Useless Conversation

[Paelos]

Trucks caused most of the early problems.

[ghost]

Yeah, semis and ice are bad mojo.

[Yegolev]

Pickup trucks are poorly suited for ice.

[Merusk]

Pickup trucks in my city are poorly unsuited for ice.

Probably more apt. No weight in the back, lifted and probably no studded tires.  At least they're probably all 4x4s unlike the jackasses in the suburbs here who buy 2 wheel drive trucks because they think they having a truck gives them more credibility for.. lord I don't know what.

[HaemishM]

I mean if you live in Atlanta would you even own a snow shovel, would Home Depot sell them?

Nope.  No one has winter tires.

In Mississippi, I don't think winter tires would help much. These people just have no goddamn concept of how to drive in anything other than perfect conditions (and even then, they are pretty fucking idiotic). We get almost as many problems when it rains here.

[Yegolev]

Pickup trucks in my city are poorly unsuited for ice.

Probably more apt. No weight in the back, lifted and probably no studded tires.  At least they're probably all 4x4s unlike the jackasses in the suburbs here who buy 2 wheel drive trucks because they think they having a truck gives them more credibility for.. lord I don't know what.

Mostly they are regular pickups, not 4x4.  See, 99.99% of all of the roads in the metro area are paved and 4x4 isn't typically necessary.  No weight in the back of any one- or two-wheel pickup means far less traction.  The 4x4 would be better but with inadequate weight distribution it's going to be less usable than even a typical SUV.  If you know how to drive, it's doable, but most people don't.  I made it perfectly fine in a Cadillac SRX.  My wife did harass her dad because he talked her into not getting the all-wheel variant over a measly $2000.

[Ingmar]

Finally rained juuuuust a little here. Still the driest year since they started counting. We're coming for your water, Oregon.

[Chimpy]

The problem is snow tires. Nobody in the area will sell you those. You'd have to ask and have them ordered special. Also, at least 80% of the cars here are 2 wheel drive.

All weather tires and 2wheel drive is fine unless you live in the mountains or someplace where it regularly dumps feet at a time. Shit, I used to drive a 2wheel drive Nissan pickup and never had problems, but I always kept 300lbs of sandbags in the bed.

People think that 4WD gives them the ability to "drive normally" in any conditions which causes more problems than it solves in my part of the country as most people don't realize that you don't stop any better in snow with 4WD. Number one rule for driving in snow is slow the fuck down and stop tailgating.

[Hawkbit]

Entire large coffee just dumped into my lap and my cube.  yay.  Talk about a production killer.

[Sky]

Number one rule for driving in snow is slow the fuck down and stop tailgating.

[WayAbvPar]

Entire large coffee just dumped into my lap and my cube.  yay.  Talk about a production killer.

The worst part is not the cleanup- it is not having the coffee to drink. My souls cries out for your loss.

[ghost]

And hot stuff spilled on your junk.   

[Rasix]

Pants tend to lessen that.  Yah, I did a coffee fumble all over a white shirt a few months back.  It was awesome looking like a complete fucking slob for the entire day and dealing with a nicely scalded hand. Plus, my office smelled like coffee for a week.

[WayAbvPar]

I managed to fumble a bottle of Chipotle Tabasco sauce onto my desk that exploded all over me. My cube smelled awesome.

[Hawkbit]

Luckily Old Navy is a block away, so that was remedied fast.  My cube neighbor is have a great time every ten minutes making joking comments about wanting a coffee, or w/e.  Because it's going to smell like coffee for a week.

And yes, the worst part is I don't trust myself to go get another cup, so I'm just kinda 'aarrrg!'.

[Pennilenko]

Teachers that want subnetting math by hand with the binary diagrams all filled out can go fuck themselves.

[Ironwood]

Why the fuck would you do that ?

[Ingmar]

Because some asshole will ask you to do it in an interview.

[Chimpy]

Because some asshole will ask you to do it in an interview.

Been there. It sucks.

[Selby]

Finally rained juuuuust a little here.

All the idiots were out in force on the drive home tonight.  Amazing how a little mist coming in from the Pacific and suddenly everyone slows down to 30MPH.

[Viin]

I feel bad for you guys (while a part of me laughs on the inside). Worst traffic I've ever had in my life took an extra 80 minutes to get home. That was about 15 years ago.

I always laugh when American customers and coworkers assume we live in arctic conditions here. It was in the low 40s here yesterday.
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I'm doing OK this week, but I have to go home tomorrow night.

[Sky]

 :heart:the purple zone

[Sky]

Because I've been grumpy today, I'll post something cool.

http://wallbase.cc/

[Sky]

Speaking of Atlanta,

[Yegolev]

Yes, pretty much.

EDIT: Because there's always that one guy going the OTHER way.

[Chimpy]

So in Atlanta is shut down hilarity, I am at the airport in Steamboat Colorado and the Delta agent just came across the intercom to say "if you just got a notice saying the flight is delayed intil 6pm don't rebook, we think that dispatch in Atlanta doesn't realize we have a plane here from yesterday that didn't get to fly back to Atlanta.

Heh

[HaemishM]

That definitely sounds like the Atlanta airport.

[Paelos]

ATL is shitty on a good day. Throw in any weather and it's the least wonderful place on earth.

[Chimpy]

My plane coming from O'Hare diverted to Denver because they thought they couldn't land.....2 minutes later the plane from DFW landed. Hopefully they grow some cajones after refilling and get here post haste so I can make my flight to champaign.

[schild]

ATL is shitty on a good day. Throw in any weather and it's the least wonderful place on earth.

This, a million times this.

[Yegolev]

Did I already post about my musing on traffic while at the Waffle House?  The roads are already at capacity everywhere in the ATL Metro.  Any deviation from the norm will jack shit up because in most places there isn't any leeway; hell in many places the roads are above capacity already.

There is a very noticeable difference in driving styles inside and outside rush hour (I wish it was an hour).  There is even a difference in the morning and afternoon crowd.  The early morning people are the most competent: they know where they are going, what lane to be in, and don't fuck around.  The incompetent jackoffs come out after 0930 or so; you can tell these people are not in a hurry to get anywhere and have no consideration for fellow drivers.  Around 1430, the moms come out to get their kids from school, which is like the midday crowd on STERIODS.  They can generally get their asses home before 1630 when the afternoon rush starts, but not completely.  Afternoons are worse due to non-working drivers, workers that are tired and don't really want to go home to their spouse and kids, and the light dusting of morons.

I think about traffic a lot.

[Paelos]

People keep showing up here. We need to hang a sign on the Atlanta metro that says, "No thanks! We're full, you Yankee devils."

For heaven's sake, we're now #11 on North American Metro population. We're going to pass Boston soon.

[Nebu]

People keep showing up here. We need to hang a sign on the Atlanta metro that says, "No thanks! We're full, you Yankee devils."

For heaven's sake, we're now #11 on North American Metro population. We're going to pass Boston soon.

It's all those people moving to the big city from Macon and Valdosta!

[Sky]

My stupid piece of crap step-brother moved to Atlanta. Enjoy, he's worthless.

[Chimpy]

Plane that diverted to Denver had to turn around and get deiced again because they sat too long waiting to take off...and the airport bar here just closed because all the other flights are gone or cancelled :(