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

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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.

pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link

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.

sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link

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.

sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link

The biggest assholes are the people driving cars

Jeff, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link

congrats on being privileged enough to not require one!

sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link

lol yes the privilege of mass transit

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link

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

sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link

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

sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link

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

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link

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

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link

guys please don't do this

#amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link

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.

normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link

(Not privileged enough)

normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link

when people call people 'humans'

map, Monday, 23 May 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link

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.

Treeship, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link

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.

Treeship, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link

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.

Treeship, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link

woah hold up you were annoyed by a gabbneb post?

map, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link

(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

Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link

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.

normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link

(home security systems)

normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link

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

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link

This thread is beginning to make me very rationally angry.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link

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.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link

lol "afraid"

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

normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link

ohhhh, youre THAT guy.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link

Xpost you're apparently afraid of brevity

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link

brev-neb

Treeship, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link

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.

You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link

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

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link

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

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link

Oh dear thats the fap fucked

Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link

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

the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link

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

the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link

i only phone someone if i need to arrange something

the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link

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

F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link

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

the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link

'... and chill' meme

map, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 23:12 (eight years ago) link

As far as longwinded sagas go, there's a particular variety I really hate, and it involves people who don't understand the rules of drunkenness - specifically the rule that the deeper both parties are in their cups the simpler their stories need to be. Individual outbursts of dialogue should become shorter as well. If conversation can't turn more salacious it should at least not get more boring.

I was at the bar the other day with a woman and we'd been drinking for hours when suddenly she launched into a comparative study of her home mortgages past and present. She was oblivious to the reality that a) it is nearly impossible for the booze-addled brain to follow such a tortuous story filled with dry detail, and b) she's going to have to tell me the whole story again some other day because I'm probably forgetting this entire phase of our conversation.

Josefa, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link

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

yeah this. Almost daily, pn the way to work, there'd be some person or other (almost always women, though I dont think it matters) who is having a long winded yammer about everything and nothing on the phone. At 7.30AM. On the tram. WHY? What is SO IMPORTANT that it cant wait til evening or lunchtime? I'd see some women have an endless boring call, end it, and immediately call someone else and start all over again! FFS shut up.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link

Haha. I always feel for the person on the other end.

the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link

"Yeah, I'm on the bus. Yes. On the bus. I'm on the bus. Yeah."

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

in you I recognize a member of my tribe. some day we may meet and exchange knowing nods.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 06:27 (eight years ago) link

"we'd been drinking for hours when suddenly she launched into a comparative study of her home mortgages past and present. "

haha this is def a thing. horrible thing.

always be charging (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 08:02 (eight years ago) link

Meditation

Jeff, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link


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