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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 14, 2022 17:00:41 GMT -5
I had my first ever MRI earlier this afternoon. I've had some serious neck pain off and on for about a year. The latest flare-up has mostly dissipated, with just a bit of residual pain in my neck and right arm (and numbness in my right thumb). But it's time to figure out exactly what it is.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 14, 2022 17:26:51 GMT -5
We had bendy buses in some UK cities, but not sure if they’ve now been scrapped: They call 'em "articulated buses" here but they are rare.
Cei-U! I summon the Greyhound!
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Post by Confessor on Dec 14, 2022 17:32:26 GMT -5
In Massachusetts we call them rotaries. I've just recently heard the term roundabouts, but those seem to be used for smaller rotaries. Either way, watching how people navigate them is another way to separate the locals from the tourists. There's usually an incident every summer down here with tourists going the wrong way in a rotary. It's not an urban legend. I've seen it happen. Here's the Bourne Rotary that you encounter as you get onto the Cape via the Bourne Bridge. (The truck is entering from the bridge.) I remember talking to folk in Boston and in Marblehead who thought that rotaries were really weird things and very difficult to navigate. Coming from the UK, of course I found them to be a doddle (albeit I felt like I was driving the wrong way round them). Folks were horrified when I explained that over here in the UK we have roundabouts at the majority of main road junctions where 3 or more roads meet. They are much, much safer and easier to navigate than a traditional road junction.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 14, 2022 18:01:23 GMT -5
Some cities in California have traffic circles (which is what they're usually called there). I recall a few in particular in residential neighborhoods in Berkeley (where I went to college), but generally they're not very common. Here in Croatia, on the other hand, they are very common. So are articulated (bendy) buses, although they're pretty much exclusively used in urban public transit. The intercity lines use the coach-style buses.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 14, 2022 19:47:47 GMT -5
In Massachusetts we call them rotaries. I've just recently heard the term roundabouts, but those seem to be used for smaller rotaries. Either way, watching how people navigate them is another way to separate the locals from the tourists. There's usually an incident every summer down here with tourists going the wrong way in a rotary. It's not an urban legend. I've seen it happen. Here's the Bourne Rotary that you encounter as you get onto the Cape via the Bourne Bridge. (The truck is entering from the bridge.) I remember talking to folk in Boston and in Marblehead who thought that rotaries were really weird things and very difficult to navigate. Coming from the UK, of course I found them to be a doddle (albeit I felt like I was driving the wrong way round them). Folks were horrified when I explained that over here in the UK we have roundabouts at the majority of main road junctions where 3 or more roads meet. They are much, much safer and easier to navigate than a traditional road junction.
We have a few roundabouts here and there in Tennessee, mainly in urban areas. I have no problem with them, but it seems that too many Americans have a fear of the due to the movie, European Vacation--
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 14, 2022 19:53:13 GMT -5
In Massachusetts we call them rotaries. I've just recently heard the term roundabouts, but those seem to be used for smaller rotaries. Either way, watching how people navigate them is another way to separate the locals from the tourists. There's usually an incident every summer down here with tourists going the wrong way in a rotary. It's not an urban legend. I've seen it happen. Here's the Bourne Rotary that you encounter as you get onto the Cape via the Bourne Bridge. (The truck is entering from the bridge.) I remember talking to folk in Boston and in Marblehead who thought that rotaries were really weird things and very difficult to navigate. Coming from the UK, of course I found them to be a doddle (albeit I felt like I was driving the wrong way round them). Folks were horrified when I explained that over here in the UK we have roundabouts at the majority of main road junctions where 3 or more roads meet. They are much, much safer and easier to navigate than a traditional road junction. I've often heard that they are safer and help reduce traffic but being from the Boston area like Prince Hal I have never been fond of them. They just seem like giant wastes of space and although they are apparently faster than a traffic light I always feel like they make it longer to get where I want to be.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2022 4:55:09 GMT -5
They are a giant waste of space, and they’re the road equivalent of the Royal Rumble, it truly is every impatient driver for himself at a roundabout. At least traffic lights have rules and logic to them.
If roundabouts were sentient, they’d be Klingons; if traffic lights were sentient, they’d be Vulcans.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 15, 2022 6:49:44 GMT -5
We have a few roundabouts here and there in Tennessee, mainly in urban areas. Interesting. I can't say I saw a single roundabout or roterie in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia when I was driving through those states 3 years back. They must be pretty few and far between, I would think?
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Post by Confessor on Dec 15, 2022 7:02:00 GMT -5
They are a giant waste of space, and they’re the road equivalent of the Royal Rumble, it truly is every impatient driver for himself at a roundabout.That sounds good, but it's simply not true. The majority of road users here in the UK use a roundabout every time they go out in a car and the number of impatiant drivers who break the "give-way to the right" rule is incredibly small -- not least because breaking that rule is likely to result in having your valuable car damaged. The vast majority of road users use roundabouts exactly as they are supposed to be used, otherwise there would be traffic chaos and jams at every one, whereas the Department for Transport data shows that on average they keep traffic flowing much better than a crossroads junction. Personally, I've never had any problem with roundabouts and almost never encounter drivers breaking the rules -- and I live near the infamous "magic roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, which in 2005 was voted the UK's second worst roundabout... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2022 7:08:49 GMT -5
Well, I was probably exaggerating a tad, but if you are ever at Six Ways Roundabout in Birmingham, I recommend putting a crash helmet on. Also, here in Birmingham, using indicators - especially for those driving white vans - seems to be optional. EDIT: And don’t get me started on eScooters. Not sure any eScooter rider around here has any road awareness, nor do they use hand signals…
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2022 14:26:14 GMT -5
I am so pleased that my city’s main railway station is, well, look at this:
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 15, 2022 17:11:11 GMT -5
I am so pleased that my city’s main railway station is, well, look at this:
The Hood is slightly impressed... as he marks it on his list as a potential target...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2022 11:08:23 GMT -5
I’m trying to find a book for someone (by Christmas), and it led me to this site, which, and I’m sorry for sounding unkind, looks like a site from 1998: www.lrta.info/shop/index.phpCome on, they can do better than that. Not the most accessible site, bit cluttered, not modern. I might just order the present from my local bookstore.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 16, 2022 21:49:19 GMT -5
So, my wife left me an unexpected Christmas present...sort of. I have been cleaning house and sorting through things to donate to charity, things for her son and family to look at and decide and things to just throw out, such as the drawer full of questionable supplements and packages of candle wax for the candle warmer (tons of these little squares of wax). She had a bunch of computer related toys, including 4 speakers of increasing size and, I discovered, a 15 terabyte external harddrive. I hooked it into my desktop, to see what was on it, assuming it was mostly her music files, as she loaded it all onto one, plus all kinds of other things she downloaded. There is a bit of music on there, but there is a huge file filled with movies, from across the decades, some of which I own on dvd (and which she duplicated) and others which I do not, but have wanted to watch. Then, there was a file marked "television," which is filled with complete seasons of multiple tv shows, from the likes of I Love Lucy and The Donna Reed Show, to The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly.. At first, I was a bit put out at finding some of my discs from my Dick Van Dyke Show and Mary Tyler Moore Show sets, inside her nightstand and a few discs behind it, with sticky goo on the plastic sleeve, wondering if there are now discs missing or damaged (she was not good about taking care of those kinds of things), when I discovered that she has both tv series copied onto the hard drive. She has stuff on there that I haven't see since I was a little kid, like The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Room 222. There was McMillan & Wife, which I was looking around to see if I could find episodes on Youtube or Daily Motion and there they are. I was a little disappointed she didn't also have McLoud (I have the entire Columbo set), until I found it in another file. The only thing missing is Hec Ramsey and I can see that on Youtube.
I knew that she had downloaded some stuff and duplicated some stuff; but, had no idea how extensively. We had been watching The Big Theory, while she was at the nursing home and in the hospital. Now I can see the rest of it.
Some of it surprises me, as I knew her tastes well and I never saw her express an interest in the film 12 Angry Men (one of my favorites); but, there it is. The Audrey Hepburn and Adam Sandler stuff I expected.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 17, 2022 3:56:47 GMT -5
I’m trying to find a book for someone (by Christmas), and it led me to this site, which, and I’m sorry for sounding unkind, looks like a site from 1998: www.lrta.info/shop/index.phpCome on, they can do better than that. Not the most accessible site, bit cluttered, not modern. I might just order the present from my local bookstore. Speaking of sites with a mid-1990s aesthetic - and one that's right in the wheelhouse of this forum's members - you should visit Doug Sulipa's Comic World. The interface is almost laughably outdated, but once you start clicking the links you'll be amazed at the sheer quantity of cool geeky, pulpy stuff this guy has in his inventory. (I would love to be given free reign to poke around in his warehouse for, like, a month or so...)
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