Are drivers in Nova Scotia ever going to start signalling more than 3 metres before they turn/brake hard?! It’s bad enough that the arrows painted on the roads are also very close to the white line. While riding one morning, a car proceeds to instantaneously brake and swerve right (in front of me). As I was going the same speed as the other cars and there was enough room to merge, I proceed around the left side of the car and in doing so, was honked at by the car behind me. Really?! What would you have expected – to have me wedged, maimed/killed? Proper merging is very useful on the road, but I often see drivers who don’t understand the concept of a Yield sign, even getting on the highway – adjust your speed if you need to! —Pissed cyclist and driver
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2015.
THE CONCEPT OF A YIELD SIGN
“Proper merging is very useful on the road, but I often see drivers who don’t understand the concept of a Yield sign.” Pissed cyclist and driver
“concept, n. Idea of a class of objects, general notion.” The Concise Oxford Dictionary
As can be seen, understanding a concept consisting of a class of objects or a general notion is not necessarily a straightforward, um, concept. Perhaps the driver in question was puzzling philosophically over this matter. Why, for example, might not the Yield sign be classed as simply that, as part of a class of objects called “Yield signs?” In other words what, exactly, is the ontology of the Yield sign or, for that matter, can it be said to have an ontology at all? Is this not to impose an illegitimate foundationalist construction on the concept?
If, as the post-modernists maintain, there is no such “foundation” at all but rather language consists simply of the way it is used, there is then no supra-linguistic reality – a metaphysics of language if you like – to which the Yield sign must gesture. Even in terms of language as use – “language games” as Wittgenstein called them- need the Yield sign necessarily be understood a command or an order or is it, as with so much else, only a linguistic maker gesturing to different meanings on different occasions? As can be seen, the concept of a Yield sign is ambiguous at best and incomprehensible at worst.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
“Leaving a Like on a post doesn’t always mean that a person literally likes that content, Morrison said, especially when users feel social pressures to acknowledge friends’ posts.” (http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1270151/when-like-doesnt-mean-like-behind-the-important-nuance/)
Sorry MM…
Three metres? That’s generous. Most of the drivers I’ve observed only begin to signal AS they are turning.
This is how drivers in NS think:
I was turning left onto a 2 lane road. A driver in the opposite direction was turning right, onto the same road, heading the same direction I’m heading. I take my designated lane, the left side of said road. She does not, she nearly climbed over my car, of course she hit my car. She planned on continuing her merry way until I pulled up in front of her, stopped and got out of my car.
A police cruiser on the other hand was at the previous intersection, in full view of what took place. Even though the officer kept saying to the other driver “hands down, it’s your fault”, she kept arguing with him that it was her right of way and it was my fault.
And that my friend, is the reason why Nova Scotia drivers will never learn no matter what happens. Not only do they not understand the meaning of yield, some actually think it’s a stop sign!
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Hing Frogg (11:01AM)
“Likes” & “Dislikes”
Passing by whoever “Morrison” might be – I neither open nor read attachments since I think that if someone has something to say then he should say it himself – I find both “Likes” and “Dislikes” flatulent and pointless. In the case of “Likes” the Liker agrees with the content of a post but lacks the intelligence to comment just why he does so. In a word, he is stupid.
The “Dislike,” on the other hand, gestures at a reason why the Disliker dislikes the content of a post – given the chance, he seems to say, he would advance a devastating critique of the post – but of course he won’t because he can’t. He is unable. In addition to simple bland stupidity as in the case of the Liker, the Disliker is incompetent. He thinks his winking “Dislike” cuts some intellectual ice but it doesn’t. It must be remembered that ALL discourse, including the “Likes” and “Dislikes,” is self-referential. That means that his “Dislike” doesn’t say anything about the content of the post but it says everything one would want to know about him. What does it say? It says that he is incompetent, flatulent and stupid.
By the way, I always give my own comments a “Like.”
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
likes and dislikes are pointless unless your name attaches.
i remember the good old days when we didn’t have the thumbs
Yes, like Discus
Some maintain, whether rightly or wrongly, that humans emerged from the undifferentiated genetic soup by virtue of their opposable thumbs. They could grab things, and from there on out the sky was the limit.
In general, there are too many jack asses who do not use your flipping blinker. If you see a blond giving you the finger it is probably because you didn’t use your turn signal.