You ever notice when you're driving that everyone going faster than you is criminally irresponsible?

[Fumesucker]

And that everyone going slower than you is a moran?

The only people who really, really know how to drive are those who go exactly the same speed as you and you're not always sure about them really, particularly the ones who evidently are addicted to the odor of your exhaust fumes.

Ahem..

Well, politics is kind of like that, or at least DU and every other political forum I've been on since 300 baud modems were the latest tech.

Everyone to the left of you is a cretin and everyone to the right of you a sociopath.

Carry on, I'll be out in the shop doing the spring tuneup on my flamethrower.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You'd better polish up your flame-proof armor too...

And I believe your analysis is spot on!

[Common Sense Party]

2. George Carlin said it best:

[Fumesucker]

4. Yeah, I cribbed from GC, the master

I haven't seen that one in a long time but it stuck with me.

Every time I think of that one I end up thinking of Bill Cosby's 200 mph.

Kids in their Chevys with Airplane Tires.

[Initech]

14. Beat me to it!

[Warpy]

3. No, I only get annoyed with poky drivers going

more than 10 MPH below the posted speed limit and that's because I know they cause most of the accidents.

Likewise, I know good people have the right to be wrong about things. If I'm not wrong about 3 things by the time I eat lunch, it means I've slept in. I do have friends in both parties, online and off, and across the political spectrum.

What I won't tolerate is the mentally and emotionally poky who are unwilling to do anything but have their AM radios drone on, filling their empty heads with nonsense and never check anything out.

That makes me less a political dogmatist and more an insufferable snob.

[Fumesucker]

6. So, when the kid on the crotch rocket with the 120db banshee wail flashes by at Warp 8

You don't flinch?

I used to be that kid back in the day and I flinch.

[Warpy]

7. Flinch? No.

But I've got the fastest one finger salute in NM.

[Fumesucker]

11. You're not even a dot in the mirror by the time you get your finger up

[olddots]

5. I hear you

I hope to think it's people's lack of sleep that causes the grumpiness

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. I've noticed that people going faster than me give me a "license to speed"

0070

[Fumesucker]

13. You want to be careful with that and not get overconfident

Those lasers can get you quite a ways away and Smokey hangs out in packs.

Here they put the laser guy on the overpass, it's damn frightening the first time you see one because it looks just like a sniper up there.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Used to be, this sign was all we needed

Today's traffic, on roadways designed for a quarter of what we see today, it just doesn't work anymore.

[cui bono]

16. West coast definitely has no clue about that. East coast tends to understand passing lane.

I think because on the west coast we call it the fast lane. Maybe if we called it the passing lane it would help. The worst is when everyone is going the exact same speed in all lanes and they're not even going the speed limit and so they hold up traffic for everyone else. And to bring it back to the politics analogy, that's pretty much what is going on in congress today.

[Fumesucker]

27. Never been to Atlanta, eh?

[cui bono]

38. :) Nope. I'll prepare myself so I can contain my road rage then...

[octothorpe]

10. I try to stay 15 to 20 mph below the posted speed limit, because I think they are too high....

It takes me a very very very long time to get through 15mph school zones.

[Fumesucker]

12. I think Zeno might want to have a talk with you

Something to do with a pair of docks.

[DreamGypsy]

15. There's an answer: Pull up behind them, Pull out your pistol...

... relax and realize that everyone is just as justifiably frustrated as you are. Slow down, let someone merge, wave OK after she waves thanks...

But that's not the satirical...that means this is satire...message that Chuck Brodsky proposes:

In many dimensions it is very sad that this is funny...but it is...??? isn't it, funny??

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. You forgot the Morans who love to hover in your blind spot....

They only make noise when you want to change lanes.

[Mopar151]

18. Tow a race car on an open trailer

And those fools multiply..... The real rocket surgeons try to merge into the non-existent spot between the truck and trailer.

[Phentex]

19. I think you are very accurate!

but it applies to so much more.

People with more money than me are snobby, uncaring 1%ers.

People with less are lazy.


etc.

[reformist2]

20. I love it when people speed by me.... I figure they're the ones that will get pulled over.

The really slow ones do bother me, though.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

21. There's someone to the left of you?

[Fumesucker]

26. I can think of several without trying very hard

Actually a one dimensional representation of political thought is vastly oversimplifying things but it's become the cliche we all seem to use at least sometimes.

And there's someone to the right of you?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

31. Yeah, because I have made so many posts with a right wing point of view.

[Fumesucker]

32. Can't stand a tit-for-tat, eh?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

37. No, it wasn't a very inspired "tit-for-tat".

[hfojvt]

35. there are clowns to the left of me

and jokers to the right.

I call the people speeding past me "rocket man"

but then I get three or four behind me and I call myself "The Leader of the Pack"

[Fumesucker]

36. My ex got a ticket once for speeding while she was listening to Rocket Man

We got a good laugh out of it, not enough to make the fine worth it but that's life.

Good one, BTW

[Quantess]

22. That's why you should not take it personally when someone lays on their horn for you.

Someday your roles may reverse.

[randome]

23. You're right about driving habits. Wrong on oversimplifying DUers.

It annoys the hell out of me when someone is going too slow and does not give me an opportunity to go around them.

But I will always defend the right of someone to drive at whatever speed they think is safe.

[redgreenandblue]

24. In driving I think it is not so much how fast you are as how much you tailgate people's asses.

[raouldukelives]

34. Indeed. Being one of those AGW believers. When I have to drive my small car I do it at or slightly

below the posted speed limit. I don't punch it at stoplights, I release my foot from the gas pedal when I see a red light ahead and I try to leave 20ft or more between myself and the next car. Inevitably, someone tailgates me, speeds around me, brakes while tailgating the next car and then waits again at the same red light as me. Only to punch it again, swerve around a bit and then wait again at the next light.

[ananda]

25. Lol.

I resemble those remarks.

In fact, I have this joke about Austinites and green lights.

An Austinite gets to a red light and stops. The light turns
green. The Austinite thinks: I better wait a second to make
sure it's really green. Ok, it's green. Oh wait, it might turn
yellow. No, it's still green. OK, I'll go through.

[Zorra]

28. Yeh, but almost everyone who only drives in the left lane while going 10 mph under the speed limit

in the left lane is an inconsiderate asshole.

It's hard to get anywhere in a timely matter when slow, inconsiderate drivers impede progress unnecessarily. These drivers are often responsible for causing serious accidents and traffic jams. They drive slowly in the left lane because they are afraid of merging traffic, fearing for their own safety, while not even considering that others have important things to do and places to go.

The right lane is for the slow people. They should stay out of the left lane except to pass, or better yet, take public transportation, or get in the backseat and let competent motorists drive.

We all get to our destinations safer and faster this way.

[emulatorloo]

29. So where does the False Flag crowd fit?

Maybe those are the ones going the wrong way on the highway?

[Fumesucker]

30. They're the ones changing speed all the damn time n/t

[emulatorloo]

33. And unexpectedly slamming on their brakes when they get distracted. n/t