Parental warning: Lyrics that make you go "Hmm..."
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
Well you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you tow the line
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
That lovely little song is by... The Beatles. "Run For Your Life". An upbeat, catchy little diddy. But the lyrics more or less imply that a guy will murder his girl rather than see her with another man. Mkay. That's fucked up. And some suggest that today's music has some objectionable lyrics...
So. I saw a dog riding a motorcycle today. Seriously! No, I'm not partaking of too much Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I swear to the Goddess that a dog (and a relatively big one at that) was just sitting on the back of a motorcyle as the guy drove around town. I did a double-take but... it was as I describe.
Maybe it's a blue moon. I also saw a Smart Car on the road today. They're very cool looking although obviously dwarfed by every other vehicle on the American highway.
Naturally it had Ontario plates. Americans aren't smart enough to drive the Smart Car. Oh... there are some smart Americans, sure. But I mean COLLECTIVELY we Americans aren't smart enough. We'd rather go broke endlessly pumping three-dollar gas into our Humvees... and then bitch about the cost.
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
Well you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you tow the line
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
That lovely little song is by... The Beatles. "Run For Your Life". An upbeat, catchy little diddy. But the lyrics more or less imply that a guy will murder his girl rather than see her with another man. Mkay. That's fucked up. And some suggest that today's music has some objectionable lyrics...
So. I saw a dog riding a motorcycle today. Seriously! No, I'm not partaking of too much Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I swear to the Goddess that a dog (and a relatively big one at that) was just sitting on the back of a motorcyle as the guy drove around town. I did a double-take but... it was as I describe.
Maybe it's a blue moon. I also saw a Smart Car on the road today. They're very cool looking although obviously dwarfed by every other vehicle on the American highway.
Naturally it had Ontario plates. Americans aren't smart enough to drive the Smart Car. Oh... there are some smart Americans, sure. But I mean COLLECTIVELY we Americans aren't smart enough. We'd rather go broke endlessly pumping three-dollar gas into our Humvees... and then bitch about the cost.
My stratus sucks in a lot of ways, but it is/was good on gas. a 2-liter four with a 5-speed manual transmission that got 40 mpg on the highway every single time I drove it down to philadelphia when I was visiting my gf there.
Lot of truck accidents lately. Most of them seem to have been preciptated by someone cutting off the truck and the truck driver slamming on his brakes. Maybe trucks should just have one of those deflectors on the front like trains have with the works "stay the fuck out of my way" written in large clearly legible letters thereon. or perhaps the truck's stopping distance at various speeds should be written on the back of the trailer along with the bit about how much that vehicle paid in road taxes, as a friendly warning about how much room you need to stop 80,000 pounds of steel and comsumer goods.
Certainly, "smart car" is a bit of a paradox with respect to americans and driving.
The tmc peterbilt that came to visit us on career day had a little sensor that sounded a warning when a car was too close in front of you. You mentioned that your freightliner has that cruise control that maintains distance between you and cars in front of you. It might be useful if a similar system existed in cars, that would sense the proximity of trucks behind them, and warn the driver that the truck was too close. this could happen both because the driver pullled in front of the truck too close to it, or because the truck driver was an asshole and followning too close.
One thing I was thinking about was that if you were driving on snowy or otherwise slippery roads and leaving enough following distance behind the next vehicle in front of you, people would try to jump into the space in front of you to try and get ahead in traffic and lose control of their vehicles doing that, causing accidents. Maybe the only thing for it is to follow the next car in front of you so that noone will try anything stupid, and pray that you don't have to suddenly stop.
Whatever. hope your hand is healing.