start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

and these same assholes then just keep rolling up along side you without even trying to get a break in traffic & just creep until the lane has disappeared like the point is to physically merge with my CAR

These assholes are my least favorite assholes. Someone did this to me the other day (in San Francisco, no surprise) and I just cut them off and drove slightly in the other lane so they had to pull behind me. It is one of the perks of having a wider car.

The worst assholes in this regard are the ones who refuse to merge into the lanes going to 80 E (Berkeley/Sacramento) and effectively slow down Westbound traffic to San Francisco because of their sense of entitlement. This is totally rational anger.

My pet peeve is the exact opposite because you're impeding traffic when you do that.

http://i.imgur.com/2cYbLhW.gif http://i.imgur.com/GkWQAEo.gif

The biggest assholes are the people driving cars

the issue is "consistent speed" - people here in that situation will speed up in the empty lane and then slow and swerve, leading to a chain reaction of stop and go

It's already stop and go. If anything, using the extra lane would move the point of stopping and going up a little further.

the car queue in the "zipper merge" animation scenario above seems beyond optimistic

Similar thing happens in my town (which is not San Francisco, I admit.)

Here's where a single line forms, going toward North Little Rock, in the far left lane.

http://i.imgur.com/bTeuYl5.png

Even though there are two lanes available, some commuters will throw a shit fit if you try to use the right lane. Why?

http://i.imgur.com/mhLhJ8p.png

Because waaaaay up here is this sign. Fair enough, any merging does need to happen before this point, but there's no use in starting it half a mile back the other way.

http://i.imgur.com/beP7Sb0.png

THIS IS WHY THERE IS MORE THAN ONE LANE. THIS IS A MAJOR ADVANTAGE CARS HAVE OVER TRAINS.

It's already stop and go. If anything, using the extra lane would move the point of stopping and going up a little further.

― pplains, Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:27 AM (10 minutes ago)

that's the thing -- in the scenarios I see, it is not stop and go already.

AND the stupid 80E people are making traffic worse for the 80W San Francisco people, who as I see it, are totally blameless in the fact that there are too many people getting on 80E. We should not be inconvenienced by the 80E people choosing to drive a more high-traffic route.

The biggest assholes are the people driving cars

congrats on being privileged enough to not require one!

lol yes the privilege of mass transit

the privilege of living somewhere where there is mass transit, where it's safe to walk to it ...

where your job doesn't involve having to transport things in one's personal vehicle ...

ah yes the privilege of catching 2 trains and a bus i don't know how good i have it

that makes 4 trains and 2 buses to catch every day. and those poor suckers in cars don't even get to surround themselves with 50 strangers in a no-AC environment

guys please don't do this

the privilege of living somewhere where there is mass transit, where it's safe to walk to it ...

― sarahell, Sunday, May 22, 2016 3:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's no mass transit in the Bay Area? "Safe" isn't a socially-acceptable-for-some-reason-I-can't-fathom codeword for the avoidance of non-white people that helped lead to the creation of automobile-centered suburbs in the first place? (Easier for a man to say, perhaps, though I've been physically otherwise quite a number of times in areas generally considered same)

My transit-based existence is certainly an accident of my birthplace, but we didn't have cars at all not much more than a century ago, and it's unsustainable imo for them to last another century in present form. We've figured out that there's something wrong with guns. Next, we have to figure out that there's something wrong with machines, however more useful at present, that kill a similar number of people before you even get to what comes out of their tailpipes, which can end or at least seriously inconvenience life on the planet for people privileged enough to be living in the present.

(Not privileged enough)

Just saying it's all your privilege to get in the fast lane, especially if you're about to lose your mind.

when people call people 'humans'

There's no mass transit in the Bay Area? "Safe" isn't a socially-acceptable-for-some-reason-I-can't-fathom codeword for the avoidance of non-white people

crime happens on the subway mr. nebb. people are harassed, especially non-male people. really not up to you to declare people's avoidance of mass transit racist.

also of course it's a privilege to live in a city with good mass transit. the G train was a pain in the ass yesterday but i still felt lucky i didn't have to drive a car.

sorry i was just annoyed by ur post bc i remember when someone got stabbed in the face on the philadelphia subway and my friend decided he didn't want to take it anymore.

woah hold up you were annoyed by a gabbneb post?

(Easier for a man to say, perhaps, though I've been physically otherwise quite a number of times in areas generally considered same)

gabbneb leads a stranger life than I thought

crime happens on the subway mr. nebb. people are harassed, especially non-male people. really not up to you to declare people's avoidance of mass transit racist.

― Treeship, Monday, May 23, 2016 7:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really not up to you to declare what i can say about anything. i'll say both that and that the existence of suburbs in the first place is racist in part. crime can happen anywhere and everywhere - why do you think all those suburbanites are so interested in their safety systems and rural people so clingy about their guns - and i've been the victim of "crime" (or nearly same)/harassment in the subway system more than once. people who eschew urban cores and the public sphere (mass transit represented by both) are, well, some combination of [gendered anatomy reference here]/people who fail to perceive large numbers/risk appropriately - same deal with people afraid to fly who drive cars every day, which are far more dangerous than getting on the subway - and public discourse/understanding of purported urban dangers has for decades been bound up with race. whatever your intention or understanding of what you're doing, by deeming large places safe or unsafe, you're verbally redlining them and othering their inhabitants without justification.

(home security systems)

what's the gendered anatomy reference for someone who's afraid he'll get in trouble if he calls someone else a pussy but is too tickled by the idea to delete the insinuation entirely? hoping one of our british brethren can help me out

back off man -- he's survived "crime"

This thread is beginning to make me very rationally angry.

^^^

keep calm, trayce. according to benbbag, aka gabbneb, he knows just what he's talking about and he's entirely right in this matter. we know we can trust his judgment on this, because after all, he does.

Did you just call that kettle black, Mr. Pot?

lol "afraid"

very little i'm afraid of, i'm afraid

ohhhh, youre THAT guy.

Xpost you're apparently afraid of brevity

brev-neb

People who browse my store and dont find anything they wanna buy but cant leave without making a point of they will definitely come back to buy something to me. Just leave its cool you dont have to lie to me.

Maybe this would be fine if it didnt happen all the fucking time. Just fuck off.

Yesss. We get a lot of people who spend ten minutes quietly browsing and then practically yell "THANK YOU!!!" as they leave. Just fucking LEAVE, that's all the thanks I need.

I just started noticing this, but am getting more & more IA about people (coworkers mostly, also a couple of friends) who turn every moment of their lives into a story that takes like, 45 minutes of retelling

I'm longwinded on paper but in person I cannot truncate my life experiences enough to just end the awkwardness of even talking about it in the first place. But so many people I know just do these one-person shows everytime I see them

I do not understand these ppl. Like, every time, they legit tell the mundane events of their lives like telenovellas; trips to the vet, a car alarm going off, parking in a no parking zone; SAGA. how is everything in your life an EVENT with so many names & so much fking draama?

drives me crazy

also the assumption that I care THAT much about these non-dramas, i dgi

Oh dear thats the fap fucked

im always fascinated when im on transit and can't help but eavesdrop someone's phone conversation when all that is discussed, at great length and in greatly animated fashion, is the excruciating minutiae of the individual's life. as in a half hour anecdote about shopping for a couch where literally nothing remarkable happens

there's also a woman who walks by my building when i get home from work and am letting my cat out on our balcony to touch noses with the neighbor cat through the fence, who every day walks by on her mobile phone, probably on the way home from work, always talking about something really quotidian and unremarkable

occasionally, when i leave for work earlier than usual i pass by her in the morning doing the same thing on the way to work

i only phone someone if i need to arrange something

the other day i was reading a plain text internet discussion forum and there were some people on it talking about how in their daily lives they are frequently confronted with people talking about the most inconsequential things in great detail and this was both bemusing and irritating

isn't all of this basically seinfeld

not that i ever liked it

oh I don't actually get ia about this i just find it funny because talking to someone on the phone about everything that happened to me that day is not something it would ever occur to me to do

'... and chill' meme