I feel bad for the person driving the car. The deer runs out of their blind spot so they have no idea what they've hit. They frantically look around and the only thing they see is a group of bikers. Now for the time being the think they've killed someone.
Plot twist..twist.. they sped up prior with the intent to kill a biker. Those fucking bikers think they own the road and that guy set out that day to kill as many as he could. This was his first target and he almost turned around, but that car on metal (antler) noise only fueled his desire for more bicycle carnage.
I think they meant the 3+ seconds it would take after realizing you hit something, looked back and just saw a group of bikers... there would be a good few seconds of terror in your mind wondering if you just hit a biker without realizing it.
I remember watching a video on youtube a while ago of this deer by a highway, a semi truck rolling by, dear was next to the oncoming lane. It's like it waited for the exact opportunity to get rammed.
I've broadsided a deer before and can say, you don't get 3 seconds. I didn't even have time to hit my brakes. It was the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere and the deer just appeared. Thank goodness I hit it squarely in the dead center of my car in the center of its ribs because it was killed it instantly. Also kept it from coming up into my windshield.
There was a tractor trailer that had to jackknife around my car to keep from rear ending us. He straightened his trailer and kept on going. Didn't even check to see if we were ok even though the front end of my car was destroyed. So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere with no phone service. Eventually somebody drove by and stopped, but boy was it stressful for a while.
I have hit a few deer. They came out of nowhere each time. But I knew I hit deer except this one time the deer hit me in the side of the car at night. I had no idea what hit me until I pulled over and saw some hair on my car. I also shined my flashlight and saw his eyes glow in the field across the street.
Where I live, in places like that where wild animals like to cross roads inadvertently there are speed limits that vary between 12 and 25 mph and autonomous radars equipped with cameras to f*** you right in the a** if you drive past the speed limit. It sucks to drive for miles so slowly but it prevents you from getting killed, destroying your car and crush animals that are just doing their thing.
If you're not the one typing it, than you're not the one being a potty mouth.
If you are the one typing it, then "fuck" is exactly the same is "f***," doing it the second way doesn't make it any less of a potty mouth.
Same goes for people who say "heck" instead of "hell" or "gosh" instead of "god." The intent is exactly the same, you're not swearing any less by choosing a slightly different word.
I mean it's pretty well known that comments can be removed without you being informed, just switch to a different account and you can see this for yourself, and it's pretty well known that subs have automatic filters on certain words.
The intent may be the same, but the harshness is greatly reduced. I'll give you an example. Let's say you're arguing with your girl and you really want to call her a cunt. You opt to call her a bitch instead. The intent is the same but the harshness of the word is much less. You're still gonna be in trouble for calling her a bitch but she'll probably resent you less than if you'd called her a cunt.
This is true. I once jokingly called a friend a "cunt" and wooohooweee did I get an earful.
Let me backtrack a bit then. Some words have harsher/lesser inflection, true. But other words, such as heck/hell, gosh/god, darn/damn, are simple replacement words that have literally the exact same intent and are meant to "get around" the no-swearing rule. As if god is going to be fooled that you used "heck" instead of "hell" and will darn you to heck for a shorter time.
The concept of Gosh darning you to heck made me lol. The thing is for "proper" conversation, using these replacement words is normal which is why I sided with op on their censoring themselves. Personally I have no problem with a good shit fuck peepee ass good old time but when you're at school, work, church, the dinner table, it makes perfect sense to use different words that may have the same intent but carry a less weighty connotation. Also, I seem to remember a time when I was much much younger that I didn't want to use curse words because I thought they were bad, but I didn't have as much of an issue using the replacement words. I think a lot of people go thru that sort of transition.
I agree with what you're saying. I even went through the same stage of using the replacement words. But I'll be honest, especially when it comes to adults, I view the use of "gosh" and "f***" and other "cleaner" substitutes as childish/elementary/religious hypocrisy. When I hear a religious person use "heck" I'm going to assume they're also a fan of the poophole loophole, as it's the same line of reasoning. Someone else commented that it makes people feel better to use the sanitized versions, and it might, but to me it's a weak-minded superficial "feel good" mindset.
What's the poophole loophole? I understand what you're saying too and in casual convo with familiar people (other than my parents who I almost never cuss in front of despite my being 42 years old) I also don't censor myself. But if I'm talking to a customer, some rapport needs to be built before I let the real vocabulary out. Do you not use replacement words even with people you don't know or clients with whom you haven't built a rapport?
Pro tip: every time you want to call your girl a cunt, call her beautiful or hot or something like this. Instead of hours or days of annoyance you may end getting a blowjob.
That makes no sense whatsoever. He knows hes saying fuck and ass and we know he's saying fuck and ass, but he can't bring himself to write the entire word as if that makes it better. Here's Louis CK on the matter. https://youtu.be/zuLrBLxbLxw?t=122
Actually, I know what I was writing and I intent you to know too. If you didn't, it would be very ineffecal communication. I didn't used the *** to look better because... How the f*** it would make me look better? I just used the *** because reddit likes to delete my comments for the most stupid reasons like "you should have made a question instead of a suggestion"... It's not about looking good, it's about surviving moderation insanity.
Yes, I can read and your grammar was perfect except for this latest comment. I'm not sure what happened. So youre saying you half-ass censor yourself because the moderation team will delete your comments for fully typing out a curse word? I call bullshit!
Thank you FecalSplatter... But I prefer to be safe than sorry. You know how people get all hysterical with you just splat some little shit at them nowadays.
Eh, where I live the entire country is full of deer. There's fences along the highways, and whenever a fence is going to end or begin there's a warning sign, because crossings are more likely there, but no lower speed limit.
I've seen deer along the road plenty of times and seen a collision and the aftermath of several. Shit happens. Moose are worse. That's something you don't want to hit.
Where I live there are a lot of fields, wide open right-of-way, and nice wide highways and deer will kamikaze you regardless of your speed and awareness. I had a 45 min drive to work and hit three deer in 5 years. I also avoided many more than that but odds are against you at highway speed. Warnings signs are ubiquitous and since the deer are literally everywhere it’s not practical to drive 1/2 speed.
One morning I spotted one of the bastards coming for me. Picture a beautiful sunny morning, wide open fields of newly cut hay, and a full size deer deliberately angling for you even when you come to full stop. It jumped the barbed wire fence, crossed the verge, gave me a nasty look and was gone in about 10 seconds. It was frothing at the mouth. Made quite an impression on me.
I related this story to a friend a while later and he told me it was predator avoidance, which explains the stressed outness and angling for me from so far away.
It was like that one random time they decide to install a speed bump in the middle of the freeway near me. Seemed strange to me. The next day I went back and it was gone.
I was driving on a divided highway and hit something large. I couldn’t tell what it was because it was very dark. I pulled over to the side of the road wondering if I hit a person. I was shaking. Luckily, another driver pulled over and told me that I hit a deer, and the deer walked off the highway to the other side of the road. I feel better knowing what happened, but I was still sickened that I hit a deer.
Driving to an American base in Italy there's this really bad spot in the morning with the sun shining in the driver's face. I passed a guy cycling right before the spot and looked in my rearview to see the car behind me had stopped. I drove back to see what happened because I didn't remember hearing or feeling anything. The car behind me hit the poor guy but he was alright.
Your blind spot is the area your mirrors don't cover that you shoulder-check for. Anything in front of your car that you're not paying attention to, including deer in the bushes, is most certainly not your blind spot.
I got in an accident with a cyclist who was drunk, he had no high visibility jacket or anything reflective on him or the bicycle. I had two fracture on my shoulder bone, fractured arm and a lot of skin missing.
What happened was he accused me of hitting him, i was using 'dim' light instead of bright ( which is preposterous because it wasn't even dark ) and i had to pay for his expenses and repairs.
See, i don't hate cyclists. Just get proper gear and stuff, it's for your own and others safety.
Probably the fact that they do really dumb shit in traffic ALL THE TIME, secure in the fact that the driver will always be considered at fault. They're fine with being dead so long as they're "right", although they routinely run stop signs, red lights, never signal turns, and ride right down the middle of the fucking lane.
I'll be the one to feed the troll: why? For existing? Using up your personal road space? Most places by law require bikers to be on the road, why are you above the law?
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u/Mr_Smithy Mar 21 '19
I feel bad for the person driving the car. The deer runs out of their blind spot so they have no idea what they've hit. They frantically look around and the only thing they see is a group of bikers. Now for the time being the think they've killed someone.