What a Jerk
09-21-07, 09:12 AM
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Unfortunatly it runs both ways and makes drivers think all cyclists are stupid. Driving down Rt 19 South of Pittsburgh, PA and a guy on a road bike flys between 2 lanes of traffic waiting for a light. He almost got clipped. Not a kid either. Now almost everyone in that line of traffic thinks cyclists are stupid and deserve to die.
09-21-07, 09:24 AM
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on the subjet... but a little off subjet..
last night I was taking my kid driving, she just passed her driver's education.
She saw a cyclist on the road and said " OK, Now I have to honk my horn at him" I asked her why? he is clearly not in your way, why honk?
and she said that her driver's ed teacher told them that everytime you see a cyclist on the road you have to honk at them to let them know you're coming!
That just had me puzzled... if he was in the middle of the road maybe... but no, it was clear to her that it was with every encounter of a cyclist.
when I mentionned to her about cyclist having just as much rights as vehicules to use the road, she said he didnt mention anything about safety and sharing the road with cyclist, but just to honk at them.
last night I was taking my kid driving, she just passed her driver's education.
She saw a cyclist on the road and said " OK, Now I have to honk my horn at him" I asked her why? he is clearly not in your way, why honk?
and she said that her driver's ed teacher told them that everytime you see a cyclist on the road you have to honk at them to let them know you're coming!
That just had me puzzled... if he was in the middle of the road maybe... but no, it was clear to her that it was with every encounter of a cyclist.
when I mentionned to her about cyclist having just as much rights as vehicules to use the road, she said he didnt mention anything about safety and sharing the road with cyclist, but just to honk at them.
1. I do not find it surprising that the instructor did not tell your daughter how to share the road cyclists, these teachers are usually football coaches who could care less about doing that teaching stuff
2. What surprises me is that during her driver's ed. that you never mentioned that yourself.
Say it ain't so.
09-21-07, 09:26 AM
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Unfortunatly it runs both ways and makes drivers think all cyclists are stupid. Driving down Rt 19 South of Pittsburgh, PA and a guy on a road bike flys between 2 lanes of traffic waiting for a light. He almost got clipped. Not a kid either. Now almost everyone in that line of traffic thinks cyclists are stupid and deserve to die.
09-21-07, 09:26 AM
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I blame it on religion that says to populate the planet so we can destroy it and then all that pray will be saved. So now you have complete idiots with no education except what the church tells them are breeding like crazy. I will bet your red truck driver comes from 16 year old parents who should not be allowed to drive let alone breed. I have been around the world and only stupid people are breeding!
Give yourself a cookie.
09-21-07, 10:06 AM
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Two things:
1. I do not find it surprising that the instructor did not tell your daughter how to share the road cyclists, these teachers are usually football coaches who could care less about doing that teaching stuff
2. What surprises me is that during her driver's ed. that you never mentioned that yourself.
Say it ain't so.
1. I do not find it surprising that the instructor did not tell your daughter how to share the road cyclists, these teachers are usually football coaches who could care less about doing that teaching stuff
2. What surprises me is that during her driver's ed. that you never mentioned that yourself.
Say it ain't so.
however this was my first time taking her out, her dad did all the driving with her.
this was the first time I saw her reacting to cyclists on the road and heard of her teacher telling her to honk at every encounters and he is not a football coach, he's a police officer in Newmarket,NH.
09-21-07, 10:41 AM
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09-21-07, 01:05 PM
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09-21-07, 01:18 PM
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I constantly find myself repeating this same phrase to myself;
"Maybe Adolf and Stalin had the right ideas, but the wrong targets..."
Meaning that an intellectual genocide is in order.
"Maybe Adolf and Stalin had the right ideas, but the wrong targets..."
Meaning that an intellectual genocide is in order.
09-21-07, 01:37 PM
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09-21-07, 01:51 PM
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What's with all you self-righteous people out there who think you're so much more intelligent and worthy to live because of where you dwell, what kind of music you do or don’t listen to, and what kind of sports you do or don’t watch?
Do you hear yourselves?
You guys joke about killing off people based solely on how you deem yourselves.
Do you hear yourselves?
You guys joke about killing off people based solely on how you deem yourselves.
09-22-07, 11:50 AM
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This is not entirely true. Man is his own enemy. Lawyers have thru liablity lawsuits all but eliminated the possibility for stupid people to elimate themselves from the gene pool. I'm not saying that lawyers shouldnt have done it, but the byproduct of such suits is that stupid people live longer and procreate.
So if we want to shore up the gene pool, lets get rid of some lawyers.
So if we want to shore up the gene pool, lets get rid of some lawyers.
09-22-07, 12:59 PM
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“Quite an evening, on the ride home, the Prague dude and I had little altercation with a tweaker in a red truck. The guy was an idiot. I actually had to ask him, “Do you have such little regard for another human’s life that you would run them over for riding a bicycle on the street?”
His reply was a “Yep, if they’re that arrogant to ride in the road they deserve to die.”
His reply was a “Yep, if they’re that arrogant to ride in the road they deserve to die.”
... Brad
09-22-07, 01:31 PM
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Back in de ghetto
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09-22-07, 02:06 PM
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it was just very clear that the message that came across was "honk at cyclists" but nothing about sharing the road and cyclists rights.
tell you the thruth I wondered about my daughter's comprehension so I asked her gf and she got the same message from this class.
tell you the thruth I wondered about my daughter's comprehension so I asked her gf and she got the same message from this class.
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09-22-07, 02:08 PM
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09-22-07, 04:22 PM
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Irksom CC. That's what you are. Irksom.
09-22-07, 05:05 PM
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dws5b where is your fiery repartee?
Anyway..
Which two?
Melchizedek? Thank goodness for Google or I'd never know who that is. Let me get out my old grad school texts and see what I missed.
Jeez, I thought I was cynical!
Make mine a biscotti.
Anyway..
Which two?
Make mine a biscotti.
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09-22-07, 05:47 PM
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She saw a cyclist on the road and said " OK, Now I have to honk my horn at him" I asked her why? he is clearly not in your way, why honk?
and she said that her driver's ed teacher told them that everytime you see a cyclist on the road you have to honk at them to let them know you're coming!
That just had me puzzled... if he was in the middle of the road maybe... but no, it was clear to her that it was with every encounter of a cyclist.
and she said that her driver's ed teacher told them that everytime you see a cyclist on the road you have to honk at them to let them know you're coming!
That just had me puzzled... if he was in the middle of the road maybe... but no, it was clear to her that it was with every encounter of a cyclist.
I always get a kick out of people who wait until they get right next to me to beep. It doesn't work! Sometimes I frown at them, other times I laugh at them.
09-22-07, 07:37 PM
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What a Jerk
I blame it on religion that says to populate the planet so we can destroy it and then all that pray will be saved. So now you have complete idiots with no education except what the church tells them are breeding like crazy. I will bet your red truck driver comes from 16 year old parents who should not be allowed to drive let alone breed. I have been around the world and only stupid people are breeding!
09-22-07, 08:25 PM
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Too funny.
09-22-07, 08:29 PM
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09-22-07, 08:39 PM
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Now who is the self righteous one doing the judging.
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