Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the leftmost lane is BMW/Audi/Mercedes territory, with the occasional Porsche
Everyone else needs to realise this and GTFO
As I understand, those that don't tend to have their license plates marked with
NL
(forNur Links
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So I learned a thing this week.
Two things really.
Two very expensive things.
But first, a short bit of backstory.
I take my car into the mechanic because its yearly inspection is due. Mechanic calls me to say that most of the car passed inspection but my two front tires need to be completely replaced since they've been run flat so long they're toast.
I express incredulity at this fact given that the tires never appeared deflated, nor did the low tire pressure light on the dashboard go on.
Mechanic indicates that the reason the tires looked okay is I have low profile tires, which mean a shorter and stiffer side wall, as well as run flat tires which have an even stiffer side wall to allow them to run... well flat.
I express incredulity at the run flat tires as I did not buy run flats when i had my tires replaced three years ago. I went with the cheapest all weather radials I could because.... well because I'm a cheapskate that's out driven by a grandmother that drives her car to bingo once a week and to church twice a week. (Seriously. I've put ca. 30k miles on the car in the 11 years I've owned it)
Mechanic agrees with me that I didn't purchase run flats from them, but that nevertheless that's what's on my car, as were the nails they pulled out of both front tires. Also indicates that they will have to do diagnostics to see why my tire pressure sensors failed to indicate the 0 PSI that was in the tires.
So yeah. now I have to get my tire pressure sensors replaced and new front tires, and since my back tires are going to need to be replaced by next inspection anyway..... I get to buy a new sensor package and four tires!
But at least my mechanic is going to comp the 20$ fee for the inspection since i'm having all the other work done... so there's that.... wooo.... ca. 1% off my bill......
But at least she passed inspection. She's 15 years old now and I was expecting to get the news that I needed to go to the dealer and beg for a pity 1k$ trade in on a new-to-me car because I needed more than the KBB value of the car in repairs to get it inspectable.
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Speaking of NL, any Dutch users know what this guy's problem is?
The video in this reddit thread (may auto play after opening)
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Speaking of NL, any Dutch users know what this guy's problem is?
well..... it seems like their problem is that the mods removed the post?
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/PublicFreakout.
Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.Either that or that warning is related to something other than the comment you were trying to link to and i don't understand Reddit's UI (a good probability)
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@Vixen I'm just linking to the video, which shows up for me despite the warning.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Nice (close to Monaco) combines both the big city and the latitude effect (with a bit of the altitude one as well), and has tiny streets and a poor street layout (due to being squeezed between sea and mountain). It's the worst city I ever drove into, beating even Paris.
You should try Athens for sheer awful. You should not try Cairo; that's so bad it is "local drivers only".
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@hungrier I'm convinced that there's an unexplored part of human anatomy where some kind of nerve absolutely vital to higher reasoning actually runs down your spine and through your ass, and bicycle seats compress or crimp it or something like that, which turns them into raging morons.
I saw a video a while ago where a cyclist was slooooowly riding up a hill on tram tracks, with a tram full of people stuck behind him going at a walking pace. That one refused to get out of the way too.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Speaking of NL, any Dutch users know what this guy's problem is?
Without listening to it, the guy's problem is that there is a raging cocksocket on a bike ahead of him who won't get out of the way despite that being the only sane way to resolve the situation.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
You should try Athens for sheer awful.
I don't remember anything particular about Athens (but I wasn't driving, just riding in a bus), but Thessaloniki, people driving on the wrong side of the road to pass a traffic jam.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
You should try Athens for sheer awful.
Never been, but so I've heard as well.
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I don't remember anything particular about Athens (but I wasn't driving, just riding in a bus), but Thessaloniki, people driving on the wrong side of the road to pass a traffic jam.
And motorcyclists going wherever they want. Including between tables of restaurant terraces.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Vixen I'm just linking to the video, which shows up for me despite the warning.
oh..... didn't watch that because no sound output..... so...
/shrug
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Speaking of NL, any Dutch users know what this guy's problem is?
WHY DOES THIS AUTOPLAY?
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@loopback0 At least it autoplays silently
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@loopback0 At least it autoplays silently
Negative. That's how I discovered the autoplay.
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@loopback0 I've edited my post so it's just a link to the thread
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
WHY DOES THIS AUTOPLAY?
because you haven't disabled HTML5 autoplay
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@hungrier I fiddled with some settings in Firefox and the problem went away.
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@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
because you haven't disabled HTML5 autoplay
Firefox supports it natively without the need for unmaintained extensions.
I just don't know why it even started being a problem because it didn't used to be one. I've not seen an autoplayed video with sound on here for ages.
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@loopback0 FWIW, as I mentioned it auto plays muted on Opera, without any dodgy extensions and just using HTML video AFAIK.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@loopback0 FWIW, as I mentioned it auto plays muted on Opera, without any dodgy extensions and just using HTML video AFAIK.
Somehow the "Block Autoplay by Default" setting got flipped. No idea how, unless it was the recent Firefox update but it seems unlikely.
Hadn't noticed it before that Reddit onebox.
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@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I express incredulity at this fact given that the tires never appeared deflated, nor did the low tire pressure light on the dashboard go on.
I express incredulity at the run flat tires as I did not buy run flats when i had my tires replaced three years ago.
Have you asked them to check they were looking at the right car?
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I express incredulity at this fact given that the tires never appeared deflated, nor did the low tire pressure light on the dashboard go on.
I express incredulity at the run flat tires as I did not buy run flats when i had my tires replaced three years ago.
Have you asked them to check they were looking at the right car?
I did yes.
I suspect what happened is when i got the tires put on there was another car in for a tire swap with identical sizings to mine, and somehow wires got crossed so i got their tires and they got mine, because it's a matched set i have and they've not been off the car all a the same time since i got them so........ yeah.
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this truck weights 15tons sire
I weight 100kgshould I drive?
take your fucking hands of my truck!
I'll show you fucking!Biker is right on two points: the truck can pass but doesn't want too, you should pass cyclist with a meter space and the truck driver shouldn't be filming
Trucker is right on two points : the cyclist can pass but doesn't want too, he did initially stop to let the cyclist pass and cyclist is riding a jannete fiets
Conclusie: they are both idiots and neither of them speaks proper Dutch.
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@loopback0
To annoy you, what else?
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
proper Dutch
Oxymoron
Not all of them.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the truck can pass
Didn't really look like it as there's an embankment there.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Biker is right on two points: the truck can pass but doesn't want too, you should pass cyclist
with a meter space and the truck driver shouldn't be filmingUh...the guy with the bike parked it in the middle(ish) of the road. The only way for the truck to pass is over the retard with the bike. I think the truck driver was smart to film the encounter. Is there a law against it?
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Is there a law against it?
Probably some overzealous EU privacy law.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Probably some overzealous EU privacy law.
You're not allowed to film people without their consent, even for your safety
We have cameras everywhere for your own safety
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@TimeBandit That's different; it's the government doing the filming. They're allowed to invade everyone's privacy.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
They're allowed to invade everyone's privacy.
OWW! DADDY! I'M TOO SAFE!
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@Vixen Silly fox, that's not your daddy; it's your Big Brother.
Filed under: 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Vixen Silly fox, that's not your daddy; it's your Big Brother.
Yes, that is true.
They're the same person.
-random banjo plays in the distance-
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@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
They're the same person.
If your daddy and brother are the same person, you're a kid of incest
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
They're the same person.
If your daddy and brother are the same person, you're a kid of incest
Well..... my daddy is oedipus1......
1 - He's not really, but this play acting is fun! Very very fun indeed! <3Did you remember to bring the lube?
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@TimeBandit , I think. @Vixen's joke, not mine.
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@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
-random banjo plays in the distance-
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
you're a kid of incest
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
embankment there.
Same as what he expects the biker to ride on so
The idiots only focus on claiming their right and not on the other ones problem.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
banjo
Presumably somewhere in backwoods Appalachia, where communities are isolated and non-relatives are not readily available.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
embankment there.
Same as what he expects the biker to ride on so
The idiots only focus on claiming their right and not on the other ones problem.
The truck driver, at least, points out that the dirt the cyclist wants him to drive on is soft and implies, if not plainly states, that it is too soft for his heavy truck. As a cyclist, it looks to me like the bike's fat tires should not have much trouble with the dirt. Besides which, he has room — not much, but enough — to ride past the truck on the paved road. The truck isn't moving, so it's not as if he has to worry about a collision.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
embankment there.
Same as what he expects the biker to ride on so
The idiots only focus on claiming their right and not on the other ones problem.
Yes, the biker. The truck pulled over as far as he safely could. Jeez, the bike guy could have walked his bike past all of the waiting cars in the time he stood there glorying in his retardation.
There came a point where I was rooting for all of the people to get out of their cars and lynch that guy.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Biker is right on two points: the truck can pass but doesn't want too, you should pass cyclist with a meter space and the truck driver shouldn't be filming
They're passing in opposite directions rather than overtaking. Is there no difference in the law about that?
And if the truck has stopped, doesn't it just become "an obstacle" rather than "a vehicle" under the law?
The filming part... Some GDPR offshoot?
@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
... he did initially stop to let the cyclist pass and cyclist is riding a jannete fiets
You're talking Moon language. Assuming that with "fiets" you mean his bicycle, are you saying it is stolen?
@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
embankment there.
Same as what he expects the biker to ride on so
The idiots only focus on claiming their right and not on the other ones problem.
A 100kg rider + bike won't make as much of an imprint as that truck, no matter how many axles the latter has.
I would expect that the law says something about avoiding your vehicle to become stuck and form an impassable obstacle (not in the least for the vehicles behind it).
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Here you can see the dashcam of some smartass who cuts in front of the 14 other cars when they all wanted to turn left, and in the process is the first to get hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNxF7OfWYMM&feature=youtu.be
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Russia
Where, according to YouTube, this sort of thing happens every time anybody gets in a car.
The Audi A7 car, taken for a test drive,
"You broke it; you bought it."
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the truck can pass
Having watched the video I'd say if the trucker tried he'd hit his hand on the side, fall over, and sue for damages.
Pedantically speaking, the two vehicles can pass, which one does the passing is irrelevant. The hazard is which is more likely to be damaged or otherwise rendered immobile in the attempt.
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
embankment there.
Same as what he expects the biker to ride on so
Nah, in the biker's case there's plenty of pavement available, and even if there weren't a bike is sooo much less likely to get stuck in the mud than that truck.
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Found online, not sure if real or a joke:
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@JBert I'd like to ask the question, however, what the truck driver thought would happen if a bigger vehicle came his way. Say... another truck.