Reminds me of this George Carlin bit:
Have you ever noticed when you’re driving that anyone who’s driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a MANIAC!
I withhold my “MANIAC” comments for the people around here that weave in between lanes, no turn signal, tailgating, going 20 over
It honestly makes my blood boil with just how irresponsible people that drive like that are
In the Netherlands, normal people cycle to work and the grocery store or use public transit. It’s just more convenient. As a result, only people who like driving use the roads. Netherlands is considered the best country for driving a car.
When you see a maniac driver, blame a politician who put in oNe MoRE lAnE instead of investing in safe transit.
The roads here are super bad, for sure. But it’s not exclusively the politician’s fault! Just mostly ;)
You can’t forget that these drivers are making the conscious decision to not be careful in a multi ton flattening machine
It’s not a conscious decision. A lot of people can’t be careful all the time. They could be neurodivergent, or have an addiction, or just be tired. If there’s no way to get around without a car, then neurodivergent, drunk, high, and tired people have to drive cars. And that’s bad.
It’s not always a conscious decision, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t sometimes. I would argue that many more bad drivers are just bad drivers rather than they can’t help it. I could be very wrong about that, but it won’t change my anger when someone almost causes a pile up because they didn’t look before changing lanes, you know?
I do agree that having poor/no public transportation (and no sidewalks!) is terrible, and I think a lot of cities that want to keep their residents alive are working to fix that, such as the city I live in. They’re adding sidewalks in a bunch of places and making downtown more walkable, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still mostly stroads!
I just watched a semi driver do literally all of those things.
Not even on the interstate, on local roads.
I watch people do this all the time on local roads! It happens on interstates here as well!
Just yesterday I almost had someone pit maneuver themselves on the front of my work truck (that was towing a heavily loaded trailer!) I still don’t know why they didn’t just slow down and go behind me (or SPEED UP A LITTLE MORE) rather than almost cause a terrible accident, since they turned right 20 seconds later and had ample time to do so
Same, but with the moving pathways at the airport
Me in either case:
“Walk the left, stand on the right, dipshit”
I’ve seen Americans shout this in countries that drive on the left side of the road. Everyone looked embarrassed for them.
Oh for sure for sure. Definitely reverse when traveling in countries that
get it wrongwant to remain a UK colony.Sadly since COVID I’ve not been able to do much international traveling. But I do still get routed through Chicago O’Hare, which adds insult to injury
(Also I’m just joking about that colonies jab. The only “correct” way is the way the community at large has decided in a particular area.)
Even if it’s a joke, how wrong are you?
I am Japan wrong lol, pretty much everyone else on that map was affected by colonialism. I mean, Japan was affected too, but Japan’s response to colonialism was “that’s a good idea, we’ll do it even harder” so I don’t think they count as another arm of Britannia.
I don’t think there’s any consistent association between side of the road and side of the escalator. E.g. within Japan, I think either Kansai or maybe Osaka specifically does it opposite to most of the rest of the country.
I was actually surprised when I was in the UK last year and people were standing on the right in the escalators. But they walked on the left in crowded places. I was expecting all pedestrian traffic to be left-sided, but it was more mixed, like their measurement systems…
so clearly you should just walk up to the last person on the escalator and stand next to them
