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Shit that should not exist-- inanimate objects edition
the_pied_piper:
--- Quote from: FourNineFoxtrot on 06 Mar 2009, 18:03 ---Traffic circles. It's like they were designed to torment me. I hereby rename Traffic Circles as "Centrifuges of Death!"
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How to use a roundabout correctly
Note: flashing orange lights are indicators or blinkers. These are used on roundabouts.
Christophe:
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Kazukagii on 06 Mar 2009, 10:10 ---Yield signs. They're like indecisive stop signs. Either put a stop sign there or just let me turn dammit.
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In Hobart, Tasmania, there's a crossroads in which one of the two intersecting roads has a stop sign on one corner, and the other road has a give way sign on one corner. I've been the passenger in a car on one road at this intersection, when there was also another car on the other road. Nobody had any clue who had right of way.
FourNineFoxtrot:
--- Quote from: the_pied_piper on 06 Mar 2009, 19:04 ---How to use a roundabout correctly
Note: flashing orange lights are indicators or blinkers. These are used on roundabouts.
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But... it's British. I'm American. Now I'm even more confused. Oh God, now I'm really gonna screw up next time I run into one of these. I'm probably gonna try to go left instead of right, and get intimate with the grill of a Hummer or something.
Now I'm going to die horribly on a traffic circle... excuse me, on a Centrifuge of Death! I won't say it's all your fault, but I will probably come back from the dead to haunt you, anyway. I'm just a jerk like that.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: FourNineFoxtrot on 06 Mar 2009, 19:00 ---Also, what the hell is "legacy tech", and why should this be insulting or offensive? I'm aware that my motor vehicle operational competence is being called into question, I just don't know what the hell you said after that.
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And now you know!
TLDR version: Legacy tech is just a bastardized version of the term legacy system: ie, an older computer system/application that more or less works fine for the needs of the user but sometimes proves problematic for others simply because it's a different from the newer standards being adopted. For example, Microsoft would love for you to consider XP to be obsolete, but it's really more of a legacy system. The stuff still works, and many people won't make the switch unless they're dragged along kicking and screaming. Whether the term should really be considered a pejorative is actually rather debatable.
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