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Rules: In our modern society today--which ones are routinely broken
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I mean, it is the YMCA… I don’t know what things are like where you live, but here it is not a celebration of humanity by any means.
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In 5.1 miles this morning 4 people in 4 different occurances, blatantly ran red lights at 45+ mph. Haven't seen a Local LEO in days. No wonder.
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sigh...facility is literally top notch, members, not so much....we could get into the disregard where the signs say to please wipe down after use.....but actually I found that no different when I was at Bally and LA Fitness...
Sometimes it's pretty obvious when their high beams are on. I can easily tell the difference between:
1)A vehicle with halogen bulbs
2)A vehicle that should have halogen bulbs, but has LEDs instead
3)A vehicle that came from the factory with LEDs
I'm guilty of that on the highways.
Public gyms usually bring out the dregs in people… no matter how nice and high end.
IMO there is a small but growing group of people in modern society that takes great pleasure in "breaking the rules", even going out-of-their-way to do so. Then they like to brag about it to a receptive audience. Much of this behavior has been created and fostered within anti-social media. Case in point... TikTok challenges.
This X1,000! Our local LEO’s are cracking down on young folks doing burnouts in parking lots late at night. Last weekend 3 of their cars were confiscated and are set to be auctioned off in the near future. The local news reported the estimated value of the 3 cars confiscated was over 100,000 dollars and many people were arrested.
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True. Very true. Until someone gets hurt or killed. Then those same people will want to file a lawsuit and get massive compensation. And you'll see them on TV saying "If only there were someone there to enforce the rules and make sure people don't break them, my child wouldn't have been hurt/killed."
In chem class, the rule to wear safety glasses was commonly ignored.
One day, a heated test tube belched something nasty onto the neck of a kid who was wearing his safety glasses.
The teacher, annoyed with the commotion, accident paperwork, hit on reputation...whatever, blew his cool.
The kid said, "What's your problem? I'm wearing my safety glasses".
The teacher bit his head off for being wise.
One day, a heated test tube belched something nasty onto the neck of a kid who was wearing his safety glasses.
The teacher, annoyed with the commotion, accident paperwork, hit on reputation...whatever, blew his cool.
The kid said, "What's your problem? I'm wearing my safety glasses".
The teacher bit his head off for being wise.
Nowadays, this is from any mix of:
1) entitled people who don't care about anyone else
2) distracted drivers who don't even realize their highbeams are on
2) dumb people who genuinely don't know what the blue light on their dashboard means
I'm trying to figure this out...
So what is the penalty for breaking the rules?
Really, people have been trained that its OK to break the rules -do you what you want - there are no consequences. If there are consequences then blame it on someone else.
Hence it will continue to get worse.
Really, people have been trained that its OK to break the rules -do you what you want - there are no consequences. If there are consequences then blame it on someone else.
Hence it will continue to get worse.
OK, ok, I'll risk being banned.
The rolling coal thing had at its core young guys' obstinate reaction to anti-pollution measures. Only young bucks fitted their trucks with 12" stack pipes and switchable smoke fluid.
When that fell out of favor (cost and law enforcement come to mind) burning the additional headlights became a substitute.
When a certain former executive had to make court appearances, darn near every work truck kept their brights on for 'solidarity'
So, insisting on polluting or exercising ones right to was melded with expression of support of a man American and European banks no longer loan money to.
I've personally asked a dozen guys in trucks what it was all about -I approached them innocently telling them their brights were on- and that's what they told me.
You don't think so many people got sloppy with their brights by coincidence, do you?
It's time to dump this foolish tribalism people.
The rolling coal thing had at its core young guys' obstinate reaction to anti-pollution measures. Only young bucks fitted their trucks with 12" stack pipes and switchable smoke fluid.
When that fell out of favor (cost and law enforcement come to mind) burning the additional headlights became a substitute.
When a certain former executive had to make court appearances, darn near every work truck kept their brights on for 'solidarity'
So, insisting on polluting or exercising ones right to was melded with expression of support of a man American and European banks no longer loan money to.
I've personally asked a dozen guys in trucks what it was all about -I approached them innocently telling them their brights were on- and that's what they told me.
You don't think so many people got sloppy with their brights by coincidence, do you?
It's time to dump this foolish tribalism people.
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I had no idea people were so upset about Lee Iacocca testifying before Congress...
Read "The Reckoning" (great car book) for a small glimpse of Lee.
I've never heard of any of that before. Rolling coal, sure, but not the highbeams thing.
Great book. The Deuce came out looking worse than Lee, but what a mess…….
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