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Vinny I just want you to know, the comical idea of one of these bursting above you while you are standing there dousing you in shitwater, followed by the iconic vinny sigh, fills me with joy

lol pika

(actual lol, not a lie rusp)

Why do you have an appointment for the dmv? Just go there

Because New Jersey is retarded

You need to get a permit to take the knowledge test to get a learner’s permit, for instance

???

Is that not a thing in most of the US, thats how it works here too

how very british, truly the new england

you have to do a roadsign and rules test

Taking a knowledge test is normal, but to need a permit to take the knowledge test afaik is not

I did not need permission to take the knowledge test

i just walked in and took it

Yeah, that is more common

I think I can just walk in and take it too

you just pay 30 bucks or something

so like what makes you ineligible to have a permit to be allowed to take the test for a permit? is it just like a illegal immigrant filter or some shit like that?

Probably?

they did not charge me any money

either

It is american bureaucracy fire. You need 100 steps so the average person suffers

true, true

New Jersey just sometimes has extra bullshit

Like the person making a left turn is always at fault even when the other person hit them going quadruple the speed limit

That’s a true story that happened to this guy Devin who used to work at my DT

lmao

That is such a bad rule, considering it is legal to do left turns

people would be dead if someone was going quadruple a speedlimit

not if it was a school zone and quadruple the limit is just normal road speeds

then you could survive

school zone limits are not that low

No, but I was trying to justify it lol

I’ve seen them at low as 15mph, so they can be

Still

The briefly made the school zone limit 20 KM/H (they raised it after complaints), so 4x is 80, which is highway speed limit for normal non major highways

icy roads?

US highways speeds are another 30 kph higher than that

normal highways are 80, some are 90, the super big highways like the 401 are 100

that is just how Canadian road speeds work

The slowest highway I regularly get on is more than 100

because thats insane if mph

Yeah

okay lol

big highways over here are like 120kph

Some of the most common speeds I see around here are 45-55mph (72-88kmph) for main roads and 20-25mph (32-40kmph) for residential. I’m guessing it’s closer to the lower end since he said the guy that hit him was going about 80mph (128kmph)

residential is 40-60 km/h depending on if rural or city, school zones are 30, highway is 80-110 (I was wrong, it goes up to 110 now, that is more recent)

We do not do speed limits incremented to 5's, so it has to be a multiple of 10

Last time I got pulled over for speeding, I was going about 140 kmph

thats insane and crazy

Most people here speed 10 km/h over the limit, so 90 in an 80, etc

then really crazy drivers do 20 over

cops will not pull people over for 10 over usually, they will pull you over for doing 20 over

Cops here are inconsistent with who they pull over in my findings

Just don't be a dick and nothing will happen

Also if you say or do a funny joke they wont give you a ticket. I like to do the ol' reach for their gun joke.

no ticket if you get shot

to use MPH, residential is typically 25-30, main roads go from 30-45 and then large roads that don't have exits go from 45-60. Highways range from 55-70

I've never been pulled over for pure speeding, but the main highway in Virginia I95 you can easily go 90-100mph on it most of the time (145-160kmph)

I've only been pulled over going 15 over on completely empty roads

I feel like most normal cars also start to get a little sus after 95mph

even when you push for 100, you rarely sustain that for too long

tire grip just doesn't seem to behave the same, w/e the actual physical effect causing it is

well its not like the car designer is gonna shell out extra money just to make a car able to sustain those speeds smoothly when nobody is supposed to be going that fast in the first place

I do think it's more the tires/roads than the car itself

but yeah, I agree Dialga, def not something I think anyone really cares about

I've lived in places where the speed limits seem to be low because of how terrible the roads were

Holy shit Spooky I am going to murder the leasing admin I am dealing with

my guarantor needed to send a different thing in than what she sent, we were told to send it yesterday or today by 9am, so we dealt with it last night at like 4pm. The email to her said it could be uploaded to the website or attached via email. Their website was not letting her upload the file so she chose to email it. I have heard nothing back so I emailed the leasing admin to ask if everything was all good on our end, and I get this back

if she needed it by "9am today" you'd think she'd fucking email me saying "where's the file?" if she could not find it

They wanted the apartment move in day to start tomorrow, for the record

I assume they need to delay the move in (just fucking tell me, I was not going to move in for 2 more weeks anyways), or the admin is mentally retarded

both probably

the systems to manage/track lease shit are genuinely abysmal Pika

just wait until you discover how bad I assume your maintenance request ticketing system is

Mortgage and hoa stuff is equally as terrible, but you don't really have to deal with it as much

I feel like you have to stay ontop of most renter portals

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