Stupid Pet Peeves

[LogGrad98]

Hah, I always knew it, and I've said it on here multiple times. Worst drivers in the nation.

California drivers considered to be the ‘second-worst’ in the nation, study says

While California drivers may be experts at navigating traffic in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, they aren’t particularly good drivers, according to a Decemb…

ktla.com

While California drivers may be experts at navigating traffic in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, they aren’t particularly good drivers, according to a December 2022 study.

The research team at the insurance company Quote Wizard ranked California drivers as the second worst in America in its annual “Best and Worst Drivers by State” study.


Utah drivers were considered the worst in the nation.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Hah, I always knew it, and I've said it on here multiple times. Worst drivers in the nation.

California drivers considered to be the ‘second-worst’ in the nation, study says

While California drivers may be experts at navigating traffic in major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, they aren’t particularly good drivers, according to a Decemb…

ktla.com

Californians often complain about bad drivers in Utah. I have always just told them it's a you problem. I find most of the bad driving in Utah is often near colleges because young people suck at driving and super fast and aggressive drivers often from California. Having driven in pretty much every state in the USA I've always thought California is by far the worst. The number of accidents per person and deaths per accident has always confirmed that I think.

But there are plenty of stereotypes of bad drivers. Chinese are often thought of as bad drivers. While some are many just drive different from western standards so it seems bad. But I found people are way more attentive drivers. They just have a first come first serve style driving.

But now I live in Addis Ababa it's a all new level of driving. I'll have to find the video butt they have a fabulous intersection that is supposedly the busiest intersection in the world without a traffic light. It's chaos when it's busy.

 

[LogGrad98]

Californians often complain about bad drivers in Utah. I have always just told them it's a you problem. I find most of the bad driving in Utah is often near colleges because young people suck at driving and super fast and aggressive drivers often from California. Having driven in pretty much every state in the USA I've always thought California is by far the worst. The number of accidents per person and deaths per accident has always confirmed that I think.

But there are plenty of stereotypes of bad drivers. Chinese are often thought of as bad drivers. While some are many just drive different from western standards so it seems bad. But I found people are way more attentive drivers. They just have a first come first serve style driving.

But now I live in Addis Ababa it's a all new level of driving. I'll have to find the video butt they have a fabulous intersection that is supposedly the busiest intersection in the world without a traffic light. It's chaos when it's busy.

I agree about California too. But in my experience they are not as bad as Utah drivers. For my money some of the very worst drivers in Utah are soccer moms. They are either clueless heavily distracted drivers or aggressive to nearly homicidal levels. Another thing about Utah drivers I don't see too many other places, at least not on the same level, is the attitude of "you can merge in front of me if you take that spot from my cold dead fingers". The absolute least cooperative drivers I've ever seen. In California there are a not of problem drivers but for the most part you can get where you need to be, because they mostly recognize they are all dealing with the same ****** congestion. But in Utah you have to avoid signaling your intentions because no matter what someone is going to try to stop you. I pulled alongside a soccer mom in her van with her LDS primary bumper sticker once, cleared her by a good couple of car lengths, and signaled to move over to get to my exit. There wasn't even that much traffic, I just signaled to make a basic lane change. As soon as many signal went on, she gunned it. Cut the distance so I had to slow way down suddenly to get behind her. As she passed she glared at me like I was done guy on trial for molesting her children. I just don't see that level of aggression like that in most other places. It's unreal sometimes. No wonder not a single person in Utah uses their turn signal, as soon as you do it's like blood in the water with a rabid school of sharks. California definitely isn't much better, but I much prefer driving here than in Utah. The worst thing in California is they are drive so erratically. You just never know what anyone is going to do.

Really to me this is largely an American thing too. Yeah no drivers anywhere are perfect, but in America it's like they are just actively clueless about the rules of the road. I guess I got spoiled a bit driving in Germany and a couple of Scandinavian countries where they are typically better trained and tend to follow the basic rules far better. France was more chaotic, and England was pretty bad. I haven't been in Asia yet, but I would still say most every European nation has way better drivers, generally, than the US.

 

[Gameface]

I want someone to make an all-in-one tracker for things like TV series you watch, book series and/or authors you read, podcasts, movies, magazines, YouTube channels, Tweets by X, whatever else. You confirm if you're up to date or go episode by episode, book by book if you want and it will tell you when the next iteration of that comes out. Just one thing in one place that I can check that knows that specific info.

I'm not going to do it, just to get that out of the way.

 

[LogGrad98]

As I am working to get back on keto, finding alternative sweeteners for various products is important. So why the hell do they put stevia in everything? For something like 30% of the population it is a bitter ****** flavor, much like a certain percentage of people find cilantro to be soapy or something (I don't, thank goodness). To me stevia is off-puttingly bitter. I can handle nutrasweet, or most any of the sugar alcohols, but stevia is just nasty. I am sure it is a cost thing to use stevia since it is fairly cheap and they can use much less of it, but the bitter taste just ruins everything. I wish more manufacturers would use monkfruit or allulose, or even just erythritol. These are much less off-putting and allulose in baked goods is nearly indistinguishable from sugar, since it is actually a naturally-occurring sugar to begin with. Just please, stop putting stevia in everything. Ugh.

 

[Gameface]

The soup of pollution that we're calling air right now.

Every time it gets this bad I feel like I'm sick. I went to a place to eat and got something I've had a few dozen times easy and have never been disappointed in. It tasted completely different and I didn't enjoy it. I thought for a second that maybe I was sick and it was affecting my taste buds but then I remembered that I had been driving around in a heavy brown haze all morning. I really do think the difference in how it tasted was due to the smog and how it affects me.

 

[JazzGal]

I want someone to make an all-in-one tracker for things like TV series you watch, book series and/or authors you read, podcasts, movies, magazines, YouTube channels, Tweets by X, whatever else. You confirm if you're up to date or go episode by episode, book by book if you want and it will tell you when the next iteration of that comes out. Just one thing in one place that I can check that knows that specific info.

I'm not going to do it, just to get that out of the way.

That would be awesome!

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[Gameface]

In general I don't like crap hanging from people's rearview mirrors, but especially dream catchers. Like go ahead and leave the 80s behind and get that dime store made in China dream catcher out of your car. It looks dumb AF in my opinion and makes no sense. The second worst is reflective crystal garbage. Again, leave the 90s alone. There are no magical powers emanating from your crystals, especially if your crystal is shaped like a teddy bear or a heart. The next two are almost as bad but they are just more pathetic than dumb. The garter from you wedding and the tassel from your HS graduation. Anything and everything else also sucks.

The little tree scent thing serves a purpose so I don't hate that as bad.

A medical mask is just nasty.

Keep in mind that in some jurisdictions it is illegal. No one cares about it from a safety standpoint but drug interdiction police officers use it as justification for a pretextual stop so they can pressure you into consenting to a search of your car.

 

[gandalfe]

In general I don't like crap hanging from people's rearview mirrors, but especially dream catchers. Like go ahead and leave the 80s behind and get that dime store made in China dream catcher out of your car. It looks dumb AF in my opinion and makes no sense. The second worst is reflective crystal garbage. Again, leave the 90s alone. There are no magical powers emanating from your crystals, especially if your crystal is shaped like a teddy bear or a heart. The next two are almost as bad but they are just more pathetic than dumb. The garter from you wedding and the tassel from your HS graduation. Anything and everything else also sucks.

The little tree scent thing serves a purpose so I don't hate that as bad.

A medical mask is just nasty.

Keep in mind that in some jurisdictions it is illegal. No one cares about it from a safety standpoint but drug interdiction police officers use it as justification for a pretextual stop so they can pressure you into consenting to a search of your car.

You're forgetting about the granddaddy of stupid things to hang there, fuzzy dice. Like... why?

 

[gandalfe]

I want someone to make an all-in-one tracker for things like TV series you watch, book series and/or authors you read, podcasts, movies, magazines, YouTube channels, Tweets by X, whatever else. You confirm if you're up to date or go episode by episode, book by book if you want and it will tell you when the next iteration of that comes out. Just one thing in one place that I can check that knows that specific info.

I'm not going to do it, just to get that out of the way.

Make it so that people can tag what episode of something they watched in a discussion, and if you haven't seen it, it won't even show the message to you.

 

[JazzGal]

[hiding my sparkly unicorn dangling from my rear view mirror from Gameface]

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[LogGrad98]

[hiding my sparkly unicorn dangling from my rear view mirror from Gameface]

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I was thinking this about my jazz logo I have hanging from mine. My family bought it for me for Christmas one year, it's an enamel on metal, like a medal I guess, of the note logo.