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[Kenji4861]

 

[bunker]

Tell her to STFU and learn from you.

 

[amdskip]

I usually don't go faster than 4 mph over the speed limit unless I'm late to work or know there is a good possibility there is a cop hiding out.

 

[boyRacer]

Get a bike and tell her to ride with you... lets see her tell you to speed up. Seriously though... she's not the one that got you the car... she's not the one thats paying insurance... and she's not the one thats going to cover your ass when you get a speeding ticket or if you get into an accident. Don't go faster than what you're comfortable with.

 

[Freejack2]

I think your girlfriend complains too much about the way you drive. If she's complaining about the way you drive what's next? She needs to take a chill pill.
As for you, you can drive 5mph and the odds of a cop bothering you are next to none. Even if you did get a ticket for 5 over your parents would probably laugh and the judge would be wondering if you were an ass to the cop or if the cop was a major anal-retentive type. They had one of those anal-retentive pull everyone over even if they do 5mph over. He doesn't do traffic anymore...
It's not worth the money or hassle to pull someone over doing 5 over.
On highways you can probably even get away with 10 over. I play it safe and set the cruise for 9 over. Clocked at least 50 times doing 9 over, never gotten a ticket for it.

 

[melly]

as a female i say tell her to stfu. i only ever once said to my bf to 'slow down' but i was freaking cuz it was pouring rain.

 

[RU482]

you should go OJ on her ass

 

[Joyride]

Theres a switch.

I have learned if I complain enough my G/f will just give me the keys and drive

Works everytime

 

[Kaervak]

Simple, tell her to drive or tell her to shut up. I hate when people ask me to drive then bitch about the way I drive.

 

[LukFilm]

Tell her to STFU or you'll pawn her for $10 that she's worth.

 

[yllus]

If you're the kind of driver that dawdles along at almost the exact speed limit while the rest of the world is very naturally doing 10 mph over, I can see where she's coming from. Question - are you in the flow of regular traffic when you drive, or are you constantly being passed? I have the feeling that you're holding up the rest of the world with your overcautious driving manner, and know that I would be squirming and barely holding back from saying something if I was a passenger.

All parents are like that, that's why I still hate driving with mine in the car. Sorry Dad, I really don't need a lecture on how to drive on a residential street from you. It's like they're trying to keep you under control just for the sake of still having some control. Just drive normally - normal being defined as the speed naturally decided upon by the flow of cars around you. I bet your girlfriend has a valid point here.

 

[Kenji4861]

<< If you're the kind of driver that dawdles along at almost the exact speed limit while the rest of the world is very naturally doing 10 mph over, I can see where she's coming from. Question - are you in the flow of regular traffic when you drive, or are you constantly being passed? I have the feeling that you're holding up the rest of the world with your overcautious driving manner, and know that I would be squirming and barely holding back from saying something if I was a passenger.

All parents are like that, that's why I still hate driving with mine in the car. Sorry Dad, I really don't need a lecture on how to drive on a residential street from you. It's like they're trying to keep you under control just for the sake of still having some control. Just drive normally - normal being defined as the speed naturally decided upon by the flow of cars around you. I bet your girlfriend has a valid point here. >>



At times there are cars that pass me, but I try to keep it with the flow. That was one of the questions on the driver's test
question : how fast are you suppose to go
a) speed limit
b) below speed limit
c) faster than speed limit
d) speed of everyone else

and d was the answer. So I do *try* to go along with the other's speeds. Never so slow that it'll hold up traffic.

 

[Pundit]

Kenji, ask her nicely to stop criticizing your driving. And look serious when you say it.



OT: Why do they have speed limits if nobody follows them? Everybody goes 120 km/h on our highways when the limit is 100 km/h. Why does almost everybody go faster than the speed limit?

 

[Rent]

If she's just complaining about you speeding(or lack of), fine, let her get all pissed off. I won't do any good. If, however, you're cutting people off, not signaling, ect... then she has legitimate reason to complain.

My last ex, she drove slowly and obeyed the speed limit and all that stuff... while I always drove 10 over (sometimes more), and did some ocasional agressive lane changing. I told her I wouldn't complain if she didn't and it worked out fine in that aspect.

 

[gotsmack]

I'd dump her ass right there. If I wanted to get nagged for doing nothing wrong I'd go talk to my mom.

just say to her "Ummm... Yea... If I wanted your opinion I'd ask for it" or "Hey, who's driving? Me or you?"

 

[Piano Man]

Um, why isn't she giving you roadhead?

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< << have you ever seen a lizard doing push ups on a big rock? that could be you >>



---SgtZulu 's opinion on fat chicks >>


ROFLMAO!!!!
I know I should have seen that before but apparently I just skipped over it until now.
Thanks a lot, that made my night

 

[ddjkdg]

<< OT: Why do they have speed limits if nobody follows them? Everybody goes 120 km/h on our highways when the limit is 100 km/h. Why does almost everybody go faster than the speed limit? >>



They set speed limits to generate revenue. Money from speeding tickets is a major source of funds. Think about it, if a cop pulls over 30 people in an 8 hour shift (about 1 every 15 minutes) and each one gets a $65 ticket, that's nearly 2 grand. I know, not every one of those people will end up paying the ticket and will go to court to fight it or whatever, but the majority do. And this is offset by the fact that cops usually camp construction or school zones because fines are doubled there, at least in my state (Colorado).

There have been a lot of studies that have shown that people will usually drive at the speed they feel comfortable at rather than at the speed limit; I believe there is something involving the 85th percentile. I.e. 85% of people's 'comfortable' speed is over the actual limit on a given road. So, speed limits are set lower than what everyone feels comfortable driving at so that more will be caught speeding...therefore making more bling bling.

 

[Ultima]

they're not that strict if they let you take the car out. My parents are bastards and don't let me go in the POS taurus that they have even to practice (I'm learning to drive). If I want to practice, I gotta go to a friend's house or to go my grandma's and practice in her Golf. Ugh.. not unlike anything else in life from them (okay, I'll stop ranting before I start ). Anyway, are you going with the flow? It's safer to do so. If she's still b!tching, then make her drive and give her a taste of her own medicine

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Do what I do... "Then why don't you facking drive!" Then promptly pull over, even if its not convenient...

 

[IGBT]

Advise her that your not a purveyor of foolish and reckless behavior and your driving defensibly.

 

[weeeplop]

rebuttal:

for all of those who dont know.. and that is everyone on this forum..

for the two years prior to getting his license.. it was his Girlfriend who drove him back and forth to school and almost everywhere he wanted to go.. so i wouldn't go telling her to "stfu and drive yourself"... because she has.

he also didn't mention that he wasn't driving the speed limit.. he was driving BEloW a great deal.. and driving below the speed limit while there is no one on the road.. that includes the highways when it can be dangerous to drive slower than the flow of traffic (that is what he was doing).. but this doesn't matter.. because he was told by his GF that she was sorry for complaining. and she meant it.

further more.. he should talk to his girlfriend about this problem before spreading it out on an Anandtech forum and making her feel embarrassed and degraded by other people who dont know her at all.. and him for that matter.. that is.. if he cared about her feelings at all .. evidentally not.

she is not about to drop the load of crap that he has given her over the course of their relationship.. because she has class and she cares about him too much to do something so low as that..

i dont think any of you give a dam* about anything i'm saying..and will probably laugh about this later.. but these are my two cents..

how this ends.. i dont know..

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

<< rebuttal:

for all of those who dont know.. and that is everyone on this forum..

for the two years prior to getting his license.. it was his Girlfriend who drove him back and forth to school and almost everywhere he wanted to go.. so i wouldn't go telling her to "stfu and drive yourself"... because she has.

he also didn't mention that he wasn't driving the speed limit.. he was driving BEloW a great deal.. and driving below the speed limit while there is no one on the road.. that includes the highways when it can be dangerous to drive slower than the flow of traffic (that is what he was doing).. but this doesn't matter.. because he was told by his GF that she was sorry for complaining. and she meant it.

further more.. he should talk to his girlfriend about this problem before spreading it out on an Anandtech forum and making her feel embarrassed and degraded by other people who dont know her at all.. and him for that matter.. that is.. if he cared about her feelings at all .. evidentally not.

she is not about to drop the load of crap that he has given her over the course of their relationship.. because she has class and she cares about him too much to do something so low as that..

i dont think any of you give a dam* about anything i'm saying..and will probably laugh about this later.. but these are my two cents..

how this ends.. i dont know.. >>



BUSTED!!!!!!!!

 

[y2kc]

DOH!

 

[deftron]

WOW...first couple to fight on ATOT ?