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  1. 2 hours ago, Apep said:

    I don't doubt that people ignore the signage and lane markings all the time, but people also do it the wrong way on <30 ft medians by not turning around the near corner. Both are great examples of jackassery. But lately, there has been a movement to get people to treat the method for >30 ft medians as the method for all medians, which screws things up even worse.

    I've never seen anyone do the latter, not even once. I've seen scores if not hundreds do the former, ignoring the signs but really it's  because they don't even know the laws and to look for the signs.  So I consider that to be a far bigger problem.  

     

    You can yell at your cloud I guess, and I'll yell at mine.

  2. 24 minutes ago, Apep said:

    I wouldn't make that assumption. There is a very popular meme making the rounds that doesn't make that distinction.

    Don't know of any memes along those lines, but as I stated before I've seen people do it incorrectly scores or even hundreds of times, at intersections where the signs are clearly marking the correct path. So I'm ok with anyone bringing it up as driving jackassery.

    It happens on 360 all of the time, where there's an intersection or even just a crossover, with the signs clearly marking your Yielding position on the opposite side of that intersection.  Yet time and time again people ignore the signs and turn immediately around their near corner, rather than crossing as the signs designate.  Parmer between MOPAC and McNeil is another place I see it frequently.  Pretty much any large multi-lane road in Austin is subject to this, and people screw it up all the time.

     

     

  3. I liked the song, The Final Countdown, but do you actually think that's a good video?  It's mostly just concert footage, with a few b-roll scenery shots and a handful of cuts to a clock and a stopwatch-- you know, to reinforce the whole "countdown" theme. ;)  It didn't even have any specific focus on very hot 80s chicks.

     

    But if you loved the video, that's cool. 

     

    Scorps No One Like You, on the other hand, is a masterpiece of storytelling.  It features an inmate with forks over his eyes, a hot chick in a dominatrix costume, and a shocking twist at the end.  Now THAT is an awesome 80s video!  :)

  4. 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I was taught to turn right from all the way to the right in the lane and to turn left from all the way to the left in the lane. I've seen people swing wide on their turns many times. I've never seen anyone swing halfway into an adjacent lane and almost cause a collision before. That was a first for me. 

    I wish I could say the same, or that I'd never seen it at all, but I've seen it many times.  Absolutely mind-bottling.

     

    Something similar I've noticed recently on roads with 2 lanes going in each direction, when there are pretty large curves, is the driver in the outside lane cutting off the curve and actually coming into the inside lane.  If there's nobody there, there's no real harm done, but I've had people almost hit me when I was on the inside lane and they just drifted across the line like they had every right to take up two lanes.  I have no idea what they're thinking.

  5. 37 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    A couple days ago I saw a guy in the right lane pull halfway into the left lane, forcing the guy in the left lane halfway into the left turn only lane to avoid getting hit, in order to make a right turn. He never signaled. That was a new one. 

    Sadly it's not all that new, I've seen it several times before.

    People in the left lane will swerve right to make a turn as well, which makes even less sense.

  6. 1 minute ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Chili’s at 183 and Burnet has made some great changes to their menu. Really stepped up food game. 

    Service is always full of flair, and if there is a better meal than fajita shooters in this town, well fuck me. 

    That was a go-to place for taking my high school dates, when I didn't have enough scratch for TGI Friday's at the Arboretum, so this hits close to home.

     

     

  7. 36 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    I understand there is more than one Soto.  But the guy said, "Soto up at Lakeline is arguably the best meal I've had in Austin." I find that shit funny.

    And if someone starts a thread titled Best Surly Posters Who Live In South Austin, I'll be sure to sit that one out.

    You're awfully sensitive about it all.  Perhaps you should sit THIS one out, Francis. :)

  8. 22 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

    I was in Maggie Mae's one night, and apparently Bad English had just played the Erwin Center.  

    Place was pretty crowded.  Cute waitress walks by balancing tray of drinks.  John Waite standing a few feet away from me, says something leering/creepy to her.  She turns around and sneers at him with one of the most "fuck you" looks imaginable.  Waite doesn't want to be the loser of this exchange, so as she's trying to carefully pick her way through the crowd, he follows right behind her, mocking her and making a sneering face at her (even after she wasn't paying attention to him anymore).  It was one of the most dick-ish things I've ever seen in a bar--not just from a celebrity, but from a person.  Total piece of shit.  I hope he's broke and suffering ass cancer.

     

    Well if so, I guess that's just The Price of Love.

     

     

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