Thank you nickn and pp. pp, I actually figured you'd understand.
Some other NC crap: the NC dept of transportation made a couple of widespread dubious changes since I was here a few months ago, first, adding flashing yellow arrows (meaning turn left when oncoming traffic allows) for left-turn lanes that previously had no arrows at all, only solid red/yellow/green - more distracting and confusing than helpful.
The other is putting traffic circles at rural intersections instead of stop signs. People around here seriously haven't mastered 4-way stop and have never even imagined a traffic circle so meeting at one is cause for worry. Really I'm not used to traffic circles either so I ponder and doubt whatever action I take at one. My brother said the one by his house is the site of fender benders a few times a week.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I've seen the parking light thing, too. Actually when I was learning to drive, I was taught to do that!!! It wasn't until daytime running lights became a thing that I figured it would be better to just put the lights on all the way since everybody else does it (because they have daytime running lights).
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
• Sort of with you on the flashing yellow arrows, sort of not. I accept them as a distant cousin of those old flashing caution lights you'd see at the intersection of a bypass and Main Street in some podunk town. Better than green because it emphasizes caution. Better than red since you can actually drive through it. Distracting as fuck though.
• Traffic circles are awesome. There's nothing stupider than having to come to a dead stop at a four-way in the middle of nowhere. Dumbasses will get the hang of it eventually.
I used to see the parking light thing more often before daytime lights came along. Always reminds me of the trolling lights recreational fishing boats use at night, with the blue on one side and the red on the other. One of those things where the intention is well-meaning, if not completely useless in fact.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
i hate that the hems of my jeans always fold up when they get tumble dried
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
This is the roundabout I cut my driving teeth on
http://community.fortunecity.ws/skyscraper/desktop/1627/15OctSunHeraldRAbout.JPG
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg yes! what is up with that?
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
don't tumble dry your jeans
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
But then they take forever to dry and are all scratchy.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
the dryer is bad for the denim though. I guess low heat is an alternative.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
irradiate your jeans in a vacuum chamber to dry them
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Delaware has one roundabout, and it's called "the Circle" and it's in a town where I used to live and somebody made an amazing video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOdpqi76QQY
Also, when my cousin was taking her driver's test, the instructor took her to Georgetown and she drove the wrong way around the Circle.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
I had about 12 roundabouts on my driving testwhat makes me IA is when they put zebra crossings right on each road off the roundabout, like 2 meters in
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
dont wash yr jeans at all imo /adalita
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
gross no
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
:D
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
I guess there's a case to be made if your jeans are raw denim? But 1) I don't even know if people with an average budget can afford such jeans because 2) the only jeans that come in women's size fat are hardly denim at all, much less raw denim, which is fine with me because 3) why the fuck would I want pants I'm not supposed to wash?
People who espouse no pants washing should time travel to the early 90s and go on a few Dead tours then come back and tell me how people shouldn't wash their pants.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
The "don't wash your jeans" contingent makes me IA, fyi.
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
yes, and also otm to air dried jeans being too scratchy, they makes my fingertips scream.
― estela, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
yeah i hate air dried jeans, it's like wearing paper
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
Dry cleaning is a good option
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
Get ready, carl.... My favorite jeans are Gap resin wash which bleed a lot and lose their coating when washed, so I prefer to wash them as infrequently as possible. The most washing I usually do is hand wash them in cold water with vinegar. It's not about the price but about the kind of denim and the wash, and there are moderately priced raw denim jeans which conventional jeans wisdom says don't wash. (Quick google was inconclusive as to whether my Gap ones are raw or not.)
The answer is spot cleaning and not pooping in your jeans too much or just replacing them more frequently.
xps - I really like scratchy, stiff jeans. A friend has jeans that feel like pajamas and the thought of wearing them repulses me like they were made of spiders.
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Those resin wash jeans are like wearing a circus tent. And the resin makes them slippery, so when I try to cross my legs, they slip apart. But they look have structure and make my lower half look good.
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
This roundabout, with its left side driving directions, gives me a visceral panic response.
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
They got rid of the roundabout and now it's about 293 times scarier.
http://i.imgur.com/jEOaBXK.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
I should backtrack and say I never saw the roundabout there and that this was ss's post, but I can't help it with this road shit, even when it is backwards.
― pplains, Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
This double roundabout with odd angles coming off it is famous for scaring the crap out of people in my cityhttp://resources2.news.com.au/images/2013/06/04/1226656/932118-britannia-roundabout.jpg
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
That's very similar to the two roundabouts recently (within the last 3 years) built near my house. They're vastly preferable to the 4-way stoplights they replaced, but holy motherfucking fuck, people are still figuring out how they work, e.g., you don't stop in the middle of the roundabout.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
I know about your gross, slippery, smelly jeans, Jesse.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 October 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
I have a civil engineer friend who specializes in traffic / pedestrian / bicycle control stuff is quick to go off on angry rants about American's refusal to grasp how roundabouts work and how great they are.
― joygoat, Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
americans & roundabouts = endless ia
Whyyyyyyy are you stopping! NOOOOOOOO KEEP GOOIING UGH
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
They just spent the last few years replacing all (I think) the roundabouts in Galway with traffic light junctions. I think it has possibly improved things in a couple of places that needed adressing in some way for ages but in a lot of others it's lead to major tailbacks. These include the first one they converted which should have been an indication of rethinking needed. It means my bus route gets seriously delayed at the ends of both directions. I'm only viewing things as a pedestrian/passenger though.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 October 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm totally for with roundabouts in cities, but putting them on little county or state roads strange and maybe wasteful. E.g., this is the intersection near my brother's house that now has a circle where confused country folk get into fender benders.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15611134612_cab4d15619_z.jpg
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
tbh, that looks like T-Bone City.
― pplains, Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
T-Bone City, NC 28660
― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
It's somewhat understandable that roundabouts would be confusing to a population of drivers for whom licensing standards are incredibly lax (I have a valid driver's license despite not having driven or demonstrated any driving knowledge/ability in the past twenty years, and I don't remember any discussions of roundabout methodology in high school).
― I Am A Very Important Businessman (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
actually it's in a place called China Grove, which idk if is related to the song? Fun name tho.
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
I feel unhappy when a public wifi log-in page like Starbucks' or in-flight wifi replaces ALL of the tabs I had open on my browser. Then once I'm logged in or at home, I can't hit the back button to return to the page I was on. 9 tabs of Gogo wifi landing page and the pages I had open for schoolwork are buried in the history.
― Je55e, Friday, 24 October 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Ok, the fact that my paycheck is bi-weekly while my wife's is twice a month. ARGHHH so aggravating trying to budget/plan cash flow on this system. Almost would have to do a new budget for each month to nail it.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
With you on that. Sometimes I think it would be easier for us to quit jobs and just get unemployment.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
Is there a thread for "seemingly innocuous things people say that drive you irrationally BONKERS"? I need that thread.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Highly appropriate for this one, imo. For instance, this morning my roommate told me for 10 damn minutes straight about some sentimental movie she watched last night, while I looked at my breakfast and tried to focus on the day ahead. She was just telling me about something she enjoyed, but she's terrible at reading NOT NOW signals. And the movie sounded twee. And she claims not to understand what twee means and I was too tired to use the word and start another conversation about whether it applies to a certain movie.
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Okay then, I'm IA at the following usages:
"comfortable in my {your/her/his} own skin" - First of all EW, second this is a boring cliche.
"he said/she said {situation}" - Delegitimizes actual accounts of sexual assault, esp if it's being used to refer to anything other than sexual assault, ie any situation where there's no evidence except the word of the involved parties.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Does that phrase originate with describing sexual assaults? It actually never occurred to me before, but it makes sense.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Yes.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
It also suggests that if the two parties tell conflicting stories that both are equally believable and likely to be truthful. Like some kind of fair and balanced fantasy. "What, the victim says something different than the alleged attacker? I guess there's nothing we can do here then, pack it up boys."
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
what io said. I think that he said/she said characterization started as shorthand among prosecutors and migrated into common parlance.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I think most people use it (outside of that context) without thinking about what it means tbh, but point taken
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Didn't know it originated there either, though I have heard it applied in that context - I assumed it moved from general to particular rather than the other way around, as to me it seems like a useful phrase to describe a situation where there genuinely isn't a method of valuing one testimony above another, i.e. definitely not useful for sexual assault cases.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/12/magazine/on-language-he-said-she-said.html
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link