TORT: The ONSC Rant Thread

[SFROMAN]

People not knowing the correct usage of the word "worst" vs "worse"

I mess that one up all the time. I also mess up the correct usage of the word “advise” and “advice”.
Oh and while I’m at it. I will admit that I tend to mess up the use of the word “wandering” and “wondering”.
The (worse) part is that my wife never fails to correct me.

 

[weejub]

Don't forget the wurst!

 

[weejub]

That's the worsest, unlike wurst.

Oops just saw this lol.

 

[uzj100]

Did anyone mention left lane sitters (drivers)?

 

[JohnVee]

Did anyone mention left lane sitters (drivers)?

I'm pretty sure you squeezed that in at least once already!

 

[NCFJ]

Did anyone mention left lane sitters (drivers)?

So your truck did not come with the RPG option? There should be a protected "fire" button on the dash.

 

[onemanarmy]

Did anyone mention left lane sitters (drivers)?

The most dangerous group of people are the ones that wait until the last minute to change lanes for exits, or fly up beside a stopped or slowed merging lane of traffic and slam on brakes to squeeze in.

Firing squad for them I say.

 

[SFROMAN]

The most dangerous group of people are the ones that wait until the last minute to change lanes for exits, or fly up beside a stopped or slowed merging lane of traffic and slam on brakes to squeeze in.

Firing squad for them I say.

What if I told you that if the flowing lane allowed traffic to merge (one and one) then traffic would not slow down.
The problem I usually run into is that the flowing lane does not want to let the merging lane merge. This creates an accordion effect. The merging vehicle either has no choice but to force his vehicle into the flowing lane forcing the car that won’t let him in to brake.
This also slows the momentum of the merging lane traffic.
All this forces everybody else to have to brake and that keeps going and going until now you are a couple miles back and you have no choice but to come to a complete stop.

So in my opinion it is the fault of the people that don’t understand that a vehicle in the merge lane has to merge one way or the other. Not allowing the vehicle to merge gains you nothing other than being in front of the vehicle you did not allow to merge.

 

[onemanarmy]

Na....that isn't the case I'm talking about.

Take a drive down any highway in the triangle at rush hour. There are spots where the exit lane backs way up, for whatever reason. There are 2 or 3 flowing lanes and a stopped lane on the right. Instead of doing what everyone else is doing and getting in line and waiting, they fly past everyone for miles and slam on brakes at the last minute to squeeze into a stopped lane. They saw the stopped lane miles back. They are just being selfish and bypassing everyone and causing chaos, on purpose.

Firing squad I say.

 

[JohnVee]

^^^ That's the John Belk Freeway to 77 North exit. All day. Every day. Made worse last year by the loss of most of the 77 merge lane due to construction.

Can I mention the asshats who race to squeeze into the safe zone in front of semi's then hit the brakes?

 

[NCFJ]

I hate it when it is raining hard and I have to jump the water running down the street just to get to work.

 

[fourtrax]

i'll tell you, I woke up this morning.. oh wait, never mind it is a good day.

 

[NCFJ]

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the Kitchen and died
Oh what a feeling
As I rose up through the ceiling
On up into heaven
I did ride

John Prine

 

[NCFJ]

Am I the only one thinking I'd be in good shape if I were a black guy with a lot of student debt?

In case you are sleeping the FED is looking at reparations for slavery and also forgiving student debt.
Thus making the first sentence a joke No offense to the sensitive and those who identify as a black guy with student debt. I identify as a Dalmatian and they still wont let me on the truck.

 

[uzj100]

Am I the only one thinking I'd be in good shape if I were a black guy with a lot of student debt?

In case you are sleeping the FED is looking at reparations for slavery and also forgiving student debt.
Thus making the first sentence a joke No offense to the sensitive and those who identify as a black guy with student debt. I identify as a Dalmatian and they still wont let me on the truck.

Slippery slope - we giving all the land back to the native americans? Are they giving it back to bigfoot and crew? They giving back to the tadpoles and fish and birds? etc...

 

[lt1fire]

The question i've posed to that in online forums is who decides who pays for that? If taxes are the taxes just applied to Non-Blacks or just Whites??
If just Whites then I asked why should my taxes be pulled as I didn't own slaves. The normal response is ancestors... blah blah blah. Then I say that my 6 year old nephew was the first Vann that was born in the US. The past history of Sla very has nothing to do with my family so then that would be an unjust burden placed on me, an immigrant, just because of the color of my skin.

Its a fun game... I further go into it to explain that 100% of white southerners didn't own slaves... across the board it was more like 32% and a big much less for the north as that kind of labor wasn't needed there and was outlawed much earlier.

So what do we do there, go back in to everyone's history and just tax the decendants of slave owners?? That would most likely be a much smaller percent of the population than most think. But then again that's not fair to have to pay for the sins of ancestors.

I'll also argue what about other races, lots were treated unfairly in the history of the US. Slavery ended in 1965 and there was all sorts of laws to keep blacks down but there were other races that were discriminated against what about them?

Really the only way to level the playing field, as it was, is to forgive all student debt. (although i'm not an advocate for free education but am for reducing the enormous costs) Why should it matter is you are black, white, brown... poor is poor. Then you could get into is this all black people or just ones that can trace their linage to slave days? I mean does my Nigerian neighbor get in on this also even though he moved here 10 years ago and went to school?

Most people I debate with think this when talking to me.... I grew up rich, i'm still rich, I don't have student debt, I'm not an immigrant because i'm white, etc.......

I tell them all the time they can come see my immigration paperwork any time they want to and also my $700+ a month student loan payments for Andrea and I.

 

[NCFJ]

You are on the mark Al. Indentured servants (slaves) were common in this country for a very long time. I would bet more Irish were brought to this country as indentured servants than blacks as slaves. They were not treated well either.

 

[Comet]

Student loans hit for our family. Son was on the Dean's List and advanced EVERYTHING in high school. He is the son of a middle class family that is holding on by a thread until the next disaster strikes. We don't live the american dream, we are about to be rolled over just like everyone else. Oh and he is white in a school that singles him out because of his gender and race. A$$hats in administration give microaggression seminars and indoctrinate the uneducated and weak minded into their scheme of gender neutrality and discrimination of my Scottish, Irish, English origins. No grants, no entitlement scholarships, no weighted scoring for free room and board. WTF is going on in higher education? Getting ready to have a phone call with my "entitled child" tonight on how we can't afford $28,000 a year at 7.60% interest. Education is way overpriced if you ask me........but no one does.

 

[David70FJ40]

I feel the pain. My daughter graduated from Clemson and I was paying student loan debts for what seemed like a lifetime.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Y'all could afford to pay for your kids college and had the right frame of mind to discuss costs of college with your kids before they picked their school?

lol