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Shit that should not exist-- inanimate objects edition
Alex C:
What? Yield signs? Have you ever been to or lived in a rural area that is mostly dependent upon the shipping industry before? Keep in mind that in flat areas like Oklahoma (where it was first proposed in the US) or northern Iowa the visibility is usually good enough that mandatory full stops in all cases is a complete waste of time. Yield signs are a fairly decent compromise when you have masssive differences between peak and standard traffic plus service roads, state high ways and interstates all mashed together within one small area.
Cartilage Head:
BLT candles.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 06 Mar 2009, 10:45 ---What? Yield signs? Have you ever been to or lived in a rural area that is mostly dependent upon the shipping industry before? Keep in mind that in flat areas like Oklahoma (where it was first proposed in the US) or northern Iowa the visibility is usually good enough that mandatory full stops in all cases is a complete waste of time. Yield signs are a fairly decent compromise when you have masssive differences between peak and standard traffic plus service roads, state high ways and interstates all mashed together within one small area.
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Dude just do what we Californians do: California stop! Just roll through that motherfucker. You are moving significantly slower than you were going. So if you actually do need to stop you can still do it. But not a full stop, because fuck stopping unless you absolutely have to.
FourNineFoxtrot:
Good call on yield signs. They cause confusion in the indecisive motorist. And a confused, indecisive motorist is far more dangerous than either a confused motorist or an indecisive motorist.
Okay, that was just an experiment to see how often I could say the word "motorist" in a few sentences. I'm satisfied with the results.
Anyway, on the same topic of street-sign and driving related nonsense that shouldn't exist:
In some states in the U.S., every left turn at a stoplight requires a green arrow to go. In other states, it is permissible to turn left on a green light with no arrow, or after the arrow has passed, if there is no oncoming traffic.
This pisses me off in busy intersections, when I'm turning left and the guy across from me is turning left, because we're blocking each others' view of traffic, so neither of us can see if we should go or not. If we hesitate, someone behind us starts up honking their horn, or makes some insane dash around us. If we just go, we run the risk of getting broadsided. I hate this. Stoplights at intersections should be green-arrow only. Maybe it takes an extra minute, but I don't risk death for a left turn.
Is there some trick to this that I should know? I'm from California, where we quite sensibly have arrows instead of deathtraps (perhaps the only sensible thing we do). Do natives develop some manner of ESP to detect oncoming traffic? Or do you just embrace the madness, and live every day to the fullest, knowing that any left turn could end in death? "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die at a stoplight"?
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 06 Mar 2009, 12:36 ---Dude just do what we Californians do: California stop! Just roll through that motherfucker. You are moving significantly slower than you were going. So if you actually do need to stop you can still do it. But not a full stop, because fuck stopping unless you absolutely have to.
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...You realize that's like, the whole point of a yield sign, right? It just gives you the go ahead to do exactly that without having a cop riding your ass about it or teaching idiots that it's OK to roll through stop signs whenever you feel like it. Maybe there's a connection between that kinda thing and my cousin from Cali who keeps getting in low speed collisions while chatting on her cellphone and wearing gigantic sunglasses. Man, she is annoying.
Also, someone who can't figure out a yield sign is likely someone who is already confused pretty much all the time anyway. I really don't see how the yield sign is going to affect an idiot one way or the other. God forbid they get to an intersection at the same time as someone else; their head would probably explode.
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