From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, November 28, 2014 8:46:26 PM UTC-5, liaM wrote:   
   > On 11/29/2014 1:24 AM, Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher wrote:   
   > > On Friday, November 28, 2014 2:33:35 PM UTC-5, liaM wrote:   
   > >> On 11/28/2014 8:06 PM, Free Spirit, Chief of Quixotic Enterprises wrote:   
   > >>> On Friday, November 28, 2014 11:58:33 AM UTC-5, Harry K wrote:   
   > >>>> On Friday, November 28, 2014 7:16:56 AM UTC-8, Wise TibetanMonkey, Most   
   Humble Philosopher wrote:   
   > >>>>> On Friday, November 28, 2014 8:40:46 AM UTC-5, thekma...@gmail.com   
   wrote:   
   > >>>>>> Wise Tibetan Monkey wrote: "That's exactly what we've got on the   
   roads: PURE ANARCHY. Everybody trying to get ahead of everybody, anything   
   goes, the mighty rule...   
   > >>>>>> It shows how impossible that system is. "   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> I'm not trying to get ahead here, just trying to drive responsibly   
   and uphold what has worked.  If you have folks trying to pass in all lanes you   
   don't have a highway - you have a RACE TRACK.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> No thanks...   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I'm talking in general. A well managed road should have place for the   
   slow and the fast, just different lanes, always predictable: slow on inner   
   lane, fast on outside lane.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> This philosophy may be summed up as "live and let live."   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> The problem is those who sit on the passing lane holding everybody   
   back. The road requires cooperation, not extreme competition.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Really not even "cooperation", just obey the laws and rules KRETP cures   
   it.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Harry K   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Just a small comment. The word "cooperation" implies more than it's   
   stated in the traffic codes, irrelevant of enforcement. It means seeing   
   yourself as part of a whole or caring for the other driver. An ant colony   
   couldn't work without it.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And yet the German road system is highly competitive as well. Better   
   skills, better car, determines who's fittest.   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> imho There are far more assholes driving in the fast lane in Germany   
   > >> than in any other such doing that anywhere else.   Tail gating at 110   
   > >> mph is common.   
   > >   
   > > I think they intend you to clear the lane.   
   >   
   > Yeah.. clear the lane because they were going at 15O mph and had to   
   > brake because the car ahead of them is passing a truck ?  Fuck 'em.   
      
   It may be argued that the Ferraris better have an autobahn or they may be   
   roaring through busy communities.   
      
   Everyday life where I live.   
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   > >   
   > > You haven't seen a Hummer behind your rear bumper have you?   
   >   
   > I kid you not.  I have never seen a hummer outside of photos of the war   
   > in Irak.  The only vehicles I miss seeing on the roads are the rolls   
   > royces and   
   > Bentleys that were common sights on british roads in the '60s.   
   > Class doesn't drive hummers.  Or BMs.   
      
   That's the way it was before. Now you see big fat trucks on 5 star hotels   
   around here.   
      
   Perhaps we live in a "classless society" now. ;)   
      
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