Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[formulanone]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

To prevent improper highway demand, one must make sacrifices to a gigantic monster which lies in the shallow, brackish waters just south-eastwest by north of Autopia. It must be fed a monthly diet of busses, trains, and other light rail to be pacified, lest this kaiju angers to the point of destruction and begins to immolate cities, both #strong and weak. Area leaders contemplate how to pacify this beast...can it also be satisfied with moving walkways, penny farthing bicycles, and scooters? While rumors persist that the terrifying leviathan was once defeated by the local roller derby team in tandem with the Safety Patrol, there are always fears that Gotchazilla will poison our water supply with a mere tincture of chemtrail droppings to render our own legs useless due to spontaneous human combustion.

[Big John]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Dig more tunnels to make, as I call them, low-ways.

[1995hoo]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Higher-numbered highways always need to be south of lower-numbered ones. That way, with the little number on top and the big number on the bottom, there won't be anything "improper."

[formulanone]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Higher-numbered highways always need to be south of lower-numbered ones. That way, with the little number on top and the big number on the bottom, there won't be anything "improper."

West Virginia Shrugged

[kkt]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Setting all speed limits to no higher than 25.

[kurumi]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Setting all speed limits to no higher than 25.

You might be on to something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control

[vdeane]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

[xonhulu]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Say hello to the road.

[Max Rockatansky]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Asking my wife to read the printout and directions while I'm driving.

[kphoger]

8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?

Québec

Yes!  That was my answer too.

8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?

Removal of signed highway numbers was intended to slow the advance of any potential ground invasion from the USA.

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Talk about politics and religion, of course.

[NE2]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Eat beaver nuggets, if you know what I mean ♋♋♋

[1995hoo]

I've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."

[kphoger]

taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life

Autonecrophilic ideation?

[kphoger]

8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?

Variable speed limits eliminate the need for any speed limit-related engineering studies.  They should be expanded, not removed, in order to cut down on government waste.

[I-55]

I've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."

Yeah I had one for today that follows a common phrase that could easily be misconstrued into an NSFW context, but overexplaining it ruins the effect.

[1995hoo]

I've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."

Yeah I had one for today that follows a common phrase that could easily be misconstrued into an NSFW context, but overexplaining it ruins the effect.

Let's just say that if someone did in real life what I was getting at, certain forum members would be extremely offended, while others might applaud, and it would be overall awkward and unpleasant for everyone.

[kphoger]

Let's just say that if someone did in real life what I was getting at, certain forum members would be extremely offended, while others might applaud, and it would be overall awkward and unpleasant for everyone.

Go topless if you want.  I don't care.

[Big John]

Drive 25 in a 55 MPH zone.

[jeffandnicole]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Look at everything not road related.

[Dirt Roads]

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Didst sumbuddy say "road meet"?  Up in Centrul West Virginie, we call it "kyarn".  Iffen eets a big critter (say likens uh momma barr), we'd dresser it out just like it were freshtly shot.  Othernwise, we'd a-pick its offen the road and a-try to cleaner it up uh bit before we'd a-skin it.  Since it'n probbly's cummin offen uh dirt road, we's a-gonna hafta boil it extry longer to pick alluve the dirts and gravels out of it.  I'd then a-pick out the good mete, and a-fix up some brown gravy wif lots uv that dere black pepper and fry all of it awfully hard in this chere cast ahrn skillit in thuh overn; perhappens adden in summore gravy a few times and stirrin' a whole bunch.  Mighty fine eats!

Never didst ever hear of nobuddy spellin' it like "road meet" tho'.

[Scott5114]

8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?

Improper highways.

8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?

Pooing. It's cool.

[formulanone]

July 20:

Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?

National Highway System Treasure