Actually a good driver!
Saying I heard once: “Good drivers sometimes miss their exists. Bad drivers never miss their exists.” Stuck with me for a very long time.
That’s… existential.
Yeah, but that saying is absolutely brain dead, because if you take it literally it states anyone that has ever missed their exit is a good driver, which clearly isn’t true
Everyone look!
(Crowd looks up at the sky)
It’s Captain Pedantic here to save the day!!
it doesn’t say that at all.
it said that good drivers SOMETIMES miss their exits.
it did not say ALL good drivers miss their exits. it did not even say that ALL good drivers sometimes miss their exits. it said that there are times where good drivers miss their exit. there’s no imperative.
even if you want to be the most pedantic person on this autism boat of a website; in this case you’re just plane wrong.
It says bad drivers never miss their exits.
How many times did you get dropped on your head as a child?
in this case you’re just “plane” wrong
Oh, you’re just American
Except it doesn’t, you got the implication wrong. If I say “Astronauts sometimes eat apples” that does not imply that all people who eat apples are astronauts. The statement can still be true even if some/most people who miss their exits are not good drivers.
You’re focusing on the wrong part. If I say “astronauts never eat oranges” then that implies that if someone eats an orange (misses an exit), they are not an astronaut (are NOT a bad driver).
Stay safe! I’ll take wrong exit over unsafe maneuver every time.
Kinda depends. My Uber riders don’t usually appreciate it. Thankfully, it’s only been once or twice. “I’ll just loop around on the next exit.”
Well, I’d expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason…
There is never a reason to hug the passing lane(s).
If you’re actively passing then it’s not hugging.
If you’re not actively passing then GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE!
Still better this than to be the person who weaves across three lanes of traffic to go after their exit, or who sees the exit lane diverging and chooses… Neither, then they just stop there.
When you have all the time I the world to switch but suddenly the wanna be Nascar drivers show up in the last mile before the off ramp and box you in.
Practically everyone trying to make a right hand turn at the intersection where my apartment is. You have exactly 1.5 miles to get into the right lane, but 90% of drivers wait until they get right to the turn, with 5% getting in the lane well ahead of time and the last 5% turning from the straight lane around the little pedestrian island thing instead of actually using the right hand turn lane.
for anyone else wondering, ℅ is a “care of” sign and is apparently used in writing addresses on envelopes.
How am I today years old and still encountering new typed symbols?
Also, I’m assuming the person you’re responding to accidentally used it instead of a percent sign. How the heck did you manage that @Kolanaki@pawb.social lol
yeah they edited the comment to be all three actual % symbols after i replied, it was two ℅ symbols and a final % before.
℅ shows up as a long-press option on my particular android keyboard after the % key, so probably something like that.
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i love the strong-breath birdy
A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o’clock one evening from his son who hadn’t turned up home.
“Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?”
Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.
Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat… but never learned how to leave a bus.
His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn’t pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.
“I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me… and when he didn’t, I just sat and waited until the end of the line”.
Poor soul.
I thought buses just stop at a station, you have to signal to the driver to stop? I’ve never ridden a bus before, so at least that’s my main reason, but if I got on and didn’t see a button or anything, I’d probably make that mistake 💀
There are some stops where the bus always stops, and others where you have to signal the driver to stop (known as request stops). You will typically find the first kind in high density areas like cities, and the other in suburbs or in the countryside (there are even “stop areas” in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked).
The same applies to trains too, although request stops are not as common as they are for buses (and I don’t know of any stop areas for trains)
there are even “stop areas” in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked
In my city late night buses do this anyway, even in areas where the daytime route uses mostly request stops.
I hate when the info saying what lane goes where is showed last moment, always makes me stressed
I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.
Apologies as I couldn’t find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say “but that’s their FAVORITE way!”
Honestly, I think what he got lambasted for was almost innocent compared to all the other #metoo stuff.
I’m pretty sure what he did was, at the time, under the guise of a consensual sex act that the other party agreed to. Now of course there is a power imbalance and he admitted as much (His statement is here) but I found it pretty mild compared to all the wild shit happening and that happened.
I’ll admit it’s gross and he did abuse his power over those women but he owned up to it and was honest. Huge difference between jerking off with someone watching/participating and actually raping someone though and that distinction is important.
I’mma be honest, when I read @paultimate14@lemmy.world’s comment, I forgot all about the sex thing. It was because he’s part of that group of boomer/Xer comedians who hate the idea that comedians should maybe not punch down. Who might be generally liberal in their politics (or at least have started out that way), but who manage to become beloved by the right because of making fun of trans people, and who double down when called out.
