"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
06/03/2015 at 08:33 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
06/03/2015 at 08:33 • Filed to: None | 5
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Yesterday I went out on the pedal bike for a ride with my friend Butters. Most of the ride is along bike paths but at some points I do ride on the road. I try hard to stick all the way right and not be an asshole cyclist. I do things like stop for red lights. The path also crosses several roads...like here:
As I approached on my pedal bike moving from left to right across the screen, a car approached from the direction the photo was taken, and didn’t even look left at all. He kept creeping forward looking right. I saw this upon my approach to the intersection (we arrived at the same time) and made sure to slow right down so that I would not end up a hood ornament on his Hyundai.
However, I thought I would be mean and enter the intersection while he was creeping forward in it. Therefore when he did finally look left....BOOM! Pedal bike a mere 5 or 6 feet from his drivers window. Hahahaha. Boy, did he look surprised to see me sitting there waiting patiently for him.
Hehehehe.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 08:53 |
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you should’ve been closer.
;)
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thebigbossyboss
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/03/2015 at 08:54 |
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Just stare at him right through the window hahahaha.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 08:54 |
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yep!
Wacko
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 09:11 |
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 09:20 |
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Haha sounds like something i’d do too. I had a guy open his door while I was riding down the street. I managed to stop just quick enough so my tire only scraped a bit again the inside of the door. I thought I was going over. He was just like ‘ummmm sorry’. I wanted to slap him stupider.
facw
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 10:12 |
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I had a guy in a Range Rover nearly crush me against a curve as he pulled over into the space where I was to make a turn. He was very surprised when I knocked on his window and kindly asked him to look where he’s going.
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thebigbossyboss
> OPPOsaurus WRX
06/03/2015 at 10:33 |
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Being door’ed is my greatest fear. I look in the mirrors when I open my door, but I am convinced I am the only one whom does.
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thebigbossyboss
> facw
06/03/2015 at 10:35 |
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Yikes. The bigger the car....lol..
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> thebigbossyboss
06/03/2015 at 11:07 |
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i do, its moe for cars coming but in the city i watch for bikes too. we’re some of the few that do that. I’ve had a few close calls but thats the only time i ended up in the car.
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thebigbossyboss
> OPPOsaurus WRX
06/03/2015 at 11:22 |
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Same. I prefer my car with all 4 doors.
Svend
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 03:14 |
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Hey, that stop sign is in French only! What gives?
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thebigbossyboss
> Svend
06/05/2015 at 06:53 |
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Quebec traffic signs are in french only.
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Svend
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 13:26 |
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I thought the thing with Canada was it was all dual signed.
Are you ‘French’ Quebecian or English speaking Canadian living in Quebec?
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thebigbossyboss
> Svend
06/05/2015 at 14:00 |
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Many things are dual signed, but road signs almost always are not.
Road signs are almost exclusively in one language OR the other. In Ottawa although some road signs will alternate (ie an English sign saying something then a french sign saying the same thing slightly further down) usually that is for “not important stuff” like “drive safe” or “use your seat belt” or something.
All actual road signs related to the actual specifics of the road such as stop, yield, merge or road narrows ahead or whatever are exclusively in English in Ontario which is the province which I live. In Quebec, such signs are exclusively in french.
I live in Ontario across a river from Quebec, so that is why I was there.
I wrote you the piece above and then did some research and realized it was wrong. Many signs are uni lingual, but if it’s an area in any province where a lot of french or sometimes a native language is spoken then those languages are also used.
The only place I know that has many dual signs is Nunavut. They are in Inuktuk and English. I am about to travel to New Brunswick which is Canada’s most bilingual province so I will let you know what the signs say there.
Here is a stop sign in Nunavut.
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Svend
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 14:16 |
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I think the rest of the world is under the impression the whole or most of Canada is dual language signed.
They have dual signs is parts of Wales of Welsh and English which leads to a lot of confusion because some words can’t literally be translated or someone has used Google Translate to translate the sign into Welsh.
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thebigbossyboss
> Svend
06/05/2015 at 14:29 |
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Most of Canada is unilingual english. Most of the rest is unilingual french. Montreal, part of Manitoba, a small part of ontario, and northern new brunswick are pretty mixed. Welsh is a strange strange language.
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Svend
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 14:56 |
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Tell me about it.
I didn’t know Montreal was part of manitoba. I thought it was the capitol of Quebec (I’m learning a lot today).
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thebigbossyboss
> Svend
06/05/2015 at 15:42 |
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Oh. No no. Montreal is in Quebec. There is a piece of manitoba which is not well defined that also has a bilingual population. Manitoba is not anywhere close to Quebec.
But the capital of the Province of Quebec is neither Manitoba nor Montreal, but a place called Quebec City, Quebec.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Ci…
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Svend
> thebigbossyboss
06/05/2015 at 15:54 |
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Lol. I read ‘Montreal, part of Manitoba’, etc... as Montreal being part of Manitoba.
I thought I was learning but I was just misunderstanding.