Roundabout Open Thread

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1 probably not

Posted by: barbarausa at December 26, 2025 06:01 PM (enw9G)

2 1st

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 26, 2025 06:01 PM (NlEaG)

3 ha!

Posted by: barbarausa at December 26, 2025 06:01 PM (enw9G)

4 nooded

Posted by: barbarausa at December 26, 2025 06:02 PM (enw9G)

5 in Spain this is called a "glorieta"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 26, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)

6 This is probably old news by now, but MummyDummy in New York has appointed a "lesbian activist" as the Fire Commissioner.

She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IG3/x)

7 I thought you were talking about vehicle roundabouts. The dumbest things man has ever created.

Posted by: Wrecking Balls R Us at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (abIsI)

8 Yes!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 06:04 PM (cYBz/)

9 We have some funny videos of our tortie cat giving dogs the business.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:04 PM (rghSL)

10 Before I clicked the video, after seeing the headline, Roundabout by Yes was already playing in my head

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 06:05 PM (2vrAX)

11 Traffic circles are exceyat handling traffic. If done correctly. Almost none are. So almost all traffic circles suck.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:05 PM (/lPRQ)

12 Roundabout?
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there!

Posted by: In And Around The Lake at December 26, 2025 06:06 PM (oftw2)

13
She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IG3/x)

____________

Just add water. How difficult is that?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 06:06 PM (tgvbd)

14 Before I clicked the video, after seeing the headline, Roundabout by Yes was already playing in my head

Posted by: Smell the Glove

*fist bump*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:06 PM (rghSL)

15 6 This is probably old news by now, but MummyDummy in New York has appointed a "lesbian activist" as the Fire Commissioner.

She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (abIsI)

16 She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

California certified!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (Kt19C)

17 I thought you were talking about vehicle roundabouts. The dumbest things man has ever created.
Posted by: Wrecking Balls R Us at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (abIsI)

The roundabouts are a labyrinthine symbol of the black priests of Mu which act as a sort of sacrilegious prayer wheel activated by transiting it. Each individual life navigating them adds another element of evil into the world.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)

18 Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (abIsI)
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Digital or analog?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2025 06:08 PM (ESVrU)

19 It’s not just a lesbian activist. It’s a dude who thinks he’s a chick lesbian activist.

But whatevs. The people want it. Let ‘em have it. When people start burning alive due to firefighter incompetence maybe that maybe they’ll figure it out. Then again probably not.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:08 PM (MvI35)

20 half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.

But they know when the big hand is on the little hand!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 06:08 PM (Kt19C)

21
Reasons why New Jersey sucks

- Roundabouts
- Jughandle turns
- Not pumping your own gas

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 06:09 PM (tgvbd)

22 half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (abIsI)

No need for “a clock” in that sentence.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:10 PM (MvI35)

23 18 Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (abIsI)
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Digital or analog?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel a

I assume analog but, then again, NYC.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:10 PM (abIsI)

24 I see more and more roundabouts in Central TX. Most of the time they are okay. I prefer them to 4 way stops.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:10 PM (rghSL)

25 The roundabouts are a labyrinthine symbol of the black priests of Mu which act as a sort of sacrilegious prayer wheel activated by transiting it. Each individual life navigating them adds another element of evil into the world.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 26, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)
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Yep. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman play around with this idea in their novel Good Omens:

"the very shape of the M25 [a London motorway] forms the sigil odegra in the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means, 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds.'"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2025 06:11 PM (ESVrU)

26 I remember Summer of '72 going to Norway to visit relatives. First time on an SAS 747. They supplied about 25 songs with their earphones, most were pop, but one was Yes, Roundabout. I think I listened to it 10 times each way over the Atlantic.

Posted by: 24 Before My Love at December 26, 2025 06:11 PM (oftw2)

27 Traffic circles are exceyat handling traffic. If done correctly.
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Try a multi-lane roundabout in the UK, while driving a righthand drive rental. I'm pretty sure I went around four times before devising a strategy for getting off of the bloody thing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:11 PM (XeU6L)

28 Reasons why New Jersey sucks

- Roundabouts
- Jughandle turns
- Not pumping your own gas
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They need cross-over diamond interchanges.
Those have have to be a blast with a little snow or slush obscuring lane markings

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:12 PM (/lPRQ)

29 I don’t get the roundabout hate. In my area there a quite a few of them and every time they’ve replaced a stop light or stop sign traffic has greatly improved.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:12 PM (MvI35)

30 I'll say it. I like roundabouts. Most of them I've seen put in have relieved congestion. 4-way stops in busy traffic are awful.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 26, 2025 06:12 PM (h7ZuX)

31 I see you are here for attention.

Good boy.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 26, 2025 06:13 PM (rbvCR)

32 I read where the newly appointed FDNY Commissioner, despite not having served as a firefighter, feels confident she can do well.

So there, hater!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 26, 2025 06:13 PM (NlEaG)

33 Try a multi-lane roundabout in the UK, while driving a righthand drive rental. I'm pretty sure I went around four times before devising a strategy for getting off of the bloody thing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I'd wager good money that the phrase 'Bloody Wanker!!' was uttered at some point during that adventure.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 06:13 PM (cYBz/)

34 Try a multi-lane roundabout in the UK, while driving a righthand drive rental. I'm pretty sure I went around four times before devising a strategy for getting off of the bloody thing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

You made me think of the scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation, when the Griswolds got stuck on a roundabout in London. Thanks for the chuckles.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:14 PM (rghSL)

35 It’s not just a lesbian activist. It’s a dude who thinks he’s a chick lesbian activist.
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It is? Hell, I couldn't tell what it is

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:14 PM (XeU6L)

36 Around here the traffic circles have grown bizarre offshoot circles shaped like kidneys. One looks like a pancreas. Anything longer than a Prius and you running over the curb.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:15 PM (abIsI)

37 > 19 It’s not just a lesbian activist. It’s a dude who thinks he’s a chick lesbian activist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:08 PM (MvI35)

Oh, I guess I missed the part where he's a tranny. Because of course he is.

In retrospect, I should've just assumed that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:15 PM (IG3/x)

38 I'm more interested in what Mamdani does at NYPD. All those stupid young chicks in NYC who got him into office are in for a really nasty surprise once the orders come down to keep away from his peeps fulfilling their urges with unwilling dhimmis.

And of course, the amount of tax monies looted by Muslims in NYC will beggar belief - but we'll all be chipping in for that.

Thanks, ladies! At least we'll just get fleeced, though. Y'all are gonna be the ones getting pincushioned by these filthy, retarded savages. Enjoy collecting the Wages of Retard!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 06:16 PM (BI5O2)

39 Aww...friends having fun! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 26, 2025 06:16 PM (XSP3T)

40 I'd wager good money that the phrase 'Bloody Wanker!!' was uttered at some point during that adventure.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Bleedin' Yank tourists

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:16 PM (XeU6L)

41 We've had a new roundabout, our county's first, installed not to long ago. A huge pushback and crocodile tears and yet, it works wonderfully.

I'd guess there are only 10-15% of the drivers that now use it incorrectly instead of 75% of drivers running the previous 4 way stop.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 06:17 PM (cYBz/)

42 Thanks, ladies! At least we'll just get fleeced, though. Y'all are gonna be the ones getting pincushioned by these filthy, retarded savages. Enjoy collecting the Wages of Retard!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 06:16 PM (BI5O2)

But he’s sooooo dreamy.

- the ladies

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:17 PM (MvI35)

43 The very first NYFD killed on September 11, 2001 were in the Plaza, hit by Falling Man (actually Men and Women). There were more than most people think. Guiliani and the Fire Commissioner were In Building 7 then and quickly ruled the Plaza off-limits.

Posted by: Darkest Day at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (oftw2)

44 Reasons why New Jersey sucks

- Roundabouts
- Jughandle turns
- Not pumping your own gas
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 06:09 PM (tgvbd)

Reasons why we love NJ. Jughandle turns function better than left lane turns.
Circles are fine. If you know how to drive. People from other states too dumb to figure it out.
We don't WANT to pump our own gas. Servants do it for us.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (5xuJ/)

45 This is probably old news by now, but MummyDummy in New York has appointed a "lesbian activist" as the Fire Commissioner.

She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IG3/x)

Hey I'm all for whatever burns it down the fastest.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (snZF9)

46 Oh, I guess I missed the part where he's a tranny. Because of course he is.

In retrospect, I should've just assumed that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Not all trannys wear uniforms.

Posted by: Admiral Rachel Levine at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (XeU6L)

47
Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I have to draw one when I go to the doctor.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (pkeXY)

48 There are some roundabouts where 1 lane has to exist and another doesn’t. If that’s not clearly marked (and often isn’t) and you’re not familiar with it, it’s can be kinda chaotic.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (MvI35)

49 Four cars enter and only one exits. It's a body shops dream.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (abIsI)

50 I'll be your roundabout.

https://youtu.be/LuGAWR2eRyQ

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (dK+Kv)

51 Not all trannys wear uniforms.

Posted by: Admiral Rachel Levine at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (XeU6L)

Some of y'all wear furry suits, I read.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (rghSL)

52 >>Try a multi-lane roundabout in the UK, while driving a righthand drive rental. I'm pretty sure I went around four times before devising a strategy for getting off of the bloody thing.

There's an infamous one in Bermuda that been the site of numerous moped crashes.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

53 Oregon now allows the peasants to pump their own gas in rural counties. Not in Portland though. Why it matters how densely populated the county is in relation to the ability to pump one’s own gas? No fucking clue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:20 PM (MvI35)

54 And of course, those NYC dumbos will be *really* shocked when they speak out about the rape gangs the NYPD will start covering up, and all their stylish, right-thinking friends denounce them as racists.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 06:22 PM (BI5O2)

55 Do people tip the attendant that pumps the gas?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 06:22 PM (sDNVV)

56 Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read a clock.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I have to draw one when I go to the doctor.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 06:19 PM (pkeXY)

I show him a picture of a piece of video equipment I tore down, troubled shooted to component level, and restored to operating condition. I no longer need to draw a clock. The dumbest, most degrading thing I ever heard of of. Makes me avoid the medical profession unless I'm bleeding from the eyes.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 26, 2025 06:22 PM (5xuJ/)

57 They're touting the new tranny Fire Commissioner as being a "department veteran".

While he did collect a paycheck from FDNY, he was an office boi, not a firefighter.

And holy dogshit, he is one baboon-butt-ugly mofo.

What, they're planning on scaring fires out by showing fires a picture of him?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:23 PM (IG3/x)

58 Traffic circles are fine if -
- large enough diameter that a tractor-trailer can navigate w/o running the curbs
- same rule at every entrance or exit
- yield sign only at entrance
- those in circle have right-of-way and no required exits.

Azzholes built a circle here at intersection of two four lane roads.
Entrance rules depend which way you are coming in and same for exits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

59 I'll confess. When first roundabout was installed here I was retarded. Didn't hit anyone or get hit, but couple of hard braking incidents. I'm getting better.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2025 06:23 PM (bQ4nt)

60 NJ is a land of tiny, oppressive little fiefdoms, mobbed up, with every tiny burg with it's own Roads Dept, Mayors, Courts, commissioners, and all the attendant corruption and graft. I remember being at an intersection in Lodi, and the four corners were four different "towns". Crookedest state anywhere. Fie!!

Posted by: I Ran Away In 1988 at December 26, 2025 06:24 PM (oftw2)

61 Do people tip the attendant that pumps the gas?"

Who pumps the gas...

/grammarman

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:25 PM (cGjQu)

62 They're rotaries, not round-a-bouts.
If you want round-a-bouts, go to the UK and drve on the wrong side of the road.
I like rotaries, the Jamaicaway in Boston has a couple of good ones on it.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 26, 2025 06:26 PM (sl73Y)

63 People never figure it out that one should use their turn signal at their roundabout exit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:26 PM (XeU6L)

64 Over half of NYC HS graduates are unable to read"

Coulda stopped there...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:27 PM (cGjQu)

65 63 People never figure it out that one should use their turn signal at their roundabout exit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

We are thinking of offering directionals as an option next year.

Posted by: Bavarian Motor Werks at December 26, 2025 06:28 PM (oftw2)

66
Do people tip the attendant that pumps the gas?"

Who pumps the gas...

/grammarman
Posted by: man
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We're working on that.

Posted by: Boston Dynamics at December 26, 2025 06:28 PM (XeU6L)

67 The nearest big town has most of the stores on Vine St. and that is what it is like as there are so many roundabouts that it's hard to find a straight part. Always fun to watch a semi rig try to drive it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 26, 2025 06:28 PM (+mUZM)

68 People never figure it out that one should use their turn signal at their roundabout exit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

That only works in a high trust society.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:28 PM (/lPRQ)

69 We don't WANT to pump our own gas. Servants do it for us.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 26, 2025 06:18 PM (5xuJ/)

I had a friend come out from the chicago suburbs to bring her daughter to some jersey colleges. They wanted to see the jersey shore, so I was driving. I stopped at a gas station, rolled the window down, shut the car off and just sat there. She asks, whats going on, aren't you going to get gas? About 5 seconds later an attendant shows up, I hand him the credit card, and said fill it premium. He takes the card and walks away. I turn to my friend and said, its jersey, we have servants for this shit. The look on her face was priceless, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:29 PM (snZF9)

70 Reading is fundamental. Sounds kinda mayonaise or eggnog, don’t it?

Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 06:29 PM (Slgjz)

71 We are thinking of offering directionals as an option next year.
Posted by: Bavarian Motor Werks"

As an option or a subscription?

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:29 PM (cGjQu)

72
Doggo and kitteh remind me of our dog and the neighbors' chocolate lab when we are down in Sussex County. They both get really wound up and make the most of trying to outsmart each other. It is great fun to watch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:31 PM (xG4kz)

73 People never figure it out that one should use their turn signal at their roundabout exit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:26 PM (XeU6L)

Nope. There is no clarity provided, especially when the exits are so close together. The person in the roundabout has the absolute right of way, which is the problem with roundabouts, because people are generally dumb, overly risk averse, and are poor judges of spatial relationships, especially when a mechanical device has to be an extension of their person.

Roundabouts, in principle, are a great idea. Roundabouts, in practice, never survive contact with the enemy, people who use them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 06:31 PM (dK+Kv)

74 Marc Bolan died in an English car crash as a passenger, but it wasn't at a roundabout. He made the mistake of letting his girlfriend drive. (I don't think he knew how, himself.)

Posted by: Jeepster at December 26, 2025 06:31 PM (oftw2)

75 Roundabouts can and do work. But, they can become very cumbersome, annoying, and inefficient if used at every damn intersection. Loveland CO and Billings MT did not get this memo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 26, 2025 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)

76 58 Traffic circles are fine if -
- large enough diameter that a tractor-trailer can navigate w/o running the curbs

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

I have complained about this, too, but I've come to believe they are designed for the trucks to just go on over the curbs. Curbs are low and sloped, and I never see walls or a lot of landscaping in them.

If the roundabouts were big enough for the trucks to stay in the lanes, they would be more expensive to build and require more of somebody's land to accommodate them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 26, 2025 06:32 PM (h7ZuX)

77 >>>Oregon now allows the peasants to pump their own gas in rural counties. Not in Portland though.
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Because it's Portland!

Think about it... would YOU want *just anybody* to operate gas pumps there?

Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 06:32 PM (rdVOm)

78 supposedly new fire chief does have departmental time in, but not as firefighter--they were in EMS.
Whether that was hands-on or bureaucratic, did not say

Posted by: barbarausa at December 26, 2025 06:32 PM (enw9G)

79 There's a 5-way rotary in southeastern MA near where Rt44 crosses Rt495. Lot of traffic and a two lane rotary is just stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (viF8m)

80 There a YouTube channel of a couple traveling in Africa. It is fucking nuts seeing the traffic there. Total free for all. Roundabouts are the best. People just go whenever wherever. Cars, buses, trucks, mopeds, pedestrians. Or when there’s a 3 lane road that’s really 5 lanes where the left lane out of the blue starts having oncoming traffic.

Makes Paris and Rome traffic seem orderly and refined.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (MvI35)

81 would YOU want *just anybody* to operate gas pumps there"

Duuuuude

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (cGjQu)

82 "I have complained about this, too, but I've come to believe they are designed for the trucks to just go on over the curbs. "

And then the load shifts and if not secured slam into the right side.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

83
Afternoon, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 26, 2025 06:35 PM (n7rxJ)

84 I remember driving in Ireland. First time on the wrong side and there were circles everywhere, like every few miles, its insane. I never saw that many in my life. The girl at the hotel was giving me directions and was drawing the roads with all the circles. It was like looking at a molecule, or some map of atoms. The upside is there was hardly anybody on the road, but damn. I must have hit 6 or 7 circles in a 15 minute drive.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:36 PM (snZF9)

85 Guitarist/keyboardist for The Cure passed away.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 26, 2025 06:37 PM (NlEaG)

86 I worked long and hard so that I could afford to NOT have some swarthy Illegal pump my gas. Don't want any swarthy hands on any of my stuff. Berserker, would you let a random illegal tune your guitars for you?

Posted by: Hands Off My Stuff at December 26, 2025 06:37 PM (oftw2)

87 I bid 400 quatloos for the J. Edgar Hoover building.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 06:38 PM (vL0rw)

88 Fragile-era Yes is best Yes.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 26, 2025 06:38 PM (1zEbk)

89 I have been known to go around an empty roundabout twice, usually faster the second time.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

90 Portlandia was a great show. It busted on the Left for their nuttiness. And Lefties did it!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 26, 2025 06:38 PM (NlEaG)

91 bid 400 quatloos for the J. Edgar Hoover building"

$24 bucks. Same as Manhattan...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:39 PM (cGjQu)

92 JQ!

Good to see you here! Don’t allow your BiL an inch. Meet him at the gate with a shotgun and tell him he is not welcome.

Don’t be nice

He will take advantage of any crack in your defense.

Bird shot. Won’t kill him. Will get his attention. Will damage his vehicle. And call the local cops. Alert them NOW.

DONT BE A WILLING VICTIM.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 06:39 PM (IhIKR)

93 87 I bid 400 quatloos for the J. Edgar Hoover building.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Building is too ugly to sell or inhabit. Tear-down only.

Posted by: Amerika The Beautiful at December 26, 2025 06:40 PM (oftw2)

94 Let me guess. The dog's name is The Paolo.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 06:41 PM (8ixvY)

95 "Portlandia was a great show. "

I watched some episodes years after it was made and those people were so awful I could not look away. The thing is though, that's not parody anymore.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:41 PM (vFG9F)

96 >>Marc Bolan died in an English car crash as a passenger, but it wasn't at a roundabout. He made the mistake of letting his girlfriend drive. (I don't think he knew how, himself.)

This is what killed D Boone from The Minutemen.

NEVER let your girl drive.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 06:41 PM (grNgC)

97 Chris Squire kicked total ass with that bass riff. Just a sample of the wizardry that was to come.

Posted by: pawn at December 26, 2025 06:42 PM (EMg+d)

98 There's an infamous one in Bermuda that been the site of numerous moped crashes.
~~~~~

Pretty sure I know exactly where that is. In fact, I may have left some skin cells there.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2025 06:42 PM (3ImbR)

99 >>Bird shot. Won’t kill him.

This is straight up retarded advice and should NOT be followed.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 06:42 PM (grNgC)

100 Shit. I’ll drive over from western WA.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 06:42 PM (IhIKR)

101 NEVER let your girl drive."

What if she wants to play with the stick?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:43 PM (cGjQu)

102 I watched some episodes years after it was made and those people were so awful I could not look away. The thing is though, that's not parody anymore.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:41 PM (vFG9F)

I don't know that it ever was a parody.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 26, 2025 06:43 PM (NlEaG)

103 Pretty sure that new FDNY commish is the lesbianist lesbian I've ever seen.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2025 06:44 PM (3ImbR)

104 This is straight up retarded advice and should NOT be followed"

Agreed. Try .50AE...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:44 PM (cGjQu)

105 Shit. I’ll drive over from western WA.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 06:42 PM (IhIKR)

Might want a cup of black coffee, first.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 06:44 PM (dK+Kv)

106 I worked long and hard so that I could afford to NOT have some swarthy Illegal pump my gas. Don't want any swarthy hands on any of my stuff. Berserker, would you let a random illegal tune your guitars for you?

Posted by: Hands Off My Stuff at December 26, 2025 06:37 PM (oftw2)

Well, illegals don't pump our gas, you don't see that. Usually younger white dudes, or a chick every so often, and they are usually pretty good. It also depends on where in jersey you are. What they don't touch is motorcycles, or vintage muscle cars, or high end cars. They pretty much back off and let the drivers deal with it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:44 PM (snZF9)

107 Convert that building into a prison for the people who work there. And make that prison a squalid dungeon that makes Devil's Island look like a garden spot. There should be frequent typhus outbreaks and ravenous wild beasts attacking inmates.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 06:45 PM (BI5O2)

108 I don’t get the roundabout hate. In my area there a quite a few of them and every time they’ve replaced a stop light or stop sign traffic has greatly improved.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:12 PM (MvI35)
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They're creeping into more intersections as the roads are repaved and the ones here work just fine. Mostly it's clueless college kids who've never seen one in Bad Axe, Paw Paw, Grosse Point or wherever they came from.

Germans take them at speed. High speed. The speed limit is a directive. YOU WILL GO THIS FAST. Reverse stoplights for jack rabbit starts. I came off a five-week deployment where I was the designated driver and the family was flung around the minivan interior like a paint shaker.

Driving the Autobahn at night in a BMW while listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack was sublime.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

109 vintage muscle cars, "

Just flip down the license plate, ok?

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:46 PM (cGjQu)

110 This is straight up retarded advice and should NOT be followed.
Posted by: garrett
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Bug-A-Salt?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 06:46 PM (XeU6L)

111 There should be frequent typhus outbreaks and ravenous wild beasts attacking inmates.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December[/i 26, 2025 06:45 PM (BI5O2)

With Yoko songs blaring from the intercom.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, they're not signatories to the Geneva Convention at December 26, 2025 06:47 PM (1zEbk)

112 Fine. I’m retarded.

But I drew the line with my asshole father and cut his ass out of my life. Done. No more being a victim. Own your life.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 06:47 PM (IhIKR)

113 >>Pretty sure I know exactly where that is. In fact, I may have left some skin cells there.

You should see it the week of the Newport - Bermuda Race. Hundreds of usually drunk sailors driving mopeds on the wrong side of the road.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 06:47 PM (viF8m)

114 Driving the Autobahn at night "

Fahn fahn fahn on de autobhan....

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:47 PM (cGjQu)

115 drunk sailors "

Redundant, no?

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:48 PM (cGjQu)

116 "I don't know that it ever was a parody.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat"

Documentary?

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:49 PM (vFG9F)

117 vintage muscle cars, "

Just flip down the license plate, ok?

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:46 PM (cGjQu)

Exactly. Thats how mine is.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:49 PM (snZF9)

118 JQ Imma make a prayer for peace in your house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 06:49 PM (ofkVZ)

119 Nurse-- BiL isn't a menace or druggie or criminal. He's just chronically dependent, a welfare case. And deaf, that's why we text only.

Like the wise ettes told me the other night-- I married my husband, not his brother.

I don't *owe* BiL anything and he's been trying to guilt-trip me. Pfft. Dude probably has a higher income than we do, smh.

Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 06:49 PM (rdVOm)

120 And then the load shifts and if not secured slam into the right side.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

Ah. Yes.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 26, 2025 06:49 PM (h7ZuX)

121 Bird shot. Won’t kill him. Will get his attention. Will damage his vehicle. And call the local cops. Alert them NOW.

DONT BE A WILLING VICTIM.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Don't know if you have to go that far.
Call cops and trespass him.

Maybe call first and give them a heads up that an unwelcome in-law is demanding to visit and was already told NO. Might count as the first warning.

Locally you have have to tell the trespasser to leave, then call cops, if they ever show up and tell him to leave and he doesn't, then he can be arrested. And signs mean nothing.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:50 PM (/lPRQ)

122 We need to have a MoMe to BiL-proof JQ's property.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 06:50 PM (rghSL)

123 It’s hilarious the the justification for requiring gas “Professional” to pump gas is safety. Because in the other 55 states people are dying every day due to an unsafe gas pumping? 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 06:51 PM (MvI35)

124 With Yoko songs blaring from the intercom.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, they're not signatories to the Geneva Convention at December 26, 2025 06:47 PM (1zEbk)
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We had a thread on torture songs a few days ago and She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named figured prominently

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 06:51 PM (ofkVZ)

125 Reasons why New Jersey sucks

- Roundabouts
- Jughandle turns
- Not pumping your own gas
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 06:09 PM

Next to NYC, which doesn't manufacture quality picante sauce.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 06:52 PM (0sNs1)

126 "Jughandle turns"

Is that what they call those things? I called them "what the #*$@ is this %#&*???".

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

127 And signs mean nothing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 06:50 PM

Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?

Posted by: Five Man Electrical Band at December 26, 2025 06:54 PM (0sNs1)

128
Andrew McCarthy having fun -- can you find Uranus in this photo?

https://is.gd/c0ZcS9

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 26, 2025 06:55 PM (w6EFb)

129 ...ugh. Back to cleaning the heater... bbl

Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 06:55 PM (rdVOm)

130 JQ

I love you, but don’t make excuses for the menace. Say no. Then have a way to enforce said no.

Otherwise the problem persists and increases.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 06:55 PM (dZgSa)

131 And signs mean nothing"

Five man electrical band hardest hit...

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:56 PM (cGjQu)

132 >>"Jughandle turns"

Is that what they call those things? I called them "what the #*$@ is this %#&*???".
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

Gotta disagree with you here.

NJ found a great way to deal with their Traffic problems by eliminating Left Turns.
You can literally drive the speed limit or faster in the left lane without worrying about someone coming to a full stop to turn into a business or side street.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 06:56 PM (grNgC)

133 Dammit. Slow again.

Posted by: man at December 26, 2025 06:56 PM (cGjQu)

134 Refugee son and wife, with our two wonderful g-daughters, are back at their nearby home.

Refugee daughter is returning to her apartment, 3 hours away, accompanied by a boyfriend we are, so far, very fond of.

There will be a Baileys and decaf this evening, and some bedtime prayers of thanksgiving.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 26, 2025 06:56 PM (8AONa)

135 But I drew the line with my asshole father and cut his ass out of my life. Done. No more being a victim. Own your life.

Correct. Just because they are somehow "related " does not mean you have to accept their assholishness in your life. Ban them and be happy.

Life is too short.

Posted by: Ban That Asshole at December 26, 2025 06:59 PM (R/m4+)

136 "NJ found a great way to deal with their Traffic problems by eliminating Left Turns."

We hates it. Roundabouts too.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

137 Uncorked a bottle of the good stuff tonight. Seeing out the old year and planning for the new.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 07:04 PM (sDNVV)

138 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 06:44 PM (snZF9)

It's all wogs, all the time around here.

One was wearing a keffiyah, and I called the company to complain.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 07:04 PM (n9ltV)

139 6 This is probably old news by now, but MummyDummy in New York has appointed a "lesbian activist" as the Fire Commissioner.

She has zero experience in firefighting, naturally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IG3/x)

He heard she'd been to Fire Island...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 26, 2025 07:06 PM (mP0Kj)

140 >>He heard she'd been to Fire Island...

If that was the only qualification, he could have hired Ace.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 07:06 PM (grNgC)

141 He heard she'd been to Fire Island...
Posted by: Romeo13

A shot of rocephin and a gram of azithromyacin will help with that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 07:08 PM (IhIKR)

142 137 Uncorked a bottle of the good stuff tonight. Seeing out the old year and planning for the new.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 07:04 PM (sDNVV)

Whatcha having?

I got a bottle of limited edition Watershed, finished in nocino (black walnut liqueur casks). Was available by lottery only. I think I'm going to save it for New Year's Eve. Or the next TX MoMe I can attend. It will keep.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 26, 2025 07:08 PM (h7ZuX)

143

How about a Michigan Left?
Encountered one in Indianapolis.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left

This is like the one in Indy:

https://t.ly/UG2_u

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 07:08 PM (pkeXY)

144 It's all wogs, all the time around here.

One was wearing a keffiyah, and I called the company to complain.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 07:04 PM (n9ltV)

Yeah not by me. Its usually white dudes that look like they're on break from video games in mommy's basement, or some kind of younger gear heads. I'm in the area that time forgot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 07:08 PM (snZF9)

145 Dash, oh my. Watershed is excellent and I'll bet that finish is fantastic.
Tonight it's Rodney Strong cab.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 07:11 PM (sDNVV)

146 I’ll be the roundabout

Posted by: Yes at December 26, 2025 07:11 PM (muXU/)

147 NJ found a great way to deal with their Traffic problems by eliminating Left Turns.
You can literally drive the speed limit or faster in the left lane without worrying about someone coming to a full stop to turn into a business or side street.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 06:56 PM (grNgC)

FUCK jughandles

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 26, 2025 07:13 PM (muXU/)

148 Roundabouts in this section of flyover country should focus on two things;

1. High visibility - don't be growing a jungle in an elevated center circle that nobody can see thru or around
2. Proper grade and drainage - swamps and skating rinks create hazards.

The roundabouts here were created by fools.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 26, 2025 07:13 PM (nljXp)

149 FUCK jughandles

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 26, 2025 07:13 PM (muXU/)

Any quicker way to get out of NJ can't be all that bad.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 07:15 PM (dK+Kv)

150 Dash, I'll bet Watershed doesn't have an overstocking problem.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 07:16 PM (sDNVV)

151 Anyone know of a decent graphical calculator app for Apple?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 07:17 PM (dK+Kv)

152 Noob

Posted by: Case at December 26, 2025 07:18 PM (G1OIb)

153 150 Dash, I'll bet Watershed doesn't have an overstocking problem.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 07:16 PM (sDNVV)

I'll bet not!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 26, 2025 07:18 PM (h7ZuX)

154 The leafy NJ suburbs outside NYC are very nice.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 26, 2025 07:21 PM (MvI35)

155 There's a 5-way rotary in southeastern MA near where Rt44 crosses Rt495. Lot of traffic and a two lane rotary is just stupid.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 06:34 PM (viF8m)

Know that one well. The secret to rotaries is to ignore that right of way shit. If theres an opening you can fill, take it. Decisively. Driving an old beat up sedan helps.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 26, 2025 07:28 PM (sl73Y)

156 round abouts are stupid, nobody but urofags is in favor of roundabouts, ever

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 07:36 PM (iyeUK)

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