Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[JayhawkCO]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Nukes.

[kphoger]

Just put a layer of slurry seal on top.

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

[kphoger]

Prison inmates with flame throwers.

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

[The_Ginger]

Prison inmates with flame throwers.

The image had not loaded for me when I posted that. It's a big no if they cause Clearview signs in a negative-contrast environment. FHWA would be on the state for years.

[Big John]

A bulldozer to also rip out the road.

[kurumi]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Sam Kinison weighs in: Stop building roads where the snow is!

[xonhulu]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Readjust earth's axial tilt every 6 months so the northern hemisphere always has summer.

[formulanone]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Sam Kinison weighs in: Stop building roads where the snow is!

I don't think even FritzOwl had 30% of the interstates in Florida, but I suppose Lake Okeechobee was also getting the way of progress.

[kphoger]

Readjust earth's axial tilt every 6 months so the northern hemisphere always has summer.

1.  Some details are lacking.

2.  But this would cause less of a problem for the Southern Hemisphere than one might immediately think considering how few cities there regularly get any snowfall at all as it is.

[TheCatalyst31]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Pave over the snow and ice after every storm.

[kkt]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Heating elements encorporated into the pavement.  They don't have to get really hot, just enough above freezing to melt snow or ice.

[pderocco]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Ice picks. That would create lots of good paying government jobs.

[NE2]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Heating elements encorporated into the pavement.  They don't have to get really hot, just enough above freezing to melt snow or ice.

SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS

[1995hoo]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Heating elements encorporated into the pavement.  They don't have to get really hot, just enough above freezing to melt snow or ice.

kernals12 was advocating for this some years ago. But he claimed to want the roads to get extremely warm.

[Max Rockatansky]

26JAN2026

What snow and ice removal method would you use to fully clear roads?

Heating elements encorporated into the pavement.  They don't have to get really hot, just enough above freezing to melt snow or ice.

kernals12 was advocating for this some years ago. But he claimed to want the roads to get extremely warm.

He also advocated for global warming being a good thing.  I seem to recall a lack of snow on the roads was one of his arguments.

[kphoger]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

[1995hoo]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

(image omitted because it's right above this post)

Justices Alito and Kavanaugh concur in posting that mile marker, though they don't necessarily agree with the rationale for posting it there.

(If you don't get it, look at how the Supreme Court lists opinions. "A" denotes Justice Alito and "BK" denotes Justice Kavanaugh, who has a first initial to distinguish him from "EK" (Justice Kagan) and "AK" (Justice Kennedy, now retired).)

[Max Rockatansky]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

Always Burger King

[kphoger]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

(image omitted because it's right above or below this post, depending on your forum settings)

Justices Alito and Kavanaugh concur in posting that mile marker, though they don't necessarily agree with the rationale for posting it there.

(If you don't get it, look at how the Supreme Court lists opinions. "A" denotes Justice Alito and "BK" denotes Justice Kavanaugh, who has a first initial to distinguish him from "EK" (Justice Kagan) and "AK" (Justice Kennedy, now retired).)

Edited for accuracy.

[kphoger]

Arby's and Burger King, 96 miles ahead

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

[xonhulu]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

That roadgeeks will photograph anything?

[kphoger]

That roadgeeks will photograph anything?

Safely assuming you're not speaking ill of the dead, we'll take that as a compliment!

(That's his photo.)

[Big John]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

Got a 96 on the book report, giving it an A grade.

[1995hoo]

27 JAN 2026

What does this mile marker assembly mean?

(image omitted because it's right above or below this post, depending on your forum settings)

Justices Alito and Kavanaugh concur in posting that mile marker, though they don't necessarily agree with the rationale for posting it there.

(If you don't get it, look at how the Supreme Court lists opinions. "A" denotes Justice Alito and "BK" denotes Justice Kavanaugh, who has a first initial to distinguish him from "EK" (Justice Kagan) and "AK" (Justice Kennedy, now retired).)

Edited for accuracy.

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Ehh. On occasion when people have referred to a thread's "page number," I've pointed out that such references are meaningless because the forum allows you to set a different number of posts per page. I have mine set to the maximum to reduce the number of pages I have to click through to read a thread. From the reaction I got, you would have thought I'd cancelled Christmas. The reaction was along the lines of "the forum default is the norm and you people who depart from it have no business complaining when the rest of us stick to it."

I suppose what I might have said instead was "because it's immediately adjacent to this post and will be posted again in umpteen other quotes that will soon follow."

[kphoger]

I suppose what I might have said instead was "because it's immediately adjacent to this post and will be posted again in umpteen other quotes that will soon follow."

Yes, that would have been better.  Because it would have been 100% accurate.  And that's what matters.