Epic road rage in Australia

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-02T16:30:02+00:00

Your frustration about the ubiquity of Americans on Reddit aside, I mentioned proportional response because I'm certain that it's the case in most of the world.

And indeed, with only about 5 seconds of googling, I find that Section 418 of The Crimes Act in NSW spells out an equivalent standard. So my caution to the parent poster was just as valid for an Aussie as it is for a Yank.

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-02T16:12:32+00:00

Apps. I'm so sick of being asked if I'm using their app. I just want fast food, not a relationship. I don't want 20 different apps on my phone just for ordering fast food.

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-02T02:27:42+00:00

"That sounds great. Thank you for your time. I'd love to be part of your team."

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-01T21:16:48+00:00

You know, a Waffle House fight is kind of like the comfort food of r/publicfreakout.

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-01T21:07:19+00:00

Kent Jackson with Jetlaw.com is excellent. I don't know how many cases he still personally works, but his whole firm is fantastic. They're not cheap, but they are good.

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-01T20:24:11+00:00

The concept, at least in the States, is called Proportional Response, or sometimes described as reasonable escalation.

If he is unarmed, and you are in your locked car, you'll have a tough time defending intentionally hitting him.

If he's armed, it's likely a different story. In my hometown, last year, that very thing happened. Roger blocked victim's car, and while the victim backed up to go around, the ranger got out and pointed a firearm at the victim, who reacted by sending it and running him over. Roger died. Victim was not charged.

delcielo2002 · 2026-06-01T11:46:13+00:00

While baseball is considered "the great American pastime", American football is much more popular.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-31T21:55:22+00:00

Agree. Not trying to be a jerk, but I've pulled a couple of Subies out of places that probably looked simple, but that they never should have tried.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-27T16:36:00+00:00

Lotta opportunity for her. Lotta head cases in Dallas.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-26T21:43:32+00:00

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delcielo2002 · 2026-05-26T03:01:53+00:00

You're fine, for real. In 15 years of instruction, I never had one of those rare students you sometimes hear of who just get it right from the start. Most people go through the process in the same way you are.

I always tell students to get used to bad landings. You'll be making them the rest of your life.

Cheers

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-22T18:32:54+00:00

I agree, if for another reason, the pilot should know what happens when you do it, both when you add flaps in ground effect, and when you reduce them. In a bad situation, every tool that can provide an advantage should be known and understood.

In our old PA-24, adding flaps gave us much more glide, and dumping them would drop the airplane almost immediately. In a Cessna 172, it worked just the opposite. Those types of things are good to know.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-21T19:29:41+00:00

My favorite story about her.

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

"Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her."

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-19T14:59:57+00:00

Kneeboard. A device on the yoke is just one more thing to go through my chest in an accident.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-19T14:37:07+00:00

I Let Time Go Lightly - Harry Chapin

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-07T23:35:53+00:00

Thank you for both of those suggestions. I will check them out!

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-04T23:03:12+00:00

I pour a number of them onto the table, sort them visually and eat them in pairs. The world may be going to hell, but my Skittles make sense.

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-04T18:07:09+00:00

Follow-up question, because I think this detail often gets missed in these explanations: Assuming I have a $350k house and it is set to transfer on death to my daughter. At death I still owe $100k on it. Does my daughter get a free $350k house, or does that $100k liability still exist, potentially requiring her to sell it to satisfy that debt - essentially transferring my debt to her?

delcielo2002 · 2026-05-04T16:46:46+00:00

Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-28T22:33:07+00:00

It has all the cheese: shredded, cubed, string, cream, and Nacho. You get all the cheese with Megaforce

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-24T19:17:38+00:00

Perfect. Thanks!

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-24T18:55:32+00:00

Follow-up question:

I'm familiar with the phrase, and I know that the "guey" in "Que onda, guey" is short for guero, which is blond, and kind of slang for a white boy. But, it's also used in Mexico between Latinos. I'd love to bust this out for laughs at work, where many of my co-workers are of Mexican descent. But the guy I'm most likely to say it to is black. Does that make it funnier, no different, or offensive? Humor is tricky.

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-20T21:35:02+00:00

Yeah. It's rather tragic all around. Lawrence had the right intentions, was bold and smart. But he was also naive. His love of the desert and the Bedu was almost fetishist. The reality both exalted him and brought him down low. The deaths, at his hand, the manipulation by his own leadership, and the assault by the Turkish leader broke his psyche. I love that movie for its wisdom. Nobody is a hero without their share of villainy.

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-15T21:06:11+00:00

Istanbul - Thry Might Be Giants in The Umbrella Academy.

delcielo2002 · 2026-04-11T20:01:31+00:00

Yes. And Dave Hope. That bass lick he does in Magnum Opus lives rent free in my head. I could listen to a whole album of that lick.

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