Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars (http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrust,31828/)
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Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 27, 2013, 06:34:52 PM
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars (http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrust,31828/)
Was the grammatical error intentional?
Quote from: Molandfreak on March 27, 2013, 07:05:40 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 27, 2013, 06:34:52 PM
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars (http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrust,31828/)
Was the grammatical error intentional?
It's
The Onion, America's Finest News Source, what do you think? :spin:
Ah yes, my go-to reading material for the commode. :p
So who's going to be the first to complain that the picture of traffic in the article is clearly not from America?
(license plates!)
That's a hell of a street; eight lanes undivided with angle parking. Anyone for Frogger?
Quote from: triplemultiplex on March 27, 2013, 09:32:18 PM
So who's going to be the first to complain that the picture of traffic in the article is clearly not from America?
(license plates!)
Beat me to it...Too many Volvos to be America.
Quote from: formulanone on March 27, 2013, 10:40:45 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on March 27, 2013, 09:32:18 PM
So who's going to be the first to complain that the picture of traffic in the article is clearly not from America?
(license plates!)
Beat me to it...Too many Volvos to be America.
There's also a VAZ-2101 (a Soviet Russian Fiat) moving away from the camera, another dead giveaway that it's not the United States.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 27, 2013, 11:07:56 PM
There's also a VAZ-2101 (a Soviet Russian Fiat) moving away from the camera, another dead giveaway that it's not the United States.
two of them. one in #3 lane, one in #4.
and upon seeing them, my first impression was that they are Ladas. they're not?
as for where this is... my guess is some former Eastern Bloc country. maybe Moscow? or, insufficient Ladas for that?
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 28, 2013, 09:32:23 AM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 27, 2013, 11:07:56 PM
There's also a VAZ-2101 (a Soviet Russian Fiat) moving away from the camera, another dead giveaway that it's not the United States.
two of them. one in #3 lane, one in #4.
and upon seeing them, my first impression was that they are Ladas. they're not?
as for where this is... my guess is some former Eastern Bloc country. maybe Moscow? or, insufficient Ladas for that?
Lada and
Vaz and
Zhiguli are the essentially the same thing - a 1970's-era Fiat (model 124), hardened somewhat for Soviet conditions - though the company AvtoVAZ is still around, though not building those cars any longer.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 28, 2013, 02:16:11 PM
Lada and Vaz and Zhiguli are the essentially the same thing - a 1970's-era Fiat (model 124), hardened somewhat for Soviet conditions - though the company AvtoVAZ is still around, though not building those cars any longer.
and now I know!
I once saw a Lada in Toronto. it could, theoretically, have entered the US. not as a regular-issue import (was never safety-tested for US standards), but just as a visitor.
I'd still like to know where that photo is from. what country uses solid double white stripe to separate opposing directions of traffic? too bad they blanked out all the license plates; that was not very nice of them. if my license plate appeared in a stock photo, I'd probably think to myself "hey cool!"
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 28, 2013, 02:21:20 PM
I'd still like to know where that photo is from. what country uses solid double white stripe to separate opposing directions of traffic? too bad they blanked out all the license plates; that was not very nice of them. if my license plate appeared in a stock photo, I'd probably think to myself "hey cool!"
The photographer, Pavel Losevsky, is from Moscow. He posted one other image to stockfresh.com in the same series, and that one is titled
many cars on big Moscow road (http://stockfresh.com/image/647079/many-cars-on-big-moscow-road), so I'd say it's a safe bet the picture was taken in Moscow. If you'd like to find out the specific intersection, you could email him (adv12@narod.ru) or friend him on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pavel.losevsky (https://www.facebook.com/pavel.losevsky)), but I don't know if he speaks English. How's
that for stalking?
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Quote from: kphoger on March 30, 2013, 10:37:57 AM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 28, 2013, 02:21:20 PM
I'd still like to know where that photo is from. what country uses solid double white stripe to separate opposing directions of traffic? too bad they blanked out all the license plates; that was not very nice of them. if my license plate appeared in a stock photo, I'd probably think to myself "hey cool!"
The photographer, Pavel Losevsky, is from Moscow. He posted one other image to stockfresh.com in the same series, and that one is titled many cars on big Moscow road (http://stockfresh.com/image/647079/many-cars-on-big-moscow-road), so I'd say it's a safe bet the picture was taken in Moscow. If you'd like to find out the specific intersection, you could email him (adv12@narod.ru) or friend him on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pavel.losevsky (https://www.facebook.com/pavel.losevsky)), but I don't know if he speaks English. How's that for stalking?
Good job.
I definitely don't speak Russian, but
narod means (roughly) the people or the (unwashed) masses.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on March 27, 2013, 09:32:18 PM
Ah yes, my go-to reading material for the commode. :p
So who's going to be the first to complain that the picture of traffic in the article is clearly not from America?
(license plates!)
That's a hell of a street; eight lanes undivided with angle parking. Anyone for Frogger?
Count me in. I'll kick your ass.