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avengador1
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DEC 31, 10:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Phonedawgz
Happy New Year Cliff.
It sucks that the US is about the last country to get the New Year. I propose the US move the international date line so we can get it first. We own the UN right? I mean it IS in New York City.
Three more hours for us to get it. |
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Kissing Cliff's butt will not gain you any brownie points, but it will gain you a brown nose. 
See you all next year.  [This message has been edited by avengador1 (edited 01-05-2011).]
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phonedawgz
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DEC 31, 11:31 PM
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As I said before you need to worry about your own morals.
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Khw
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JAN 01, 01:57 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by phonedawgz:
But we all take our eyes off the road to look at the dash ect. We all do the glance around thing. So even if you have the buttons of your dash memorized you still look at your gauges. You still look at other things.
Again it's I'm not trying to argue that texting is a good idea, but what I am saying is texting is only a different distraction. There are also a lot of other distractions. |
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Well. yes. it's called paying attention to what's going on around you. Tunnel vision is bad in a car, you need to know what's happening all around you so you can respond. One must check their speed in order to know if they are within it's limit. Glancing at your mirrors, over your shoulder for a lane change or at your dash gauges is a very poor example. Those things are taught and required for driving, if you don't do them you will fail your behind the wheel test.[This message has been edited by Khw (edited 01-01-2011).]
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avengador1
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JAN 01, 10:34 AM
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Speaking of telling a lie, Mr. not so moral one.
| quote | Originally posted by Phonedawgz
Sorry you are incorrect.
Bye |
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You aren't all you pretend to be and a little searching would provide those facts. I Googled your name and came up with this image of you.
Edit to add.
| quote | Originally posted by Phonedawgz
I'm sure I have said it more than once, and I'm sure those who actually read my posts know this but I do not support the idea of texting on busy highways or city streets. |
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Do I detect dome back pedaling? As I said before, you don't get it. You shouldn't support texting and driving at any time while driving. You have a habit of comparing apples to oranges and claiming they are just different shades of gray. You also try to make it seem like I have claimed that I never speed. You seem to be implying this by repeatedly quoting my 5 to 10 MPH over the limit statement. I said and did that, so what? It's in the past. If you want to see how fast I have driven all you need to do is to search the archives. It's all there and has nothing to do with texting and driving.
My statement about driving with my cruise control on and in the right lane stands, as that is how I have been driving for almost two years now. That is the reality now, not what you are trying to imply. Trying to use my past statements to call me a liar does not work except in your twisted faulty logic. If you peed your bed when you were a kid does that mean you still are a bedwetter? You are using a deflection tactic to draw attention away from the real topic of the discussion and your shortcomings, when it comes to driving. The truth is you can't show that I am lying, because I am not. The past is the past and the present is the present, you can't change that or seem to be able to comprehend it.
You, on the other hand, have bragged that you break the law and text and drive. It doesn't matter how crowded or deserted the road is you are doing this on, it isn't safe and it is Illegal. There is no shade of gray and there is no excuse for this. You know if you are seen doing this that you will be stopped and ticketed, but you still try to justify doing it. There is no justification.
You are a bad example of what one should be doing while driving and are too ignorant to realize this. You have this false sense of pride and smugness that makes you want to defend your erroneous position. One day you will find that you definitely are wrong, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Let's just hope you don't take any innocents along with you when it happens. Darwin and Murphy will be very happy to accommodate you if you don't smarten up. No amount of excuses, deflecting, ignorance, denial, chest pounding, or back pedaling will save you from this.[This message has been edited by avengador1 (edited 01-05-2011).]
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Raydar
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JAN 01, 12:14 PM
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spud321x
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JAN 01, 12:22 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by avengador1:
Speaking of telling a lie, Mr. not so moral one.
You aren't all you pretend to be and a little searching would provide those facts. I Googled your name and came up with this image of you.
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OMG! HAHAHA! Now thats funny right there.
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maryjane
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JAN 01, 12:46 PM
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When one adamantly says that their actions are no worse, or even less bad than other actions, they are minimizing, virtually to the point of "nill", the potentially bad outcomes of their own actions and decisions. That, is a lie people tell themselves to justify or rationalize their actions. There's a reason states and munincipalities have seen fit to pass these laws, and it based on research that have shown conclusively (opinion) that texting while driving is unsafe enough to warrant that legislation. For anyone to ignore that, and say their actions are justified based solely on the fact that it is no worse or less worse than other bad practices is for all intents and purposes, an untruth. It is the same dumb thought process, that people use to speed, race, and drive under the influence. I have yet to talk to or see a drunk driver that didn't say the same thing ("I'm good to drive, no problem, I've done it forever and never had a wreck") That, of course, is an outright untruth. They are simply refusing to acknowledge, based on their previous "good luck", that they are putting others and themselves at a completely un-neccessary risk. No doubt, the transit driver that I quoted several pages back, had also texted before with no adverse outcome, but the results that day was not good.
In light of all your positive and well thought out inputs in tech and GFC Phonedawg, your mentoring to young people, which had to include advise on good decision making policies, it is amazing to me that you would take this stance, based solely on misdirection and spin the subject toward what is done involving other bad practices. To have to go down that avenue to present your argument, should tell you something. You are evidently an experienced driver, and I have no idea what your driving record is, other than what you state here, but bad practices almost always catch up sooner or later, and far too often, it is the other guy--the innocent guy that pays most of the price for a poor decision making process. It's at that "too late" point, that all this justification/spin/rationalization will be for naught.
My own driving record, is not spotless, tho I doubt there is anything on it currently, as the last infraction was over 30 years ago, and was 10 miles over speed limit. (65 in a 55 back in the late 70s). Prior to that, a 45 in a 35, and that is the extent of my bad driving record, and I am 60. I was invloved in a minor Houston accident in '77 that was not my fault. I don't text and drive, not because it's illegal, but because I know it is a major distraction and research shows that. I rarely have the radio on and if so, it is down in volume and I really don't even listen to it. Unless I am in the Indy, my calls come and go thru the hands off OnStar phone. One button on the overhead console, and I don't even have to take my eyes off the road for that. I do not take or make calls while in the Indy while driving. There is just nothing that goes on with my phone that can't wait till I pull over somewhere. And if all you are doing is acknowledging (k) a message, that should give you some indication of just how comparativly unimportant that message really was as well. Feel free to neg me for my thoughts and posts on this subject if you wish, but I am right and you know it.[This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 01-01-2011).]
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84fiero123
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JAN 01, 04:08 PM
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avengador1
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JAN 01, 04:53 PM
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What is it Lassie ol' girl? Timmy fell in the well while texting? Dang it! That's the third time this week.
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Carcenomy
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JAN 01, 07:09 PM
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I can't understand how a thread like this can become four pages and go in the trash can, when nobody's even mentioned that it was proven by an australian university that the biggest distraction of all, above smoking, cellphones etc is actually having children in the car. Go figure.
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