The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@pcooper said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit (pushes up glasses) It's actually very clear in the Massachusetts Driver's Manual, bottom of page 102:
It is illegal to drive by or park within 800 feet of a fire.
Clearly the solution is to see if you can raise the traffic light 800 feet off the ground, so that you can then safely drive under it.
So if there's a fire in front of you, you're already closer than 800 feet, and you cannot legally turn around, what options do you have left?
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Die in the fire?
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I feel like this explains Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” with the lyrics:
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreamsIs dancing allowed?
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If you're going to die anyways, do you care if it's allowed or not?
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@topspin doesn't sound like a very good Friday
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin doesn't sound like a very good Friday
Complain to the Pope, I don't make the laws here.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin doesn't sound like a very good Friday
Complain to the Pope, I don't make the laws here.
neither does the Pope. That's the gubermint's work.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@boomzilla Why, sure it will! Just that the cable will be slicked in three on the first pass!
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts, so when a traffic light stops working its the first time for many drivers?
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin doesn't sound like a very good Friday
Complain to the Pope, I don't make the laws here.
No. Not at all the Pope.
Good Friday is Protestants' most holy day. And Prussian Protestants dominated Germany so much that even people in Bavaria believe that Good Friday is a Catholic holiday. And then are astonished when they find out that e.g. in Italy it is not a holiday at all...
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should've used one of these instead. This will cause the block to show as occupied, with appropriate consequences to nearby signals.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts, so when a traffic light stops working its the first time for many drivers?
There's something very American about "first time for many drivers" being a valid excuse for driver's license holders to not know traffic law.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we don't have rolling blackouts
Obviously, you don't live in Commiefornia.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we don't have rolling blackouts
Obviously, you don't live in Commiefornia.
Our blackouts don't roll.
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I wish I could find the original law.
I suspect it's Mass. General Law Chapter 89, Section 7A. But of course what the driving manual says, what the law says, how law enforcement interprets things, and how courts interpret things, can all sometimes end up being quite different in practice.
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts, so when a traffic light stops working its the first time for many drivers?
There's something very American about "first time for many drivers" being a valid excuse for driver's license holders to not know traffic law.
I mean...the whole "joke" here is misinterpreting the law, so...
Floof!
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we don't have rolling blackouts
Obviously, you don't live in Commiefornia.
Our blackouts don't roll.
They slide.
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@pcooper said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit (pushes up glasses) It's actually very clear in the Massachusetts Driver's Manual, bottom of page 102:
It is illegal to drive by or park within 800 feet of a fire.
Clearly the solution is to see if you can raise the traffic light 800 feet off the ground, so that you can then safely drive under it.
did they specify the size of the fire? there must be something as they won't fine you for not being at 800 feet of a smoker for example
the police blocked the roads when there was a fire near my kid's school. I get their reasoning but it wasn't fun to walk there to bring her home while seeing a huge column of smoke coming from there
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pcooper said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit (pushes up glasses) It's actually very clear in the Massachusetts Driver's Manual, bottom of page 102:
It is illegal to drive by or park within 800 feet of a fire.
Clearly the solution is to see if you can raise the traffic light 800 feet off the ground, so that you can then safely drive under it.
So if there's a fire in front of you, you're already closer than 800 feet, and you cannot legally turn around, what options do you have left?
and you cannot park, you have to keep circling it and maybe try to 🧯 the🔥 from a moving 🚗
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts, so when a traffic light stops working its the first time for many drivers?
malfunctioning lights are that rare in the USA?
and how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid without turning at least a small area of for a while?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts, so when a traffic light stops working its the first time for many drivers?
malfunctioning lights are that rare in the USA?
and how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid without turning at least a small area of for a while?
In my life I've seen it happen six times total.
I suppose it depends on where you are.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In my life I've seen it happen six times total.
I suppose it depends on where you are.
You mean your malfunctioned 6 times or your only got unavailable 6 times? (or did you 6 times?)
In stronger we usually get some falling over the wires
A few decades ago the was owned by government, and outages where something like a weekly event, everybody had stocked in their
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In my life I've seen it happen six times total.
I suppose it depends on where you are.
You mean your malfunctioned 6 times or your only got unavailable 6 times? (or did you 6 times?)
In stronger we usually get some falling over the wires
A few decades ago the was owned by government, and outages where something like a weekly event, everybody had stocked in their
I have witnessed traffic light malfunction due to power issues approximately six times, typically due to weather being inclimate.
Candles do not help in a traffic signal failure situation, but I can understand how you might mistake this correlation.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In my life I've seen it happen six times total.
I suppose it depends on where you are.
You mean your malfunctioned 6 times or your only got unavailable 6 times? (or did you 6 times?)
In stronger we usually get some falling over the wires
A few decades ago the was owned by government, and outages where something like a weekly event, everybody had stocked in their
Malfunctioning is pretty rare, but when I was a kid many traffic lights automatically turned themselves off (blinking amber) overnight when traffic volumes are low. This is less common nowadays as most lights adapt to traffic volumes. Either of these measures prevents you having to wait for a red light when you are the only car on the road.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Candles do not help in a traffic signal failure situation, but I can understand how you might mistake this correlation.
The candles were for using at home when we got blackouts
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid
This is the USA. They don't maintain their electrical grid
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Candles do not help in a traffic signal failure situation, but I can understand how you might mistake this correlation.
The candles were for using at home when we got blackouts
Which totally follows the conversation about burning traffic lights, see. It all makes sense when you step back and breath for a bit. No, closer, really take in the pungent odour of plastic and lead. You'll know when the test begins.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid
This is the USA. They don't maintain their electrical grid
This is California. They shut down the grid when it gets windy.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid
This is the USA. They don't maintain their electrical grid
We’re just mandating decentralizing it, with a mobile power distribution node in every garage
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
how they do maintenance in the electric ⚡ grid
This is the USA. They don't maintain their electrical grid
This is California. They shut down the grid when it gets windy.
Almost like Sri Lanka: they shut it down when the afternoon thunderstorm is approaching.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should've used one of these instead. This will cause the block to show as occupied, with appropriate consequences to nearby signals.
Why would you expect european railway safety technology to be applicable in Leftpondistan?
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@boomzilla This fire department didn't use the protectors but was still having a bad day:
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts,
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's something very American about being completely lost when traffic lights stop working.
Because we don't have rolling blackouts,
Well unless you're in Texas and it drops below 40
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Because we don't have rolling blackouts,
Well unless you're in Texas and it drops below 40
Seriously, we don't have many blackouts at all where I live. (I am so tempting fate with that sentence!) The electrical distribution grid from the primary substation is buried, the main grid is multiply redundant (by happenstance of where the substation is in it) and we don't have vast stress from massive AC usage, especially at this time of year. (Energy usage for heating in this area is still mostly from gas.)
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we don't have vast stress from massive AC usage
neither do we
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
we don't have vast stress from massive AC usage
neither do we
Whole country AC.