That's fine.
The “Random crap that crosses your path and leaves you baffled” Thread!
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That's fine.
Yup. 4 of us in the left hand lane which goes left (believe it or not) and straight ahead. Front of the queue was a learner who was the cause. I was 3rd.
Learner finally pulls out and so queue starts moving. He's obviously seen it from a distance back and thinks he's gonna be Jonny big balls. Goes in the right hand lane which is for turning right and another right but tries to go straight ahead. By this time I'm moving and his front wheels are beside my driver door. Despite this he still tries to turn in. I keep going. Car behind me keeps going. No space for idiot who still tries to keep going.
Of course there is.
I parked on the hill outside my mother-in-law's house (it's a big wide road) and some bloke stood by the side of the road said "You can't park there, it's not allowed".
I stopped and looked down for the non-existent double yellow lines, looked up for the non-existent parking restriction signs and said the equivalent of "U wot m8?" and started to walk off.
"OI, YOU CAN'T PARK THERE" he shouted
I wasn't having the best of days so I stopped and repeated "U wot m8?", he then ran at me, spuds up.
He bounced off my outstretched palms but somehow managed to grab my coat and I landed up top of him gripping his shirt.
I'm still baffled as to why he thought I wasn't allowed to park there and his response.
Lol, sounds like you met a proper angryman there! How did it end, did you get any sense out of him?
I said "I'm going to get off you and then you're going to **** off, RIGHT?".
I got off him, and he ****** off.
Strange.
Haha, classic. That belongs in a comedy sketch.
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Saw the video of the Scandinavian woman being beheaded in Morocco. Just completely and utterly awful. ****ing animals. It's truly baffling why western women would ever choose to go to Muslim countries, especially alone.
Was this recently?
What was her crime, (except not having a male witness to back her side of the story of course)?
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Nice bit of generalising there, the vast majority of those “thick” truckers can operate a six forward gear shift lever, with a ‘splitter’, making it effectively 12 forward gears, how do you think you’d do?
Let’s say that you’re approaching a roundabout, in sixth ‘high’, effectively twelfth, doing 60-65 mph.
As you slow down to maybe 28-30, and probably lower, and drive on, out of the roundabout, do you drop it down to sixth ‘low’, or fourth or fifth ‘low’?
And no, I’m not condoning tailgating, in any vehicle.
Even performing chimps can repeat a task when trained so not sure how you stating that they do something, which when trained I'm pretty sure anyone could do it, has any relevance to his statement.
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I don’t wish to prolong this, but while I’ll agree that chimps can be trained to do certain tasks, both simple, and also ones a little more involved, can they be trained to work out the speed of the vehicle, and whether a higher or lower gear will keep it rolling, by the feel of the reaction of the vehicle to whichever gear has been selected?
In saying this, I acknowledge the intelligence of simians, and recognise also that not all truckers are candidates for Mastermind.
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Its the same for any car driver aswell. You have to select the right gear when changing down. Only difference is lorries have more gears....
These blackmail emails. Do people actually fall for it? Got one a few days ago that said they had installed a keybot and had remote access to my computer and had made a double video, one of the site i was watching, then another through my webcam. While having remote access they have also copied all my email contacts and will send the video to them all if I don't comply. He also complimented me on my choice of adult content, which was nice of them. He offered me a great deal of $1000 in bitcoin and he will delete the video.
The only slight worrying thing is that they have actually got one of my old passwords, so I'm guessing some site has been breached, but can't remember what that password was for.
The only slight worrying thing is that they have actually got one of my old passwords, so I'm guessing some site has been breached, but can't remember what that password was for.
They realise, they just don't have a single care for the continuing existence of people like you.
As I said in reply to you before:
I suggested 3 possible alternative explanations to "STUPID!". The fact that you ignored 2 of them and fixated on the least likely one doesn't negate the fact that I suggested 3. One of which was as I said above and as Kenai pointed out.
Or as I phrased it in my original post:
So Kenai's post of:
has essentially the same meaning as my original argument.
So yes, I was making that argument and no, Kenai is not actually agreeing with you.
Participant alleged that most truckers are thick, Dis 86 followed up with, “even chimps can be trained to perform a task”, (shifting gears).
I was trying to point out that truckers can’t be that “thick”, if they can work out which gear to select out of twelve, by the ‘feel’ of the forward motion, or lack of, of their truck, I doubt chimps could work that out.
A wasted effort apparently, but never mind, it’s no big deal.