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Re: f*ck the po'leece....
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:00 pm
by unriggable
Guiscard wrote:Jesse, Bad Boy wrote:.... comin' straight from th' unda' ground.
Fucking cop nailed me today for the most ridiculous reason possible;
"Letting another driver go ahead at a four way stop (obstruction of traffic)".
In short, I was nice and let someone else go when I had the right of way, and got punished for it.
Must be quota time.
Just get fucking roundabouts already!
Those things are good when they're small, but when you get to the size of the one around the 'arc de triomph' in france, it SUCKS.
Re: f*ck the po'leece....
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:01 pm
by 2dimes
Guiscard wrote:Jesse, Bad Boy wrote:.... comin' straight from th' unda' ground.
Fucking cop nailed me today for the most ridiculous reason possible;
"Letting another driver go ahead at a four way stop (obstruction of traffic)".
In short, I was nice and let someone else go when I had the right of way, and got punished for it.
Must be quota time.
Just get fucking roundabouts already!
I can't decide which is worse when used by people that can't drive.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:02 pm
by reverend_kyle
at traffic school the cop told me I could drive in a circle around one all day if I wanted,.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:04 pm
by 2dimes
reverend_kyle wrote:at traffic school the cop told me I could drive in a circle around one all day if I wanted,.
Absolutely, if you are in the correct lane.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:04 pm
by reverend_kyle
2dimes wrote:reverend_kyle wrote:at traffic school the cop told me I could drive in a circle around one all day if I wanted,.
Absolutely, if you are in the correct lane.
the inside one?
Re: f*ck the po'leece....
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:05 pm
by Guiscard
unriggable wrote:Guiscard wrote:Jesse, Bad Boy wrote:.... comin' straight from th' unda' ground.
Fucking cop nailed me today for the most ridiculous reason possible;
"Letting another driver go ahead at a four way stop (obstruction of traffic)".
In short, I was nice and let someone else go when I had the right of way, and got punished for it.
Must be quota time.
Just get fucking roundabouts already!
Those things are good when they're small, but when you get to the size of the one around the 'arc de triomph' in france, it SUCKS.
The arc de triomph one has no rules I believe...
Roundabouts work a treat in Britain.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:06 pm
by Guiscard
reverend_kyle wrote:2dimes wrote:reverend_kyle wrote:at traffic school the cop told me I could drive in a circle around one all day if I wanted,.
Absolutely, if you are in the correct lane.
the inside one?
In the UK I think you have 20 circuits before its illegal (or possibly 8...)
There is a limit though...
Re: f*ck the po'leece....
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:12 pm
by unriggable
Guiscard wrote:The arc de triomph one has no rules I believe...
The roundabouts with several lanes area always a pain. Especially the arc de triomphe, which has four or something like that, if you get stuck in the middle you are really screwed.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:13 pm
by reverend_kyle
Guiscard wrote:reverend_kyle wrote:2dimes wrote:reverend_kyle wrote:at traffic school the cop told me I could drive in a circle around one all day if I wanted,.
Absolutely, if you are in the correct lane.
the inside one?
In the UK I think you have 20 circuits before its illegal (or possibly 8...)
There is a limit though...
I live in america
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:15 pm
by 2dimes
Out side of Paris they work well in France.
From Calias to the Langueduc to Salon de Provence and back up to Calias.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:25 pm
by Guiscard
I've never seen a single roundabout in the time I've spent in the US... How common are they over there?
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:37 pm
by 2dimes
They are just toying with them in my province here in Canada and it's painfull so far. Just like the four way stop people are baffled. Merge here is another simple concept that people can't grasp.
I had a couple of issues with them in UK.
One was the right of way was opposite of France so I was going to enter it thinking they had to yield to me.
The second was like people in my city there was an tendancy toward. "Look out I'm ramming it in there!"
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:39 pm
by Hologram
btownmeggy wrote:I just called the police to make a noise complaint. I live across the street from a frat house. For the first several months I lived here, I was pretty tolerant. Then they put an enormous "Rick Perry for Governor" sign in front of their house. Since then I give them no mercy. The slightest disturbance, and I call the cops. Plus it's not even good music that they're blaring at all hours of the day and night, but mostly mid-90s pop-rock and country. How old were these kids in the mid-90s that this is what they're listening to? Are they 8th year seniors?
(Rick Perry was Bush's Lt. Governor for many years and is the current governor of Texas. He's so conservative that during the last election, the Republican party actually splintered to the left, and there were two moderate Republicans opposing him in addition to the Democratic candidate. He was re-elected with 30% of the vote, thanks to the likes of my next-door-redneck-hillbilly-neighbors.)
Ah, partisanship. Destroying the country one election at a time.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:39 pm
by 2dimes
If you have people that can understand the concepts traffic circles are way better because you don't have to stop. But the four way stop is a little safer for the dummies because everyone stops before lurching into the intersection to vie for dominance.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:50 pm
by Jesse, Bad Boy
Guiscard wrote:I've never seen a single roundabout in the time I've spent in the US... How common are they over there?
There are a few here on Long Island, quite a bit in New England (Cape Cod has the largest I believe), and from what I hear they are also in Maryland.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:51 pm
by qeee1
2dimes wrote:If you have people that can understand the concepts traffic circles are way better because you don't have to stop. But the four way stop is a little safer for the dummies because everyone stops before lurching into the intersection to vie for dominance.
I think the implementation of roundabouts would probably lead to massive deaths in the first week or two, but then once all the retards died off or learnt you'd be ok. It's win/win.
Also we've got roundabouts all over the place here in Ireland, works a treat... though only a few multi lane ones.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:53 pm
by 2dimes
qeee1 wrote:2dimes wrote:If you have people that can understand the concepts traffic circles are way better because you don't have to stop. But the four way stop is a little safer for the dummies because everyone stops before lurching into the intersection to vie for dominance.
I think the implementation of roundabouts would probably lead to massive deaths in the first week or two, but then once all the retards died off or learnt you'd be ok. It's win/win.
Also we've got roundabouts all over the place here in Ireland, works a treat... though only a few multi lane ones.
I wish that were the case, there's been one in the capital of our province Edmonton for decades and it's still a cross between high comedy and source of road rage.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:55 pm
by Guiscard
If you have to do them for your test and you have them in every town people really don't get confused. I'd say there were far more accidents in the UK at junctions than roundabouts.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:26 pm
by btownmeggy
Guiscard wrote:I've never seen a single roundabout in the time I've spent in the US... How common are they over there?
There aren't very many. I've seen the greatest concentration of them in residential neighborhoods planned around the turn-of-the-century. They apparently figured considerably into Moderns' urban utopiae (utopias? utopia?).
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:32 pm
by Serbia
They are making more of them in the Detroit area. I personally don't like them one bit.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:55 pm
by b.k. barunt
We have the worst drivers in the country here in Louisiana.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:56 pm
by btownmeggy
b.k. barunt wrote:We have the worst drivers in the country here in Louisiana.
Yep. Along with New Mexico. They're all drunk.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:01 pm
by Serbia
I think they're pretty lousy in Pueblo, Colorado. Worst I've seen at least.
Ypsilanti, Michigan is also bad.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:43 pm
by b.k. barunt
I drive better when i'm drunk. To our teenage members, i wrote that to start something, and no one jumped on me about it - go figure. Only a complete idiot thinks they drive better drunk. I don't even think that when i'm drunk.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:59 pm
by AAFitz
i love venturing into other states and countries...well most...a boston training is like a black belt in driving second only to NYC they are simply professional drivers...we might not make many friends on the road, but our offensive driving courses allow us to drive circles around less aggressively trained drivers