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Title: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: scratch on November 11, 2011, 09:27:36 AM
With the time change I've been noticing cars without their headlamps on.

And, two motorcycles with their taillight out, a Ducati Monster and a cruiser with a teardrop taillight, but it wasn't a Harley.

It's a good thing Suzuki gave the GS two light bulbs in the taillight.
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: mister on November 11, 2011, 12:31:29 PM
I've noticed this for years... Wednesday morning is the busiest morning on the road.

Michael
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: The Buddha on November 11, 2011, 01:20:58 PM
The thing I am noticing is - spoons that cut your lips as you eat with them. Plastic spoons, chinese junk, yea we buy spoons designed by a country that uses chop sticks that's what we get.
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: mister on November 11, 2011, 01:45:03 PM
I also noticed a dead magpie on the road, a dead rabbit (even though rabbits are banned in this state - I guess they didn't read the memo) and some other unidentifiable roadkill. A few hubcaps laying about too. Do they breed on the side of the road or something?

Michael
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: Janx101 on November 11, 2011, 03:22:40 PM
ah cmon mister .. Its obvious .. The rabbits are on holidays , they been playing frisbee with the hubcaps, the local magpie and other critters came along to join in , all but one rabbit got sick of the crowding and went back to the campsite and Then a cager came along and run all the remaining players over .. Cos cagers dont see anything! ..
Glad i could assist :)
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: Cal Price on November 11, 2011, 06:19:23 PM
I am intrigued by the single black shoe that turns up all over the place.
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: The Buddha on November 11, 2011, 07:06:14 PM
Quote from: Cal Price on November 11, 2011, 06:19:23 PM
I am intrigued by the single black shoe that turns up all over the place.

Oh yea ... I see that too, and today I saw why ... I saw a 1 legged man like the jackal riding a bicycle and begging.
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: Shaddow on November 12, 2011, 07:21:12 PM
I'm noticing more and more that acts of great stupidity by other road users doesn't even get a raise out of me any more. I just shake my head and continue as though they don't exist. Hell till three weeks after the even I didn't tell anyone about the lady that drove the wrong way around the roundabout, abused the car in front of me, demanded they reverse out of her way, which they couldn't cause I wouldn't let him. (I'd rather be hit from behind stationary, then reversing into it). Eventually she drove down an off ramp (that's right using it as an on ramp) to the express way below, even though all she had to do was turn right from where she was and she'd be on the correct side of the road and off the roundabout.
Are the average drivers that stupid that I'm becoming blah zay by it?
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: The Buddha on November 12, 2011, 07:30:41 PM
If this wasn't in the US, it was prolly a "US trained driver" not only is the wrong side of the road going to confuse them their inability to navigate a round about is legendary. Insane - there is a couple in a few miles of me and every other time someone is in there doing somehting stupid.
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: mister on November 12, 2011, 10:38:16 PM
I reckon 98% of Australians would be completely, totally and utterly flummoxed by the magic round-about in Swindon...

(http://www.swindonweb.com/uploaded_files/1167/images/lifemagi1.jpg)

Hey Shaddow, it shows your maturity. Where you have learned that you cannot control them and should not superimpose your higher standards onto them and thus you now accept you cannot expect anything better..

Michael
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 12, 2011, 10:47:48 PM
Quote from: mister on November 12, 2011, 10:38:16 PM
I reckon 98% of Australians would be completely, totally and utterly flummoxed by the magic round-about in Swindon...

(http://www.swindonweb.com/uploaded_files/1167/images/lifemagi1.jpg)Han Shaddow, it shows your maturity. Where you have learned that you cannot control and should not superimpose your higher standards onto them and thus you know accept you cannot expect anything better..

Michael
i type in swindon and it auto suggests magic roundabout. last time i had seen those is when i was getting my a class. almost 15 years ago. damned instructor decided to take us thru the bastard. it was empty at the time, was easy sans traffic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPANKRHL9HU
friend of mien took a trip to the uk this past year. ( returned a month before hte shooting.) and talked about this thing. watching the drive thrus of it almost resembles the street traffic in india. or tehran. an organised clusterflück. looks like all hell will break loose but does not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=Sud6iEh28ZM
Title: Re: Things I've been noticing lately on the road
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 12, 2011, 10:50:30 PM
Quote from: Janx101 on November 11, 2011, 03:22:40 PM
ah cmon mister .. Its obvious .. The rabbits are on holidays , they been playing frisbee with the hubcaps, the local magpie and other critters came along to join in , all but one rabbit got sick of the crowding and went back to the campsite and Then a cager came along and run all the remaining players over .. Cos cagers dont see anything! ..
Glad i could assist :)
ill be damned sounds like something the buddha would type in LMAO