Social War Room Lounge V197: Look at me, I am the captain now.

[Andy Capp]

Driving in Oakland or San Francisco is like that. Bikes in the wrong lane, or in the road or hopping on/off the sidewalk, pedestrians jaywalking without looking, cars doing stupid things because of how all the other stupidity is slowing them down.

I saw some pretty good street justice in SF once.. A person who was illegally jaywalking got hit by a car making an illegal uturn. It was amazing and I was happy when I saw it all unfold. Kind of sadistic, but I have endless compassion and empathy for people until they step outside and start fucking up traffic.

The ones in the cars are the more egregious offenders, IMO. My walk to work is a bee-line down a main street that has a bunch of small side streets coming off it. Pretty much every time I am nearly hit by someone breezing right through the stop sign and into the sidewalk so they can see if there is traffic coming. The other day, a woman was two thirds of the way through the crosswalk before she even looked in my direction. If she had hit me she might have never known it. Fuck selfish motorists. They're shitty all on their own without need to resort to weak excuses like "doing stupid things because of how all the other stupidity is slowing them down".


Edit: Ahem, excuse me. But that's a rant I've been saving for a little while. I feel much better now.

 

[Gregolian]

the Wire is one of those shows where I pick up something new everytime I rewatch it. (seen it about three times now.)

for example this scene:



not sure how I missed it but, this entire scene was a metaphor for that season.

Law enforcement has the same goal in mind, but they are unknowingly, working against each other.

There is a great YouTube channel that breaks down why every season of The Wire matters and another video they did on why it's the greatest show and it highlighted the desk scene as well as the way the showrunners use a lack of music to let the city of Baltimore become a character.

 

[A Lurker]

the Wire is one of those shows where I pick up something new everytime I rewatch it. (seen it about three times now.)

for example this scene:



not sure how I missed it but, this entire scene was a metaphor for that season.

Law enforcement has the same goal in mind, but they are unknowingly, working against each other.

Indeed.

I also love how, by having crime metrics and targets, the completely corrupt the effort to fight crime.

 

[HereticBD]

Season 2 is probably the most important season of the series
IMO

Care to explain?

It's a good season, but it's generally viewed as the black sheep of the series.

 

[Sketch]

The ones in the cars are the more egregious offenders, IMO. My walk to work is a bee-line down a main street that has a bunch of small side streets coming off it. Pretty much every time I am nearly hit by someone breezing right through the stop sign and into the sidewalk so they can see if there is traffic coming. The other day, a woman was two thirds of the way through the crosswalk before she even looked in my direction. If she had hit me she might have never known it. Fuck selfish motorists. They're shitty all on their own without need to resort to weak excuses like "doing stupid things because of how all the other stupidity is slowing them down".


Edit: Ahem, excuse me. But that's a rant I've been saving for a little while. I feel much better now.

Don’t be apologetic those type or motorists are a plague on our cities. In the country they get handled. The city they run wild.

 

[irish_thug]

Season 2 is probably the most important season of the series
IMO

Is that the dead hookers in a shipping container season?

 

[lsa]

Is that the dead hookers in a shipping container season?

oh i love dead hoo... never mind

 

[A Lurker]

There is a great YouTube channel that breaks down why every season of The Wire matters and another video they did on why it's the greatest show and it highlighted the desk scene as well as the way the showrunners use a lack of music to let the city of Baltimore become a character.

Is it this channel?

 

[A Lurker]

Is that the dead hookers in a shipping container season?

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Spoiler

Yes

 

[CubicleGangster]

Care to explain?

It's a good season, but it's generally viewed as the black sheep of the series.

It sets the groundwork for a lot of important story lines later on like the deterioration of the relationship between Avon and Stringer and The Greek who is one of the main players behind the drugs coming into Baltimore
It also moves the scope of the show past the cops and lower class criminals, showing how the drug trade impacts the middle class and starts involving the prison system
It definitely feels like the most boring season during the first watch but it holds up extremely well through re-watches

 

[Jack V Savage]

so you disagree with the perma-Ban of Fawlty?
mind telling us your position on this ?

Of course. It just seems like a simple misreading of the rule, as he absolutely did not call Oeshon a . The fact that they had to dredge up, what, 15-year-old stuff to try to defend it shows that they know that.

 

[skysolo]

@LuchaBear

This has to be fake, right?

 

[CubicleGangster]

Is that the dead hookers in a shipping container season?

Yeah, the season that focuses on the dock workers and the union
It moves the show past the focus on the projects and expands the scope of the show

 

[HereticBD]

Of course. It just seems like a simple misreading of the rule, as he absolutely did not call Oeshon a . The fact that they had to dredge up, what, 15-year-old stuff to try to defend it shows that they know that.

 

[Sketch]

Of course. It just seems like a simple misreading of the rule, as he absolutely did not call Oeshon a . The fact that they had to dredge up, what, 15-year-old stuff to try to defend it shows that they know that.

What a clean record right

 

[Wet Blanket]

I thought this was pretty funny.

Maybe its just me though.

 

[Gregolian]

Is it this channel?

Yup, that's it.

 

[HereticBD]

What a clean record right

Members on their fifth account always have the cleanest of records.

 

[A Lurker]

Yup, that's it.

Bookmarked, Cheers.

 

[Shoemaker]

The ones in the cars are the more egregious offenders, IMO. My walk to work is a bee-line down a main street that has a bunch of small side streets coming off it. Pretty much every time I am nearly hit by someone breezing right through the stop sign and into the sidewalk so they can see if there is traffic coming. The other day, a woman was two thirds of the way through the crosswalk before she even looked in my direction. If she had hit me she might have never known it. Fuck selfish motorists. They're shitty all on their own without need to resort to weak excuses like "doing stupid things because of how all the other stupidity is slowing them down".


Edit: Ahem, excuse me. But that's a rant I've been saving for a little while. I feel much better now.

I've been tapped by a few cars that way. I nearly got run off the road a few months ago by a car that put on it's blinker and started merging right without looking. I was directly next to them. They never even noticed until they were almost completely in my lane. Luckily I pay attention while I drive and there was a right hand turn lane that just opened up that I could jet into.

They're shitty all on their own without need to resort to weak excuses like "doing stupid things because of how all the other stupidity is slowing them down".

I do think it's a cyclical problem mostly rooted in downtown areas being overpopulated during the workday. All of these behaviors come down to people being impatient, and their impatient behavior causes others to lose time and also become impatient. Sure there are idiot drivers who will do these things anyway just like there are idiot pedestrians who will jaywalk regardless. The bigger concern with drivers imo is that they're licensed & also physically shielded, so the responsibility should be on them. However, similar to your story I've seen people run out from behind buildings and directly into crosswalks without looking - stupid all on their own.