Why don't people going round corners bump into each other more often?

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It's strange.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because I'm always the cautious one who crawls around blind corners in second gear and sees the other person fifteen light years before they see me. Otherwise there would be more bumps, yes.

― Trevor, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But they do! I just collided with a pedestrian on Harpenden High Street! Very embarrassing!

― kate, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I assumed you meant in cars. This thread is silly.

― Trevor, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because they tend to not take the corner too tightly, which gives valuable extra milliseconds of spot-and-avoid time.

― Nick, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CARS?!?!? We know nothing of this in the Icen Forests Of Hertfordshire. I mean, erm... ISLINGTON!!! Hooray! (sorry, excited about packing)

― kate, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But I take the corner as tight as I can, every time. And I never bump into nowt, man.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This thread is silly

possibly the most redundant thing ever posted on ilx?

― jess, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But I take the corner as tight as I can, every time. And I never bump into nowt, man.

Yeah well it only needs one of you to be more careful. One of these days you'll come face to face with a fellow extreme sports fanatic and then you'll be sorry.

― Nick, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am reminded of a slackerized Great Gatsby. Tracer reminds me of Fitzgerald quite often, actually.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ILE, Jess, ILE. ILM is always discussing important bizness.

― David Raposa, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has an extensive underground and skyway tunnel system, especially on its West Bank campus. The tunnels have those reflecting globes on the ceiling that are supposed to let you know if someone's coming so you don't run into them - many more globes than any other place I've been. Yet people almost collide (whoops scuse me sorry) going around corners more than any place I've ever been.

― Josh, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I imagine this is because some people in Minnesota are extraordinarily tall and others not so tall, or, in fact, positively short. What do you think of this hypothesis, Mr. Kortbein?

― youn, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Minnesotans have evidently become weak and reliant on the supposedly all-seeing globes as an alert mechanism and so do not exercise sufficient caution when approaching corners when they clearly should because, as Mr. Dastoor will gladly testify, mirrors can be very confusing things indeed.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

josh that would be cuz they're looking at the ceiling not round the corners duh

ans to question = gaydar, vestigial in some THEY SAY but hah! (i say)

― mark s, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's just plain nutty, youn.

― Josh, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"This thread is silly" "possibly the most redundant thing ever posted on ilx?"

Possibly the most consummate failure to spot irony on ile?

Is Jess an American, perchance? ;-)

― Trevor, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But isnt this the "its ironic cos I said so" brand of irony.

― Ronan, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was not aware that irony came in different brands.

― Trevor, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everything does nowadays what with capitalism and the internet.

― Ronan, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well it was just the one brand in my day. That's the trouble with today's youth, they always want more.

― Trevor, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even more spam?

― DG, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even more *brands* of spam.

― Trevor, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did ya know that sperm is a canned luncheon meat?

I think if one bought this book one would feel justified in arguing that one had been sold a pup.

― Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bad blue spam.

― Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Luncheon meat = posh spam. Sometime with egg in.

Spam invented so people could have their chopped pork and ham for dinner as well.

― Pete, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But sperm = posh spam? No way.

― Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

official description of Spam by makers = pork luncheon meat, as discussed on Spam thread. Do try and keep up.

― chris, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who keep up? Me? I'm lost. I was just trying to make it clear that sperm isn't spam.

― Nick, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was talking to the Barnet Ape Nick. But as official archivist you should be able to point Pete to the Spam discussion.

― chris, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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