Won't stop me from cursing the allowance of non-motorized bikes on public roads every time one of the damn things slows traffic to a crawl, though, either.
EDIT: Oh hey, post # 200,000. Cool.
I keep wondering either how small/narrow your roads are built or how incompetent your drivers are that you cant avoid a bike sized vehicle doing 10-15 mph in a 30+ mph zone with no traffic lights when you have 2 lanes.
Then again last night someone drove into oncoming traffic lane while leaning on their horn to go around me on a two lane two way street while I was on the far right, so anything is possible, I guess.
Including my nudity.
It's not about avoiding them. It's about the fact that one bike on the road causes all traffic to drop to ~15 MPH in the area in what is theoretically a 40 MPH zone. Because a bike can't match the speed of the actual flow of traffic AND is a much more fragile piece of equipment, and thus everyone gets hyperparanoid about the slightest thing going wrong and plummets their speed down to sub-20, causing all traffic around and behind them to do likewise, putting the absolute kibosh on getting anywhere in a reasonable amount of time until the bike is out of the way.
Plus, in the Midwest, South, and Southeast it's the land of large trucks and SUVs. Less physical space and driver's don't know their vehicle dimensions as well.
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It's not about avoiding them. It's about the fact that one bike on the road causes all traffic to drop to ~15 MPH in the area in what is theoretically a 40 MPH zone. Because a bike can't match the speed of the actual flow of traffic AND is a much more fragile piece of equipment, and thus everyone gets hyperparanoid about the slightest thing going wrong and plummets their speed down to sub-20, causing all traffic around and behind them to do likewise, putting the absolute kibosh on getting anywhere in a reasonable amount of time until the bike is out of the way.
Sounds like a local problem. That simply doesnt happen here, and I have the scars to prove it.
Plus, in the Midwest, South, and Southeast it's the land of large trucks and SUVs. Less physical space and driver's don't know their vehicle dimensions as well.
SUVs are cake to avoid for me, trucks are dicey depending on the dimensions.
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I did a bicycle commute for two years before I was married. I was living out in the valley and working two jobs, so I biked a total of ten miles round trip and usually not get home until after midnight. There were plenty of bike lanes, but the drivers didn't respect them or obey the signage, so I was run off the road and hit (minor scrapes) a few times, and one time was actually hit and flew over the hood of a guy's car, who disappeared before I could get his license plate number.
F*** bicycle commutes. Never again. I own a car for a reason.
I did a bicycle commute for two years before I was married. I was living out in the valley and working two jobs, so I biked a total of ten miles round trip and usually not get home until after midnight. There were plenty of bike lanes, but the drivers didn't respect them or obey the signage, so I was run off the road and hit (minor scrapes) a few times, and one time was actually hit and flew over the hood of a guy's car, who disappeared before I could get his license plate number.
F*** bicycle commutes. Never again. I own a car for a reason.
I am very familiar. But I love riding too much to give it up 100%.
I think everyone remembers me posting about being doored a few years back. I think that was the worst accident I ever experienced. The bruising was considerable.
Biking in California and biking anywhere else are two completely different things and are incomparable.
I think everyone remembers me posting about being doored a few years back. I think that was the worst accident I ever experienced. The bruising was considerable.
I think that was before I joined FaWtL.
I tore my rotator cuff because I wasn't wearing a helmet and decided in mid-air that the smartest thing to do would be to try to come out of the fall into an aikido roll/breakfall. Which saved my head and neck but my shoulder is still screwed up.
The only good thing that happened that night: I didn't want to call in sick to my evening job and risk getting fired, so I went anyway, and thank goodness they'd assigned me to train a new waitress, so I made her carry all the trays.
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Happy Birthday Icyshadow!
Yea he did mention that sometime back...
Sorry for forgetting Icy! Happy belated B-day!
Did you just come from a work barbeque? I've drunk before but NEVER to the point that I lose control of myself. I know I'm tipsy but I still know what I'm doing. So it's preferably not more then 3 glasses of wine, but can go up to a max of 5. That's of course on a full stomach.
*Looks at a empty cognac bottle*
*Gives a drunken smile and a drunken hug to kitty*
+1. Thank the gods for clip-on sunglasses.
On that note, I did read somewhere years ago that light-sensitivity is often (though not universally) more prevalent in people with lighter eye colors - if you have grey, blue, or light green eyes, you're more likely to be sensitive to light than if you have dark green, hazel, or brown eyes.
Rather curious how many FAWTL'ers line up with this. I'm a grey-eye myself so it checks out for me at least.
Brown, with a green- or maybe slightly yellow-ish tint.
no one plays gnomes right, or most people don't play gnomes right.
Though, to be fair, most people can't think in an alien, strange, and wild way.I once had a gnome who collected letters. as in, he killed a monster, and collected its name's first letter, and added it to his name.
Not sure there is a "right" way to play them.
*Looks at a stack of his Rpg-books*
Seen em played as everything from "tinker gnomes" to "Being perfectly in-tuned with nature" to "weird hill-billy types making pacts with eldritch horrors to evade a race-wide curse".
Heck I think, I've even got one where gnomes are kind of the stand-in for the Oread-Earth Genasi-Elemetal Earth empowered native outsider.
Guess you could say playing them 'PF RAW' is "right".
For me personally, I tend to show them as pseudo-primitivist beings living in harmony with nature (You know, more then Elves kind of sthick), and I down play the fey trickster and naive child from another world sthick.
We had a funeral in game last night for the fallen ranger. The fighter stood up and quoted Abraham Lincoln's Bixby Letter, with a few modifications to try and make it fit. Then my character stood up and said "Ditto." It was good for a few laughs.
My in-game eulogies tend to either be meet with in-game outrage or a flood of tears.
…or the occasional out-game barrage of dice.
Yep honey baked ham.
Clearly sampling of wares occurred.
The crust turned out rather soft instead of chewy.
Look pretty much how I make 'em.
Though I shred the ham instead of dicing it.Oh and use a lot ground beef, a bit more cheese, Smokey bacon or sausage or shredded chicken.
Bell pepper rings and tomato rings...
You get the idea.
:P
Wahoo! We have a house!
Just to rent for the time being; we can't proceed with buying until Whingey Wizzard is working, but at least our rental application has been approved, and we're going to overnight them our deposit first thing tomorrow. (Why they won't accept wire transfer is beyond me.)
My new commute will be LESS THAN TEN MINUTES, entirely on residential streets. It's three miles from the new school.
Oh, and I discovered there's a Jamaican restaurant less than five miles away that makes curry goat and festival (corn fritters).
And it's 12.5 miles away from the Polish deli where they sell the good sausage and make paczki on weekends.
Things are looking up!
Grats LM!
*Hugs LM + Family*
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You see at the table, I may come off as rather flat and I don't really display much emotion. Think Spock from Star Trek. And I am not spontaneous so I wouldn't be able to come up with eulogies on the spot.
If I were to sat stuff at an in game funeral, it'd probably be something like, "X was a good man/woman. He wouldn't want us sitting and pining away like this, so let's go kick butt for great justice!"
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After hearing your biking stories I don't think I'm going to be biking anywhere in the US. Besides I've never been that good a cyclist, I don't know how to stand and pedal and that's pretty much a requirement for any kind of hilly terrain. Flat terrain I did the OCBC 40 km cycle before but my butt was a huge ache the next day.
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Any news about WW's job application status? But congratulations on the house!
They sent him an email Friday evening promising to call on Monday... fingers crossed!
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I think everyone remembers me posting about being doored a few years back. I think that was the worst accident I ever experienced. The bruising was considerable.I think that was before I joined FaWtL.
I tore my rotator cuff because I wasn't wearing a helmet and decided in mid-air that the smartest thing to do would be to try to come out of the fall into an aikido roll/breakfall. Which saved my head and neck but my shoulder is still screwed up.
The only good thing that happened that night: I didn't want to call in sick to my evening job and risk getting fired, so I went anyway, and thank goodness they'd assigned me to train a new waitress, so I made her carry all the trays.
Let me start by saying I am very happy you used your training and made a breakfall/roll that likely saved your life.
That said, please always wear a helmet. I need your brains inside your head, controlling your body and providing you with awesome things to say as opposed to splattered all over the pavement.
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Any news about WW's job application status? But congratulations on the house!They sent him an email Friday evening promising to call on Monday... fingers crossed!
FINGERS CROSSED!
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Go WW! Land that job!
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Any news about WW's job application status? But congratulations on the house!They sent him an email Friday evening promising to call on Monday... fingers crossed!
*Re-re-crack!*
*Wonders how he's going to extricate himself form is 'over-crossed' predicament…*
*Still worth it though! Smiles at LM ^^ *
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I prefer to walk over riding a bike.
For reasons.
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Uh Freehold... I don't wear a helmet while cycling. It's so hot!
*looks at paws shamefaced*
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WEAR A HELMET!
I AM SO SERIOUS ABOUT THAT THAT I WILL BE LESS LECHEROUS IF YOU DO!
I haven't ridden my bike in years at this point.
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It's not about avoiding them. It's about the fact that one bike on the road causes all traffic to drop to ~15 MPH in the area in what is theoretically a 40 MPH zone. Because a bike can't match the speed of the actual flow of traffic AND is a much more fragile piece of equipment, and thus everyone gets hyperparanoid about the slightest thing going wrong and plummets their speed down to sub-20, causing all traffic around and behind them to do likewise, putting the absolute kibosh on getting anywhere in a reasonable amount of time until the bike is out of the way.
So...
...I totally understand your frustration. But is it fair to blame the bicyclist because the drivers are too timid/stupid to pass them?As both a driver and a cyclist such drivers incense me. "Excuse me? Mr. Driver? If I couldn't handle cars coming within 10' of me, I wouldn't be in the street. PLEASE just drive!"
As for helmets, my mother and I had a combined 60 years of biking. 3 cracked helmets. That's only one helmet per 20 years.
But it also means we'd both be dead without them.
Wear a helmet. Always. No matter what. The kids may not ride 3 blocks without helmets.
I haven't ridden my bike in years at this point.
I'll bring my bike with me to Illinois.
We can ride together to my friends house.
That wont be weird at all!
It's not about avoiding them. It's about the fact that one bike on the road causes all traffic to drop to ~15 MPH in the area in what is theoretically a 40 MPH zone. Because a bike can't match the speed of the actual flow of traffic AND is a much more fragile piece of equipment, and thus everyone gets hyperparanoid about the slightest thing going wrong and plummets their speed down to sub-20, causing all traffic around and behind them to do likewise, putting the absolute kibosh on getting anywhere in a reasonable amount of time until the bike is out of the way.So...
...I totally understand your frustration. But is it fair to blame the bicyclist because the drivers are too timid/stupid to pass them?As both a driver and a cyclist such drivers incense me. "Excuse me? Mr. Driver? If I couldn't handle cars coming within 10' of me, I wouldn't be in the street. PLEASE just drive!"
As for helmets, my mother and I had a combined 60 years of biking. 3 cracked helmets. That's only one helmet per 20 years.
But it also means we'd both be dead without them.Wear a helmet. Always. No matter what. The kids may not ride 3 blocks without helmets.
I wouldnt let them ride without a helmet at all, but that's just me.
The only time I rode regularly without a helmet was when I had a bad infection on my head due to a poor shave and the helmet made it much worse, but I had to go to work. It was a gamble.
]I wouldnt let them ride without a helmet at all, but that's just me.
You misunderstand. I say, "Wear a helmet!" and they say, "But dad, it's only two blocks away!" I make them wear helmets anyway.
]I wouldnt let them ride without a helmet at all, but that's just me.You misunderstand. I say, "Wear a helmet!" and they say, "But dad, it's only two blocks away!" I make them wear helmets anyway.
ah, in that case I heartily approve.
I'd bike in Ohio without a helmet. But literally nowhere else in the world.
Ohioans are pretty cool about sharing the road, at least most of them.
Its also the only state with a cross-state bike trail from one end to the other connecting all three major cities.
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My dad gets incensed at anyone who bikes in poor illumination without blinking lights or reflectors. He's nearly hit a couple of cyclists going to work at 6 am in the morning because there's nothing in them or their bikes that makes them visible.
Helmets he doesn't really bother as long as you stay off the road and on the cycling/pedestrian track.