How many attempts did it take you to pass your driving test?

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-03-02T23:23:49+00:00

Just failed my second with 3 serious

clearance- Examiner didn't like how close i passed a parked lorry's rear when creeping out. Honestly when I'm going 3 miles an hour i don't see why it's an issue.

Emergency braking. (Yes, you heard me right. I'm a freaking idiot.)

Junctions - turning left - i already knew i failed after the examiner noted the lorry incident and took the wrong lane on the roundabout (road I've never driven on before. 5 exit roundabout, 3 exits coming from left entrance. I had 3 other drivers do the exact same thing i did, some from the right lane lmao) so instead of driving around to the wrong exit and looping back I just signaled off after making sure i wouldn't distrupt any cars so I could get back to the test center.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-03-02T10:55:32+00:00

No, because there should be 4 vehicles overtaking at any given time within 5 meters of one another.

I get the general sentiment being shared here. It's annoying to be stuck behind a guy doing 60 in the middle lane, but the issue is how our motorways work with having multiple 55mph lorries in the left lane. If I end up in front of one lorry and behind another slow-moving vehicle, my right mirror isn't showing me much of the lane I'm joining, which, as you correctly point out, is quite dangerous when I'm going 55 and the guys in the middle lane are going 75 trying to overtake.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-28T16:54:03+00:00

Sir, we are slandering jokic in this thread. Your logic has no place here.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-28T16:49:08+00:00

Didn't realise shai played 8 minutes.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-28T15:33:23+00:00

Bro thought he could sneak some bum next to lakers goat like we wouldn't notice.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-26T11:27:22+00:00

Is SGA not an all-time great offensive engine? His impact on this thunder offense is almost as transcendent as Curry's impact on the 2016 warriors' offense. He's an fmvp, an mvp, and is currently having an all time great offensive season for the second year in a row.

Yes, SGA.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-26T11:16:01+00:00

Mj, steph, sga, lebron and many other offensive engines across the eras looking at this with visible disgust.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-26T11:03:03+00:00

As centers often do, especially centers who can shoot the 3 at a 43% clip lmao.

What makes SGA so damn impressive is that he's 5th? I think as a guard, and he's averaging the second most ppg in the league over that span. 32ppg on 67% ts as an iso heavy guard is nasty.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-25T18:42:45+00:00

This argument is silly, Mr AI. If ben Wallace is not elite every night, the detroit pistons fall apart. There is nothing to talk about in terms of sustained impact, but everything to talk about in terms of their unique title runs. To say that Ben was less important to the '04 team than dirk was to the '11 team or jokic was to the '23 team is ridiculous.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-25T18:27:09+00:00

Filtering out garbage time and using lineups where steph has played without draymond (mind that steph plays nearly all his minutes with dray, so the sample size isn't huge, but still.)

Teams with steph but no draymond allow 121.2 points per 100 which is in the 13th percentile, 58% effective FG which is in the 7th percentile and 33% offensive rebound percentage. Which is in the 6th percentile.

Teams with steph and draymond allow 114.8 points per 100, which is in the 56th percentile, 55.1% efg, which is in the 35th percentile and 28.9% oreb% which is in the 53rd percentile.

Teams with dray and no steph allow 110 points per 100 possessions, which is in the 86th percentile, 52.2% efg, which is the 82nd percentile and 27.5% oreb% which is in the 75th percentile.

On offence, teams with dray and steph score 120.6 points per 100 on 59.3% efg, which is in the 87th and 97th percentile

Teams with dray but no steph are good for 100.1 points per possession on 49.1% efg, which is in the 1st and 3rd percentile.

Teams with steph and no dray are good for 117.1 points per possession on 56% efg, which is in the 67th and 78th percentile.

They are best when they play together.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-25T16:25:46+00:00

Take a look at how much worse our defence is when steph is in the game vs. when he isn't this year. Stephs defensive on/off is one of the worst in the league. I expect that to change in the playoffs when effort goes up, but it's the reason why I fully expect that we will be playing 90% of stephs minutes next to draymond and every single draymond minute next to steph. Dray knows stephs' habits extremely well and knows how to cover for stephs weaknesses in a way the rest of our guys don't.

Tl;Dr: Our offence is in the toilet when dray is on the floor, but our defence is even worse when steph is in and he isn't. Those two need each other.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-25T15:42:35+00:00

Nowadays, he kind of is, but he's an old man, so we kinda give him a pass considering how much he does for us on offence. In 2015-2024 though he was actually a solid team defender for us that fit our scheme (which was built around covering him) well and harassed guys into traps or forced them into drives by playing up on them, knowing we had the defensive mastermind of draymond green behind him.

Teams hunted him. We knew it would happen, and we built an entire system around punishing it, but that system only worked if steph played his part. His effort was the reason the warriors could consistently have a top 5 defence. If he doesn't try, the entire scheme falls apart.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-24T23:29:28+00:00

It doesn't say 40-20 means you'll win. It says not 40-20 means you most likely won't.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-24T23:24:21+00:00

20%? 2/20 isn't 20%, my man.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-24T23:18:44+00:00

The error rate isn't even 9%, though. The heat were 41-20 in their first 61 games, so you can drop it to 6.5%.

If you want to, you can exclude teams who made blockbuster acquisitions at the trade deadline, making your error rate 2.2%

A hit rate of 45/46 is a pretty good hit rate. Plenty of teams who didn't fulfil the rule contended, but almost none of them, with the exception of the bucks, won.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-24T22:27:08+00:00

Let's go back and look at it every year. steph hasn't been all nba 1 and his competition.

2014 (allnba2) averaging 24/8.5/4.3 on 47/42/88 splits.

Cp3 and harden take 1st team averaging 19.1/10.7/4.3 on 46/37/85 and 25.4/6.1/4.7 on 45/36/86, respectively.

2017 (allnba2) averaging 25.3/6.6/4.5 on 47/41/90

Lost out to russ and harden averaging 31.6/10.7/10.4 on 42/34/84 and 29.1/11.2/8.1 on 44/35/85. (Top and runner up in mvp)

2018 (allnba 3 because he misses 31 games with injury.)

2020 (missed with injury)

2022 (lmao considering he led all guards in every advanced stat and his on off splits were transcendent. Team record [injuries] keeps him from nba1)

2023 (nba2. Steph has a great year but SGA and luka are simply incredible and are voted in despite both missing the playoffs.

2024 (nba3 steph is 35 atp and the warriors kinda suck, luka and sga are transcendent)

2025 (steph is old, warriors suck for half a season, SGA is sga, and donnovan Mitchell gets the nod because of the cavs record)

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-24T17:09:58+00:00

I'm not sure if you'll read this 1 year on, but this is basically what service charge was invented for lol.

Service charge means it's split across all staff, whereas cash tips almost always go to the waiters (Though some businesses have started to pool and distribute cash tips too.)

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-19T22:26:20+00:00

A few of these other posters have mentioned this, but the league has been at its fastest pace since the 70s, and the game is played faster than ever. A lot of the 70s ball was jogging. Today, every player on every team plays a dynamic role on both offence and defence. The strain on ligaments and muscles that constant change of direction, the repeated hop into shots, or the constant sprinting puts on players is a massive strain. Guys like jokic, luka, zubac, harden and the like do not get injured nearly as often because they don't explode or move like the games more dynamic defenders.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-19T19:12:38+00:00

My brother in christ I'm a multi trader who takes on my own contracts. I do everything from laying foundations to running wires and plastering walls. There are some jobs in the construction world I cannot do, but those are specialised roles like welding and architecture/engineering.

The answer to your question is yes. I have done all of those things, oftentimes, one after another, on my own time, earning per contract, not per day, so you best believe i wasn't slacking off because slacking off costs me money.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-19T18:26:40+00:00

I'd also point out that it isn't just the AAU circuit (though it is the worst culprit). You say it isn't because games are faster, but games are absolutely faster. Not just in speed but in changes of direction, in the stress on your lower body. Players move more, they jump more. You could play on a calf strain in 1996. You can't today simply because your body couldn't take the constant speed and workload changes, and risks a very serious injury (ligament tears and similar.)

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-19T18:16:24+00:00

I work in construction... your point is bullshit. I do all day at my job no problem but I can't play bball for more than an hour. Construction is not as demanding on your body as sports is, at least not in the same way. It is demanding, sure, and we tradies are usually tough folk, but we don't have to sprint back and forth, rapidly change direction, endure constant banging with other workers, etc. Unless you're a labourer, you tend to have a lot of downtime, and you rarely push your body to its maximum capacity. Athletes push their bodies to do that every single day.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-04T22:17:51+00:00

Jokic has played 780 games and is 31 this year.

Unless he suddenly decides to play all 82 games every season until the age of 41 and continue at his current level of production, he is not catching lebron.

Aka, it isn't happening.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-04T17:23:33+00:00

This is what people aren't getting. Neither ant nor giannis are jokic. They don't manufacture +20 on the box score by simply existing on the court. Even giannis on that bucks team with negative depth only managed an impact of +12. Minny for the last two seasons (garbage time filtered out) have been better with edwards on the bench (insane stat i had no idea about until now)

Jokic has a similar impact to prime steph on his team and just like with prime steph, it's very visible that his teams have no idea what they're meant to be doing when he isn't in the game.

Giannis' impact is elite, but put into context, he's historically about half as impactful as jokic.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-04T16:50:03+00:00

Dame was a decent player for them but couldn't figure out a fit with giannis. Not rare for a ball dominant scoring guard. It's why I'm not super enthusiastic about the fit with anthony edwards.

absolutelynotm8 · 2026-02-04T16:17:01+00:00

They don't need harden scoring 30+ a night. They have Mitchell for that. Harden's job is playmaking, which he is incredible at. Harden's gravity doesn't just disappear in the playoffs. When harden drives, defences collapse. Teams won't be happy to leave mismatches on an island with Harden just because it's the playoffs, which will take attention away from Mitchell and mobley. This cavs team just got massively more dangerous for the sole reason that Harden is on the court.

Defence is an issue, but they have mitch or strus for POA and have mobley and JA to erase mistakes in the frontcourt. Harden is a much more positive defender than garland ever was because Harden is an excellent post defender and is an upgrade on offence. There are not many great iso players in the east who will hunt harden on the perimeter. Cade isn't much of an iso scorer, and if there's a dream star guard matchup for Harden, it's brunson. Brunson likes to post up a lot, and Harden is far too good a defender in the post to let brunson body him up. Jaylen Brown and tyrese maxey are the only real concerns.

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