An 18 wheeler jumping the median right in front of me while towing gasoline.

Aside from an instance where I would be staring death in the face, nothing really scares me while driving. However, I have a laundry list of things that straight up piss me off.

1. Driving while impaired.
Does this need any explanation?

2. Driving while texting.
Umm, lady, how do you not hear that you're on the rumble strips on the shoulder?

3. Tailgaiting.
Hint, if I'm doing thirty kph over the limit, and you're still hanging six inches off my bumper, I'm not the one who's the problem. Bonus points if this is happening in the curb lane.

4. Not signaling.
Signals exist for a pretty obvious reason.

5. Not using your lights at night/in inclement weather.
See reason 4.

6. Merging on an uncongested highway well below the speed limit.
I love nearly having the Ram logo imprinted on my ass because your goddam Corrolla merged onto the 401 at 60kph in a 100kph zone.

7. Toyota drivers.
Particularly Priuses, Camrys, and Corrollas. The Scion FRS and Lexus LFA are exempted from my hatred of all modern, bland Toyotas.

8. Civic SI drivers, ricers, and any combination of the two.
SI guys, change up a gear. Staying in V-TAAK! all the way down the highway is both annoying and a good way to waste gas. Ricers, your fart cans do not make your cars fast. They make you look like an idiot.

9. Ricing or slamming a G35 or G37 coupe. These cars look lovely as they are. Stop ruining them. Sleeper tunes done right are acceptable.

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Well, considering everything east of Baghdad is essentially an Iranian province, and everything west of it has gone to Hell in a hand basket, I can't fault the article.

Not to mention that Obama's "Red Line" gaffe showed Putin that he could play chicken with the West and win. Now Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are "ancestral Russian territories".  I'm sure SACEUR are really happy about having that on their plate, especially since it's been Merkel who's been leading the political fight, not Obama.

OK, college students hating on Bush Jr is par for the course. Still, putting Joseph Stalin above him is laughable. Those guys have obviously never heard of the Katyn Massacre, among countless others.

I'm far more surprised that Che Guevara was one slot below Winston Churchill.

Also, it's funny that Karl Marx ranked fairly high, but almost everyone who put his ideology into practice ranked pretty close to the bottom.




AND GORBACHEV WAS AT 28?!

HOW THE HELL IS THAT POSSIBLE?!  You're telling me that the man who instituted the economic and political reforms that led to the end of the Soviet Union was two spots above Napoleon Bonaparte? Gorby's one of the main reasons World War III was avoided. If a Party hardliner had gotten into power, I'd probably be typing this with a chisel on a cave wall, because that's all that would be left in the world.

And evidently, the guy between them brought democracy to China... (thx Wiki).

I like beer, so yeah.

1. North Korea is secretly 150 years ahead of the rest of the world in technology, has an abundance of food, and Kim Jong Un does actually have a pet unicorn.

2. Mike Babcock will not save the Leafs. Give it up, Toronto.

I assume the planet in question has an atmospheric composition in the neighbourhood of 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen, gravity of about 1G, and has a magnetosphere that keeps everything on it from being killed by solar radiation?

Option 1: Say "fuck it", walk away and let the Saudis and Iranians figure it out.

Option 2: Blow the hell out of both ISIS, Assad, and their respective allies, and stay there for the next God-knows-how-many years as per Marshall Plan V2.0. Spend untold trillions rebuilding both countries from the ground up, and don't leave until they can stand on their own.

Option 1 would either result in a big Middle East war or an unending series of proxy wars.

Option 2 would most likely bankrupt the US.

Since neither are feasible, we are left with Option 3: Containment. Get Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Kurds, what's left of the FSA, and whatever anti-ISIS or nonaligned militia groups are out there to align against ISIS instead of each other, with the US serving as the intelligence lynchpin.

There will be some deals with the Devil, but the only other way to take out ISIS is for the US to dramatically escalate its military commitment. Good luck selling "Iraq 3" to the US voters in 2016.

Well, it's a step up from fish in CoD: Ghosts.

Yes, you guys do.

But I live in Ontariowe, so who am I to judge?

I oppose the death penalty in principle, but I won't be crying any tears when he gets the needle in his arm.

So wait, the law would allow the homeless to buy white potatoes with no restrictions, but red or yellow ones can only be bought in certain quantities?

Someone explain the logic behind that one, please?

Well, depending on your definition, there are at least three generations active on the forum. I assume you mean Gen Y though.

I'd agree that most of the generation is more socially progressive than the previous ones, but that's just a continuation of a generation by generation trend.

But against free expression? I wouldn't go that far. Yes, thanks to social media, the easily offended SJW bloggers of our time can point and shrill at any comments that go against their "cause".

But there's just as many people our age who, due to careers, education, or other factors, learn to step back and evaluate multiple viewpoints more rationally. We aren't as confrontational as, say, the Baby Boomers were back in the 60s. But we aren't completely closed off to alternate viewpoints.

Ex, our generation is pegged to think of the Republicans as a bunch of backwards old farts (Doubly true for us Canadians). But a few of my friends who are out working and building their careers have a more favourable view of them, at least in the economy department.

Quote from: Alphy on March 03, 2015, 10:33:55 PM

who?

Leliana. Left hand of the Divine Justinia. Chantry sister. Veteran of the Fifth Blight. Spymaster of the Inquisition. Lover of Jester. "The Raven."

So basically she's Medieval Femshep?

Quote from: CND AAA Beef on March 02, 2015, 10:33:23 PM

Didn't he die, like, thirteen years ago?

What's-his-face cut him in half after they all got back to Earth from Piccolo's planet, right?

Does anyone really truly die in Dragonball Z?

I'm not sure. I grew out of it about three episodes after that one.