The Whining and Bitching Thread

Black Orifice said:
Legitimately surprised it went that fast. In any case, driving fast in shit cars is scary. I've taken my Hyundai Accent back home to 90 mph a few times and was it shook and screamed--not like a performance car, not like it knew what it was doing; more like it just saw a predator and was about to shit its pants before it played dead. I was on the Autobahn the other day with some little VW Up! at 150kph. I now know why it has the exclamation point in it's name.
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The Focus did it pretty easily, it just felt like the margin for error was ridiculously small at that speed.
The holiday before that I got our big camper up to 165 kph, that was a strange feeling. We also almost got taken out by a crazy Audi sports SUV thing whilst trying to overtake a truck in the fast lane. Guy must have been doing 280kph or more, he just appeared out of nowhere and all of a sudden he was next to me in the tiny emergency lane screaming at me and beeping his horn. I was doing about 150 and I had to swerve almost into the truck I was trying to overtake so he didn't hit us. Scared the fucking shit out of me.
 
Satanstoenail said:
The Focus did it pretty easily, it just felt like the margin for error was ridiculously small at that speed.
The holiday before that I got our big camper up to 165 kph, that was a strange feeling. We also almost got taken out by a crazy Audi sports SUV thing whilst trying to overtake a truck in the fast lane. Guy must have been doing 280kph or more, he just appeared out of nowhere and all of a sudden he was next to me in the tiny emergency lane screaming at me and beeping his horn. I was doing about 150 and I had to swerve almost into the truck I was trying to overtake so he didn't hit us. Scared the fucking shit out of me.
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In Germany? Germans are generally pretty easy going, cool people, but as drivers they're fucking assholes. It's like it's their instinct to drive aggressively and brake at the last possible moment. Every time I'm in a car with a German, I'm stomping on an imaginary brake. It's funny talking to my students about cultural differences. The cultural parallel they offer to guns in America is driving.
 
Black Orifice said:
In Germany? Germans are generally pretty easy going, cool people, but as drivers they're fucking assholes. It's like it's their instinct to drive aggressively and brake at the last possible moment. Every time I'm in a car with a German, I'm stomping on an imaginary brake. It's funny talking to my students about cultural differences. The cultural parallel they offer to guns in America is driving.
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I'm far more scared of other licensed drivers than other legal gun owners.
 
Black Orifice said:
In Germany? Germans are generally pretty easy going, cool people, but as drivers they're fucking assholes. It's like it's their instinct to drive aggressively and brake at the last possible moment. Every time I'm in a car with a German, I'm stomping on an imaginary brake. It's funny talking to my students about cultural differences. The cultural parallel they offer to guns in America is driving.
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Yeah in Germany. And yeah I know what you mean haha. My wife’s lovely old mother was tailgating like a demon in her tiny car.
 
My dad finally married his woman of 15 years yesterday, very happy for them. The ceremony was some bullshit though. They paid a lot of money for this arboretum- which you totally can rent for events, it's an advertised fact- and are told at the last minute that since it's a state ran facility they couldn't block off the area. So people coming to look at the plants for free were technically allowed to walk right through the ceremony space my dad paid for. Fucking bullshit. My brother also had his guitar and amp to strum some ambience and that wasn't allowed either. We stuck a sign up saying wedding in progress which did deter people, and snuck the music in under some coats, but my dad may as well have been a free guest with how little service we received for booking this shit and paying for it in advance. I'm glad we aren't a rule following family because that would have ruined their day.
 
They're a pain and a hazard. Wider coverage in public transport would be ideal, but the automotive industry definitely wouldn't like that.

#GMstreetcar_conspiracy
 
i'm about to start relearning to drive after bailing on it for financial reasons several years ago. public transport is widespread here but fuck if i never take a bus again for as long as i live it'll still be too soon.
 
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In the interest of full disclosure, I also hate riding the bus. But I hate driving around the city more. :D

I'll walk fifteen minutes to catch the train to avoid taking the bus, usually.
 
Try a German city with poor public transportation and infrastructure for cars. I never thought that showing up to work/school with soaking wet pants would be a socially acceptable thing to have happen weekly/sometimes every day of the week. Münster has taught me that there is an even lower low to commuting.

edit: I will say though, the stark contrast between normal weather and weather which occasionally includes the sun makes sunny days here unworldly beautiful.
 
Driving in a large city certainly isn't pleasant, but most if not all forms of commuting in a large city are not pleasant. I wouldn't want to live in a place where it was impractical to own a car.
 
I'm the total opposite, if I didn't have to drive I simply wouldn't own a car at all. As it stands, if I ever end up retiring from being a private contractor and go back to working with the plebs in retail (I'd like to work in a hobby store tbh) I'll immediately sell off my work car.
 
CASSETTEISGOD said:
I'm the total opposite, if I didn't have to drive I simply wouldn't own a car at all. As it stands, if I ever end up retiring from being a private contractor and go back to working with the plebs in retail (I'd like to work in a hobby store tbh) I'll immediately sell off my work car.
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Well it's not like I look for an excuse to drive all the time. I do as much walking as I can. Hobby shops are great but I wouldn't want to work around my hobbies. I like to keep my work and hobby worlds apart.
 
If I have to sell my irreplaceable time to a business for a wage, I'd prefer to be around things that give me some enjoyment and supplement in life. I've worked in a hobby store before as well as a few record stores and I always enjoyed it more than when I worked in random places that held no interest for me.

I probably wouldn't work in a literal Games Workshop store though, the shitty quality of customer would likely drive me insane eventually.

Dak said:
Well it's not like I look for an excuse to drive all the time. I do as much walking as I can.
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My bad, I wasn't implying anything to do with laziness, I just mean I prefer to be able to sit on a bus or a train and do some reading or mess around on the Internet/handheld video games.
 
CASSETTEISGOD said:
If I have to sell my irreplaceable time to a business for a wage, I'd prefer to be around things that give me some enjoyment and supplement in life. I've worked in a hobby store before as well as a few record stores and I always enjoyed it more than when I worked in random places that held no interest for me.

I probably wouldn't work in a literal Games Workshop store though, the shitty quality of customer would likely drive me insane eventually.
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I'm curious as to your experience of GW store customers. You mean the smell or what? I'd imagine hobby stores and record stores to not be much better.
 
I'm still learning how to drive, and I'm not bad. However, I like to space out a lot and my memory is a little fucked. I remember things like photos, so everything is still. Though I remember little small ridiculous details it's hard for me to take things in for the first time. This actually makes me pretty terrible with directions going to new places. I don't really like buses either. I like being able to take the train and just walk to where I need to be.

Though I like being in cars and even love the smell of cars, I can already tell it'd be a pain in the ass actually having to depend on one. Thankfully I don't need to. One less expense.
 
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