Unpopular Opinions cuz Thursday

[kirotea]

Jan 29, 2015 9:29:55 GMT -5 bearfootz said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:27:32 GMT -5 uconn said:

Where are you from?

It's a Milwaukee thing

Uhh... no.

[cbowl]

sorry bob's burgers is so good.

[mack]

Say what you want about Massachusetts drivers, but I really think they actually know what they are doing. They seem to generally understand yielding. They get rotaries. There are great laws about stop signs. For instance, if you are at a stop sign and there are no cars coming in the other direction, 3 people can go at a time. It is also general practice to move into the intersection when waiting to make a left. And, if you are trying to make a left, it's acceptable to "bang a left" before the opposite direction starts moving. Like I was taught that if I am going straight, pause for 3 seconds because the person trying to make a left in the opposite direction will most likely try and do it first thing.

[ghostmonkey]

Jan 29, 2015 9:27:52 GMT -5 leroybrown said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:26:23 GMT -5 mack said:

Exactly. It's not hard. If you get there first, it's your turn. If there is constant traffic on all sides, the person on the right has the right of way. This shouldn't be that challenging.

Yeah but, like, if you can squeeze in, are you allowed to? How do the people waiting to enter ever get a turn?

You wait your turn. No different than a light. Squeezing in when it's not your turn or there clearly isn't a break is no different than running a red light.

[ghostmonkey]

Jan 29, 2015 9:30:19 GMT -5 leroybrown said:

But then how do you ever get a turn? They just put one in by the school, so before and after school, you'd sit waiting for your turn indefinitely. That's dumb. At least with stop lights everyone gets a turn.

There are breaks in traffic. People tried to use this whine when they put a couple in here. I've never sat for more than 45 seconds in heavy rush hour traffic. If there was a light I'd be there for 10 minutes.

[bobcat]

Jan 29, 2015 9:24:48 GMT -5 adm11 said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:18:54 GMT -5 bobcat said:

As an Army wife, I can say evenings are definitely the hardest. I've not had to endure a deployment with a little one yet (thank goodness), but I can only imagine how exhausting and depressing that can be. Calling just to chat would be a nice gesture. Making meal times easier I'm sure would be a huge help. Cooking for one (then eating and cleaning up by yourself) just sucks! It helped me to also have things to look forward to, so even if you can't get together regularly, maybe you can plan a Momma's day out a few weeks after her husband deploys (if she's comfortable leaving the baby/has childcare). Lord, I hope she has child care...

Yeah the childcare thing is what I'm not sure about!  We both have pilot husbands so we are used to being alone for a certain amount of time, but not 6 months!  It sounds like her family is reluctant to drive to this side of the state alot, but I hope that changes when he leaves.  I do plan on trying to get her to get like once a month.  I could even get child care for her DS and my DD at our house I think!  I told her to just come and stay whenever.  We have the room and all the baby gear, so she doesn't even have to pack it all up.  We did bring dinner Sunday and she appreciated that.  I just can't imagine more than like 2 weeks at a time that I have endured with my H.

You sound like a great friend! I'm sure she appreciates it! To offer a bit of perspective, we've done year+ deployments, and the first few weeks/month is the hardest. Then, you adjust to your new normal. She'll find hers. I often found when my husband was gone for just a few weeks I had a harder time getting into my own routine. Knowing he'd be back soon, I felt like I was just in a holding pattern. When he was going to be gone for months and months, I prepared myself and actively tried to settle into a groove that worked for me.

[bearfootz]

Jan 29, 2015 9:31:31 GMT -5 kirotea said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:29:55 GMT -5 bearfootz said:

It's a Milwaukee thing

Uhh... no.

You use Bubbler too? I thought it was a SE WI/Milwaukee regional thing?

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2015 9:28:26 GMT -5 unheardof said:

Jan 29, 2015 8:41:24 GMT -5 @pbfox said:

I'll make an allowance for Stranger Than Fiction, but I cannot consent to adding Elf. 

Elf is amazing.  I feel like I don't know you anymore.

Sorry, I just don't love it. It's tolerable but I wouldn't seek it out to watch.

[mack]

Jan 29, 2015 9:32:41 GMT -5 ghostmonkey said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:30:19 GMT -5 leroybrown said:

But then how do you ever get a turn? They just put one in by the school, so before and after school, you'd sit waiting for your turn indefinitely. That's dumb. At least with stop lights everyone gets a turn.

There are breaks in traffic. People tried to use this whine when they put a couple in here. I've never sat for more than 45 seconds in heavy rush hour traffic. If there was a light I'd be there for 10 minutes.

Exactly, you wait until a break in traffic on your left.

[mrsbutt]

You guys have a lot traffic feels.

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2015 6:57:49 GMT -5 theseaword said:

Jazz music is 90% terrible. No more jazz. Hell, let's throw in bagpipes too while we've got the bonfire going.

Nope nope nope

A Love Supreme?

Kind of Blue?

I fall asleep to those nightly.

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2015 9:31:19 GMT -5 notmycircus said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:25:27 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

Minnie?!?

Your description of roundabout drivers is Minnesotan drivers to a T.

Indeed!!

roundabouts, 4 way stops, zipper merge... the list goes on...

WE CANNOT HANDLE THE ZIPPER MERGE!  So I tell all the other drivers to fuck off as I drive down the open lane to the merge point...

[mack]

Jan 29, 2015 9:34:30 GMT -5 mrsbutt said:

You guys have a lot traffic feels.

OMG so many. Don't even get me started.

I have lived on the east coast, out west, and down south. I have a lot of feelings.

[mack]

Jan 29, 2015 9:34:40 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:31:19 GMT -5 notmycircus said:

Indeed!!

roundabouts, 4 way stops, zipper merge... the list goes on...

WE CANNOT HANDLE THE ZIPPER MERGE!  So I tell all the other drivers to fuck off as I drive down the open lane to the merge point...

Omg this is my pet peeve.

[Rach7170]

Jan 29, 2015 9:20:29 GMT -5 mrsbutt said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:18:17 GMT -5 spencer1337 said:

Ooo. Oo. I have one. I hate red wine. I have tried several and just no.

I'm sorry you are so broken.

Okay but, wine is gross though

[notmycircus]

Jan 29, 2015 9:34:40 GMT -5 @bruxannie said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:31:19 GMT -5 notmycircus said:

Indeed!!

roundabouts, 4 way stops, zipper merge... the list goes on...

WE CANNOT HANDLE THE ZIPPER MERGE!  So I tell all the other drivers to fuck off as I drive down the open lane to the merge point...

LOL! Me too!

[mack]

Like do people not realize that if you just alternate, merging would go smoothly. It's people that try to get over right at the merge point that cause the traffic jams.

[mack]

This merging discussion is raising my blood pressure.

[scarlettpanda]

There is literally one traffic circle within 20 miles of my house, and I had to go through it on my driving test. I had never seen a traffic circle before then. Fortunately, there was no one else on the road that day.

[ghostmonkey]

Jan 29, 2015 9:36:17 GMT -5 mack said:

Like do people not realize that if you just alternate, merging would go smoothly. It's people that try to get over right at the merge point that cause the traffic jams.

OMG, this is my life. Every morning I'm yelling at the other drivers. Non-merging mother fuckers.

[Deleted]

I skipped pages because I don't even drive lol

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2015 9:36:17 GMT -5 mack said:

Like do people not realize that if you just alternate, merging would go smoothly. It's people that try to get over right at the merge point that cause the traffic jams.

I agree with your first point, but not the second.  We actually have public informational campaigns about how to zipper merge and drivers still insist on sitting in the one backed up lane for god knows how long.

All I am doing is trying to follow the rules the government sets out - please be kind and zipper merge.

[mack]

Jan 29, 2015 9:37:45 GMT -5 ghostmonkey said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:36:17 GMT -5 mack said:

Like do people not realize that if you just alternate, merging would go smoothly. It's people that try to get over right at the merge point that cause the traffic jams.

OMG, this is my life. Every morning I'm yelling at the other drivers. Non-merging mother fuckers.

Every. fucking. day. 

[spencer1337]

For my driving test they had me get in the highway drive a mile, turn around and come back and park. That might be why the driving down here sucks so bad. My husband dosent even know how to parallel park!

[mack]

The lane is ending. Every other car let someone go.

[leroybrown]

Jan 29, 2015 9:36:17 GMT -5 mack said:

Like do people not realize that if you just alternate, merging would go smoothly. It's people that try to get over right at the merge point that cause the traffic jams.

Like when there's an accident or construction on the highway so the left lane is merging and everyone is trolling along and some dickwad zooms up and tries to squeeze in. Assholes. My favorite is when semis block them from merging. It's fucking hilarious.

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2015 9:39:12 GMT -5 mack said:

The lane is ending. Every other car let someone go.

people here get all passive aggressive and stay on the front car's bumper, so that there's no room to merge.  It's just very bizarre.

[ghostmonkey]

Jan 29, 2015 9:39:12 GMT -5 mack said:

The lane is ending. Every other car let someone go.

LET NO ONE IN EVER!

[mack]

Jan 29, 2015 9:39:12 GMT -5 @scoutnumbers said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:35:38 GMT -5 mack said:

Omg this is my pet peeve.

Mine too, and I probably won't let you in because fuck you for doing that.

I purposely don't let people in.

Like this one on Ramp gets backed up because (shocker) there's a merge onto the highway. But people zip up to the front of the line and try to cut. This backs it up worse because people have to stop when they get cut off. Do these assholes not realize that if everyone just got in line for the on ramp in an orderly fashion, it would take half as long?

[angelashly]

Jan 29, 2015 9:23:48 GMT -5 mack said:

Jan 29, 2015 9:19:21 GMT -5 humpty said:

Beer is better than wine.

This I will throw down about

Stands next to mack