pedestrians trying to cross the street who INSIST on waiting for the walk sign even when the path is completely clear, omg who hurt you
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
A car that came from out of nowhere?
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
I always do this unless there's absolutely no traffic visible. Some of us don't think it's so very 'hip' and 'cool' to scoff at the law, sonny.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
I did this just this morning. The last intersection I cross has heavy traffic coming from across a bridge from around a curve. Today for some reason, all four lanes were quiet. I looked left and then right, and then left again. Repeated L-R-L. No cars. So I start going across and yeah, from around the curve across the bridge came a car. I had to walk really fast to the curb, like I had to pee.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
one time a high school kid called me a "good citizen" because he saw me waiting patiently at the walk sign as he and his bros plowed through. I must be doing something right!
― ghood ghravie (unregistered), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
I do this when I'm not well - I can't concentrate enough to trust my judgement.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
I had to walk really fast to the curb, like I had to pee.
whenever this happens i always find myself saying "woop, woop, woop" to myself
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
When there were station wagons with rear-facing back seats, I dreaded getting stuck at a red light behind one with kids in the back staring at me. I suddenly find something very interesting on the dashboard to keep me from making eye contact.
Except one time when there were 2 brothers watching me while I stared slightly to the left pretending not to notice them. Brother #1 turned his head but #2 was still looking at me, so I grabbed a pen out of my pocket, stuck it in my nose and let it hang there. As he smacked his brother's arm to get him to turn and look, I yanked the pen out and went back to staring disinterestedly off to the left.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
innocuous things that make u irrationally rad
― self (alomar lines), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
If this were fb I'd Haha that, HL.
― nickn, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
This might sound particularly sad and pathetic but I always try to do this if there are any young children waiting to cross - I don't want them to get the wrong ideas about how to cross a road. Otherwise, I'm walking backwards, moonwalking, walking on my hands etc.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
French here. People not crossing the road despite there being absolutely no cars in sight and streets not being littered with dog poop and cigarette butts were two of the most shocking things when we went to Montreal a few years ago.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
tbh I wait in the USA cos I'm paranoid I'll get fined for jaywalking. I'm not really sure how likely that is, I guess because I haven't grown up with it being illegal to cross the street I don't really understand when you can and can't do it, like if I'm walking down a suburban street, what am I supposed to do then if there's no crossing? Is it OK to cross the road anywhere then? I really have no idea tbh.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
I've never heard of anyone getting fined for jaywalking. A good rule of thumb is, do you see a cop standing there issuing tickets to pedestrians? No? Then you won't get fined.
If there's no crosswalk just cross with caution, at a corner preferably.
I first encountered people not crossing despite zero traffic in LA. They'd be standing there on tiny side streets waiting for the light to change, no cars anywhere. I found it completely baffling. Being from Boston, I got it drilled into my head that pedestrians always have the right of way.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
Apparently being subservient to your new automobile overlords is popular in Germany, we got loudly tutted at by some locals at a pedestrian crossing in Cologne once for not waiting.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
xp I have heard of people getting fined for jaywalking, and this was in LA, so maybe that's why
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't assume if I couldn't see a cop that there isn't one lurking somewhere, that's just the kind of thing they'd do
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
That was just Jay Leno, and he deserved itxp
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
walking while jay
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
got a jaywalking ticket in Seattle 20 years ago but I still cross like a boss.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
Jaywalker for lifeI’ve got places to be, like sitting alone in my car
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
LA occasionally does jaywalking stings, where they do hide and give tickets, and that includes starting to cross after the "walk" starts flashing red but it's still a green light.
― nickn, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
for the lawful citizens, let me make sure i have this straight
https://i.imgur.com/4hu39Jr.jpg
assume you park at 1, and you want to cross the street to visit a shop at 2. assuming there's no traffic, you would walk to one of the crosswalks (arrows) rather than just crossing the street?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Nobody does that. Not even in Germany.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
I'm sure the crosswalks in Pyongyang get a lot of action
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
When I stay in the crosswalk and obey the lights, it's not so much that I'm worried about getting a jaywalking ticket. The reason is more because if I get hit by a car in the crosswalk, my liability is pretty much zero.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
brb, gotta go walk into that car parked in the crosswalk in the picture above
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
I'm ever crossing ~*sighs heavily~* a one-way street with no traffic in Prague, sure, I'm going for it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
it's a slippery slope from that to edward 40-hands, you ready for this?! wooooo!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Prague seems cool for pedestrians.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
i'd catapult from streetlight to streetlight, no law against jayleaping
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
what if it was 2-way, in any city, though? (i didn't mean to choose a 1-way street as an example. i just had a strangely difficult time find a pic showing a long street parked cars and crosswalk options at the far ends)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
i usually slither on the ground like a worm and hope no one runs me over
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
OK, back to the topic.
There's a fella in town running for the city board. His name is Bryan Frazier.
Seems like an all right guy.
But
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
This is his campaign sign.
https://i.imgur.com/JFacyRJ.jpg
I mean, I guess I should be glad his name isn't Bryan Seinfield.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
hope he doesn't get pelted with scrambled eggs or salad at a campaign event
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
This might sound particularly sad and pathetic but I always try to do this if there are any young children waiting to cross - I don't want them to get the wrong ideas about how to cross a road
I relate v strongly to this tweet/think about it a lot
To little kid eyeing my McDonalds: thats right i can eat this any time i want... Dont ask about any of the other parts of my life please.— we (@kanwetwitty) July 20, 2015
except instead of eating McDonalds I'm crossing a road without waiting for the green man
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
i get the Bryan Frazier might be a mf'er with some dark secrets
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
(feeling)
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
People who get really upset about "spoilers." I guess I find that, as an adult, the main enjoyment in watching a show is not "what happens next" but the writing, the acting, etc. It doesn't matter if I *know* x character on the Sopranos is eventually going to get whacked, it matters how it goes down as a scene. Something childish about caring that much about keeping every plot point a surprise.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
Open disdain for millennia of narrative tradition is a pretty cool posish, I guess.
― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
Complete opposite, I find the skillful revealing of new information to be one of the best tools available to any artist working with narrative, and taking a detached analytical view from the start often robs work of its impact for me. I enjoy being the audience for a work which was designed with the audience experience in mind, and really don't understand how people sometimes seem so keen to jettison this.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Also I am approaching 40 now and don't feel that this means I am somehow trapped in an infantile form of consumption.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
It just means you're able to refrain from flipping the bird at storytellers, which is an honorable quality imo.
― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
I honestly don't understand how people DONT get pissed when something is spoiled for them, you are being robbed of experiencing that narrative as it was intended to be experienced
― boobie, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
What, you don't rip the pages out of books and read them in whatever order you want?
― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
i too enjoy moving colours and shapes
― kinder, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
If it's good enough for B.S. Johnson...
https://spectator.imgix.net/content/uploads/2015/12/BS-Johnson1.jpg
― Lammy's Show (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
I like to buy crossword puzzle books where all the words have already been filled in for me. That way, I can better observe the nuance of the hints and the positioning of the grid.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link