What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[dh66]

And yet there are still people who think separation of church and state is a bad thing.

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[dh66]

I am absolutely ready to see an end to spandex bicycle riding costumes. Nothing tops off a hard day at work like some dudes sweaty @$$ pumping up and down in white see through tights in front of you for half the drive home. Good for you for biking and saving the planet and all, but geez, have some level of decorum. This goes for the ladies too. Come on people!

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[jamespowers]

And yet there are still people who think separation of church and state is a bad thing.

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I think both can be taken to extremes.

 

[jamespowers]

I am absolutely ready to see an end to spandex bicycle riding costumes. Nothing tops off a hard day at work like some dudes sweaty @$$ pumping up and down in white see through tights in front of you for half the drive home. Good for you for biking and saving the planet and all, but geez, have some level of decorum. This goes for the ladies too. Come on people!

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Geez, I hate that! Nothing is more annoying. And they think they own the whole road too and ride around like they are a semi truck or something. :doh:

 

[vitanola]

I think both can be taken to extremes.

This reminds me of a phrase that I once said to a friend when he pointed out an early English Windsor chair with a crinoline stretcher; "Yew wood."

 

[Stanley Doble]

I know bicyclists can be annoying but it helps to say "more gas for me" as you drive past them.

 

[vitanola]

I know bicyclists can be annoying but it helps to say "more gas for me" as you drive past them.

As you drive past them, or as you clip them with your extended passenger side mirror, knocking them over, tearing ligaments in their shoulder, and breaking three ribs?

I seldom cycle myself these days, but last summer had the occasion to visit a friend in hospital with these injuries. The middle-aged lady was a casual rider, riding in a bicycle lane on a cheap coaster brake Huffy when she was knocked off of the road by a hit and run driver who apparently swerved toward her.

 

[sheeplady]

As you drive past them, or as you clip them with your extended passenger side mirror, knocking them over, tearing ligaments in their shoulder, and breaking three ribs?

I seldom cycle myself these days, but last summer had the occasion to visit a friend in hospital with these injuries. The middle-aged lady was a casual rider, riding in a bicycle lane on a cheap coaster brake Huffy when she was knocked off of the road by a hit and run driver who apparently swerved toward her.

Lots of people don't know that they can cut a biker off when they pass them. I always make sure to get a long lead on them before pulling over. Too many people misjudge the biker's speed as slower than what it really is and a car moving over too closely can cause a gush of wind that can knock a biker over.

The world would be a much better place if police regularly went after drivers that disrespect the rules of the road and hurt bikers. And if they went after bikers that disrespect the rules of the road and hurt drivers.

 

[Stanley Doble]

I have never hit a cyclist but 2 of them have hit me. Both hopped on their bikes and pedaled off quickly without checking if I was hurt.

As an old time bicyclist and motorcyclist I am very aware of them as road users and give them plenty of space.

 

[vitanola]

I have never hit a cyclist but 2 of them have hit me. Both hopped on their bikes and pedaled off quickly without checking if I was hurt.

As an old time bicyclist and motorcyclist I am very aware of them as road users and give them plenty of space.

Unfortunately, many folks are not as careful as you.

Of recent years I've noticed drivers, (generally drivers of large, fuel-guzzling trucks or SUV's) exhibiting a positive anger at smaller, slower vehicles. I experience it all too often when I'm driving the Flivver. An Amishman who works for me as a carpenter on occasion often asks me to pick him or his family members up as he is rather afraid to come to town in his buggy, having had entirely too many close calls. It seems that we hear of an Amish family being driven off the road every year or so in these parts.

Why the rage?

Why ever would a motorist shout ridicule at a cyclist, for example?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Unfortunately, many folks are not as careful as you.

Of recent years I've noticed drivers, (generally drivers of large, fuel-guzzling trucks or SUV's) exhibiting a positive anger at smaller, slower vehicles. I experience it all too often when I'm driving the Flivver. An Amishman who works for me as a carpenter on occasion often asks me to pick him or his family members up as he is rather afraid to come to town in his buggy, having had entirely too many close calls. It seems that we hear of an Amish family being driven off the road every year or so in these parts.

We live in a world where GETTING THERE FIRST is the only thing that matters to a lot of people. I'M MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU. I'M THE HOLY INDIVIDUAL, AND THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND MY NEEDS. You see this with people driving cars like they own the road -- and you see this with bicyclists who think the laws of the road don't apply to them. Stop signs? Signaling turns? One-way streets? Bah, I'm a free spirit.

If people would just get it thru their heads that no matter who they think they are, they aren't the slightest bit more significant in the great scheme of things than anyone else, we'd get along a lot better.

 

[vitanola]

We live in a world where GETTING THERE FIRST is the only thing that matters to a lot of people. I'M MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU. I'M THE HOLY INDIVIDUAL, AND THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND MY NEEDS. You see this with people driving cars like they own the road -- and you see this with bicyclists who think the laws of the road don't apply to them. Stop signs? Signaling turns? One-way streets? Bah, I'm a free spirit.

If people would just get it thru their heads that no matter who they think they are, they aren't the slightest bit more significant in the great scheme of things than anyone else, we'd get along a lot better.

Socialist!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

We live in a world where GETTING THERE FIRST is the only thing that matters to a lot of people. I'M MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU. I'M THE HOLY INDIVIDUAL, AND THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND MY NEEDS. You see this with people driving cars like they own the road -- and you see this with bicyclists who think the laws of the road don't apply to them. Stop signs? Signaling turns? One-way streets? Bah, I'm a free spirit.

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But in all seriousness I enjoy bicycling and when I do I always follow the rules of the road. What really chaps my hide are bicyclists who feel that they can ride any which way. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with them when they're riding on the wrong side of the road and all this is in the last few years.

 

[LizzieMaine]

But in all seriousness I enjoy bicycling and when I do I always follow the rules of the road. What really chaps my hide are bicyclists who feel that they can ride any which way. I don't know how many times I've almost collided with them when they're riding on the wrong side of the road and all this is in the last few years.

This is my biggest beef. Our downtown area is a network of one-way streets -- even Main Street is one-way thru the downtown blocks -- and a day doesn't go by when I don't see some spandexed halfwit going the wrong way. Or worse yet, going the wrong way on the sidewalk. May all their hamstrings seize up.

 

[LizzieMaine]

*The phrase "world-class"

*People who use wine-tasting lingo to describe everything that they shove into their insatiable craws.

*Advertising for prescription pharmaceuticals.

*"Raising awareness" as an excuse for "I don't have to do anything else."

*Anthony Bourdain and his patronizing "tough guy slumming" act.

*Privileged middle-class white people who think they're entitled to joke about something being "ghetto."

*Those long swishy skirts dragging along the sidewalk thru the cigarette butts and dog leavings.

*Named snowstorms.

*People who call things "the bomb."

*People who? Break every sentence? Into a series? Of short questions? With no answers?

*People who talk so loudly into their telephones that you have to hold the receiver away from your ear.

*The phrase "Just sayin'."

 

[LizzieMaine]

*The phrase "world-class"

*People who use wine-tasting lingo to describe everything that they shove into their insatiable craws.

*Advertising for prescription pharmaceuticals.

*"Raising awareness" as an excuse for "I don't have to do anything else."

*Anthony Bourdain and his patronizing "tough guy slumming" act.

*Privileged middle-class white people who think they're entitled to joke about something being "ghetto."

*Those long swishy skirts dragging along the sidewalk thru the cigarette butts and dog leavings.

*Named snowstorms.

*People who call things "the bomb."

*People who? Break every sentence? Into a series? Of short questions? With no answers?

*People who talk so loudly into their telephones that you have to hold the receiver away from your ear.

*The phrase "Just sayin'."

 

[sheeplady]

We live in a world where GETTING THERE FIRST is the only thing that matters to a lot of people. I'M MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU. I'M THE HOLY INDIVIDUAL, AND THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND MY NEEDS. You see this with people driving cars like they own the road -- and you see this with bicyclists who think the laws of the road don't apply to them. Stop signs? Signaling turns? One-way streets? Bah, I'm a free spirit.

If people would just get it thru their heads that no matter who they think they are, they aren't the slightest bit more significant in the great scheme of things than anyone else, we'd get along a lot better.

I was almost driven into (kind of off the road) on Monday. I was going off into an exit and this car was trying to get onto the highway. There were no cars behind me, the driver *saw* me, and yanked his wheel over so he went into my lane. He absolutely refused to slow down and wait until I passed, he was even driving on the shoulder next to me at top speed.

If I wasn't sure my car would be totaled if it was in an accident and my daughter wasn't in the car with me I would have stayed my course. I had the right away and he was obviously an idiot because as I was exiting I saw him cut off another car.

This is only the second time in my life I've had a car try to hit me on purpose. The last time was many years ago when I had a driver coming the other direction swerve completely into my lane about 25 meters away from me. I am sure he was trying to drive me off the road because he had just made a tight curve and stayed in his lane for it, but on the straight stretch he looked right at me (I kid you not, he looked into my face) and pulled into my lane. I would have hit him if I hadn't yanked my wheel over and gone off the road. Of course, it's damned delightful to go off the shoulder and into the dirt at 45 miles per hour. Luckily I didn't take the farmer's cornfield out. I just thank god that I had enough driving experience at that point to handle going off the road at that kind of speed without losing control of my vehicle.

 

[GHT]

This is my biggest beef. Our downtown area is a network of one-way streets -- even Main Street is one-way thru the downtown blocks -- and a day doesn't go by when I don't see some spandexed halfwit going the wrong way. Or worse yet, going the wrong way on the sidewalk. May all their hamstrings seize up.

Ah, this might be to do with the fact that Americans never learned that the correct side of the road on which to travel is the left. So Spandex guy is right, no sorry, left. And all you guys are wrong, no, right. I mean...........................

 

[sheeplady]

*Privileged middle-class white people who think they're entitled to joke about something being "ghetto."

How about middle-class white kids who drive their "pimped out" cars through the middle class suburbs, dressed in "gangster gear" (complete with slang), with rap music blaring from their "pimped out" speakers? These, of course, being the same kids who wouldn't last a minute if you dropped them in the inner city.

Also the same for "rednecks" who drive their "jacked up" trucks through their middle class neighborhoods, dressed in flannel, tank tops, and cowboy boots (complete with slang), with country music blaring from their "jacked up" speakers? These, of course, being the same kids who wouldn't last a minute if you dropped them in the country.

 

[vitanola]

*Those long swishy skirts dragging along the sidewalk thru the cigarette butts and dog leavings.

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