RL peeves! >< @$!#
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Ummmmm... in the areas here in Florida that -have- bike lanes? Its a BIG no-no to put your car into the bike lane. Right turn or not. As in, cops will pull you over in a heartbeat for reckless endangerment if you pull your car into the bike lane.
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
Ummmmm... in the areas here in Florida that -have- bike lanes? Its a BIG no-no to put your car into the bike lane. Right turn or not. As in, cops will pull you over in a heartbeat for reckless endangerment if you pull your car into the bike lane.
It's a strange product of the bike-progressives on the West Coast.
I know some bike-heavy areas of California and some other big metro areas like D.C. were pushing that cars SHOULD merge into the bike lane to make a right hand turn (and I think that's how it works in most places, don't quote me), because it would force bikers to stop behind the car that was making a turn, and protecting them from getting cut off at a green light. Yet people here argue that by keeping cars out of the bike lanes at all times, it protects them from being hit by cars.
I also found this article HIGHLY AMUSING:
http://bikeportland.org/2013/06/25/94-of-bikes-wait-at-red-lights-study-finds-89025
94% of bike riders wait at red lights, study finds
I must be that lucky guy to run into the 6% everywhere I go. I should play the state lottery more. (6% is also a pretty ridiculously high amount of people running a red light.)
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
Ummmmm... in the areas here in Florida that -have- bike lanes? Its a BIG no-no to put your car into the bike lane. Right turn or not. As in, cops will pull you over in a heartbeat for reckless endangerment if you pull your car into the bike lane.
Here, too. You pull into the bike lane, you get $$$$$$ tickets fast.
Oh fucking well.
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Call me a terrible driver. But I'm trying to figure out how I'm ever going to turn left, or right, without somehow passing through one of these bike lanes...
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Where I am, we don't pull into the bike lane either.
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Here, the actual painted lanes end quite a distance before the cross walks and corners, as do the availability of parking (if any). So when you go to turn right, there's nothing painted that suggests you should be doing anything unusual besides turning right.
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@Bennie said:
Call me a terrible driver. But I'm trying to figure out how I'm ever going to turn left, or right, without somehow passing through one of these bike lanes...
You'll love signs like these:
http://i.imgur.com/PA0jyg5.jpg
They're all over in many variations.
If I didn't know better, I'd think that city planners are deliberately trying to tell people to GTFO your car. Use public transit.I guess that's another peeve of mine. There are so many non-standard road designs in this stupid city.
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94% of bike riders wait at red lights, study finds
I cycle whenever the weather permits it, I logged four digits in km over the summer. But no, cyclists are nightmares; for starters many don't have a driving license at all, and they obviously consider themselves some sort of pedestrian/vehicle hybrid.
I've seen people do truly crazy stunts like take sharp diagonal left turns in front of coming traffic in the middle of a busy road just because, I guess, they figure they'll make it. Or not. Whichever. Or my favorite, keep riding through the red light to the zebra crossing where they go right through the crowd of pedestrians, get on the other side, then get on the road again. No shits given.
I love cyclists but I do feel there should be at least a driving test involved. Even just a written one. Something.
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In my city, we drive everywhere. EVERYWHERE. There's a small contingent of inner loopers that don't, but we have urban sprawl like woah. You pretty much have to have a car to live here. The cyclists are basically crazy assholes but there aren't that many.
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We have a lot of bicyclists here, and there's a lot of friction between them and cars. Part of the problem is that there just aren't enough bicycle lanes. Sure there are assholse on bikes, but god there are a lot of assholes in cars, too, who will drive dangerously just to make 5 seconds here or 10 seconds there.
Let's face it, it's better for everybody is more people are on bikes than in cars, so I think we aughta make it easier rather than harder to pick one up.
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Y'all are the type of people who put thumb takes in the bike lanes, aren't you? Good lord. Why is it such an inconvenience to wait a few more seconds to turn when there's someone on a bike going past? Maybe, the city I live in (In Oregon, thank you) just has me spoiled but motorists and bicyclists here don't seem to be assholes. Oh, there's someone on a bike next to me? I slow down and let them pass the road I want to turn into before turning. So, you know, I DON'T HIT SOMEONE because HOW DARE THEY RIDE A BIKE. When I'm on a bike myself, I use the bike lane and I obey traffic laws. The light at the intersection is red? I wait until it is green. I need to turn? I signal with my arm.
THAT ASIDE:
My peeve of the day --
I'll preface this with I am not a youngun anymore. I'm in my late twenties, I'm only a few years away from being 30 now. But good god "older" people being wistfully nostalgic about "the good old days" is so fucking weird. Yes, there were times in the past where things were different -- I grew in the age where there were still cassette tapes, and floppy disks were still a thing but were mostly going away.
Why do you want to talk about the times when you didn't have computers? Or the internet? Those times were awful. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THEM ON THE INTERNET. If you want those days back so much turn off your fucking computer and go play with a frisbee in the yard.
/rant
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I always joke about being SO OLD, but damn, am I actually old? I can't see being a few years from 30 as not young. Even just a few years ago I'd have never dated a 20 something. Records and 8 tracks baby. You don't have kids, you're still firmly seated in your 20s, you're young! Enjoy it!
Your point stands though. It boils down to old people are crazy. I'm starting to see it in my friends. As they start to get firmly into their 40s, there's a shift in thought. Into the 50s, a lot seem to start to drift political and right wing. Quite a few start becoming racist. My friends are getting into their 40s. Their parents are getting into their 60s. Some have siblings pushing into the 50s. My close friends and I have started tracking 'at what age do you become a racist nut job?'. They start waxing poetic about 'in my day'. Well, in my day we did some crazy redneck shit. Do I wish this on my kid? Oh hell no. That's how you get the hep, playing in nasty water. It also meant we didn't actually spend time with our parents. They just turned us loose. Just because we lived doesn't mean it was great. Hey, remember the time we rode 4 wheelers down the nasty bayou and then had to pull one out at 3 am and then we ran and hid from the cops? Yep, sure was good wholesome fun!! o.O
In short, old people are crazy.
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@Luna I'm at an age in my life (and have been for a while), where I am constantly surprised at how young I am still and how much time I have left. (When I was 18-24ish, I was almost constantly concerned that I was getting old, and wasting my life, and I needed to do ALL THE THINGS NOW. Of course that could have been due to how I was living, but-- Anywise, yeah. When I was younger I thought I was wasting my youth).
These days I'm constantly amazed I've lived this long, and have at least (hopefully) 50 more years to go. But at the same time I look back and think: Man, I was so young. How did I get "old" (relative old)?
I'm still so young that amount of time I have left on this planet is almost terrifying, but at the same time I've leaved almost three decades and that makes me feel old.
It's weird.
I'm weird.
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My little cousin told me I was old, so I guess I am. It was the grey hairs, you see. If you have grey hairs then your're old, even if you're sitting there playing ps4 with him. 12 year olds. So fucking judgemental.
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@Cobaltasaurus said:
I'll preface this with I am not a youngun anymore. I'm in my late twenties, I'm only a few years away from being 30 now.
Awww, so cuute! pinches cheeks
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So. Old.
Were you frightened when trains were invented? Were you mad when Edward moved into Forks?
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My ire! YOU HAVE IT!
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As a teacher, I can tell you that some of the differences that modern communications make are instantly and irrevocably huge. Cell phones have pretty much changed the entire school landscape. In my country, cellphones didn't become even an inkling of a thing until maybe 12 years ago, and certainly not a thing every kid was almost expected to have until maybe eight years ago, or maybe even less. I'm 31, so I was out of high school (and in a different country) when it all started...
I teach now. I look at my classes and I wonder: if we had had cell phones back then, what would it have been like?
And then I stop, because we would have been so much worse, y'all. This generation of high schoolers think they're crazy, but they... they ain't. They just ain't.
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@Coin Isn't it a rule teachers aren't supposed to use ain't?
Did yall have pagers? We did and one of us had a sweet Zak Morris cellphone. I had a phone with 200 minutes by my senior year. Enough time to call the parents with total lies about where I would be.Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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@Luna said:
@Coin Isn't it a rule teachers aren't supposed to use ain't?
Did yall have pagers? We did and one of us had a sweet Zak Morris cellphone. I had a phone with 200 minutes by my senior year. Enough time to call the parents with total lies about where I would be.Ain't no rule no wheres what says I cain't use "ain't" if I damn well please, young lady.
No. We didn't have any of that high-brow shit. I went to high school in South America, even in my city, which is fairly up to technological snuff, it wasn't until the mid 00s that kids started getting their own cellphones more often than not. I'm sure there were exceptions before then, but they were exactly that.
