Re: things that make you rationally angry
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:42 pm
the god damn cat got fleas and they infested the house. i think i got them all now though using various remedies. fleas suck ass.
Move along Paulo's boss. Nothing to see here.
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Share the road? Share the rules!hipster holocaust wrote:Another rational anger is bikes getting the same penalty as CARS for running a red. It's something like in the ballpark of $250 for the first offense, then DOUBLE for the second, then TRIPLE for the third. I mean, come fucking on.
FUCK fleas. my two cats brought them in a year or two ago and my gf and I spent an entire day cleaning absolutely fucking everything in the house, including an unfinished basement, vacuuming every corner, washing every piece of clothing/fabric, spraying any surface they could be on... if you're not thorough as hell, you think things are cool and then their eggs hatch a few weeks later and you've got them again. fuckers deserve every bit of overkill I heaped on themRaw Ting wrote:the god damn cat got fleas and they infested the house. i think i got them all now though using various remedies. fleas suck ass.
I have absolutely no problem with that. It would fucking suck for a driver to kill some moron on a bike that ran a red.hipster holocaust wrote:Another rational anger is bikes getting the same penalty as CARS for running a red. It's something like in the ballpark of $250 for the first offense, then DOUBLE for the second, then TRIPLE for the third. I mean, come fucking on.
I agree with that sentiment.Introvert wrote:Share the road? Share the rules!
You are a true professional. I'll be the first to say that most motorists are a bunch of fucking assholes. THAT'S WHY CYCLISTS NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR THEMSELVES!!Blair wrote:I agree with that sentiment.Introvert wrote:Share the road? Share the rules!
Spooky Apparition wrote:FUCK fleas. my two cats brought them in a year or two ago and my gf and I spent an entire day cleaning absolutely fucking everything in the house, including an unfinished basement, vacuuming every corner, washing every piece of clothing/fabric, spraying any surface they could be on... if you're not thorough as hell, you think things are cool and then their eggs hatch a few weeks later and you've got them again. fuckers deserve every bit of overkill I heaped on themRaw Ting wrote:the god damn cat got fleas and they infested the house. i think i got them all now though using various remedies. fleas suck ass.
I'm not seeing the penalty justifications pertaining to a bike collision causing the same amount of overall damage and bodily harm as a car collision.Blair wrote:I'm not seeing how blasting through red lights isn't some variant of suicide/russian roulette...
Reading this in a forum where 99.9% of the posters are Americans is really really ridiculous. Traffic in Switzerland is probably the closest to perfection you can get without re-engineering the human race. I know people like to complain, specially cyclists, it is the same here where the traffic is still quite good, but come on, you even traveled out of our bubble here and there.spacehamster wrote:I'll start "sharing the rules" when more than, say, 20% of motorists start doing the same and playing by the rules isn't basically suicide anymore. Until then, I'll do whatever makes the most sense in any given situation.
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Krieg wrote:As well because of the "follow the rules" mentality imprinted in Germans' brains, a cyclist would go straight to a collision just because he has the right of way.
Krieg wrote:P.S., Not a cyclist hater here, I actually share my commute between car, bicycle and motorbike. So I change hats and hate everyone you are supposed to hate according to the transportation I am using.
Yeah but how do you feel about kurzarbeit?Krieg wrote:In Germany they just introduced something I considered a big change and I am against it because i think it is pretty dangerous. Now cyclists are required to turn left just like a car, I don't know who had this idea and why it is considered good. The problem is when you have a big intersection, cyclists of course won't queue up like everyone because they are kings, so they go in front, now when you finally can turn left you have only a few seconds to do it and now you have cyclists in front riding very slow turning left and merging traffic, since the left turn light is quite fast the car drivers get impatient and this is a source for potential accidents. In former time cyclists turning left were required to follow the bicycle path and make an inverted L (just like a pedestrian would walk).
As well because of the "follow the rules" mentality imprinted in Germans' brains, a cyclist would go straight to a collision just because he has the right of way.
P.S., Not a cyclist hater here, I actually share my commute between car, bicycle and motorbike. So I change hats and hate everyone you are supposed to hate according to the transportation I am using.
That it is so 2009. But in general, I think it was awesome. In Germany it was implemented as a tool for fighting the financial crisis and to avoid mass layouts. So, you could reduce your working hours and the government would pay part of your salary so the companies got to keep their employees without going bankrupt. I would have taken it but during that time we've got our first kid and the wife was already taking one year maternity leave so she was on reduced income already.Cascade Whore wrote: Yeah but how do you feel about kurzarbeit?
I know traffic here is safe compared to the rest of the world, but don't forget I live in Zurich, which is the closest thing we have to a real city, and the bike lane infrastructure is actually legendarily shitty compared to other cities. It really is dangerous, and if you follow the rules and assume cars will to, you'll get killed. Yesterday I almost got run off the road because I decided to, for once, not squeeze all the way to the front at a red light. First this asshole almost rolls over my foot, then he starts so close to me that I almost get knocked over the curb. Never doing that again. From now on it's always straight to the front and cross the road as soon as the pedestrian light turns green, or stop in the middle of the street so I don't have a car next to me.Krieg wrote:
Reading this in a forum where 99.9% of the posters are Americans is really really ridiculous. Traffic in Switzerland is probably the closest to perfection you can get without re-engineering the human race. I know people like to complain, specially cyclists, it is the same here where the traffic is still quite good, but come on, you even traveled out of our bubble here and there.