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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-26-2018, 08:03 AM
(07-26-2018, 05:03 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
It's "kick-the-Johnny-Rebs'-traitor-derrieres," is what it is. USA! USA!
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-26-2018, 08:25 PM
(07-26-2018, 08:03 AM)DHBirr Wrote: (07-26-2018, 05:03 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
It's "kick-the-Johnny-Rebs'-traitor-derrieres," is what it is. USA! USA!
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On the forum I found this (SB or SV, I forget which) the first response to the pics was (roughly) "the kind that won the war."
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-27-2018, 05:39 AM
(07-26-2018, 07:26 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (07-26-2018, 05:03 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
Heh.
For anyone else who didn't know, #2.
Reveal the spoiler for why, if you haven't already figured it out (or known it).
#1 has a yield sign, which means he needs to wait for #3 (although in the absence of a yield sign, he would still have to wait for #3, as that's the default -- you yield right of way to the vehicle to your right) and #2 (the yield sign is for all directions of traffic at this intersection). Assuming the illustration is to scale, #3 needs to wait for #2 to clear the intersection before turning. I could get into a bit more detail with more implied default behaviors at unmarked or insufficiently marked intersections, but I've spoiled the joke enough already. Also, this analysis is valid in New Jersey; your local traffic laws may vary. But that yield sign means #1 will always go last.
Actually, I can do you one better that's even simpler in this particular case: left turning traffic does not have the right of way except where granted by a protected left-turn traffic signal. Boo-yah.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-27-2018, 07:09 AM
Well, yeah, that too. <grin>
But I always tend to overthink these things.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-27-2018, 08:08 AM
Speaking as a claustrophobe, and one who once had to spend time in an MRI with a hatch that the technicians closed while I was inside, that MRI cartoon is nightmare fuel. Visions of a power outage that meant they couldn't get the hatch open; visions of a disaster that killed everyone who knew I was inside the machine.... I thought a lot about both those possibilities during the approximately half hour I had to be in there.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-27-2018, 04:50 PM
(07-26-2018, 08:25 PM)Norgarth Wrote: (07-26-2018, 08:03 AM)DHBirr Wrote: (07-26-2018, 05:03 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
It's "kick-the-Johnny-Rebs'-traitor-derrieres," is what it is. USA! USA!
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On the forum I found this (SB or SV, I forget which) the first response to the pics was (roughly) "the kind that won the war."
I'd prefer the General Sherman.....
Nothing better for a nice drive to the seaside....
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-27-2018, 08:06 PM
Diagramming the expected decay sequence of Brexit?
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-28-2018, 10:58 AM
It's a decay sequence, but not for Brexit. And it if happens but doesn't happen politely, the English can go back to singing God Save the King instead of just playing it.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-28-2018, 04:27 PM
Dun dun dun.....
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
07-29-2018, 07:02 PM
(07-29-2018, 05:30 PM)Norgarth Wrote:
I strongly suspect what we have here is somebody following the exact instructions given to them.
This is why real documenters get paid the big bucks - to make sure documentation includes all the steps.
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RE: WTF Images: The Eccentric Eight
08-09-2018, 12:32 AM
An Imgur gallery of some impressive balloon animals
https://imgur.com/gallery/HEqEr#rxkmCkV
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