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#1 MadHQ

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 02:23 AM

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 05:48 AM

Actually, my country would have a big need of those things.

No really, like 1000 people die here a year due to road accidents IIRC.

Also, the hole ones - are IMO absolutely necessary. At least those.

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 06:31 AM

What's the point? People will be freaked for a bit, and then realise they aren't real and then they'll just go over. Then when they see a real kid they'll drive over it just as happily.

It'd be even worse if they made speed bump art with cops - they'd drive faster. And then bang the car into reverse just to make sure.

Here's a better solution: FLATTEN THE FUCKERS BACK DOWN TO BE LIKE THE REST OF THE ROAD. They are ruinous to car suspension and they hamper drivers driving at the speed limit of the area just as badly as those exceeding it. Speed limit: 30mph - can't get above 10 because of the fucking bumps. How is that right? And those that are three mounds in the road with gaps in between are even worse. Little cars like mine have to bang the anchors on and still get their suspensions bowed outwards, while big cars can just straddle them and go as fast as they want.

Romanul: Simplest answer for your country is to teach people how to drive better. :thumbsupsmiley:

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 07:08 AM

You know what the most effective means of speed control is? Parked cars. Everybody's careful because nobody wants to hit someone else's car because it'll cost them a king's ransom to repair.

A couple of years ago some jackass complained to the council about people speeding down his road, which is the main road out of my village, so consequently they put in 15 speed bumps, which neatly extended either side of the entrance to the old folk's home. In the very next issue of the council magazine there was a letter from an ambulance driver saying, essentially "Whose fucking stupid idea was this?" So in response, the council ignored it and left the speed bumps there for the next three years. In the next issue of the magazine somebody wrote in with a diagram of how best to approach the speed bumps, citing 35mph as the optimum speed to hit them. Everybody tried it and found he was right. The vast majority of residents of Chinnor now drive faster over the speed bumps than they did before.
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Posted 09 September 2010 - 04:33 PM

Having a projection of a small child is a very stupid idea. To start with, some people are just going to speed up, but let's ignore that point for a second and move onto the majority of the population.

People seeing this thing for the first couple of times aren't just going to slow down. They're going to slam the anchors on, and have their tail end bashed in.

People who have seen, and are used to it aren't going to slow down one bit, and will eventually end up ploughing through a real kid, thinking it's another stupid projection.

Romanul: Simplest answer for your country is to teach people how to drive better. :thumbsupsmiley:.

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 05:08 PM

You know what the most effective means of speed control is? Parked cars. Everybody's careful because nobody wants to hit someone else's car because it'll cost them a king's ransom to repair.

God, I hate when people double-park. Especially when they don't mount the kerb. And that's not because I drive over the speed limit (I don't, of course. :p I'm a cop, fgs), it's because I just hate the fact that you end up hoping to God you can fit through the gap when some fuckwit on the opposite side of the road, usually in a Ford Focus or bigger car, is trying to muscle his ass through the gap too, and never will he ever yield for you.

People seeing this thing for the first couple of times aren't just going to slow down. They're going to slam the anchors on, and have their tail end bashed in.

People who have seen, and are used to it aren't going to slow down one bit, and will eventually end up ploughing through a real kid, thinking it's another stupid projection.

Exactly!

Romanul: Simplest answer for your country is to teach people how to drive better. :p.

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Posted 09 September 2010 - 05:25 PM

If you ask me, I reckon Canadians should stop trying to think and stick to what they're good at. Being webcam whores and Americas little bitch.
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Posted 10 September 2010 - 12:27 AM

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Posted 10 September 2010 - 05:12 PM

Kiwiland has bleeding billboards. Far better way of giving a shock-value message without getting in the way. And you get to watch kids bleed instead of just not be visible again.

Speed bumps are stupid creations anyway, if you want to lower the recommended diving speed down a stretch of road, why not use speed limit signs?

Not that they're not a bit over-zealous with those here, unsigned residential zones (as defined by the distance between street lights - so nick the 110km sign from a lit highway and its "residential") is 50kmph, and 40 around schools. Both recent changes to protect schoolkids. Better idea? Teach the damn kids basic road safety.

Actually I'm seeing a trend here with people suffering because of the stupidity of kids. Better idea? Drug test, IQ test, mandatory sterilisation. And if despite fitter parents any kids end up unable to discern that running into the path of high-velocity large-mass objects is a dumb life choice, death. By car. Travelling at a sensible speed.

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Posted 10 September 2010 - 05:35 PM

Better idea? Drug test, IQ test, mandatory sterilisation. And if despite fitter parents any kids end up unable to discern that running into the path of high-velocity large-mass objects is a dumb life choice, death. By car. Travelling at a sensible speed.


No. As normal, I have a much better, and cheaper idea. Stop with this child safety bullshit and let nature run its course. Give evolution its power back. The kids who choose to play with the traffic don't grow up to have kids of their own. Problem solved.

As an added bonus, our funeral directors will end up with a decent profit turnover for a few years, until parents realise they should be teaching their brats that they will lose in a fight against two tonnes of metal.
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Posted 11 September 2010 - 05:27 PM

The mandatory sterilisation solution solves issues besides traffic flow though. And an "evolution" defence for child-slaughter would just leave me running around ripping unborn foetuses from wombs, trampling babies skulls and smashing prepubescent faces against walls willy-nilly.
Survival of the fittest doesn't quite work in a cage fight between a combat trained fit adult and a newly-born brat. Ergo I still think selective culling would be a more fit solution to trim the fat of society without eradicating it altogether. Give me free reign to park on preschoolers and I'd just make a point of pushing them into my path.

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Posted 12 September 2010 - 10:49 AM

The mandatory sterilisation solution solves issues besides traffic flow though. And an "evolution" defence for child-slaughter would just leave me running around ripping unborn foetuses from wombs, trampling babies skulls and smashing prepubescent faces against walls willy-nilly.

As macabre and disturbing as those images are on a number of levels, damned if it wouldn't be fun to watch.

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Posted 12 September 2010 - 03:44 PM

Once its deemed legal, I'll start saving you seats

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Posted 12 September 2010 - 06:02 PM

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Posted 12 September 2010 - 07:02 PM

({IRS}Athos - you have spent far too long on that signature. Take, for instance, mine. You made a spelling mistake. Also, when were you gone?)

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Posted 12 September 2010 - 11:54 PM

Five minutes ago? :)

Did I make a spelling mistake? I dunno. I think it adds to my mystique as a stuck-up prick with a massive stick, or rather, a broadsword, etc. etc.
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Posted 13 September 2010 - 08:55 AM

You misspelt 'possessing' in your Aristotle quote, windbag. :)
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Posted 13 September 2010 - 08:31 PM

Bugrit! Milennium hand and shrimp!

Also, curse you for introducing me to Looking for Group.

And, to fulfill my on-topic quota in this post, I discussed this with my grandma, who shook her head sadly. Granted, she does that about a lot of changes...
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