Texting while driving?

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**Monster Rain**

Ouze wrote:The remix is also pretty good. Perhaps less effective as a PSA though.

Yeah, I agree. I was laughing and not paying attention to the gravity of the situation at all.

**metallifan**

I found it funnier that if you pause it at the right moment, you still get the "Yeah"

**CT GAMER**

Monster Rain wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:
metallifan wrote:Unless you're actually important enough to need to use a bluetooth phone while driving (Talking on handhelds is illegal in Canada), then you shouldn't answer your damn phone at all until you've pulled into a parking lot somewhere. We have these amazing things called 'call logs' on phones now. They record all incoming and outgoing calls on the phone, so that you don't have to worry about not knowing who called you.

As for people that text while driving, I'd pull you over and shoot you if I could, because you're everything that's wrong with young (mostly U30) drivers today. I sincerely hope that each and every one of you suffers paralysis, either complete or partial at the least, or outright death in a head on with a semi truck. It's annoying enough when I see people stopped at green lights because they were texting instead of watching the ****ing road. But to see people swerving and drifting around busy city streets, nearly running over peds or hitting other vehicles because they're too goddamn stupid to figure out what 'priorities' are... I hope anyone that's so irresponsible, self-centered, and careless as to do something that stupid will be fortunate enough to recieve a driver's side T-bone from a bus, semi, tank, or other large 'lol ur ded' vehicle. Let's see you text when you can't move your limbs, huh?

Angry much?

I think that sociopaths endangering the lives of the people around them is a pretty reasonable thing to be angry about.

Agreed.

However Being angry and wishing death on people are not the same. In fact one of them is rather sociopathic...

**Monster Rain**

I guess I just have a gift for sorting through hyperbole to just get to the actual point of a post.

I don't think anyone is being put in danger by metallifan's statements.

**CT GAMER**

Monster Rain wrote:I guess I just have a gift for sorting through hyperbole to just get to the actual point of a post.

It is good we have a white night such as yourself (with the gift for sorting through hyerbole no less) to save the day...

**Monster Rain**

How did I save the day, exactly?

**MrDwhitey**

By riding a wave of such bluntness, those who were once willing to defy Justice, Peace and Love were forced fleeing from the thread.

Or just by firing rainbows out of various orifices.

**CT GAMER**

MrDwhitey wrote:

Or just by firing out of various orifices.

I agree.

**Monster Rain**

You changed the quote.

**dogma**

MrDwhitey wrote:By riding a wave of such bluntness, those who were once willing to defy Justice, Peace and Love were forced fleeing from the thread.

But I'm still here.

**Monster Rain**

That's because, you sir, are a rebel.

**dogma**

With or without a cause?

**Nocturn**

While I don't agree with the whole texting while driving thing, I find it quite funny when someone is texting while driving their stick-shift, then looks up at the last minute, slamming on their brakes, but unable to downshift cause they have their phone in their hands. Transmissions make the best sounds when they fall off someone's car.

**dogma**

These people clearly never mastered the art of knee driving.

**Medium of Death**

Can you teach us, sensei?

**dogma**

Your phone is held in the left hand, the right hands shifts, easy enough. The great trial is that your left foot must clutch, and your right foot must brake/accelerate while your knees remain in contact with the steering wheel. One must take advantage of the human ankle with great judiciousness.

This cannot be taught, it must be learned.