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Dwight,
Any pics?

There seemed to be a clamber for more wattage over here a few years ago.Now it seems there's less people driving around with four or more lamps on the front.I never feel the need to dazzle anybody.I know how it feels.

I delivered dry bulk and flat bed commodities here & there across LI for 15 years. At 3 am there would often be traffic jams on the LIE & BQE. I used to think "It's 3 am in the frikkin' morning. Where the HELL are you people going? Go the frig home and go to bed!"

My favorite trip 'round there was to deliver dry bulk limestone to Queens, then cut across the Willie B* and Delancey through the tunnel, then load fly ash out of the power plant in Joisey City to go back North. The trip across Manhattan was like visiting three or four separate countries in a few miles - The East Village, SOHO, Chinatown, The gallery district, and so forth. You get a great view of the assorted 'wildlife' from 10 feet in the air. I remember this one guy who was the spittin' image of Charlie Manson, bumming cigarettes in the same spot every day. Then the squeegee dudes near the tunnel. The squeegee dudes are all union. Ever see them out on a National Holiday? Me neither. Union.

* The Willie B was in such rough shape then, (around 16 years ago) that they used to close the inner roadway, as they were afraid it was going to collapse. When I got to the Manhattan side, you could see there were 12 X 12 timbers to hold up the former vertical steel beams that had rusted through and fallen down. I used to wonder if each trip across would be the last, especially on a windy day, when traffic on the inbound side was bumper to bumper and at a full stop, and the vehicles on the other side were bouncing along. From an engineering standpoint, that's perhaps not the most safe stress load for a rickety old rusty bridge? I hear they've refurbed the bridge since then.

Which one's the Willie B? Sorry, not fron around here

I was coming back from Jersey (what exit?) around midnight or so from getting my bari, and I was on the BQE (not the best route BTW), and I see this jackhole with blue halogens on my six like REAL close. Then he bobbed and weaved and barely missed trading paint with my bumper and just as he goes around a corner in front of me I hear a squeele and smell that all too familiar smell of burnt rubber. Traffic stops. Turns out it was JR out for a ride in daddy's maxima with a couple pretty pretty princesses in the back showing off. Whacked a guy while "merging" and met the concrete barrier the hard way. Airbags and everything. Everyone was ok, cell phone in hand. The guy they clipped looked OK, and REAL BIG, so I bet those kids were shakin To his credit, he wasn't yelling or anything! I think he knew they were toast... I wanted to yell "Nice driving A hole" as I went by but I didn't... Anywhoo, just had to share

Willie B = Williamsburg Bridge

Quoted from http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...lr%3D%26sa%3DX:

"Each of the 4,344-ton main cables, (that's 8,688,000 pounds each, in case anyone is counting) which measure 18¾ inches in diameter, is comprised of 37 strands of 208 wires.
"Nearly 17,500 miles of wire are used in the cables that suspend the bridge 135 feet above the East River."

I recall significant snowstorms on the LIE - they would plow the right and middle lanes, and leave the left lane unplowed to get packed into ice.

After my second rear end in my Jeep I bought a Bulletproof bumper http://www.bulletproofmfg.com/. What a bumper!
So I am making a right turn and about 150 yards after the turn I am turning right into a 7-11 parking lot. A kid in a Mustang GT was making a left from the same road I made a right from. He was flying through the turn behind me but I did not think he would go into the right lane. Well as I slowed to go into the lot he was flooring the gas and rear ended me hard. Crumpled his hood, fenders, front cross member, radiator, lights etc. I had some white paint rubbed off on my bumper, it's still etched into the powdercoat.

Clanrickarde,if you've heard of Mahatma Gandhi,consider one of his quotes,"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind".

Gee, I hope I grow up to a tough guy just like you.








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Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
You kill me man!

Ah, I see the disingenuous disciple of Robert E. Howard is presenting his comic book view of the world stage again .

The current term you use, "leftist", to attempt to argue by labeling anyone who has a different viewpoint than yours is quite laughable.
The true historical Leftists (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro) are anything but peaceful. Just like the "rightists" (Hitler, Batista, Franco, Mussolini, Samoza) they ruled through oppression.

However, your usage of the term would include people like Jesus, Martin L. King, Ghandi. Good company indeed!!!
If "Leftist" means someone who loves peace, count me in. Of course that would make a "rightist" someone who loves war.

Your comment about not caring about blind cage drivers
Blind means unable to see, check your dictionary, you'll see that it's true. I for one care very much about a blind driver headed my way.



O K moderator, you might as well lock this one. I try to let it go, but the constant ranting sometimes demands a response.

Hey Kevin

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If the designers of the Triumph (limeys) made a bike with an adeqaute low beam this silly conversation woulda never took place.

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Why get so worked up about a light bulb??

I feel a little tension in your responces.
Have you considered anger managemnet classes or perhaps just simple breathing exercises?
That might work for you.

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O K moderator, you might as well lock this one. I try to let it go, but the constant ranting sometimes demands a response.

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Oh but it's just getting interesting.. who'd have thought a thread about high beam headlights could evoke such passionate responses?

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Actually most of the "rightists" you named were actually lefties.

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Nah, they were right wing. If Communism is the extreme left wing, Fascism is the extreme right. The point is that the lunatic fringe is lunatic regardless and there's not much difference between them. In fact I picture political leanings not so much as a line, but a circle (actually a sphere). And the closer they get to each other on the "north" pole the more they hate. The closer they get to the "south" pole the more gets accomplished.



As for your high beam philosophy, I quite concur .

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As for high beams, and most things, I have a simple philosophy. If it pisses me off when someone does it to me, I try not to do it to others.

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Gee seems kinda simple doesn't it?

I think it's funny how much effort some of you guys put into picking labels for people/groups. There is more than one OK way to view life.