Thanks to @halfAcat for the memory jog.

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Yeah I laughed at that, and my wife (who wasn't watching my screen) said "You're a terrible person.">> ^probie:

I'm not versed in ASL so I could not help but laugh out loud when she signed "jogging under a tree". Fantastic skill at being able to keep up with all the information, re-verbalizing it for mouth readers and translating the proper inflections of speech into visual cues. That can't be easy to do that all at once.

I'm not versed in ASL so I could not help but laugh out loud when she signed "jogging under a tree". Fantastic skill at being able to keep up with all the information, re-verbalizing it for mouth readers and translating the proper inflections of speech into visual cues. That can't be easy to do that all at once.

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^Quboid:
Why do baseball players look so fat? They're not wearing American Football style padding are they? They're not uber muscled body builders are they?

Professional athletes who go to work and sit on their asses for 1/9 the time when on "offense", jog 100-200 feet to thier "defensive" positions, only to stand around and wait for something to happen that will require, at most, several seconds of effort. I bet their heart rates rarely surpass 100bpm, much less their target zones. (Pitchers aand catchers exempt from this description, of course, but not Pablo Sandoval.)


So basically, it's because they are fat. Huh.

I'd have thought basic professionalism would dictate they look after themselves. Even if they don't need to be able to sprint like a football player, basic co-ordination and physical reactions would be better if they were slim. If nothing else, being on TV regularly would give me extra motivation to look my best.

>> ^Quboid:

Why do baseball players look so fat? They're not wearing American Football style padding are they? They're not uber muscled body builders are they?

Professional athletes who go to work and sit on their asses for 1/9 the time when on "offense", jog 100-200 feet to thier "defensive" positions, only to stand around and wait for something to happen that will require, at most, several seconds of effort. I bet their heart rates rarely surpass 100bpm, much less their target zones. (Pitchers aand catchers exempt from this description, of course, but not Pablo Sandoval.)

Your video description has jogged my memory, let me take you back to spring 1981 & at 40,000 watts, this is beyond any shadow of a doubt the LOUDEST piece of live music I have ever heard.

"And The Bands Played On" - (Saxon)

So let's say you got this giant party keg at your party of 150 of your friends. Some idiot runs up and knocks it over. You'd be pissed.

Now imagine the party-keg is a torch and the party is like a lot larger. They also just furiously debated about world politics, health and sportsmanship. THEY ALSO DID IT FOR A LONG TIME.

You might just as well walk over to mekka and shit on the prophet's stone. Being pushed off a road by a bunch of jogging, silly looking bodyguards seems pretty civilized to me.

If you want a world without symbols... dude, that's a mighty off-road plan.

i have 330am narcissism. time to necropost.

i usually wake at 6 am, jog 1 or 2 dogs and make breakfast for 2 small people.
at 730am, except in summer, i walk my kids to school 1.1 miles away.
at 8am i shower and then i go yoga. sometimes other people yoga with me. sometimes, it's just me.
if my husband is home that week, i'll come back home at 915 and hang out with him for 20 minutes.
then i ride my bike to my shop and massage some really awesome people. usually from 10am to 3pm.
but some days from 10am to 8pm. at some point i go home and hang out with my kids. dinner is prepared and consumed. then i take the kids to their various activities, kung fu or dance or art or piano. i usually work out while they're doing that. if i'm working late, the nanny or husband will do that part for me.

then we either all go swimming or i make a group of people do yoga with me. we end up back home at 815pm. the kids take showers and we take the dog/dogs for another jog. we usually play a game of blockus or dominos. then i read with my kids and make them go to sleep around 930pm. if my husband is home that week, we hang out until we fall over.
if my husband is not home that week, ill work on marketing for my shop or fuck around on the Internets until i get sleepy. in theory i'm doing businessy things, like accounting and inventory and stats and shit. but. usually i just neurotically plan trips at night. because i'm obsessed with them. we only go on about 1/3 of them. if it's the end of a fiscal quarter, i'm wishing i'd just break down and hiring an accountant.

>> ^Payback:

Yeah, it's your right to jog out between parked cars in the middle of the block instead of using a crosswalk, a corner, or even a little common sense.


Lapses in judgement happen, doesn't mean people should be killed for it. People driving at 70kph in shopping areas like this are just as fucking stupid as people that don't look where they're going. In normal circumstances, the pedestrian'd get some good old fashion Aussie swearing for not looking, not be maimed or killed.

>> ^Deano:

She's really just forgotten or not been introduced to the notion that 80 mph is about distance/time. Which is what speed means. Basically she's disconnected the speedometer reading from the idea of distance.
Should have asked her if she went jogging for an hour, how far would she go? That would be fun.

Hmmm, let me think. I guess my stride is about a meter...or is it a foot...whats half way between a meter and foot...lets just call it a meter...and I can do maybe 3 or 4 of them a second...but I'd have to be really booking it and I'd have to take a 5 minute break every 10 minutes....hmmm....divide by 2....carry the 3...I guess about 6 miles?

She's really just forgotten or not been introduced to the notion that 80 mph is about distance/time. Which is what speed means. Basically she's disconnected the speedometer reading from the idea of distance.

Should have asked her if she went jogging for an hour, how far would she go? That would be fun.

I try to keep an eye out for motorcycles, bikes, and cars. And there are people out there who just refuse to make it easy to see them in any one of those.

Cars who drive in blind spots for miles and miles and don't react when you signal your intentions for a good 30 seconds prior to actually doing what you are signalling. You know they are there, you are trying not to hit them and they are intentionally ignoring you or blocking you. These are usually aggressive drivers whose actions usually chain react right down the line of the cars and everyone gets the "fuck this guy" attitude for the next 20 minutes down the road.

Motorcycles who drive in blind spots, drive between two tall vehicles as they cross 2 lanes of traffic in a single move with no pause to check if the second lane is actually clear. Driving in the safety lanes or emergency lanes to pass traffic and merge in and out at will. Or do the "back and forth" while maintaining their lanes, so it looks like they are in a perpetual state of not being able to decide if they want to merge in the right or left lane and just pissing everyone off.

Bikes who go from sidewalk to road and back again, who rarely stop at stop signs....never use arm signals to show they are changing lanes. Go significantly below the speed of the rest of traffic and make it impossible to pass them safely. You'll see these guys holding up 15+ cars behind them doing 15-20 below the speed limit. I mean I don't expect them to perform like machines, but stop in a driveway or take a different route instead of holding up a huge line of cars over and over. No one would tolerate a car doing this for as long as the biker's get away with it around here.

And hell there's this lady in the neighborhood who jogs on the roads, despite there being a public park she's running around on her jog and her also running around a residential neighborhood with sidewalks throughout but she runs on the no sidewalk streets that have waaaaay more vehicle traffic than either the park or that neighborhood. The thinking is that she does it because she wants people to see her running, which is just another form of being fucking annoying. It's especially bad because the road has a really up and down section in it and you could literally come over the hill and run her ass over and there is nowhere to swerve due to deep ditches, mailboxes and huge trees on both sides. Or hit a car head on as they go out around her right before the hill.

It's just a general theme of everyone thinking their business/action is more important than yours. And generally I'll take it in stride for a bit, or let people fuck up some. But eventually you have to be an asshole back or other people start to do it too. A big example of this is when a two lane road merges down to one due to construction........you know it's there. Most everyone else who drives this path knows too. Except most of them stay in the lane that's going to merge in and drive just as far as they can down it and merge in at the last second....making everyone who merged over like they should wait......and wait......and wait. Because more people drive up and merge. Eventually those people trying to merge are blocked unless they can shove their vehicle in the spaces and people are unwilling to take damage to their vehicles to stop them...but it cuts down on the rest of the assholes who keep doing it because it makes that lane slower again by restricting people's merging ability by being an asshole to them.

And, in this video. Guy in silver car on right was an asshole...totally crowding the car before he crowded the bicycle. So......bicycle guy was probably in the right doing what he did.

>> ^BoneRemake:

I have never heard of a head-on motorbike collision. To this moment I still have not.

Once I was jogging and witnessed a head-on bike collision where one of the bikers flew off and hit me in the arm. There was plenty of room for both of them, but of course one had to be a dick and ride on the opposite side of the track.

@GenjiKilpatrick

No, you're right. Every pedestrian on the road should just act like it's their god given right to just walk out into the middle of traffic. It's very apparent they were doing so anyway. It was a straight road, they could see the cars coming from ages away because our camera is traveling for 9 seconds before we can see the pedestrians (cars are easier to spot.) and we don't even get close to them until around the 14-15 second mark. Based on that alone, you should be able to see the "Speeding" car, and either wait, or move faster to get across.

@sillma

I don't see any stopped or parked cars (save the one on the other side, not blocking visibility), and infact the one the camera is in only slows down, never stops.

I will grant you that there are two blue signs at either side of the road that I missed before. They blend in, and i'm not used to looking for blue signs, I suppose.

However, the pedestrian does have the right of way here, too, but only if they're actually doing it right. we have signs here, look like this. The pedestrian stops and presses a button on the side of the road, the lights flash, cars have to stop. The whole process takes around 10 seconds.

There are crosswalk lines all over the place without any lights on them, but to cross the road there requires the pedestrian to use proper judgement when it comes to crossing the street, you wait, the car does not. Once the street is clear enough that you can make it across safely (Kids tend to walk, adults will generally jog across, meaning adults need less time) they do so.

Never, have I seen two people walk out into a busy street with cars coming at them and just mosey over to the other side. This is an example as to why.