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Weekly questions
Topic Started: Jul 31 2010, 06:17 PM (6,829 Views)
Sarah
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Sep 23 2010, 08:21 PM
Well, you're right in that there are loads of unanswered questions. Each season presented brand new complications, making even more questions. But, since we have yet to watch the last season, I'm hoping for some resolution. Think I'll go ahead and bump it up instead of waiting for Fringe next.
Don't hold your breath for total resolution... :fear:

Fringe is awesome, though.
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Sep 24 2010, 05:30 AM
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Sep 24 2010, 01:47 AM
One. I was in the far left lane on the expressway, a wall of traffic to my left when a car came up on my back bumper, backed off and then repeated.
One of my hobbies is slowing down when someone does this.
I do love doing that. Especially if the fucker has the nerve to flash me when I'm doing the limit (or even just over) and overtaking. I slow down and wave the finger back at them, until I eventually switch lanes. Such small pleasures make motorway journey much more fun :) Ryan thinks we're going to get attacked by a road rage loon ever time I give drivers the finger, but I do that almost daily on roundabouts. Honestly, I know you guys in the states don't have to deal with roundabouts, but you'd fit right in over here, as no-one living in this country seems to understand roundabout etiquette :roll:
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not sure what a roundabout is, but i can tell you that 90% of the drivers over here are assholes and alot of them are insane as well. and i live in a modest sized town. i've seen how people drive in the cities, and i'll have none of that. downright scary. :fear:

and yeah, from what i've heard from a few people, the ending of Lost left something to be desired. a couple people were actually rather pissed off about it.
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Sep 25 2010, 03:21 PM
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Sep 24 2010, 05:30 AM
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Sep 24 2010, 01:47 AM
One. I was in the far left lane on the expressway, a wall of traffic to my left when a car came up on my back bumper, backed off and then repeated.
One of my hobbies is slowing down when someone does this.
I do love doing that. Especially if the fucker has the nerve to flash me when I'm doing the limit (or even just over) and overtaking. I slow down and wave the finger back at them, until I eventually switch lanes. Such small pleasures make motorway journey much more fun :) Ryan thinks we're going to get attacked by a road rage loon ever time I give drivers the finger, but I do that almost daily on roundabouts. Honestly, I know you guys in the states don't have to deal with roundabouts, but you'd fit right in over here, as no-one living in this country seems to understand roundabout etiquette :roll:
We have 2 roundabouts in our town. I really don't mind them, but I do know what you mean about roundabout etiquette. Some people stop right in the middle of them and look downright confused....Uhhhh, duh, should I go or is it his turn, what what? However there is this area out in the middle of farm country to the north of us and of all things is a stupid roundabout. Roads where tractors go! Wonder what genius politician voted that in.

And yeah, Fringe is awesome. I love John Noble in it. I have hopes for this show, but won't keep my fingers crossed considering how just about every series we watch turns sour somewhere along the way.
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Sep 25 2010, 01:34 PM
Did you tell the cops what happened and why? Not that it would do any good at that point, but if he was decent enough he could of just gave you a warning then.
Nope, wasn't any point the car was long gone and I shouldn't have let the other car dictate my speed.

I loved round-abouts when I was in the UK. They actually make a good deal more sense than cross-stops*













*that is the single lane ones do, the massive two lane ones I saw were just wrong.

I watched the first episode of Fringe and didn't like it.
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ah ok i looked up 'roundabout'. so do people just get in there and drive around in circles for fun, or do kids now cruise roundabouts as opposed to the drag? B)
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I don't know about that, but at least it eliminates having to stop and wait for traffic... well until you meet up with a dolt like mentioned in the above posts.

Here in the US we travel counter-clockwise of course.

Now this is weird... the ad at the top of this page is an Expedia ad in Bellingham, WA. Of all the places in the world..............
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that's only because Expedia is spying on you. oh wait, nevermind that's not true. you have my personal guarantee that Expedia is not spying on you. and i do not work for them, in case you were wondering. i have nothing to do with Expedia. seriously. no one is spying on you just go back to filing your nails. :fear:
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Sep 26 2010, 04:08 AM
ah ok i looked up 'roundabout'. so do people just get in there and drive around in circles for fun, or do kids now cruise roundabouts as opposed to the drag? B)
Roundabouts require too much effort for Da Kidz to find them fun, they still prefer straight strips of road.

Roundabouts work great when people are not idiots. Imagine a crossroads with a round thing in the middle, instead of everyone having to wait through 4 sets of traffic lights, traffic can keep moving. Yay!

However, say I am entering the roundabout, and I have to give way to traffic coming on the right. I can't enter the roundabout until the coast is clear and there's traffic coming - but wait! That traffic has turned off into my junctions BUT THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO SIGNAL, thus wasting my effing time. ARGH.

Simple roolz:

- You give way to the right (in the UK)
- Unless you are taking the left exit or going straight ahead, you should be signalling RIGHT
- You signal LEFT when you are coming off the roundabout - this stops you wasting everyone else's fucking time.
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Sep 25 2010, 03:21 PM
Honestly, I know you guys in the states don't have to deal with roundabouts, but you'd fit right in over here, as no-one living in this country seems to understand roundabout etiquette :roll:
I don't live in the USA. We have heaps of roundabouts in this city. HEAPS.
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Sep 26 2010, 07:32 PM
that's only because Expedia is spying on you. oh wait, nevermind that's not true. you have my personal guarantee that Expedia is not spying on you. and i do not work for them, in case you were wondering. i have nothing to do with Expedia. seriously. no one is spying on you just go back to filing your nails. :fear:
Well we don't actually live in Bellingham, we're still a bit south of it. But it's the big city we go to when we need to go to a big city, lol!

And I already filed my nails and painted them. They have polka dots on them to match the outfit I wore yesterday. Such tedious work too, let me tell ya.
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polka dots eh. woo. ;)

looks like Bellingham is very close to the Canadian border and also right on the water. bet it's a nice looking place. but heh 80k people is not what i would call a big city. my town has ~130k when the students are here and i don't really even think of it as a city more like a large town.

ps yeesh Amentep what is that thing?
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It's a big enough city to me. There's water everywhere in western Washington. Even though we don't see the bay or sound from our place we have seagulls that fly over the fields around here.

Here's where we were on Saturday...

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Of course Ace has to get close to it and look over the edge. :roll:

Then we find access to the shore. Point Wilson lighthouse in the distance.

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Also played around inside the lighthouse. Fort Casey lighthouse on Whidbey Island.

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kewl. i love that sign. seagulls freak me out tho. :fear:
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Sep 27 2010, 01:54 PM
polka dots eh. woo. ;)

looks like Bellingham is very close to the Canadian border and also right on the water. bet it's a nice looking place. but heh 80k people is not what i would call a big city. my town has ~130k when the students are here and i don't really even think of it as a city more like a large town.

ps yeesh Amentep what is that thing?
The metropolitan area here has over 5 Million people.

5. Million. people.

Only about a half a mil who live in the city. Yay urban sprawl!

Its also about half the amount of people in the London metropolitan area. :yikes:

Anyhow, turn signals are optional here which is just as not fun on cross stops as a roundabout unless there's actually a light (and even then right on red is a hideous invention).

If by "that thing" you mean my avatar, its Barbara Steele from Curse of the Crimson Altar

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