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Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane' 1915
Tina D. Well, not exactly. You see, *all* BMWs (at least since the late '60s) are "E-series" - unless you really meant that you say "I drive an...

Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane' 1916
Fantastic appropriate usage information! I wish all those dumbknuckel California drivers (especially those dimwitted bay area BMW drivers where I'm from) would know and learn this useful...

Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane' 1917
Tina D. Getting closer, *but* BMWs are never individually called "E-series", "E series", "M-series" or "M series". When someone says...

Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane' 1918
Wonderful! I did not know much of this useful information and I do appreciate the...

OT BMW Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane
I DID NOT DO THAT THING WITH THAH DUSTER! It was 'im o'er there wot did it mister. being...

OT Stupidf posters... BMW 1920
Jeezis died for somebody's sins but not mi-hine. highly f***ing Yeah. I love to drive but I'm one of those people who couldn't know (or care) less about car trivia and...

OT Stupidf posters... BMW 1921
tech27 Son, "Bimmer" has no logic nor linguistic validity a-tall. You, junior, may embrace this stupidity as it matches your tiny little forehead, but that doesn't mean it's Right. The company (in English...

OT BMW Carrey To Have 'Fun with privates and Jane
fbloogyudsr f*** them. My position stands. When the sedan (vs the motyorcycle) hit the U.S. it was termed a "Beemer". The corruption to the...

KRETP vs. Motor Vehicle Act
Just to revive this thread; this was in this morning's Seattle PI Floyd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting There: Law says left lanes are for pbutting...

Pbutting cops on I294
It's been a long time since we've had one of those lengthy and inconclusive, but sometimes interesting, discussions about where the world's most cutthroat drivers may...

SAVAGE SPIC BEATS, STABS, DISMEMBERS NEW JERSEY WHITE GIRL
Technical data (Mk.III) Caliber: 9x19mm Luger-Para Weight: 3.18 rg empty Lenght: 762 mm Barrel lenght: 196 mm...

Gasoline or Bread 1926
Do The US government has not paid farmer to not plant corn for years. I've been running a farm for the past 20 years...

Gasoline or Bread 1927
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:29:42 +0100, Pooh Bear "buttuming state-of-the-art practices, the net energy ratio could be as much as...

Gasoline or Bread 1928
Arif Khokar Says who ? There's a lot of outdated data out there ! I've seen that many ppl...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS
just made the drive west from the area of san antonio, TX all the way...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1930
We've had a few noteworthy incidents around here as well. Years ago, a person was end when a truck beside them changed lanes left, forcing them into oncoming traffic. To be...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1931
Good buddy Scott intoned the above, but my experience is as soon as the turn signal goes on it seems to be a signal to the idiot...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1932
i thought it was pretty strange too, that's why i posted it. i tried to be as honest and descriptive...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1933
Not necessarily. The difference is that with professional truckers, you have some butturance that at least at one time they had to demonstrate some knowledge and competence. That is not the case...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1934
fair enough. let me ask you some questions about staying close to "ambient flow": 1) shall i slow down when...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1935
Brink intoned thusly Forgive me for snipping a bit for the sake of brevity. I don't intend this to be about trains...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1936
Clueless has nothing to do with it. I was in the left lane, about to pbutt some butthole in a Baby Ruth truck, when...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1937
I-10 all the way from los angeles to tucson is sadly notorious for this kind of...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1938
DTJ There is a good chance that it is. BNSF owns 2,485 Trucks, and employes 6,363...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1939
Dave Head If there was a need for 25x as many rails as there are now... they would be built, Private business has ALWAYS done better...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1940
They would if they could, but due to NIMBYism, they can't - as well as not being able to compete with free roads that the...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1941
At the risk of falling for the ignorant 4-wheelers' cross-posted rant, Yes. The same...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1942
Build more rails - lots more rails. That can be changed, too, and should. Hell, they're using fuel tax money to build mbutt...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1943
that's not the case here--i'm talking about being cut off to the point of having to brake to avoid a collision. it's rude and...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1944
Brink ranted. . . Y'know, we are just as upset by bad drivers as you are. That's why we oppose every state law...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1945
i agree... illinois is a particularly egregious state as they have a big split between trucks-RVs and regular...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1946
believe it or not, i *do* think about that, bill. it seems to me that you're justifying a trucker cutting off another large rig (my RV) "Because it will take...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1947
Look at it from our point of view. Many times a day when I signal a lane change to pbutt another vehicle that I'm catching, I have checked my mirrors to...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1948
Brian Smith That implies they do it on purpose. Folks just don't know how big blind spots can...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1949
I'm not justifying anything. You asked a question, I gave an answer. See above. To add, though: given the atbreastudes expressed by many here, and having he experience myself of seeing...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1950
fair enough. do you think that your answer provides justification for being cut off? just to be perfectly clear: two wrongs make a right, or to be more specific, it's the law of the jungle...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1951
Brink droned. . . You seem to be noticing that the way you drive doesn't seem to...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1952
At least get 'em off the interstate highways until, say, about 11pm when there is usually very light traffic. Even when the interstates are...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS
Shippers & receivers load-unload during normal hours. It'd be a heck of a sleep pattern (something that all the new regs...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1954
This is what I know from experience. Many shippers load when ever they are open. A...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1955
realitytrucker That would be one. 2) "The gas station that I use is always out of gasoline, because the rail system...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1956
Daniel, ol' buddy, I won't go into your post item by item because it's so full of poorly thought out ramble, but for a moment let's examine just one. Last year, on Jan. 4, 2004...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1957
He didn't JUST SAY Bicycles and Motorcycles... the list included cars, Pickups, and Minivans... The list was SMALL vehicles, and yes they (the whole list and not...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1958
Brian Smith I haven't seen them hitting cars, but I have seen them pretty far out into the lane. Then again, they do have...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1959
Down here the roads are narrow than you have up there. They tend to hold up traffic (or take the lane, as they call it) for as long as they can, citing the fact...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1960
i think what you're complaining about is the practice of "taking the lane" that many riders use (myself included when i feel it's...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1961
Brian Smith Yeah? What would that be? While I have not cited the laws in my state, I do...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1962
it seems we have a difference of opinion of what consitutes a hazard... to a bicyclist, *every motor vehicle* is a very real threat, of course much more so...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1963
Dave Head DO you really think that all those trucks that you see in your town, NEVER leave town? How many of them do you...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1964
Scott en Aztlán Well since Dave Head was mentioning Interstates, let's put the interstates back to what they were built for (military, and cargo transportation) and get the 4 wheelers off...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1965
Yeah, it is. Its a way to stop burning petroleum and start using (clean, available) nuclear power. You build lots of 'em. There will always be railcars entering the station...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1966
Dave Head A power plant has not been built in this country in over 20 years... how many power plants (nuclear power plants) are going to need to be built for...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1967
Yeah, 'cuz they need a locomotive to move 'em around - a simple problem to solve with self-powered railcars. They also don't have tracks that can handle railcars...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1968
Nothing's free, but I'd rather be paying for American uranium-produced electricity than middle-eastern produced oil. As for the governenment getting involved in transportation, it already is - this would be government competing...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1969
The big problem here is the fact that rails are not more efficient. Given the number of railcars that are being spoken about...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1970
Yeah, it is - get a semi-truck to about 60 mph, let it coast, it stops in abouta mile. Do that with a regular...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1971
Since I can see you haven't read the thread up to this point, the scenario goes like this: You drive your truck to the rail terminal, drive onto a...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1972
Scott en Aztlán The really astounding thing is that you believe your argument is rational! All those railroad cars you see...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1973
Dave Head privates P Head, Your "system" belongs in fantasyland. What's the cost of even one bridge? I have no idea what the average is, but in the new highway bill...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1974
fbloogyudsr Floyd, I realize that it's not your fault that you are so dense; I realize that it is...

Fireworks, Kids, and the Angry Driver
An update, for those that want more grist... ---------------------------------------------- No homicide charges in boy's rest KAREN HUCKS; The News Tribune Published: August 23rd, 2005 12:01...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1976
Yeah - the elevation of the rails wouldn't have to be all that high, and would be mostly done over land that's easy to...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1977
Russotto) Nothing like coming into the middle of the conversation without any idea what is being discussed, huh...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1978
All right, I'll offer a serious reason why it wouldn't work. Cost. What you are proposing is very costly to build, very costly to...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1979
So was the interstate highway system (costly), but we built it. OK, I don't see how you missed this fact so far...

Dream Transportations System. Was:rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS
And see what that did to the rail network. You know, it's amazing the power of NIMBYs. If you look at I95 through Philadelphia, it's mostly elevated. Except past...

Dream Transportations System. Was:rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1981
I wanted to revisit this, as it is the most common comeback to anyone that tries to suggest doing anything new. Expensive doesn't necessarily equal prohibitive. Now, imagine that the aliens...

Dream Transportations System. Was:rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1982
Exacty. A system that people could use 24-7-365 by individually traveling directly to their destination wrecked havoc on a system where infrequent opportunities to travel were run on a...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1983
Do you buy an airliner to travel by air? Again, you haven't read the thread. The railcars would, ideally, be government owned operated maintained inspected. That's an...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1984
off been and guaranteed The public wont support it because the cost of using it is too high. family of four by rail from Tampa, Florida to...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1985
Private money? There'a *already* private money going into railroads. Why would anyone want to invest in a Government RR system? Yes, I have. It's Government run, in a high-ridership area. While it doesn't carry...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1986
Advertising - there's lotsa money in that. The rail system would have the paying pbuttengers. The ad industry wants to sell 'em stuff. Make ad industy...

rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1987
Jerry The answer should be obvious to you: get out of the lane and allow the other, faster driver-- car or truck-- to pbutt you. If traffic is heavy and all lanes are...

Repub and highway person Bill Janklow will soon get conviction erased
And it looks like the State Bar will soon give him back his law license. So the...

Repub and highway person Bill Janklow will soon get conviction erased
Don't Mess With Texas Hmmm. Like Karl Marx? You describe the bourgeoise, not socialists. Perhaps if you read Marx, youd know that(I...



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