What Grinds Your Gears Reloaded...Again

[BeerBaron]

UPS!

I have plans for dinner and am very hungry but first the ******* UPS guy needs to get here.

[vidae]

I've never had a problem with UPS. I'm gunna blame you here.

[BeerBaron]

Originally Posted by vidae

I've never had a problem with UPS. I'm gunna blame you here.

Well the thing they left on my door yesterday had 2-5 checkmarked as when they'd be back today. I signed it and left it on the door in case...here we are at 6:10 when they finally show.

But now I have the complete series of Batman: The Animated Series and I'm going to eat steak. All is well.

[BeerBaron]

When people "properly" abbreviate things that no longer require it.

It just looks clunky and awkward when you put the dots in "T.V." or after a shortened word like "Pro. Football."

[Wootylicous]

You know when you wanna come out of the highway and peeps can't ******* understand this sign



**** these people

[BeerBaron]

Is that some kind of polite Canadian "Yield" sign?

[Wootylicous]

Give way is from the UK. But yes it'a yield sign.

[sbh15]

speaking of highway driving: when people don't accelerate to the speed limit before entering the highway... I consistently find myself trying to merge with 65 mph traffic going 45 mph because some jackass in front of me can't seem to accelerate

[Wootylicous]

Seriously if you can't understand a ******* yield get the **** out and don't ******* drive a goddamn car. ******* pisses me off.

[BeerBaron]

There's this one spot near where I live where you merge with two lanes (not a highway) and has a Yield sign that doesn't need to be there.

Before the merger spot, the road you are merging onto only has one lane. Your lane forms the other when it turns into two lanes after that spot. Yet the lane you're in still has a Yield sign and it confuses the **** out of people. I'll admit to even being confused there my first time through.

[Wootylicous]

It's just when people try to force their ******* way in. Adjust yourself don't ******* try to accelerate to get in front of me.

[Giantsfan1080]

Originally Posted by sbh15

speaking of highway driving: when people don't accelerate to the speed limit before entering the highway... I consistently find myself trying to merge with 65 mph traffic going 45 mph because some jackass in front of me can't seem to accelerate

This is the worst. I go through it everyday in this one spot on my way to work. Pisses me off everyday.

[killxswitch]

I hate it when people are going to make a left turn, and there is a big long left-turn lane coming up, but they still slow WAY THE **** DOWN while in the left lane before switching to the turn lane. Get over into your turn lane, THEN slow down. Dumbass drivers make me want to punch a bunny.

[BeerBaron]

I hate that, but it's even worse when they're turning right. They slow down almost to a crawl and then slowly complete the turn. Old people are the biggest suppliers of this annoyance.

[jrdrylie]

You want to see bad drivers? Come to Huntsville, Alabama. I've driven in every big city in the South, Chicago, Washington D.C, and so many other cities and they don't even come close to the level of idiocy that is Huntsville drivers.

1. At EVERY red light, a minimum of 7 cars run the light. And it isn't just going through right after it turns red. I'm talking about five seconds after it turns red.
2. I live off a road that has three lanes plus a turn lane on each side. Everyday, I see two or three people turn right (cutting across three lanes of traffic) from the left lane.
3. Every yield sign is treated as a stop sign.
4. Apparently my car is the only car in the entire city that has a working turn signal.
5. To turn into my neighboorhood, there is a one-mile turn lane. ONE ******* MILE! But people going straight still wait until the last 10 feet to get out of it.

Either these stupid ******* are too busy worrying about their dumbass War Eagle-Roll Tide ******** to observe the rules of the road. Or the 48th ranked education system is too ****** to teach them proper driving rule. I hate this ******* place.

[eaglesalltheway]

Originally Posted by sbh15

speaking of highway driving: when people don't accelerate to the speed limit before entering the highway... I consistently find myself trying to merge with 65 mph traffic going 45 mph because some jackass in front of me can't seem to accelerate

I too have come to hate this, but alas!, I have a remedy. Think ahead, if you get the opportunity, when you see a putz on the road, give plenty of space between you and them so that you are up to speed by the time you reach the merging area.

[eaglesalltheway]

Originally Posted by BeerBaron

I hate that, but it's even worse when they're turning right. They slow down almost to a crawl and then slowly complete the turn. Old people are the biggest suppliers of this annoyance.

Or the dumb shits that turn left to to right (or vice-versa). Dumbass, it doesn't make the turn easier, it completely ***** up the momentum of your vehicle (no matter what type of car you drive) and causes your car to handle worse. And it gives people less, or no room to go past you without going into another lane or off the road (or stop completely).

[killxswitch]

Originally Posted by eaglesalltheway

Or the dumb shits that turn left to to right (or vice-versa). Dumbass, it doesn't make the turn easier, it completely ***** up the momentum of your vehicle (no matter what type of car you drive) and causes your car to handle worse. And it gives people less, or no room to go past you without going into another lane or off the road (or stop completely).

Agreed, this is seriously stupid.

[Babylon]

Originally Posted by jrdrylie

You want to see bad drivers? Come to Huntsville, Alabama. I've driven in every big city in the South, Chicago, Washington D.C, and so many other cities and they don't even come close to the level of idiocy that is Huntsville drivers.

1. At EVERY red light, a minimum of 7 cars run the light. And it isn't just going through right after it turns red. I'm talking about five seconds after it turns red.
2. I live off a road that has three lanes plus a turn lane on each side. Everyday, I see two or three people turn right (cutting across three lanes of traffic) from the left lane.
3. Every yield sign is treated as a stop sign.
4. Apparently my car is the only car in the entire city that has a working turn signal.
5. To turn into my neighboorhood, there is a one-mile turn lane. ONE ******* MILE! But people going straight still wait until the last 10 feet to get out of it.

Either these stupid ******* are too busy worrying about their dumbass War Eagle-Roll Tide ******** to observe the rules of the road. Or the 48th ranked education system is too ****** to teach them proper driving rule. I hate this ******* place.

They put in cameras out here in the Seattle area. Not every town has them but it really puts a halt to the 7 car rule when a light changes. I'm divided on what i think of them by the way.

Drivers are basically clueless about everywhere you go. Try driving in Boston, you'll want to shoot yourself every time you drive through that city.

[BeerBaron]

Statistically, those cameras INCREASE accidents due to people trying like hell to stop in time. Leads to an increase of rear-endings.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19937...t-work_p2.html

[dabears10]

Originally Posted by BeerBaron

Statistically, those cameras INCREASE accidents due to people trying like hell to stop in time. Leads to an increase of rear-endings.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19937...t-work_p2.html

There is not enough time for the effects to fully take place. I would like to see the results of two separate issues. Violent accidents are more important to remove than rear ended accidents.

[jrdrylie]

Originally Posted by Babylon

They put in cameras out here in the Seattle area. Not every town has them but it really puts a halt to the 7 car rule when a light changes. I'm divided on what i think of them by the way.

Drivers are basically clueless about everywhere you go. Try driving in Boston, you'll want to shoot yourself every time you drive through that city.

We have cameras too. But they are just for show. I don't even think they are turned on, which is so dumb. If they could just give one ticket every ten minutes (and trust me, they could give a lot more) at $50 a ticket, that's $7200 a day per light. With 6 lights in about a three mile range, that's $15 million in a year. Instead, I have seen all of one person given a ticket fro running a light and that was because he was sitting at the red light, got tired of waiting and just went and the cop just happened to be right behind him.

[BeerBaron]

Originally Posted by dabears10

There is not enough time for the effects to fully take place. I would like to see the results of two separate issues. Violent accidents are more important to remove than rear ended accidents.

Did you skim the part about more people dieing in those accidents?

Turns out the LAPD's numbers only counted a reduction in crashes that were caused by people running red lights and getting side-reamed. They completely ignored the fresh epidemic of rear-end collisions caused by people slamming on their breaks to avoid a camera-issued ticket.

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Totes worth it.

Studies of red light cameras in Melbourne, Australia and Virginia came up with similar findings. The Aussies concluded that red light cameras had "no demonstrated value," and the Virginia Transportation Research Council tied a 27 percent rise in accidents to the cameras. But the largest nail in the coffin comes from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. They compared traffic fatalities in cities with and without red light camera (RLC) programs:

"... cities using RLCs had an estimated higher rate of red light running fatalities, specifically 25 percent, than cities that did not use RLCs in the period 'after' cameras were used."

They, like so many other law enforcement techniques, are just money raising devices for towns instead of something that actually protects people from harm.

[CashmoneyDrew]

Originally Posted by BeerBaron

Did you skim the part about more people dieing in those accidents?

If you keep doing this, we're gonna have a problem.

[BeerBaron]

Originally Posted by CashmoneyDrew

If you keep doing this, we're gonna have a problem.

I don't know why I do that... Firefox doesn't mark it as misspelled which isn't helping.