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@bus-facts
the wheels on the bus need at least 4/32nds of an inch tread depth in the front
tread depth in the front
tread depth in the front
the wheels on the bus need at least 4/32nds of an inch tread depth in the front
all through the town
affirmations for people with multiple blogs:
☆ i am on the right blog
☆ i wont accidentally post on the wrong blog
☆ i can get my blogs right
☆ i have a normal amount of side blogs
☆ this isnt going on the wrong blog
me irl
what if we rebrand universal basic income as a monthly stimulus check
begin experiment
If you are driving and someone blinks their brights at you there's a good chance it is a warning for something like, say, a deer playing chicken with cars and that you should probably slow to a crawl lest you get a fuzzy new hood ornament.
Alternatively, you could flip off the person who tried to warn you, have to violently swerve to avoid that deer, and then wait for the person you flipped off to come pull you out of the ditch you ended up in because there isn't even the fancy new iPhone SOS service where you're at because it's so far into the back country.
I'll let you all figure out what happened with the dude I tried to warn this weekend. :)
If someone flashes their high beams at you in the USA it is almost universally understood as 'there is shit ahead to watch out for'. That shit could be animals in the road, an accident, a speed trap/cop or some other hazard. Keep that in mind when you're out and about!
Flashing your lights in the USA can mean a lot of things! Including the above, it can also mean "hey, YOUR lights aren't on/ hey, your brights are on and you're blinding everyone!" It can mean "Hey, your tire looks flat". It can mean "Go ahead and turn, I'm letting you go first".
Basically, if someone flashes their lights at you in the USA, be aware and take note of your surroundings.
if a bus flashes its blinkies at you they're thanking you for letting them go.
The bug bus station is nice because it has so many busses
i'm sorry world. i can no longer be a bus driver, as i am illiterate.
I hate buses so much. Trains are easy, reliable, straightforward. No nonsense. You can trust them. Buses are evil, deceitful creatures who delight in your suffering
yeah that’s fair
bus fact: buses do not delight in your suffering; we are ambivelent to it. trains, however, get off on the suffering of bus passengers in a warped schadenfreude.
bonus car fact: both buses and trains hate cars, but trains have to lug their cars around all day while buses get to intimidate cars into submission.
London-The Famous Route 38 Bus …
A quick search indicates that this corner is a popular photo location, though IMO the OP image would be a lot more iconic if that classic K2 phonebox was accompanied by an equally classic half-cab Routemaster or Regent bus, rather than the modern one in the pic.
Or maybe even that other London transportation classic, the black taxi.
I wonder: Do Americans know about american school buses? Not their existence in general, but how they're seen overseas.
Over here, they're one of the symbols of America, on par with the Statue of Liberty, the flag, the Eagle, and well ahead of any chain restaurant you can name. People won't know any US states, but they will know these vehicles.
The thing is, here in Germany, we don't have dedicated school buses. The general idea is that kids go to school on their own. When that's not practical, they're expected to use (and given free tickets for) public transit. Public transit is designed around this requirement; there are many places where there is a bus, and anyone can get on it, but the route and timetable really only makes sense for school children. In case a dedicated school bus is really needed, that's generally subcontracted out, and the lines either use something like a Sprinter Van for smaller routes, or a normal city or interurban bus (often a used one that's a bit older). School trips are normal public transit, or a rented bus, typically a coach or regional bus.
It's not a perfect system, in the past couple of years there's been an epidemic of people bringing their kids to school in their cars instead of letting them walk, which is less than ideal. It is what it is. But building a dedicated network of public transit lines only for students, and building dedicated vehicles only for that, has never occurred to anyone here.
Of course we know about these buses, from movies and such, but they're as foreign here as cacti or pick-up trucks (actually we're seeing more and more of these here) or yellow cabs (all europeans will assume all cabs in the US are yellow until they actually visit).
You do see these buses here at times, because people still generally like the idea of the US, even if they have a lot of issues with a lot of details, and so folks bring them over, along with stretch limos and stuff (also not really a thing here). And of course, if someone goes to all that trouble, they don't do it to haul school kids, they rent it out for city tours or as a party bus or whatever.
So you see these yellow things as a symbol of faraway places, scenic vistas, some vague undefined idea of freedom that doesn't necessarily hold up to any contact with reality, and it's just a huge part of the whole US aesthetic.
And then you go to a student exchange with the US, and you finally get the chance: You yourself get to ride in one of these iconic chrome yellow buses! It looks just like in the movies! You get in, you drive in them a little…
…and you realise they're shit. Just the worst buses in the western world. Terrible suspension. Uncomfortable seats with weirdly high backs (so they don't have to put seatbelts in, they just restrict how far kids can fly in an accident). Everything made out of the cheapest materials. Turns out the reason why the US uses school buses like that instead of normal modern city buses, which the US has, is to save money and because they just hate kids.
And then it hits you why US Americans say "as American as apple pie", a dish that is made and enjoyed literally anywhere in the world, instead of "as American as yellow school buses". Of course the Americans already knew all this. They got tortured by these things forever. It would never occur to them to see this as a symbol of America, it's just a normal part of life for them. It's a symbol of school and school life and sometimes normalcy, and tells us that these actors getting out of it are supposed to be teenagers, nothing more.
But most people in Europe have, of course, never ridden on these buses. So when they see them in movies and TV, that's a giant big yellow signifier that we're not in Hessen or Wallonia or wherever anymore. A symbol of a different world, one that may be at most a once-in-a-lifetime-experience for most people, just like a picture of a tropical beach, Mayan Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or Hildesheim (there's no reason to go there twice). And I think Americans don't know that, and that's fascinating.
as a school bus driver who did not grow up riding them (my hometown used old city buses or just regular city bus routes growing up) this is so weird for me to read because i don't even think of a school bus as a part of regular life
school buses aren't ubiquitous in the us, only private schools had them in my hometown and even now the district i work with recently switched the high schoolers to the public metro buses with free travel passes.
i think the yellow bus is dying. we've already switched to flat fronts in many places, or my company has switched to electric, but the districts want to cut costs even more and would rather abandon school buses entirely because we "cost too much". my cousins in texas are getting forced into buses built for elementary children three high schoolers to a row against the design standards. my local district is a "walking district" which means instead of hiring buses they just build more schools (i suspect some embezzlement as this district keeps siphoning money in really strange ways and then underserving the kids); the few routes they have have as of this year been switched to a staggered timetable that forces middle schoolers to wake up even *earlier* so that one bus can service 3 schools (something that can be done, the district i worked for last year did it, but is absolutely miserable for the kids getting to school while it is still dark out and has been proven to lead to more safety incidents)...
like, i didn't ride a school bus until i was in college and we took a trip in a big old blue one with bad shocks that knocked my pocket knife out of my bag on a bad bump (i never found it) and now even the people who have used them for decades are abandoning them.
are we losing an american institution without even realizing?
zeekayart, with the power of phonetic pronunciation of letters, and general art snobbery!
Killing.
Uh…… technology…..?
….m…maracas..
Well my username is the demon king of lust-
So sex????
ME AM DRAGON!
breath at night
What tf can a Chicken named Cheese do
Oh I’m fucking set baby
Blasts. Stupid looking, extremely powerful blasts
Jesus I’m BBC Sherlock now. Not sure if it’s good or bad
The power of Good Manners!!
Pretty sure I just became this dude:
Queen Midas + Mrs. Freeze + coming back to life when I die. Seems like a mixed bag honestly ^^;
I get drunk Canadian-style
I have blue hair and??? Idk what to do about the misfit part. Do I break puzzles??
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
I tell really sad stories
Uh… Be an undead hitchhiker?
INFODUMP BE UPOM YE⚡️⚡️⚡️
(jk I already do this)
i can throw carrots at you…. or give you soup ig
ALCHEMY
Green
god.
im a gamer. smite me please. I dont want this.
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"My son is normal!" sir your daughter pretends to be a city on the internet
"My daughter is normal!" ma'am your son pretends to be a micronation on the internet.
"My daughter is normal!!" Miss, your child pretends to be a shoe store on the internet
"My daughter is normal!!" Miss, your child pretends to eat posts the internet
Oh I stopped paying attention. 1000 notes!!
CHEESUS CHRIST DUDE THIS JUST GAVE ME 68 NOTES
@amtrak-official
Nobody thinks I'm normal even if they don't know about the train blog. I am just not mentally well
i roleplay as a bus on tumblr. i am normal.
If you take the bus, wave to the driver and thank them as you're getting off the bus.
Being a bus driver is an underappreciated and difficult job but still very vital to society. They still have to do customer service and deal with rude and even aggressive passengers, and on top of that have to deal with traffic and other drivers all day (and let's face it, there's a lot of bad drivers out there who aren't considerate about sharing the road). All while providing an invaluable service of getting us where we need to go. Showing them some appreciation can go a long ways for someone doing such an important job that usually gets little to no recognition or thanks.
I went to a baseball game and this popped up on the screen and I burst out laughing
just a psa that today's poem of the day is worth reading
