David G. Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Hmm...rule says right-on-red is legal. YOU decide to IMPEDE someone who'd like to get where he's going, because YOU define him as "annoyingly impatient". See the hypocrisy there? Yup, you're right. I should support the rudeness of others and reward inconsiderate behavior. It'll make the world a better place. David G.
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Yup, you're right. I should support the rudeness of others and reward inconsiderate behavior. It'll make the world a better place. David G. In my experience, TWO people behaving as inconsiderate jerks rarely accomplish anything. ONE person needs to rise above the rudeness, and behave as an adult, in order to make things better. Edited July 25, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy
David G. Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 In my experience, TWO people behaving as inconsiderate jerks rarely accomplish anything. ONE person needs to rise above the rudeness, and behave as an adult, in order to make things better. Okey-dokey. David G.
Harry P. Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Come on, people now... smile on your brother, everybody get together, try and love one another right now...
cobraman Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Finished a build today (will be posting under glass soon). Bought all the materials I'll need (I hope) to make the former rear seat in the baja bug a storage unit and flat shelf. Other than that, I'm getting ready for pizza, pool, popcorn, and WWE Friday Night Smackdown. In short, absolutely nothing irked me today. Boy, you sure love your Smackdown don't you ? : ) Does watching it make you hostile ? : )
Harry P. Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Isn't "Smackdown" basically two guys beating the krap out of each other? How is that "entertainment?"
Mark Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Isn't "Smackdown" basically two guys beating the krap out of each other? How is that "entertainment?" Basically two guys ACTING like they're beating the krap out of each other...
Harry P. Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 Basically two guys ACTING like they're beating the krap out of each other... Right...
Craig Irwin Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 People who think that buying an expensive sport sedan (contradiction of terms) gives them the right to drive 20 MPH over the speed limit while demonstrating they have no knowledge of performance driving.
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 People who think that buying an expensive sport sedan (contradiction of terms) gives them the right to drive 20 MPH over the speed limit while demonstrating they have no knowledge of performance driving. Yup, I remember a fella in a brandy-new Jag XJ-12 passed me on an off-ramp, a curved off-ramp with a decreasing radius no less...passed me like I was standing still (I was in my old '68 Fairlane 500) and ended up sliding it sideways into a light pole. Nice horseshoe-job on the Jag, and I don't know if he walked away or not. Smart enough to make the $$ to buy the thing, way too effing stupid to drive it.
crazyjim Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Boy, you sure love your Smackdown don't you ? : ) Does watching it make you hostile ? : ) Nope. It's a show I can watch and be entertained without having to think how it will end.
DynoMight Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 (edited) Yup, I remember a fella in a brandy-new Jag XJ-12 passed me on an off-ramp, a curved off-ramp with a decreasing radius no less...passed me like I was standing still (I was in my old '68 Fairlane 500) and ended up sliding it sideways into a light pole. Nice horseshoe-job on the Jag, and I don't know if he walked away or not. Smart enough to make the $$ to buy the thing, way too effing stupid to drive it. My grandparents were driving through the Appl. Mountains in West Virginia and it was a really bad snowstorm, visibility down to like 3 foot, including your hood. And this idiot in a porsche come whipping up the mountain, and if you haven't been through W.V. the roads are all snaking, turning roads to get through the mountains. Well anyways, he comes ripping through the mountain going 30+, while my grandparents are going 5-10, because of the snow. This was in the late 80s, so not much traction control or ABS (at least I think) My grandma says, he's going to crash eventually, idiot. And sure enough they keep going and then turn around a tight bend and there he is, flipped upside down, missing half his car. They stopped, but they couldn't do anything for him (He wasn't injured, surprisingly), so they kept going... Smart enough the make the $$ to buy the thing, way to effing stupid to drive it. True words couldn't be truer... Edited July 26, 2014 by DynoMight
Tom Geiger Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 (edited) idiots at the post office! The clueless customers who cannot pack a package. I've seen it before but I went to the post office mid afternoon yesterday and there were THREE of them. Otherwise normal looking middle age people, two men and a woman, who showed up there with items, no boxes or packing materials and presented them at the counter as if the postal clerk would be doing that work for them. The two poor souls behind the counter gave them all priority boxes. Now it's my turn and I'm mailing 30 pieces. All my stuff is packed, sealed, properly addressed and all in the box I have facing the same direction. My two international pieces are up front with the filled out customs forms taped to them. One guy then went to the rack where they sell mailing supplies and was toddling off with a box. The clerk interupts my order to yell at him that it isn't a free box. The guy argues a bit, but puts it back and the clerk gives him a Priority Mail box. Now the lady comes back to the counter, bypassing a long line like she's still at the counter, and hands the clerk her completed Priority Mail box. The clerk shakes it and it's evident that there is no packing what so ever. The clerk shakes his head and tells her that her item is going to get broken. She screws up her face and yells at him, "Then what are you going to do about it?" He just sighs and tells her that people throw out junk mail newspapers and to go to the big trash barrel over near the post office boxes. She storms off. We finish my 30 pieces quicker than any one of these dolts gets their package mailed. The clerk smiles at me and thanks me for being so prepared and shakes his head the other direction. I let him know he's a saint. I leave. Who knows what happened after that. I cannot believe that the general public doesn't have the very basic skill of placing an item in a box! It's just so common sense. i know... (Anyone waiting for anything from me... it all went out yesterday afternoon!) Edited July 26, 2014 by Tom Geiger
Harry P. Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
my66s55 Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Posted in my computer, modeling, work room. Nuff said.
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 ... the general public doesn't have the very basic skill of placing an item in a box... That about sums it up. Kinda makes you wonder how things keep working at all, and makes it a little easier to understand when they don't.
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 And more idiot texters... No exaggeration, I had to take evasive action twice within 10 minutes on Interstate 75 just now to avoid being sideswiped by idiots texting. I get to Buckhead, and at the bottom of the off-ramp, there's one sitting oblivious to everything, texting away and holding up a line of 7 or so cars behind her. Finally she notices all the horns blowing, nails the throttle and races through the intersection, narrowly missing cars there. Then, on the surface streets on the way home, I had to swerve violently to avoid yet another ditsy bidge who was too busy looking at her tiny little screen to notice both lanes jogged right, and she kept going straight. And a little farther down the road, some numb-nutz almost runs over the flagman at a bridge construction site, and a minute later the same bozo is driving down the ONCOMING lane, and happens to look up in time to avoid a head-on. WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT that people have to stay connected every waking minute of every day? Are all these seeming-fools really working on cures for cancer and world peace, faster-than-light-travel and endless free energy, and their input is SO necessary constantly that they have to text while driving?? Somehow, I doubt it.
Old Buckaroo Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 My greatest fear on the road use to be Drunk Drivers - now it is Idiots texting.
Harry P. Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 In Illinois it's illegal to text in the car. You can't use a hand-held phone while driving. That law should be passed in all 50 states.
Guest Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 I agree, but good luck enforcing it and catching all the moronic diphthongs doing it.
Harry P. Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 I agree, but good luck enforcing it and catching all the moronic diphthongs doing it. True. But step #1 is putting the law on the books, so you can at least start to enforce it.
crazyjim Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Through some kind of magic, my cell phone is connected to my truck's radio without wires. If a call comes in the radio turns off automatically, I press a button on the steering wheel and answer the call. Pretty cool magic. I don't text even when I'm not driving.
Harry P. Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 I don't text even when I'm not driving. Same here. I'm way past 13 years old...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 (edited) In Illinois it's illegal to text in the car. You can't use a hand-held phone while driving. That law should be passed in all 50 states. The no-texting-while-driving law is already on the books but isn't enforced here. Funny...the I-75S corridor between Marietta and Buckhead is HEAVILY loaded with State Patrol cars in the bushes or on the shoulders, and speeders are pulled over at a very high and visible rate. But I'm sure there would be even MORE opportunities for revenue-raising if unmarked patrol cars in the same corridor were actively looking for texters. Failure-to-maintain-lane and erratic driving in general, two of the primary "drunk" flags, are also rampant with texters and make them easy to spot. A campaign as aggressive as the one that got rid of most of the drunks could have quick results. It's every bit as dangerous as DUI, and it's a conscious decision to do it, while SOBER...unlike some drunk who's TOO drunk to make the adult decision not to try to get home after partying too hard. Frankly, a drunk has a better excuse for being a rolling hazard to everyone on the road with him. After all, he's ...drunk. His logic was impaired when he got behind the wheel. It's not excusable, but at least, I can understand why it happens. A texter on the other hand, is stone-cold-sober demonstrating he (or she) just DOESN'T CARE, or really IS TOO STUPID to grasp that a 3000-pound vehicle loaded with 15 gallons of gasoline travelling 70MPH is a loaded gun with no safety catch, pointed at everyone in his (or her) immediate vicinity. Edited July 27, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy
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