as I read that, the last 3 words hadn't come into focus quite yet. It caused weird thoughts: 1) Isn't that what most rap's about... 2) don't say that publicly! 3) especially not here!!!
See, you kill it. Strangle it to death. Then you do artificial respiration. Oh no, it's permanently dead! I'll never get that time baaack :(. Guess it's not a problem. Here comes another chunk of time. Gotta kill that one toooo.
That's not rap, FWIW.
Just the results of a slowly-becoming-deranged mind.
@mansellan It's awful. That's why I switched to earlier. I don't mind doing 30+ miles at all. It's being stuck in traffic that's the worst, and people can't change lanes when they need to, so they start moving unsafely.
So then you have to circle the entire one-mile+ block to try again.
LOL.
Oh, and another complaint I have--it stinks.
My old commute would skirt north of the cities. Not really farmland, but a lot of it was undeveloped. It always smelled pretty nice in my car. Outdoorsy, but not like North Dakota-remote outdoors.
Now my car smells like a fart joke because I go through manufacturing districts.
I swear people almost broadside me all the time coming on.
Or rear-end me when I don't just blaze into it.
I'd rather a stop-sign intersection. I hate lights too, because people watch the light and don't see peds. They don't even see the car in front of them half the time.
Or, if they are on the primary road for the light, they'll just blaze through without even watching it because it's green 99% of the time.
So they are so used to not stopping they never do.
And well over 99% of the lights here are right-turn-on-red, which makes it super difficult to cross safely as a ped.
IMO, they should make the right-turn light flashing red, at least, when a ped hasn't activated the light, and solid when they have.
And it's a no-right-turn-on-solid-red.
Maybe I should get on the city council and complain there :D
I guess traffic law to me is what WPF is to this :D
> Despite having a notorious reputation, it's not despised by everyone — stuffed toys and tributes left by locals on the roundabout have been commonplace since 2012.
I'm wondering if those aren't tributes to remember deaths...
@mansellan I love that one! Never realized it was Milton Keynes - home of the Red Bull F1 team (among other things, I'm sure)
@this eh, #2's no big deal - it's just a SPUI (Single point urban interchange). They actually work pretty well once you realize that left-turning traffic (in the normal parts of the world) will have oncoming traffic, also turning left, of the right side. It means there's only one set of lights controlling the whole interchange instead of 2 sets, one on each side of the highway with traffic stuck on the bridge.
#1 was tough getting my head wrapped around driving on the wrong side. I can see that being tough since Edgeware seems to be a major road.
#3's just a regular 4-way stop with an extra road really close for those going left-bound.
#5 - they put stop signs on both sides of the road because the ones on the driver's dang, passenger's side can get hidden by parked cars/trees/etc. We've got more than a few of those around here too. Not really confusing...
#6 until about 7 years ago, we had a state highway with about a dozen offset road interchanges like that. Most were stop-signs for the side roads. The people stopping in the middle of the intersection because they see a red light are idiots, but so are the morons who spec'd putting the lights where they could be seen by the crossing traffic. Move the lights, solve the problem.
Yeah, that happens some times. Once you know what's going on, it's no big deal. It's usually the 'foreigners' who screw things up. (i.e. anyone not from within a 22.7* mile radius)
@FreeMan I believe the statistic is that the average on-ramp in the US' interstate systems is 600 ft, with the lowest state average being Missouri with 264 ft.
is there a particular term for the ones that are roped-hairpins? like you have 2 entrances to the highway systems and there are 4 interchanges, where 2 interchanges each role into 1 on-ramp
Then, of course, there's this one because Hong Kong was leased to the British, so they drive on the left, but mainland China, for all their other failings, at least had enough sense to drive on the right, so the ramps cross to get the traffic on the correct side.
@this Not true. I've seen quite a number of RHD cars imported from driving-on-the-wrong-side countries.
Talked to a guy who owned a RHD British 70s Austin Mini (long before BMW bought it and shouted "MINI" at us). It was hysterical because he had his daughter's car seat in the front. She was sitting in the "driver's" seat. He said he got lots of weird looks!
#FunFact: horses were "driving" on the left side of the road, because the sword would be on the left side (of course assuming a right-handed knight) so it was easier to defend against an incoming hostile rider. if they'd ride on the right side, the sword hand wouldn't have been in an ideal position to parry (or attack)
also there was a crisis in beef prices (don't recall when or where) when the "correct" side was changed from left to right, because farmers had to kill all the animals since they couldn't re-train them to circulate on the other side of the road, so there was a sudden peak in beef offering
I remember something similar claiming that the space shuttle's booster rocket's maximum diameter was basically determined by 2 horses' asses
It had to do with the fact that they needed to transport the booster rocket on a train, but the gauge is only so wide and the tunnels are a certain width/height. That gauge was determined by the stagecoach which usually had 2 horses side by side.
since some tracks were originally stagecoach roads, it was cheaper to just use the same gauge as to the stagecoach's ruts.
Haven't found a good source nor one that debunks it.
even Snopes doesn't have one specifically about it; the closest thing
> Marveling that the width of modern roadways is similar to the width of ancient roadways is sort of like getting excited over a notion along the lines of “modern clothes sizes are based upon standards developed by medieval tailors.”
what I meant is that if they were careless and put everything in one folder, it could mistakenly pick up Access .frm files that would be not imported (nor should be using htis mechanism)
Yes, we do. I'm only noting that they can export them using Access OM and commonly gives them the .frm extension.
If the sync commands automatically selected all the files based on name alone, there's a non-zero chance that it would pick up that wrong kind of .frm file but since Max say the user has to select it anyway, I doubt that'll be a cause of confusion.
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