Things that confuse/annoy you
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There are so many reasons I don’t use provided cycle lanes and prefer the road for the majority of my riding, here are just a few:
At city speeds I’m travelling as fast if not faster than traffic, why hinder myself and use a restrictive lane with other cyclists doing pedestrian speeds?
Pedestrians often give little thought to walking out across a cycle path, they (hopefully) think twice and look when they want to cross a road.
Debris, as mentioned.
Man hole covers and storm drains, as mentioned.
Segregated cycle lanes often have poor drainage when they aren’t dotted with grates that want to deprive you of your front teeth.
Cycle lane traffic is too slow to draft effectively. Trucks and motorcycles aren’t.
Certain bits of cycle lane here get clogged by joggers. A jogger with earphones in is much more dangerous to me than regular road traffic.
Poor design of cycle lane routing (I’m looking at you London Cycle Superhighway). Anyone would think the committee in charge had never ridden a bike before (Chris Boardman, wtf?).
...and the list goes on. I guess it varies from city to city and country to country but I’ve always found the safest places to cycle, for me personally, are places without cycle lanes. For all my love of Tokyo my biggest gripe was the shared pedestrian/ cycle lanes.
At city speeds I’m travelling as fast if not faster than traffic, why hinder myself and use a restrictive lane with other cyclists doing pedestrian speeds?
Pedestrians often give little thought to walking out across a cycle path, they (hopefully) think twice and look when they want to cross a road.
Debris, as mentioned.
Man hole covers and storm drains, as mentioned.
Segregated cycle lanes often have poor drainage when they aren’t dotted with grates that want to deprive you of your front teeth.
Cycle lane traffic is too slow to draft effectively. Trucks and motorcycles aren’t.
Certain bits of cycle lane here get clogged by joggers. A jogger with earphones in is much more dangerous to me than regular road traffic.
Poor design of cycle lane routing (I’m looking at you London Cycle Superhighway). Anyone would think the committee in charge had never ridden a bike before (Chris Boardman, wtf?).
...and the list goes on. I guess it varies from city to city and country to country but I’ve always found the safest places to cycle, for me personally, are places without cycle lanes. For all my love of Tokyo my biggest gripe was the shared pedestrian/ cycle lanes.
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When a person does something bad and the people hate every similar person like him/her, despite they don't even know if the rest do bad things like that.
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One thing I don't get is this, The sun is 93 million miles away from the earth and it is bright seriously bright so when a spaceship flies up in to space which is no where near 93 million miles from the earth, the spaceship is closer to the sun than the earth, so why is it dark in space? where did the sunshine go once the ship is in space? 
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The sunlight is actually significantly harsher in space than it is on the Earth, it just looks darker because there's nothing to reflect the light back towards anyone observing it.One thing I don't get is this, The sun is 93 million miles away from the earth and it is bright seriously bright so when a spaceship flies up in to space which is no where near 93 million miles from the earth, the spaceship is closer to the sun than the earth, so why is it dark in space? where did the sunshine go once the ship is in space?
At least, that's my educated guess on it.
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Like Obelisk said, there's nothing in space for the light from the Sun to reflect off of. On Earth, there's trillions of water molecules that refract the sunlight like a prism and make the sky appear blue, so you can "see" the sunlight (really you just see the atmosphere). If there were no particles in the air on Earth for the light to bounce off of, you would see the blackness of space. This would also indicate a lack of an atmosphere.One thing I don't get is this, The sun is 93 million miles away from the earth and it is bright seriously bright so when a spaceship flies up in to space which is no where near 93 million miles from the earth, the spaceship is closer to the sun than the earth, so why is it dark in space? where did the sunshine go once the ship is in space?
These particles also absorb a portion of the energy the Sun outputs, which is generally heat. In space, there are no particles to absorb the energy, so it's literally freezing. Solar panels are more effective in space than on Earth as well.
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What makes the sky blue then? The elemental makeup of the ozone layer that the sun is bouncing off of? Or the water molecules like you said, because clear water is blue?
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What makes the ocean blue? In places where the water is extremely clear, like Bermuda, you get a hue of blue on the beachwater.
Water reflects blue light more than any other color.
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Thanks for the explanation guys.
Another thing which confuses me is when people say they have seen a ghost. The people who have said it I don't call liars as they are convinced they know what they saw, I suggest they are mistaken.
I have never seen one, But I honestly believe it is the brain/mind playing tricks on us similar to when we experience deja vu.
Has any one with better knowledge than me (not to hard that lol) got a thesis on what these apparitions are and why people see them?
Another thing which confuses me is when people say they have seen a ghost. The people who have said it I don't call liars as they are convinced they know what they saw, I suggest they are mistaken.
I have never seen one, But I honestly believe it is the brain/mind playing tricks on us similar to when we experience deja vu.
Has any one with better knowledge than me (not to hard that lol) got a thesis on what these apparitions are and why people see them?
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Agreed. I can remember reading a post once on Facebook about a paragraph long and it had no punctuation in it, making it pretty hard to read. Which is a shame because it was otherwise a good post with a lot of good points in it, but the lack of punctuation just doesn't do it any favors.
On a related note, I also find it annoying when people don't use paragraphs when typing something extremely long that could be easily divided up. I will admit, some of my posts could be a bit better, but at least I try. This on the other hand is easily the most insanely obnoxious example I have ever seen and while I think he did put some spacing between parts of his post, it's absolutely needs a lot more!
Cheers to anybody who can actually read that without stopping. 
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What annoys me, is when people use the slangword "G" when they are talking. It sounds phonetically exactly like my actual name.
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When I'm posting on here using my phone I can't help but break it up into more paragraphs. It's because of the narrower screen making it look like my posts run deeper than they do, and it makes me paranoid and think I'm rambling.Agreed. I can remember reading a post once on Facebook about a paragraph long and it had no punctuation in it, making it pretty hard to read. Which is a shame because it was otherwise a good post with a lot of good points in it, but the lack of punctuation just doesn't do it any favors.
On a related note, I also find it annoying when people don't use paragraphs when typing something extremely long that could be easily divided up. I will admit, some of my posts could be a bit better, but at least I try. This on the hand is easily the most insanely obnoxious example I have ever seen and while I think he did put some spacing between parts of his post, it's absolutely needs a lot more!
Not sure how apparent it is, but I'm sure one could tell the difference of whether I'm on my PC or my phone.
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Yeah, that thing was a nightmare. I didn't even try to read it.While that didn't cross my mind when I made that post, I do know the feeling. Your posts are pretty easy to read, at least to me. I can't say the same for the post I linked earlier.
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What's a tariage? Sounds like some sort of French soup or stew.
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The terms "black" and "white" in the context of race.
I can't vouch for everyone, but when it comes to the colour of someone's skin, I don't see the visual spectrum for want of a better phrase. I don't let it define my thoughts or expectations of those around me. Yet because it is such a deep-rooted stigma even in today's world, I find it annoying whenever the aforementioned terms are used in a descriptive manner.
I can't vouch for everyone, but when it comes to the colour of someone's skin, I don't see the visual spectrum for want of a better phrase. I don't let it define my thoughts or expectations of those around me. Yet because it is such a deep-rooted stigma even in today's world, I find it annoying whenever the aforementioned terms are used in a descriptive manner.
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They can be derogatory, but only if you choose for them to be. In the United States it is an accepted way to refer to African Americans as black. Black is an adjective whereas African American is a noun. It's much easier for authorities to describe somebody by their color rather than their actual race. Sometimes there are lighter-skinned african Americans who are on the run and the police release a statement saying that. Other times there are black African Americans who may be armed and considered dangerous. Certainly it would be an issue if the one of the two were referred to as an african american man and nobody had an acurracte description of what to look for.
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If you find yourself in a position where describing an individual is necessary, such as if you're witness to a crime of which the perpetrator has escaped, how would you convey whether the perpetrator is black or white? Isn't that information likely to be useful to those responsible for ensuring criminal offenders are held accountable for their actions?
I can appreciate objecting to discrimination based on physical charactistics--particularly those that one has absolutely no control over--but to deny differences between people strikes me as rather absurd.
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Please don't think of me as being totalitarian.
I'm not discrediting the use of either black or white to describe someone, nor am I of the mindset that there should be no difference whatsoever between anyone.
I'm just not comfortable using them in conversation. To me it feels discriminating even if it's not meant to be.
That's probably not the best way for me to convey it, but I can't think of any other way to do so.
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We live in a world where words are continuously warping to convey new meanings and intentions. My sister was recently made a fool because she didn't understand when her hip young coworker complemented her "cake." Apparently cake now means ass, and by "ass" I mean a person's posterior; not the animal.
Who knows? Maybe tomorrow the term "pizza" will be a derogatory way of describing someone who picks their nose, and "sandwich" can be a new way to cheer on skydivers. None of this crap makes sense.
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People who think making others "jump" is hilarious. One of the salesmen at my work thinks he's funny jumping in front of me and screaming in my face almost everyday when I'm just walking around trying to do my job. Or yelling at me when I'm working at a height on a ladder thinking it'd be funny to scare me while I was working. Real professional....
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How you resist popping him is beyond me. Frankly, I think you'd even be justified in doing so; say it was an involuntary reaction to a perceived threat.
