Minor things that bother you

[mgk920]

It might just be my personal tastes and age at play here, but I find tumping hard core 'gangsta' (c)rap in neighboring cars to be royally annoying.

Mike

[Scott5114]

Here's a stupid Vegas (and I guess Phoenix) thing: when you have trouble finding a gas pump you can use because the keypads keep having one of the digits in your ZIP and/or PIN melted and inoperable.

[GaryV]

I approach a construction zone and the sign says LEFT LANE CLOSED AHEAD. So I move to the right lane. Guess which lane is closed. (Hint: It ain't the left.)

Same construction zone, there's a 25 MPH lowered speed. Not 200 yards farther on, the regular 40 MPH sign hasn't been covered up. (This one doesn't bother me much, but I suppose it would have been a big bother if I got a ticket for speeding that I'd have to fight.)

[hbelkins]

I approach a construction zone and the sign says LEFT LANE CLOSED AHEAD. So I move to the right lane. Guess which lane is closed. (Hint: It ain't the left.)

I've long been a pre-emptive merger, but that's the scenario that the zipper merge is supposed to solve. it's not supposed to matter which lane is closed if you take turns at the merge point.

[GaryV]

That EZPass gets a red squiggle underline, yet shunpike is just fine.

[hotdogPi]

That EZPass gets a red squiggle underline, yet shunpike is just fine.

It's officially E-ZPass. That said, on my end, E-ZPass gets a red squiggle, but EZPass doesn't.

[hotdogPi]

The images in this article are ridiculous. Who wants Ritz Stialiure Crakens, Ritz Sirunds Dopaners, Ritz Taripry Euscicess, Ritz Expclaess, or even Rizz or Riizz?

https://discover.texasrealfood.com/food-shelf-life/ritz-crackers

[webny99]

• Google Maps' description of "fuel-efficient routes". It reads "Fuel-efficient routes usually have fewer hills, less traffic, and constant speeds. That's just entirely and veritably untrue. In practice, the vast majority of fuel-efficient routes suggested by Google are the exact opposite of those things: they have more hills, more traffic, and less consistent speeds, and make up for all of that with shorter mileage. Google's description assumes the routes are equal distance but that's hardly ever the case, especially when  a freeway route and non-freeway route are comparable time-wise.

[Big John]

The images in this article are ridiculous. Who wants Ritz Stialiure Crakens, Ritz Sirunds Dopaners, Ritz Taripry Euscicess, Ritz Expclaess, or even Rizz or Riizz?

https://discover.texasrealfood.com/food-shelf-life/ritz-crackers

Or more broadly, most A.I. art.

[J N Winkler]

The text in that blurb also feels AI-generated.

[formulanone]

The images in this article are ridiculous. Who wants Ritz Stialiure Crakens, Ritz Sirunds Dopaners, Ritz Taripry Euscicess, Ritz Expclaess, or even Rizz or Riizz?

https://discover.texasrealfood.com/food-shelf-life/ritz-crackers

Or more broadly, most A.I. art.

Alternate take: using your phone's camera while wandering a grocery store.

Does everything have to be the result of internally-processed grass and feed residue from an intact male taurus?

[Plutonic Panda]

• Google Maps' description of "fuel-efficient routes". It reads "Fuel-efficient routes usually have fewer hills, less traffic, and constant speeds. That's just entirely and veritably untrue. In practice, the vast majority of fuel-efficient routes suggested by Google are the exact opposite of those things: they have more hills, more traffic, and less consistent speeds, and make up for all of that with shorter mileage. Google's description assumes the routes are equal distance but that's hardly ever the case, especially when  a freeway route and non-freeway route are comparable time-wise.

Google maps in general just seems to be fucked up. It always seems like there's something really good and cool that needs to be "upgraded" When they're really wasn't that much wrong to begin with. Those developers get paid a good amount of money. It shouldn't be much for them to be able to provide security patches for two different Google maps versions to allow people to use the older version.

[bm7]

Isn't driving on hilly roads sometimes actually more efficient? If you don't have to use the accelerator at all going down a hill, it makes up for the extra gas used uphill.

[Max Rockatansky]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals."   

Conversely I do find it interesting that people seem to think a page with about 16,000 followers is somehow going to attract a flood humanity to their local roadway.  I'm not sure how that is a logical calculus?

[jeffandnicole]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals."   

Conversely I do find it interesting that people seem to think a page with about 16,000 followers is somehow going to attract a flood humanity to their local roadway.  I'm not sure how that is a logical calculus?

Also: people on this forum who think a thread should be shut down for some mini issue...or just a line of thought they don't care for.

[Max Rockatansky]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals."   

Conversely I do find it interesting that people seem to think a page with about 16,000 followers is somehow going to attract a flood humanity to their local roadway.  I'm not sure how that is a logical calculus?

Also: people on this forum who think a thread should be shut down for some mini issue...or just a line of thought they don't care for.

I'm still confused why there was some calling for a closure of the Target Check Acceptance thread because we began talking about weird facets of retail culture. 

[formulanone]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals."   

Conversely I do find it interesting that people seem to think a page with about 16,000 followers is somehow going to attract a flood humanity to their local roadway.  I'm not sure how that is a logical calculus?

Curious who thought what post was "unnecessary"?

Maybe we don't need "Hey, this is Joe Smith's Driveway and it's okay to do U-turns and photograph the bushes" posts, but just about any public route is probably interesting to someone.

Oh, it's been like three days since someone's bitched about Breezewood or posted a photo of the Mackinac Bridge.

[Max Rockatansky]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals."   

Conversely I do find it interesting that people seem to think a page with about 16,000 followers is somehow going to attract a flood humanity to their local roadway.  I'm not sure how that is a logical calculus?

Curious who thought what post was "unnecessary"?

Maybe we don't need "Hey, this is Joe Smith's Driveway and it's okay to do U-turns and photograph the bushes" posts, but just about any public route is probably interesting to someone.

Oh, it's been like three days since someone's bitched about Breezewood or posted a photo of the Mackinac Bridge.

Just randos who don't even follow our page regarding Road 612 in Madera County, California.  Basically a 7.6 mile nothing winding dirt mountain road that doesn't have much significance beyond it being a fun drive.  I didn't see a soul when I was on it the other day. 

They basically took exception and commented that I was bringing the masses to their front door.  Irony is that it was a local (my wife) who suggested it to me in the first place.  Seems they missed when I posted about the much larger and more interesting nearby Road 800 earlier this year.

[Scott5114]

Just randos who don't even follow our page regarding Road 612 in Madera County, California.  Basically a 7.6 mile nothing winding dirt mountain road that doesn't have much significance beyond it being a fun drive.

I am kind of surprised that they don't realize that, when deciding on a fun recreational destination, the market for "winding dirt mountain road" is probably composed entirely of you. Even the majority of roadgeeks will probably pass on it unless it has a state highway shield on it.

[webny99]

Isn't driving on hilly roads sometimes actually more efficient? If you don't have to use the accelerator at all going down a hill, it makes up for the extra gas used uphill.

Possibly, although downhill is more fuel-efficient and uphill less, so it should pretty much cancel out in the end. But the mechanics of fuel-efficiency don't absolve Google here: the issue is that their description of fuel-efficient routes is simply inaccurate. They may have correctly identified a route as more fuel-efficient, but it's misleading to suggest that route will have fewer hills when that's rarely the case in practice. And ditto for "less traffic" and "constant speeds".

[Max Rockatansky]

Just randos who don't even follow our page regarding Road 612 in Madera County, California.  Basically a 7.6 mile nothing winding dirt mountain road that doesn't have much significance beyond it being a fun drive.

I am kind of surprised that they don't realize that, when deciding on a fun recreational destination, the market for "winding dirt mountain road" is probably composed entirely of you. Even the majority of roadgeeks will probably pass on it unless it has a state highway shield on it.

The only people who really tend to care about stuff like Road 612 are those who like mountain roads to begin with.  Almost the entirety of those types of people already are in rural mountain communities to begin with. 

At the end of the day, we are a Roadgeek page and post like topics.  Those posts are definitely expected of us and is a demographic we can't neglect.  What I tend to post is usually some sort of historic photo stock, but nonetheless Roadgeek oriented.  I'm sure seeing a page post freeway photos one day and then your favorite local road the next comes off as threatening to the occasion rural goober.

With that in mind I try to stick with the philosophy of "if I think it is interesting, then I'm going to post about it."  It doesn't always work out that way but when people try to gate keep it tends to suggest I'm onto something.

[GaryV]

Isn't driving on hilly roads sometimes actually more efficient? If you don't have to use the accelerator at all going down a hill, it makes up for the extra gas used uphill.

I've got some stock in a perpetual motion machine manufacturer that I've been waiting to offload. Any interest?

[hbelkins]

Just randos who don't even follow our page regarding Road 612 in Madera County, California.  Basically a 7.6 mile nothing winding dirt mountain road that doesn't have much significance beyond it being a fun drive.

I am kind of surprised that they don't realize that, when deciding on a fun recreational destination, the market for "winding dirt mountain road" is probably composed entirely of you. Even the majority of roadgeeks will probably pass on it unless it has a state highway shield on it.

The only people who really tend to care about stuff like Road 612 are those who like mountain roads to begin with.  Almost the entirety of those types of people already are in rural mountain communities to begin with. 

At the end of the day, we are a Roadgeek page and post like topics.  Those posts are definitely expected of us and is a demographic we can't neglect.  What I tend to post is usually some sort of historic photo stock, but nonetheless Roadgeek oriented.  I'm sure seeing a page post freeway photos one day and then your favorite local road the next comes off as threatening to the occasion rural goober.

With that in mind I try to stick with the philosophy of "if I think it is interesting, then I'm going to post about it."  It doesn't always work out that way but when people try to gate keep it tends to suggest I'm onto something.

This sounds worthy of posting in the "emails to the webmaster" thread.

[Max Rockatansky]

Just randos who don't even follow our page regarding Road 612 in Madera County, California.  Basically a 7.6 mile nothing winding dirt mountain road that doesn't have much significance beyond it being a fun drive.

I am kind of surprised that they don't realize that, when deciding on a fun recreational destination, the market for "winding dirt mountain road" is probably composed entirely of you. Even the majority of roadgeeks will probably pass on it unless it has a state highway shield on it.

The only people who really tend to care about stuff like Road 612 are those who like mountain roads to begin with.  Almost the entirety of those types of people already are in rural mountain communities to begin with. 

At the end of the day, we are a Roadgeek page and post like topics.  Those posts are definitely expected of us and is a demographic we can't neglect.  What I tend to post is usually some sort of historic photo stock, but nonetheless Roadgeek oriented.  I'm sure seeing a page post freeway photos one day and then your favorite local road the next comes off as threatening to the occasion rural goober.

With that in mind I try to stick with the philosophy of "if I think it is interesting, then I'm going to post about it."  It doesn't always work out that way but when people try to gate keep it tends to suggest I'm onto something.

This sounds worthy of posting in the "emails to the webmaster" thread.

Possibly, thing is that I forgot that thread existed until you mentioned it.

[gonealookin]

People who comment on our Facebook demanding a post about specific minor public roads be taken down.  The standard reason is typically of a variation of "we don't like non-locals." 

I used to co-admin on a forum discussing hot springs and we would get complaints about how members' posts were drawing too many people to certain springs.  The ethic in that community is that you can discuss the "unknown" springs but not give specific information about their location.  Many hot springs are listed in published hot springs guides, though.  The best complaint I got was that somebody posted some very nice photos of a VERY well known hot spring, and another user demanded that we take those photos down because they made that particular spot look too nice.  Sharing photos is a big part of the reason the forum exists.

That issue has been made mostly irrelevant by the proliferation of Facebook pages and TikTok videos which pretty much "advertise" hot springs, quite to their detriment.