I went over a mattress once. Thankfully, I was in a car. The moron owner had tied it to the roof of his car with elastic ties, and I had no way to avoid rolling over it with about 45 mp/h (this was on the autobahn, and I had been going about 85 before). Bonus point: I lost my front licence plate in the process, moron…

I find them definitely more efficient than traffic lights, as you don’t have to wait when there is no traffic. Roundabouts do clog up more thoroughly when traffic gets really heavy, though. Of course you should signal your intent to exit, so those waiting at the next entrance know they can enter.

When I went to driver’s ed in the late 80s, the story was that there was one roundabout in the country (Austria) without yield signs at the entries. Meaning that, since right-before-left is the default rule, those already in the roundabout had to yield to those entering. Never seen it myself, though.

Bought an `05 Mazda5 with 55k miles in 2013, for a bit over 6000. Have racked up another 60k miles since.

Had a Toyota Carina Mk II Diesel. It was about as reliable as a hammer. I remember one winter were the hood lock was rusted shut, so we didn’t check oil for three months. In spring, the dipstick showed nothing at all, and the thing still ran fine.

I once passed an M1 on the autobahn. I was in the passenger seat, the driver was a friend, our car was an Opel Ascona, no less. It was on the Swiss autobahn, where they take your house away for speeding, but still.

I do that if all the spots to the left of the pump are taken. Why wouldn’t I?

Wow. Gotta love the non-matching rear wheels.

This looks like something you’d jam up your anus to stop the pain.

Sounds a bit awkward if you want to, I don’t know, do anything that requires two hands?

I do agree with the first part of your statement. But I am not convinced (without knowing more) that the guns-out approach was necessary.

You are being obtuse. Surely we can agree that there is a difference between an officer walking up to you with a holstered weapon and an officer with a pistol in his hand? Just as there is a difference between me walking up to you with my dick in my pants as opposed to my dick in my hand. I was not disputing that it…

I see what you mean. But if you replace “gun” with “dick” in your last sentence, you’ll see what I mean.

I remember the time I hit some sort of scrap iron on an evening, doing about 80-85 on a freeway. The front right tire exploded, instant 360, no way to correct. I saw it happen in slow motion, and miraculously, I hit nothing and no one else hit me.

I thought “open carry” referred to having a gun in a visible holster. Not in your hand.

Where I am sitting, a bell is mandatory if you want to ride your bike in traffic. You can call it nanny state. I call it idiot proof.

If this is satire, it is satire on a par with the satire of GTA V (once described by Cracked as worse than what a concentration camp guard and a holocaust survivor would come up with if they met 50 years later to write satire).

There is a civilized country where this is legal?

People who put up their winscreen wipers when it threatens to snow. Yeah, it’s easier to clean your window, but then the springs wear out and your wipers chatter.

In some European countries (I only checked Austria and Germany) it is forbidden to let your car sit at idle to warm it up. Many still do it, of course.