Useless Conversation

[Minvaren]

BMW drivers here in Hungary are synonymous with 'egocentric assholes who don't know what a turn signal is'.

I posted this in the funny pictures thread, but now it seems to belong here as well.   

[Yegolev]

Stereotypes ARE fun!

Also, B.B. King is fucking old.  Oooooollldd.

[Miasma]

I find Volkswagon drivers to be the worst.  There aren't many of them but whenever I see someone being an asshole it turns out they are in a Volkswagon half the time.

[Trippy]

Here in the SF Bay Area it's the Prius drivers who are by far and away the most dangerous drivers to everybody else on the road.

[rattran]

Here it's Prius year round, and BMW/Mercedes/Rover suvs in winter. Tiny soccer moms in luxury suvs don't believe in snow and ice.

[Selby]

The Prius drivers are just holier than though and mostly can be avoided since they are usually driving slow, but the BMW drivers are the most dickheaded I've found in the SF area.

[Ingmar]

The Prius drivers are just holier than though and mostly can be avoided since they are usually driving slow, but the BMW drivers are the most dickheaded I've found in the SF area.

This.

[Pennilenko]

Here it is just anyone on the road in any vehicle is just a raging asshole.

[Xanthippe]

It's Audis over here.  Audi Drivers are Fucking Retarded.

Where I live, it's Prius drivers. Fucking assholes, every one of them.

Edited: haha, I see that Trippy and others agree.  Is this just a west coast or Bay Area thing?

[Xanthippe]

But if I'm driving 10mph over the speed limit, and the other lane is driving the limit or under, am I obligated to move when some asshole drives a foot behind me?

Yes. Just hop over, let the speedster pass, and go about your business.

Also, 10mph over is hardly even speeding.

So I should slow down so that I can merge into the right lane where I'll be stuck for god knows how long so some asshole behind me can run  up on someone else's bumper (who happens to be about 4 car lengths in front of me, and so on and so on)?

I move when I can, but when traffic is heavy enough that nobody is going faster than I am, why should I move?

Some people just like to drive an inch off people's bumpers, no matter the conditions.

And yeah, I know it's hardly even speeding, but I drive a minivan which, coupled with my slow (compared to 20 years ago) reaction time, does not make for a nimble vehicle.

[Ironwood]

I like to play the 'dare you' game, where I slow down more and more as we approach a speed camera that I know is coming.  Usually, you can get the guy angry enough to speed off and get caught at the camera.

I've done this a fair few times and it makes me laugh every time.

Yes.

I'm an asshole.

But he shouldn't have driven it up my ass without at least a kiss or a reach around.

[Bzalthek]

I feel each and every one of your arguments.  Though I think the type of car has little to do with the fact that people are self centered assholes who don't think anyone else on the road matters.

My peeve is for the cocksuckers who don't pay attention.  I could be due to cell phones or texting, or chit chatting.  Pay attention to your fucking surroundings people.  It's not hard to know who is driving around you.  When you're at a stop light, keep your eye on it.  When it turns green you should then go.  Yes, it's the peddle on the right.  No, you don't need to pull out a fucking color wheel and see what type of green it is.  It is not Forest Green.  It is not Hunter Green.  It is not Pastel Green.  It is fucking GO GREEN you fucking cunt!

[Strazos]

Stuff

Oh no, if it's heavy volume screw it. I meant if it's fairly light and your puttering along in the pass lane while only barely above the limit and you see someone hammering up from behind.

[TripleDES]

BMW drivers here in Hungary are synonymous with 'egocentric assholes who don't know what a turn signal is'.

I stopped using turn signals unless a crossing is really goddamn ambiguous about its layout. If I'm in the turning lane, I'm obviously going to follow its way, so why use the turn signal? And if I'm heading towards a crossing when having right of way, turning on the turn signal just has people look at me like a deer most of the times when I'm approaching, and wait until I've cleared the damn thing, before even thinking of budging their cars an inch forward. So fuck them.

And I drive a Corolla.

But he shouldn't have driven it up my ass without at least a kiss or a reach around.

Depending on my mood, I like to jerk the handbrake for a short moment, if I have someone trying to drive into my trunk. Not sure with new cars, but older ones don't make the brake lights turn on.

[Xanthippe]

Stuff

Oh no, if it's heavy volume screw it. I meant if it's fairly light and your puttering along in the pass lane while only barely above the limit and you see someone hammering up from behind.

Oh yeah - I always get out of people's way when I can. My dad drilled that into me when I was learning to drive, he commuted southern Californira freeways between 30 and 60 minutes each way every day, and I grew up driving southern Cal freeways. (I left almost 30 years ago, and understand the traffic assholes have gotten worse down there - used to be better than average drivers when I lived there).  He also taught me to go 7 miles, not 8, over the posted speed limit to avoid tickets, and not to speed in small towns while traveling. (It's worked for me - haven't had a speeding ticket since I was 18 and pushed my mom's Cutlass as fast as I dared take it on the newly opened 57 freeway that was empty - except for one lone Highway Patrol who kindly wrote me up for 65 in a 55; I was going 85 as I recall, he probably didn't get a good clock on me or felt sorry for me).

Pass lane? Fast lane! Another cultural difference between southern California and the rest of the world. There are no pass lanes on freeways. Fast lane or number 1 lane, slow lane or number 3 lane. Sigalerts don't seem to exist outside southern Cal either, although I think I've heard the term used recently up here.

I have no desire to control other people's speed with mine unless I'm driving on residential streets in my neighborhood. And then if you don't like going 25 mph, too bad, asshole, there are kids and kitties and bike riders and pedestrians all over the place and you shouldn't be driving faster than than anyway.

Driving I-5 (the main inland route between SF and LA) - I used to think when I was a kid that when I got to be 50, it would be 5 or 8 lanes in both directions.  Well, it's still 2 in both directions - 2 lanes going 75mph in almost bumper to bumper.

Of course, when I was a kid I thought we'd be flying around with personal jetpacks by now too.  The future promised by the Jetsons let me down.

[Samwise]

I like to play the 'dare you' game, where I slow down more and more as we approach a speed camera that I know is coming.  Usually, you can get the guy angry enough to speed off and get caught at the camera.

I've done this a fair few times and it makes me laugh every time.

Yes.

I'm an asshole.

But he shouldn't have driven it up my ass without at least a kiss or a reach around.

 

[Cheddar]

I like to play the 'dare you' game, where I slow down more and more as we approach a speed camera that I know is coming.  Usually, you can get the guy angry enough to speed off and get caught at the camera.

I've done this a fair few times and it makes me laugh every time.

Yes.

I'm an asshole.

But he shouldn't have driven it up my ass without at least a kiss or a reach around.

Everytime you do this an angel gets their wings.

[MuffinMan]

Back from NYC. Holy shit I am tired. My peektures, let me show you them.

[Abagadro]

Just made some delicious home made chipotle salsa and doubled the amount of chipotles and adobo called for in the recipe. Hooooo boy.

[Paelos]

Just made some delicious home made chipotle salsa and doubled the amount of chipotles and adobo called for in the recipe. Hooooo boy.

I'll phone the Haz-mat team for you. 

[Sky]

I saw the weirdest thing today, some jerk-off stood at a red light and just drove away quite a while before it turned green. I wished him a t-bone.

I used to do that when I was a kid, but only after midnight. I figure I'd just treat it like a stop sign.

Hell, I grew up in the country, we didn't really have any traffic lights, or much of street lights at all. There were a bunch of intersections where you could just cut your lights and if you didn't see lights on the other road, just cruise past the stop sign full speed. I've got to tell the old lady that story, she was just saying last night that I've used 8 of my 9 lives. Hell, I've apparently got a thousand lives with all the dumb shit I used to do.

[Nebu]

I no longer wait for left turn arrows at controlled intersections after midnight.  I refuse to sit at an empty intersection for 5 minutes being a mindless sheep.

[WayAbvPar]

Just made some delicious home made chipotle salsa and doubled the amount of chipotles and adobo called for in the recipe. Hooooo boy.

PLEASE ship some this way! My buddy makes a wonderful version on occasion, but he is currently in Hawaii and I suddenly need a fix. That sounds goddamned fantastic.

[schild]

I feel each and every one of your arguments.  Though I think the type of car has little to do with the fact that people are self centered assholes who don't think anyone else on the road matters.

Going back in time to respond to this:

No. Assholes are attracted to certain kinds of cars and it's COMPLETELY fair to stereotype the person behind the wheel without seeing them. Only total shitheads and girly girls get BMWs. The likelihood of a girly girl not getting a 3-Series is LOW. As such, anything not a 3-Series is fair game, and most 3-Series are, especially the M3s.

For example, I've never seen someone in a fucking Tracker or Sorrento being a cock on purpose.

[Nebu]

If we're going to stereotype drivers, how about SUV's?  Nearly every SUV driver I've come across is both an ass and a shitty driver.  This is magnified during the presence of snow and/or rain. 

I really fucking hope gas goes to $10 a gallon so these pigs will get off the road.  That goes for non-work 1 ton pickups as well. 

[Engels]

I presume that getting a BMW that's a nice German sporty sedan-type, that insulates sound better than an Audi or a VW and isn't barbarically pricey isn't a good enough reason. I guess my inner asshole was calling :P

[Sky]

If we're going to stereotype drivers, how about SUV's?  Nearly every SUV driver I've come across is both an ass and a shitty driver.  This is magnified during the presence of snow and/or rain. 

I really fucking hope gas goes to $10 a gallon so these pigs will get off the road.  That goes for non-work 1 ton pickups as well. 

[rattran]

But I need the cargo room and towing capability for hauling my cats and my stuff back and forth across the country. Having an suv is much more convenient than having a truck again. And at 26mpg it's not that big a guzzler.

Can we get everyone in a Challenger or any ricer with more than 1 R-Type or sponsor sticker on it off the road instead?

[Rasix]

I have a new X3.  I guess I'm just an awful person.  (25 highway was about the best non-hybrid in what I was looking at)  

Of all of the friends I know that have a 3 series BMW, all are male.  The M3 owner I know races his (he's retired and wealthy, it was his retirement gift to himself).

[Murgos]

The only guy I know with a 3 series is Greek (thick accent and hairy), single and 40.  Yes, he knowingly is the stereotype.

[Nebu]

Since I'm raging about drivers, I'd like to add this:

PEOPLE NEED TO SERIOUSLY QUIT FUCKING TEXTING WHILE THEY ARE DRIVING!

I've been nearly killed in a head-on about 4 times in the last month to people I couldn't even see the face of. 

[TripleDES]

Those fucking CAPTCHAs start to enrage me. Look what I was asked just now.



It would be funny, if shit like this was rare, but it is becoming less so.

[Rasix]

Since I'm raging about drivers, I'd like to add this:

PEOPLE NEED TO SERIOUSLY QUIT FUCKING TEXTING WHILE THEY ARE DRIVING!

I've been nearly killed in a head-on about 4 times in the last month to people I couldn't even see the face of. 

I got in a semi-head on with someone 3 years ago, day after Christmas.  They turned right into our front left side.  Luckily it was fairly low speed, but there was nothing I could do to avoid it.  Their head was looking down and to the right (aka, texting).  They (teenage girl) broke her nose.  My wife was 3 months pregnant, had a near panic attack, and was rushed to the ER. 

Her father got really angry and in my face.  Unsurprisingly, they were found fully at fault.

[MuffinMan]

Those fucking CAPTCHAs start to enrage me. Look what I was asked just now.



It would be funny, if shit like this was rare, but it is becoming less so.

You may just be a robot.

[Mrbloodworth]

Anyone done the Universal Florida vacation thing?

I hoped to find a package close the the Disney one with the dinning and transport from the airport included.