OT - What are you doing right now?

Ozzie_Isaac

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

tarheelmatt

I got some peeps in Hyderabad! 

kl8ton

@Sea2Ski this is what I use. 
I am on android. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Interesting thing in India, even the shanties have satellite tv.

Sea2Ski

Waiting for an Uber in Vienna. 

nolaegghead

Sea2Ski said:

Waiting for an Uber in Vienna. 

If you could work "sausage" into that we could make a new meme!

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

Very cool.  I have not been there. 

I was in India many many years ago (Delhi and Agra), and found the population density to be a real trip.  By all accounts it's increased significantly since I was there, so I can't even imagine what it's like now.  

pgprescott

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

Very cool.  I have not been there. 

I was in India many many years ago (Delhi and Agra), and found the population density to be a real trip.  By all accounts it's increased significantly since I was there, so I can't even imagine what it's like now.  

My neighbor used to go routinely for John Deere and would show me pics of 4-6 people riding a moped with their whole life right in their lap amongst other crazy things. The photos were quite disturbing sometimes. 

nolaegghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkHHoOIIn8

nolaegghead

https://youtu.be/kiFDqOYfgYk?t=148

Ozzie_Isaac

pgprescott said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

Very cool.  I have not been there. 

I was in India many many years ago (Delhi and Agra), and found the population density to be a real trip.  By all accounts it's increased significantly since I was there, so I can't even imagine what it's like now.  

My neighbor used to go routinely for John Deere and would show me pics of 4-6 people riding a moped with their whole life right in their lap amongst other crazy things. The photos were quite disturbing sometimes. 

If you look close there are 4 people on this bike .... son, father, daughter, mother sitting side saddle.  Saw this everywhere.

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

Very cool.  I have not been there. 

I was in India many many years ago (Delhi and Agra), and found the population density to be a real trip.  By all accounts it's increased significantly since I was there, so I can't even imagine what it's like now.  

Traffic is bit hectic at times, but they guys here say it is light compared to Delhi.

kl8ton

snowing really hard here right now. . . 

JohnInCarolina

@Ozzie_Isaac - that view looks miles more modern than when I was there.  What blew me away in Delhi was how every single mode of transportation was on the road at the same time.  Cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, rickshaws, donkeys... you name it.  One gigantic stew of people.  

nolaegghead

Plus bipeds galore...

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

@Ozzie_Isaac - that view looks miles more modern than when I was there.  What blew me away in Delhi was how every single mode of transportation was on the road at the same time.  Cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, rickshaws, donkeys... you name it.  One gigantic stew of people.  

Almost everything can be related to Seinfeld

theyolksonyou

Ozzie_Isaac said:

pgprescott said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@JohnInCarolina , Hyderabad.  The city of pearls.

Very cool.  I have not been there. 

I was in India many many years ago (Delhi and Agra), and found the population density to be a real trip.  By all accounts it's increased significantly since I was there, so I can't even imagine what it's like now.  

My neighbor used to go routinely for John Deere and would show me pics of 4-6 people riding a moped with their whole life right in their lap amongst other crazy things. The photos were quite disturbing sometimes. 

If you look close there are 4 people on this bike .... son, father, daughter, mother sitting side saddle.  Saw this everywhere.

See. Lot of this in the DR. Actually saw some one who had designed some homemade outriggers and had people hanging off the sides. 

DoubleEgger

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

@Ozzie_Isaac - that view looks miles more modern than when I was there.  What blew me away in Delhi was how every single mode of transportation was on the road at the same time.  Cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, rickshaws, donkeys... you name it.  One gigantic stew of people.  

Almost everything can be related to Seinfeld

So true. All I can think about is that reverse India episode. 

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

@Ozzie_Isaac - that view looks miles more modern than when I was there.  What blew me away in Delhi was how every single mode of transportation was on the road at the same time.  Cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, rickshaws, donkeys... you name it.  One gigantic stew of people.  

In the city it was mostly motorized,  aside from people walking through traffic.  It is amazing how it all works.  I think the companies who think they can build an autopilot for cars should test them here.  Everything just flows.  Almost no traffic lights, no stop signs, just steady flowing traffic in all directions.  Even on a divided road it was common to see people going the wrong way.  Lanes are painted but nobody pays any attention to them.  Even on uncrowded roads people straddle the lanes.

Outside of town there were rickshaws, bicycles, cattle etc.  The picture below was on the outer loop highway.

DoubleEgger

#neverforget 

Legume

@Ozzie_Isaac I've been to Bengaluru a few times and am astounded by how well traffic flows, exactly as you describe.  It's horribly slow to get anywhere, but that's pure volume, I'm not sure the flow could be much more efficient.  Half the traffic here brings traffic to a standstill.

Also notable, zero road rage with all of that chaos.  Scariest thing to me was the scaffolding around new construction - several stories high and it seemed to be bamboo poles lashed together.

a few pics, first one was actually on the freeway

nolaegghead

Don't eat my grandparents!!

theyolksonyou

Watching Psyche the movie. Don't know a damn thing about the show, but the whole fam n one room never happens. 

nolaegghead

SV salmon, making some squash bisque, starting to watch what I hope is a Saints beatdown on the Dirty Birds....

bgebrent

nolaegghead said:

SV salmon, making some squash bisque, starting to watch what I hope is a Saints beatdown on the Dirty Birds....

Saints goin' down beotch.  You in our yard.

JRWhitee

Finishing the last of the Thanksgiving left overs and getting ready to watch the Falcons spank some Saints!

nolaegghead

bgebrent said:

nolaegghead said:

SV salmon, making some squash bisque, starting to watch what I hope is a Saints beatdown on the Dirty Birds....

Saints goin' down beotch.  You in our yard.

Your mom is going down, on me.

DoubleEgger

Falcons uniforms are terrible 

bgebrent

nolaegghead said:

bgebrent said:

nolaegghead said:

SV salmon, making some squash bisque, starting to watch what I hope is a Saints beatdown on the Dirty Birds....

Saints goin' down beotch.  You in our yard.

Your mom is going down, on me.

We gonna beat you wid ugly uniforms.  

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

bgebrent said:

nolaegghead said:

SV salmon, making some squash bisque, starting to watch what I hope is a Saints beatdown on the Dirty Birds....

Saints goin' down beotch.  You in our yard.

Your mom is going down, on me.

I don’t think those last two words are really necessary, are they?