The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If we're removing cyclists, can we remove motorcyclists too?
I have no objections to that.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's pretty rare though to see someone being dangerously reckless and agressive - let's say once a week or one per a couple thousand cars I encounter.
Oh fuck. I see it every time I drive on US101. And usually multiple times. (Yes! On the train today!)
He should try the German Autobahn then. One moron per kilometer driven.
I've never seen any morons on the Autobahn.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
If you don't see the moron on the Autobahn...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've never seen any morons on the Autobahn.
Have you been on the Autobahn?
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@PleegWat woosh
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat woosh
Which is also a sound heard on the Autobahn (or so I've heard...)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I bike in NYC streets and I would never do that.
It's difficult to cycle next to a London bus in NYC.
Nothing is impossible in NYC.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
London bus in NYC.
Nothing is impossible in NYC.
Does this count?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
London bus in NYC.
Nothing is impossible in NYC.
Does this count?
I'll allow it. Though our right pondians may disagree.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Though our right pondians may disagree.
Correct.
This is a London bus:
And the modern version:
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Though our right pondians may disagree.
Correct.
This is a London bus:
That's because it rains more in London than NYC, right?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
London bus in NYC.
Nothing is impossible in NYC.
Does this count?
Quick check - on which side is the entrance?
Right, I thought so. Nogo.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Does this count?
No, that's a New York bus.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's because it rains more in London than NYC, right?
No it's because British people are allergic to the sun. The roof is for the 3 days a year the sun is out.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla You were saying?
Ummm....I'll see myself out.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's because it rains more in London than NYC, right?
No it's because British people are allergic to the sun. The roof is for the 3 days a year the sun is out.
Then I must be British!**
**Actually not completely untrue as more than half of my DNA comes from the area.
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
People dying isn't funny
Not people, cyclists.
If Hitler had gone after them and motorcyclists instead of the Jews we'd be building statues of him today.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
where you put the pole
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There are quite a few drivers that are stupid and therefore "do stupid" whatever that means.
Looks like I a word in that sentence.
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pretty much every cyclist I've seen runs red lights, stop signs, weaves between cars overtaking stopped traffic on the right and on the left, jumps on and off sidewalks (why can't they just stay there where they belong) and generally doesn't give a fuck about any rules.
All I got from this is that like most drivers you don't see most cyclists. Either that or cycling culture is dramatically different where you are.
But this is the funny stuff thread and ignorant drivers isn't funny.
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@another_sam said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Either that or cycling culture is dramatically different where you are.
From what I've seen while I was in 'Straya, driving culture in general and cycling as well might be a bit better over there. I have still seen a few cyclists running red lights there and doing other stupid things.
On the somewhat related note I might have seen a perfect cyclist today. She was riding on the sidewalk (AFAIK legal here unless they changed it since I had my driving exam) parallel to me in the opposite direction, needed to cross the road I was driving on, came to a pedestrian crossing, dismounted and walked pushing her bike along crossing the road (what you are supposed to be doing when using a pedestrian crossing, but what I haven't seen like ever).
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If we're removing cyclists, can we remove motorcyclists too?
I'd settle for pizza delivery motorcyclists.
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@Yamikuronue It's a little easier if it's actually attached to a pole.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Presented without comment...
That's the Georgia O'Cave, isn't it?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
She was riding on the sidewalk
This is not legal in many jurisdictions if you are older than 13 (or around there).
While I am far from a perfect cyclists, I try not to be an asshole (to both pedestrians** and cars).
I follow these guidelines:
**Unless they are assholes to me. People blocking the bike lane while actually looking at me while I blow my horn. My answer to that is to pass them as close as I can without hitting them. My husband has told me that this one dude practically jumped back.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
On the somewhat related note I might have seen a perfect cyclist today. She was riding on the sidewalk (AFAIK legal here unless they changed it since I had my driving exam) parallel to me in the opposite direction, needed to cross the road I was driving on, came to a pedestrian crossing, dismounted and walked pushing her bike along crossing the road (what you are supposed to be doing when using a pedestrian crossing, but what I haven't seen like ever).
Trying to get herself killed. If you look at the statistics, most bike accidents that involve another vehicle happen because the motorist didn't see the cyclist. If it's not to due broken bike lights, it's usually because of the stupid rule that straight-through traffic on the cycle path is to the right of the right-turn lane for cars, and often out of sight because of bushes or parking rows. Another favorite is people coming out of driveways and not expecting cyclists at all because it's a sidewalk or not from the wrong direction if there's a cycle path.
Sometimes breaking the rules is much healthier for you.
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allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign
Is that commutative? They can treat red lights as a stop sign, which they can treat as a yield sign?
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
came to a pedestrian crossing, dismounted and walked pushing her bike along crossing the road
I always do that if the crossing is meant for pedestrians only. (Easy to see in Germany, because the traffic lights either show a pedestrian or both a pedestrian and a bike.) They actually fine cyclists here if they use a pedestrian crossing.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign
Is that commutative? They can treat red lights as a stop sign, which they can treat as a yield sign?
I've thought about that...but my guess is that was not the intention.
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@asdf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Easy to see in Germany, because the traffic lights either show a pedestrian or both a pedestrian and a bike.
Same in the UK, where we call them toucan crossings.
Because two-can.
Geddit?
Paging @Groaner
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Same in the UK, where we call them toucan crossings.
Because two-can.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Same in the UK, where we call them toucan crossings.
Because two-can.But do you guys have three can crossings like this?
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@obeselymorbid I'm pretty sure I posted this already.
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@Karla I don't remember seeing it. And I'm sure I wouldn't forget it. So
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@obeselymorbid Maybe I thought I did because I planned to.
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@Zecc Six hours.
Next!
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign
Is that commutative? They can treat red lights as a stop sign, which they can treat as a yield sign?
ITYM transitive.
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@PleegWat yeah, probably. There was a time I'd have known that rather than thinking"is that right? Fuck it, someone will me if it's wrong"
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- That's a weird car that only has 50 km/h
- Maybe it's just as well, if Saleem is sitting on the car.
- The answer is
insufficient data
, since it is not specified for how long (of the 300km) that Saleem will remain on the car.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
- That's a weird car that only has 50 km/h
No one said that's the car's maximum speed. Which brings us to:
- Depends on how the car's speed changes.