My daughter is currently studying at Mississippi State. I’ll tell her to get one of these.
People in the South are SOOOO much easier to get along with. Almost everyone is polite and courteous. It’s really refreshing to see people actually follow the “zipper” protocol when approaching a merge lane on the highway.
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Dayum! The dialect spoken is uncanny. I have one of them new fangled traffic circles in my neck of the woods too.
And my town is pronounced MARE-uh-vull. Marysville is in “oh-HI-oh!”
10
😂 Spot on!
6
Q: Is the capitol of Kentucky pronounced “Looieville” or “Loouisville”?
A: It’s pronounced “Frankfort”.
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Bayouwulf, no it’s not. It’s in Michigan, just south of Port Huron.
5
I have several names for “roundabouts”, none of which are printable.
Different Tim
SUNDAY, 12 MAY 2024, 10:56 AT 10:56 AM
“Bayouwulf, no it’s not. It’s in Michigan, just south of Port Huron.”
It’s all Up North, so who cares?
3
An American, I call them the new traffic things where people who have been driving longer than the woke transportation officials who planned these idiotic money pits have been alive get trapped wondering what the hell they’re supposed to do.
And the curbs are all beaten to hell and covered with tire marks because semis can barely navigate them.
8
What’s really dangerous are the multi-lane traffic circles, where idiots in the inside lane suddenly decide to exit and dive across the outer lane, or vice-versa.
9
A friend of mine has a construction company and he loves roundabouts.
He makes a lot of money building them, then in 5-7 years, he’ll make more money taking them out.
7
Funny thing with traffic circles in the UK: they were put in to eliminate the need for traffic lights. However, with many big ones, they have gotten so busy that they had to start metering them with what? You guessed it, traffic lights.
6
The roundabout carpet naggers, like the mass transit carpet baggers, like the sports stadium carpet baggers all meed to be rounded up, put into a sack, and drowned in the sea. Its all a bately concealed effort to fleece the public.
5
Is there a reason the text “fixes” itself to gibberish after you hit post?
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funny
2
I listened to a fat woman at work give directions; well, you go down Blossom Rd past the McDonalds, then hang a left at the donut shop. Sometimes there’s a hot dog cart on the corner. Anyway, keep going to the Cheesecake Factory and you’re there.
5
There was a scene in Green Acres where the farmhand Ed Dawbson gave someone directions and he gets someone really lost and then they realized he told them to turn right where some building USED TO BE…
7
Nothing wrong with roundabouts (with proper signage). It’s other people thinking they can beat on-coming traffic already in the circle that I’ve found to be the problem.
1
They put one in an area near me to help alleviate congestion from a four way stop due to train crossings that used to cause blockages in two directions.
Now people clog the roundabout and traffic gets blocked in all directions until the train passes.
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Jethro
SUNDAY, 12 MAY 2024, 10:22 AT 10:22 AM
“People in the South are SOOOO much easier to get along with. Almost everyone is polite and courteous.”
…I agree with you, but sometimes they’re polite to a fault. I liked it when we were there for vacations and family visits, but when we has to go down to Dandridge TN when my FIL was in hospital and then died, every business transaction took for freaking EVER! I mean, we go see a lawyer to find out what TN law was about various things he owned and owed, and we must have spent an hour exchanging pleasantries with his staff and him before we told us we really didn’t need his services. Normally I’d put this down to a lawyer padding billable hours, but in an incredibly Southern twist he decided NOT TO CHARGE US either, which is ASTOUNDING for that trade. But in talking to hospitals and coroners and funeral homes it was all the same, trying to get ANYTHING done was an ODYSSEY of slow-drawling courtesies that would have been charming if we weren’t trying to do BUSINESS and have other appointments to go to.
It was kinda the same thing when I went to help with an issue on business in our KY plant. My company has plants in several places and I’m an OH boy, but they needed help in London KY and I went down there a few days. It’s technically the same company but the pacing was so different and less direct it was almost frustrating when trying to actually get stuff done.
I’m all for nicer people, but there needs to be a balance between Southern courtesy and Northern getting stuff done. Business depends on speed, after all, and you’re really not there to socialize…
The problem with round-a-bouts is that most American’s do not know the proper way to enter or exit them. If you have driven in a country that embraces them and have somebody explain the “rules” of single, double, triple and quad laned circles they would not be a problem.
My daughter is currently studying at Mississippi State. I’ll tell her to get one of these.
People in the South are SOOOO much easier to get along with. Almost everyone is polite and courteous. It’s really refreshing to see people actually follow the “zipper” protocol when approaching a merge lane on the highway.
Dayum! The dialect spoken is uncanny. I have one of them new fangled traffic circles in my neck of the woods too.
And my town is pronounced MARE-uh-vull. Marysville is in “oh-HI-oh!”
😂 Spot on!
Q: Is the capitol of Kentucky pronounced “Looieville” or “Loouisville”?
A: It’s pronounced “Frankfort”.
Bayouwulf, no it’s not. It’s in Michigan, just south of Port Huron.
I have several names for “roundabouts”, none of which are printable.
Only one roundabout is acceptable.
This one.
https://youtu.be/cPCLFtxpadE?si=Q4N_l4rZGWzlNHHC
Different Tim
SUNDAY, 12 MAY 2024, 10:56 AT 10:56 AM
“Bayouwulf, no it’s not. It’s in Michigan, just south of Port Huron.”
It’s all Up North, so who cares?
An American, I call them the new traffic things where people who have been driving longer than the woke transportation officials who planned these idiotic money pits have been alive get trapped wondering what the hell they’re supposed to do.
And the curbs are all beaten to hell and covered with tire marks because semis can barely navigate them.
What’s really dangerous are the multi-lane traffic circles, where idiots in the inside lane suddenly decide to exit and dive across the outer lane, or vice-versa.
A friend of mine has a construction company and he loves roundabouts.
He makes a lot of money building them, then in 5-7 years, he’ll make more money taking them out.
Funny thing with traffic circles in the UK: they were put in to eliminate the need for traffic lights. However, with many big ones, they have gotten so busy that they had to start metering them with what? You guessed it, traffic lights.
The roundabout carpet naggers, like the mass transit carpet baggers, like the sports stadium carpet baggers all meed to be rounded up, put into a sack, and drowned in the sea. Its all a bately concealed effort to fleece the public.
Is there a reason the text “fixes” itself to gibberish after you hit post?
funny
I listened to a fat woman at work give directions; well, you go down Blossom Rd past the McDonalds, then hang a left at the donut shop. Sometimes there’s a hot dog cart on the corner. Anyway, keep going to the Cheesecake Factory and you’re there.
There was a scene in Green Acres where the farmhand Ed Dawbson gave someone directions and he gets someone really lost and then they realized he told them to turn right where some building USED TO BE…
Nothing wrong with roundabouts (with proper signage). It’s other people thinking they can beat on-coming traffic already in the circle that I’ve found to be the problem.
They put one in an area near me to help alleviate congestion from a four way stop due to train crossings that used to cause blockages in two directions.
Now people clog the roundabout and traffic gets blocked in all directions until the train passes.
Jethro
SUNDAY, 12 MAY 2024, 10:22 AT 10:22 AM
“People in the South are SOOOO much easier to get along with. Almost everyone is polite and courteous.”
…I agree with you, but sometimes they’re polite to a fault. I liked it when we were there for vacations and family visits, but when we has to go down to Dandridge TN when my FIL was in hospital and then died, every business transaction took for freaking EVER! I mean, we go see a lawyer to find out what TN law was about various things he owned and owed, and we must have spent an hour exchanging pleasantries with his staff and him before we told us we really didn’t need his services. Normally I’d put this down to a lawyer padding billable hours, but in an incredibly Southern twist he decided NOT TO CHARGE US either, which is ASTOUNDING for that trade. But in talking to hospitals and coroners and funeral homes it was all the same, trying to get ANYTHING done was an ODYSSEY of slow-drawling courtesies that would have been charming if we weren’t trying to do BUSINESS and have other appointments to go to.
It was kinda the same thing when I went to help with an issue on business in our KY plant. My company has plants in several places and I’m an OH boy, but they needed help in London KY and I went down there a few days. It’s technically the same company but the pacing was so different and less direct it was almost frustrating when trying to actually get stuff done.
I’m all for nicer people, but there needs to be a balance between Southern courtesy and Northern getting stuff done. Business depends on speed, after all, and you’re really not there to socialize…
The problem with round-a-bouts is that most American’s do not know the proper way to enter or exit them. If you have driven in a country that embraces them and have somebody explain the “rules” of single, double, triple and quad laned circles they would not be a problem.
https://youtu.be/KNDIp99raPg?si=J4oMONSKTHsymM3u
https://youtu.be/7MzDA77sJk4?si=TzMZM86jJT-u-ln7&t=1m50s
That was cute.
It was worth the 7 minutes it took to watch.
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