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Interestingly this varies by country and city.
In Australia, it's the Volvo drivers who are the worst - though this may have changed. Over in Canada it's Lexus drivers (all the Volvo drivers over here are ageing hippies whose only crime is driving too slowly and with a hat on).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My experience here is that Subaru has taken over Volvo's aura of iunvulnerability. WRXs excepted, of course.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: My experience here is that Subaru has taken over Volvo's aura of iunvulnerability. WRXs excepted, of course.
Faarrrkkkk off Pete, I drive a 2001 Outback.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote:
Faarrrkkkk off Pete, I drive a 2001 Outback.
That's almost word for word what my youngest bro said!
 Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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In Mexico, it is the bus drivers - believe me.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That's the first rule of driving:-
"Beware of drivers who wear hats"
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Locally our two sets of drivers are the aforementioned BMW's and red pickup trucks (any make/model). The pickups like snagging you with their right-hand rear view mirror. I don't know why color makes a difference.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In the UK the cycling nemesis du jour is the Audi AKA, "The Four Ring Circus". Audis seem to attract a particularly stupid and careless class* of driver that might previously have driven a Beemer.
*Yes, there are sensible and careful Audi drivers, but they do seem to be a _very_ small minority.
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Whatever happened to just sticking your hand out of the window? People these days tend to take it as an insult. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Well... if you are driving on the right side of the road, in the inner lane and stick your hand out the left window to indicate you are merging right, who's gonna see it?
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It is the extended middle finger that causes the insult!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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kmoorevs wrote: People these days tend to take it as an insult.
No, that is accepted, providing the four fingers are together. It's when you use just two and separate them that the trouble starts.
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ok, it's both a pun and a joke...
But seriously, don't robot do that, not people?
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I'm a bit over the Consolas font I've been suing using for coding and I was wondering what everyone else is using for their code font.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 11-Nov-16 11:34am.
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Chris Maunder wrote: the Consolas font I've been suing for coding
I hope you've got some good lawyers! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If only they used a decent font.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Cosmix.org's Droid Sans Mono Slashed is the one I prefer.
[^]
Good for even size less than 8.
Anil
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I've been using Source Code Pro[^] for a couple of years.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I just went through the Adobe rigmarole to test out this "Source Code Pro" font. You have to have their application running to use the "free" font! I have tested it and it is just not good enough, "Consolas" gives me a better editing environment and I don't have to sign up for endless junk-mail and a monitoring program to use it. I have uninstalled it but their is no mechanism to close or delete my "account" with Adobe. Also when I tried to unsubscribe from their emails it said "page not found" once I clicked the unsubscribe button.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: when I tried to unsubscribe from their emails it said "page not found" once I clicked the unsubscribe button
Don't worry; they're not totally incompetent.
Their spam servers work perfectly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks, that was a lot simpler. I still prefer Consolas though! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Odd, I tried it and didn't like it as much. Might be worth revisiting.
Jeremy Falcon
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Webdings. Makes coding fun.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Every so often I think "I'll ask the guys in the Lounge. They are so sensible and mature"
And then it takes me several months of amnesia for that thought to find its way back into my head. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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