I agree, post all of small stories. Longer ones that require me to spend 30 minutes perusing, I'll take the link and excerpts, please. UO isn't the library. If someone's reading archives and a post refers to something in a dead link, if it's that important to look up, go to the microfiche. (do they still use microfiche?)

 

You are old!  Ancient!

I agree, post all of small stories. Longer ones that require me to spend 30 minutes perusing, I'll take the link and excerpts, please. UO isn't the library. If someone's reading archives and a post refers to something in a dead link, if it's that important to look up, go to the microfiche. (do they still use microfiche?)

You are old!  Ancient!

I think they still use microfiche (although not those ties):

 

They still use microfiche at the probate court.

Is that guy in the picture George Clooney's doppleganger or what?

Is that guy in the picture George Clooney's doppleganger or what?

LMAO!!!

Is that guy in the picture George Clooney's doppleganger or what?

and I think the other guy is Michael Gross from Family Ties:

 

Is that guy in the picture George Clooney's doppleganger or what?

and I think the other guy is Michael Gross from Family Ties:

 

 

EVD, I was thinking the same thing!  LOL

I agree, post all of small stories. Longer ones that require me to spend 30 minutes perusing, I'll take the link and excerpts, please. UO isn't the library. If someone's reading archives and a post refers to something in a dead link, if it's that important to look up, go to the microfiche. (do they still use microfiche?)

You are old! Ancient!

I think they still use microfiche (although not those ties):

 

 

No one should derive as much pleasure from archiving as those two seem to be. Alternatively, he could just be having gas pains, in which case, I get the smile. Who hasn't enjoyed releasing an SBD in the stacks to lay silently in wait for some poor sucker who's unknowingly about to have his afternoon of quiet research ruined.

1) When you hold the door for someone and they don't say "thank you."

 

2) "Where is the food AT."  Do not attach prepositions at the end of a sentence. 

 

3) tail-gating

 

4) people talking excessively on a cell phone in the library

 

5) people who let their cell phone ringer/song play an extended period just so everyone on the RTA knows they listen to bad music

 

6) getting on the bus and still having to dig through your purse for the fare

 

Tons more. 

 

 

 

 

I get that too!! ugh. It's so loud too.

But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG?  I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case.  Should we post a portion?  If so, how much?

 

When the link dies, you wont have the full article.  So how will you be able to comment on a partial posting?

 

It's not a perfect world. Life moves on, and you have to do your best to keep up with what you can and let go of the rest. :-)

 

Absolutely hilarious.  Rob is the bomb.

 

^No. Rob is that ever-so-subtly lofted grenade that blows the absolute sh!t out of any sense of high-strung pretense that anyone could hope to have (aka he keeps us grounded and humble). And that's why we love him. :-)

When suburbanites say University Circle is "hard to get to" because it's not right off the freeway.

^Well...it is kinda hard to get to if you're coming from a ways away...I want to agree with the sentiment, and I'm thrilled that the highway never screwed up Cleveland's east side the way it did Cincinnati's, but that doesn't mean it's not a pain to get to University Circle...

 

When i have to drive my moms car home from downtown cleveland because she doesnt want to take the rapid, instead she is having my dad drive from the east side to downtown cleveland to pick her up, and then back to shaker square where they are meeting friends for dinner......d@mn do i love the good ole american mindset and automobiles

There, their and they're.  You're and your.

^Well...it is kinda hard to get to if you're coming from a ways away...I want to agree with the sentiment, and I'm thrilled that the highway never screwed up Cleveland's east side the way it did Cincinnati's, but that doesn't mean it's not a pain to get to University Circle...

 

I still don't understand that.  It's 5-7 minutes off the freeway on either Carnegie or MLK.  So if you're coming from 100 miles away, and 97 miles are on the freeway and the last 3 miles are off the freeway, just pretend it's 103 miles of freeway driving, which would take the same amount of time.  Since when have we not had the ability to drive a few minutes off the freeway?  Would it be easier to get to if it was right off the freeway in Ashtabula?  There are exactly two traffic lights on MLK between the freeway and University Circle, and although there are more on Carnegie they are timed so you hit mostly green lights the whole way.  It's really not a very painful drive.

When i have to drive my moms car home from downtown cleveland because she doesnt want to take the rapid, instead she is having my dad drive from the east side to downtown cleveland to pick her up, and then back to shaker square where they are meeting friends for dinner......d@mn do i love the good ole american mindset and automobiles

 

You're kidding me?  That makes no sense.

Would it be easier to get to if it was right off the freeway in Ashtabula?

 

That's a great answer, I must admit.

 

I think what makes it feel like a pain is that you aren't headed in your intended direction, you know?  If I'm at CWRU and want to head south, I can drive for 5-7 minutes north on MLK, then 3-5 minutes west before I start heading south - just feels like wasted time, you know?  Or 15 minutes east to get to 271; or hit the lights on Chester or Euclid, and spend between 5 and 10 minutes going west.  I guess it's investing time not heading in the direction you're intending that rubs at me, I guess.  I should just take 105th / Quincy / Woodhill / 93rd / Harvard...would cost me ten minutes, but I'd feel better about it!

 

 

 

 

 

When suburbanites say University Circle is "hard to get to" because it's not right off the freeway.

 

Tell them it's hard to get to on purpose. Like their long emergency vehicle response time inducing cul-de-sacs. You're trying to keep the suburban trash/ "undesirables" out.

I think what makes it feel like a pain is that you aren't headed in your intended direction, you know?  If I'm at CWRU and want to head south, I can drive for 5-7 minutes north on MLK, then 3-5 minutes west before I start heading south - just feels like wasted time, you know?  Or 15 minutes east to get to 271; or hit the lights on Chester or Euclid, and spend between 5 and 10 minutes going west.  I guess it's investing time not heading in the direction you're intending that rubs at me, I guess.  I should just take 105th / Quincy / Woodhill / 93rd / Harvard...would cost me ten minutes, but I'd feel better about it!

 

I see what you mean there.  Heading South/Southeast does take a little longer.  You must either travel a ways down Cedar or weave your way to Chagrin to get on 271, or just go back to 77 and then 480.  I guess I am just so used to it that it doesn't bother me.  There are very few places where you can go any direction without going a little out of your ways at some point, even staying on the freeway the entire time.  I can't imagine what a mess it would be if there was always a freeway going in every direction from every location everyone ever wanted to depart from. :)

 

Also, heading west, I've found it's pretty much always faster to take Carnegie and get on at either Prospect or take your chances with the lights down E. 55th to the 490 exit ramp, which I find I now prefer even when I'm heading west since I avoid the Innerbelt Bridge at all costs.

 

Anyways, sorry to steer this off topic, so I'll add another pet peeve of mine:  reality TV shows.

I too despise reality TV shows.  Especially the ones that ruin music. 

 

And it's not just the distance or time that makes the drive to UC "harrowing," as I once called it.  It's the traffic, the lanes, the cameras, the sheer number of things you have to watch out for and deal with.  The truth is people hate driving.  Chester and Carnegie remind them why.

Non-contributing members causing the slowdown to UO!!

Non-contributing members causing the slowdown to UO!!

 

That's what happens when we get publicity!  Welcome to the big time, y'all.

When i have to drive my moms car home from downtown cleveland because she doesnt want to take the rapid, instead she is having my dad drive from the east side to downtown cleveland to pick her up, and then back to shaker square where they are meeting friends for dinner......d@mn do i love the good ole american mindset and automobiles

 

You're kidding me? That makes no sense.

 

I wish i was kidding. Although i did print out the rapid schedule and highlighted the different trains she could take that would get her by 530. Hopefully she'll change her mind today while shes at work but who knows, especially since a train leaves tower city every 5 minutes in that hour!!

"[insert name, usually liberal] is un-American!!!"

 

*No rowhouses in Cleveland

 

*fact we used to be 6th biggest city in America, yet never established a big-time public transit system.  And I am sorry if this rubs people the wrong way, but you can't compare the RTA to Philly, NY, Chi, DC...

"[insert name, usually liberal] is un-American!!!"

 

*No rowhouses in Cleveland

 

*fact we used to be 6th biggest city in America, yet never established a big-time public transit system. And I am sorry if this rubs people the wrong way, but you can't compare the RTA to Philly, NY, Chi, DC...

 

You mean 5 rowhouses, I believe there are 5.

"[insert name, usually liberal] is un-American!!!"

 

*No rowhouses in Cleveland

 

*fact we used to be 6th biggest city in America, yet never established a big-time public transit system. And I am sorry if this rubs people the wrong way, but you can't compare the RTA to Philly, NY, Chi, DC...

 

You mean 5 rowhouses, I believe there are 5.

 

How could I forget?  Windsor Terrace and the ones on Prospect.

The other 3 are along the red line tracks in Cudell.  Not sterling examples of the form by any means.

The truth is people hate driving. Chester and Carnegie remind them why.

 

Carnegie is cake.  480 and 271 are what remind people that they hate driving.

 

On that note, why are suburbanites OK with going 8 miles in a half hour on 480, but not going 3 miles in 7 minutes on Carnegie?  Also, on Carnegie there are two cameras in each direction, and none of them are speed cameras.  It's not very hard to (1) not run lights and (2) know where the cameras are.  I can't help anyone that takes CHester.  I see no logical reason to do that.

I can't help anyone that takes CHester. I see no logical reason to do that.

 

Less people parked, less people turning left from a straight lane.  Time of day has a lot to do with it.

I can't help anyone that takes CHester. I see no logical reason to do that.

 

(most of) Chester is 35mph, Carnegie is 25.  Chester moves faster.  That's why I take it.  Also Carnegie can be very confusing when it gets to university circle, Chester is easier to figure out where to go. 

If you're heading downtown from the E. side and your girlfriend works at E.9th & St. Clair area, much easier to take Chester to E. 12 to Rockwell, than Carnegie to E.9/thru CSU etc.

 

Also, the Clinic traffic backs up Carnegie a lot more. 

 

On that note, why are suburbanites OK with going 8 miles in a half hour on 480, but not going 3 miles in 7 minutes on Carnegie? 

 

Who is driving 16 mph on 480 but 25 mph on Carnegie? 

 

 

 

 

On that note, why are suburbanites OK with going 8 miles in a half hour on 480, but not going 3 miles in 7 minutes on Carnegie?

 

Who is driving 16 mph on 480 but 25 mph on Carnegie?

 

 

 

 

I think he means for rush hour.

That reminds me of a giant pet peeve:  people who go under the speed limit, for no earthly reason.  Makes me insane.  If you're out driving, and you're going slow, and someone behind you is beeping the speed limit to you in morse code, that's me.

 

"beep beep beep... beep beep beep beep beep" means you're supposed to be going 35, not 20, you moron.

Well, to be pedantic, the speed limit technically denotes the rate that the driver ought not to exceed.

On a similar note,

 

If you are not passing, GET OUT OF THE LEFT LANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Drives me absolutely nuts.

 

Not only are you being an idiot, but it's dangerous.  Next thing you know, some yahoo cuts in on the right, speeds up in the right, only to pass your ignorant a$$.

Well, to be pedantic, the speed limit technically denotes the rate that the driver ought not to exceed.

 

Sure.  But there are times and places for moseying, and there are other times and places when people should move along to the extent they are able.  We live in a society.

The need to make a hard and fast speed limit.  No one follows 65, but you are not guaranteed a ticket.  I say make it 75.  Anyone going over, even if just 1mph, automatic ticket. 

 

I also think they should put up speed cameras up and down the highways.  Using a cop solely for speeding violations is a waste.

Statistically, they could NEVER give a ticket at 1mph.  Probably can't do it at 10mph, but people don't fight it.

 

Statistically, they could NEVER give a ticket at 1mph. Probably can't do it at 10mph, but people don't fight it.

 

 

Lt,

 

I meant that an individual should be given a ticket for going 76mph, if the speed limit is 75mph.

that's what I'm saying, statistically, they could not prove the accuracy of the equipment for 1mph over the speed limit.  Sorry, I thought that was intuitive.

In theory that would be fair, but speedometers aren't that accurate.  They can be off by as much as a few mph at highway speeds.

Ahh, my apologies.  I thought I wasn't clear in my original post.  I see what you mean.  OK then, make it the lowest amount over the limit that ensures accuracy.

 

On that note, why are suburbanites OK with going 8 miles in a half hour on 480, but not going 3 miles in 7 minutes on Carnegie? 

 

Who is driving 16 mph on 480 but 25 mph on Carnegie? 

 

Have you ever driven 480 at rush hour?  Luckily, I don't have to take any freeways to work, but on occasion I've been coming from somewhere else and had to take 480.  16 mph average would be pretty good at 7:30 in the morning.  Carnegie moves better at rush hour than 480.

 

As to the not passing in the left lane thing, it does drive me nuts, especially when I've on a rural 2-lane freeway late at night and you have the idiots that think they should just stay in that lane, even though there is nobody around to pass and they're going 55 in a 65.  I usually pass them on the right then get over to the left and leave my right blinker on for about 15 seconds then get back to the right.

In a world where people are being stabbed on street corners, I find speed enforcement to be a tragic misuse of police capacity.  If all the land near 480 was in ruins because of speeders, I could get behind expending resources to stop it.  But we have an inner city that is in ruins, and violent crime has a lot to do with it, so we need to concentrate state and local resources on combating that.   

In a world where people are being stabbed on street corners, I find speed enforcement to be a tragic misuse of police capacity.  If all the land near 480 was in ruins because of speeders, I could get behind expending resources to stop it.  But we have an inner city that is in ruins, and violent crime has a lot to do with it, so we need to concentrate state and local resources on combating that.   

In ruins??  Have you taken a job a the Plain Dealer?

that's what I'm saying, statistically, they could not prove the accuracy of the equipment for 1mph over the speed limit. Sorry, I thought that was intuitive.

 

I'm with palijandro.  They should write tickets AT the speed limit.  And if you're worried about getting a ticket because you don't trust the radar then back off a few miles per hour. 

 

Rules are rules for a reason.  I never understood the point of partial enforcement.

Oh for heaven's sake... another pet peeve is people refusing to acknowledge a problem and thus prolonging it.  We have ruins all over this place.  Objectively.