Pittsburgh. One of our other annoying customs here which drives me crazy is to slow down for tunnels. In every other part of the country I've been to, people maintain speed while going through tunnels but not here, Here they slam on the brakes and crawl through 20 mph below the speed limit.

Yeah i can see how that would be annoying!

How about people that don't know how to merge, especially at high-speed (well on the motorway). OMG i just lose it when i encounter these types....

RANT RANT RANT!

In my part of the country there are some civil engineers who need to be forced to drive the roads they designed as punishment. I know of half a dozen on-ramps where there is almost no acceleration lane, yet merging traffic is expected to get from a 30mph (~50kph) road into traffic going at least 60mph (~100kph) and usually closer to 75mph (~120kph).

One of these lethal on-ramps is the exit from the city zoo. Way to be welcoming to the tourists!

That sounds like my neck of the woods. We have several onramps like that in the San Diego area. You have to "floor it" to try to get up to speed because of the lack of an acceleration lane. If you're slow, like my little 4WD truck is, you end up trying to get up to speed on the shoulder.... )-:<

Scariest on-ramp I know. Sunland Blvd to I-5 South in Los Angeles. It's too short to get up to speed, it spills directly into the lane, there is no shoulder, and the trees block the view of oncoming traffic of you and your view of them.

One day even floored all I could hear is the airhorn of the bigrig behind me and I had a closeup view of his grill in my rearview mirror.

The worst Interstate in the country is in Pittsburgh. The Interstate in the downtown area is a maze of on ramps and off ramps where your having to shoot across several lanes of traffic to keep on the Interstate (and the single lane on/off ramps are I-279). I'm surprised there aren't more accidents than there are in that section of roadway.

Example: From the Ft. Pitt Tunnels which is I-279, you have to cross 2 lanes of traffic to hit a left hand ramp and then once off that ramp you have to cross another lane to the right to reach an on ramp and then shoot over two lanes of traffic to stay on the stupid road. It's the dumbest road design I have ever seen anywhere and drives me nuts when I have to travel over it.

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John Cleese has retired from writing and performing.....
Python Thread.

So here, as a tribute to Monty Python, is the ULTIMATE rant.......

Bounder: Anyway about the holiday

Tourist: Well I saw your adverts in the paper and I've been on package tours several times you see, and I decided that this was for me

Bounder: Ah good

Tourist: Yes I quite agree I mean what's the point of being treated like sheep. What's the pointof going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea - "Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home" - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamares and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh 'cos they "overdid it on the first day."

Bounder: (agreeing patiently) Yes absolutely, yes I quite agree...

Tourist: And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Continentales with their modern international luxury roomettes and draught Red Barrel and swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging into queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss the bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night the hotel has a bloody cabaret in the bar, featuring a tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some bloated fat tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.

Bounder: (beggining to get fed up) Yes, yes now......

Tourist: And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman Remains to buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel and one evening you visit the so called typical restaurant with local colour and atmosphere and you sit next to a party from Rhyl who keep singing "Torremolinos, torremolinos" and complaining about the food - "It's so greasy isn't it?" - and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's Daily Express and he drones on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Pow ell can speak and then he throws up over the Cuba Libres.

Bounder: Will you be quiet please

Tourist: And sending tinted postcards of places they don't realise they haven't even visited to "All at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an 'X'.

Bounder: Shut up

Tourist: Food very greasy but we've found a charming little local place hidden away in the back streets

Bounder: Shut up!

Tourist: where they serve Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion.......

Bounder: Shut up your bloody gob....

Tourist: crisps and the accordionist plays 'Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner'." And spending four days on the tarmac at Luton airport on a five-day package tour with nothing to eat but dried BEA-type sandwiches and you can't even get a drink of Watney's Red Barrel because you're still in England and the bloody bar closes every time you're thirsty and there's nowhere to sleep and the kids are crying and vomiting and breaking the plastic ash-trays and they keep telling you it'll only be another hour although your plane is still in Iceland and has to take some Swedes to Yugoslavia before it can load you up at 3 a.m. in the bloody morning and you sit on the tarmac till six because of "unforeseen difficulties", i.e. the permanent strike of Air Traffic Control in Paris - and nobody can go to the lavatory until you take off at 8, and when you get to Malaga airport everybody's swallowing "enterovioform" and queuing for the toilets and queuing for the armed customs officers, and queuing for the bloody bus that isn't there to take you to the hotel that hasn't yet been finished. And when you finally get to the half-built Algerian ruin called the Hotel del Sol by paying half your holiday money to a licensed bandit in a taxi you find there's no water in the pool, there's no water in the taps, there's no water in the bog and there's only a bleeding lizard in the bidet. And half the rooms are double booked and you can't sleep anyway because of the permanent twenty-four-hour drilling of the foundations of the hotel next door - and you're plagues by appalling apprentice chemists from Ealing pretending to be hippies, and middle-class stockbrokers' wives busily buying identical holiday villas in suburban development plots just like Esher, in case the Labour government gets in again, and fat American matrons with sloppy-buttocks and Hawaiian-patterned ski pants looking for any mulatto male who can keep it up long enough when they finally let it all flop out. And the Spanish Tourist Board promises you that the raging cholera epidemic is merely a case of mild Spanish tummy, like the previous outbreak of Spanish tummy in 1660 which killed half London and decimated Europe - and meanwhile the bloody Guardia are busy arresting sixteen-year-olds for kissing in the streets and shooting anyone under nineteen who doesn't like Franco. And then on the last day in the airport lounge everyone's comparing sunburns, drinking Nasty Spumante, buying cartons of duty free "cigarillos" and using up their last pesetas on horrid dolls in Spanish National costume and awful straw donkeys and bullfight posters with your name on "Ordoney, El Cordobes and Brian Pules of Norwich" and 3-D pictures of the Pope and Kennedy and Franco, and everybody's talking about coming again next year and you swear you never will although there you are tumbling bleary-eyed out of a tourist-tight antique Iberian airplane...

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Pittsburgh. One of our other annoying customs here which drives me crazy is to slow down for tunnels. In every other part of the country I've been to, people maintain speed while going through tunnels but not here, Here they slam on the brakes and crawl through 20 mph below the speed limit.

Yeah i can see how that would be annoying!

How about people that don't know how to merge, especially at high-speed (well on the motorway). OMG i just lose it when i encounter these types....

RANT RANT RANT!

In my part of the country there are some civil engineers who need to be forced to drive the roads they designed as punishment. I know of half a dozen on-ramps where there is almost no acceleration lane, yet merging traffic is expected to get from a 30mph (~50kph) road into traffic going at least 60mph (~100kph) and usually closer to 75mph (~120kph).

One of these lethal on-ramps is the exit from the city zoo. Way to be welcoming to the tourists!

Yes an excellent solution.... it may even reduce the number of 'engineering wizards' that come up with such wonderful designs.

How about people that don't know how to queue??

They decide that it's their right to start a new queue and guess what, they are at the front!! ARGH!

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Pittsburgh. One of our other annoying customs here which drives me crazy is to slow down for tunnels. In every other part of the country I've been to, people maintain speed while going through tunnels but not here, Here they slam on the brakes and crawl through 20 mph below the speed limit.

Yeah i can see how that would be annoying!

How about people that don't know how to merge, especially at high-speed (well on the motorway). OMG i just lose it when i encounter these types....

RANT RANT RANT!

In my part of the country there are some civil engineers who need to be forced to drive the roads they designed as punishment. I know of half a dozen on-ramps where there is almost no acceleration lane, yet merging traffic is expected to get from a 30mph (~50kph) road into traffic going at least 60mph (~100kph) and usually closer to 75mph (~120kph).

One of these lethal on-ramps is the exit from the city zoo. Way to be welcoming to the tourists!

That sounds like my neck of the woods. We have several onramps like that in the San Diego area. You have to "floor it" to try to get up to speed because of the lack of an acceleration lane. If you're slow, like my little 4WD truck is, you end up trying to get up to speed on the shoulder.... )-:<

Scariest on-ramp I know. Sunland Blvd to I-5 South in Los Angeles. It's too short to get up to speed, it spills directly into the lane, there is no shoulder, and the trees block the view of oncoming traffic of you and your view of them.

One day even floored all I could hear is the airhorn of the bigrig behind me and I had a closeup view of his grill in my rearview mirror.

Good thing we're not in LA then, huh. Have you been to Nasty City? Trying to get onto I-5 from the 24th St. on ramp is very sucky. I've seen the grill of bigrigs in my little truck mirror too. Something else that sucks is when an on ramp is an off ramp from the freeway. Gotta fight traffic coming off the freeway as well as that which is on the freeway and those idiots who won't let you on the freeway because the are so discourtious.... )-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Does the freeway have a speed limit?

On a slightly opposite note, my rant is when one is already on the motorway(UK equivalent), cruising along at the limit (haha), some pill*ck in a van overtakes then brakes in front of you, if they were that keen to get past why can't they drive faster.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

On the subject of stupid road engneering.

We have a couple of freeway interchanges in town where one freeway ends in the middle of another. The nitwits that designed these assumed that everyone would be going the same way. For example if you are heading south on one freeway, and get to the intersecting freeway, you can only turn right - not left. To make the left, you have to exit onto a city street one exit before the end of the freeway and drive around on city streets for a while.

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.823368,-84.360237&spn=0.008414,0.014462&om=1

AND

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.002724,-84.563055&spn=0.033585,0.05785

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On the subject of stupid road engneering.

We have a couple of freeway interchanges in town where one freeway ends in the middle of another. The nitwits that designed these assumed that everyone would be going the same way. For example if you are heading south on one freeway, and get to the intersecting freeway, you can only turn right - not left. To make the left, you have to exit onto a city street one exit before the end of the freeway and drive around on city streets for a while.

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.823368,-84.360237&spn=0.008414,0.014462&om=1

AND

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.002724,-84.563055&spn=0.033585,0.05785

I know of one such here. We have a freeway I-94 that ends downtown San Diego. If you want to get onto Interstate 5 South, you need to travel on city streets to get to the on ramp. It sucks. I-5 North exits off I-94.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Dang it! My first double post. Now I know how to do it.... (-;<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

On the subject of stupid road engneering.

We have a couple of freeway interchanges in town where one freeway ends in the middle of another. The nitwits that designed these assumed that everyone would be going the same way. For example if you are heading south on one freeway, and get to the intersecting freeway, you can only turn right - not left. To make the left, you have to exit onto a city street one exit before the end of the freeway and drive around on city streets for a while.

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.823368,-84.360237&spn=0.008414,0.014462&om=1

AND

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.002724,-84.563055&spn=0.033585,0.05785

I know of one such here. We have a freeway I-94 that ends downtown San Diego. If you want to get onto Interstate 5 South, you need to travel on city streets to get to the on ramp. It sucks. I-5 North exits off I-94.... (-:<

What is even sillier is that one of the local traffic engineering STUDENTS was published telling them that it was not a great idea.

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BOINC WIKI

On the subject of stupid road engneering.

We have a couple of freeway interchanges in town where one freeway ends in the middle of another. The nitwits that designed these assumed that everyone would be going the same way. For example if you are heading south on one freeway, and get to the intersecting freeway, you can only turn right - not left. To make the left, you have to exit onto a city street one exit before the end of the freeway and drive around on city streets for a while.

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.823368,-84.360237&spn=0.008414,0.014462&om=1

AND

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.002724,-84.563055&spn=0.033585,0.05785

I know of one such here. We have a freeway I-94 that ends downtown San Diego. If you want to get onto Interstate 5 South, you need to travel on city streets to get to the on ramp. It sucks. I-5 North exits off I-94.... (-:<

What is even sillier is that one of the local traffic engineering STUDENTS was published telling them that it was not a great idea.

I believe that engineers should be made to run a simulator, for any future "designs", just to see how stupid they can be.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Does the freeway have a speed limit?

On a slightly opposite note, my rant is when one is already on the motorway(UK equivalent), cruising along at the limit (haha), some pill*ck in a van overtakes then brakes in front of you, if they were that keen to get past why can't they drive faster.

Yeah, i know this type of driver! They are really bizarre, you also encounter them on LONG journeys... after they overtake they hit the breaks OR slow down to a much slower speed, in which case you overtake them and within 10-15 minutes they come flying past you again (20-30 km/h over the limit) and then dart back in the inside lane only to slow down again!

This repeats! You are caught in their 'loop'. It's like they cannot keep their foot in the one place or no cruise control.....

The only way to escape is to break the speed limit for about 1/2 hour and put a large enough gap between you and them!

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Belief gets in the way of learning

Have you been to Nasty City?

Many years ago. Make sure to avoid that area if you're wearing red or blue.

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I know of one such here. We have a freeway I-94 that ends downtown San Diego. If you want to get onto Interstate 5 South, you need to travel on city streets to get to the on ramp. It sucks. I-5 North exits off I-94.... (-:<

Or how about I-8 west from ocean beach.. no ramp to 5 north.

Here's a little morning commute secret. Don't take 94W to 5N. Way too much traffic. Stay on 94 'til it ends on F ST and take that to 11th ave. It goes right into the 5N/163N and you bypass all that nasty traffic.

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me@rescam.org

Have you been to Nasty City?

Many years ago. Make sure to avoid that area if you're wearing red or blue.

The one's wearing the red jerseys are always the first to die.... (-;<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

The only way to escape is to break the speed limit for about 1/2 hour and put a large enough gap between you and them!

Thats a good plan, but my little car won't do over 80.

My uncle had the best plan with his lightning-powered Subaru Impreza, he once outran a police pursuit car down the M5.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

On the subject of stupid road engneering.

We have a couple of freeway interchanges in town where one freeway ends in the middle of another. The nitwits that designed these assumed that everyone would be going the same way. For example if you are heading south on one freeway, and get to the intersecting freeway, you can only turn right - not left. To make the left, you have to exit onto a city street one exit before the end of the freeway and drive around on city streets for a while.

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.823368,-84.360237&spn=0.008414,0.014462&om=1

AND

http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.002724,-84.563055&spn=0.033585,0.05785

I know of one such here. We have a freeway I-94 that ends downtown San Diego. If you want to get onto Interstate 5 South, you need to travel on city streets to get to the on ramp. It sucks. I-5 North exits off I-94.... (-:<

What is even sillier is that one of the local traffic engineering STUDENTS was published telling them that it was not a great idea.

This is Hilarious....there was a traffic congestion here where people were stopped for miles and miles. Why? ...after wating for an hour or so the traffic was stopped by government officials taking a survey about people's complaints about traffic....they were out there with clipboards and so on..

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I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

The only way to escape is to break the speed limit for about 1/2 hour and put a large enough gap between you and them!

Thats a good plan, but my little car won't do over 80.

My uncle had the best plan with his lightning-powered Subaru Impreza, he once outran a police pursuit car down the M5.

You may have to settle for slowing down then..LOL... let them get ahead...

Okay, another pet hate

ROAD WORKS!

Not on Sunday evening at 11pm (when there is no traffic) but Monday morning at 8am! Yeah, peak hour on a major areterial road!! Good planning!

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Belief gets in the way of learning

People who come to a pedestrian crossing ... press the button, then cross the street anyway in lull in the traffic ...

People who come to a pedestrian crossing ... press the button, then cross the street anyway in lull in the traffic ...

I usually arrive at the pedestrian crossing to find the perpetrator has left the scene of the crime and i am just stuck there waiting!!

okay, how about when you are watching cable/satellite tv etc on some channels when ever a commercial airs, the volume is increased by about 50%! You are nearly blasted out of your chair for 1-2 minutes and then magically the volume returns to normal when programming resumes!

It's as though they think you are deaf, or asleep and they wish to wake you up!

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Belief gets in the way of learning

People who come to a pedestrian crossing ... press the button, then cross the street anyway in lull in the traffic ...

I usually arrive at the pedestrian crossing to find the perpetrator has left the scene of the crime and i am just stuck there waiting!!

okay, how about when you are watching cable/satellite tv etc on some channels when ever a commercial airs, the volume is increased by about 50%! You are nearly blasted out of your chair for 1-2 minutes and then magically the volume returns to normal when programming resumes!

It's as though they think you are deaf, or asleep and they wish to wake you up!

I think that may be so that you don't miss the commercial while you are in the W.C.

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