Not to hijack my own thread, but…
My dad did computer simulations of traffic (Air, auto, trains, etc.) for the US government back in the 80’s. The software is still in use today. One of the surprising things that they found was:
The blocked lane moves faster.
Now, this doesn’t take into account the “asshole factor,” but if all you are interested in is getting to your destination in the shortest amount of time, then always drive in the lane than needs to merge.
Fair enough, and I totally agree with you.
Wow, another person who thinks like me!
As soon as the cute intro starts I am counting “One, one thousand, Two, one thousand” in my head, and if they make it in under ten seconds I smile.
There are a few good channels where I tolerate their 20-second “look at me!!!” intro, by skipping over it every single time.
Do you really want to know? Really?!? OK, sigh… it’s called copremesis. In German: Miserere or Mundstuhl. In French: vomissement fécaloïde. A horrible thing to happen to anyone, there are no more than 50 or 60 people in the world I would wish that. OK, make that 80.
Now I finally know where the comedy duo had their name from! I never knew it was an actual thing., blech.
Indeed. That’s the problem.
Me too (except commute & train instead of fly & plane).
The YouTube intro annoyance: good content creators know that the thumbnail is the intro. This isn’t 1960 when half the audience switched from Boxing to Harvest of Shame on a lark and needs to know how vegetables are taken out of the ground in the first place.
Extra penalty for the usage of “unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know” what they’ll now waste five minutes going back over.
Not sure how this thread is different from regular pet peeves, but one thing that annoys me is when I am watching a show and before the commercial break will be a “Coming up next” montage.
I am already watching the show! Stop showing me what will happen later, I am already a viewer! You doing this makes me want to not watch.
Pretty much anything when I’m driving. LOL
People who say “there’s” in the singular, when they mean “there are”.
examples:
“there’s a million reasons why…”
“there’s five people waiting to meet you”
No, No, No!
There ARE a million reasons,
There ARE five people
For plants like mint I drill holes in the bottom of a five or eight gallon bucket and bury it in the yard. Plant mint in the bucket.
There’s FOUR lights!
Oh, I’ve got a new one. People who think they’re being smart when they change “business day” to “24 business hours”
Listen dumb shit, business hours are typically between 9am - 5pm, so you went from telling me to expect a return call tomorrow to sometime 3 business days from now. And I’ve confirmed with several of these morons that they really do mean a business day, not three days.
Yep. YouTube has cracked down on ad hiders/blockers, now they gotta crack down on ads when I pay to see no ads. Iuse to like Legal Eagle, but they do that too much.
The hell? There is a number on that sticker. It needs to match your registration.
And in Colorado anyway, the instructions say to peal the old sticker off. Hahahahha. It ain’t going anywhere. Oh, I’ve tried to scrape the old sticker off with a sharp pocket knife. You get tiny, tiny ‘chunks’.
The old sticker gets cleaned off, and the new one goes right on top of it, obscuring the old one.
Right. The old sticker matched the registration on the car I just traded in and no longer own. The new sticker matches my new car’s registration.
Oh, I love this. I am sure you are also irritated beyond measure by the guy who passes right by everybody (me included) who dutifully moved into the middle lane when seeing the “right lane closed ahead” and then expects someone to let him in. Not me, I tell ya.
Yes. Oh, yes. If I can, I do.
Once when I was driving down the I5 to the Los Angeles area, a power line fell right across the entire freeway, effectively cutting off traffic coming and going in the middle of nowhere, meaning the gawdawful stretch between Santa Nella and Coalinga. It was a day or so ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and the roads were busy, busy, busy. I had postponed filling up with gas and peeing because I’d planned to do that in Coalinga (hey, it’s only 15 more miles!).
The only way to get out of this mess was to cross the median and head back north to the next exit. So that’s what everyone did. Including the entitled dipshits who kept line-butting as they do. I was in agony.
I was following a trucker, figuring he’d know a route to get out of this debacle. I nearly cried with gratitude as he positioned his rig so that the line-butters were forced to get in line like the rest of us at the exit. He kept it up as long as possible before he had to move into line himself.
I stuck with that trucker until he – as I had hoped – guided me back on to the freeway around the downed power line. He never knew how many kisses I blew in his direction that day.
Yeah, they miss ALL the construction signs to move left. They are oblivious, or just feel entitled.
Yes I know about zipper merge. That works in crowded conditions. But if you can just move over to a through lane while traffic is moving fine, and not crowded, you won’t get your ass stuck when the lane ends.
Then they will jump in, accelerating from zero, and slowing everyone else down.