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My 81 year old Dad is in the hospital right now for 2 weeks, I have seen a lot in 2 weeks, and none of it is good, and none can be blamed on lifestyle at that point.
I just feel like I'm going to crack from what I have seen in the last 2 weeks. I keep thinking of my AA freind saying "You have to FEEL feelings". Well, I don't want to feel them anymore, at least for right now. NOTHING in the way of a good feeling has passed my way in a very long time. I iwsh there was a pill for that...
Like a car (Lexus) that automatically parks itself. Gee...So lazy and filled up with McDonalds grease burgers and fries, they're too lazy to turn a steering wheel. Now that is lazy.
I know a lot of Americans are pretty lazy, but there are plenty of people from other countries that are lazy as well! Only Americans buy nice cars with cool new technology and eat fast food?? lol! Speaking of McDonalds though, and I know it's really off topic, but I think it's so funny when people will get a big, greasy burger and then a diet coke! What is the point in that?! lol!
I always drink diet or water. The sugar is just way tooooo much in a regular soda. It makes me sick.
I have a few friends that started drinking diet soda, for whatever reason (normally because they were dieting), and now they just can't stand regular soda! I can't stand diet, but I can see how people wouldn't like regular soda after getting use to and liking diet soda. The extra sugar would have to taste horrible! lol! I try not to drink much soda anyway, I'm more of a water and tea person myself.
Regular soda tastes like I'm drinking syrup. That said, there are some abysmal diet sodas out there too that taste like, I dunno, industrial sludge thinned with water or something. But while there are several diet sodas I can drink, there are zero "regular" sodas I can tolerate, except for a couple of niche-market "gourmet" sodas made with cane sugar.
Or sometimes.... your back just gives out. It doesn't only happen to the sedentary. It happened to my wife when she was in her early 20s and relatively fit at the time. She has not been the same since. The patronizing implication that it MUST BE your fault if your back gives out because you're not active enough made me so angry that I had to refrain from responding. I'm glad you did it in the level-headed way that I was not able to.
So, why don't you just take off the gloves and let me have it then??? Just do it. It's not like it hasn't been done before. I make a silly comment about a straw, of all things, and everyone comes out of their tree! There's a reason I stopped coming to this forum. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm tempted to come back.
I don't think the auto-parking Lexus has anything to do with people being too lazy to turn a wheel. It's not like anyone's setting the thing up, then kicking back with their newspaper and waiting for the car to park. It's more for people who have difficulty of apprehension about parallel parking. Now granted, if you're getting this option, you probably live an area where you parallel park a lot, and you should be a master at it by now anyways, right? Well, not necessarily; I've been parallel parking my entire life when I go to the city, and still, I get nervous. The auto-park system takes all that away, and lets you relax, while the system takes over making it impossible to bump into other cars.
So, why don't you just take off the gloves and let me have it then??? Just do it. It's not like it hasn't been done before. I make a silly comment about a straw, of all things, and everyone comes out of their tree! There's a reason I stopped coming to this forum. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm tempted to come back.
And stay out.
The reason I didn't is because I knew you didn't intend any offense so it wouldn't make much sense to respond in a defensive manner. At least I didn't think you meant any offense. Now I'm not so sure. So... bye.
I don't think the auto-parking Lexus has anything to do with people being too lazy to turn a wheel. It's not like anyone's setting the thing up, then kicking back with their newspaper and waiting for the car to park. It's more for people who have difficulty of apprehension about parallel parking. Now granted, if you're getting this option, you probably live an area where you parallel park a lot, and you should be a master at it by now anyways, right? Well, not necessarily; I've been parallel parking my entire life when I go to the city, and still, I get nervous. The auto-park system takes all that away, and lets you relax, while the system takes over making it impossible to bump into other cars.
I don't see this as lazy but I don't see it as being particularly useful either. I'm a master parallel parker myself, but it doesn't matter anyway because too many people in this city are not, so my bumpers are all scraped up anyway.
This is more of a "gee whiz, look what we can do with technology" kind of thing for Lexus... and maybe what they're really doing is taking the lessons learned from this application and applying it to other possible uses, like maybe active collision avoidance. Other manufacturers already have one facet of collision avoidance that partially (or I believe wholly in some cases) applies the brakes in an imminent collision. Now imagine adding to that the ability to actively steer around objects as well...
The reason I didn't is because I knew you didn't intend any offense so it wouldn't make much sense to respond in a defensive manner. At least I didn't think you meant any offense. Now I'm not so sure. So... bye.
No, I didn't mean to offend, but I guess you can't say "Boo" anymore without people getting their panties in a bunch.
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Only Americans buy nice cars with cool new technology and eat fast food?? 
lol! Speaking of McDonalds though, and I know it's really off topic, but I think it's so funny when people will get a big, greasy burger and then a diet coke! What is the point in that?! lol! 
I try not to drink much soda anyway, I'm more of a water and tea person myself.
