Smoking is bad for your health, yet people still smoke. Driving is bad for your health, yet people still drive. Over the last half century we’ve worked hard to help people quit smoking and deter people from engaging in the behaviour in the first place. It’s time we help people
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Scripturient: The Cancer Diaries, Part 19
I was fortunate in being able to get my tooth fixed within 48 hours of losing a portion of it. I hadn’t expected to be able to see my dentist for at least a week, maybe even more, but there was an opening, a cancellation, and I grabbed it. I
Continue readingScripturient: Idiot lights: aka fog lights
Have you noticed how many people drive with their idiot lights on all the time? These are supposed to be “fog” lights, but idiots drive with them day and night, good and bad weather. Hence the name: idiot lights.* Not that they’re illegal (they should be…): the Ontario Highway Traffic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Distracted Driving – New Drivers
A survey of Ontario high school students reveals more than one-third of all licensed drivers in Grades 10 to 12 admit to having texted while driving. That percentage increases to 46 per cent of licensed students in Grade 12. Approximately 108,000 adolescent drivers surveyed said they have texted while driving at least once in the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Your Crotch Can Kill!
No one expects a flying crotch attack, nor should they. This is an ad by the Government of Alberta in attempt to be ‘hip’ and ‘edgy’ and appeal to the young shite-for-brains motorists who somehow think that driving is compatible with using a cell phone. It is isn’t. So don’t
Continue readingThings Are Good: San Francisco Fluctuates Parking Prices, Reduces Wasteful Driving
Car culture in North America has led to massive subsidies for car drivers that go pretty much unnoticed. One of these subsidies is in the way of “free parking,” which is anything but free. Cars occupy space during the day that could be used for productive means or green space,
Continue readingPostArctica: Friedlander’s Car Windows
A good friend of mine recently showed me some photographs she took from an airplane window and the window frame was included in many shots and it, of course, reminded me of Lee Friedlander’s Hassleblad pictures from inside his car. This last one is particularly devastating. A sculpted cactus, in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Driving the Zipper Merge
Common sense and human behaviour are two concepts that, when seen in concert, should be looked upon with some skepticism. Take for instance the idea that when there is road construction and one lane is closed you should get over to the other lane ASAP as to not cause
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: How do you deal with bad drivers?
The first thing you have to realize is that I’ve only been subject to the idiocy of my fellow car-jockeys since my arrival on Earth. (Car-jockey is the right term, isn’t it?) Anyway. Back on my home world, we über-chimps … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Don’t Be *THAT* Person On the Freeway
We see you, and just look what you did! Filed under: Education Tagged: Driving, Helpful Hints, Traffic
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