American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn’t be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandrasekhar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It’s quite beautiful to see.
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
Yep. This person gets it. The auto and gasoline industry basically ruined the environment and our culture so a few select people can make a few $$$.
I reeeeal American I just don’t want my tax dollars going to fund other people’s firefighting costs. Can we privatize that??
Also a right to bear arms and own weapons is sacrosanct and very important to my people. Why can’t our people please finally be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Their kids need some too. Very important.
Idiots.
Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that
So interesting to me that Americans think being dependent on a car is “freedom”. Individual freedom should be the freedom to get to where you need to go with viable options to walk, bike, train, bus, tram, or drive.
I think you’re focusing too much on the “individual freedom” bit and missing the “at the cost or inconvenience of others” bit
We rarely have other viable options. Long before most of us were born, the U.S. built an infrastructure centered around cars, sidelining other forms of transportation.
In America, owning a car is often the key to freedom of movement. So it’s no surprise people equate cars with freedom. Getting people to see how car dependency actually limits our freedom is like trying to wake someone from the Matrix.
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
edit: oh wait! footware and sports drink companies. OK, well, you’ve made some compelling points here. And we use small handed children to in America to make these shoes and sports drinks, right?
Yeah, you can’t drive like a dangerous asshole on your way to park your full size truck based SUV across two handicap spots if you don’t have a car in the first place!
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
Hey, I represent that implication!
Muh freedum to die in a raging, alcohol sparked ball of fire, metal, bone, and blood.
This was brilliant.
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
It came from the heart
How can one be too stupid to use a roundabout?
I’ve seen
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Turning left without going around the center
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Stopping to allow someone into the roundabout intended as a kind gesture and
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My mom insisted that in her car I use the left turn signal if my roundabout exit is to the left of my entrance
I think using your left signal if you’re leaving on the third exit of a four exit roundabout is actually standard practice in some countries. I saw people do this a lot in Norway for instance.
As a European it’s very cute listening to you guys working out how to signal on a roundabout.
But to give some help… Signal as if you’re going to continue round until you pass the exit before the one you need at which point signal for the exit.
Wait ’til you hear our cute ideas about public wellbeing!! They sell themselves!
Yeah your mom is right. An entrance signal is useful on smaller roundabouts, but is always less important than the exit right signal
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You can pick up a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, then be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
sane
sane
🎶Insane in the taxbrain🎶
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I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
Imo it would only work here if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
They could also first have both prices and slowly make the “before taxes” less noticeable over years
I thought that was JC Penney’s
E: it was
Oregon has entered the chat
neither can the Oregonian mind
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
Mr bean, is that you?
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
do germans move their cars like the flintstones or how do they manage to have fuel/battery for 74hrs?
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
Two words: German Efficiency
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
Paint It Black starts playing in french
There’s a million things Americans can’t comprehend. Not licking billionaire’s boots, for one
They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.
Roundabouts are even better.
I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.
There’s quite a few roundabouts near us that have traffic lights that only function during busy traffic. Usually only installed on the busy sides.
Sounds like you need a 2-laner and drivers who understand how they work
It’s already a 2/2.5 lane roundabout, but if you’re on entrance 3, while 1 and 2 are busy as hell, you may not have a window to safely go through.
This roundabout is at a major intersection just off of a freeway and between like 3 different shopping centers, so it’s awful to go through at rush hour. I’ve gotten good at eyeballing windows that scare the piss out of my wife in that roundabout.
I didn’t realize there was a difference
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
In Taiwan, we do roundabouts all wrong. We add traffic lights in the middle of them.
Then what are they for?
No clue. It’s awful. Sometimes they add these roundabouts under bridges and it causes traffic jams because people end up blocking the road. So to combat this, every intersection has a traffic cop.
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
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If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?
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If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?
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Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska
What a neat bug.
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Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.
Parliament.
big ben, parliament!
I navigate by Walmarts
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
I think those are called beltways
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
Hey look kids! It’s Big Ben!
Parliament!
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
