• BMW_stick@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    A cousin and I have been competing for years to see how many times around we can go before we either stymie another driver or get pulled over.

    I’m currently winning at 43. Neither of us have ever been pulled over, it’s always some irate grandma who refuses to enter even though I give her plenty of room.

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    4 days ago

    A dew days ago ist saw an older Dude in a Bike, taking all the left turns in one of our roundabout. (Germany) I know that he rode for at least 3 hours. He wanted to reach 200 rounds, i think. Hope he made it.

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      4 days ago

      It is, but you have to do something really abstract, like this meme, to not be able to come up with some excuse that nobody cares to verify.

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        I wonder if it came about in the times when fuel was very expensive. A German physio I used to go to, told me when he was a kid they would have car free Sunday. Everyone walked or biked and the roads were full of pedestrians, it certainly would have cut 1/7th of the fuel usage.

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    5 days ago

    In my country it’s forbidden to drive in the roundabout for longer than necessary to reach the desired exit.

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      3 days ago

      Time is the 4th dimension right? Could you argue that you are trying to react the location of the exit at a specific location in time, therefore you have to make extra circles to reach your exit.

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    5 days ago

    If you confuse and distract other drivers, that’s endangering traffic and police will remove you.

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    5 days ago

    Despite what many people think/have heard, most places do not have a specific law against doing loops in a roundabout. And when they do it is often a local ordinace(mostly small towns trying to prevent a local car community from driving up and down the main street all night). Although other laws or regulations can apply depending on circumstances.

    Things like impeding/obstructing traffic, careless/reckless driving, noise ordinance, etc. But if you’re driving around one in an industrial area at night, the worst you’ll get is probably some accusing questions and a “warning”.

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    5 days ago

    fwiw, I personally know for a fact that 15 to 20 minutes is fine. Ask me about other ironically bad first date ideas

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        5 days ago

        One of my personal faves: Told this girl in college that we were gonna go to a place called Donnie’s steakhouse. She got somewhat dressed up for the occasion. Donnie’s is just McDonalds. If they’ve got a good sense of humor (and she did), they’ll get a good kick out of it. Although it may take a day or two.

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    5 days ago

    I don’t remember where but I remember seeing a youtube video where someone did this but didn’t call attention to it

    Like they were driving in a roundabout and just kept going around and around, then a jump cut to when they finally exited but like it was clearly much later because the sun was down. They had to have been in it for at least a half hour or so

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    5 days ago

    I’m not entirely sure here, but I think, I saw something about useless driving around as a law around here

    Which would fall into this ground, I guess…

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    I remember someone tested this. They lasted like eight hours until some neighbor called a cop