I have noticed people doing random stuff while stopped at the red light. Mostly it's women applying different forms of makeup but today takes the cake. I saw a mid-upper aged male using his electronic shaver while driving. It wasn't like a small trimmer or groomer but rather a full sized shaver.
So I was wondering what's the craziest thing you (or a friend.. ahem..) may have done, or have noticed others do, while driving. This video doesn't count.
Steering with knees, while both hands free to light a cigarette (I was a passenger)
Glad you made it in one piece.
I remember my uncle as a kid driving a manual van and was changing gears + using the steering wheel while making/rolling a cigarette.
What a amazing skill!!!
That’s a rite of passage!
…I miss the old days when you could do anything in your car and not get slandered on the information highway
I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic. Distracted driving has caused so many deaths that could have been avoided.
I was on a tinder date with someone when she received a d-pic from someone else she had met on the app. It was allegedly taken while the owner of said appendage was driving on the M3. She ignored him. 5 mins later , he sent her a short vid of the money shot🎉💧💧💧! In his 'defence' , he explained, that it was peak hour, bumper-to-bumper and he was bored. We could hear other cars honking in the background in the clip.
I often see women doing their makeup while driving when I'm doing the school drop-offs in the morning. When they're putting on layers upon layers of mascara, you just know , there's no way their eyes are on the road…
did you smash?
Nah..there was no physical attraction at all- she looked like she could be my sister. But we really clicked and are still good friends 4 years later.
'she looked like she could be my sister'
This is almost a prerequisite for most porno's these days.
Don't get me on the 'Daddy' porn. I have a daughter thank you.
@JimB: Would you like some science to go with your porn?
When I was younger, I was attracted to redheads and strawberry blondes with blue/green eyes, which my wife later pointed out, all bore some resemblance to my mother😳 My mother was an Irish lass and quite stunning, by all accounts.
According to my wife, who at the time was working on her masters in psych, there's a term for it. It's called "sexual imprinting". For example, if a goat mother looks after a sheep baby, or a sheep mother looks after a goat baby, then those babies grow up to try to mate with the species of their foster mother, instead of their own. Crazy, isn't it? Explain a lot about how most people ends up with a version of their mother or their father.
However, when my wife came along, she bucked the trend. She looks nothing like my mother. When I met her at 21, I thought she was the most exotic-looking woman in the world: my Pocahontas! She was all I could think of. When we separated , I was so confused as to what my type was and I reverted back to strawberry blondes with light colored eyes. Then I went on that tinder date and realised there was no chemistry at all. My wife had somehow managed to overwrite my sexual imprinting: the all-grown-up baby sheep was now exclusively attracted to lionesses :)
the all-grown-up baby sheep was now exclusively attracted to lionesses
That likely doesn't bode well for the sheep's expected life-span…
@HighAndDry: A lionness is but a big cat - if you know how to make her purr, she'll be putty in your hands- or so says the, perhaps, over-confident little lamb …
@[Deactivated]: I heard once separated, men would attempt to mate with anything that moves! Haha
You still single?
I have heard that theory before, however doesn't apply to me. I'm attracted to women of all races, few of which resembled my mother.
I'm attracted to women of all races, few of which resembled my mother.
Good on you! I wish I was that indiscriminate :P I do find women from all races beautiful but I'm only attracted to a few.
men would attempt to mate with anything that moves!
That's what I was told too at the time and created a tinder account on mates' insistence that it would make me feel better. I did give it a good go but gave up when I realised that I was just looking for my wife in all those women and no one would ever replace her.
Our situation was probably different from most other separated couples anyway. My wife was sick and wanted to move back to her home country to start her treatment. I had commitments that made it impossible for me to leave Australia for an extended period of time. She broke up with me because she couldn't promise she'll come back and said she didn't want me to wait for her.
I was miserable without her , worried sick about her and then I remembered my wedding vows- so I packed my suitcase, resigned from my job and flew to be with her. She's in good health now and we couldn't be happier together.
So no, not single :)
@[Deactivated]: Sorry, but this is a bunch of nonsense, LOL. In spite of the fact some very strange people exist nowdays, they're all still human beings - not a different species. (We're not animals without a human spirit of awareness, who grow up imprinted such that we can't comprehend or acknowledge we're unrelated to the puppy we played with as a baby.) ;-)
Also, people that enter the rabbit hole of this psuedo-science, purposely look for similarities - many of which could be found between ANY two human beings - given that most people (in the same country anyway) watch the same TV shows, speak the same language, have the same clothing stores and takeaways, etc. in every town.
They ascribe and latch onto perceived similarities as 'evidence' because they're looking closely for them, while ignoring the many glaring differences because it doesn't confirm their bias (so why take note of it).
It's like with twins… There's always some documentary where they exaggerate and extrapolate the 'spooky similarities' of twins separated at birth - while ignoring the obvious fact those similarities are found in many other people, and again, discounting all their differences.
In other words, they could have lobbed two tennis balls into a crowd blindfolded, and found a long list of similarities between two the randoms that were hit. But they don't give any weight, don't 'make any connection' then, because their preconceived bias says: "Why should I note similarities to justify a link I'm not looking for… But let me at those twins, and I'll grasp at every similarity I can find!"
Somehow they think it perfectly logical to discount common themes between strangers, while getting excited over similarities of twins - just because they're related.
In other words, a 'researcher' doesn't say, "Wow! You two were chosen at random, and I've found you have A, and B, and C, and even XYZ in common… Gasp - you must actually be related and some mystical force directed the tennis balls to reveal it!"
When it's two strangers it's nonsense science. But when it's twins (or similarities to someone's mother) it becomes hard evidence. It says more about the personal bias of the 'researcher', more than some imprinted preference of two individuals they're observing.
@GregMonarch: Cross-fostering experiments with birds and mammals have revealed that adults prefer sexual partners that are similar to the opposite-sex parent that reared them (Immelmann et al. 1991; Oetting et al. 1995; Kendrick et al. 1998). For example, supporting his optimal outbreeding theory, Bateson (1988) found that Japanese quail (Corturnix japonica) prefer to mate with birds that only differ slightly in appearance from their parents and siblings.
Sexual imprinting on the observed features of the opposite-sex parent during a sensitive period in early childhood might be responsible for shaping people’s later mate-choice criteria. Children might internalize their opposite-sex parent’s phenotype as a template and, at sexual maturity, prefer those who resemble this mental model. In a more recent study comparing more than 300 facial photographs of family members and controls, the subjects correctly matched wives to their husband’s mother (Bereczkei et al. 2002).
Furthermore, a higher degree of similarity was perceived between the husband’s mother and his wife than between the husband and his wife. These results suggest that sons fashion a representation of their mother’s physical appearance and use it for choosing mates. In another study, similarity was observed between the facial photographs of husbands and their wife’s biological father (Gyuris 2003). The subjects correctly matched husbands to their father-in-law at a significantly higher mean rate than expected by chance, and a significantly higher frequency than matching between husbands and wives.
More studies can be found here if you're interested.
P.s: Not my area of expertise. I was only reporting what I was told :)
@[Deactivated]: Like most such 'studies', one can't help wonder how many of these researchers would have been published, received further funding, etc. if they proved the exact opposite. ;-p
@GregMonarch: Talking about people who'll do anything for money, and trying to bring this conversation back to the topic at hand, I got propositioned by a lady of the night whilst stopped at the lights ( so not technically driving) at the intersection of Wells Rd and Nepean Hwy- close to Maccas in Frankston .
It was 11 a.m and I had my toddler in the backseat. So transfixed was I by the erm lady's purple, glittery eyeshadow that I didn't quite catch what she said but I overheard my toddler telling her "I'm a big boy now. I'm 5." ( He's not. He's 2) which made her laugh. So erm, I guess my toddler just lied about his age to engage the service of a sex worker while we were driving to meet up with a friend for lunch. How's that for a crazy stuff that happened on the road?🤣
Sex worker, who by the way, I should add, looked nothing like my son's mother. But purple wiggle is his favourite wiggle though 🤔 What are your thoughts on positive sexual imprint based on one's favourite wiggle? Plausible? :p
@[Deactivated]: Ugh… Reminds me of the time I picked up a hitchhiker, hobbling along in high heels, carrying armloads of stuff - thinking I was helping someone out… Gets into the car and acts all weird about where they're going - won't just give me a street - just: "It's nearby. Just down here a bit. Now turn right. Is it right? Yeah - go right. Now straight through the stop sign…"
FINALLY we get close to the end and asks me do I want 0'ral. "No thanks." Then starts asking for money. "No. I don't have any with me anyway." Then starts feeling around in the dark looking for something to steal I guess… I knew there was nothing so - meh, whatever - try your best. While I contemplate if I would break anything on the car if I told them to get out, they refused, and I'd have to shove them out the door… a police car cruises by visible in the next street over. They swore and finally hurried off. Good riddance!
Won't be helping anyone out again. Maybe only if their car is on fire. No good deed goes unpunished.
@GregMonarch: What I remember the most from our interaction , was her laughter. When my son spoke to her, she looked shocked that someone was acknowledging her as a person and talking to her, and then she laughed! It was such a rusty sound, like she hadn't laughed in a very long time and her face looked different somehow: less grotesque, more human. It made me sad. If I had some cash in the car, I would have given it to you.
I did take some out after lunch and grabbed an extra coffee, half hoping I would see her on our way back but we didn't . I don't know Frankston very well and couldn't risk getting mugged with my kid in the car, so we went back home.
Re, no good deed goes unpunished: indeed. I had one too many coffee that day and I found it hard to fall asleep.
Pimple popping
pick nose and eat it
eating cereal (my ex-wife)
Your ex-wife has a very unique name.
LOL
I bet you tell the step ladder joke.
Craziest thing I've ever done whilst driving was to look at my surroundings before looking at the speedometer.
No way, don't tell me you used your indicators before turning as well!
Is that even legal?! Oh, wait…
When self driving cars reach our shores, they'll have to tweak the program for "local conditions".
First law of Australian robotics - avoid exceeding speed limits
The Zeroth law of Australian robotics - A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Wouldn't want some idiots to try to overrule the first law but I also don't trust a machine :)
Wouldn't want some idiots to try to overrule the first law but I also don't trust a machine :)
That sentence made complete sense in French but in English…not so much. Let me try again:
I don't trust a robot ( I've seen the Terminator !) but I also don't want some idiots overruling the first law of Australian Robotics.
As for, is speeding more dangerous than death itself? I'll have to take your word for it. After all, based on some of your anecdotes, you're way, way closer to death door than I am :P
@[Deactivated]: I was mainly referring to the paperbag anecdote and the pre-tinder era ones… Which lend me to believe that you have progressed much further on the x-axis than I have :p
@[Deactivated]: It's not all that long ago…
It went from hour long sundry run with paper bags to clicking a few buttons for some random stranger to do it in what seemed like a few short years.
@[Deactivated]: And yet, my whole life is contained in those few short years: every conscious thought I've ever had; every girl I've ever kissed; every exams I've ever sat; every time I've made a complete fool of myself; that day, during o'week when I fell head over heels in love with the most beautiful girl I've ever met; that time she picked me over the most popular guy on campus and he almost burst into tears; that time I drove her to the airport, begging her not to board that plane but she still did; the sense of deja vu when it happened again 12 years later; every time she came back; that first time we heard those little hearbeats during the ultra-sound scan and realised there were 2 of them in there; the first time I held each of my children in my arms and thought my heart would explode from so much love; every single sunday morning cuddles with my family; that time one of them puked in my mouth; that time I got myself locked out of the house in my tighty-whities and the old, birdie lady across the road called the cops her girlfriends over; that time a juvenile lemure rubbed himself to completion on the palm of my hand and I was too shocked to do anything about it; that time I wrote what is possibly the longest sentence in a forum post on ozb…
Yep, those "few short years" have been a wild ride for me .Hope they were for you too :)
@[Deactivated]: My life during the transition = no drama, not many and not severe heartaches, many (mis)adventures mainly involving spontaneous travel.
… then social media came along and it was a race for popularity which took me away from learning new skills to sports and body building. What a giant waste of time the whole thing was.
No regrets though. Because I had such a contrasting early adulthood, I can relate to people (many on ozbargain and in real life would beg to differ), otherwise I'd be a hermit.
@[Deactivated]: Vomited. (We're Australians, not Americans.) ;-p
Lemures: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead in Roman mythology. (!?)
@Cheapo Moose: Unless you're caught with one in your boot… That could be a tad tricky to explain away to the cops.
Road head
I'm amazed it took this long for someone to say it.
And I was amazed when it happened too.
all the morons that snapchat/instagram/facebook live while driving, deserve to lose their license and their social media accounts for 6 months
a lot of them lose more than just their license lol ie. dead
youtuber okay!
slow down and let someone cut/merge in front of me
Me: Raise hand to thank anther driver for allowing me to cut/merge in front of them
Other: Whilst stopped at lights, noticed the driver in the lane next to me applying nail polish
Eating KFC while driving? Idk
Yup, a drumstick (dipstick) muncher.
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KFC muncher on the road, true story.
Eat their breakfast. Girl this morning had a large bowl of cereal on her lap at the lights. Have no idea how you can drive properly with it on your lap.
I have seen that too.. a few years ago.
Just saw that not long ago.
I've seen that recently too, no idea how they aren't spilling it.
Pulled up next to a P plate driver at the lights, a mobile phone pressed to their right ear with shoulder, lit cigarette in between fingers with only palm on steering wheel. All the while holding a whole burger in their left handing, chomping away in between conversation on the phone. Light turned green and off they went. Now who said men can’t multitask? 🤣
Using full sized shaver while driving on freeway.
Overtaken by bloke playing a violin. Passed someone playing a flute on the M4 westbound out of London years ago, didn't hang around to see what happened.
Thats impressive actually stupid but impressive
Saw a salary man riding his bike and using an electric shaver few years ago in Japan. Nothing surprises me since then.
saw someone on a bicycle, smoking, talking on the phone and holding an umbrella while riding. beat that.
I take the freeway to and from work everyday. Some of the things I've seen are
Girls doing their makeup. (plenty of these)
A guy watching on his ipad, yes an ipad.
A guy eating with a spoon and using elbow to steer.
A guy watching video on his phone but this was in the city
and of course the usual phone use especially p platers.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/traumatised-driv…
what these people did wasn't very clever
Are you for real? They were pushed onto the tracks
"Victoria Police originally…" … lied. (Imagine my shock.)
I once saw a guy trimming his nose hairs with a pair of scissors. They were using the rear-view mirror too. (we were stopped at a red light)
Was combing my hair at a red light trying to get the perfect Bieber-do for a dumb joke when I got to my friends' place. Started to feel self-conscious and looked behind me to see a couple filming me. Probably made a pretty funny vid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've seen this multiple times, and it's annoying and dangerous. On a 60-80km road, a car wants to turn left into a shop, then it swirls right into the lane on the right before it turns left when the clearance is huge and there's no need for this dangerous act.
Sometimes, at an intersection, a car wants to turn left. After the light goes green, the car gets into the right lane first then turns left.
This annoys the hell out of me. In the few incident I got caught off guard cuz a car just (profanity) turned into my lane without any warning. I usually just beep at them but this keeps happening I don't know if there's anything that needs to be done to stop them from putting others life in danger.
They think their car can't turn left straight away 😂
Saw it maybe 10 years ago. Old lady reading newspaper on her steering wheel in peak hour stop and go traffic.
being attentive while having two hands on the wheel, in a Tesla
Whoa…
10-2 position!
I saw an SUV swerving back and forth in his lane on the Southern Expressway in Adelaide. 100km/h zone. I caught up to the SUV and saw the driver had a mobile phone showing a MOVIE on his dashboard. I mean seriously, WTF. This was at night so the mobile phone was very clear to see, but my dashcam didn't clearly capture the license plate of the vehicle.
Recently saw a guy stopped at the lights start playing a ukulele. Had to look twice as I thought I was seeing things.
That man is about to bust out some sick serenade in the garden overlooked by a maiden's chamber.
Last op for practice.
Getting a hand job :))) good times
I commute an hour each way on a motorbike, filtering by 1000's of cars everyday.
Standouts I have seen are:
Eating cereal (mentioned a few times already, must be more common than I thought)
Brushing teeth
Reading the newspaper on the steering wheel (wasn't sure they still printed papers)
Some guy practising a speech or a part in a play, reading out loud off a clipboard
What really shits me the most though, is the seemingly growing number of drivers that use headphones while driving. In-ear and over-ear. Why?
Mate once at a foot long sub (meatball) whilst dropping me off at the station. Drove a manual. I was impressed.
I've eaten Big Mac meals before (also drive manual). The trick is laying the serviettes on your lap to catch any drips and being strategic on when to take a bite and when to change gear.
Haha. I have that video in the post.
Guy at uni came to class one day wreaking of pot. He said he was trying to smoke his bong in the car and spilt bong water all over himself.
Saw someone playing quite an intense mobile game whilst driving…
If you ever see anyone activate the wipers and it’s not raining, beware, they’re about to turn
You know why that is… some European cars are manufactured with the blinker and light stalks reversed.
I know :-|
Oops, wiper stalk I meant. Yeah, some people that change cars don't actively think and can't 'rewrite' that reflex between different cars.
i do this all the damn time. I have a subaru, wife has the volkswagen and we regularly swap cars (shes got the performance car).
Often have a morning show on my phone in a holder.
Nail filing just use knees for steering.
Drinking coffee most days.
Check emails.
I do 10 hour drives straight and only stop for fuel/food once, need something to stop the boredom.
And no don’t get tired can’t sleep in daylight ever.
To be fair, if the driver needed that to see well…