Don’t you people know who I think I am?!
You guys are raging at the wrong people. If the fatass cops would clear the accidents out of the way faster, or the fatass construction workers would get the road fixed or expanded, there wouldn’t be a problem.
Top Gear has the answers: 1, 2; a, b.
Qmanol
1583
I my particular case I’m not really going to get too impatient about the record Queensland floods washing away large chunks of highway in landslides - I don’t want the side of the hill to let go when I go home on that road so they can take their time. They’ve also been very good about keeping each individual roadwork to a minimum, usually. Basically enough of the hillside fill in that both uphill and downhill roads have had to be moved away from the edge by a full lane in places.
You obviously did not read the post above where I linked a study done by scientists. They are always right as we know.
Seriously though, we do have at least one study that suggests that whether the action is self serving or not, it actually betters the whole. Should we not then either a, put more study into the matter and/or b, start trying to shift our actions towards what we know is the best answer we have at the moment?
Your quote basically says, I ignore anything said before this, because I know the motivations behind those people and my anecdotal evidence tells me it actually makes things worse.
Great…except why is your personal evidence better than the observed evidence by people trained to do so? See what I mean?
By ignoring what those scientists learned, you are going on to make the situation as bad or worse than it is now. Probably.
Because the people trained to do so have an agenda. See how this works?
Yeah, I do. Sadly enough.
Zylon
1587
It’s only efficient if everybody does it. And even then, any efficiency gain is questionable. No matter where people choose to merge, at some point there’s going to be a single lane that all the cars have to stuff themselves through. Doesn’t much matter if it’s precisely at the choke point or a mile back from it. Douchebags like Timemaster (apparently) take advantage of these situations to skip ahead in line.
Everybody hates a line-skipper. Everybody.
Quitch
1588
LOL, I love the way cars bring out the irrational. Next we post a study on how the use of a phone increases the chance of an accident and everyones like “Yeah, I see that, except in my case because I multi-task reeeeeeeeeally well”.
So here we have a study which says that line skipping isn’t bad, in fact waiting in the line is stupid. Wait, that can’t be true because my gut says otherwise.
Is science really that hard?
Quitch
If you couple that with the science that cold hard facts actually make people tighten up and grip their opinion harder, then yes, yes science is that hard to grasp.
Zylon
1590
Considering that’s not what the study says at all, yes, apparently science is that hard.
Qmanol
1591
Now I feel bad for getting mad at those people because I’m sitting in static traffic and an ambulance just rushed past because one of them has crashed at the roadworks.
Qmanol
1592
Now I feel bad for getting mad at those people because I’m sitting in static traffic and an ambulance just rushed past because one of them has crashed at the roadworks.
Wow, a double-post 15 minutes apart.
Er, I mean, raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage.
JoshV
1594
Job websites that take forever to navigate, make you fill in fields that are on your damned resume, and then crash once you finally get though the laborious process so that if you want to apply again, you have to go through the whole process!
That’s a great one. I once filled out a form for a job that took about 40 minutes to complete. It was absurd. Fortunately nothing crashed during the process but really, just let me upload my resume, dammit.
Phones … Whatever is in your inbox can wait. You don’t need to check it during the meeting, you don’t need to check it in the hallway, and you don’t need to check it walking up the stairs. You’re not the POTUS. Whatever it is, it can wait until you’re back at your desk. I promise.
Disagree. Mobile phones are mobile because they’re meant to be used while you’re mobile.
Folks who leave their phone at their desk so it can keep ringing and ringing and ringing with whatever insipid pop ringtone is popular this week - THOSE people need to be slapped upside the throat with the gauntlet of USE IT PROPERLY.
That’s not how they’re being used. They’re being used to feed OCD tendencies and making people believe they are more “in demand” than they are. “Whoah, an email just came in. Well, fuck this meeting, whatever this cat picture is needs to be addressed immediately”.
The email can wait.
So fire the person and make them unemployed, or deal with it. If it’s disrupting the meeting, add “no portable communications devices are to be brought into this meeting” to the employee handbook.
Edit: Oh right, nerd rage. How about “old people who can’t adapt with the times and have become technological coelacanths, holdovers of an age that should have died out during the last big meteor impact”?
The term ‘deal with it’ induces rage in me.
