I've had it with these stupid f'n red turn arrows

[zteknik]

Gonna have to disagree. it's Save the Whales, not Wales. We doing a benefit for Tom Jones or some water bound mammal? 7.5 / 10

FWIW: The rant may be good enough for UPSTATE NY folks. Needs more FUCKIN SHIT HEAD DOUCHE BAGS to geta 8.5 - 10 from me.

[HoneyBadger]

9/10. Referencing Ebola or Ebola-sauce would have earned a 10/10. I feel your pain, brother. I think the only time it's a good idea is when the intersection is on the peak of a hill and you can't see if traffic is coming from the other side. A normal person wouldn't turn if they don't deem it to be safe, but there are a lot of idiots out there and I don't want to be one of their victims.

[Irving]

Seriously though, when was it decided that we were so f'n stupid as a society that we are incapable of deciding when it is safe to turn left?

Long before it was decided that we didn't know how to merge onto the highway properly. I NEVER stop for the traffic lights on highway on-ramps. I stop for the traffic, but not the lights.

I've been noticing that when my area of town was built, it must have been 20 times smaller, because every side street is a single lane, that grows a turn lane at each intersection. The issue is that it grows a left turn only lane, and the combo lane is straight/right. So instead of combining all the traffic that actually can't proceed past a red light (straight and left turning), I always get stuck behind the 1 in 20 drivers actually trying to go straight, when I could have made a right on red 2 minutes before. It's been bugging me in my neighborhood for at least a year now, but I didn't think I could pull off a dedicated rant about it.

On the other hand, having been a liability claims adjuster for several years, I can tell you that there are MANY MANY people who can't manage a left turn without getting hit by oncoming traffic. With that in mind, I still prefer a blinking yellow over a red arrow. Hell, I'm all for more round-a-bouts.

[rbeau30]

...With that in mind, I still prefer a blinking yellow over a red arrow. Hell, I'm all for more round-a-bouts.

Even these frigging cockholsters that live here cannot negotiate a roundabout without killing a bunch of folks.

Not to take away from the OP, but I wish I had a penny for every deer-in-the-headlights look I see when the dumb shits of this state go to a lighted intersection with one way flashing red and the other way flashing yellow. If you do what YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO at this situation you are liable to get killed.

[Irving]

Don't get me started on flashing red/yellow and completely out lights. There aren't that many traffic rules specifically concerning traffic lights, how difficult can it be?

[rbeau30]

Don't get me started on flashing red/yellow and completely out lights. There aren't that many traffic rules specifically concerning traffic lights, how difficult can it be?

Well nowadays, Operating a 2.5 thousand pound hunk of steel/aluminum/plastic/glass which could pass for a deadly weapon is seemingly SECONDARY to whatever else is going on in people's lives nowadays. (Facebook, texting, eating, attending to children, makeup, sex.)

[brutal]

8/10

Needs more f-bombs and some cowbell.

[spongejosh]

It was a 10/10 for this line alone.

For a society so saturated with eco-friendly carbon footprint save the wales global warming Prius-driving lead-free greenhouse gas GMO methane cow fart catching herp derp faggotry, just WHY in the F do we still put up with this retardedness??

Also I agree 100%. Working nights means get to drive around south Denver and the DTC at night when there are 3 cars on the road. These pointless nanny lights are gonna get me arrested one of these days.

[TheGrey]

An excellent and timely rant! I agree fully. What's even worse I when you get three cars of slack-jawed mouth-breathers in front of you on a green left-turn arrow, and by the time it registers with them to TURN ALREADY, the light goes yellow after the first car. My vocabulary gets a real workout, thanks to those lights.

[brutal]

An excellent and timely rant! I agree fully. What's even worse I when you get three cars of slack-jawed mouth-breathers workin overtime on their damn iPhones, in front of you on a green left-turn arrow, and by the time it registers with them to TURN ALREADY, the light goes yellow after the first car. My vocabulary gets a real workout, thanks to those lights.

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