chillens can jump out the way
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
I'm using cruise control on highways now because I have a lead foot and just got a $240 speeding ticket. $300 if I want to do traffic school!
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 08:46 (seven years ago) link
How come?
because you don't brake at the same time as accelerating
I'm sure it works on the wrong side of the road just as good as the right side.
me too!
no idea what "trim level" is
― Shakey δσς (sic), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
options packages
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
this led me to find a wikipedia page I'd never have guessed the existence ofhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_nomenclature
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
superannuated racers?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
I think Car Talk addressed the weird thing with older drivers who are going around with the brake lights always on as a combination of people with bad leg mobility (who probably shouldn't be driving) having a foot on each pedal and people who used to rest their left foot on the clutch who now leave it on the brake because... who even knows why
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
I can only attest to having driven behind these people on a maddening number of occasions, not to their reasons
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
It doesn't really bother me until I see the brake lights turn on as we're going up a hill.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
sitting in a very quiet waiting room except for one woman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up
― qualx, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:45 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Now that I'm sharing the roads with drivers as a scooterist(tm), I have like 1000 more IAs about driving than I used to. Thought about this thread today when someone in front of me braked every few seconds at nothing in particular...No problem! Just braking! WHILE GOING UPHILL. I was like, if you need to slow down, you know you can just stop accelerating, right? Yay gravity wins again!
In conclusion, people are the worst.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
maybe they're very supportive of the gasoline and brake pad industries
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
oman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up
DEATH FROM ABOVE. AND SIDES. AND UP HER FACE.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 29 September 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link
lol otm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
I think at this point in my life I'm putting off starting new activities etc. because it just means lots more IAs.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Thursday, 29 September 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
Floridians and hurricanes. every year people freak out when someone suggests there's a hurricane and it "might hit Florida". a phrase that gets uttered for pretty much any Atlantic hurricane that is anywhere in the vicinity of land at some point.
my bestie cancelled a pool party at the last minute due to the last tropical storm and the thing was FIVE DAYS away from land at that point, not even close enough to affect our weather!
the only reason I get angry about it is that sometimes people here do really fucking stupid things, like hear a poorly-sourced rumor that there will be a gas shortage due to a storm, and everybody takes 3 or 4 portable containers and fills up. this happened in 05 and of course, 90% of the gas stations were grocery-bagged up for 3 days and all these idiots were smug like "see? I was smart to fill up!". or friends will cancel plans with you 5 days out cos "the storm might hit" and then of course nothing comes (schools are a diff matter, they have to cancel far enough in advance for parents to make plans for the kids so I get why they have to jump the gun).
No, moron, you CAUSED the shortage! it's like fuckin' Terminator shit....
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 1 October 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
36 years and I still have only experienced 5 canes, and 3 of them were in the same year (to be fair, it was a terrible year).
I do hope, tho, that this current one, if it does deviate, doesn't go anywhere near Louisiana (or any state, for that matter, but esp not there).
went to a karaoke bar last night for a friends birthday, and 2 girls in our group got up and did Tequila
it pissed me off because it was a total troll, just do the easiest laziest song & do the peewee dance. one girl even pretended not to know when to sing
i don't care if you get up and can't sing, i love the effort it takes to try. it's the fact that these 2 didnt try that bugged me. and they werent drunk so that wasn't their excuse
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
how about when you pull into the gas station and someone has come just before you. they have decided, even though there is no car at the first pump in line, to go to the second pump then stop. you are waiting behind them to see if they will move. nope. put car in park, turn it off. now i have to go around someone and back into the first pump. are you fucking kidding me.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
xp. haha, i hate non-committal karaoke. you can be very bad, i personally am an awful singer, but for the love of god, know the words to the song you choose and sing them.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
- ppl that drive with their arm dangling out the window
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
I always hope something horrible happens to their arms.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 7 October 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
Stick your armOut too farIt may wind upIn another car.
― pplains, Friday, 7 October 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
Burm a shave
― pplains, Friday, 7 October 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
• Websites with a Facebook button that when clicked, brings up the "Share on Facebook" window instead of the site's FB page.
• New AP style of having to spell out the state's name on first reference instead of just using its abbreviation.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
tin-eared attempts at olde world english
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2016 09:19 (seven years ago) link
Like putting thee and thou and shouldst and dost in, with no ear for what those forms actually meant? Yes.
Or ignorantly putting "Ye" in front of things. Anybody who does that is a pretentious dickhead tbh.
― go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Ye s
― pplains, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
People who keep score at baseball games.
― Jeff, Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
people who get off the bus leaving empty bottles to roll around on the top floor (and now and then down the stairs to smash)
― mark s, Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
tea, tea drinkers, tea cups and mugs, teaspoons, 'ooh yes i'll have another cup ta', fifty mugs to wash by the end of the day, uncountable teaspoons filling up the sink, bloody teapots, cold soggy teabags, stupid little milk jugs, hours spent squashing teabags against the side of the mug...
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
the bottles thing is actually maybe not that irrational since someone could get hurt
tea is worse than soylent imo so anything attendant on its preparation or removal is a bit grrrr
here's a doozy: when you completely watch a film on MUBI soup-to-nuts, and the listings tells you you are still "watching" it, brief flare of IA right there
― mark s, Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
The tambourine in Like a Rolling Stone drives me nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 October 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Floral print backpacks.
― how's life, Sunday, 16 October 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
My cat died a month ago; she's buried in the garden. The wife and kid thought it would be nice to have a little grave marker. So I shopped online for something like "pet memorial stone." I chose one, bought it, had it engraved, it was shipped to me, and I put it on top of where I buried the cat. That was a month ago.
I am still seeing web ads every day for pet memorial stones in different sizes and designs.
Dude. I had ONE dead cat. I ALREADY bought the stone. How many dead cats do they think I have, such that they still need to advertise at me?
― go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 October 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
lol
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 17 October 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
I wonder what it's like to do funeral arrangements over the internet these days.
recipes that want you to tear up chicken whe it's still hot. like who can humanly achieve this even "just using two forks"ugh
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 October 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
You need to google stuff you won't mind seeing in your feed.
― nickn, Monday, 17 October 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
... or else use DuckDuckGo as your search tool.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 17 October 2016 04:48 (seven years ago) link
recipes that want you to tear up chicken whe it's still hot. like who can humanly achieve this even "just using two forks"
I use the forks to first basically rip it up and let a bunch of the heat escape before really going in for the shred.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
yes that is the way. But recipe should allow for cooling in the broth.
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 17 October 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah but it still sucks
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 October 2016 05:54 (seven years ago) link
> fifty mugs to wash by the end of the day
At work I had one mug, washing it up as I went. At home I have 4 and, yes, all dirty all the time. Maybe the first way is better.
― koogs, Monday, 17 October 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
People who leave used teabags anywhere other than the bin though, what is the point?
― koogs, Monday, 17 October 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
You can also tear up chicken while wearing rubber gloves (not to rain on anyone's IA parade)
― go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 October 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
Rubber gloves make me irrationally angry. Because how can you take off the second glove without touching whatever it is on the glove you were wearing your glove to protect your hand from?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
peel from the top, turn inside out as you go and then not touch the fingers. Buy the type you get for medical use?
― Stevolende, Monday, 17 October 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Like latex gloves? They don't seem thick enough for bathroom work.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
What kinda dookie-waterfall nightmare do you have going on in there?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 17 October 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link