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Seriously though, road rage is ridiculous. I mean, look at what actually happened. Z was being tailgated and he felt threatened by that. The instinctive response, one completely different to the one that most rational people would display in any other situation of conflict, was to try and antagonise the tailgater. A rational response it simply to move out of the way and let the guy go about his business pissing off other motorists, knowing that you’ve got yourself out of harm’s way, but instead the reaction actually creates an even more dangerous situation because once behind the wheel of a car, most people feel absolutely invincible. Ego plays a massive part in this, I used to get wound up something chronic by anyone wanting to overtake me. I quickly learnt that there was no point in getting into these games in rush hour traffic because you’re creating a dangerous situation, and far from being in the right, you’re acting just as dangerously as the person behind you.
Life is far less stressful when you realise that about 3 seconds after the guy has passed you, he’s forgotten all about you. He’s not sitting in his car thinking “ha harr! That weak willed piece of road furniture got totally SERVED! I am WIN!” he’s just sitting behind the wheel gnashing his teeth in fury at anything that seems to obstruct his path. It’s not personal, he’s just a prick, but if you refuse to get out of the way then unfortunately you’re being just as big a prick by endangering yourself and other road users because of the illusion of a bruised ego.
When you get into these games with tailgaters, you arrive at your destination absolutely furious and it plays on your mind for hours afterwards. If you move over, you’ve forgotten about it within 5 minutes and it ceases to bother you.
I know some people may see some irony in my saying these things because I’ll freely admit that I am a fast driver, but there are certain things I do to make sure that I do so as safely as possible, which includes never getting too close to cars which I think are driving unpredictably, leaving a reasonable gap to allow me to slow down and stop in case of an emergency, and giving plenty of notice to other road users when I’m going to change lanes and overtake. If you drive like this, you will get to your destination faster and calmer than if you’re sat up someone’s arse chewing on your steering wheel in frustration.
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quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: that must be some motivational speaker you are being subjected to today
Yeah, and he hasn't even arrived yet! Whattaguy. Funnily enough his talk is going to be about running a business like a military operation, apparently.
I find it hard to believe I endured all those years of self-employment and being my own boss when I could have been discovering the delights of corporate life and motivational speakers. Brilliant.
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I'm sorry, NWOD, I can't be arsed looking up the donkey's name. If you tell me what it is, I will use it. Honest.
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I don't know how people can justifiably say there's a negative vibe to the forum nowadays.
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I think there should be a picture of the donkey on the front page. Lovely donkey. I think I might be getting unhealthily obsessed with the donkey.
And I can't help being part time, Mikee. At least three quarters of my cerebral cortex is currently occupied with thinking about shoes. that leaves an eighth keeping me breathing/ moving etc and a sixteenth remembering how to use a PC, leaving only one final last sixteenth for TMO. It's a parlous state of affairs, but there you go.
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LOL at Ringo, Zygote, y'know I might front page it as it has people talking, I just can't do it during the CMS update I'm currently reading through and getting ready to run..
Maybe Monday..
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Okay, back on the road rage topic (to make Ringo happy): So what's the fix then? We can't expect people to not be jackasses, because let's face it, it's pretty central to the whole human experience. Just the same, we can't expect people to not get pissed off when confronted by a jackass (see also: how well that whole 'turn the other cheek' approach has worked historically). And given that we're not likely to cut the number of cars on the road absent a tripling or quadrupling of fuel costs (please don't let anyone from the Bush administration or oil industry read this, they might get an idea), what's to be done?
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quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: Sounds like a rejected Johnny Cash song title.
actually, it sounds like the perfect johnny cash song
[no disrespect to jc] in his version of u2's 'one' he sounds like mr. ed- all it needs is a 'wilburrrrrr' at the end.[/no disrespect to jc]
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i ran over a dog when i was 12- in my parents car i saw it crossing the road and accidentally pushed the fuel instead of the brake
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Uber- does the Orlando Bloom story involve the pretty-faced one needing somewhere to stay in SW19 this weekend? Anything else will probably just depress me further.
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You didn't need to edit, twas a genuinely meant well done. D'you know I'm getting the tone so wrong these days I may as well just give up.
Today, if I were a song I would be something terribly chirpy yet utterly disposible. Probably that horrible New Radicals one from a while back. You know the one I mean, played for a whole summer in 2002 or something.
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'Well done' is the ultimate all time sarcastic put-down of the world. My favourite extension of this is 'What else did you get for christmas?' e.g. when someone displays their fists in a brawl as if they have just torn the wrapping off and can't wait to use them for the first time. Like when someone beeps the horn, you say 'well done' unless Zygote is driving, because he might drive the car under your ribcage, shattering your heart, permanently destroying every happy thought you ever had.
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: And given that we're not likely to cut the number of cars on the road absent a tripling or quadrupling of fuel costs (please don't let anyone from the Bush administration or oil industry read this, they might get an idea), what's to be done?
Not a great deal can be done really. Ringo's post earlier probably sums it up well. It's just very hard to keep your temper in line when:
a. It's very early in the morning and you're still half asleep (I'm a rotten morning person) and
b. It was nice and relaxing one minute, before some prick intrudes into your personal space and single-handedly shatters your little bubble of tranquility.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: unless Zygote is driving, because he might drive the car under your ribcage, shattering your heart, permanently destroying every happy thought you ever had.
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