Adam Carolla says Californian is always 5 years behind Canada. And the US is 5 years behind California.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:31 PM (wGHSB)

193 A specific (and amusing) T-intersection in Rockmart, Georgia.

https://is.gd/t0ejci

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2024 03:33 PM (qPw5n)

194 When we moved from NY to South Dakota eleven years ago, I was amazed at how polite the drivers were. People here actually follow traffic laws correctly. I had to re-learn the rules of civility that I had lost in NY.

Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2024 03:33 PM (rskKm)

195 I have never driven in Quebec. And never set foot there, for that matter. I see no reason to change that, at this late date.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:14 PM (tkR6S)

I have driven there. It's not so bad, though I will admit a considerably younger Catch Thirty-Thr33 was a bit intimidated at first when crossing over from ON to QC and saw that all the signage went from English to French.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 03:35 PM (8sMut)

196 189 Having not lived in an east coast shithole city for a long time, I’ve been acclimated to people driving politely. When I go back every now and then it’s a culture shock how fucking rude they are. And then I think shit was I like that too?
Posted by: Montec

I've lived in Babylon DC since 1997. My driving is, uh, reflective of that. When I go back to visit family in rural Western PA, I have to dial it back. Waaaayyyy back.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2024 03:35 PM (sAmhv)

197 >>>I'm seeing more testimony - so to speak - that Canada is in a decline worse than the US. Unaffordable housing, inflation, drugs, radical immigrants and a government well on the road to leftist authoritarianism run by a stupid, corrupt baby-man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Reorganizing my files a pic of his mom at club 54 was misfiled, I think. Not sure whether to put it in politics or nsfw.

Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 03:35 PM (xpWR7)

198 In traffic school, the teach said we didn't have to use a turn signal if nobody else was around. Then again, if a police car is hiding nearby, it's always a good idea to use it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 31, 2024 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

I have been told the rule in England was that you used your turn signals if there was anybody nearby that could benefit from knowing your intended maneuver. That would include pedestrians, but would not include cops sitting there just watching traffic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:35 PM (tkR6S)

199
If I don't have visibility to cross traffic, I wait for the light
Posted by: Don Black

I've been behind you... you wait for ever for the stop sign to change to green!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2024 03:36 PM (6Wbrr)

200 Now I find Arkansas highways just dandy and have no desire to go back to Trudeauland.
Posted by: Wingnutt at March 31, 2024 03:23 PM (R8c8l)

There are only two places that can claim to have good roads.

1) Germany
2) TX

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 03:37 PM (8sMut)

201 There's a low bridge in Louisville, KY nicknamed "the can opener." About once a month someone with a vehicle, typically a semi, tries to go under it and FAFO's.

It's a metal RR bridge so it really does peel the parts of the vehicle that are too high right off.

Plus, there are, like, 10 warning signs "right fucking there." You can't miss them. Or maybe... you can...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2024 03:37 PM (Q4IgG)

202 Reorganizing my files a pic of his mom at club 54 was misfiled, I think. Not sure whether to put it in politics or nsfw.
Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 03:35 PM (xpWR7)

It's a beaver. File it under "wildlife".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:37 PM (tkR6S)

203 My FWP...
I find it annoying that the angriest people on TV today are Whoopi, Sunni and Joy.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2024 03:37 PM (W/lyH)

204 >If I don't have visibility to cross traffic, I wait for the light
Posted by: Don Black

I've been behind you... you wait for ever for the stop sign to change to green!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
---

I like my front bumper, and aim to keep it!

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:39 PM (oCjPU)

205 I always signal. It’s easier to do it than think should is there anyone around, do I need to, etc.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:39 PM (wGHSB)

206 The Chincoteague water tower was misspelled as Chinoteague.

Posted by: NYCDRVR at March 31, 2024 03:39 PM (IG7T0)

207 An iPad charging problem arose, it would charge but when I hooked up a thumb drive it would not support it. Was it the transformer, the cable, or picayune Apple's new update foiling my usage of a thumbdrive or what?

During process of elimination I discovered that it would work with a 2GB drive but not the larger one. That got me past the scary hurdle of Apple's IOS. I narrowed it down to the cable. The cable that would work with 2GB thumb but not more. I connected a new cable from the transformer to the 'lightening to USB adapter', plugged in the USB then plugged it into the ipad. Everything worked. Amazing.

Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 03:40 PM (xpWR7)

208 I always signal. It’s easier to do it than think should is there anyone around, do I need to, etc.
Posted by: Montec

Leaving the house, the first left turn light I encounter is 90 seconds long. I don't use the signal until I start to turn. Damn thing drives me nuts.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2024 03:41 PM (W/lyH)

209 It does, as said way up there, annoy me to no end stopping in middle of night at a stop light and no one for a mile around

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2024 03:41 PM (w0MX9)

210 The sensor is normally that rectangle formed by lines cut into the asphalt.

It’s a loop of wire that detects the change in magnetic field caused by the large, mostly steel mass that it contains when you pull your car into the zone.

It drives me absolutely bat-shit crazy when people won’t pull into the zone.

The fact that you need a large chunk of steel to activate the sensor explains why it doesn’t work for motorcycles. Go buy a neodymium magnet and put it on your frame to help.

Posted by: PMRich at March 31, 2024 03:41 PM (eh5ud)

211 All traffic signs should be removed. No laws. Honor system. Or mayhem.

Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 31, 2024 03:42 PM (48ARe)

212 here's a question:

if your lane is 'RIGHT TURN ONLY' must you use your right turn signal

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:43 PM (oCjPU)

213 In my small Midwest failed factory town I work nights, so rarely have any interaction with any other drivers. The unusual occasions I go out during the day I am endlessly shocked at the mindless aggression of people behaving in vehicles in ways that would get them killed/shot dead/dragged out of their cars and beaten to death at, say, 03:00 in the same municipality.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:43 PM (9yXr+)

214 The Chincoteague water tower was misspelled as Chinoteague.
Posted by: NYCDRVR at March 31, 2024 03:39 PM (IG7T0)
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You only *think* it's misspelled, gweilo.

Posted by: A Heathen Chinee at March 31, 2024 03:44 PM (DeFcY)

215 >>> I like roundabouts....at least when operating a car....but I know for a fact that 18 wheelers hate those things...too many squeeze plays (especially if the roundabout is a little too tight with the angle of the curve.
Posted by: Orson

First rule for an acceptable roundabout / traffic circle - diameter and curbs must accommidate 18 wheelers.

Second rule - All traffic must yield to traffic in the circle

Third - Traffic in circle may go 360+ around in outside lane (no required turns out of circle)

Most are too small and have arbitrary rules on entering and exiting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 03:44 PM (cOq4q)

216 11 My only problem with putting on the ground without also a prominent sign is that you can't see it if a car is on top of it.

The shadow shows an octagonal shape does exist at the top of the pole seen to the right

Posted by: PMRich at March 31, 2024 03:45 PM (eh5ud)

217 The Chincoteague water tower was misspelled as Chinoteague.
Posted by: NYCDRVR'

Sister Cities 4EVR!!!

PLVOER

Posted by: Sista! at March 31, 2024 03:45 PM (9yXr+)

218 Dude...

Posted by: every californian at March 31, 2024 03:46 PM (IG4Id)

219 211 All traffic signs should be removed. No laws. Honor system. Or mayhem.
Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 31, 2024 03:42 PM (48ARe)

There is a Dutch study that concluded that too many traffic signs can be a cause of accidents. Information overload, perhaps.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 03:46 PM (8sMut)

220 Here's something. whats with vanity plates?

Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 31, 2024 03:46 PM (48ARe)

221 "Honking the horn is a high insult in the south. Don't do it."

That used to be true in Florida until 25 years ago. Man I miss those days. It's still true to a degree in the Panhandle.

South FL is like Milan. Death Race 2000 to the next red light.

Posted by: pawn at March 31, 2024 03:47 PM (QB+5g)

222 Maybe we can have a system where the police do not sit around waiting to pull people over for traffic violations (to fundraise or to go fishing, etc) but rather hold it against you when in an accident. (They determine speeding is a cause of wreck? Expect tickets. For example.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 03:48 PM (8sMut)

223 Another California gift:
The "California Stop".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 31, 2024 03:50 PM (QqMaK)

224 DCLXVI

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 31, 2024 03:50 PM (8sMut)

225 Leaving the house, the first left turn light I encounter is 90 seconds long. I don't use the signal until I start to turn. Damn thing drives me nuts.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2024 03:41 PM (W/lyH)

Damn! If I had a commute that caused me to wait at an over-long light like that, I'd be looking for a different route, even if it added a mile or two. I used to actively avoid making my left turns at controlled intersections, because all the sheep would line up and fill the left turn bay. If I knew I had to make a left turn at Street X, I would look for an opportunity turn a block or two before, or even a block or two after.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2024 03:52 PM (tkR6S)

226 >Here's something. whats with vanity plates?
---

I find most of them indecipherable
if your fellow drivers can't figure it out, the plate has failed

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:52 PM (oCjPU)

227 Here's something. whats with vanity plates?
Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 31, 2024 03:46 PM (48ARe)
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I know there was a guy who couldn't afford them, so he changed his name to J3L 2404.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 31, 2024 03:52 PM (DeFcY)

228 food thread is coming up
I'm making meatloaf

c ya

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:53 PM (oCjPU)

229 Reorganizing my files a pic of his mom at club 54 was misfiled, I think. Not sure whether to put it in politics or nsfw.
Posted by: Braeyard'

Wait, I initially read that as YOUR mom but honestly, if any descendant wants to keep a clean memory of their mom or grandmother or whatever, recall this: They had to do some biological act to result in YOU.

So, I've seen a few diaries and I recommend handing them over to the womenfolk, and/or not even reading them at all.

EW.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 31, 2024 03:53 PM (9yXr+)

230 The ceo of Xbox (part of Microsoft) blamed capitalism for recent layoffs .

Where does one even begin.

Posted by: Montec at March 31, 2024 03:54 PM (wGHSB)

231 South FL is like Milan. Death Race 2000 to the next red light.

Posted by: pawn at March 31, 2024 03:47 PM (QB+5g)

I was in Miami for four days last week. They really do drive like dipsh*ts.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2024 03:55 PM (gSZYf)

232 I find most of them indecipherable
if your fellow drivers can't figure it out, the plate has failed

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2024 03:52 PM (oCjPU)

True. The rest are ridiculously obvious or well...vain.

Posted by: Bawney Wubble at March 31, 2024 03:55 PM (48ARe)

233 Four way stop signs. I yeild to car on right, as was correct. Came to full stop on my motorcycle. Balanced, didn't have to put foot on ground, like a bicycle. Traffic cop laughed and wrote a (bullshit) ticket. Black cop, white rider.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 31, 2024 03:56 PM (135ws)

234 Although I wouldn't be averse to a 20 year mandatory sentence for the first infraction.

At an institution that serves Challah French Toast with Grade B Vermont Maple Syrup and shaken Manhattans?

Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking the questions the MSM doesn't ask at March 31, 2024 03:58 PM (a3Q+t)

235 FWP in AZ is winter visitors (AKA Bluehairs) drive the absolute speed limit and no faster.
The line of cars behind them can be legendary.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2024 03:59 PM (bZRuM)

236 233 Four way stop signs. I yeild to car on right, as was correct. Came to full stop on my motorcycle. Balanced, didn't have to put foot on ground, like a bicycle. Traffic cop laughed and wrote a (bullshit) ticket. Black cop, white rider.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 31, 2024 03:56 PM (135ws)

Why doesn't everyone love us and worship us?

Posted by: Hero In Blue at March 31, 2024 03:59 PM (8sMut)

237 LOL. I remember when I was 17 or 18 and my mom got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign.

Hilarity ensued.

Posted by: No One of Any Consequence at March 31, 2024 04:00 PM (VuZH8)

238 problem with roundabouts is the lack of standards.

You're spot on, but keep in mind, many of the problems they're trying to solve came from lack of, or overlapping, standards in the previous modes. First complaint of midwest cities is that they started out as a wide spot on a trail, then developed around railroads when streets would never have more than a two-horse team on them. Those intersections couldn't handle semis, either.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 04:03 PM (zdLoL)

239 Food nood. Jesus of Nazareth is coming on. It's got Borgnine.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2024 04:03 PM (vFG9F)

240 Do you always run stop signs?
_I don't run stop signs.
You've ran the last four stop signs.
_No, I didn't.
You rolled through them.
_I always perform a rolling stop unless there is another vehicle at or approaching the sign.
Right.

Posted by: Braeyard at March 31, 2024 04:05 PM (xpWR7)

241 Go buy a neodymium magnet and put it on your frame to help.

You haven't lived until you've tried to take an Avanti through an automatic car wash.

FWIW, my first trip with my 'new' 63 Studebaker was in Quebec, and yes I had a little car trouble. I was outside the famous places, the the local people could not have been nicer. I've related the story before, so won't go on and on, but I thought it the finest foreign country I'd ever been in.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2024 04:10 PM (zdLoL)

242 23 Most people cannot drive a lick because they were never taught how to drive. They have never had a class on driving and their idiot parents, who most likely "taught" them how to drive, are asshole drivers too.

So you got asshole drivers teaching their asshole offspring how to be asshole drivers and this is what goes on today.

Be careful out there, lotta assholes on the road.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2024 02:13 PM (R/m4+)

I mean, you're not wrong.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2024 04:12 PM (o3SCB)

243 Four way stop signs. I yeild to car on right, as was correct. Came to full stop on my motorcycle. Balanced, didn't have to put foot on ground, like a bicycle. Traffic cop laughed and wrote a (bullshit) ticket. Black cop, white rider.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards
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You sure that doing the catwalk through the intersection didn't have anything to do with it?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2024 04:14 PM (cOq4q)

244
Then there's this guy--

Truck driver accused of DUI in crash that killed 3 motorcyclists

Rafiki’s initial court appearance was delayed several days as the courts were working to find Rafiki a translator, records indicated. Rafiki speaks Kinyarwanda, a Central African language.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhwtwcu

Posted by: Nino Greasemanelli at March 31, 2024 04:20 PM (QwK6F)

245 Ah, but what is the punishment for LEAVING a big thick white stop line when the stop sign has been removed? I think it should be at least a week in the stocks, with bonus rotten vegetables (in season). I encountered a rogue stop line when I was a very novice driver and was in an utter panic I had MISSED A STOP SIGN but my mom, in the car with me, assured me it was not a hallucination and I would not go to jail. That time.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 31, 2024 04:34 PM (InqhU)

246 A traffic school cop once said (many decades ago...):

Do you know how we determine if you stopped at the stop sign?

Your wheels quit turning.

It is amazing how often we don't. I try to be specific about it. My sweetheart says I'm gonna get rear ended.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at March 31, 2024 04:43 PM (U8Hxf)

247 One of the most annoying features of most self-driving software is that it ACTUALLY STOPS at stop signs. Annoying because human drivers don't... they slow to a crawl, and then, if there isn't any conflicting traffic, they pull ahead!

About a year ago, Tesla threw away their self-driving code and started over with an end-to-end neural net that learned how to drive like a person, from watching videos of people driving (well). The more human-like behavior is noticeable, and there are reports of emergent behaviors appearing, like allowing a car signaling to parallel park extra space, rather than pulling up right behind him!

When you hear someone who has test-driven a Tesla for hundreds of miles say "Where did it learn THAT?!" it is pretty weird! Hang on folks - it's going to get weirder still!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 31, 2024 05:43 PM (fvaUq)

248 For years I've taken to calling it the "straddle line."

Posted by: Chuck Fryer at March 31, 2024 11:01 PM (ZYAUx)

249 I realize this post is not really about being able to read "stop", but the red stop sign with English letters is almost universally adopted no matter the country.

Posted by: EGGO at April 01, 2024 10:01 AM (D4xED)

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