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People who push through the yellow light in heavy traffic and wind up cutting off the intersection for everyone else should be gassed.
The whole “Imma-just-look-straight-ahead” routine doesn’t make you invisible, or move your fucking car.
We can all see you… and we all hate you. —Stuck on Green
This article appears in Aug 26 – Sep 1, 2010.
38 Comments
Best bitch in a long time.
happens a lot at certain intersections…i love that ” imma-just-look-straight-ahead” maybe if i don’t look around they won’t see me…too funny thanks op
Isn’t it illegal to enter an intersection if you are unable to drive through before the light changes?
Agree 100% OP. HUGH pet peeve of mine
You see that so often in the hrm, you would think the law ” do not enter intersection unless you are certain of clearing it, before the next change of signal lights.”-might give some drivers a clue, but alas it doesn’t happen
People in the hrm, seem to think they have a god given RIGHT to proceed on a green light…which isn’t the case.
The green signal is only a qualified permission to PROCEED CAREFULLY in the direction permitted by the signal…IT doens’t give you the RIGHT TO RUSH INTO AN INTERSECTION, WITHOUT THE REGUARD OF THE SAFETY OF OTHERS ! ! !
Which is where the whole thing has broken down & IMO it is 100% the Polices fault for this. Has anyone ever seen them ticket someone for blocking an intersection ?
I’ve actually on more than one occassion seen them sitting watching traiffic & completely ignore blocked intersections.
So why wouldn’t you say fuck it, keep your eyes forward paying attention ( nod,nod, wink wink) & block the intersection the hrm police are to busy dreaming of their next coffee & doughnut to bother enforcing -most- traffic laws.
just don’t speed or park too much or for too long !
Oh. OK. I see. It’s OK if Nice Goin Fat does it. Dammit, I should have took screenshots. I’ll get you next time.
You must be the ‘old hand’ of Desi,
buffing kay’s giggly bits like she’s your prized ‘participant trophy’.
Hay guys, think if we ignore oldhandjob he’ll go away?
No?
Didn’t think so.
d’oh *smacksforeheadwithpalm*
It is your problem. Not mine. it is what you do that determines the outcome.
I completely agree with this…..BUT… when you’re moving slowly throughout this city behind big trucks or SUVs and you can’t see that traffic has stopped and then the light turns yellow while you’re already out there following behind another vehicle….and you really didn’t mean to be an asshole on purpose. When I’m on SG I see this so often…and then people on the cross walk sometime will hit the bumper of the car as they walk by calling them an asshole. Sometime people do make mistakes and aren’t being an asshole.
Oh I know, I feel like a total dufus if I get caught out in an intersection… usually waiting for pedestrians to cross so that I can turn. But I’m trying to be extra conscious of it now that I live in HRM… the worst case of this though is when McKay Bridge was closed and the fucktards were all cutting everyone off on North to get to MacDonald. It was awful. Sometimes they would sit there for TWO lights. Then the person honking at them to move would do the same thing if they got an inch, blocking traffic in all four directions. Stood at a bus stop on Gottingen watching it happen one day. Eventually walked because traffic was NOT moving.
I wish PK. I’m getting seriously annoyed with oldhand’s stupid comments.
Good bitch OP, totally agree.
STFU
What’s even more annoying is when you are patiently waiting on your side of the intersection for room to open up and some asshole makes a right turn on a red and takes the space when traffic finally moves. GRRRRRRRR.
I too hate this. Sometimes it results in several green lights being missed because some impatient fuckers can’t handle being behind the cross walk with a red light.
Gassed? Really? This is the best we can do in this day and age? I endorse corporal punishment involving fish. Deliver one stinging trout slap, and they’ll be the best drivers you ever saw.
They drive me nuts, too! Some day, I’m going to buy a old 70-something Cutlass or T-bird and weld a guard rail onto the front and DRIVE THESE ARSEHOLES RIGHT INTO THE WEEDS!!
So Qubit, are you sure you can’t work some incest into that? I know how you love Nice Goin Fat’s discussion of it so much. Maybe throw a little rape in too before you gas them?
I believe the point of my comment was an alternative to the gassing. Please read before you type.
I should point out that you’re the one consistently bringing up incest and rape. I’ve made about 4 comments so far.
i think it’s safe for the time being mr. qubit, don’t sweat the small stuff…go have your ice cream…happy day of birth to ivan. rawk scree snort heehaw rooooo and *mouse ears*
That addition of mouse ears blew my mind. Now I need to make risotto.
And a Rawkin’ great Merci Scree to you Painuchka. We just got back from the lake where I violated numerous municipal ordinances and standards of good taste by consuming open alcohol and swimming several lengths in a state of primal buck-neckitude. Hey, it’s my B-day ; I can do whatever I want right? So now we can add Ivan -The-Uncivilly-Disobedient to my list of soporific honorifics. *Snort*
Happy September 2 and major *mouse ears*to the Bitchinest bunch of Bitch-Buds a Bitcher ever Bitched with.
Happy Birthday General!! Sounds like a lovely (??enjoyable??) way to spend the morning of your birthday. It’s your party, do whatcha wanna!
Thanks Ralmny. I am at heart a hedonist. Were it not for my fondness for soap and Airshows and my preference for lager over da ‘erb, who knows, I mighta been a hippy. No doubt there’s an alternate universe Evil Ivan, with goatee and Hugo Chavez T-shirt, saying things like “Zoinks Man, like, you can’t hug children with nuclear arms”.
*HeeHaw* Enjoy your air conditioning today. >: )
Ha ha – wouldn’t it be great to meet the alternate realities of yourself someday?? The air con is GREAT, but I’m off soon for the long-long weekend celebrations in hometown nowhere NB. Should be a good one. Zoinks!
happy b-day Sire; hope you recieve the Dora the explorer gift pack I sent 🙂
Oh Si, Si, Senor Marti. My name his Dora the hexplorer and I LOVE TACOOOOS! Muchos Gracias >: )
HEY HURRICANE EARL IS A COM’N AND WERE ALL GONNA DIE ! except me I’m far far away 🙂
You just have to worry about that long awaited earthquake that takes out the entire left coast. Still, it’ll be nice to go to Jasper and see Killer Whales. Hope you’re on vacay someplace else when it goes down Marty. >: )
Happy Start Date, Ivan, me son. Have you reset yet?
As for Hurricane Earl-Earl-Earl-You-Make-Me-Want-To-Twirl – I have six dozen stubby candles, a blow torch and over 100 bean cans of mix stored at Hillbilly Hollow’s Bomb Shelter, aka the liquor store.
49 going on 13 TTFN >; ). Got propane, bottled water and shortgun shells. Rereading “World War Z” for survival pointers. Remember, head shots. Always head shots. Destroy the brain and slay the beast.
watch that blowtorch TTFN.
they can turn on you in a heartbeat.
I’ve got enough tuna to last a week and a half so I’m all set… now just hoping the power doesn’t go out so I can open them.
I HAVE opened a can with a butter knife before though…
it wasn’t pretty and I was pretty hungry.
we could survive on critter food for weeks on end, the pooping might be strange but we will be inebriated so t’wont matter a bit…batten down the hatches bitches^^
earthquakes? they have those here omfg I’m gonna die 🙂
So, while I was at work, a whole thread seems to have gotten erased. What happened?
it’s just you newt^^^much mayhem, merrymaking and meanies with a twist *glugluglug*
ok thanks paingirl…i guess i didn’t miss much.
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