So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

They can go ahead and hit me for all I care. If I end up dead and they end up in our local prison, I'll still have the better part of the bargain.

The problem downtown here isn't drunk drivers. It's out-of-state idiots with cellphones grafted to their moronic heads.

 

[tonyb]

Yep. Ain't no glory in dying in a traffic "incident." Those without a ton or three of metal and plastic surrounding them (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) are obviously more vulnerable.

 

[tonyb]

Oh yeah, cell phones and driving! Too many people apparently think that they are somehow exempt from the laws of man and nature. You know, I can chat on my cell phone while driving (or have a few drinks, or drive 15 mph over the limit) because I am a more naturally gifted person than the run of humanity. I'm not the problem. Nope, not me! It's all those other idiots.

 

[2jakes]

They can go ahead and hit me for all I care. If I end up dead and they end up in our local prison, I'll still have the better part of the bargain.

The problem downtown here isn't drunk drivers. It's out-of-state idiots with cellphones grafted to their moronic heads.

Drunk drivers, out-of-state idiots or whatever !
I hope you are not serious by talking like you don't care what happens to you.
Just to prove a point ?
You have shared so many wonderful things that we all enjoy .
I know I do.
Please take care...is all I'm saying.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When I'm dictator any cellphone use while driving will earn a lifetime license suspension and thirty years on a chain gang. And that's if I'm in a good mood that day.

Oh, and the national speed limit will be 45 mph, with governors required to be installed on all but emergency vehicles ensuring that limit is observed.

 

[Bamaboots]

You guys are causing me flashbacks.

 

[2jakes]

When I'm dictator any cellphone use while driving will earn a lifetime license suspension and thirty years on a chain gang. And that's if I'm in a good mood that day.

Oh, and the national speed limit will be 45 mph, with governors required to be installed on all but emergency vehicles ensuring that limit is observed.

My 1946 pickup would love the speed limit you have posted.
That sounds like a wonderful place to live in.
Please let me know when you become dictator
& I'll start packing to go there ! :car:

 

[TimeWarpWife]

When I'm dictator any cellphone use while driving will earn a lifetime license suspension and thirty years on a chain gang. And that's if I'm in a good mood that day.

Oh, and the national speed limit will be 45 mph, with governors required to be installed on all but emergency vehicles ensuring that limit is observed.

When you're dictator, will you also ban HE washers from being sold in this country? We just bought a new LG HE washer 6 days ago and already I've had to schedule the SECOND service repair for the same leak that was supposedly fixed yesterday. Never mind that if you don't sop up the standing water left in the dispenser, which according to LG is normal, after every use and wipe down the rubber components and all the little nooks and crannies then you'll get to deal with mold, mildew, and stench. Honestly, I think it'll be less work and headaches if I just beat the laundry on a rock in the creek out back of our house. I actually found myself lusting after a non-HE stackable unit washer and dryer I was looking at online that only had 6 wash and rinse cycle choices, unlike the 14+ on this lemon I currently have that a rocket scientist can't figure out how to operate.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Get an old wringer machine. Mine's eighty-one years old, I've owned it for twenty-seven years, and other than replacing the wringer rollers it has never required any sort of servicing other than six drops of light oil in the oil cup twice a year.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

Get an old wringer machine. Mine's eighty-one years old, I've owned it for twenty-seven years, and other than replacing the wringer rollers it has never required any sort of servicing other than six drops of light oil in the oil cup twice a year.

Unfortunately, I care for a family member who is disabled and incontinent, so I do laundry every single day, sometimes 3 loads a day - which takes about 2 hrs. a load on the HE washers. An old wringer type wouldn't be practical for me. But I remember my grandmother having a wringer machine and our clothes were always clean. We haven't had clean white clothes without stains in the last 5 years, which is when we had to switch to the HE type of washer. Too little water and detergent to get the clothes really clean. Thus, my request for you to ban HE's, when we're all clamoring for you to take charge of things.

 

[tonyb]

If we're gonna continue getting around mostly in personal vehicles (bet on it), limited access, relatively high-speed highways will continue to be necessary. Propulsion systems are changing rapidly, as are navigation systems (self-driving cars are here already, much sooner than I expected to see them), but we've built our world around personal vehicles -- where we work, where we live, how we socialize and recreate and, well, do just about everything, is heavily influenced by cars. And it works pretty well most of the time, traffic jams and fatal collisions notwithstanding. And we like 'em, for sure.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Unfortunately, I care for a family member who is disabled and incontinent, so I do laundry every single day, sometimes 3 loads a day - which takes about 2 hrs. a load on the HE washers. An old wringer type wouldn't be practical for me. But I remember my grandmother having a wringer machine and our clothes were always clean. We haven't had clean white clothes without stains in the last 5 years, which is when we had to switch to the HE type of washer. Too little water and detergent to get the clothes really clean. Thus, my request for you to ban HE's, when we're all clamoring for you to take charge of things.

Unfortunate you can't use a wringer, because they're actually far more energy efficient than the modern "high efficiency" machines -- using far less water and far less electricity per load.

 

[ingineer]

I'm venting again.
Why does every electronic thing i own need a proprietary cable.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For the same reason General Electric lobbied hard to get rid of the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb: proprietary = patented = $$$$. The Boys From Marketing strike again.

 

[ingineer]

GE expletive deleted, but mighty fine reactors though.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2015/jan/22/demolition-begins-at-ge/
I think our government had a lot to do with this

 

[jamespowers]

GE expletive deleted, but mighty fine reactors though.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2015/jan/22/demolition-begins-at-ge/
I think our government had a lot to do with this

I think the union had even more to do with it.

 

[2jakes]

Haines underwear had in big bold letters on the pack of "jocky" type briefs
I recently bought that said,
"NOW WITH NO MORE LABEL ON BACK!"
As if I really care if Haines saves 2¢ for discontinuing the little label.
Only problem is the elastic went bad in every one I bought in that pack already.
Haines underwear is like a cheap hotel.... no ballroom.

 

[jamespowers]

Haines underwear had in big bold letters on the pack of "jocky" type briefs
I recently bought that said,
"NOW WITH NO MORE LABEL ON BACK!"
As if I really care if Haines saves 2¢ for discontinuing the little label.
Only problem is the elastic went bad in every one I bought in that pack already.
Haines underwear is like a cheap hotel.... no ballroom.

That all figures. Check where it is made. Vietnam...

 

[GHT]

Those without a ton or three of metal and plastic surrounding them (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) are obviously more vulnerable.

This will amaze you: Passers-by, lift a London bus off trapped cyclist.

 

[sheeplady]

I've got the right of way, you motorized jackass, and you're going to stop whether you want to or not.

"I've had cancer, you're not going to kill me with a ****ed car."

I actually screamed that at a car that almost ran me and my daughter over in a parking lot. The idiot sped up and then slammed on his brakes when I didn't flinch.

I'm pretty sure the dude thought I was crazy. I probably am.