"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/26/2020 at 21:19 • Filed to: Two nights of cat pics in a row!
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/26/2020 at 21:19 • Filed to: Two nights of cat pics in a row! | 2
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On the way home from pizza tonight, I was behind a Harley Davidson F-150 with a “Start seeing motorcycles” bumper sticker on the back.
He starting changing lanes and damn near took out a couple riding on a small cruiser. Fortunately, the rider was paying attention, and the truck finally saw him before it got ugly.
The truck driver was appropriately spooked. He stayed right the hell in his lane and slowed down 10mph after that.
Kudos to the cruiser riding couple. They were not running open pipes, and they both had full-faced helmets on. Something I almost never see here in the land of uncorked Harleys and no helmet laws.
Hammer on a shelf for your time.
jminer
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 21:37 |
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Our state removed the helmet law here this summer and already 90% of the folks on cruisers have no helmet on.
It used to freak me out in Il when I’d see un-h elmeted riders but now it just aggravates me here.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 21:38 |
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I can’t really define irony, but I hope the passengers on the Titanic packed theirs.
atfsgeoff
> jminer
09/26/2020 at 21:44 |
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Some people have greater risk tolerance than others, don’t let it get to you.
Statistically we’d all be safer if everyone wore a helmet all the time. Even just walking around.
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shop-teacher
> jminer
09/26/2020 at 21:46 |
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Oh yeah, almost no cruiser riders wear helmets here. I think this is the second or third time I’ve ever seen a couple both wearing full faced helmets on a cruiser.
I had a quartet of dude-bros on Harleys behind me at a stop light a couple months ago. They were making fun of me amongst themselves for wearing a helmet. I just pretended not to hear them. I outpaced them on my scooter by quite a bit, when the light turned green.
Just Jeepin'
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 21:55 |
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My local idiot tonight was causing the swerving, not performing it.
A t dusk I noticed a pickup pulling a large boat, and the trailer had working brake lights but no running lights.
Of course, the pickup was completely obscured by the boat.
So I pulled up alongside him ( and delayed traffic behind me) to warn him.
Did he pull over and fix it? No. Did he put on his hazards? No.
Instead, he drove in the left-hand lane on a busy highway. People would jump into that lane to pass someone in front of them and suddenly swerve back into the right-hand lane once they realized there was a near-invisible boat mere feet in front of them.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 21:56 |
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I believe that would be “hypocrisy.”
Chariotoflove
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 21:58 |
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Hammer reminds me of the scene in E.T. where he hides in the closet of stuffties. He looks great at his new fighting weight.
My wife introduced me to the medical term for riders without helmets. They called them donorcycles.
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shop-teacher
> Just Jeepin'
09/26/2020 at 22:01 |
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Ugh!
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shop-teacher
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
09/26/2020 at 22:04 |
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They're closely related.
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jminer
> atfsgeoff
09/26/2020 at 22:05 |
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It’s more the state government that did it I’m aggravated at . When Coronavirus is rampaging the country they pass a law allowing riding without a helmet while also calling a special session of congress to lower to age of which a person could be charged as an adult to 12. All while refusing to enact a mask mandate or do anything of consequence to help anyone during the pandemic.
I also don’t understand why this is an issue. Seatbelts are mandatory and no one is thinking of changing it and it drives me nuts that motorcycle groups advocate for this instead of things like lane filtering.
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shop-teacher
> Chariotoflove
09/26/2020 at 22:09 |
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That low carb diet really worked! He’s much more active now too.
Lol, donorcycles! Very appropriate. A friend of mine works for the Illinois State Patrol. He told me a story that convinced me to upgrade to a full-faced helmet. The cliff-notes version, is the EMS dispatched him to, “Find his jaw.”
I really like m y full-faced helmet!
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Chariotoflove
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 22:15 |
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And it looks cool too, I think.
I hope more active is a good thing. . I know a lot of house cats that struggle to find activity enough. I’m glad our Scooby thrives as a garage cat. She does eat takeout occasionally, and sometimes brings the leftovers home. But she’s looking fit in her middle age.
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shop-teacher
> Chariotoflove
09/26/2020 at 22:27 |
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It is. He's still a good boy. He just is more playful.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> shop-teacher
09/26/2020 at 23:12 |
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I saw a lady riding a custom paint Harley, full dresser, she has full hi vis riding gear, proper boots, good gloves. And no helmet.
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> jminer
09/26/2020 at 23:15 |
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I’d way rather have lane spitting be legal than having no helmet law.
But Harley guts don’t lane split and think helmets look gay.
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jminer
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
09/26/2020 at 23:22 |
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Yes to both
CB
> jminer
09/26/2020 at 23:26 |
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“ lower to age of which a person could be charged as an adult to 12"
What the crap is this?
Dead_Elvis, Inc.
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
09/26/2020 at 23:52 |
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I always get a good laugh out of squids on repli-racers who are sporting an expensive jacket & matching helmet while riding in shorts. Or their close kin who are decked out in full kit, with a barely-dressed lady friend riding pillion.
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shop-teacher
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
09/26/2020 at 23:59 |
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Derrrrrr ...
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jminer
> CB
09/26/2020 at 23:59 |
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This is the republican platform nowadays. Charge brown middleschoolers as adults so you can lock them away for the rest of their lives for infractions while children would get a talking to for. This also has the side-benefit for them to not allow them to vote and reinforce poverty for another generation all while filling the pockets of private prisons.
I don’t want to live here anymore - which is why I’m leaving Missouri for California in a few weeks.
Living in the US is starting to read like a post-apocalyptic novel and I am terrified it’s getting worse.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
09/27/2020 at 22:09 |
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and mess up her hair even more?
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/27/2020 at 22:29 |
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I may have riding my Suzuki in a t shirt and shorts, with just a helmet and gloves last week.
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Dead_Elvis, Inc.
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
09/27/2020 at 23:28 |
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