What Pleases You? (1 Viewer)

[Clinton McClure]

I drove just over 350 miles home from Addison, TX in 5 1/2 hours this morning. I feel your pain.

 

[jayembee]

From the Department of You Can't Make This Shit Up Department...

I drove my wife to an appointment this morning. On our way home, she decided she wanted to stop at the "Spirit of Halloween" shop that opened in town for the season. Just as I was dropping her at the Halloween store, she happened to notice that the time on my car's dashboard display was exactly "10:31".

 

[Jeffrey D]

I survived driving to/around/through Chicago yesterday. Wasn’t easy- torn up roads all over the place, traffic out the ying yang, and
the drivers there drive way too fast, and do aggressive and rude maneuvers (no contest-
the rudest drivers I have seen in my travels).
I hope I don’t have to go back any time soon.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I survived driving to/around/through Chicago yesterday. Wasn’t easy- torn up roads all over the place, traffic out the ying yang, and
the drivers there drive way too fast, and do aggressive and rude maneuvers (no contest-
the rudest drivers I have seen in my travels).
I hope I don’t have to go back any time soon.

You haven’t driven around LA or NYC then.

 

[jayembee]

You haven’t driven around LA or NYC then.

I've never driven around LA, but I have in NYC several times. And a number of other large US cities. Chicago has the worst traffic (and drivers) I've ever experienced. Back in the day when a friend and I would often drive from the Boston area to Minneapolis and back, we always tried to plan our driving schedule so that we would hopefully be going through Chicago at the least choked up times. The trouble is that there really aren't many of those.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I've never driven around LA, but I have in NYC several times. And a number of other large US cities. Chicago has the worst traffic (and drivers) I've ever experienced. Back in the day when a friend and I would often drive from the Boston area to Minneapolis and back, we always tried to plan our driving schedule so that we would hopefully be going through Chicago at the least choked up times. The trouble is that there really aren't many of those.

It’s all a matter of opinion regarding traffic and cities.

 

[Jeffrey D]

You haven’t driven around LA or NYC then.

Los Angeles- never been in that city. NYC- been there. Drivers do rival Chicago as far as aggressiveness, and rudeness.

 

[jayembee]

It’s all a matter of opinion regarding traffic and cities.

True enough. It's also true that I haven't been driving out that way in probably a decade and a half. Things have undoubtedly changed. I used to know driving in and around Boston like the back of my hand, but there have been enough changes in the past several years that I'm not as comfortable doing so as I used to be.

 

[Robert Crawford]

True enough. It's also true that I haven't been driving out that way in probably a decade and a half. Things have undoubtedly changed. I used to know driving in and around Boston like the back of my hand, but there have been enough changes in the past several years that I'm not as comfortable doing so as I used to be.

Growing up in Connecticut/NYC Metro area, the reputation of Boston drivers has been noted as being pretty bad.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Los Angeles- never been in that city. NYC- been there. Drivers do rival Chicago as far as aggressiveness, and rudeness.

Driving on LA's freeways is like the Wild Wild West.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Driving on LA's freeways is like the Wild Wild West.

Are they tolled, like a lot of Chicago’ beltways?

About NYC- the GW (George Washington Bridge) rakes the toll money in- several years ago, it costed about $120 for a 5 axle truck.
I’m sure it costs considerably more than that to cross it now (I guess the silver lining is the toll is only one direction- northbound). That bridge alone makes more than $2 million per day in tolls!

 

[Robert Crawford]

Are they tolled, like a lot of Chicago’ beltways?

About NYC- the GW (George Washington Bridge) rakes the toll money in- several years ago, it costed about $120 for a 5 axle truck.
I’m sure it costs considerably more than that to cross it now (I guess the silver lining is the toll is only one direction- northbound). That bridge alone makes more than $2 million per day in tolls!

Not the last time I was in LA.

 

[Malcolm R]

Growing up in Connecticut/NYC Metro area, the reputation of Boston drivers has been noted as being pretty bad.

They're not called Mass-holes without cause. If I ever get cut-off by someone on the Vermont interstates, it's usually someone with license plate from MA.

 

[Alex...]

I'm glad that finally Justice for Natalee, though it took this long for POS to admit it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/us/joran-van-der-sloot-natalee-holloway-plea-wednesday/index.html

 

[Malcolm R]

So...nothing really new. Everyone knew he was guilty and we still don't know what happened to the body. But glad this provides some closure for the family.

EDIT, NBCNews.com had more details:

In his plea agreement, Van der Sloot said he was on a beach in Aruba when Holloway rebuffed his sexual advances.

Holloway kneed him in the crotch before he kicked her "extremely hard" in the face, he told prosecutors. She was unconscious when Van der Sloot found a cinderblock nearby and used it to "smash her head in with it completely," Van der Sloot admitted.

He then took her body to water, got in knee deep, and pushed the teen's body out into the ocean.

"After that, I, I get out," he said. "I walk home."

Though I'm not sure I buy that, either. I've spent a fair amount of time in Aruba on the beaches and the waves are such that if he just took the body to "knee deep" water, it seems like it would be pushed right back on shore.

 

[Malcolm R]

Working with records this morning from someone with the last name "McHorney". That must have been a challenging name to live with through high school and the military.

Sounds like it could have been paired up with "McLovin" in Superbad.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Working with records this morning from someone with the last name "McHorney". That must have been a challenging name to live with through high school and the military.

Sounds like it could have been paired up with "McLovin" in Superbad.

Yes the McLovin thing in Superbad- hilarious. I’ll have to watch that again soon.

 

[jayembee]

Working with records this morning from someone with the last name "McHorney". That must have been a challenging name to live with through high school and the military.

Sounds like it could have been paired up with "McLovin" in Superbad.

When I worked in computer operations back in the day, there was a user (female) with the last name "Lust". That couldn't have been an easy name to grow up with, either.

 

[jayembee]

This might be an odd thing to be pleased about, but...

Twice in the past week, I've gotten one of those extortion emails with the sender using one of my older email addresses, and claiming that they've hacked into my computer, gained control of my web-cam and taken video of me pleasuring myself while watching internet porn.

My God! I haven't gotten one of these in ages! It's nice to see that there are still morons hoping beyond hope to get in touch with someone who's actually guilty of doing what the extortioner claims to have caught them at, and are afraid of being outed to friends and family, so the extortioner can get some insanely specific amount of money (like $1482) in Bitcoin.

I thought they were a dying breed.

 

[Clinton McClure]

Spending the week in Baton Rouge. This is the 24th week and 111th day I’ve traveled for work this year. I seriously miss the days when I only had a single client to tend to and didn’t have to travel. Oh well, trying to make to most of it.

It’s been a long day, however, Toby Keith knows how to make my night better:

And we like to drink our beer from a Mason jar…