what's wrong with this quote
I only have time for this on the weekends. I'm such a casual blogger. It makes me sick. I have seen the upcoming quote in the buddy info of several people I stalk through instant messenger, and I have a problem with it. Here's the quote:
I have lots of problems with this 'observation.' Even though it's a joke, for some reason when I read it I take great exception to it's points. Perhaps it's because I think the people who use it actually think it's a revalation, when in fact it is simply ignorant.
My problems with the "Wide Right Turns" post:
1. We have such a turning mechanism - It's called All-Wheel Steering. But it costs more money, so no one puts it on 18 wheelers. It's on some consumer models of pickup trucks to make hauling boats and things easier for regular drivers.
2. The left turning mechanism also makes wide turns. But, morons, it's not worth noting because a left turn is a turn across traffic in the U.S., and those turns take a wider path. Trucks have the room to make those turns fairly safely.
3. So your question/assumption about why we have a perfect left turn mechanism and flawed right turn mechanism is idiotic. Stop being an idiot.
4. The right turn warning is there because right turns are too tight for an 18 wheeler, so they swing it out wider. Morons like the author of this quote probably kept hitting 18 wheelers when they turned. Hence the warning.
Really, people, it's not that clever. He/she just took a word from a sign and asked about it's opposite. It's not that hard - "Slow children at play? Why the hell don't we have a warning about fast children. They're more dangerous, darting in and out of traffic. Plus, who cares about the slow ones. Evolution is built on weeding out the slow kids. Our species didn't evolve from fucking monkeys for thousands (millions?) of years just to have Johnny Fatass dilute the gene pool with his thunderthighs."
"Why do 18 wheelers have 'This Vehicle Makes Wide Right Turns' written on them...more importantly, why do they make wide right turns? Does the left turning mechanism work just fine? If so, why can't they make...a RIGHT turning mechanism? We can put a man on the moon, transfer the heart or lung or colon from one person to another, and save more than 11,000,000,000,000 douments of information on some thing the size of a booger, but we can't figure out a way to make a truck can turn right more efficiantly? Wow....I guess we aren't the smartest species on the planet. Dung Beetles can turn right all day long..."
I have lots of problems with this 'observation.' Even though it's a joke, for some reason when I read it I take great exception to it's points. Perhaps it's because I think the people who use it actually think it's a revalation, when in fact it is simply ignorant.
My problems with the "Wide Right Turns" post:
1. We have such a turning mechanism - It's called All-Wheel Steering. But it costs more money, so no one puts it on 18 wheelers. It's on some consumer models of pickup trucks to make hauling boats and things easier for regular drivers.
2. The left turning mechanism also makes wide turns. But, morons, it's not worth noting because a left turn is a turn across traffic in the U.S., and those turns take a wider path. Trucks have the room to make those turns fairly safely.
3. So your question/assumption about why we have a perfect left turn mechanism and flawed right turn mechanism is idiotic. Stop being an idiot.
4. The right turn warning is there because right turns are too tight for an 18 wheeler, so they swing it out wider. Morons like the author of this quote probably kept hitting 18 wheelers when they turned. Hence the warning.
Really, people, it's not that clever. He/she just took a word from a sign and asked about it's opposite. It's not that hard - "Slow children at play? Why the hell don't we have a warning about fast children. They're more dangerous, darting in and out of traffic. Plus, who cares about the slow ones. Evolution is built on weeding out the slow kids. Our species didn't evolve from fucking monkeys for thousands (millions?) of years just to have Johnny Fatass dilute the gene pool with his thunderthighs."
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