Amazing series with rubbish pilots

[bigdaddy]

The aliens took their parents to the most beautiful view on Earth - it was a 4-way stop. They loved it because, to them, it showed Earthlings at their best - taking turns and waiting for others. Sappy, I know, but I liked it. Now, when I'm stuck at one, I remember that, and it helps.

Ironic because that's why I hate them. No one ever stops and gives turns, it's like game of chicken. I'm on a bike and everyone is just ignoring them.

In the northeast USA Stop signs mean slow down slightly, and yield signs mean speed up and cut the traffic off.

I lived in one city that didn't have any four way stops, it was awesome.

 

[MacLeod]

A roundabout is safer and more efficent than a 4-way stop.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

A roundabout is safer and more efficent than a 4-way stop.

Not 2 lane roundabouts where people in the inner lane try to turn out without signaling.

 

[tharpdevenport]

A roundabout is safer and more efficent than a 4-way stop.

LOL, what? We have one here in Panama City. No, it's not. People speed through, race to cut off people who just got in it even though the sign says people in there have the right of way, people don't use turn signals so you don't even know if they are entering to go around or just turning right. You end up getting stuck behind some old fart who's afraid to go and mean while behind said fart are half a dozen or more cars waiting while the other drivers take advantage of it.

One jackass pulled out in front of me when I was nearly on him and I nearly hit him. He flipped me off. There's car debris in the circle indicating collisions, though I've yet to witness one. The city workers donit care enough to full clean things up around here; they're too bush playing with their phones and getting paid for it.

 

[MadeIndescribable]

LOL, what? We have one here in Panama City. No, it's not. People speed through, race to cut off people who just got in it even though the sign says people in there have the right of way, people don't use turn signals so you don't even know if they are entering to go around or just turning right. You end up getting stuck behind some old fart who's afraid to go and mean while behind said fart are half a dozen or more cars waiting while the other drivers take advantage of it.

One jackass pulled out in front of me when I was nearly on him and I nearly hit him. He flipped me off. There's car debris in the circle indicating collisions, though I've yet to witness one. The city workers donit care enough to full clean things up around here; they're too bush playing with their phones and getting paid for it.

That just sounds like the roads are a lot more dangerous full stop!

 

[Jax]

TNG pilot was pretty poor.

 

[bigdaddy]

Not 2 lane roundabouts where people in the inner lane try to turn out without signaling.

I'm from Massachusetts, I'm the expert when it comes to these things.

A round about is a useless piece of shit that makes you drive like 3 mph because it's so damn tiny.

A rotary is a two lane thing that is all insane and everyone speeds through.

Massachusetts is so great we have rotaries with lights, and even a rotary where the traffic in the rotary doesn't have the right of way for some stupid fucking reason.

And if you are ever in Brighton NY (My god save your soul) there is even a... thing.... that you drove on the opposite side of the road for about 1000 feet.

 

[John Clark]

With roundabouts, it depends what you're used to. There's one in Swindon I've used on occasion that people seem to complain about, but I found it fine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

 

[FPAlpha]

Person of Interest

A show about a genius level computer specialist who builds the first true AI for the US government to be used to prevent major terrorist attacks with the drawback that the AI also spots minor crimes which are ignored because they don't threaten the US in general. He builds a team to help him close these cases and prevent these crimes from happening.

Starts of as a mission of the week type show but slowly and surely expands ever more when the characters are developed and we get to know them only to really explode when there is a major game changer at about the middle of the show (mid season 3 of a 5 season run).

It's a brilliant hard SciFi show with awesome characters that you can really care about and a story that only gets better as the show progresses.

 

[John Clark]

I think the first two episodes of Person of Interest I saw were at the midpoint of season 1 (We were on vacation at the time) and I thought it would be interesting enough to watch. Like you say though, it grew and I began to enjoy it even more.

When I got back from vacation, it turned out that our local channel had picked it up so I was able to start from the beginning.

 

[MacLeod]

I'm from Massachusetts, I'm the expert when it comes to these things.

A round about is a useless piece of shit that makes you drive like 3 mph because it's so damn tiny.

A rotary is a two lane thing that is all insane and everyone speeds through.

Massachusetts is so great we have rotaries with lights, and even a rotary where the traffic in the rotary doesn't have the right of way for some stupid fucking reason.

And if you are ever in Brighton NY (My god save your soul) there is even a... thing.... that you drove on the opposite side of the road for about 1000 feet.

I guess it's what you are used to, in Europe Roundabouts are very common. So we use them all the times, in N. America they are less common so people aren't as used to them.

But Mythbusters did a test and from memory Roundabouts where 20% more efficent than a 4 way stop.

As for people not being able to use them correctly, falling to yield, indicate etc.. You get that at a 4-way stop people rushing to beat the lights, failing to indicate etc...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I'm from Massachusetts, I'm the expert when it comes to these things.

A round about is a useless piece of shit that makes you drive like 3 mph because it's so damn tiny.

A rotary is a two lane thing that is all insane and everyone speeds through.

Massachusetts is so great we have rotaries with lights, and even a rotary where the traffic in the rotary doesn't have the right of way for some stupid fucking reason.

And if you are ever in Brighton NY (My god save your soul) there is even a... thing.... that you drove on the opposite side of the road for about 1000 feet.

You may be from Massachusetts but obviously you have never driven Fresh Pond Parkway.

Roundabouts and rotaries are two regionally different names for the same thing.

 

[MadeIndescribable]

With roundabouts, it depends what you're used to. There's one in Swindon I've used on occasion that people seem to complain about, but I found it fine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

Isn't that the one also known as the Motherbout?

 

[John Clark]

Isn't that the one also known as the Motherbout?

I've not heard about that (but I'm not a local so perhaps they do). I've just gone through it a few times.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The only place I see four way stop signs is in residential neighborhoods with small amounts of traffic, in which case they are fine, are there actual parts of the country where there are four way stop signs on busy streets?

Anyway an actual traffic light with a left turn signal phase is unquestionably safer than either, in places where there is enough traffic for there to be actual danger.

There's a lot of series I can think of where the pilot was okay, but then there was a string of weak episodes after the pilot before the show actually got any good. Star Treks TNG and DS9, Stargate SG1.

 

[bigdaddy]

The only place I see four way stop signs is in residential neighborhoods with small amounts of traffic, in which case they are fine, are there actual parts of the country where there are four way stop signs on busy streets?

Anyway an actual traffic light with a left turn signal phase is unquestionably safer than either, in places where there is enough traffic for there to be actual danger.

There's a lot of series I can think of where the pilot was okay, but then there was a string of weak episodes after the pilot before the show actually got any good. Star Treks TNG and DS9, Stargate SG1.

My hometown replaced all the 2 way stops with 4 way stops about 20 years ago. It was because the roads are too busy for the other street to go, and not busy enough for a light. Recently they replaced a light with a roundabout.

Roundabouts and rotaries are different in Massachusetts, that was my point.

Also SG-1 had a great pilot, followed up on the movie really well. the next 15-20 episodes were questionable.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Also SG-1 had a great pilot, followed up on the movie really well. the next 15-20 episodes were questionable.

The third episode is basically Code of Honor for Mongolians.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Person of Interest

A show about a genius level computer specialist who builds the first true AI for the US government to be used to prevent major terrorist attacks with the drawback that the AI also spots minor crimes which are ignored because they don't threaten the US in general. He builds a team to help him close these cases and prevent these crimes from happening.

Starts of as a mission of the week type show but slowly and surely expands ever more when the characters are developed and we get to know them only to really explode when there is a major game changer at about the middle of the show (mid season 3 of a 5 season run).

It's a brilliant hard SciFi show with awesome characters that you can really care about and a story that only gets better as the show progresses.

I think POI's pilot was perfect - or at least in the sense of what it needed to be. I would never say the writing was super exceptional - none of the writing in first two seasons really was, but it was what it needed to be or what any good pilot is: the escalator pitch.

Which, to move back on point, is exactly what the Disco pilot wasn't.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Red Dwarf. Even as a big fan of the 1st season, "The End" is just painful. It's a lot of set-up for the premise and only a few middling jokes. The worst mistake I ever made was trying to convert a friend of mine by showing that episode. Now, when I get the chance, I start people with Season IV episodes like "White Hole" & "Meltdown."

 

[MacLeod]

Red Dwarf. Even as a big fan of the 1st season, "The End" is just painful. It's a lot of set-up for the premise and only a few middling jokes. The worst mistake I ever made was trying to convert a friend of mine by showing that episode. Now, when I get the chance, I start people with Season IV episodes like "White Hole" & "Meltdown."

Never mind all that the important question is "Would you like some toast?"