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Old 10-18-19, 03:06 PM
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I Blame the State DMV's...

... for giving licenses to gasholes.... Today's dumb basses included a truck driver, in the morning, that blew through the MUP crossing light then wanted to curse at my sounding the airzound at him.... Hopefully he retains the soil (inside/out) that could have been avoided by concious driving

This afternoon parade was highlighted by a charter school mom who "passed" within such a short distance to the stop/intersection, that she stopped in the wrong lane with 40+mph traffic making regular turns there....
Bad witch got lucky no one of the many vehicles needed to turn this time.... May the gawds that aren't grant her children the sense NOT to learn from their parents' inhumanity....

Pity the DMV will never apply a psych test to would be vehicle operators and deny licences to aggressive bad brained bone heads....
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Old 10-18-19, 03:43 PM
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AirZound FTW!
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Old 10-18-19, 07:42 PM
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Last time I had to renew my driver's license, I didn't even have to take the test. Every time I've had to take it, it was open book. Take that for what it's worth.
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Old 10-18-19, 08:54 PM
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No one but another tedious ranter cares who a ranter "blames" for anything.
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Old 10-18-19, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Digger Goreman
I Blame the State DMV's...
I blame the teachers. Specifically your English teachers.

Apostrophe abuse is a national calamity.

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Old 10-19-19, 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
No one but another tedious ranter cares who a ranter "blames" for anything.
Ever just need to get it off your chest in a forum of supportive friendlies...? Namaste....
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Old 10-19-19, 06:09 AM
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Is there a "no ranting" clause buried deep in the forum rules, or the "I Accept" adhesion contract we all agreed to as forum members? I don't recall seeing one.
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Old 10-19-19, 06:30 AM
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Greengrocer punctuation. One can easily imagine another rant on that subject.

How 'bout a rant on Airzound users? It's my opinion that cyclists that use this device are likely to be aggressive enough to attract the situations that they rant about.
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Old 10-19-19, 06:38 AM
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It look's like I learned a new word today. Thank's!

The Greengrocer's Apostrophe
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Originally Posted by moe zhoost
...airzound users? It's my opinion that cyclists that use this device are likely to be aggressive enough to attract the situations that they rant about.
...must...not...respond...c-'can't restrain myself much l-l-longer...
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Old 10-19-19, 08:30 AM
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There are actual style guides that still recommend apostrophe-s for plurals of acronyms when the letters are not pronounced as a word.

So there are fricken lasers and obsolete CRT’s.

Other style guides reserve the plural apostrophe-s for single lowercase spoken letters or single digit numbers.

So they got all 6’s and 7’s crossing their i’s and dotting their t’s

-mr. bill

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Old 10-19-19, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Digger Goreman
............ Pity the DMV will never apply a psych test to would be vehicle operators and deny licences to aggressive bad brained bone heads....
BREAKING NEWS !!!! A vehicle can be started and driven WITHOUT possessing a driver's license.
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Old 10-19-19, 08:42 AM
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"The only difference between a weed and a flower, is a judgement." Anon.

And, yes, I include myself.... So, outside the parliamentery procedures responses (and responses to responses), the threads in the threads of the judgements (both in car and on the bike and forums) are a confusing (or merely confounding) opinion of the colonizer paradigm (remembering that peds and cars were already established) that the invaded/colonized should be held to a higher standard of morality, law and pacifism. Despite the catastrophic potential of one form of "transportation" over the other. That catastrophic form also pollutes heavily from creation to end of use. It causes so much devastation. But the colonized are supposed to accept this....

No one is above anyone else. To choose actions in disregard of others, and earth, drives us all to ruin....

(As a related aside: Why do motorized operators "drive" their vehicles, while bicycle operators "ride"? Quite the opposite, since the ICE actually takes them for a ride while we provide the drive to our drive trains! Curiouser and curiouser, Alice....)
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Old 10-19-19, 08:49 AM
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"The Wildwood Flower grew wild on the farm, and we never knowed what it was called." -Stafford, J.

But I digress. Addressing my main point:

No one is above anyone else.
You are not the boss of me.
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Old 10-19-19, 08:50 AM
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It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe(')
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Originally Posted by FBOATSB
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe(')
Ok, going from a rant about car drivers to Frank Zappa. Didja see how that transition happened?

Well done, FBOATSB. You are awarded the Order of the Legion of Mud Shark, 1st Class.
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OK then! I passed my first and only driver's test in 1972. It was pretty easy. However, I had to pass a full blown psych evaluation in 2009 that included an online video interview with some anonymous shrink somewhere, for a job I really needed at that time. I was sweating bullets for a few days. I don't recall any questions about musical taste though.
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Old 10-19-19, 11:42 AM
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You are going to cause yourself health problems with all that rage. People are terrible as drivers, cyclist and pedestrians. Don't assume that they are singling you out. They are more likely just jerks.

Some good advice from the Roman philosopher, Seneca.

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Old 10-19-19, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mr_bill
There are actual style guides that still recommend apostrophe-s for plurals of acronyms when the letters are not pronounced as a word.

So there are fricken lasers and obsolete CRT’s.

Other style guides reserve the plural apostrophe-s for single lowercase spoken letters or single digit numbers.

So they got all 6’s and 7’s crossing their i’s and dotting their t’s

-mr. bill
But not 67's and it's as in many of "it"? I rebel against misuse of apostrophes but, as with inconsiderate drivers, I don't let it annoy me.

BTW, is this "normalization" of transposing hyphens and apostrophes? We're not getting political here are we?
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The only real trouble I've had with other vehicles on the road whilst I was riding a bicycle was with other BICYCLISTS. I Hamilton Ontario (Canada) I crashed into a bicycle that came zooming out of a one way street (the bicyclist was riding the wrong direction) onto a bust main street King Street. What made it so bad and unavoidable was that the street the wrong direction riding bicyclist came out od had a blind corner and he was not visible to traffic. The other instance was a crash at night when a bicyclist in dark clothing on a dark colour bicycle was riding on a sidewalk that was in a poorly lit area and he decided to suddenly cross the road but did so without looking and from under a large tree in full leaf that rendered him invisible.

There are idiot bicyclists just as there are idiot E-bike riders just like there are idiot automobile drivers.

Cheers
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I don't think it is the DMV to blame. It is hard to truly judge a person from a short written exam and a few minutes in an in-car exam.

They could do better, for example having certain criteria for automatic retesting including a certain number of traffic citations, or age. Perhaps even give licenses at 16 and retest at 20, and also retest every 5 years after age 70.

And the retest should be 10x as hard as the initial test.

I had an annoying incident a couple of days ago.

T-interchange that I had to cross from the top of the T.

100% of the traffic turns, and the turning traffic and crosswalk are given a signal at the same time.

Anyway, I started crossing when given a crosswalk signal.

Car coming constant speed. I yelled, and the car slowed enough to not hit me.

Ok, mistakes happen, and nobody was hit.

The second vehicle had stopped, and didn't enter the interchange until I had cleared the road (which is what the first one legally should have done).

About 3 more cars back, the driver yelled at me for crossing on a RED???

It wasn't the car that just about hit me that bothered me... mistakes happen. Rather the driver that thought it was his place to announce that a person in a crosswalk with a "walk" crossing light would be to blame if they got hit.

Mistakes happen, and hopefully can be recovered from without serious injury. Many ways to minimize accidents, but...

The HOTHEADS (cyclists and drivers) are part of the problem. And, that isn't as much of a DMV problem, as perhaps an issue with the individuals, or their upbringing (very hard to legislate).

But, another issue is just basic infrastructure design.

One should never give a green turn only light at the same time that a button activated crosswalk signal is on.

Some areas have improved the issue by adding a delay... just about enough time for a pedestrian to get into the middle of the lane before the cars are given a green.

Another option would be to NOT give a green. But, rather activate a flashing yellow for the entire duration of the crosswalk signal (in this case in a dedicated turn lane).

One of the problems with a flashing yellow, of course, is that it is hard to differentiate from a solid yellow, but perhaps end a flashing yellow with a yellow/red flash, or yellow/red solid.
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Originally Posted by mr_bill
There are actual style guides that still recommend apostrophe-s for plurals of acronyms when the letters are not pronounced as a word.
I'm curious. Which ones?
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Originally Posted by SactoDoug
...Some good advice from the Roman philosopher, Seneca...
Interesting video. Thanks, for posting it.
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Originally Posted by mr_bill
There are actual style guides that still recommend apostrophe-s for plurals of acronyms when the letters are not pronounced as a word.

So there are fricken lasers and obsolete CRT’s.

Other style guides reserve the plural apostrophe-s for single lowercase spoken letters or single digit numbers.

So they got all 6’s and 7’s crossing their i’s and dotting their t’s

-mr. bill
If I had written the post, it would be

apostrophes
CRTs
6s and 7s

crossing their Is and Ts



There are two thoughts to language and usage: 1) scholars of the language dictate its proper usage. That's why there are the official dialects, local dialects and proper spelling; 2) language and culture and their evolution are the products of the people on the street using them.

When I was going to school during the '70s and '80s, we were taught to use the Oxford Dictionary because it was the dictionary of the English Language. Webster is American. As the internet culture grew, Oxford started adding words what were commonly used by the texting communities.

In another thread, I commented to the OP that he had written "are a" in one sentence and in the second sentence "is a" to reference the same thing in the same paragraph. I wasn't kindly received but he did edit his posting afterwards.

Examples: The Beatles are a rock band. The Beatles is a rock band. The RCMP are a police force. The RCMP is a police force. Canada are a country. Canada is a country.

Here's a couple of news reports:


"...the RCMP are..."


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcm...aign-1.5305905


"The RCMP is..."
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-...ional-culture/

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Originally Posted by CliffordK
I don't think it is the DMV to blame. It is hard to truly judge a person from a short written exam and a few minutes in an in-car exam.

They could do better, for example having certain criteria for automatic retesting including a certain number of traffic citations, or age. Perhaps even give licenses at 16 and retest at 20, and also retest every 5 years after age 70.

And the retest should be 10x as hard as the initial test.....
As much as I agree with you on this, you realize it would be a highly charged political issue. Any administration implementing this would be quickly removed after the next election by politicians campaigning against such measures.
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