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What I don't get it why so many old people drive like 10-15 miles below the speed limit, right in front of me.
You're OLD, you don't have much time LEFT, don't you want to get as much done in the time you have left as possible? Don't you want to get to your destination before you DIE?
When I'm old, I'm gonna be driving like 100 MPH everywhere.
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I know it's foolish to try to bring logic & reason into a rant thread, but... whattheheck!
I don't know at what age this starts getting implemented & I don't recall if this was something from the State of California or from AARP, but I learned from my Dad that senior citizens are encouraged to slow down & use wider buffer spacing between vehicles to account for slower reaction times. Of course, they are also advised to stay to the right as slower traffic is encouraged to keep to the right. Some may opt not to be in the far right lane as impatient drivers taking advantage of the extra buffer space make the far right lane one which constantly tests their reactions and frazzles their nerves.
It's thought that getting where they're going intact is preferable to trying to get there fast & getting into an accident which may kill them, injure them, or cause an unwanted expense that they can ill-afford.
Also... WTH!?! Getting stuck behind an old person??? Lrn2drv n00b! 
Yeah, leave it to an old person to take up for the driving habits of old people.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
I forget who said it, George Carlin maybe, and I'm too lazy to look it up:
There're two types of drivers: idiots and morons. Idiots are anyone going faster than you; morons are anyone going slower.
So very, very true.
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What I don't get it why so many old people drive like 10-15 miles below the speed limit, right in front of me.
You're OLD, you don't have much time LEFT, don't you want to get as much done in the time you have left as possible? Don't you want to get to your destination before you DIE?
When I'm old, I'm gonna be driving like 100 MPH everywhere.
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When you are 20, shaving off a couple of minutes seems like a great idea. When you're 80, not so much. When you're that old I think you stop thinking in terms of minutes altogether. "Will I get there today?" "Yes." "OK, that's all I need to know."
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Flea is old. Given his reg date, he might get his own cartoon one day.
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Yeah, leave it to an old person to take up for the driving habits of old people.
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*swipes TJ's walker*
Get off mah lawn!!!!
*waves cane*
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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I just love rants like this, when it's so blatantly obvious that PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!
Yup, it's that simple, really.
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my favorite "stupid" quote is from George Carlin: "Think of how stupid your average person is. Then realise that half the people are more stupid than that!"
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Get off mah lawn!!!!
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RANT!!
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RANTS IN YOUR PANTS!
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*grabs shotgun*
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
*ducks for cover*
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Overlord of Dream Team and Nightmare Squad
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Get off mah lawn!!!!
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*pirate swipes shotgun and does a barrel roll to avoid retribution*
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*cuts the rope to the chandelier which falls on vyze knocking the shotgun across the floor*
Wait wait wait.... they drive slow to compensate for "slow reaction times"?
My common sense is tingling...
Isn't that the exact same reason why people aren't allowed to drive DRUNK?
So then maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive old either.
Wow, I think I single-handely killed the rant thread.
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logic: the anti-rant.
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That's why we have our own resident practitioner of thread necromancy.
Mister Frog.
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True! I was "dead" on Justice for the last 4 years.
but.... I got better. 
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I'm assuming it's because of lactose intolerance?
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True! I was "dead" on Justice for the last 4 years.
but.... I got better.
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That's because Mister Frog only rezzes the good stuff.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Overlord of Dream Team and Nightmare Squad
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Wait wait wait.... they drive slow to compensate for "slow reaction times"?
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That is correct.
Also because of not-so-good vision, not so suple movements, and a plethora of other small ilnesses they suffer from.
They are OLD after all.
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My common sense is tingling...
Isn't that the exact same reason why people aren't allowed to drive DRUNK?
So then maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive old either.
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Yes, and no.
They are slower, yes, but not quite as slow as a Drunk person, plus they have all their faculties in order and ...*wait for it* ... they are DRIVING SLOWER!!
That means they are still relatively safe when they drive .. well, save for when they have a brainfart and goes down a one way street in the opposite direction with their left indicator permanently on.
But that's another issue completely, young women do that too.
Sorta like how many young men giftwrap tree's with their cars.
Also, in some countries, people over a certain age, have to reapply for their drivers licence at set intervals.
Like in Denmark, eventually my great-great-grandma had to retest once every half year when she reached 100 years. It annoyed her, because when she started driving, she didn't have to take a driving test, and suddenly she had to.
Must be most annoying, I'm sure.
What I don't get it why so many old people drive like 10-15 miles below the speed limit, right in front of me.
You're OLD, you don't have much time LEFT, don't you want to get as much done in the time you have left as possible? Don't you want to get to your destination before you DIE?
When I'm old, I'm gonna be driving like 100 MPH everywhere.