Clever man
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I usually give people a sarcastic thumbs up. I've seen similar results.
I give people the thumbs up when they pass me safely and legally. Am i doing it wrong? Should I give a sarcastic thumbs down?
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I don't understand how, but somehow drivers seem to be the biggest whinny cunts on the planet. I feel like 80% of drivers rage from the smallest of inconveniences, if you inconvenience them for even a few seconds they'll yell at you or flip you off. God forbid someone not notice the bonus right-turn green arrow. I feel like every time I see that everyone behind them wants to bring hell down upon them and curse their entire lineage for even existing. Even people I know personally that are typically very nice and aren't prone to getting angry get irrationally mad at people they see on the street for such trivial things. It's amazing.
It's because driving is fundamentally stressful and requires you to be 'on the ball' or risk death. You constantly have to adjust speed and positioning, and monitor everyone around you just in case they make a mistake. Sure, most of this eventually becomes automatic, but that doesn't mean it isn't stressful - just that you don't think about how stressful it is. It's the most uncomfortable thing people usually do in their day.
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Honestly the act of driving just makes people mad. They know they can go fast, so they are entitled to. Anything that gets in the way of them going fast induces anger.
Am driver, love traffic. Was on the motorway today and it was going at carwash speeds for a good 10 minutes. Had lots of fun, heard and saw some trains. Love driving
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I give people the thumbs up when they pass me safely and legally. Am i doing it wrong? Should I give a sarcastic thumbs down?
I like that it happens so rarely you feel the need to celebrate it.
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I made a guy chuckle once with a thumbs down. We both chuckled.
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Nothing to do with "drivers" as such. People on public transit are the same. There's this one guy who yelled at the top of his lungs "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAAAAAY!" when people didn't let people off the metro first. That's not an inconvenience as much as a brain failure in the other people, but...
(I'm avoiding that station until people forget what I look like.)
wrote last edited by [email protected]No no no that guy was 100% right, you let people off or youre slowing everything down. I suppress the urge to yell that every time I get on the subway.
But lmao no public transit is not as stressful. People take naps on trains and buses all the time. I very rarely see people sleeping while riding a car or bike.
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... appears to be just as bad, and they often don't even keep to biking roads (eg. biking through "no-biking" pedestrian streets and getting angry at the pedestrians being all over the place, or biking over the pedestrian crossings, etc.).
But your first statement rings true.
Nah, splitting to pass and filtering to the front reduces stress of traffic. Also the physical action of operating a bike plus more opportunities to use more than 10% of your vehicles performance gives more dopamine, unlike driving.
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I can't tell if this is a US thing anymore. Used to be protected under free speech but I don't know anymore.
Last I heard it's still technically a freedom of speech issue.... But, then again, people are supposed to see a judge before they're extradited as an illegal immigrant.... And we all know how that's been going.
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Thumbs up is even worse.
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The mature thing to do and the most "I don't give a fuck" way to be is just to move out of the way of people who want to go fast and leave lots of space between you and an aggressive driver.
I've spent a lot of time riding motorcycles. Your awareness changes and you learn to identify danger.
Seriously, why do you give a shit about the weirdo whose driving is pissing you off? When you're in a car, the easiest way to get this person out of your life is to just slow down a little.
Driving like an old person is chill as fuck. Better gas mileage, too.
Because the Wi-Fi who's driving us posting me off nearly fucking hit me by trying to cut me off inches from my front bumper from two lanes over instead of pulling into the giant expanse behind me for no reason.
Driving slow doesn't warm me they're going to spasm into my lane like that
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Thumbs up is even worse.
That's what i do.
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No no no that guy was 100% right, you let people off or youre slowing everything down. I suppress the urge to yell that every time I get on the subway.
But lmao no public transit is not as stressful. People take naps on trains and buses all the time. I very rarely see people sleeping while riding a car or bike.
That guy ... was ME!!!
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That guy ... was ME!!!
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Every time I board a subway in China or Korea, I should carry a projector and show the people waiting how good the Japanese are at getting on and off subways. As long as it's a platform with a full wall, and not the half wall a mob of people could potentially chuck you over.
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This woman in her BMW wagged her finger at me the other day for a turn I made
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Every time I board a subway in China or Korea, I should carry a projector and show the people waiting how good the Japanese are at getting on and off subways. As long as it's a platform with a full wall, and not the half wall a mob of people could potentially chuck you over.
Sounds complicated. I just shove people out of the way. Unless they're kids, old people, or infirm in some way.
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No, it literally means the same thing in this case, it's a regional variant. I heard people say it around northern Virginia several times.
Feel free to imagine something else though.
I understood what it meant. I also understood that using the phrase "flicking someone off" is not widely recognized.
This reminds me of something I saw in BoneAppleTea back in my Reddit days.
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This woman in her BMW wagged her finger at me the other day for a turn I made
Was she right to disapprove?
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Was she right to disapprove?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Technically yes, but in no way was my driving unsafe to anyone
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Cars really need a variety of horns. Like one that politely says "pardon me, do you happen to have any grey poupon?" and one that says "move or I'll rip yer fucken eyeballs out!"
Trucks in SEA often do, they have this warbling "hey, I'm here", and then a much more aggressive "get the fuck out of the way!". People also modulate their bike horn to just give a little chirp so the person you're passing knows you're there, or two to say thank you, 3+ loud ones to say "get out of the way", etc
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Honking is like the most not overkill thing ever when a car isn't moving at a green light
I don't know where you learned to drive, but I clearly remember that lesson from driving school "honking is only to be used in case of immediate danger". Which, here, is clearly not the case.