-
We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.
Saw a SWEET car accident at lunch today!!!
Page 8 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Vic
Elite Member
<- has not and will not read entire flame thread
I agree with the OP in part, if not in malicious sentiment. Everytime and everywhere I drive these days, I see inattentive drivers talking/texting on their cell phones, not using their turn signals, not using proper lane discipline, chasing red lights, etc. By rough estimates from my observations, I believe that less than half of all drivers use their turn signals anymore. In the meantime, the police appear to do absolutely nothing about these bad drivers (although failure to use turn signals is the traffic infraction equivalent in my state of driving 20 mph over the limit, and running a red light ranks up there with reckless driving), and those bad drivers themselves seem to have all developed this smug passive-aggressive attitude about their discourteous and unsafe driving habits.
On that note, Oregon has adopted, over the past few years, various ridiculous speed limit enforcement laws and practices, in particular a series of confusing and ever-changing after-hours school zone 20 mph limits, of which I am currently fighting a $250 photo radar ticket for driving at exactly the otherwise posted limit through a school zone on a day when school was not in session.
So yeah, I don't have a shred for sympathy of all the suckass drivers in the world who can't drive for sh!t, never pay attention to the road, and never practice courteous driving, but think they're "safe" drivers just because they drive at some arbitrary number posted on a sign.
I agree with the OP in part, if not in malicious sentiment. Everytime and everywhere I drive these days, I see inattentive drivers talking/texting on their cell phones, not using their turn signals, not using proper lane discipline, chasing red lights, etc. By rough estimates from my observations, I believe that less than half of all drivers use their turn signals anymore. In the meantime, the police appear to do absolutely nothing about these bad drivers (although failure to use turn signals is the traffic infraction equivalent in my state of driving 20 mph over the limit, and running a red light ranks up there with reckless driving), and those bad drivers themselves seem to have all developed this smug passive-aggressive attitude about their discourteous and unsafe driving habits.
On that note, Oregon has adopted, over the past few years, various ridiculous speed limit enforcement laws and practices, in particular a series of confusing and ever-changing after-hours school zone 20 mph limits, of which I am currently fighting a $250 photo radar ticket for driving at exactly the otherwise posted limit through a school zone on a day when school was not in session.
So yeah, I don't have a shred for sympathy of all the suckass drivers in the world who can't drive for sh!t, never pay attention to the road, and never practice courteous driving, but think they're "safe" drivers just because they drive at some arbitrary number posted on a sign.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
You obviously had enough time to think to youself:
Surely a horn-press takes the same amount of time. :evil:
Also, you'd think by now you'd realize that since you came off sounding like a pompous prick in your OP, that's why most everyone in here is intentionally acting like a pompous prick to you with their replies. The fact that you didn't pick up on this troubles me.
Surely you've heard the expression, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"? Do these ATOT posters really make you that uneasy, or is it your conscience prompting you to spin and defend for 2 days straight in this thread.
WiseOldDude
Senior member
And you are such a great fscking driver that you can see the turn signal on a car TWO lanes away and parallel with your car, yea right, you are spewing your crap from the wrong end, wipe your mouth and STFU.
It's just good story-telling.
It doesn't trouble me, I just don't care. It wasn't pompous. It was a "wake-the-fvck-up" call to every asshole out there who's too manly to pay the fvck attention to what he's doing. If that offends you, good.
No, I just think this thread is more interesting than the others.
Is your goddamn neck so broken that you can't turn it to see if the lane you're about to careen into is occupied or about to be occupied by another car? Are you unaware of the fact that most cars on the road have blinkers on the SIDES of their cars as well? I already stated that these were two modern SUVs and, as such, were certainly equipped with said blinkers.
Of course, there's also the general rule of thumb that you simply don't move into a lane when you're parallel with another vehicle.
By your own midget-brain logic, when two cars collide with each other under these circumstances, it's totally acceptable since there's just no reasonable way either one of them could have discerned that they were in a bad suation. Hell, the only person truly responsible for this incident was the guy 50 - 75 feet behind them! LOL
You couldn't be any more idiotic if you tried!
So how about YOU "stfu", get a clue, and suck me sideways.
Heck, I'll take that a step further: I don't even DO it if I'm parallel to a car.
Of course, I first have to LOOK to see if this is the case, but since morons like WiseOldDude operate their vehicles with zero personal responsibility, we can't expect them to bother to look where the fsck it is they're pointing their 2,000lb death machine.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
:laugh: Yeah, riveting.
No, there was no arrogance in that OP at all. None. Expecially not the part where you assumed the drivers were "wiggers" and "soccer moms." Or where you held your sh1tty driving to some higher standard than other's sh1tty driving. Or where you asked other people to "suck you sideways."
God bless you and your humility, St. jbourne77! 🙂
I assure you, we're having more fun with your juvenile wailing than you could possibly be having with us. :laugh: Keep it up! :thumbsup:
You're still here.
Someone takes themselves WAY too seriously...
Funny... no comments from you regarding the post I was replying to... or the guy who said he was disappointed that I hadn't died. You trying to pick a fight just as much as the next guy.
You're not exactly sporting wings, either, buddy.
I doubt it. It's REALLY slow at work. It's either this or Minesweeper, and that got old a LONG time ago.
You've obviously got an axe to grind, I've obviously hit a nerve, so please... continue.
Just use your fvcking blinker and your eyeballs. It's all I really ask.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
I'll be first in line to "suck you sideways" if you can find one post in this thead where I claimed to to be, unlike your faux-indignant "I'm not being pompous" line. :laugh:
Claim to be? LOL, every one of your posts WREAKS of it. Not to mention the fact that you sit in silent agreement with some of the most idiotic/juvenile words ever recorded with regard to the operation of a motor vehicle, but chide me for being a pompous/juvenile/prick/[insert whatever insult here]. Not to mention the fact that we don't exactly have landslide agreement here. It's been anything but.
So basically, you smell of every little thing you accuse me of. If you need to know why I'm having a hard time taking you seriously, that would be why.
Now if you want to sit back and throw thunder over whether you think my post was pompous and I think it was something else, then whatever. If that's what you need to do for some satisfaction, then have at it. Maybe I am pompous towards idiots who pose a constant threat to everone around them. So fvcking what. Get over it. If it's really being pompous, I really don't care. There's far bigger fish to fry here, like the fact that people have all but completely shirked any personal responsibility for driving a vehicle. Like Vic said, it's an attitude that has become very passive-aggressive when one is forced to face some accountability. Your words and general attitude smack of exactly that.
One thing is for certain, though. You do take yourself WAY too seriously. You really need to work on your sense of humor. If the "wiggers and soccer moms" bit got to you, your asshole must be wound tighter than a snare drum. If you can't discern a telling of the facts from a little quip for entertainment's sake (regardless of whether you found it entertaining), that's your problem. Lighten up.
From now on I'll be sure to provide a "ckGunslinger" version of every account of events I tell... that way you're sure to not get confused by the storytelling aspects.
See spot.
See spot run.
MercenaryForHire
Lifer
This thread is like a set of Spinnaz - it don't stop! 😛 😀
- M4H
- M4H
cKGunslinger
Lifer
:lips:
The mental image of the vein in your forehead throbbing as pound your keyboard in a self-righteous fit makes me giggle like a little girl. 😱
No really. You're better than everyone else 😉 .
I know you're just taking the moral highroad by calling me out on how mean and nasty my post was, but you're deafly silent whenever those mean and nasty posts happen to side with you. I guess when there's no real substance to what you have to say, you take what you can get. Little one-liner jabs and quoted "Fixed" posts are gems in your situation, seeing as how they account for such a substantial amount of your posts and seamingly account for your entire repertoire.
Face it guy: you're just one of those assholes on the road that the rest of us are talking about, and this whole thing got your panties in a twist. Since you can't argue with logic and reasoning, you attack the delivery. If that's all ya got, that's fine. Just know that it's quite transparent 😉 .
So I guess as long as we agree with you, we don't have to be little choir boys... unless of course that's your thing...
Poulsonator
Golden Member
Riiiight. 'Cause insurance compaines are looking out for our best interests and would actually lower their rates if more people didn't get into accidents. They actually don't care about money at all!
The funny thing is that you are so predictable. You want to critisize someone for actively participating in a discussion - call them obsessed or whathaveyou - but you absolutely fail to recognize your own level of involvement. The truth of the matter is that you care just as much as the guy you're talking to, or you wouldn't still be sitting there.
But hey, tell yourself that it's for your own "amusement" or whatever. It will help you sleep at night 😉 .
Remember this cardinal rule though: if the guy comes back to the thread to defend his arguments, he's "pathetic". If he doesn't come back, then it's because "he knows he's wrong".
It's a win-win for you!!!
cKGunslinger
Lifer
I got an endless supply of shovels, so keep on digging, Nancy! :lips:
TRENDING THREADS
-
Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)- Started by DisEnchantment
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes + WCL Discussion Threads
- Started by Tigerick
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread- Started by TheF34RChannel
- Replies: 24K
-
-
