The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[dragoner]

Yea man. I’m so very glad I wasn’t there for the actual quake.

I was in the tenderloin at the time, my crappy apt on o'farrell.

 

[trappedslider]

so, i'm scrolling looking for something to watch and goring through I'm realizing some shows are just hard to watch because things have moved on from medicine (ER) to tech (various shows)

 

[Thomas Shey]

After the earth quakes in SanFran the highway system was such a mess. They put a stop sign at the end of the on ramp to the interstate just before the Bay Bridge.

There I was in rush hour traffic, at a stop sign, in a struggling rental, trying to figure out how I was going to merge into bumper to bumper traffic moving at 60+ mph, from a dead stop.

That's sometimes a problem in some of the older parts of Los Angeles when they did sharply angled ramps before quite understanding how the freeway would go; you're trying to merge at 10 MPH (because any faster and you'd fly off into space) and people have long since forgotten why it used to be called the "slow" lane...

 

[Thomas Shey]

so, i'm scrolling looking for something to watch and goring through I'm realizing some shows are just hard to watch because things have moved on from medicine (ER) to tech (various shows)

I've commented that this is sometimes a challenge for anyone wanting to remake some (sometimes quite decent) 50's SF movies; it'd be hard to make the plots work with modern technology.

 

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[trappedslider]

That's sometimes a problem in some of the older parts of Los Angeles when they did sharply angled ramps before quite understanding how the freeway would go; you're trying to merge at 10 MPH (because any faster and you'd fly off into space) and people have long since forgotten why it used to be called the "slow" lane...

Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.

 

[prabe]

Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.

 

[J.Quondam]

Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.

I re-watched that a few months ago for the first time in probably 25 years, and the melting little shoe still tears me up. He really is a top-tier villain.

 

[dragoner]

LA freeways are crazy with so many exits one never gets off on because they are just random neighborhoods filled with houses. Then some places it is faster to take the off ramp, and then cut over, and get back on the freeway from surface streets because the interchange locks up. I want to say hollywood to 10 on la cienega though I'd have to look on a map to be sure.

 

[trappedslider]

we should really bring back the "Tire salon" phrase