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While you''re driving to work...

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Post Tue May 27, 2003 2:07 am

While you''re driving to work...

...keep this in mind.

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver
cut right in front of a pickup truck causing him to have to
drive on to the shoulder to avoid hitting her.

This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm
out his window and flipped the woman off.

"Man, that guy is stupid!" I thought to myself.

I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a
female does anything to me in traffic and here's why:

I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, that's 96 miles
each day.

Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper.

Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if you
just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass
something like a new car every 40 feet per lane.

That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be
982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.

Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to bumper, I
figure I pass at least another 4000 cars.

That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars I pass
every day.

Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's
18,000.

In any given group of females 1 in 28 are having the worst day
of their period. That's 642.

According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as
dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449.

According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all
females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's
98.

And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33.

According to the National Rifle Association 5% of all females
carry weapons and this number is increasing.

That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one
female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest
problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, is having
the worst day of her period, and is armed.

Flip one off?

.....I think not.

Post Tue May 27, 2003 2:24 am

Maaaan... Never saw it that way...
BTW, how did you come to do all of these calculations?





Cpbuja ybuja!

Post Tue May 27, 2003 3:15 am

yeah rigth...

in life, things happens. It is what you do with your circumstances that seperate you from the rest..

Post Tue May 27, 2003 5:41 am

And what if you both stopped at the same bar and she was looking all cute in her own little depressed way... you go over to her and ask to buy her a drink... things start going well, and next thing you know you get a hotel and have some of the best sex of your life and you made her very happy, she regains all trust in men and stops thinking of suicide, two years later you are married and she is due to have a baby boy a month later.

but if you flipped her off this would never happen... guess you never know.

Post Tue May 27, 2003 1:36 pm

nice.. something cbuja missed out on.. talk about perfectionist.. no harm meant.

Science is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
Time is money.
power = work/time
therefore, knowledge= work/money
therefore, money = work/knowledge
therefore, money is inversely proportional to knowledge.

therefore,

The more knowledge you have, the less money you have.

Prepare for the worst, for you have read the worst.

zlo

Post Tue May 27, 2003 4:26 pm

Well, if you meet a woman who is thinking of homicide, sees men as the source of all problems and is armed, you gotta be real brave to go with her to a pub (not talking about marriage)

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem.
(stolen from a local pub)

Post Tue May 27, 2003 4:52 pm

Ah, but what if flipping her off results in her NOT liking you at the bar, and never having anything to do with you. Then 6 months later, her boyfriend of 6 months that she met in a bar has his phallus chopped off because he forgot to put the seat down when she was on her period after being flipped off by some guy on her way home from a bad day at work? Sometimes things happen for a reason... gotta just go w/ your gut. Every situation has a silver lining... every situation also has a shiny lightning bolt, begging for a target... it's the nature of "what if's". A series of chance events led to my relationship w/ the mother of all psychos. Having clawed myself away from her tooth and nail, I've been informed that she took a knife to her latest catch. Didn't cut off his willy, mind you... just sliced him up pretty good. Yeah.... if only I stuck with it....

Post Tue May 27, 2003 6:09 pm

what if

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