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[–] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In bed eating

these are the people I have to share a highway with

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    These are the people I have to share a bus with*

    (While you are dependent on others' visual processing to be safe on a highway, you're dependent on others' hygiene to be safe in public transit).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The smell of the Tube in the summer makes me grateful not to live in London, even people without BO issues smell down there. One can easily mistake it for hell since it's underground, very hot, very smelly, filled to the brim with the damned, and there's nothing to do but reflect on your sins.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    XD Haven't laughed that hard at a tubmlr screenshot in a while, thank you.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 month ago (20 children)

    You stupid AMERICANS and your HIGHWAYS. Good thing no other country uses highways! Now I can feel morally superior for being born elsewhere!

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  • [+] -19 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    I can tell you’re American by the way you completely misunderstood what you read because of your assumption that someone was jealous of highways

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Dutch, actually, but do enlighten me to the deeper philosophical implications of this Tumblr thread, o wise non-American.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

    You saw the word highway and assumed someone was jealous of highways. That’s it. It’s not that deep. Maybe it is if you’re American 🤷

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    Where on earth did you get "jealousy" from? It was clearly a poke at the implication of the original image where a poster was implying that mentioning highways was something that only Americans would do. As if no one else has them. Reads like sarcasm to me.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

    Nobody implied that “no one else has them” because that would be dumb. You added that all by yourself. The implication is that Americans are consumed by car culture. It’s very common. Do they not have Americans where you’re from?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Answer the question, and try not to be snippy about it. Where did "jealous" come from? Bringing up highways is useful even in a non-American context, because it's one of the more common experiences where people are crammed together in close proximity, and the split-second safety of everyone depends on things like depth perception.

    Tachyon-log implied that was something only an American would do, which leads us to the next part:

    "As if no one else has them," is not literal. I apologize if English isn't your first language.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

    Why else would you misunderstand what you read so badly? If you really do feel sorry about English not being my first language, read the original post again

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You wanna point out what you're talking about? Walk me through it.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    I am not able to tell you why you misunderstood the post. All I can do (and have done) is explain it to you. Good luck!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    No need to tell me why I misunderstood. Just tell me your line of thinking and how you got there. That's how humans communicate ideas. Pretty easy.

    Look, I get that you're trolling, it's just... Kind of half-assed.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You’re the one trolling. I can’t be any clearer; you’re insisting on being dumb. You sure you’re not american?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    It's really simple. You picked up from a top level comment that someone was claiming that people were jealous of highways, which doesn't match anything in the original comment. Myself and a couple of others have been asking for clarification of what you mean, and you've been avoiding it, claiming that you've already explained it. Now I'm just kind of fascinated by how much you're struggling to avoid explaining your thoughts so that other people can understand them. No one else has insulted you.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It’s really simple. You saw the word “highway” and thought you read that they claimed only Americans have highways. The joke has been explained to you multiple times, but you’re choosing to pretend it didn’t happen. Why would anyone have to insult me when you’re the one making a fool of yourself? Should I be insulting you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I didn't claim anything of the sort. Go back and read, and pay attention to user names. The OP showed a person making an analogy about sharing highways, and another person (tachyon-log) made a comment that only Americans would bring up highways in an example of social and safety standards.

    No one has seriously claimed that no one else has highways. Dalekcaan (this sub-thread's OP) then made fun of tachyon-log by pretending to be them, and taking their argument to an absurdist extreme, the joke being that everyone else DOES have highways, and using them as a nationalistic wedge is ridiculous. I'm starting to think you took that comment literally, and not as a satire on the whole "only americans think of highways" bit? It's fine if you did, but you've been strangely combative about all this, when it's pretty easy to just talk calmly and clear up misconceptions.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Forgot to mention the gummies from half-an-hour earlier.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    eating cold ravioli

    these are the people I have to share a highway with

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    random memory unlocked: In highschool I overheard someone chewing another guy out for almost running him over on the way in. Other dude, obviously stoned out of his gourd, managed "bro sorry I thought you was a bush" before collapsing into a giggle fit

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago
    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Curious about the driving without glasses thing. Here in Brazil that would count as admitting an additional violation. How does that work in other countries?

    Here your driving license states if you need glasses to drive and you must wear them if it says so. If it doesn't say anything and you're caught driving with glasses, that's also a violation.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In the USA, but this is actually mostly state by state, if one's license says they must wear glasses, then they must do so, or risk penalties of some sort. (It mostly doesn't come up in the media.) If the license doesn't say anything, then anything goes. Some borderline glasses wearers take the vision test, which is a super simplified test (If one cannot pass the driving vision test then the test taker has horrible vision.), without glasses just to not have to delay driving due to misplaced glasses.

    To go further, in the USA, the Drivers License tests establish a very low floor. Obtaining it does not mean one is good at driving, but NOT obtaining it within 3 tries means that person SHOULD NOT be driving. They are a danger to all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Here in California I have a little marker saying I need glasses, literally told the DMV worker to just fail my ass and give me the mark cause I can't see my monitor while sitting at my desk. Anyways they still had me attempt the damned thing without the portable ballistic glass I call eye water, couldn't see shit on the second row.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Hoo

    I'm gnot a gnoblin, I'm gnot a gnome! I'm a gcat!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Alternative explanation: weed-filled ravioli.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    This is why driving while stoned counts as a DUI, kids.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Now, get up and walk around outside. Notice how objects become larger the closer you get to them! You have the power to make things change size!!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    That cat just ate a gnome.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The screenshot of a screenshot was a shitpost.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is this the "brainrot" people keep talking about?

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Europeans don't have highways.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    "I fear sharing the road with idiots." = carbrained, American, can't separate dangerous activities forced on them by societal structures from normal life

    "I fear sharing society with idiots." = Enlightened, European, definitely not genocidal rhetoric

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