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Went to go pick up dinner. From my direction, you have to make a U turn to get into the parking lot (center divider and no left turn lane opening like normal  ). So, a few months ago, this particular area was ummm "upgraded" where you have the center divider then two left turn lanes and then another divider separating it from the go straight lanes:
|XY|1234
Where | = a concrete divider
1234 = 4 go straight lanes
X = the left / U-turn lane
Y = the left turn lane
I was in the X lane like a good citizen  . This, um... "lady" was in the 1 position and decided that she needed to get into that shopping center and couldn't be bothered to go up the street a bit more and make a legal U-turn cuz she missed getting into the 2 left turn lanes.
There were 2 cars ahead of me in the X lane, they went as normal, but this um... "lady" decided it was her turn and tried to make her U-turn from the 1 lane totally cutting me off and almost causing an accident.
So I start honking at her... She actually flips me off *HARD* . You know, cuz the world revolves around her and the city engineer was a *TOTAL* jerk for inconveniencing her by putting a concrete divider in her way.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'd have to agree with her that the area is a total mess now with all the weird concrete barriers though.
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I'd say that intersection is fairly well designed; it's the lady who's defective. There's a word for people like her, starting with a 'c' and ending with a 't'. It's not a very nice word, of course, but her kind don't deserve anything nicer than being disemboweled with a dull, rusty chainsaw.
Will Rogers never met me.
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LOL. Yup. I thought the same thing. She wasn't very bright either. After doing that, she goes into the parking lot? Had I been a psycho, I could have just followed her into the parking lot and attacked her or vandalized her car or something! Hasn't she ever heard of road rage? A single lady by herself pulling that kind of stuff?
Once when I was younger (and dumber), somebody cut me off in traffic, so I played the ol' "I'm following you now" game with them. The guy got super freaked out, so I stopped LOL. I'm not going to cause an accident or anything.
This lady, I kind of wish she ran her shiny new Mercedes into the light pole and wrecked it, but then my dinner would have gotten cold waiting for the police to come 
On the other hand, my entertainment for the evening would have been watching her trying to explain how her making a left turn from behind a concrete divider was my fault.
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SledgeHammer01 wrote: Once when I was younger (and dumber), somebody cut me off in traffic, so I played the ol' "I'm following you now" game with them.
Those were the days... A guy cut me off on the freeway in a (then) remote part of Southern California ( not yet a fully Socialist country known as the PRC). Since he nearly killed me doing so, and knowing I had a full tank of gas, I pinned the SOB in the left lane for about 100 miles, then at the last offramp before hitting open desert with no more offramps for dozens of miles, I cut right and exited the freeway. I'd probably go to prison for that today, but it was enormously satisfying at the time.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: There's a word for people like her, starting with a 'c' and ending with a 't'.
Yeah, uhm. Here in The Lounge that word is 'sunshine' 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Six lanes? And how many does the opposite side have, and the intersecting road?
SO this junction is probably what, 150 ft by 150, and she didn't have enough space to manoeuvre safely?
Don't ever come to Europe. We have roads so narrow that GRASS grows down the centre of them, and the speed limit is 60 mph! Intersections so small if you are centimetres out you impinge someone else and get honked at.
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The other side has 3 or 4 lanes and the intersecting road has 2 or 3. They did all these upgrades and expansions because this is a street that runs next to a former, rather large marine corp base that has been abandoned. They're now building it out with homes. I wouldn't be surprised if they can fit a couple of thousand.
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Many years ago, in a town in Surrey, England called Haslemere, I was riding my motorcycle and came across a rather determined driver.
Imagine the situation.
F
----- -------------------------
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC->
GWWWWWWWR XVVVVVVV
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F is a Fuel station / Garage / Petrol station.
C is a car, moving Left to Right
X and V are cars, moving Right to Left
W are roadworks
R and G are traffic lights for the roadworks: G is Green, and R is Red
I've shown this as a straight road, but it was curved, so you can't see through the road works
The lights change:
F
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CCCCCCCCCCC
RWWWWWWWG XVVVVVVV
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Unfortunately, the car X wants to turn right into the petrol station:
F
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CCCCCCCCCCC VVVVVVVVVVV
XVVVVVV RWWWWWWWG VVVVVVVV
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She can't turn, because the cars are in the way. The vehicles behind her can't move, because she is in the way.
The cars in her way can't move, because the cars behind her are in their way.
She is not budging. She wants fuel, and she wants it now!
After about ten minutes, someone rang the police.
(Who turned up on the wrong side of the lights and got very cross that nobody would (or indeed could) get out of their way)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So I'm thinking, us UK CodeProject users could agree on a location/time and all go out for a pint, and talk about things?
How does that sound?
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This[^] might be a good place to discuss these topics.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I'll be in the UK 2nd week of April.
If I can get a break and sneak out of meetings, and if we can meet somewhere I can get to, then I'm buying.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm buying.
<_Maxxx_ books last minute flight to UK>
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'll be in the UK 2nd week of April.
If I can get a break and sneak out of meetings, and if we can meet somewhere I can get to, then I'm buying.
So what is the reason we have failed to meet up for about 8 years of your 2-3 trips to Australia a year?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Chris Maunder wrote: then I'm buying.
You do realize that DD and Nagy are both UK residents? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Depending on Chris's definition of the 2nd week, I may still be in Hungariaorszag; we are off on Thursday and back on the 12th.
Otherwise, I'm up for drinking Chris's expenses any place / any time. 
veni bibi saltavi
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If you and DD get together, Chris is going to need to pay excess baggage to get the credit card on the damn plane!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I believe DD has left us to concentrate on his Facebook profile and teasing his son while he* does an astrophysics degree.
* Dave is doing the degree, Tommy is the one being teased about NOT doing a degree.
veni bibi saltavi
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Chris Maunder wrote: if we can meet somewhere I can get to, then I'm buying
With all the booze related posts in the lounge that's probably an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Although they're not exactly Anonymous... More Proud Alcoholics, is there a group for that? 
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Loads of 'em.
Any pub, any night.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds like a plan.
We've got a pub in Bournemouth with 10 real ales and a real cider...
(It's got to be worth a try, right?)
Anna ( @annajayne)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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I've been getting my head into Xamarin this weekend, and wow!
It's freaking awesome!
I've always been torn on Xamarin, because I believe there's a real value in being able to write code natively, using the native programming language/framework etc for that platform, and have viewed as Xamarin kind of a cop-out developer wise. I thought that using .net to develop for Andriod and iOS showed an unwillingness to learn.
But after playing with Xamarin and Xamarin Forms for a few days, I am f***b**ing sold! Being able to write one codebase targeting Windows Phone, iOS and Android is just incredible!
Batman...er I mean Xamarin![^]
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Looks like someone has a lot of money to waste.
Take my advice, download Visual Studio 2015[^] (Community edition is free), learn C++[^] (free), write cross-platform applications in C++[^] (for free!).
Quote: Being able to write one codebase targeting Windows Phone, iOS and Android is just incredible!
And better than this is, being able to compile them for free! Xamarin doesn't support free compilation, you would have to get a license to compile the source code for Android and iOS devices.
Once you're done writing the applications for free, buy a drink for everyone. Do remember to buy one for OriginalGriff! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
I prefer tea, ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quote: Looks like someone has a lot of money to waste.
Nope!
I have a Xamarin Indie subscription for iOS and Andriod ($50USD, about £30GBP per month).
I am basically writing a Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone app inside Visual Studio 2013, and am debugging everything inside Visual Studio using the Windows Phone emulator to test.
As far as I can tell, you can basically develop a Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone for free, it's when you want to target the other platforms that it starts to cost money.
I have a Mac Mini, which cost me £400.
So I develop for Windows Phone with Xamarin Forms in Visual Studio, and when I am happy, push that code over to my Mac.
Then I use Xamarin Studio on my cheapo Mac to push the same code to the Android and iOS emulators on that mac, and it works, which is insanely cool!
I am the definition of shoestring app development.
I would love to go for pints with you guys though, we should totally make that happen!
modified 21-Mar-15 19:16pm.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Looks like someone has a lot of money to waste.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: learn C++[^] (free), write cross-platform applications in C++[^] (for free!)
Learning C++ and getting to the point where you can build cross-platform apps with confidence takes a lot of time and time equals money, therefore doing what you suggest may cost you a lot in the long run. Especially if it means you can't serve that customer because you were to busy learning C++ 
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