I have got to be one of the luckiest sons of bitches when it comes to moving violations.
I speed habitually. All the time. I have gotten one ticket in my life from a radar trap. Never been pulled over. Today I was doing 95 in a 70 zone just outside of Yellowknife with a big black truck behind me. It never occurred to me that the big truck could be a cop, but sure enough, the lights came on. I started to pull over and he just sped around me.
This is not the first time something like this has happened to me.
Cops tend to go for people who are both speeding and driving like a wanker.
I got pulled once for speeding, but I was also driving like an arse, so there's that.
Oh, I got pulled another time for speeding, but it wasn't a traffic car and he thought the speed limit was 30 when it was 50.
When I was very young, I got pulled over for doing 85 in a 55 zone. Mostly because I was the only person on I-95 at the time besides the cop.
Oh yeah, late night/early morning on quiet roads you need to be watching your mirrors like a hawk.
Strathclyde and Lothian and Borders police buy random makes and models in random colours to convert to traffic cars, they tend not to keep them very long, and they only livery them on the sides and fit the blue lamps behind the grille. In a rear view mirror there is no way to tell if that car gaining on you from behind is a cop or not.
EDIT: West Midlands police make life easy since they're the only people that buy Jaguar XFs in flat white.
I got pulled over by a Crown Vic. There may be areas that do cars like that in the US but I don't think I've ever seen one.
Most police forces here will at least have some proportion of their traffic cars "unmarked". Some of them kind of defeat the point of not marking them by buying a whole fleet of the same vehicle. Sometimes they're easy to spot because they don't look like a car that an actual person would buy out of a dealership (no metallic paint, no body colour bumpers and no alloy wheels looks weird on a mid range saloon car) or, like West Midlands, because nobody buys a plain white Jag.
Sometimes they're devious about it, like Strathclyde. At one point they had a Mercedes SL600 in a particularly lurid shade of purple tooling around as a traffic car. Nobody suspected that.
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Yeah, we had a guy miss most of the orientation week, so we kinda know who he is, but not who he is when smashed off his face. There's a bit of space between the rest of our intro group and him, sadly.
On the bright side, if this girl is cute, i'm sure she'll rapidly become un-strangered.
Thanks abd, I think I'll have a look through the Europax thread around here somewhere - should be able to figure out if there are any PA related thingys happening in the geographic area.
I think XKCD suggested a twitter bot that chastised politicians for using text speak when they still had an adequate number of characters remaining in their message to have spelled things correctly.
At the time, I'd wager 90% of the island didn't wear seatbelts when just going home from school or work on the island - you generally couldn't go much more than 25 mph and it just wasn't a bit deal then. It's a bit backwards, I know, but in our defense all of us would wear them when we left the island for the mainland and drove on real roads with streetlights and stuff.
Since then, I always wear mine even when I visit home. Once I lived on the mainland for just a few weeks it became habit. My habit of just leaving the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition took a bit longer to break though.
The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
MI > MI3 > MI4 > MI2
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The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
The other two are p bad. Ghost Protocol was great though. Brad Bird made it!
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The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
The other two are p bad. Ghost Protocol was great though. Brad Bird made it!
Yeah.
Makes me wish I could watch it - Brad Bird is awesome.
valid question. Your age isn't going to save you from death.
They call it an accident because nobody involved meant for it to happen.
You would think the goddamn honor students would know that, right?
Amazingly, I've found that this message is one that only sinks in through repetition. I think it's honestly something in the teenage brain that causes them to poorly evaluate risk and plan for contingencies.
I say that line to the kids over and over and over... it's sort of sinking in. I expect they will all laugh ate me for my stupid catchphrases when they're in their 20s. Currently I'm doing:
Solutions, not excuses.
Do it right, or do it again.
They call it an accident because nobody meant for it to happen.
The apology is how you start fixing a mistake, not how you erase it.
The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
yes, 2 isn't worth the time imo but 3 is in some ways better than the first, definitely worth it
valid question. Your age isn't going to save you from death.
They call it an accident because nobody involved meant for it to happen.
You would think the goddamn honor students would know that, right?
Amazingly, I've found that this message is one that only sinks in through repetition. I think it's honestly something in the teenage brain that causes them to poorly evaluate risk and plan for contingencies.
I say that line to the kids over and over and over... it's sort of sinking in. I expect they will all laugh ate me for my stupid catchphrases when they're in their 20s. Currently I'm doing:
Solutions, not excuses.
Do it right, or do it again.
They call it an accident because nobody meant for it to happen.
The apology is how you start fixing a mistake, not how you erase it.
In my defense the fact is that during that time if you sat down in a car on the island and buckled up I guarantee the driver would have said "Why you buckling up? We're just going downsteet" or something similar. When you see absolutely no one else doing the right thing, you're much less inclined to do it yourself.
Of course, I'm very grateful I started when I was in college - a friend and I were out in one of those tiny 70's VW pickup trucks and got nailed full on by a tow truck one night while out looking for pickled fiddleheads. The belts probably saved both of us some pretty hefty injuries.
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I have got to be one of the luckiest sons of bitches when it comes to moving violations.
I speed habitually. All the time. I have gotten one ticket in my life from a radar trap. Never been pulled over. Today I was doing 95 in a 70 zone just outside of Yellowknife with a big black truck behind me. It never occurred to me that the big truck could be a cop, but sure enough, the lights came on. I started to pull over and he just sped around me.
This is not the first time something like this has happened to me.
Cops tend to go for people who are both speeding and driving like a wanker.
I got pulled once for speeding, but I was also driving like an arse, so there's that.
Oh, I got pulled another time for speeding, but it wasn't a traffic car and he thought the speed limit was 30 when it was 50.
When I was very young, I got pulled over for doing 85 in a 55 zone. Mostly because I was the only person on I-95 at the time besides the cop.
Oh yeah, late night/early morning on quiet roads you need to be watching your mirrors like a hawk.
Strathclyde and Lothian and Borders police buy random makes and models in random colours to convert to traffic cars, they tend not to keep them very long, and they only livery them on the sides and fit the blue lamps behind the grille. In a rear view mirror there is no way to tell if that car gaining on you from behind is a cop or not.
EDIT: West Midlands police make life easy since they're the only people that buy Jaguar XFs in flat white.
I got pulled over by a Crown Vic. There may be areas that do cars like that in the US but I don't think I've ever seen one.
Dude, Texas state troopers buy a few Mustangs. I've seen a DPS corvette as well.
I've seen them in the D.A.R.E. livery but never on traffic duty.
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In New York, they give the seatbelt ticket to the passengers too. I got one as a student and it was super expensive. I ended up not really being able to eat for a couple weeks.
(It was bullshit too, I wear my seatbelt. But this time I was in a friend's car with belts that lock and I needed something out of my bag on the floor right before we hit the checkpoint.)
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Most police forces here will at least have some proportion of their traffic cars "unmarked". Some of them kind of defeat the point of not marking them by buying a whole fleet of the same vehicle. Sometimes they're easy to spot because they don't look like a car that an actual person would buy out of a dealership (no metallic paint, no body colour bumpers and no alloy wheels looks weird on a mid range saloon car) or, like West Midlands, because nobody buys a plain white Jag.
Sometimes they're devious about it, like Strathclyde. At one point they had a Mercedes SL600 in a particularly lurid shade of purple tooling around as a traffic car. Nobody suspected that.
I never particularly cared for it either.
valid question. Your age isn't going to save you from death.
They call it an accident because nobody involved meant for it to happen.
On the bright side, if this girl is cute, i'm sure she'll rapidly become un-strangered.
Thanks abd, I think I'll have a look through the Europax thread around here somewhere - should be able to figure out if there are any PA related thingys happening in the geographic area.
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good idea y/n (475 $ is about one fifth of my availible money.)
You would think the goddamn honor students would know that, right?
At the time, I'd wager 90% of the island didn't wear seatbelts when just going home from school or work on the island - you generally couldn't go much more than 25 mph and it just wasn't a bit deal then. It's a bit backwards, I know, but in our defense all of us would wear them when we left the island for the mainland and drove on real roads with streetlights and stuff.
Since then, I always wear mine even when I visit home. Once I lived on the mainland for just a few weeks it became habit. My habit of just leaving the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition took a bit longer to break though.
we had a surfboard in the car coming from the back seat into the front, so I was hunched under it
I had my seat belt on but under my arm pit so I didn't choke myself
a cop pulled us over and was like, you weren't wearing a seat belt!
I said yes I was and I still am, see?
and he is like hrumph you aren't wearing it correctly *ticket*
here have a slice of norwegian television
...unrelated to conversation.
DO you ask them if they're cops? If you ask them if they're cops, they have to tell you that they're cops.
Nothing worse than stupid people who are proud of it.
nothing like going up to uniformed cops and saying this
The very beginning felt like it could have been an episode of the show. I didn't really care for how Phelps was directing the team during the embassy bit. The vault went a bit too smoothly. Then lots of action, and a good ending.
Could have thrown the audience a few more bones; keeping us in the dark isn't as entertaining as keeping Ethan in the dark. Come to that, I don't think I like the name Ethan Hunt all that much.
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Is MI:3 any good? It's the only other one on netflix.
... all that delicious free healthcare ...
*drools*
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MI > MI3 > MI4 > MI2
The other two are p bad. Ghost Protocol was great though. Brad Bird made it!
Yeah.
Makes me wish I could watch it - Brad Bird is awesome.
That would never fly on American TV.
Good enough for me. Cheers.
Seriously?
UK road safety ads have always tended towards the disturbing. This one always freaked me the fuck out:
Amazingly, I've found that this message is one that only sinks in through repetition. I think it's honestly something in the teenage brain that causes them to poorly evaluate risk and plan for contingencies.
I say that line to the kids over and over and over... it's sort of sinking in. I expect they will all laugh ate me for my stupid catchphrases when they're in their 20s. Currently I'm doing:
Solutions, not excuses.
Do it right, or do it again.
They call it an accident because nobody meant for it to happen.
The apology is how you start fixing a mistake, not how you erase it.
[The car is driving in 80km/h, which is the speed limit.
Here, it's driving in 90km/h. It feels... very similar.
Round a corner, the car meets an obstacle. But from a speed of 80, it just manages to stop in time.
Now 90 feels very different from 80.
What you can stop for at 80, you will, with just 10 more on the speedometre, hit at 50 km/h.]
I don't really think these kinds of commercials can get too heavy handed.
That's nice of em.
In MS, the driver still gets the ticket.
Semi related?
yes, 2 isn't worth the time imo but 3 is in some ways better than the first, definitely worth it
Of course, I'm very grateful I started when I was in college - a friend and I were out in one of those tiny 70's VW pickup trucks and got nailed full on by a tow truck one night while out looking for pickled fiddleheads. The belts probably saved both of us some pretty hefty injuries.
I've seen them in the D.A.R.E. livery but never on traffic duty.
"For the rest of us, saving a little can be smart"
"S for Savings Plan"
(It was bullshit too, I wear my seatbelt. But this time I was in a friend's car with belts that lock and I needed something out of my bag on the floor right before we hit the checkpoint.)