Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@boomzilla there's an easier way
[884] Removing the Scammer’s Boot... FAST – 01:55
— LockPickingLawyer
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Texans who drive F-150s on the highway like they're F-1.
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Why are they driving fighter aircrafts on the highw...
Oh, it's a pick-up truck. Never mind.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Why are they driving fighter aircrafts on the highw...
Oh, it's a pick-up truck. Never mind.
Us Scandinavians do it all the time. The Finns with their F-18s, the Norwegians with their F-35s and us Swedes with our JAS-39s. Since us Swedes always need to we do it on snowy roads in winter.
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@Zerosquare I was thinking of Formula-1, but that works, too.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Us Scandinavians do it all the time. The Finns with their F-18s, the Norwegians with their F-35s and us Swedes with our JAS-39s. Since us Swedes always need to we do it on snowy roads in winter.
I vaguely recall you do specifically design your highways for it.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Us Scandinavians do it all the time. The Finns with their F-18s, the Norwegians with their F-35s and us Swedes with our JAS-39s. Since us Swedes always need to we do it on snowy roads in winter.
I vaguely recall you do specifically design your highways for it.
Well, we make sure to have long straights with no or easily removable obstructions on them when we have nice big flats, that's about it.
Instead, we designed JAS 39, and the AJS 37 to be readily capable to do so, along with everything to support the aircraft.
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The air force base I did my service on looked to just have one runway, but...
The road next to the air force base was made to be a secondary runway if needed. Also, the civilian airfield in town was another extra runway to be used in time of need. Along with the road next to that airfield also being prepared for use as a runway. So, four in total.
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Here's some more information about it:
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@Carnage Bas 90 is a bit different from road bases, though. Bas 60 and Bas 90 are purpose-built airfields which may or may not include roads for some runways. Road bases can however also be built on their own, without any accompanying airfield to them. Just a long straight strip of road with some facilities for preparing airplanes hidden nearby.
Sweden's largest airport (by size) is a (former) Bas 90, which has a main runway and 3 small runways (the usual configuration) all purpose-built out in the middle of nowhere. I have also visited a Bas 90 where just the main runway was fully purpose-built with the 3 small runways being parts of the road running next to the base.
Bas 60 on the other hand is the older standard which just used the one runway (typically) and like half of them are civilian airports nowadays. Can be recognized by having a particular layout to them, as they were all built after the same blueprint.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage Bas 90 is a bit different from road bases, though. Bas 60 and Bas 90 are purpose-built airfields which may or may not include roads for some runways. Road bases can however also be built on their own, without any accompanying airfield to them. Just a long straight strip of road with some facilities for preparing airplanes hidden nearby.
Sweden's largest airport (by size) is a (former) Bas 90, which has a main runway and 3 small runways (the usual configuration) all purpose-built out in the middle of nowhere. I have also visited a Bas 90 where just the main runway was fully purpose-built with the 3 small runways being parts of the road running next to the base.
Bas 60 on the other hand is the older standard which just used the one runway (typically) and like half of them are civilian airports nowadays. Can be recognized by having a particular layout to them, as they were all built after the same blueprint.
Yeah, it's better if you don't have specific spots that the enemy can bomb, but instead can just use any old strip of straight piece of asphalt that's at least 800 meters long.
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@Carnage Road bases tends to be rather recognizable. First you tend to notice some oversized roadside "parkings" that are unusually deep. Then you end up on a long straight road where the hard shoulders suddenly grow to be as wide as the lanes and with a larger-than-usual amount of trees cleared on the sides.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The other truck looks... "interesting" as well.
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The spikey lug nuts? Those are a style of anti-theft lug nuts. You need a specific socket to remove them, which your average tire thief is unlikely to have on them.
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@Dragoon I'm sure it's totally a coincidence that they look like this kind of movies device:
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The other truck looks... "interesting" as well.
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
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I thought they were just plastic spikes on top of the nuts, rather than metal.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
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@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
Sweden also has one of the most open rules for legally modifying or building cars in the EU. In most of the EU you're not allowed to put anything on a car that's not certified to be OK by the manufacturer.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
Sweden also has one of the most open rules for legally modifying or building cars in the EU. In most of the EU you're not allowed to put anything on a car that's not certified to be OK by the manufacturer.
What’s Sweden’s attitude towards drinking in the middle of the morning?
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@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
Sweden also has one of the most open rules for legally modifying or building cars in the EU. In most of the EU you're not allowed to put anything on a car that's not certified to be OK by the manufacturer.
What’s Sweden’s attitude towards drinking in the middle of the morning?
Depends on where you're at, Stockholm it's kinda ok all the week as long as you're not getting too hammered. In the rest of the country, you need to keep your alcoholism to Wednesdays and Friday through Sunday. And those days, too hammered is somewhere when you're starting to go blind from alcohol poisoning. Blacking out is fine as long as you do so in a fun way. Throwing up is best done in hedges or alleyways. In the middle of a sidewalk is OK if you can't make it to an alley or a hedge.
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Sinkholes opening in the road. Just happened in Rome.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Sinkholes opening in the road. Just happened in Rome.
Having seen the way Romans drive, that's probably an improvement.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Sinkholes opening in the road. Just happened in Rome.
Having seen the way Romans drive, that's probably an improvement.
Ha! Even :@remi: could show us a video of their driving capabilities.
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All roads lead to Rome. Watch out!
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@BernieTheBernie Ok, that pothole beats the ones in our roads...
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie Ok, that pothole beats the ones in our roads...
Except maybe Highway 1 after a winter storm.
Filed under: There used to be a road there
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
inhabitants of the city, not the empire
According to the historical documents I've read, driving back then wasn't much better:
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@Zerosquare as @BernieTheBernie hinted, I just posted another historical document about it.
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Czech Republic represeeeeeeeeent!
Policie ČR: Splašený mustang – 00:46
— Policie ČRThat was impressive.
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Czech Republic represeeeeeeeeent!
Just a normal mustang driver
Mustang crash compilation [MUST WATCH] – 08:28
— EverythingCars
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Czech Republic represeeeeeeeeent!
Policie ČR: Splašený mustang – 00:46
— Policie ČRYou just had to hit the car you cut off, didn't you, asshole?
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm game!
We're talking real 65 not fake weeny Euro version.
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@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm game!
We're talking real 65 not fake weeny Euro version.
The Northern European mil is even worse!
But 105 km/h looks downright pedestrian on that road.
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@Carnage There's a road near where I used to live that has a speed limit of 80 km/h, but it was so riddled with potholes that there was no way you could ever get that high without completely trashing your suspension and maybe your tires and wheels. A couple weeks ago I drove by there, and sure enough, although they had put in a new traffic light most of the road was still in the same state
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage There's a road near where I used to live that has a speed limit of 80 km/h, but it was so riddled with potholes that there was no way you could ever get that high without completely trashing your suspension and maybe your tires and wheels. A couple weeks ago I drove by there, and sure enough, although they had put in a new traffic light most of the road was still in the same state
Saves on inserting speed bumps or paying for the donuts required to speed trap the road.
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@izzion That's the best part! The road is nowhere near anything residential or commercial and has zero pedestrian traffic. The only things between the newly installed traffic light and the next intersection are some fenced off fields and telephone poles
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage There's a road near where I used to live that has a speed limit of 80 km/h, but it was so riddled with potholes that there was no way you could ever get that high without completely trashing your suspension and maybe your tires and wheels. A couple weeks ago I drove by there, and sure enough, although they had put in a new traffic light most of the road was still in the same state
The trick is to go fast enough that your wheels don't have time to push into the holes, and so that inertia keeps the body of the car at a steady height.