Arogant jerks and their cars
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Everytime I see some new car parked diagonally in a parking space I feel the almost uncontrollable urge to reach for my sharpest key and carve a nice messae all around their car. Or better yet, climb behind the wheel of my girlfriends 89 Volvo and see if I can straighten out their parking job. What on earth do those people think is so special about their damn car that they deserve to park sideways and take up three spaces. Just because they were dumb enough to fork over sixty thousand plus dollars doesn't give them a better parking space. They should be paying me for damaging my eyes looking at the shine on that overpriced peice of shit. Jared jparsons@jparsons.org www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte477n
Don't even get me started. The number of parking-jerks here are unbelievable*. And the best thing is, they like to double-park in the middle of a FiretrUCK-ing road, blocking the whole street up. :mad: :mad: *I guess that's one of the signs your in a first-world country.
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Don't even get me started. The number of parking-jerks here are unbelievable*. And the best thing is, they like to double-park in the middle of a FiretrUCK-ing road, blocking the whole street up. :mad: :mad: *I guess that's one of the signs your in a first-world country.
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Nick Seng wrote: I guess that's one of the signs your in a first-world country. Bad driving and parking are most definately NOT a first-world only problem. :-D Some of the driving in South Africa (Johannesburg especially) is so bad I can't actually begin to describe it. I want to mount a camera on my dashboard one day so I can show people what it can get like :-D
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Nick Seng wrote: I guess that's one of the signs your in a first-world country. Bad driving and parking are most definately NOT a first-world only problem. :-D Some of the driving in South Africa (Johannesburg especially) is so bad I can't actually begin to describe it. I want to mount a camera on my dashboard one day so I can show people what it can get like :-D
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares. Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?" As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
Oy, you have cars in SA? :omg: I thought you had problems with Elephant parkings and whatnot. ;P Incidently, I had the impression South Africa is a first world country.
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Everytime I see some new car parked diagonally in a parking space I feel the almost uncontrollable urge to reach for my sharpest key and carve a nice messae all around their car. Or better yet, climb behind the wheel of my girlfriends 89 Volvo and see if I can straighten out their parking job. What on earth do those people think is so special about their damn car that they deserve to park sideways and take up three spaces. Just because they were dumb enough to fork over sixty thousand plus dollars doesn't give them a better parking space. They should be paying me for damaging my eyes looking at the shine on that overpriced peice of shit. Jared jparsons@jparsons.org www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte477n
[rant] I have a related complaint. It seems that everyone who shops at a supermarket thinks they have no responsibility for their shopping trolley (cart) once they've loaded their groceries into their car. Just leave the trolley in the next parking spot and just drive away. This, of course, leaves the next parking spot unusable. Fortunately I enjoy walking (I do at least 10 kilometres per day) so it's no big deal for me to drive to the outer edge of the car park and walk in. Heck I even put the trolleys in the designated spot once I've unloaded em. But it still pisses me off to see how lazy/ignorant other people are. [/rant] Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Oy, you have cars in SA? :omg: I thought you had problems with Elephant parkings and whatnot. ;P Incidently, I had the impression South Africa is a first world country.
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler. Support Bone
Nick Seng wrote: Oy, you have cars in SA? I thought you had problems with Elephant parkings and whatnot. That's half the problem. What with all the elephants and rhinos running around the roads are a mess! :-D ;) Nick Seng wrote: Incidently, I had the impression South Africa is a first world country. Why so small? :-D Ya that's a whole other debate. We're not really - most of South Africa should be classed as developing (or 3rd world) while only a small amount could be classed as developed. Overall we're still a 3rd world country.
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares. Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?" As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
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Nick Seng wrote: Oy, you have cars in SA? I thought you had problems with Elephant parkings and whatnot. That's half the problem. What with all the elephants and rhinos running around the roads are a mess! :-D ;) Nick Seng wrote: Incidently, I had the impression South Africa is a first world country. Why so small? :-D Ya that's a whole other debate. We're not really - most of South Africa should be classed as developing (or 3rd world) while only a small amount could be classed as developed. Overall we're still a 3rd world country.
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares. Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?" As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
Nic Rowan wrote: Why so small? Because I have great eyesight ;P I'm a simple man. If a country has electricity, parking-jerks, and the internet, They're a first world country in my book.
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[rant] I have a related complaint. It seems that everyone who shops at a supermarket thinks they have no responsibility for their shopping trolley (cart) once they've loaded their groceries into their car. Just leave the trolley in the next parking spot and just drive away. This, of course, leaves the next parking spot unusable. Fortunately I enjoy walking (I do at least 10 kilometres per day) so it's no big deal for me to drive to the outer edge of the car park and walk in. Heck I even put the trolleys in the designated spot once I've unloaded em. But it still pisses me off to see how lazy/ignorant other people are. [/rant] Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
Supermarkets have found a solution there to avoid "trolley leaving". The user needs a guarantee to take the trolley, generally a coin of 1 € put in a device on the trolley to release the chain linking the trolley to the others. And to get back the coin, the user have to link the trolley back to its original place. It works pretty well.
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[rant] I have a related complaint. It seems that everyone who shops at a supermarket thinks they have no responsibility for their shopping trolley (cart) once they've loaded their groceries into their car. Just leave the trolley in the next parking spot and just drive away. This, of course, leaves the next parking spot unusable. Fortunately I enjoy walking (I do at least 10 kilometres per day) so it's no big deal for me to drive to the outer edge of the car park and walk in. Heck I even put the trolleys in the designated spot once I've unloaded em. But it still pisses me off to see how lazy/ignorant other people are. [/rant] Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
Don't they have that "insert-coin-to-get-trolley-and-replace-trolley-to-get-coin-back" systems? Those exist here for ages and the fact is that we don't see trolleys wandering around in the parking lots and surrounding streets. I just remembered... everytimethe supermarket appears, in "The Simpsons", there's a trolley sliding freely to the road. I guess it would spoil the fun of that! G. Raven
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Supermarkets have found a solution there to avoid "trolley leaving". The user needs a guarantee to take the trolley, generally a coin of 1 € put in a device on the trolley to release the chain linking the trolley to the others. And to get back the coin, the user have to link the trolley back to its original place. It works pretty well.
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Uh huh - we did exactly the same thing in Australia, sometime around 1990/1991. A two dollar coin to release the trolley, returned when you returned the trolley. It worked a treat! :) There was but one gotcha. It was amazing how many 12 year olds would approach offering to return the trolley for you... Cheeky little buggers :) At least in the parts of Melbourne where I shopped it seemed to go away sometime around 1994 but the habit seemed to remain. Let's see if it continues to remain... Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Don't they have that "insert-coin-to-get-trolley-and-replace-trolley-to-get-coin-back" systems? Those exist here for ages and the fact is that we don't see trolleys wandering around in the parking lots and surrounding streets. I just remembered... everytimethe supermarket appears, in "The Simpsons", there's a trolley sliding freely to the road. I guess it would spoil the fun of that! G. Raven
G. Raven wrote: Don't they have that "insert-coin-to-get-trolley-and-replace-trolley-to-get-coin-back" systems? I'm sure it would violate some amendment to the constitution :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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Everytime I see some new car parked diagonally in a parking space I feel the almost uncontrollable urge to reach for my sharpest key and carve a nice messae all around their car. Or better yet, climb behind the wheel of my girlfriends 89 Volvo and see if I can straighten out their parking job. What on earth do those people think is so special about their damn car that they deserve to park sideways and take up three spaces. Just because they were dumb enough to fork over sixty thousand plus dollars doesn't give them a better parking space. They should be paying me for damaging my eyes looking at the shine on that overpriced peice of shit. Jared jparsons@jparsons.org www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte477n
Add to these bastards the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! :mad: It's not about dumbness or laziness, it's just about lack of respect. Societies are more and more selfish, people more and more individualistic. Every man for himself! Behaviours like this one are just another way to show how the notion of respect is antagonist with the one of consumer society.
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Uh huh - we did exactly the same thing in Australia, sometime around 1990/1991. A two dollar coin to release the trolley, returned when you returned the trolley. It worked a treat! :) There was but one gotcha. It was amazing how many 12 year olds would approach offering to return the trolley for you... Cheeky little buggers :) At least in the parts of Melbourne where I shopped it seemed to go away sometime around 1994 but the habit seemed to remain. Let's see if it continues to remain... Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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[rant] I have a related complaint. It seems that everyone who shops at a supermarket thinks they have no responsibility for their shopping trolley (cart) once they've loaded their groceries into their car. Just leave the trolley in the next parking spot and just drive away. This, of course, leaves the next parking spot unusable. Fortunately I enjoy walking (I do at least 10 kilometres per day) so it's no big deal for me to drive to the outer edge of the car park and walk in. Heck I even put the trolleys in the designated spot once I've unloaded em. But it still pisses me off to see how lazy/ignorant other people are. [/rant] Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
I have a releated complain to that. Lots of people who shops at the supermarket thinks they have no responsibility of what they do with there doors when getting out of the car. *slam!* oops, there where a car besides mine, well i dont care i just igonore it and go on with my shopping. :mad: Thats one reason people park over several spaces. And if you drive to the end of the parkinglot and park with 5 free spaces on each side you can be sure that when you come out there is a car parked right next to you.:wtf: /Magnus
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Everytime I see some new car parked diagonally in a parking space I feel the almost uncontrollable urge to reach for my sharpest key and carve a nice messae all around their car. Or better yet, climb behind the wheel of my girlfriends 89 Volvo and see if I can straighten out their parking job. What on earth do those people think is so special about their damn car that they deserve to park sideways and take up three spaces. Just because they were dumb enough to fork over sixty thousand plus dollars doesn't give them a better parking space. They should be paying me for damaging my eyes looking at the shine on that overpriced peice of shit. Jared jparsons@jparsons.org www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte477n
Keying the paint does expensive, criminal damage to the car and might land you in jail. But loosening the valve stems on at least two tires is fairly harmless.:cool: "Your village called -
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Keying the paint does expensive, criminal damage to the car and might land you in jail. But loosening the valve stems on at least two tires is fairly harmless.:cool: "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot.":evil grin: Roger Wright wrote: But loosening the valve stems on at least two tires is fairly harmless. Or even just one tire. If you let down two he/she will have to call someone to come help. If you just let down one he/she will spend time changing the tire themselves (hopefully in the scorching heat or driving rain :-D)
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares. Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?" As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
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Add to these bastards the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! :mad: It's not about dumbness or laziness, it's just about lack of respect. Societies are more and more selfish, people more and more individualistic. Every man for himself! Behaviours like this one are just another way to show how the notion of respect is antagonist with the one of consumer society.
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KaЯl wrote: Add to these bastards the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! Cripes! I agree with you. Father was handicapped, polio. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." by: JAMES TRAUB New York Times Loyal member of the vast right wing conspiracy
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KaЯl wrote: Add to these bastards the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! Cripes! I agree with you. Father was handicapped, polio. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." by: JAMES TRAUB New York Times Loyal member of the vast right wing conspiracy
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sorry to hear that. There's a good ad teaser here, showing a car on a reserved place: "Exchange place for handicap"
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KaЯl wrote: sorry to hear that. As a side note, he never let it (atrophied left leg, to a lesser extent, left arm) stop him. Attemped to join the military for WWII, played on a softball team as a pitcher, very good bowler, and made his living standing and operating a machine lathe for 30+ years. Good man, tough guy, great father. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." by: JAMES TRAUB New York Times Loyal member of the vast right wing conspiracy
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KaЯl wrote: sorry to hear that. As a side note, he never let it (atrophied left leg, to a lesser extent, left arm) stop him. Attemped to join the military for WWII, played on a softball team as a pitcher, very good bowler, and made his living standing and operating a machine lathe for 30+ years. Good man, tough guy, great father. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." by: JAMES TRAUB New York Times Loyal member of the vast right wing conspiracy
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Add to these bastards the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! :mad: It's not about dumbness or laziness, it's just about lack of respect. Societies are more and more selfish, people more and more individualistic. Every man for himself! Behaviours like this one are just another way to show how the notion of respect is antagonist with the one of consumer society.
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KaЯl wrote: the ones who parked on places reserved for handicapped people! That's a pet hate of mine, too. I especially hate people parking in such spaces when there are perfectly valid, ordinary spaces available a few feet away. I've seen people do it at my local sports club: it's ironic that they are going there to exercise yet can't be bothered to walk a few feet extra to the front door. Debbie