@xobzoo The ones that drive faster are idiots and the ones that drive slower are morons. The roads are filled with idiots and morons! I wish for just one day, they’d all just stay home and leave an empty road for me!!
/giphy idiots and morons
@brainmist@Kyser_Soze@xobzoo That open stretch of road with vehicles in the ditches? I drove it. I-81 through Virginia just at the end of a major snowfall. There were even six snowplows upside down in the ditches over a stretch of a bit over 150 miles. I got to my destination in DC with no problems. There was almost nobody else in motion for rather a lot of it.
Black ice is bad… but broken bones heal. If it drops well below zero, there’s a windchill, and you have to be outside for any length? That’s a killer. And same if your power goes out and you can’t heat your home.
I will say, one weird benefit of COVID is it forced a whole lot of businesses, particularly universities, to figure the fuck out of virtual work. And now there’s no excuse for sending people to walk a mile in the dark to a 6 am class in subzero weather.
“The darkness”? How does that even make the list? Isn’t Mediocre in Texas? You have less darkness, and meanwhile Texas can certainly attest that an extreme cold snap is lethal.
@brainmist Texas still has the most obstinately independent and recalcitrant electricity grid monitoring and allegedly regulating system in the nation. It is as reliable as a politician’s promises, for a lot of the same reasons. It appears to work most of the time, but in reality it only really works for the people who make money off of it. But that itself is so very Texan.
Ice is bad but what is worse than that is people who don’t know how to drive their tanks in snow and ice and are on the road. In the deep south, where we just got a very light brushing of snow, that would mean almost everyone. I grew up in the snowbelt and have driven in blizzards, ice… fill in the blank, but of course that doesn’t matter when the other people don’t understand cars don’t come equipped with ice skates, skis or chains that deploy as needed.
@omahajack@werehatrack I thought it was a reference to shivering, but that shouldn’t be year-’round for Texas, should it? (I’m thinking I probably misunderstood the original comment.)
@kittykat9180@yakkoTDI I remember riding my bike to high school in the snow. Down the hill with the traffic light at the bottom was dicy sometimes. Once my bike skidded, I fell on my side with my bike, continued sliding down the hill and narrowly missed having a car run over my head (missed me completely fortunately). Stuck to the sidewalk on that hill in the future.
The other drivers on the road.
@xobzoo Ah, yes. Play the victim card.
I only say that because you stole my answer.
@xobzoo In Florida, that’s true of every season. The memes say the gators are what will kill you, but it’s actually the drivers.
@xobzoo The ones that drive faster are idiots and the ones that drive slower are morons. The roads are filled with idiots and morons! I wish for just one day, they’d all just stay home and leave an empty road for me!!
/giphy idiots and morons
@Weboh @xobzoo
Not the lovebugs?
@Kyser_Soze @xobzoo In every apocalypse show/ movie, there’s that stretch of open highway with abandoned cars strewing the shoulders.
And I always think, aaaahhhhhhhhhh.
@brainmist @Kyser_Soze @xobzoo That open stretch of road with vehicles in the ditches? I drove it. I-81 through Virginia just at the end of a major snowfall. There were even six snowplows upside down in the ditches over a stretch of a bit over 150 miles. I got to my destination in DC with no problems. There was almost nobody else in motion for rather a lot of it.
The part between the beginning and the end.
@katbyter yep. All of it!
Gassy foods when bundled under a blanket after a meal of gassy foods.
Black ice is bad… but broken bones heal. If it drops well below zero, there’s a windchill, and you have to be outside for any length? That’s a killer. And same if your power goes out and you can’t heat your home.
I will say, one weird benefit of COVID is it forced a whole lot of businesses, particularly universities, to figure the fuck out of virtual work. And now there’s no excuse for sending people to walk a mile in the dark to a 6 am class in subzero weather.
“The darkness”? How does that even make the list? Isn’t Mediocre in Texas? You have less darkness, and meanwhile Texas can certainly attest that an extreme cold snap is lethal.
@brainmist Texas still has the most obstinately independent and recalcitrant electricity grid monitoring and allegedly regulating system in the nation. It is as reliable as a politician’s promises, for a lot of the same reasons. It appears to work most of the time, but in reality it only really works for the people who make money off of it. But that itself is so very Texan.
@brainmist I’ve been working from home for many years. Since COVID, my whole company works from home, not just me. It’s long overdue!
@brainmist How does darkness make the list? Because today’s deal is a security light and monsters wait in the dark, so you need to buy 3!
@brainmist @werehatrack
Awwww. Now the ERCOT grid’s feelings are all butthurt.
@kostia It saves so much pointless time and expense commuting!
My wife hates the cold, and I’m the one whom gets her ire.
The penguins
@OnionSoup ok but delicious?
@brainmist @OnionSoup they tend to be a bit gamey.
Ice, snow, the cold are all treacherous.
The wind. I’d take -20F and calm over 30F and windy.
Chupacabra.
If I left work got that cold I would have said ice
All the above. Snow, Ice & Darkness. Plus scary people that that All 3!
Ice is bad but what is worse than that is people who don’t know how to drive their tanks in snow and ice and are on the road. In the deep south, where we just got a very light brushing of snow, that would mean almost everyone. I grew up in the snowbelt and have driven in blizzards, ice… fill in the blank, but of course that doesn’t matter when the other people don’t understand cars don’t come equipped with ice skates, skis or chains that deploy as needed.
Some people have Season Affective Disorder, I have Seasonal Tourette’s Syndrome.
@omahajack It’ss always Tourette’s Season here in Texas.
@omahajack @werehatrack …and here in fuckin’ Montana!
@omahajack @werehatrack I thought it was a reference to shivering, but that shouldn’t be year-’round for Texas, should it? (I’m thinking I probably misunderstood the original comment.)
All the widespread discontent.
@macromeh I have got to pitch the tent in the backyard just to take a picture of it with a CD taped to the top.
Running in below freezing temperatures in the morning before work.
@kittykat9180 I remember the days of bicycling to work before I owned a car. The cold days were the worst.
@yakkoTDI,
@kittykat9180 @yakkoTDI I remember riding my bike to high school in the snow. Down the hill with the traffic light at the bottom was dicy sometimes. Once my bike skidded, I fell on my side with my bike, continued sliding down the hill and narrowly missed having a car run over my head (missed me completely fortunately). Stuck to the sidewalk on that hill in the future.