3177

Indiana Republican wants to get rid of turn signals? Seriously WTF!

3178

That does sound crazy.

Bill Summary

Specialized driving privileges. Provides that an individual subject to both an administrative license suspension and a court ordered license suspension must file a petition for specialized driving privileges in the court that ordered the suspension.

Repeals the statute requiring a signal of intention to turn before turning or changing lanes.

Is this just some legal maneuver where one part of this bill was added to kill the whole thing? Was this bill ostensibly about the petition for specialized privileges during a license suspension, and for some reason the version that got presented had the turn signal part tacked on? I don’t understand why these two things would be together if it wasn’t some legal game.

Which is still crazy as far as I can tell, but marginally less crazy than someone simply wanting turn signals gone.

3179

Well, you know, freedom! How dare the government tell you, a God-fearing, red-blooded 'Murican what you can do in your car–a piece of your own private property (um, minus the part owned by the bank I guess)! It’s the same as the Holocaust!

3180

We all knew they were evil, and here is more proof:

3181

Because I know you’re all wondering like I was, so you don’t have to go to CNN to find out, here’s how the cats supposedly started the fires:

-Tom

3182

They can also turn on gas stoves by kicking a dial when jumping off. I know this from personal experience.

3183

What are the cats trying to cook?

3184

The house?

3185

I think we all know that it’s the big dumb dogs that are setting the house on fire, and the cats are taking the blame.

3186

I dunno, my dogs are pretty crafty. I’d put them up against most cats in a battle of wits.

3187

Aha! I knew it. I’ve continued using my electric stove’s child lock feature, even as my kids aged, because I suspected that could happen.

3188

The first wife and I came home and the apartment was very hot. It smelled of burning. Turns out it was burning iron.

When we got to the kitchen there was a cast iron pan that was starting to glow red. My first reaction was to pull the pan off of the stove. To this day I am glad that I did not do that.

I turned off the burner and pulled the knobs off of the stove. Even the one for the oven.

We had a cat named Gremlin who was one of those polydactyl guys. He was not smart. He liked to sleep on the stove, I guess because of the warmth of the pilot lights.

Ultimately it turned out that the pan was stuck to the grate that it was sitting on. Not welded stuck. More like they were beginning a relationship.

The fucker (cat) ruined a cast iron pan that her mother gave us. In the family for years. Perfect coating. I’m sure that some here can feel my pain. :)

3189

Wait, the cat’s mother gave you a pan?

3190

Absolutely. An in-law laid hands on the cast iron pan that was a wedding gift from my mother, it having once been a gift to her from her mother. So, yeah, by the time it came to me it had 30+ years of seasoning. If I knew which in-law, I’m pretty sure no jury would convict me.

3191

Worse, they probably took it home and washed it.

3192

A few threads this could go into, but, what the fuck?

3193

LOL.

(But I still think it’s super messed up that the dumbest/most-offensive thing one can possibly say no longer stays in, say, one idiot’s car… now it travels into our brains and people make money on that?? Ugh, not good.)

3194

It’s a pretty standard complaint from people who don’t understand what BLM is about and think it’s all just “uppity” minorities demanding special treatment. I agree it’s WTF worthy that someone can still be that ignorant about BLM (or just plain racist) in 2022 though.

3195

That’s not a rando thought, seems he works for some bullshit right wing rag. So he’s trolling for attention

3196

Which unfortunately thanks to Twitter he got.