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Tuesday Night OT: Pet Peeves

madguy30 said:
They're also safer and less fuel wasting, etc.
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Yes, I love them, but the ones I think he is specifically referring to are the really small ones inside subdivisions. They aren't really necessary to split traffic, but they force traffic to slow down going around them. Place 3 or 4 block to block and it really slows down cross traffic.

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somecyguy said:
Yes, I love them, but the ones I think he is specifically referring to are the really small ones inside subdivisions. They aren't really necessary to split traffic, but they force traffic to slow down going around them. Place 3 or 4 block to block and it really slows down cross traffic.

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Ah, got it. More of a warning and yeah made to slow people down. They're generally uncontrolled and since people just drive like physics don't exist they can help.
 
LarryISU said:
People who blow their nose in a restaurant. Yuk! I'm trying to eat!
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I don't know if I was just blind to this type of stuff before Covid or if there's this post-Covid 'I'm just ready to spread germs everywhere' thing but last spring I had two instances that were just gross:

--person at the counter in a gas station wiping their nose with their hands/fingers while handling customers' things, with a big bottle of Germ-X right there. Thankfully someone else came up to help myself.

--middle schoolish aged kid hacking up a storm on a plane across the aisle from me, proceeds to wipe their nose with a napkin and stuff in the back seat pocket in front of them.
 
This is a work annoyance but co-workers that can't keep things simple and effective and basically seem to just add more complexity to fill their own ego instead of just doing a job.
 
engineer_doug said:
Yes it is, and yes it does. Although the signs do help if you're paying attention.
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I agree the 1st time I went thru a city truck was parked there helping people catch on now I go through it with no issues. It is still a million times better than some of those weird combination exit ramp/street combos they have in the Dallas Ft Worth area.
 
SaraV said:
Lose vs. Loose

Break vs. Brake
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When people use an apostrophe s for a plural
People who can't spell "whoa" (woah, whao)
"I am excited to announce that I've committed to Iowa State. I can't wait to be apart of the program!"
 
CoachHines3 said:
people b*tching about our mens basketball program when they have FAR exceeded preseason expectations.
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I'll take the other side of this. It annoys me when people brush off bad performances because historically we haven't been very good or nobody expected much out of us in the preseason, right in the middle of a season in which we've proven to be a good team.

History is irrelevant to a current team's success, and preseason expectations are stabs in the dark, especially given all the roster movement in college sports today. If a team has shown it can play at a high level, that is the measuring stick and it's fine if people are disappointed - within reason, obviously - when they don't come anywhere near that.
 
One of my biggest is people driving north on 90th street from Maple that want to get onto the frontage road. They have 4 opportunities to turn get onto it yet always drive up to Maplewood and then try to make a u-turn which results in them having to make a 3 point turn blocking the rest of the traffic if there is anyone waiting to get onto 90th
 

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When mother nature teases us with some spring weather then gives us a late March saturday high of 24 degrees.
 
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