[id: 5 watercolor style illustrations of a lion with a green body and yellow head, to imitate a dandelion. one shows just the head of the lion, its face a darker yellow than its mane. the other four illustrations show the lion in various poses, laying down in different ways or in a hunting stance. in these its tail is visible, a white puff with yellow accents. /end id]
Ok, while we are feeling some cross-state love and support of voting efforts, let’s have a little debate: What city has the Worst Drivers?
I nominate Salt Lake City, because everyone drives like God Can’t See You When You’re In A Minivan, and then they brag about the street layout while having such a mess of divided highways that you had to invent THE U-TURN ARROW, SOMETHING NOT EVEN THE MOST GOAT-PATH BASED URBAN AREAS FIND NECESSARY.
OK so to break down the notes on this post So Far:
People Nominating CA, Specifically Los Angeles: No. I say this as a former Californian- Driving in LA Sucks, but not because of the Drivers or Infrastructure. It’s the crowding. 98% of the people on the highway were perfectly normal and reasonably compotent, but the remaining 2% are freaking out for whatever reason. and Honestly? 1 in 50 people having a meltdown sounds like LESS than the normal amount of general mental incoherence going on. 4/10, higher scores are worse.
People Nominating Washington State, Specifically Seattle: Again, No. You’re like Californians that aren’t having claustrophobia. You can be mildly proud of your average driving manners IMHO. Downtown Seattle SUCKS, but not more than the Downtown of any other major US city. 3/10
People Nominating Massachusetts: I have not actually been to Massachusetts, but I’ve heard no less than three folk songs about how terrible your drivers are so you either have genuinely awful drivers or an unusual concentration of folk composers in Massachusetts. 8/10
People Nominating New Jersey: See LA: Mostly sane, but crowded, and in addition, suffering from genuinely awful infrastructure. if U-Turn lights spread, they will appear first in Jersey. 7/10
People Nominating both Florida and Pheonix: Both Places absoultely chock full of people that should have given up thier licenses a decade or three ago, but bigass lanes and urban sprawl for them to (largely) harmlessly drift in. Half Credit 5/10.
Someone Nominating New Orleans: Absolutely Not. The city has some places where Building On Top Of A Swamp That Was Sinking Into The Ocean And Kept Sinking has lead to some truly fascinating infrastructure, but everyone there was chill, obeyed traffic lights and signs, and were generally pleasant to drive with. 0/10
The People Nominating Brisbane Australia and Toronto Canada: I welcome International participation in this entirely petty and silly airing of grievances, but also I have it on really good authority that these are not REMOTELY the worst drivers in your respective countries. You’re thinking of Sydney and Vancouver. 3/10.
The Guy who Nominated Bogata, Columbia: Actually my more internationally travelled friends are backing you the hell up on this, and Bogata is Internationally rated as one of the worst places to drive ever. Your Grievances are legitimate. BUT EVEN BOGATA DOES NOT HAVE FUCKING U-TURN LIGHTS. WHAT THE HELL. 11/10, even without the lights.
People asking whatthe fuck a U-Turn light is and why it’s on a Highway: There are parts of the US that think it’s perfectly reasonable to combine 65mph+ Speed limits with stoplights for some godawful reason. But most of those have, at most, a left turn arrow. NONE OF THEM, EXCEPT SALT LAKE, HAVE SUCH A CONSISTENT PROBLEM OF PEOPLE ENDING UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF A DIVIDED HIGHWAY THAT YOU NEEDED TO DESIGNATE ENTIRE U-TURN LANES.
Friend who’s lived in CA, MA, and OH:
The only laws governing vehicles in MA are Newton’s.
But drivers in Ohio will BACK UP on the interstate, if they’ve missed their exit.
I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie
Ok but the other one is purring so hard
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) - they are still classified as Lesser Cats.
Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.
were you a “mud potion, picking up worms with your bare hands and trying to climb every tree you see” weird kid, a “sadistically playing god with your barbie dolls/action figures/plushes” weird kid, or a “devouring entire novels in a single afternoon and then writing wish fulfilment self insert fanfiction for them before you even knew what fanfiction was” weird kid?
the amount of people replying with ‘all 3′ to this has made me realize it’s more like
Instead of endless wastelands of mowed grass lawns, consider:
True! Unless you can find an economical way to irrigate, more appropriate lawn alternatives in hotter, more arid places might lean more to prairie meadows using local grasses and wildflowers:
Or, they might mean doing classic landscaping, but with rocks and xeriscape plants:
Or having a cactus garden:
There are lots of exciting possibilities once you throw the classic turf lawn out the window!
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