even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

Anyway I don't think I've felt that unsafe driving around w/o a seatbelt in a foreign country

Probably most unsafe I felt was in peru where the cars would honk when driving on a mountain road so that cars coming the other direction would know that there was a car coming right at them

I get my recommended vaccinations

But that's about it

It's true that there should be a ban on kids under the age of 13 being allowed to travel

OTOH the traveling of teenagers should be especially encouraged

Bringing teens to the Taj Mahal and having them go "this sucks"

riding in cars on shitty mountain roads in countries with terrible drivers/cars is basically my nightmare

p sure ive gotten ptsd from it before

The cool thing about those countries though is that all the cars are three cylinder eastern european joints w/ like 50 horsepower

The most danger they pose is what if you drive off a cliff

But if that were to happen it'd be going slow enough where you could see it coming and then dive out of the car before the car goes off the cliff

You'd probably have at least 5 seconds to realize and dive

lol sure buddy

some stat i read the developing world has like 10% of the cars and 50% of the traffic fatalities

Ok well the other consoling fact is that the lack of adequate crumple zones in the car means that your death would be swift and certain instead of drawn out and painful in a dirty hospital

Hospitals are probably very free with the morphine though

That's the main lesson I got from watching 'The Darjeeling Limited'

was talking to a friend who lived in india for ten years and she was kind of poopooing the danger of the roads there and then right after she recounted this horrific list of accidents she had been in witnessed or heard about that included people being cut in half heads run over like watermelons cars plunging off cliffs etc

in a lot of places you can get valium over the counter which ime helps w fear of automobiles, so at least you can be not scared enough to avoid dangerous situations

Those accidents happen in America too man. That's why I choose to live in the city

Where's iatee when you need him

driving in the westfjords in iceland in the rain was one of the most truly terrifying few hours of my life

i saw this yesterday and thought of iatee:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/tumblr_mvqe8gUMzP1qzft56o1_500.gif

Those accidents happen in America too man. That's why I choose to live in the city

― 乒乓, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure but they happen at a much much lower rate in the usa and when they do happen the cars are safer and the medical care is better, cars are for sure tho horrible and deadly and the only thing that will save us in when they start to drive themselves

http://i.imgur.com/rqVTOy7.jpg

some stat i read the developing world has like 10% of the cars and 50% of the traffic fatalities

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Well I think you also gotta think, what % of traffic fatalities are the drivers/passengers and what % are pedestrians, cyclists, etc.

yeah sure a factor is def just how sensible/enforced the rules of the road are

but i mean we can fool ourselves too, like ralph nader said unsafe at any speed, people die in cars going ten miles an hour sometimes

def i think the best safety advice for anyone traveling anywhere is dont behave like the australians

What do the australians do

Probably a good idea if you're worried about water quality at the places you travel to is to bring your own comedy sized can of Fosters to drink from

i'm really cautious crossing streets when i travel to places with bad drivers. i went to mexico city for a week in august and saw two pedestrians get hit by cars. i was a passenger in one of them, it was scary as shit. the other person was either dead or unconscious, totally bloody on the pavement. it was horrifying

fuuck that is horrible

"The rich are different than us."

"Yes, they are superior humans."

http://www.daveramsey.com/blog/20-things-the-rich-do-every-day

What do the australians do

― 乒乓, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they are just really adventurous and drunk with a supernatural can do attitude, i was on a ferry with like 20 people once and three of them were australians with visible wounds, i asked them all about them and the stories were all like i was climbing a waterfall wasted and im not sure what happened, lol im pretty sure you fell mate

i met a group of australians who bought a car and were driving across india, the way they described the experience was very much like a video game

http://i.imgur.com/GgsVWX9.png

crossing the street in vietnam is frogger

like 10 lanes of motor scooters to contend with

In Russia, most roads are wider than they are long

In NYC whenever I cross the street I just walk if I have the light. Don't even turn my head. Daring cars to run me over

I figure if it happens it will have been at low speeds and I can probably get a pretty sick settlement out of it. My lifetime earning potential will have been negatively affected

have you considered breakdancing across the street

or maybe youre supposed to kickflip across and then its the cop who breakdances

No but good idea. It will make it easier to prove to the judge. Can't breakdance anymore can't make money

savy

yea the whole idea of pedestrians having the right of way is just not present in latin america xps

I loved how in La Paz, Bolivia, on most streets cars were going in both directions in all parts of the street, like there were no lanes, no directions, just "I want to go there", made for some fun taxi rides

my brother lived in Hyderabad for a while & said that his driver (quiddities) hit pedestrians like every day

I got hit by a taxi in Istanbul. Turks are some crazee-ass mfers on the road.

these young turks and their driving

From that "habits of rich people" link:

"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."

damn the audiobook market must be boomin

2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.

so 'making it through the week' is not, like, a 'single goal'??

lol this list is gold

11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% for poor.

From that "habits of rich people" link:

"4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people."

damn the audiobook market must be boomin

― polyphonic,

What they don't tell you is that 98% of those are 50 Shades of Gray.

no, they are business books

just like the audible.com commercial guy says

i LOVE to READ

but WHO has the TIME?!?

NOW i can listen to BUSINESS BOOKS in my CAR

the wealthy jerk off in their cars vs. poors jerk off on the bus

How do you drive while listening to an audiobook and not miss 50% of it?

just let it wash over you, if it feels like you're understanding it then you can count it as 'read'

i listened to an audiobook on a long boooooooring drive recently and it made my experience much better
audiobooks are for people who like podcasts that are 9 hrs long