The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You can swap cyclists with EV guys and it still works!
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@Gustav EV guys aren't that bad, until they start talking
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- pedestrians
- cyclists who claim to follow traffic rules
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@Gustav You give me a median-separated, well-connected network of cycling paths, and I'll get out of your way. Maybe some other car drivers will join me, leaving more space for you on the road.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
cyclists who
claim tofollow traffic rules∅Well, I guess I can't really claim to be a cyclist anymore, given how long it's been since I was actually on my bike, but when I was riding, yes.
Filed under: Strict Lawful Good
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav You give me a median-separated, well-connected network of cycling paths, and I'll get out of your way. Maybe some other car drivers will join me, leaving more space for you on the road.
We did that and cyclists are still all over the roads, fuck-em.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav You give me a median-separated, well-connected network of cycling paths, and I'll get out of your way. Maybe some other car drivers will join me, leaving more space for you on the road.
I've certainly seen my share of cars driving over the cycling paths.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You give me a median-separated, well-connected network of cycling paths, and I'll get out of your way.
Cyclists here can use the bike path or the road, so even with bike paths, some are still in our way
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I hate it when we start a new year and I'm writing the wrong date on everything.
2024? I just got used to writing 2022.
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I would totally love to see try/catch replaced with fuckaround/findout as a standard language feature and not a macro.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav You give me a median-separated, well-connected network of cycling paths, and I'll get out of your way. Maybe some other car drivers will join me, leaving more space for you on the road.
We did that and cyclists are still all over the roads, fuck-em.
Now that's a good one!
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Did you know that the German Straßenverkehrsordnung (Gesundheit! - road law) offers some implicit goodies for cyclists?
E.g. speed limits.
Because §3 shows general speed limits for motorized vehicles ("Kraftfahrzeuge"), and bicycles (and also pedestrians) are not motorized.
Consequently, I am allowed to do 200 km/h or more irregardless if I am riding my bike in a village (with your car you may do 50 km/h only) or in the country side (speed limit for cars: 100 km/h).
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@BernieTheBernie are motorcycles not considered motorised?
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@Arantor also motorcycles are "Kraftfahrzeuge" - so they have to observe the general speed limits too.
But since speed cameras usually take front photos only - and motorcycles do not have a registration plate in front, ...An electric bicycle limited to 25 km/h and maximum "continuos" (i.e. for more than 30 minutes) power of 250 W is legally not a motorized vehicle.
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@BernieTheBernie This applies in NL too - as long as you do it unassisted. These vehicles also are legally not required to have a speedometer.
Electrically (or gas-powered) assisted ones however have legally mandated maximum speeds and are in violation if they are capable of exceeding them.
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@BernieTheBernie
Strange because around here speed limits are meant for all traffic, motorized, humanpower, horsepower or whatever tickles your fancy.
There where some huffs and puffs about this since a lot of towpaths (?) along the canals are bike/hike only but are often used by cyclists pretending to be pro's who don't follow the 30 km/h rule on those paths.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But since speed cameras usually take front photos only - and motorcycles do not have a registration plate in front, ..
This is currently a hole since even manned speed checks can't trap a speedpedelec (electric bike capped at 45km/h) going too fast.
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@PleegWat Interesting difference to Germany: with my electric bike, the motor has to stop when I reach 25 km/h. There is no rule which says that it must brake. No, if my muscles are strong enough ( or rather: the road goes downhill), I may get much faster than 25 km/h, and I do that quite often. In fact, there is some kind of clutch to spearate the motor from the transmission such that I do not need to waste my muscle strength for moving the motor at higher speeds. A violation would be when the motor was still supplying power at speeds beyond 25 km/h, or 300 W for more than half an hour (no problem with ca. 700 W for a quarter of an hour though - enough for about 25 km/h uphill at 10% ascent).
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Strange because around here speed limits are meant for all traffic, motorized, humanpower, horsepower or whatever tickles your fancy.
When it comes to explicit speed limit signs, that's the same in Germany too.
The thing I mentioned is the general speed limit. That is when there are no speed limit signs. And that's the problem: I just want to ride into a speed trap showing , but I won't reach more than 100 km/h anywhere, and also for 50 km/h I need a strong descent - and inside villages those are usually limited with "common" speed limit signs which are to be observed by everyone.
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@BernieTheBernie Mistake on my end - it is only the powered support which must be cut at those speeds.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Did you know that the German Straßenverkehrsordnung (Gesundheit! - road law) offers some implicit goodies for cyclists?
E.g. speed limits.
Because §3 shows general speed limits for motorized vehicles ("Kraftfahrzeuge"), and bicycles (and also pedestrians) are not motorized.
Consequently, I am allowed to do 200 km/h or more irregardless if I am riding my bike in a village (with your car you may do 50 km/h only) or in the country side (speed limit for cars: 100 km/h).
Fun fact: in Poland, small motorcycles (up to 50cc) are legally classified as non-engine vehicles.
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Funny stuff!
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: in Poland, small motorcycles (up to 50cc) are legally classified as non-engine vehicles.
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@dkf I find literal combustion engines being legally denied engine status quite amusing.
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"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real motorcycle."
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@TimeBandit I cannot tell if it's real or not.
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit I cannot tell if it's real or not.
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@Zerosquare I know about the other one, it's why I suspected a parody. But it wouldn't be beyond them in this day and age to do it for real.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real motorcycle."
Nickel?
Polish currencyZloty
meansgold
!
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real motorcycle."
Nickel?
Polish currencyZloty
meansgold
!It's actually 'golden'.
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@MrL Do we have a combination of and ?
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real motorcycle."
Nickel?
Polish currencyZloty
meansgold
!It's actually 'golden'.
Yes, except English likes to play fast and lose with the distinction between nouns and adjectives (and whenever possible, verbs), so most people say “gold coin” rather than “golden coin”.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real motorcycle."
Nickel?
Polish currencyZloty
meansgold
!It's actually 'golden'.
Yes, except English likes to play fast and lose with the distinction between nouns and adjectives (and whenever possible, verbs), so most people say “gold coin” rather than “golden coin”.
I have a feeling both “gold coin” and “golden coin” are valid with very slightly different meaning.
Let’s see what theexpertspedants think.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Let’s see what the
expertspedants think.Do we have to?
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@loopback0 I fear we don’t have a choice in the matter.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
TIL that depending on the context and the angle you look at it, my head may be seen as half the buttocks of a girl...
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@HardwareGeek Meanwhile, off the western coast of Greenland....
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It's a shame it's definitely too cold to be inferno.