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Cincydawg

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4886 on: July 14, 2020, 10:23:55 AM »
The French scooter and motorcycle drivers are pretty crazy.  I have to remember to adjust to that seriously, probably the biggest difference in driving here.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4887 on: July 14, 2020, 10:43:45 AM »
I love driving the country roads in Europe.

Driving in Paris was... terrifying.  At one point I came to a very old, weird intersection where 6 roads converged, and there was zero traffic regulation-- no stop signs, no yield signs, no traffic lights.  Lots of shouting and honking though.

I drove through a tiny town in Western France and the lane was so narrow that even driving half-on the sidewalk (which they commonly do) an oncoming driver took off my side mirror.  When I turned the car in at the end of my trip, I apologized and they told me no worries, it's common, didn't charge me or my insurance a dime for it.  

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4888 on: July 14, 2020, 10:50:02 AM »
Many times I've been driving down a country lane wondering if I was going to proper way on this narrow one way lane only to meet another car.

Some of the blind "curves" are dicey, you blow your horn and roll down your window.

The step daughter lives on one such lane with a lot of those sharp blind turns.  

I smashed the side of a minivan in an underground parking lot in Fontainebleau once, caught a column while trying to avoid another one.

Things are tight.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4889 on: July 14, 2020, 11:09:04 AM »
My buddy from Munich was driving us around rural Italy in his Cayenne Turbo. That was pretty exhilarating. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4890 on: July 14, 2020, 11:10:52 AM »
My buddy with the Jag XKE convertible scared me driving the country lanes around where he lives.  He forgot to turn the engine fan on and it over heated when we got into town.  He said it was OK later.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4891 on: July 14, 2020, 11:17:24 AM »
I'm calling bulljive, Mrs. Mayor. The uptick is the result of the failed bonding policy put in place by the State's attorney and Chief County Judge. These thugs know that if they are arrested, they'll be back on the street within hours.


According to statistics issued by the Chicago Police Department last week, shootings and murders jumped 75 percent in June compared to the same time in 2019, with 425 shootings this year compared to 242 last June.

City officials, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot, have pointed toward the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and shuttering of the economy as a contributing factor in the recent uptick.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4892 on: July 14, 2020, 11:26:40 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 14, 2020, 10:00:21 AM
Rome is a little like that. Signals and markings are optional.

It's amazing to me how much different the drivers are in Florence and in Rome. In the former, they stop for walkers. In the latter, it's the opposite, and they like their horns.
When I was in Rome, I wouldn't drive. Just got an Uber and looked down at the floor until I got where I was going. 

Personally I wanted to drive and do a death race 2000 on the scooter drivers. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4893 on: July 14, 2020, 11:28:20 AM »
In Rome we arrived at 1 AM, and caught a taxi to the hotel on empty freeways.

There were no other cars on the road, and I still feared for my life. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4894 on: July 14, 2020, 11:37:31 AM »
If I were to move to Sicily, I think I'd just hide out in my little corner like I plan to do in Florida. Go fishing and stuff. 

Two good places to do fishing, for sure.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4895 on: July 14, 2020, 11:40:32 AM »
I could see myself eventually moving to an island in the Caribbean and not going anywhere else again.  Hopefully my kids will visit... :)
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4896 on: July 14, 2020, 11:44:13 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 13, 2020, 06:10:37 PM
If schools don't reopen, can we get a refund on the portion of our property taxes that goes to schools, and can we get the teachers to go on unemployment like others have had to?

Defund the teachers, so to speak? Blow up their unions, get rid of the stooge union bosses, and only hire the good ones back as non-union employees, subject to merit, like most of the rest of the working people?
There is an inherent conflict of interest with public-employee unions.  "Management" can't negotiate in good faith, because it is made up of elected officials who are dependent on political contributions to keep getting re-elected, which is the most important thing in the world for them.  And public-employee unions are generous to politicians they like and brutal toward those whom they don't like.
The true "owners" are the taxpayers, but nobody is representing their interests in the contract negotiations.
Even FDR did not support public-employee unions.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4897 on: July 14, 2020, 11:50:19 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 13, 2020, 03:26:58 PM
Humans are remarkably adaptable to conditions.  I'd imagine folks in that neighborhood have friends and relatives nearby and likely are unable to find another place to live they can afford, or they would leave.  Those who can have, mostly, I'd imagine.
Some might say that it is the duty of those who are leaving to stay and keep their children in failing, dangerous schools rather than abandoning them.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4898 on: July 14, 2020, 12:09:21 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on July 14, 2020, 09:55:45 AM
For all the stereotypes about Asian drivers, it takes more skill to drive safely over there than I think I have in me. I'd have a nervous breakdown trying to drive in Taipei. I don't think I could make it through a day without running over a half-dozen scooters. Then some of the other places where lanes are more "suggestions" than actual traffic control markings? Yeah... I'd be a wreck mentally long before causing a wreck physically.

I was nervous enough just riding in a taxi when I've been over there.
I was stationed in Seoul for 12 months that ended just prior to the '88 Olympics.  I had a car.  I drove it carefully but not fearfully.  Seoul is a big, busy city.  It has some broad thoroughfares.  Sometimes/often 6 lanes would turn into 8 or 9, depending on how aggressive the drivers were on a particular day.
Koreans use wood-beaded car-seat covers like this.


They look like they'd be uncomfortable, but they are not.  They work pretty well.
I liked Korea and the Koreans.  But they're more racist than we are.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #4899 on: July 14, 2020, 12:21:09 PM »
Upon arrival in Rome, we took a cab from Termini Station to our hotel on the north side of the Vatican complex. Between my first visit to Rome and the fact that our bags were sliding around in the back of the van, it was a scary cab ride even for me. 
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