Randox

Who the hell would cut off a trucker? It obviously has the right of way by virtue of you dieing if it runs into you. Another one is on the highway, if you get passed by a big rig hauling a trailer, flash your high beams a couple times once their past you so he knows he can pull back in. Most truckers will flash their tail lights in thank you if you do this too. This just makes everyone's lives easier.

We. Rock. :thumbsup:

Also, this sort of sums up how I feel about stick shift driving, since this is also about general experiances: Stick shift is da bomb.

You'd think. Placing the stop sign where the line is going to back up onto a blind crest on a highway is just the most stunning display of stupidity I have ever seen. And if it weren't for people yelling at them as they drove by, they wouldn't even know they almost got a few people seriously injured or killed, and tens of cars written off. They didn't even have the signs that warn about upcoming construction zones in the right place. We didn't see any until the line started moving (they also don't know how to direct traffic. The line up they created was like 2 km long, because they can't see over the [bleep]ing hill. So they look at the other side and think its the same length, when in fact one line extends 1.5 km back out of view (which some really pissed off people also yelled at them on their way by). They pissed people off so bad doing that I'm surprised someone didn't try to run the construction crews over. I think construction crews should be required to take a class on how to direct traffic. Because holy shit do the people around here suck at it. Drivers just hate cyclists. The ones that hit you, while they probably aren't trying to, also probably don't care cause they think you deserve it. Personally, I hate people who cycle in the winter, because then I have to worry that your going to hit ice or snow, fall, and end up under my front tires. Also, and this is brilliant (and I'm not saying everyone on a bicycle is retarded, just some of them). During the summer, I was driving home for lunch, and this bicyclist pulls out in front of me. Now, normally this isn't a problem because the lane is super wide (its two lanes wide) to accommodate parked cars. You just pull out, turn right and only pull out to get around parked cars. This stupid [bleep]ing woman pulled into the middle of the god damn lane. Like, she pulled out so far before she turned to go with traffic that I could have probably passed her on the inside. She also did this without looking, and right in front of me. The only satisfying thing about the whole ordeal is that a car with horn blaring and tires squealing as it tries not to run you over is enough to scare her back to the side of the road. I've never been tempted to run someone over before (or since), but holy shit if it weren't for the legal issues and the damage it would have done to the car, she sorely deserved to smoked by a car for that. A Mini Cooper is not [bleep]ing invisible, and there is no way she couldn't have at least heard me coming. It's a testament to my skill and the Mini's maneuverability that she didn't get hit whether I wanted to or not. In SUV, I had someone try to make a left tun in front of me in the rain, but there was no space for them to pull in so they ended up blocking the intersection. Add to the fact that I was watching the pedestrian counter and knew the light was about to go yellow, so I was speeding up to make the light, and I hit the brakes so hard that I ended up sideways on the road. That was probably the second scariest moment I have ever had while driving, and I had a similar brace for impact as when that ass hat merged on my bumper on the highway. At least I learned that in the rain, anti lock isn't enough on its own to keep it pointed the right way (it is on dry pavement, as that person who pulled out and stopped in my lane to make a left turn proved. I didn't think it was going to stop in time either (and by the look on their face, the other driver didn't think I was going to stop either). Seriously, I am going to get a [bleep]ing hummer just so people stop cutting me off (my brother had one for a while, and said there was a major reduction in both cars and pedestrians cutting him off). And no, I am not even close to running out of stories yet. Some, like the rain one I was partially at fault for making things dangerous by being in a hurry, but for the most part, I am just really good at dodging shit, possibly because I actually practice it when I can (like potholes in the dark). I also take the SUV into empty snowed over parking lots and practice testing the limits of its control without the risk of running into anything. You don't want the first time you use anti lock to be in the snow, or your going to crap yourself and drive off the road.

Everyone calls it a yellow light, but the official colour (at least every place in north america) is amber. Just so you all know.

I am stunned that that new adventure log got approved. It is an improvement in almost nothing, and is overall a stunning reduction in features, usability, and function. It does less, and it does it worse. Also, the forums were quite obviously not ready to be released. A few screen grab comparisons would have made it very obvious that several features are missing. It's not even the stuff that's broken that bothers me (there are several things that don't work, or don't work quite right), it's that several features and a lot of basic usability is now gone. It's going to take a while for them to fix it (they have acknowledged most of the things that are missing), and there is no excuse for most of this stuff not getting fixed prior to initial release. This should have been caught long before the live beta that we are all being subjugated too. Rushed all over it. I love everything else though, aside from the odd broken things.

I drove through a stop sign once because they brilliantly put it behind this giant bush. I'm coming up to what is supposed to be a 3 way stop, and I'm thinking 'shouldn't there be a stop sign here', and then I see it as I'm driving through and I'm like 'oh, there it is'. But it was cool cause there was no one else there.

I'd like to take a minute to talk about construction crews, and where not to put you [bleep]ing stop sign. On the highway to my parents house, its one lane in each direction, except when going up a couple of the hills where you have a dedicated passing lane going uphill only (mostly to get around big rigs). This is where almost all passing on this highway occurs, which means that most of the time the middle lane going up hill is doing about 20 km/h over the speed limit. So one day, they are doing construction on one of these hills, on the downward side (the side you can't see) for outgoing traffic (ie the direction all the traffic is in as people go home). They put their pylons over the crest of the hill where no one can see them until they are 100ft away, and the stop sign halfway down the hill (the construction was actually in the two lane section, which was why they needed to stop highway traffic). Me and my parents were at just right point in time that the line of cars had not yet crested the hill, which means you saw that cars were stopped maybe 150ft away, while doing 100km/h. We stopped in time, but I turned around to look and one car ended up bailing onto the shoulder of the road, and 3 cars were forced to pull out into the oncoming traffic lane to avoid read ending people, with one car actually ending up on the shoulder on the other side. Basically, these ass clown construction workers almost caused what could have easily turned into a 20 car pileup, and if the the cars had been forced into oncoming traffic 30 seconds later, they would have cause at least one head on accident at highway speed. They nearly killed a whole bunch of people because they couldn't move their [bleep]ing signs the side of the hill that people could actually see. And they don't even know that they almost cause a major accident, because this all happened to far back for the people halfway down the hill to see. On a slightly more hilarious note: Same highway, on my way home with my Mom after church (Sunday drivers suck btw). We are coming onto the highway, and this car blows by us with another car on his ass, and its fairly obvious they are racing. Then the 3rd car goes by a second later. So that's cool. Then this maroon coloured Impala goes roaring by like 4 seconds later, and I recognise it immediately as one of the local ghost cars. So basically, there's 3 people are driving fast enough to get charged with stunting, and their is a ghost car right on their ass, obviously keeping up to see where they can go. I don't know if they called in a road block or what (they pulled off at the first exit), but I thought it was absolutely hilarious.

I love driving in the snow with the SUV in my last picture. I even consider it my civic duty to drive in the less cleared lane, because I can. I think one of my best experiences was driving between 2 semi clear lanes on a multi lane highway, where the snow tracks were so bad I kept getting sucking into them, giving the impression that I was pretty much bouncing off the lane lines. There was also some epic slush flinging going on (I also consider it mandatory to hit deep puddles at speed to create the largest splashes possible, because that's puddle jumping for grown-ups). But then I'm the same person who pulls the truck out of 4wd and intentionally puts it in a fish tale just so I can practice getting it back under control (if I can't, I just turn the 4wd drive back on and it literally snaps back to going forward). Winter is the only time I can pretend I am a stunt driver (with the sliding and whatnot), so I tend to make the most of it when I can. Once I have my own car, and a career going, I plan on learning how to drift for real.

Let me start things off with my epic parking job I pulled off last winter. I parked the SUV in the lower right, and what is not clear in the picture is that the snow behind it is about 6 inches deep over 4 inches of solid ice (there was some sliding during the parking). The tire tracks are pretty clear, and I am holding the camera outside the window, so I really was about as close to hitting the car as it looks. What also might not be clear is that not one of the doors can be opened far enough to get out, and if I had tired to shuffle it, I would have hit something for sure. In the end, I popped the glass hatch and reached outside to pop the trunk. I'll add more stories later, but I thought I would start with something I didn't just tell in another thread. And the reason I had to do this in the first place was because my house mate, rather than clear the driveway like he was supposed to (in exchange for being allowed to park at the house), decided to just park in the back half of the driveway, which was cool until I had a car for a couple days. The snow was way to high for his car to climb onto, and he needed to get out before I was getting up, and your not allowed to park on the street at night in the winter because you'll block the plows. So I just said '[bleep] it' and parked the damn truck on a snowbank.

I always take it as a good sign when a workplace allows Dilbert strips. My Dad is a manager, and he has a couple in his office. If he grew his hair out, he could totally be the Pointy haired boss for Halloween. What isn't a good sign is where my Mom works, where at least two times now she has talked about new management policies that are pretty much lifted directly out of the comic. The one I remember was a proposal to do the inventory management through the email system, which I always thought had to be made up. When she told me that I was like 'Mom, your totally living in a Dilbert comic right now', and then I showed her the strip in question (its the last one in the Sunday Strips anthology :P).

In response to how I feel about the RSOF lately (even more than normal), I have finally decided to switch my avatar and signature. And yes, I am a huge Dilbert fan. My mind is just a catalogue of several years worth of Dilbert strips. I seriously own more than a decades worth of them. I also have the DVD's for the TV series (which is only 2 seasons :x ).

Nicely done Tim. And might even just be the calm thing that made him back down. People do have this thing they do where they act all calm right before they turn into the god damn Hulk, and its really easy to pick up when you hear it. The other thing is that if someone is yelling at you, and you don't yell back, then your sending the message that your not intimidated. If all he was trying to do was scare you off, and not actually fight you, this is like calling his bluff. So apparently a couple nights ago, my parents were driving home and the worlds dumbest deer jumping into their car. Not infront of it, but right into it. Apparently the damage starts a few inches behind the headlight (which is way to close to being in front of the car for comfort), and the dents continue back bast the door. It's a mini cooper, so the damage going back that far means it pretty much manage to hit the entire side, front to back, but at least the car [bleep]ing owned the deer (it died). I'd feel sorry for it, but honestly, the deer had it coming. How the [bleep] does it misjudge distance so badly that it jumps into a car. Also, if it had jumped a couple seconds earlier it could have killed them by going through the wind shield, so it deserves whatever death it got for that too. Amazing how a couple seconds is the difference between a potentially fatal accident, and the car driving away with only some cosmetic damage. Oh well, its still better than the person who lost control a few winters ago and crossed into my parents lane. Dad moved right over onto the shoulder (which I imagine is really fun to do on an icy road), but she still hit the front quarter of the SUV. Her car bounced off, and my parents SUV ended up doing a barrel roll, entirely in the air (the pictures showed only the hood took any top side damage. The roof never touched the ground), which also removed 3 wheels. Too many close calls. My accidents are sliding off a driveway backwards in winter, where my side mirror lost a battle with a large bush. Then some ass hat backed into me at a gas station, and I nearly had a heart attack when the car jumped 2 inches towards me right as I pulled the gas nozzle out. He only hit the door though, which was lucky for him, since insurance didn't even try to pin that on me (he hit a [bleep]ing parked car). And most recently, someone slammed on the breaks in front of me, and I stopped in time (with some anti-lock and screeching on dry pavement to boot), and the person behind me didn't. Easily the most minor accident yet. Aside from the backup light in the bumper being shattered, you could barely tell it had been hit (unless you were giving it a super close inspection). Those 5 mph bumpers actually do work at low speeds apparently (that's still a shit ton of force to be absorbed without permanent deformation, so I've always had my doubts).

Same, especially since you both use(d) a blue one for your avatar. If you don't watch the show, all you see is 'funny coloured ponies", and maybe remember which colour goes with which person.

Another super fast typer. And holy crap someone got almost 150wpm? I assume that at these speeds, your typing must pretty much sound like machine gun fire (you'd be closing in on 600 key strokes per minute for sure).

Be glad that's all you broke, or you didn't do one better and just flip over (which isn't totally uncommon when people run into curbs). Still sucks though.

Atlantic Standard, which puts me 2 hours ahead of you. Almost no one lives in this time zone, so its a pretty safe bet if your still on your at least an hour behind me. Considering its now past 1am (hence why I am off to sleep right after this post), and your in Grade 9, I probably could have guessed I have a couple hours on you. I get up at 7-9am too lol. Hell, I could have an answer to you before you get up if I wanted :P Night

It's not that you can't say wear jeans on a date. Been there, done that, especially with some activities because jeans are more durable or just plain easier to clean. But for a first date, especially since it looks like its going to be a restaurant of some sort, I figure she is going to be expecting something a bit classier. Jeans might be the wrong item to pick on though, since the shirt is probably more important. Say a powder blue and white vertical stripe button up shirt (yes, I have a very specific shirt in mind here) with jeans can actually look really nice. Wear a t shirt with dress pants and you look like a dumb ass. Wear a t shirt with jeans and your one step above sweatpants. At that point it sort of looks like you don't care. It does depend a bit on the people though. I mean for some people I'm sure that's perfectly acceptable/ I'm just saying jeans and a t isn't cool for people like me, or most of the people I know/am aware of. EDIT: I'm probably out for the night. Iamcoool11, if you have any more questions for me in particular, just pm me on the forums. I'll check this when I get up tomorrow, so you'll probably have my answer by lunchtime your time (I am guessing a bit, but since your still awake this seems likely). Or just post it here. Whatever. Good luck and have fun.

Honestly, girls like warning. You would probably be A-okay giving her 2 or 3 days warning at least. Ask her out on Monday for a Thursday or Friday date, and Tuesday would be no sooner than Friday I think. And yes, the asking for phone numbers. This one is tricky for me since I (and most people my age) didn't have a cell back then. We just used IGN or Windows Messanger. I mean for me now, the phone number normally happens when the date is arranged, partly just so people can sort out any details between the asking and the date. For you, I would do this at the end of the first date. Don't ever ask during a date, because you both know its going to be super awkward if she says no, so you would pretty much be forcing her to say yes. At this point, it pretty much replaces the stereotypical good night kiss.

I'm pretty sure the only restaurant chains I actually eat at semi often are Swiss Chalet (which actually isn't a bad choice either. Everyone who eats meat likes chicken) and Mc Donalds (obviously don't go here). Taking a shot in the dark on what colour I am imagining your clothes to be, I would go with the khakis and blue polo (I am assuming the khakis are some sort of tan). Polo is just as good as a button up shirt without a tie in my books. And nice news about the money, though I still don't expect fine dining for a 9th Grade date (partly because your not even close to legal drinking age yet, which puts a cap on how fancy you can get anyway). Honestly, for me the worst part about dates is figuring out what to wear. No one ever sorts this out for first dates (its like traditional to not do this or something I swear). Fortunately there does seem to be an accepted standard of semi-formal, which dictates that you not wear jeans, and wear a nice nice shirt (pretty much anything that is not a t-shirt, whether that T be long or short sleeved). Your also allowed a necklace if you want. Be glad your a guy in this respect. The girls have it way harder. Guys have a one dimensional sliding scale from casual to formal, where girls have at least to axis to work with lol.

My preference is Chinese/Vietnamese (same thing pretty much) restaurants. They are normally pretty reasonable in price, at least where I live. Running about 10-12 bucks (Canadian) for a combo meal, plus tip. This is because I (a)really like Chinese food, and (b) because the restaurants are like, I dunno, business casual. Wear nice pants and button up shirt (not a white one, something with a couple colours at least is nice. White is to formal). As a personal taste, I think Chinese/Viet is the only foriegn type cuisine that should be up for consideration for a first date, unless you know for sure what kind of food she likes. Just about everyone (I know) likes Chinese food. But say Indian is going to be a huge problem if like me, she hates the spices. I don't know for sure what olive garden is, but I think its good (unless I am totally out to lunch).

As long as us non-mod plebeians don't hear them, correct? Take a look over my recent profile on the RSOF (which I can't link to because there would be a session id in the link). I post in rants, in agreement with the ranters. I also know at least one of us has made a thread there, and we haven't gotten in any trouble for it. Jagex doesn't care if we disagree with something in public or not, as long as we do it in a respectful and constructive way. Mod Mad K actually posted the exact policy the mods follow on this thread (285-286-385-63379352), which I also can't link to because you have to be logged in to see the rants forum (and again, I'm not going to risk posting a link containing my session ID just in case). [spoiler=Here is what he said] All moderators can have their own opinions and we are more than happy for them to express them. In fact, we have given the moderators their own feedback forum so they have somewhere do this. Let me post what the advice we give moderators about posting their opinions, it may help you to understand where we are coming from. There has been a lot of talk recently about what moderators can and can't say publicly and I hope that this thread and the subsequent dialogue will help make it clear in your minds what we are trying to achieve and why. Our ultimate aim is to create a game which people enjoy playing. Part of that enjoyment comes from the community they play with everyday and both you and us can impact on that environment every day. Whether we intended it or not, it is a fact that you can influence the community more than most regular players, whether on the forums or in game. Ideally, we'd love every single one of you to spend all of your time being really nice to everyone you meet and doing whatever they want... within reason of course. But, we are realistic, we know that you are players and want to play the game or just chill with your friends which is why we have never asked, or ever will ask, you to do that. However, it is true to say that you have the ability to negatively impact the community as well as positively impact it. The problem with negatively impacting the community is that not only does the community go to a worse place, but the pressure put upon the other moderators is higher. If one mod is saying that "Jagex are thieves" anyone seeing them is going to be less inclined to listen to another mod trying to explain the situation to them or stop them from doing something dangerous. Disagreeing with us is absolutely fine, but you should think about how the community will feel reading what you have typed in. In most cases if we see something that we think will be damaging to the community we can have a chat with you and show you what we mean in more detail. However, there is a big difference between disagreeing with us and either publicly ranting against Jagex as a moderator or inciting the community to raise arms against us. A great example that you may have seen used is that if someone who volunteers to help out in a charity shop starts telling people who come in not to buy things because the charity behind it all just wastes their money anyway, the charity would pretty soon ask that person to no longer volunteer to help out in their shop as their actions are causing damage to the overall aims of the charity. However, the individual would be free to stand outside the shop and air their views to anyone in the street who may choose to listen Mat.

Glad you have the confidence you need to make this work out for you :D Dates are so much more fun when you don't go into them totally nervous. I'll leave you to decide on the location (other people might weigh in of course). If you know conversation isn't likely to be a problem, then dinner dates are really good, and they also send a very clear signal (that being 'this is a date and I want to date you'), which is also one of the very few pluses of the movie date (the other one is cuddling when watching scary movie, but your better off doing that at a house, in the dark, and not as a first date). Activity dates don't always send the 'this is a date' signal, at least not with the same clarity. But the second date should clear everything up that the first date misses so it's not a problem either way. The only other thing, is when I say dinner date, I mean just the two of you at a restaurant. You get to figure out the logistics of that (how you get there, and how you get home or where you go after). Just in case you had any crazy ideas about having her to your house. You can get through at least 2 or 3 dates before there is any parent meeting I think (aside from them driving you places, if needed of course. I was lucky in that my older brother was more than happy to be my chaufer so that me and my dates never had to put up with the awkwardness of parents).

I had my first zombie/zombie infection dream last night. It was a cross between normal zombies, and the monsters from the Dead Space series. And it wasn't really scary at all (but it also lacked the major zombie ass kicking I was hoping for). I have to love my brain. I know full well that a zombie infection transmitted by bodily fluids (mostly bites) wouldn't actually be viable. That's the slowest way for an infection to spread. Instead, my brain opted for the 'something in the water' method of transmition, which allowed many dream peeps to be infected all at once. Honestly, that's about all I remember from it (I need to use my diary again). I also remember that the dream I had after it referenced it, which is cool, even if I don't remember what that dream was, or what the reference was. From what I can remember feeling about the dream after, I think it was pretty cool.

Well, anything about religion or humanitarianism wouldn't be my top pics for conversation on a first date, unless your both really into that kind of thing. If the conversation does go there, just don't argue. Umm. I think you nailed it with the theatre honestly. I'm not really into that, so I can't get specific, but if I suppose you could talk about whatever play your going to do next, or plays you would like to do, or ones you really like. Not entirely sure what you mean by geek, since that can cover a few things. If that's books, that can be a good one. If you mean like video games, that could probably work too, especially if you both just got Skyrim or something. Does that help at all?