the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Diomedes]

[Sgt PSN]

I think I might pin that up on the bulletin board in my office along with the boards in every bathroom in my building. 

[Diomedes]

from a cnn article about the ice storms, not worth linking, you've all heard or read the same shtein elsewhere:

...Ice up to 1½ inches thick has glazed much of the central Plains and Midwest this week. At least 27 deaths -- mostly traffic accidents -- have been blamed on the storm system since it developed last weekend.

Who makes this shtein up?  Who has a stake in that number..that's where to look first.  Is there some kind of subsidy available if you can concoct blame for death?  How come we let people tell us the storm caused the deaths?

The storm didn't cause the deaths.  People caused their own deaths by driving in it.  Most of them probably douchebags in SUVs driving like douchebags in SUVs.

I'll give the storm credit for a few deaths, sure.  But how about people stop blaming everything else but themselves?  Goddamn humans should be exterminated, they're so farging awful.

[rjs246]

Hitting the gin a little hard tonight?

While I generally agree that people are idiots hell-bent on blaming everyone but themselves for the zesty things that happen in the world, bad weather can at the very least be held partly responsible for people's deaths.

Just because people are iceholes doesn't mean that there aren't other variables that play into their deaths.

[Sgt PSN]

We didn't get hit real hard with it in KC but hard enough for me to not have to go to work yesterday (score!).  

Anywho, on my way into work this morning the roads still weren't in the greatest condition.  Good enough to for me to comfortably drive the speed limit but that's about it.  Anywho, I got passed by a few douchebags who must have been doing at least 70 (in a 55).  And guess what?  They were in SUV's and oversized pickup trucks.  The trucks are even worse because people think that just because they can tow 1 ton of whatever that they're truck is invincible.  Pickup trucks of any size are the worst to drive in snow and ice because there's absolutely no weight in the bed.  Well, unless you fill it up with snow.  But that only works if you're smart enough to not park in your garage.  

Anywho, I was driving my 4Runner but I'm smart enough to know that when the roads are wet and it's below 30 degrees outside, don't farging drive like an idiot.  

[Father Demon]

Anywho, I think you may be gay for repeatedly using the term 'anywho.'

[Sgt PSN]

And I think you may be gay for repeatedly tonguing my balls. 

[rjs246]

Everybody's gay! Yay!

[Father Demon]

Define repeatedly....

For the record, I think five times is the over/under for gaydom.  Less than five is experimental, which any young college girl will tell you is perfectly normal.

[Sgt PSN]

Are you saying that you're a young college girl?  Cause if that's what you're getting at then I just gotta say that you are one fugly biatch!

[PhillyPhreak54]

We didn't get hit real hard with it in KC but hard enough for me to not have to go to work yesterday (score!). 

Anywho, on my way into work this morning the roads still weren't in the greatest condition.  Good enough to for me to comfortably drive the speed limit but that's about it.  Anywho, I got passed by a few douchebags who must have been doing at least 70 (in a 55).  And guess what?  They were in SUV's and oversized pickup trucks.  The trucks are even worse because people think that just because they can tow 1 ton of whatever that they're truck is invincible.  Pickup trucks of any size are the worst to drive in snow and ice because there's absolutely no weight in the bed.  Well, unless you fill it up with snow.  But that only works if you're smart enough to not park in your garage. 

Anywho, I was driving my 4Runner but I'm smart enough to know that when the roads are wet and it's below 30 degrees outside, don't farging drive like an idiot. 

When I read your post I thought about Derrick Thomas.

And mussa.

[Diomedes]

... I got passed by a few douchebags who must have been doing...

I have a fantasy that goes along the lines of, I see one of these douchebages blowing through traffic, tailgaiting, jumping lanes, and I get to see them wipe out, crash, end over end, roll onto the wheels.  All kinds of farged up.  I pull over next to the wreck, get out the car, greet the driver by saying something tough like, burn in hell motherfarger, spit on the douchebag driver, go get back in my car and drive away, back to running my errands.

[PhillyPhreak54]

 

Dio, ladies and gentleman. He'll be here all night.

[Sgt PSN]

... I got passed by a few douchebags who must have been doing...

I have a fantasy that goes along the lines of, I see one of these douchebages blowing through traffic, tailgaiting, jumping lanes, and I get to see them wipe out, crash, end over end, roll onto the wheels.  All kinds of farged up.  I pull over next to the wreck, get out the car, greet the driver by saying something tough like, burn in hell motherfarger, spit on the douchebag driver, go get back in my car and drive away, back to running my errands.

Well done. 

I actually did see someone wipe out really bad once.  It was back in like 1996 I think and I was living in Seattle.  My ex (then wife) and I went to her parent house for X-mas in the middle of Washington St and when we were driving back we were going over Snoqualmish (sp?) Pass (through the mountains)the day after a major snow storm him.  Roads were covered in snow and you couldn't even drive if you didn't have chains on your tires.  Like, it was actually illegal to not have chains on.  So I'm just taking my time driving about 35-40 mph on a road that I normally drove 65-70.  Just as I approach a portion of the road that has a fairly sharp curve to the left some moron goes flying by us in a Suburban at about 50+ mph.  Once he hit the curve in the road he completely lost it and the front passenger side of his truck hit the beginning of the guard rail and he flipped over it in the air, smashed into a tree and then, I assume, started rolling down the hill out of sight. 

My ex wanted me to stop but I was like, farg that, it's cold out.  Didn't have a cell phone so we couldn't call anyone and there was no one else on the highway who could have helped.  The only thing I would have been able to do would be stand at the edge of the road and yell down at them.  So I just waited until we got over the mountain and called highway patrol from a gas station.  I have no idea if anyone died or not but I hope the driver did.  Ass. 

[General_Failure]

Terry Pratchett gets the oldtimers disease.