Some numpty did not stop at a stop sign, on a busy intersection.
Almost had a nice tatertat with him.
Not sure why this youtobe video is cropped below and to the right, as you can see my speed (in km/h) being displayed on the dashcam.
I know whatās wrong, you are driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Yeah, the line in the video about him cursing you - Iāve never understood why people do that. I had the same thing a couple of days ago. Some tosser went straight through a give way sign causing me to brake and swerve. I leaned on my horn to let him know he was doing something wrong and he gave me the middle finger and tooted back.
People, if you make a mistake, acknowledge it and apologise. Donāt get pissy at the person who had to take evasive action 
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hehehe 
and we say YOU do drive on the wrong side of the road 
Agreed. And learn from your mistake.
Only after I reviewed the video did I realize that the numpty almost caused a colliision with two cars - my car and another car coming from the opposite direction.
So glad that there was not an accident. Four weeks ago there was an accident (guy jumping the same stop street) at this same crossing. Unfortunately I was using the other car sans dash cam.
The reason why some countries have you drive on the left side of the road goes back to jousting. Most people are right-handed, so the lance was held with the right arm and you fought your opponent to your right.
Iāve always seen jousting with the opponents on the ridersā left sides, both live and in movies. (A Knightās Tale comes to mind.)
Bonus trivia: Jousting is the state sport of Maryland!
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True, a lance go across your body and you hold your shield on the left. Same with swordsmen, you keep your opponent on your left side, and your most trusted friend on your right.
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Also Lacrosse. Iāve seen jousting, although we may have crossed in to Pennsylvania to do so. Interestingly, the modern form is pretty DIY (the lances/poles are mostly hand-crafted from stuff from plumbing supplies) and itās done in a form that is quite a bit safer (riders try to hit target rings, not other people). There was some complicated time factor stuff where I think a run needed to be within a certain time frame to count so you canāt just have your horse slowly walk along the route and leisurely pick off the rings.
Itās the event where my dog got to ride a horse.
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The jousting Iāve watched is the full metal jousting stuff, big horses steel armor and pine poles. Points for hitting, breaking the lance, and unhorsing, five runs each bout I think.
Oh, yeah: thereās been some resurgence of that, too, I guess. The events I saw were open to a pretty wide age range.
I grew up in a reasonably āhorse-friendlyā area, but it was never my thing. Several of $Wifeās friends are into horses, and itās interesting seeing the pretty diverse ways it can go especially when people are adults. Thereās some that just own horses and use them for light riding, the aforementioned jousting, more aggressive racing (but more maneuver/handling based than the stereotypical fast oval-track racing), etc. Itās surprisingly diverse.
Why are you driving in the bike lane? Your car is a little thing, and it fits in the car lane just fine. Really.
Oh, whatās this? Your really expensive and really loud sound system just suddenly died? No warning at all?
Thatās a shame. I have no idea what could have caused that. And all of the rest of the electronics in your car are dead, too? Oh, deary me. Itās almost as if it was hit by a focused EMP burst. Hmmm? Oh, electromagnetic pulse. Sorry, I really have no idea what that is. Hope it works out for you. Bye.
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If you have the schematics & parts list for a portable EMP device, can you share? Iād love to build one. Just for research purposes, of course.
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Oh, how Iād love to mount a HERF gun.
Heard a guy on the radio once say he could build one from common auto-parts store stuffā¦ but when I did an Internet search the HERF guns I could find are larger-than-microwave-oven size.
Not exactly concealable in my RAV4.
Donāt they generally kill the entire car as the engine management system gets fried?
Yeah, it would take out everything and any electronics in whatever happened to be behind the car.
Just to be clear, this is definitely wishful thinking because thereās other kinds of electronics that could also be in the car. Getting an obnoxious sound system to be quiet wouldnāt be satisfying if one of the people inside got quiet because it also took out their pacemaker.
In a similar vein, thereās parabolic microphones that can lock in on a specific point to detect sound. An opposite and extreme version of that would be the sound cannons that were in the movie The Incredible Hulk. It would be lovely to drown out over-loud sound systems with the chorus from Neil Diamondās āSweet Carolineā on a repeating loop, but youād burst their eardrums.
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Iāve often imagined an RF cannon that would broadcast at such amplitudes that the receiving speakers would resonate YOUR choice of music.
You know the stories of peopleās dental work picking up radio stations? Yeah, like that, but with an aiming device.
Drown out the gansta rap with bagpipes.
Ahā¦ āPride of Scotlandā
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Iāve heard stories of CB radios with boosted amps being picked up by AM/FM radios in nearby cars, but because CB channels are on specific AM frequencies, Iāve always assumed they were fish stories.