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At least they are turning. I’ve come across multiple people who just stopped in the turn lane to text/message/fuck with the phone. No traffic, they just decided to stop in the turn lane (seen both left and right). Should be an automatic loss of drivers license for a month.
Yep - never needed to do it in my 8,000 foot long F150.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Goddam morans. :mad:
The turn thing is just people trying to turn faster by making the turn radius larger. Same reason there is rampant speeding and red light running, they only care about themselves.
I’ll give semis and people pulling a trailer a pass on this if they are taking the next lane over preemptively. Drivers Ed taught me you don’t pass a vehicle signaling a right hand turn who isnt necessarily in the right turn lane. Left turn is a little weird though.
A good friend of mine shot himself last month. He was bipolar and had bouts of darkness that had his friends checking up on him regularly last year, but he had been doing great. Then out of no where went and killed himself. That was super annoying. It was nice though that the fam and everyone involved didn’t pussyfoot around how he died.Quote:
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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Sorry for your loss. But glad that nobody tried to sugarcoat it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
We need to confront the problem of mental illness and suicide. Hiding the cause of death for someone young just hides the whole issue of mental illness and suicide. We don't need to know HOW they did it, but it would be open and honest and maybe helpful to know that it happened.
I may have said this before but it annoys the fuck out of me when they throw the celery in with the wings. They need to be separate so they don’t get all soggy and shit. And just 2 or 3 pieces is pathetic.This is an abomination.
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The wings were pretty good though, and too hot for my son so more for me.
While I get what you are saying, it is a very difficult topic for those who have lost people close to them to breach, and when they do talk about it, they can be shunned and/or excluded. My brother shot himself at 21 with a Glock on a country road in South Carolina after drinking a bottle of Jack. He was on leave from the Naval Academy. My parents never recovered, and I saw them get ghosted by a lot of people that they thought were close family and friends. Now my folks don't really talk about it with anyone but me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
It's fucked up, because it has this stigma like if you were related to them, you must have somehow seen it coming, or had something to do with it, or maybe you have a little bit of that suicidal thinking in your head too.
I think part of it is people don't want to "out" someone who committed suicide. If the family wants to discuss it that's fine, but no one else is going to want to broach the subject if they don't first.
I think there are occasionally practical reasons like life insurance for claims like “his gun went off while he was cleaning it” that I get, but most of the times it’s just discomfort w the reality and stigma associated with suicide and mental illness in general.
Similarly the term “passed on” has always annoyed me. Especially in cases of accidents / violent death. Someone died. Say it.
I'm sorry for your loss, and I guess that makes sense. And it sucks that you and your parents have experienced that. I think it's a vicious cycle, not talking about it openly leads to discomfort (societal and individual) which leads to not talking about it.Quote:
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Untossed salad.
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Ski area harping on me to carpool to save the planet is annoying. Let's be honest, it is so they can cram more people in, and that's fine, but don't guilt trip me for driving to the mountain alone when I live 9 miles away and just want to get a few laps in before I leave for work. And don't tell me to take the bus which would take 1hr+ each way when I can drive there in 10 mins.
Why do you care what your ski area thinks of you? It doesn't care what you think of it.
I don't, I am just annoyed by the constant greenwashing of it and the incentives that punish people for driving up alone.Quote:
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I didn’t find out until my 30’s that my dad’s dad had committed suicide when I was 4 or 5. Got into a argument with my grandmother, walked out on the porch and shot himself in the head with a pistol.Quote:
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I didn’t have any memories of him or it happening. But it explained how weirdly we interacted with that side of the family when I was growing up, like it’s Christmas so we have to go see your grandmother. She lived 20 minutes from our house.
I had been going through some depression issues myself and was like WTF? A family history of suicide might be some important information here people.
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People complaining on FB about how other people picking up their leaves is soooo environmentally unfriendly (the horror!) is a new low for us as a society.
Their suburban houses were perfectly unaltered ecosystems until thenQuote:
Originally Posted by booner
Continuing Education. Really? I have been doing this for 38 years with never a complaint or reprimand. WTF do I still have to read this shit?
even the best cheese pizza is a fucking disappointment
Yes, but it will be amusing in the spring when the same people are wondering how to get the huge dead spots in their lawn growing again.Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
Because shit changes? Because the professional association you belong too recognizes that people forget things and then fuck up? Because in order for your profession to be taken seriously people need to be held to standards?Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Would you go to a doc that hadn’t attended CE for 38 years?
as long as he uses fresh leeches, i’m fine with it…
fact.
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I'm with L2S. At least in my profession, CE is a joke. There is no requirement that I actually take CE classes relevant to my exact line of work, just that I get enough credits to check a box. And there are so many bullshit ways to get them, with home study and the like.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
None of that is to say that continually educating yourself about your job is a bad thing; it's a great thing! And it's what I would expect of anyone who cares about doing their job well. Which is the whole point. Anyone who cares about doing their job well will continue to educate themselves about their job, regardless of requirements. And anyone who doesn't care will just do whatever to check the box.
The whole CE thing is just to make the profession look good, and -- at least in the case of law -- ends up supporting a whole bullshit cottage industry around it.