Peeler; as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit?...

[rbowman]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:57:28 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Wed, 24 May 2023 01:27:19 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:32:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

Yes, weed is legal. Ann Arbor has a ton of dispensaries. There are
at least four in the area shown on that map, even though they\'re not
called out by name. The market is flooded, and I expect a lot of them
will fail in short order.

The county has an ordinance requiring 500\' between dispensaries

What a weird rule.

I\'ve been curious. Are you in an alternate universe where you reply to
month old posts?

Similar rules have been in effect for establishments selling alcohol for a
long time. While it might be a convenience for the parishioners placing
Ye Olde Bucket of Blood next to St. Francis Xavier church is frowned on.

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:55:41 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

the first few years were rough when people tended to treat them like
4-way stops

I couldn\'t begin to understand a 4 way stop. You have to somehow
remember who got there first?! How is that even possible?

Americans apparently have more functional short term memories than Brits.
It must be all that centuries old lead plumbing.

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:08:27 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Like any mini-roundabout, if three or four vehicles arrive
simultaneously, it can become a game of chicken as to who actually
proceeds first.

This state has a high percentage of Norwegian and German ethnics with a
well developed sense of politeness. It can turn into gridlock as everyone
says \'No, after you. I insist.\'

Personally, I wait for approximately 1500 milliseconds for someone to shit
or get of the pot before proceeding.

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:20:59 -0700, Bob F wrote:

When I lived in Boston, the rule seemed to be - one person goes, and
everyone behind him follows closely - then someone else gets to try.

Yeah, well, Boston is a bit different. That\'s how a one lane bridge here
works. It\'s more efficient for a queue of three or four cars to proceed
together than to alternate.

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Jun 2023 16:21:52 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

I\'ve been curious. Are you in an alternate universe where you reply to
month old posts?

WTF? That unwashed troll gets YOU to reply to his replies, EVERY TIME, you
demented senile Trumptard!

--
Gossiping \"lowbrowwoman\" about herself:
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but they are useful in marshaling [sic] my thoughts.\"
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[Peeler]

On 23 Jun 2023 16:30:03 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Yeah, well, Boston is a bit different. That\'s how a one lane bridge here
works. It\'s more efficient for a queue of three or four cars to proceed
together than to alternate.

Good grief!!! Is this still this old \"curcuit breakers\" thread? Or is it the
one lane bridge thread? Or what? Are you living in senility universe?

--
More typical idiotic senile gossip by lowbrowwoman:
\"It\'s been years since I\'ve been in a fast food burger joint but I used
to like Wendy\'s because they had a salad bar and baked potatoes.\"
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[Peeler]

On 23 Jun 2023 16:23:35 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Americans apparently have more functional short term memories than Brits.
It must be all that centuries old lead plumbing.

No American I have met had a big mouth like you, gossip girl! <BG>

--
Yet more of the very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"I save my fries quota for one of the local food trucks that offers
poutine every now and then. If you\'re going for a coronary might as well
do it right.\"
MID: <ivdi4gF8btlU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 23 Jun 2023 16:26:58 GMT, rbowman wrote:

Like any mini-roundabout, if three or four vehicles arrive
simultaneously, it can become a game of chicken as to who actually
proceeds first.

This state has a high percentage of Norwegian and German ethnics with a
well developed sense of politeness. It can turn into gridlock as everyone
says \'No, after you. I insist.\'

IIRC you once kinda bragged about your Germanic roots, didn\'t you? I must
say, I have neither seen an American nor any Germanic person with a big
mouth like yours. Are you sure you haven\'t got something of a talkative
Italian (no offense to the Italian people which I quite like) in you? <BG>

--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:21:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:57:28 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Wed, 24 May 2023 01:27:19 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:32:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

Yes, weed is legal. Ann Arbor has a ton of dispensaries. There are
at least four in the area shown on that map, even though they\'re not
called out by name. The market is flooded, and I expect a lot of them
will fail in short order.

The county has an ordinance requiring 500\' between dispensaries

What a weird rule.

I\'ve been curious. Are you in an alternate universe where you reply to
month old posts?

Sometimes I go to the old end sometimes the new end. I have 220 posts left, where they are replies to me and below.

I don\'t get people insisting on immediate replies. Some forums people get very upset when you \"necro\" a post. But if someone has asked a question, and people are still looking to solve that problem 5 years later, posting an answer helps those who find the post on google.

Similar rules have been in effect for establishments selling alcohol for a
long time. While it might be a convenience for the parishioners placing
Ye Olde Bucket of Blood next to St. Francis Xavier church is frowned on.

I can understand X next to Y being considered wrong. But why have a gap between Xs?

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:23:35 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:55:41 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

the first few years were rough when people tended to treat them like
4-way stops

I couldn\'t begin to understand a 4 way stop. You have to somehow
remember who got there first?! How is that even possible?

Americans apparently have more functional short term memories than Brits.
It must be all that centuries old lead plumbing.

But what about the people who got there before you? You don\'t know what order they got there in.

Do you perhaps remember who you arrived just after? What if two people arrive at the same time? It\'s just not very precise at all.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:23:35 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:55:41 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

the first few years were rough when people tended to treat them like
4-way stops

I couldn\'t begin to understand a 4 way stop. You have to somehow
remember who got there first?! How is that even possible?

Americans apparently have more functional short term memories than Brits.
It must be all that centuries old lead plumbing.

OMG, WTF? You can follow this?! https://drivinginstructorblog.com/4-way-stop/ There\'s pages and pages of it!!!

You need to get normal junctions. Our \"crossroads\" which look like your 4 way stops have one straight through road as just a plain road, the busier one. The quieter ones have to yield.

Or use traffic lights, they\'re easy but inefficient. The roundabout or traffic circle is the only thing which makes sense. There\'s a constant flow of traffic, and you only have to check one thing, the cars to your (left in America, right in the UK).

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:30:03 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:20:59 -0700, Bob F wrote:

When I lived in Boston, the rule seemed to be - one person goes, and
everyone behind him follows closely - then someone else gets to try.

Yeah, well, Boston is a bit different. That\'s how a one lane bridge here
works. It\'s more efficient for a queue of three or four cars to proceed
together than to alternate.

I take that attitude with traffic lights. Some are stupidly short and let say 10 cars through, when there\'s a big queue. So I just run the red and be the 11th. If I\'m 12th and the 11th stops, I drive round them. Some people seem to object to that. It can\'t cause an accident, since the other direction is stationary, and isn\'t going to drive into moving cars just because their light went green.

However that attitude goes wrong sometimes. I was going along a winding country road and encountered something broken down. my direction had been going for at least the 30 cars I saw in front of me, so I stopped and flashed for the other side to have a go. They did. For a very very long time. Eventually I inched out at 1mph until a larger vehicle decided he shouldn\'t try it.

I remember as a kid on holiday, we came across traffic lights which were off. For some unknown reason, my dad said \"that should be green\" and drove through. Apparently it should have been red.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:08:27 +0100, Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> wrote:

In message <op.16y9e3oxmvhs6z@ryzen>, Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com
writes

I couldn\'t begin to understand a 4 way stop. You have to somehow
remember who got there first?! How is that even possible?

Surely you\'ve noticed that there are some 4-way stops in the UK - well,
not actual stops, but certainly 4-way give-ways?

Never seen one, apart form the one in my own town with three give way lines!? With four, you could do what you said (although Americans seem to use \"first person first\" rather than \"give way to the right/left\"). But three?! So one way goes first no matter what? That\'s just adding to complications.

It\'s very near another stupidity, a bulb out on a blind downhill bend, with the priority set for uphill. So people with more momentum are the ones who have to stop to avoid running over a pedestrian brave enough to stand on it. When I informed the council how dangerous it was, they said they didn\'t want to have people doing hill starts. When I told them hill starts were part of the driving test, I got no reply, so I warned them I\'d be watching for a nasty accident and informing the police she was responsible for the death. She still didn\'t listen. Council workers are thick as fuck.

There are two within a
mile of me - one in a supermarket carpark, and one in a nearby village.
Essentially, these are mini-roundabouts with no circle in the middle,
and (being in the UK) the vehicle coming from your right has priority.
Like any mini-roundabout, if three or four vehicles arrive
simultaneously, it can become a game of chicken as to who actually
proceeds first.

Bullshit. A friend said that to me too. There\'s no game of chicken, you just go if there\'s nobody to your right that would collide with you. If you\'re all there at the same time, you all go, simple.