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You passed me on a residential street, only to get to the stop sign five seconds sooner than me. Do you feel accomplished? Do you feel like you’re really that much further ahead? Because I feel like what you did was a DICK HEAD move that just endangers lives unnecessarily; in a school zone, at rush hour, on a busy street. Bravo. —A Good Driver
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2015.
In a school zone, at rush hour, on a busy street that goes through the nap room at a daycare located in a hospital, blah, blah, blah… You sound annoying as fuck and if I passed you, I would feel awesome. See you in my rearview, chumpette!!!!
Quinpool is really bad for drivers changing back and forth between lanes … just so they can a car length or two ahead at the next light.
The auto insurance companies are starting to use telemetrics (black boxes in cars) to monitor for erratic driving habits and adjust rates accordingly. Hopefully that will cut down on some of this risky driving.
” Driver behaviours (accelerating, braking, cornering, etc.) and driving characteristics (where, when, etc.) can be gathered through various sensor and communications devices. The resulting data can be analyzed and reported. The results can be used simply to report back to the insured party to influence driving behaviour, or can be tied directly to insurance premiums. Different insurers use different models in their insurance programs for customers.”
ARE YOU “HAPPY?” AN AMORPHOUS CONCEPT
This, of course, is a very old philosophical puzzle, one the ancient Greeks called the question of “eudemonia.” But in order to determine whether or not one is happy some characterization of the concept is required.
“Happy” is commonly understood to be the adjectival form of the noun “happiness” but this can give rise to serious misconceptions. To so conceive it suggests that being happy consists of a steady state, that one is (or is not) happy as a matter of course regardless of impinging factors which might temporarily result in unhappiness. However, there may be something to this as we do encounter those who by their nature are, if not euphoric, at least content with their lot. So we can see that even viewed as the adjectival form of the substantive “happiness” there are gradations in its experience which renders it an amorphous concept, one difficult to pin down.
In the same way, “being happy” is often conceived as a temporary consequence of rewarding activity. When the bitcher asks, “Do you feel accomplished?” s/he is conceiving being happy in this way. The difficulty here, of course, is that what is to count as a “rewarding activity” varies enormously. It can be something as trifling as passing another car in traffic or, reflexively and more significantly, it can take the form of a conceptual analysis of “being happy” itself. So once again we see that there is no one activity which will result in one being happy. The concept is relative to the individual and, as in the case of being happy as the adjectival form of the substantive “happiness,” it is amorphous, one difficult to pin down.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Well! This place is getting dull fast… terrible bitches and the HUGE loss of co-commentors has really affected LTWWB hard.
Hmmmm… I wonder what correlation could be drawn?!
Yeah, its not like the old days.
agreed.
And the answer is not more sensors, that’s for sure.
adding more useless shit like that is only going to benefit mechanics who will have to eventually replace them.
I wish to fuck my car didn’t have an o2 sensor installed (a completely non-vital component) because now that it’s burnt (A COMMON issue with my make and model) my remote-starter doesn’t work.
RSVP
The Flyspeck (1:17PM)
Is the “correlation” you suggest one between the “terrible bitches” on the one hand and “the HUGE loss of co-commenters” on the other? Could you demonstrate the accuracy of the correlation in any substantive fashion? Do you include yourself in the decline of the quality of the current commenters? Write back soon.
Cheerio!
Personally, I can’t wait for self driving cars. They’ll have motion and collision sensors and automatic braking so it should eliminate traffic accidents. That will, in turn, put an end to bad driver/ psyhco-cyclist / distracted pedestrian bitches forever.
Then, we can concentrate on the far more important, life defining issues like, say, the accidental ingestion of boogers or, one of my favourites of all time, “Assholes at the pizza joint” (Posted on Tue, Feb 10, 2015), which was about the refusal of a pizza joint to allow you to bring your own ingredients to sprinkle on the pizza before it goes in the oven. Yeah, people bringing their own ingredients to restaurants. What could possibly go wrong?”
Well! I guess Cape Breton blood isn’t good enough these days…
A message to my LTWWB FB friends:
Can you believe it? Thanks to Facebook policies, they have banned my account for not using a name that they like…
I will use my magic powers to resurrect myself, as I have so many other times, so bear with me…
Your fave mean old clown… I mean Prophet… yeah, prophet.
You must seek out professional help.
Help to…?!
It’s not about getting to the next stop sign M. Good Driver. It’s about getting ahead by increments, pushing forward, getting around the slow-pokes, getting on with your life while overcoming roadblocks. Don’t take it personally, it’s not really about you. These advancments are all carefully calculated, not a risk. Granted, shit can happen.
Help to abandon your fatuous claims to be a “Prophet.”
Oh.
Someone drove on the wrong side of the road to overtake me by Point Pleasant last week, only to reach the stop sign a few seconds earlier. I was driving at around 40kph, simply because there were so many potholes that I was trying to avoid. I thought the overtaking was stupid and unnecessary and unsafe in an area like Point Pleasant. Lots of kids & people walking dogs etc