That video is one reason why over here we tend to build up the center of roundabouts. I’m talking a brick wall at least 2 feet tall, substantial landscaping inside the circle. One i know of just has a 6 foot high mound of dirt inside a brick wall. It’s not pretty but nobody is launching off of it.
The other thing we've started doing is to introduce artificial curves into the approach, to force a slowdown.
The problem with building up the center is it blocks your line of sight.
Several of the ones here have giant sculptures and trees in the center, really annoying.
The problem with building up the center is it blocks your line of sight.
Several of the ones here have giant sculptures and trees in the center, really annoying.
The point of building up the centre is that it blocks the line of sight, hopefully people will slow down if they can't see that they can just blast straight through.
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Also technically that is just a 4 way intersection with a traffic control circle (meant to just slow down traffic) and not a true roundabout. The core concept still holds though. We have a big two lane roundabout here and it's awesome, and over the last 10 years I've only seen a couple people going around it backwards. It has a space about a lane wide of brick so big trucks can navigate it, but then the middle is some trees and landscaping that is probably 3 feet above the level of the road. It's real nice looking.
This was what it was like when it was built, everything's grown up in the last 10 years or so.
Pretty great example of why roundabouts are about a thousand times better than four-way intersections. Given that the driver didn't even notice the roundabout, they would've blasted through stop signs at max speeds until they inevitably hit another car and injured/killed somebody. Instead, the roundabout ate up most of the crash energy and there was minor damage to other parked vehicles, and even the driver was unharmed.
Really, the roundabout should've been even more built-up to do more to stop a stupid driver, but I guess the builders did not reasonably expect somebody flying through a neighborhood at a hundred MPH.
On the one hand, I agree. On the other, I'm sure the owner of that parked car will disagree after getting the assessment on the damage that boulder did.
Pretty great example of why roundabouts are about a thousand times better than four-way intersections. Given that the driver didn't even notice the roundabout, they would've blasted through stop signs at max speeds until they inevitably hit another car and injured/killed somebody. Instead, the roundabout ate up most of the crash energy and there was minor damage to other parked vehicles, and even the driver was unharmed.
Really, the roundabout should've been even more built-up to do more to stop a stupid driver, but I guess the builders did not reasonably expect somebody flying through a neighborhood at a hundred MPH.
On the one hand, I agree. On the other, I'm sure the owner of that parked car will disagree after getting the assessment on the damage that boulder did.
That is all going to the flying cars insurance who will probably be throwing in a rental and a you can't talk to a lawyer anymore check.
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All you need to see is the traffic approaching you within the roundabout so you know when you can go
It's like taking a blind corner for several seconds. I like to see more than 3 meters ahead of me when I'm driving.
The one by the Parnell library also gets backed up, and I basically can't see if it's clear before heading around which means stopping in the traffic circle.
Blocking line of sight is bad and makes driving more dangerous.
edit: like there's only 3 or so traffic circles that do that. Every other one is low enough to see over so you can see if all the roads are clear and what's ahead of you.
I've had nightmares less disturbng than that video. In fact I've had nightmares exactly like that video.
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That feels like a Stand power from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. "Anything cut by my Stand's knife is actually cake."
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
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At my friend's birthday party a few years back, his girlfriend got him one of those crazy detailed cakes. The fondant they use to get that control and detail tastes like garbage and ruins the cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
At my friend's birthday party a few years back, his girlfriend got him one of those crazy detailed cakes. The fondant they use to get that control and detail tastes like garbage and ruins the cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
Those cakes are made for looking, not eating. If you want to have a crazy detailed cake and you want a good cake to eat, buy two cakes.
Better yet, ditch the eating cake and get some pie.
At my friend's birthday party a few years back, his girlfriend got him one of those crazy detailed cakes. The fondant they use to get that control and detail tastes like garbage and ruins the cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
Those cakes are made for looking, not eating. If you want to have a crazy detailed cake and you want a good cake to eat, buy two cakes.
Better yet, ditch the eating cake and get some pie.
There are few situations in which pie is not the superior choice.
At my friend's birthday party a few years back, his girlfriend got him one of those crazy detailed cakes. The fondant they use to get that control and detail tastes like garbage and ruins the cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
Those cakes are made for looking, not eating. If you want to have a crazy detailed cake and you want a good cake to eat, buy two cakes.
Better yet, ditch the eating cake and get some pie.
There are few situations in which pie is not the superior choice.
And those are just called cobblers anyhow. Still pie. Still excellent.
At my friend's birthday party a few years back, his girlfriend got him one of those crazy detailed cakes. The fondant they use to get that control and detail tastes like garbage and ruins the cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
Those cakes are made for looking, not eating. If you want to have a crazy detailed cake and you want a good cake to eat, buy two cakes.
Better yet, ditch the eating cake and get some pie.
There are few situations in which pie is not the superior choice.
Counterpoint: tres leche cake.
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Mediocre cake > mediocre pie
Excellent pie >>> excellent cake
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If it's made by Hostess or similar, doesn't matter if it says "fruit pie" or "cupcake" in the name. Trash tier pastries are their own thing and have no place in the cake vs pie debate
Also cheesecake has a crust. It is a pie. Don't @ me with your silly edge cases, cake people. Pie 4evar
If it's made by Hostess or similar, doesn't matter if it says "fruit pie" or "cupcake" in the name. Trash tier pastries are their own thing and have no place in the cake vs pie debate
Also cheesecake has a crust. It is a pie. Don't @ me with your silly edge cases, cake people. Pie 4evar
Mediocre pastries are a crime against god and man and yet they remain distressingly common. There are people who lives their entire lives never knowing what a croissant is actually supposed to taste like.
If it's made by Hostess or similar, doesn't matter if it says "fruit pie" or "cupcake" in the name. Trash tier pastries are their own thing and have no place in the cake vs pie debate
Also cheesecake has a crust. It is a pie. Don't @ me with your silly edge cases, cake people. Pie 4evar
Mediocre pastries are a crime against god and man and yet they remain distressingly common. There are people who lives their entire lives never knowing what a croissant is actually supposed to taste like.
I can't hand make a croissant to save my life, but a couple of Jewish friends taught me their grandma's Challah recipe and it always gets rave reviews when I bake it.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
If it's made by Hostess or similar, doesn't matter if it says "fruit pie" or "cupcake" in the name. Trash tier pastries are their own thing and have no place in the cake vs pie debate
Also cheesecake has a crust. It is a pie. Don't @ me with your silly edge cases, cake people. Pie 4evar
Mediocre pastries are a crime against god and man and yet they remain distressingly common. There are people who lives their entire lives never knowing what a croissant is actually supposed to taste like.
I bought and consumed a croissant once. At least I think I did, I'm not completely sure that it wasn't an elaborate hologram.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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The problem with building up the center is it blocks your line of sight.
Several of the ones here have giant sculptures and trees in the center, really annoying.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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The point of building up the centre is that it blocks the line of sight, hopefully people will slow down if they can't see that they can just blast straight through.
This was what it was like when it was built, everything's grown up in the last 10 years or so.
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On the one hand, I agree. On the other, I'm sure the owner of that parked car will disagree after getting the assessment on the damage that boulder did.
That is all going to the flying cars insurance who will probably be throwing in a rental and a you can't talk to a lawyer anymore check.
It's like taking a blind corner for several seconds. I like to see more than 3 meters ahead of me when I'm driving.
The one by the Parnell library also gets backed up, and I basically can't see if it's clear before heading around which means stopping in the traffic circle.
Blocking line of sight is bad and makes driving more dangerous.
edit: like there's only 3 or so traffic circles that do that. Every other one is low enough to see over so you can see if all the roads are clear and what's ahead of you.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Cake gone wrong, or cake gone right?
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I'm assuming there's a lot of fondant involved, so clearly gone wrong in terms of edibility.
Okay that was pretty good.
*cuts the hand and arm*
Kinda creepy but still neat!
*cuts the glass of water*
STOP.
Next season of His Dark Materials gon be cray cray
What? No. You want salad that tastes like cake.
Just give me a regular cake, plz.
EDIT: Which isn't to say that the artistry isn't incredible.
But I would rather look at one of those cakes than eat it, which is crazypants to actually say and yet here we are.
Those cakes are made for looking, not eating. If you want to have a crazy detailed cake and you want a good cake to eat, buy two cakes.
Better yet, ditch the eating cake and get some pie.
There are few situations in which pie is not the superior choice.
And those are just called cobblers anyhow. Still pie. Still excellent.
Counterpoint: tres leche cake.
Excellent pie >>> excellent cake
Unless it's pumpkin.
Mediocre pumpkin pie = excellent pumpkin pie
Also cheesecake has a crust. It is a pie. Don't @ me with your silly edge cases, cake people. Pie 4evar
Mediocre cake > mediocre pumpkin pie = Excellent pumpkin pie >>> excellent cake
Seems legit
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It's not an LTI system!
Mediocre pastries are a crime against god and man and yet they remain distressingly common. There are people who lives their entire lives never knowing what a croissant is actually supposed to taste like.
We must also consider the possibility that pumpkin pies are not actually pies, but are instead a natural state of pumpkin.
I can't hand make a croissant to save my life, but a couple of Jewish friends taught me their grandma's Challah recipe and it always gets rave reviews when I bake it.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I bought and consumed a croissant once. At least I think I did, I'm not completely sure that it wasn't an elaborate hologram.
How dare you
Just, burn it all down.
I've watched this anime.
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