Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

What is a ladder well?

It's that thing where you put a ladder in a well for the sake of stability. The heights you're capable of reaching in this situation are often compromised by the depth of the well. Similarly, the efficacy of using a ladder in a cage is often adversely affected by the savagery of the creature being kept in the cage and its ability to scale a ladder to eat you.

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T/F: You should build a moat around your ladder for defense purposes.

Ok I should have figured out ladder cage.

Incorrect. You should build a moat around your ladder for cautionary purposes.

moat can be a verb, apparently. you can moat a ladder.

Clearly Z S you are not fit for the American workforce.

xp You can ladder a moat, too! What a country!

Ladder cages seem like they make the apparatus less safe. Like, one could get lazy and just lean back on the cage while climbing, eventually snagging something and falling to their deaths.

But, at least being able to lock the end of the cage would keep bodies from falling on the other crew members, so I give them credit for that.

North Carolina driving IA: at dusk a lot of drivers turn on only their parking lights. They're not daytime running light, but yellow/red parking lights. But why?? Why not just turn on the actual headlights when you're driving in the dusk? What is gained by the incremental artificial lighting?

And I'm proactively IA about people going "I've never seen that" as though that means it's not happening.

I've never heard anyone say that.

I see it all the time and it makes me IA too. People do this a lot too in the day time but when it's rainy, which is even worse.

I've seen it too.

I was just thinking about weird regional differences like that. How in Missouri, drivers on a rural highway will ease on to the shoulder and make their right turn from there while we Arkansans still turn from the road, making everyone behind us slow down.

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.

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).

• 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.

i hate that the hems of my jeans always fold up when they get tumble dried

This is the roundabout I cut my driving teeth on

http://community.fortunecity.ws/skyscraper/desktop/1627/15OctSunHeraldRAbout.JPG

i hate that the hems of my jeans always fold up when they get tumble dried

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg yes! what is up with that?

don't tumble dry your jeans

But then they take forever to dry and are all scratchy.

the dryer is bad for the denim though. I guess low heat is an alternative.

irradiate your jeans in a vacuum chamber to dry them

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.

I had about 12 roundabouts on my driving test
what makes me IA is when they put zebra crossings right on each road off the roundabout, like 2 meters in

dont wash yr jeans at all imo /adalita

gross no

:D

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.

The "don't wash your jeans" contingent makes me IA, fyi.

otm

yes, and also otm to air dried jeans being too scratchy, they makes my fingertips scream.

yeah i hate air dried jeans, it's like wearing paper

Dry cleaning is a good option

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.

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.

http://community.fortunecity.ws/skyscraper/desktop/1627/15OctSunHeraldRAbout.JPG

This roundabout, with its left side driving directions, gives me a visceral panic response.

They got rid of the roundabout and now it's about 293 times scarier.

http://i.imgur.com/jEOaBXK.jpg

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.

This double roundabout with odd angles coming off it is famous for scaring the crap out of people in my city
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2013/06/04/1226656/932118-britannia-roundabout.jpg

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.

I know about your gross, slippery, smelly jeans, Jesse.

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.

americans & roundabouts = endless ia

Whyyyyyyy are you stopping! NOOOOOOOO KEEP GOOIING UGH

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.

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

tbh, that looks like T-Bone City.

T-Bone City, NC 28660

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).