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    steelworker
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    @GraemeE
    Joined: 16 Apr 2014

    @GraemeE said in Unpopular opinions:

    MASSholes made me fear for my life out east

    Driving in Boston is not for out of towners.
    No grid like NYC. Paved cowpaths with one way streets. You can see where you want to go but you arent going to get there.

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    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
    Well, I have others.

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      RobeOfTheMagi
      Haraki san Expert
      Joined: 15 Apr 2024

      Interesting. Looks more like a European city.

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        Brian
        Joined: 24 Nov 2022

        If you want bad drivers come and visit Adelaide
        No idea on merging, change lanes and then indicate, no giving way ever, sit on the bumper of the car in front, and 1 of the only roundabouts in the state that has multiple crashes per week due to the fact that no one here knows how to drive
        I blame automatics also for this as it takes the guess work out of driving put it in D and just use the 2 pedals

        I really hope manuals are still around for when Jacob is old enough to drive just so he can learn even if he doesn’t end up with a manual

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          flannel slut
          Raw and Unwashed
          @steelworker
          Joined: 21 Feb 2022

          @steelworker said in [Unpopular opinions]

          You can see where you want to go but you arent going to get there.

          🤣🤣🤣 it’s funny because it’s true

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            ddtrash
            Haraki san Expert
            Joined: 2 Dec 2010

            My most "interesting" driving experiences were from a short stint working in Cairo Egypt.

            I had a driver assigned to me and on day one he missed the motorway exit and rather than drive to the next exit, he proceeded to slow down in the outside lane and pulled into a gap in the carriageway barrier. The gap between the barriers was sandy and the vehicle got stuck. The driver asked me to get out and push. I am now pushing a stuck in vehicle in the middle of a 4 lane (each way) motorway, with traffic whizzing past, so we could get onto the other side of the carriageway to retrace steps.

            There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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              ddtrash
              Haraki san Expert
              Joined: 2 Dec 2010

              I requested for a new driver.

              Driver number 2. One evening leaving work during rush hour we were confronted with a completely choked roundabout. Typically we needed the last exit on the roundabout. rather than join the flow of traffic and queue the driver proceeded to go against the oncoming traffic on the roundabout to get to the exit we needed as it was a shorter route.......

              There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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                ddtrash
                Haraki san Expert
                Joined: 2 Dec 2010

                I requested for another new driver.

                Driver number 3. He got caught speeding on the motorway and asked me to pay his fine for him. I told him that I had not asked him to break the speed limit so would not be contributing to him paying his speeding ticket. We drove into the back streets of Cairo. The driver shouted up into a tenement block and a basket on rope was lowered down. The speeding ticket along with some cash was placed into the basket and the basket hauled up into the police chiefs apartment. Bung paid, the stamped ticket was returned and we carried on our way.

                There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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                  seawolf
                  Mod Squad
                  @RobeOfTheMagi
                  Joined: 28 Oct 2011

                  @RobeOfTheMagi said in Unpopular opinions:

                  Interesting. Looks more like a European city.

                  It's part of New England, so the colonists were doing what they knew at first.

                  “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                  @zeebeeleather

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                    SKT
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                    Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                    I don’t love cat eye buttons.

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                      Matt
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                      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                      That’s weird.

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                        SKT
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                        Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                        Should have put it in the weird opinions thread…i got a lot

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                          SKT
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                          Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                          Honestly, they feel too thin or something…not substantial enough. Big fan of 4 hole buttons though…huge fan

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                            Matt
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                            Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                            Not sure which is weirder.

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                              Matt
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                              Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                              I’m no longer 100% convinced the moon landing was real. I’m being serious. It doesn’t even make sense that in 1969 we put a man on the moon AND brought him back!?!? It makes way more sense that we faked it.

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                                pechelman
                                啓蒙家
                                Joined: 24 Jan 2022

                                Why do you think it makes more sense it was faked or that it isn't something we actually did?

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                                  Matt
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                                  Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                  The logistics of safely transporting a human being to the moon then bringing them back alive relative to most space expeditions since then seems incongruous at best. Granted I’m not a rocket scientist like some people around here 🤓

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                                    steelworker
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                                    @Matt
                                    Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                                    @Matt said in Unpopular opinions:

                                    I’m no longer 100% convinced the moon landing was real. I’m being serious. It doesn’t even make sense that in 1969 we put a man on the moon AND brought him back!?!? It makes way more sense that we faked it.

                                    I'll have what you're drinking @Matt

                                    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                                    Well, I have others.

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                                      Matt
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                                      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                      I’m not even considering all the popular conspiracy theories about supposed evidence supporting a staged moon landing. I’m just not convinced 1969 technology was capable of doing something so sophisticated. And they recorded it? You couldn’t even get decent tv reception back then without having one of your kids hold the rabbit ears.

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                                        pechelman
                                        啓蒙家
                                        @Matt
                                        Joined: 24 Jan 2022

                                        @Matt it's totally fair to question those things, which is why it's truly one of the most amazing things ever done.

                                        There were a lot of things that went wrong along the way, people have died, things blew up, etc.

                                        I'll say one reason why it's so much more believable to me, is that because it was done in 1969 with people who were willing to accept and take a little more risk without needing triple or quad redundant systems like was and is still done for launch systems that came after.

                                        It's one part of the recipe for success at SpaceX as well. But regardless, it's all good, even if you're totally wrong 😉

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                                          Matt
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                                          Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                          I respect that. I’ve grown to generally distrust governments and this is just another symptom of that. Having worked for one and having seen one single handedly dismantled (sorry mods) I know what they’re truly (in)capable of.

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