How to avoid a speeding ticket.
AOL Auto has these tips:
* Drive within 5-10 mph of surrounding traffic. Police officers are usually looking for drivers that are going noticeably faster than the other cars on the road.
* Try to stay in the middle of the pack. If you're the lead car, logic says you'll be the first car to run past any radar trap up ahead.
* Do not change lanes frequently, tailgate or otherwise drive aggressively.
What it really comes down to is: Don't call attention to yourself. Often a cop has some reason to think you're speeding before s/he ever decides to use the radar gun on you. So to the above list, I'd add: Don't cruise continuously in the left lane. Use it to pass, but move to the middle/right when you can. If you're going fast, slow down to pass other cars - a car that's blowing past the cars around it is more obviously speeding than a car that's going fast but with no nearby cars to compare it to.
I am pretty that, even on TNT, you are not supposed to broadcast someone saying, "What the fuck was th..."
Even when showing Nascar. Especially when showing Nascar as they like to be oh so very family friendly.
I mean, what do you expect when you broadcast team radios immediately after a driver just got hit from behind and wrecked? Imagining some director flailing for the Big Red Button of Oh Noes We Has Just Broadcasted the Word Fuck Loud and Clear is kinda funny.
Wasn't there just a ruling that the networks don't get fined for stuff like that?
Today is a sad day-- Bob is leaving tomorrow to teach in A2 for the summer, and he'll be in Notre Dame for a post-doc after that. So y'all will be seeing more of me!
Aw, that is a sad day for you. But not for us!
Wasn't there just a ruling that the networks don't get fined for stuff like that?
I don't know. I'll know Tuesday because Tuesday is traditionally the day punishment is doled out in Nascar. Now I am curious and might even pay attention to this whole thing.
I pretty much just had it on as background noise up until I heard the Big Bad Word.
There was a ruling that networks can't get fined by the FCC for spontaneous utterances like that. I'm not sure about cable channels, but I assume that it would be the same.
Aw, that is a sad day for you. But not for us!
What about the 'shippers, Jesse? We're thinking of taking up a petition and taking out an ad.
There was a ruling that networks can't get fined by the FCC for spontaneous utterances like that. I'm not sure about cable channels, but I assume that it would be the same.
Makes sense. Less funny now though.
eta: Okay, a naughty word on tv made me giggle. I am twelve. In the fifties.
Makes sense. Less funny now though.
Does it make it more funny that part of the reason for the ruling was that "Bush and Cheney did it"? (i.e. swore on TV)
I'm with Jesse--not hating Bob, just noting that more bon is a good thing.
The pop culture blind spot article was fun, except for the guy who's never seen
Citizen Kane.
Not that there's anything wrong with not having seen it, but if you haven't seen it you don't get to run around calling it the most overrated movie of all time. His entire little essay is so smug and snide and self-congratulatory that it makes me want to sit down right now and watch CK twice just to spite him.
