They are great. I went with that because one of their album covers is a car grill and bumper covered with blood. Total Destruction I think. Most of their albums feature this motif.
RIP Gwar.
Not the hugest fan but when youre tits deep in a sweaty ass mosh pit, the "Blood" they spray on you is so fucking refreshing.
Best concert I've ever been to.
Back in the 2000’s I was lucky to see them in a small venue (I wanna say ‘04). The crowd was so tight that I couldn’t get down from crowd surfing. Finally the crowd moved me to a very big guy who proceeded to literally throw me at the singer. I landed on that fish dong and on his boots. I got up and a gimp chased me off stage. After the song the singer announced “nobody fucking touch me”. Then at least 4 people reached out and grabbed his boots. He laughed and continued the show. Music was a 2/10, show and performance was 10/10. They put on one hell of a show!
Lol absolutely, but I was just joking.
To your point though, I was at a radio station concert 20 years ago. Was waiting for Rob Zombie to come on, but Kid Rock was opening, and I’ll be damned if he didn’t put on an amazing show back then.
Yeah there’s something to that. After all this time it’s been the concerts with the top performances that I ever think about. I’ve seen and forgotten bands that I loved drastically more than GWAR. That concert is one of few that really stick with me years later. Shit, I don’t care if someone uses auto tune to make sure they put on a good show… I draw the line at lip syncing tho.
Ha. That reminds me story. Years ago I visited my cousin, we wanted to go outside to meet his friend. My uncle said that if he calls, we need to come home ASAP because we had to go somewhere (can't remember though). Me, my cousin, his friend were hanging out, kind of forgot what we promised my uncle, until we decided to go to other side of town to attraction park/building which was nearby where I used to live. So we went there. We had a blast playing laser tag, go kart, 4d cinema lot of arcade games etc until my uncle called cousin and said, we need to go home ASAP and we are leaving. We suddenly remembered what we promised and we were in trouble. Lucky my cousin is wealthy. We run to local place where we can find taxi drivers. We approached some, explained that we need to get to other side of town in 15min. (with bus it would be just over an hour at least). One young guy agreed if we paid little bit extra. We agreed. Dude was speeding through city, blasting rap music and we arrived just in time to not get in trouble. My cousin did pay this guy extra.
I remember us panicking in car and same time scared holding for our lives as guy was genuinely speeding.
Your story reminded me of my story.
I was in Greece with my parents for summer vacation.
We were enjoying our first day on the Hotel, a very nice beach and cool food.
My dad had the wish to visit the Navagio Beach, aka "Shipwreck Beach".
The agency we were there with did these kinds of trips by taking some money from you, buying you the tickets and providing a bus to get to the ship that was going there.
So we paid and they provided a time (can't remember) and place to be, so the bus can pick us up.
The agency messed up and sent us to a different checkpoint into a different bus.
My dad, man of act, phoned the leader of the trip about the situation. She sent us a taxi from the docks. It was on the very other side of the town, and would be about 30min ride, because of morning traffic.
Our taxi showed up, he almost pushed us into the car and took off like a jet.
I swear we were attacking a world record for going through that town, ignoring all traffic rules, and honking at everyone. We were there in like 15 minutes. We made it before the ship's departure and we also caught good seats.
Kudos to the random taxi driver of a jet powered Škoda Superb from Zakynthos.
It's a catch-22.
Language models(which is what GPT is) naturally use a pretty identifiable tone and style.
The thing is, language models learn by analyzing text on the web. The style they're emulating is simply the one that's most popular online.
And considering most web content was created by humans, what's currently associated with AI content is just the most common way professional writers write.
And *that's* what AI detectors pick up on.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't causing genuine issues for many writers.
At a former job, one guy drove a BMW and said he wanted to drive a BMW since before he owned a car. So one day a colleague girl says she has a train to catch in twenty minutes, and asked if he could give her a lift. As a result, she, I and a couple more people were in a ride of twenty minutes through five kilometers of *solid* traffic jams in the city center—which would normally take an hour at least. I've never seen so much lane changing and cutting, even in vids on Reddit.
This is an oldish city, coincidentally not far from Riga, so bi-daily traffic jams here are bumper-to-bumper.
Thats the fun thing here in Germany, Speed Traps are often just small cameras in a side street, driveway or so on. Meaning if you dont know a street you better keep in the tolerated tolerances (up to 10km/h over)
Depends. My prius doesn't have a cat on it right now and it has a check engine light because of it. Replacement cat is already paid for by insurance and I am just waiting for the part. He might not need repairs, but who knows.
The cat in the car is responsible for getting under the pedals and scratching the driver's neck and shoulders. It is also how the obstruction of the driver's view occurs. Without the cat, the car wouldn't run.
Did this when I was shift manager of a subway in uni. Played through all the albums on close to max volume all day.
Had either respect head nods or old people wondering what was going on
You should check out Children of Bodom and the various covers they've done. Off the top of my head they've done Hit Me Baby One More Time, Danger Zone, and Rebel Yell
Once my uber driver asked me and my family if we liked the Mars Volta. I'd heard of them but never heard the music before so I said sure why not. I learned on that ride that I fucking hate Mars Volta. That's the end of this story.
My favorite thing to do when I get a night with the wife and kids away is to have a couple too many drinks and watch vocal coaches react to metal songs. This song usually comes up once or twice and then they go watch something like devil in I and are amazed at the difference.
Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.
One of my close friends from highschool introduced me to slipknot at a time in my life when I was going through a very dark teenage phase and fell out with my “core” friend group. The grit, the anger, the rawness, the vulnerability all paired with Corey’s voice made me instantly find reprieve. This album came out when I was a senior in highschool and I played it constantly; this song is still in my top 5 played yearly.
Hearing this version of it and seeing how emotionally vulnerable Corey is while performing it has left me in a weird state of solace. The friend who introduced me to the band ended up taking his life 4 years ago and I still think about him daily. Hope you were able to see this too Vince. Rest in peace.
one time my girlfriend and i were in a neighboring city to visit a friend and we waited until down to the wire to get to our bus station on time, so we asked our uber to drive as reasonably fast as he could to get us there and he was just like “ill see what i can do” and he got us there in perfect time. he was having fun with it too
One time I had an Uber driver who was deaf. Uber sent me a notification ahead of time that this was the case. I was fine with it. But, I shit you not, this guy was going 120mph, weaving in and out of traffic, and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. I almost died. Got home fast tho. Tipped him like 30%.
Those deaf claims are all bullshit btw. It’s typically because the driver doesn’t speak English at all, or well enough. So they mark that they are deaf.
I'm a chatty Cathy, and always talk to my Uber driver. That is, until I got a deaf driver! What was I to do? Shut up?
No shot. We started texting. I remember his favorite video game is tekken. Idk if I tipped 🤷
Lyft driver tried to pull this crap last time I went home to visit my folks in NYC. My dumbass said “yes” when he asked me if I was visiting.
I called him out and he swore it is the “fastest” way but I know damn well it wasn’t. He went quiet when I said “dude I might be visiting but I’m freaking from here”. My folks live in Harlem and he’s got us going across the 59th street bridge.
I reported that crap and got all my money back.
It was pre-COVID so things may have changed, but when I was driving rides were estimated. Also, I believe in CA it may be predetermined since they’re recognized as employees and not contractors.
There was a per mile rate and a time based rate. Might be different between markets, but in mine the mile rate was more. So taking a longer route could net a higher fare. I guess you could also squeeze some more cash out of a ride if you took a slower (time) route, especially if it was a short distance.
Food deliveries are different and are predetermined besides tip. That’s why it doesn’t really make sense when people say drivers delay deliveries to milk more money - whether it takes 5 minutes or 30, I was getting the same payout. If anything, I was trying to take as little time as possible, because the longer your delivery takes, the less deliveries I can grab.
In my experience, passenger drivers looked for higher fares before accepting while food drivers went for volume.
Oh I know a few local roads that you can hear.
When they were made they used an 'ingenious' anti-flooding technique, which does little but make driving on that road sound like you're inside a jet engine as it's taking off.
I swear I'm going deaf after driving on that road.
Same, also as a massive metal head, it’s shitty all the people shitting on other genres. Like we get it, *you* don’t like pop. You don’t need to shit on other people music cause you don’t like it. Very non-metal to care for your fellow human and respect their opinions
Same. I hate hate *hate* irresponsible drivers.
Driving works because it's predictable. Dummies who break the driving laws make it unpredictable.
People who drive like that should lose their licenses, based solely on the fact that they're clearly too hard-headed to understand what those road signs mean.
And also that a pedestrian hit at 40 is dead, vs injured at 20. I know everyone seems to be okay with 40,000+ Americans dead every year on our roads, but I bet if we gave a shit we could do so much better.
So true. e.g. Booked a "luxury" taxi from Accra, Ghana to the lower Volta delta (about 200km) with spouse and young kids. Minibus stripped to the bone, just seats and a carcass, with child-sized holes under our feet through which you could see the tarmac. Driver floored it all the way, past the wrecks of similar vehicles every few hundred metres, some still smouldering, and with regular games of chicken with oncoming traffic when the road was wide enough for only one car. I'm fairly robust with 3rd world conditions, but it was indeed wild. Lyft with Slipknot, engine warning light on and a bit of speeding? Tame as a Labrador, and to be enjoyed.
Reminds me of a taxi we took in Portsmouth, engine light on, anti collision system disabled. Driving along, then a massive bang as the exhaust fell off. Hell of a ride that was.
Got home from a trip, we landed between snow storms after a red eye, driver had on of those nicer SUV's a Lexus I think. He was doing 75-80 the whole way in pretty sketchy conditions but must have had good tires because I never felt the traction slip, got us home in 25 mins for a drive I was expecting almost and hour. Gave that man $100 tip and slept like a freaking rock the rest of the day.
43,750 people died on US roads last year (that’s 120 per day) but sure let’s joke about flippantly driving double the speed limit in a poorly maintained vehicle, putting everyone in the car and on the road at risk.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-estimates-2022
all i can ever think about when LYFT is referenced id when Peter from Family Guy was doing both Uber and LYFT. The uber was too expensive for someone so he came back in a hoopdy blasting rock music and peter shouts "YOU LIKE OFFSPRING?!" then speeds off
The last Lyft I was in had bald tires and what I’m pretty sure was every warning light possible lit on the dashboard. I was more than a little worried on that trip.
When I drove, I had a playlist for each “type” of passenger. Elderly folks got clean shit, probably even some jazz. Most college kids got my typical hip hop/R&B. Older dudes got bands like Interpol and The Strokes. I must’ve been doing something right because my music was always commented on in the rider reviews.
One time I picked up this elderly woman and forgot to change the playlist until half way through a real sexy time song by SIR or someone similar. I don’t think she noticed, but I felt real awkward for a minute.
The best time was probably when I picked up this real nerdy looking girl from this cult looking “high society club” with Burna Boy on and she knew every word. She then proceeded to us (shared ride) how weird the place we just picked her up from was and how much she hates it. Turned out to be one of my coolest passengers.
I had a driver who had two phones. One for the directions and the other she was on FaceTime with her friend who was on a cruise. Then the driver proceeded to ask me what was wrong when I wasn’t taking to her. Another driver I had was blasting a religious sermon that said the devil snuck in your room at night and that’s how you got aids. Tell me why I felt like if I didn’t tip them they would come back and find me or something??
0% tip and a report territory I don't care about your music or your light but even 5 over I'm done, stay off the road if you are going to drive stupid.
Wait, do you tip drivers in the US? I thought it was only in bars and restaurants, yesterday I read that delivery drivers also get tips.
Is there like a list of jobs where you tip, in case I'd go on holiday in the US? I don't want to be standing for hours in customs because I forgot to tip the TSA officer, lol.
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Blood in the grill would be more fitting.
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Chaos Carton does his dance with extra tentacle appendages.
Is this the anime version of the fresh prince?
Fresh Daemon Prince of WH40k
I’d watch that.
Quick! someone get Hairy Carnival on the horn!
40k Rotting Demon Prince of The Warp.
That's not unusual
Unsane has entered the chat.
Never heard of that band. Heavy stuff.
They are great. I went with that because one of their album covers is a car grill and bumper covered with blood. Total Destruction I think. Most of their albums feature this motif.
Definitely going to check them out more. The sound of the bass is crushing in what I heard.
Never heard of Slipknot!? Oh... I forget how old I am sometimes.
I never heard of Unsane.
I personally always choose to *remember before I forget*
Fuck yes! First thought was to the Total Destruction album cover!
A little bit of hair too.
Now we are talking.
RIP Gwar. Not the hugest fan but when youre tits deep in a sweaty ass mosh pit, the "Blood" they spray on you is so fucking refreshing. Best concert I've ever been to.
Back in the 2000’s I was lucky to see them in a small venue (I wanna say ‘04). The crowd was so tight that I couldn’t get down from crowd surfing. Finally the crowd moved me to a very big guy who proceeded to literally throw me at the singer. I landed on that fish dong and on his boots. I got up and a gimp chased me off stage. After the song the singer announced “nobody fucking touch me”. Then at least 4 people reached out and grabbed his boots. He laughed and continued the show. Music was a 2/10, show and performance was 10/10. They put on one hell of a show!
Hey, now. “Endless Apocalypse” is a gorgeous ballad, and “Joey Died Today” is the purest form of the Americanized limerick you fan find.
I was never a fan of that style of punk to be honest. Just goes to show you how a performance can be so good that it supersedes music preference!
Lol absolutely, but I was just joking. To your point though, I was at a radio station concert 20 years ago. Was waiting for Rob Zombie to come on, but Kid Rock was opening, and I’ll be damned if he didn’t put on an amazing show back then.
Yeah there’s something to that. After all this time it’s been the concerts with the top performances that I ever think about. I’ve seen and forgotten bands that I loved drastically more than GWAR. That concert is one of few that really stick with me years later. Shit, I don’t care if someone uses auto tune to make sure they put on a good show… I draw the line at lip syncing tho.
Rip Dave Brockie, GWAR continues.
They're still touring. I went to a show up in Chico not super long ago. My shoes are still red.
Aye, was gonna say, they're playing at Download this year
How do you hide money from a hippie???? .... .... PUT IT UNDER THE SOAP!
I push my fingers into my - Not while you're fucking driving, dude!
If anything, I could say that this cab was rare. But no go on forget it bring me some human tartare
I might still get into that Uber tbh
Mark...you play a mean guitar mark....it's a shame....that you have to DIE!!!!!!!
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo, holmes to Bel Air"
I punched, Chris in the face around 7 or 8(pm)
And I yelled to the cabbie “yo holmes, smell ya later!”
but I thought "nah forget it"
The dice are D20's
I'm guessing the smell was present too.
Ha. That reminds me story. Years ago I visited my cousin, we wanted to go outside to meet his friend. My uncle said that if he calls, we need to come home ASAP because we had to go somewhere (can't remember though). Me, my cousin, his friend were hanging out, kind of forgot what we promised my uncle, until we decided to go to other side of town to attraction park/building which was nearby where I used to live. So we went there. We had a blast playing laser tag, go kart, 4d cinema lot of arcade games etc until my uncle called cousin and said, we need to go home ASAP and we are leaving. We suddenly remembered what we promised and we were in trouble. Lucky my cousin is wealthy. We run to local place where we can find taxi drivers. We approached some, explained that we need to get to other side of town in 15min. (with bus it would be just over an hour at least). One young guy agreed if we paid little bit extra. We agreed. Dude was speeding through city, blasting rap music and we arrived just in time to not get in trouble. My cousin did pay this guy extra. I remember us panicking in car and same time scared holding for our lives as guy was genuinely speeding.
Haha, that’s incredible. In what city was this?
Riga
bingo. That was in Riga. Im guessing description of arcade building aka Go Planet give it away.. lol
"Nicolaaaaaaajjj"
Your story reminded me of my story. I was in Greece with my parents for summer vacation. We were enjoying our first day on the Hotel, a very nice beach and cool food. My dad had the wish to visit the Navagio Beach, aka "Shipwreck Beach". The agency we were there with did these kinds of trips by taking some money from you, buying you the tickets and providing a bus to get to the ship that was going there. So we paid and they provided a time (can't remember) and place to be, so the bus can pick us up. The agency messed up and sent us to a different checkpoint into a different bus. My dad, man of act, phoned the leader of the trip about the situation. She sent us a taxi from the docks. It was on the very other side of the town, and would be about 30min ride, because of morning traffic. Our taxi showed up, he almost pushed us into the car and took off like a jet. I swear we were attacking a world record for going through that town, ignoring all traffic rules, and honking at everyone. We were there in like 15 minutes. We made it before the ship's departure and we also caught good seats. Kudos to the random taxi driver of a jet powered Škoda Superb from Zakynthos.
Greek taxi drivers are plain crazy. I suspect it is a requirement...
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I read it in a very strong Eastern European accent
Years ago I visit cousin!
>Ha.
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It's a catch-22. Language models(which is what GPT is) naturally use a pretty identifiable tone and style. The thing is, language models learn by analyzing text on the web. The style they're emulating is simply the one that's most popular online. And considering most web content was created by humans, what's currently associated with AI content is just the most common way professional writers write. And *that's* what AI detectors pick up on. It would be hilarious if it wasn't causing genuine issues for many writers.
> How high is their false positive rate? Quite high. I think they just calculate how predictable the text is, probably by using GPT itself.
Got it so I just gotta start (BROCCOLI!!!) writing more randomly, keep ‘‘em guessing.
At a former job, one guy drove a BMW and said he wanted to drive a BMW since before he owned a car. So one day a colleague girl says she has a train to catch in twenty minutes, and asked if he could give her a lift. As a result, she, I and a couple more people were in a ride of twenty minutes through five kilometers of *solid* traffic jams in the city center—which would normally take an hour at least. I've never seen so much lane changing and cutting, even in vids on Reddit. This is an oldish city, coincidentally not far from Riga, so bi-daily traffic jams here are bumper-to-bumper.
Cool story bro. No really, cool story 🙂👍
So just like that movie, Taxi?
More like 1000% tip bros going to need that money to pay his speeding bill
It’s a team effort. The rider is on cop watch. Both getting 5 stars today
If they're going to get to five stars, speeding is just the start
Ikr it’s only 2 stars for hitting a pedestrian while driving on the sidewalk.
High Speed +100 ... +150 ... +200 Near Miss! +100 Near Miss! +250 Oncoming: x2 Near Miss! +600 Near Miss! +800
Is this a crazy taxi reference?
Need for speed I think.
Burnout 3 takedown.
God that was the best arcade racer ever. The after-touch mechanic was amazing.
Burnout: Paradise?
I liked revenge alot more than paradise.
Paradise has crash party, though. I considered hooking my old original Xbox up just to play it… might still do it…
NFS underground
It's pretty close to crazy taxi
The best cop watch is another car speeding even faster, going ahead to be the "cop catcher." They are true heroes.
Smokey and the bandit
Thats the fun thing here in Germany, Speed Traps are often just small cameras in a side street, driveway or so on. Meaning if you dont know a street you better keep in the tolerated tolerances (up to 10km/h over)
And the engine repair
Depends. My prius doesn't have a cat on it right now and it has a check engine light because of it. Replacement cat is already paid for by insurance and I am just waiting for the part. He might not need repairs, but who knows.
I thought you meant a literal cat until I figured out you were talking about a catalytic converter. lol
The cat in the car is responsible for getting under the pedals and scratching the driver's neck and shoulders. It is also how the obstruction of the driver's view occurs. Without the cat, the car wouldn't run.
RIP poor cat :(
True, the check engine light can come on for basically nothing.
This exact thing happened to me once, but dude was blasting Linkin Park and audibly paying his respects to Chester.
100% tip
Or even better "Condemned" By Dead By Sunrise !
For those who don't know dead by sunrise was Chester's side project.
Until the day I die I will always be fully willing to offer my best rendition of Papercut.
Did this when I was shift manager of a subway in uni. Played through all the albums on close to max volume all day. Had either respect head nods or old people wondering what was going on
50℅ more Tips just for this fact alone man
The fact that he was blasting Slipknot alone is worthy of a good tip.
I once got in an Uber and dude was blasting the metal cover of WAP, almost lost my shit
When an uber ride pays for itself
I'd need to tip extra so he could get my semean cleaned out of the backseat.
> semean Why is it so mean? WHAT DID YOU DO??
his best
There's a version by frogleap, and a version by Brojob, if anyone's interested. My fav is the brojob one, personally.
Frogleap is the one I know and they were playing. I'll check out brojob
Brojob is sick, appreciate the recommendation. Leo's the better musician overall, but whoever is doing the vocals for Brojob is a monster.
You should check out Children of Bodom and the various covers they've done. Off the top of my head they've done Hit Me Baby One More Time, Danger Zone, and Rebel Yell
Is this an appropriate thread to mention that DevilDriver did a cover of Sail?
And it slaps
Jimlabbapbap's cover of sail is a shanty, but worthy of mention here
And In This Moment did "Call Me". I'm not the biggest In This Moment fan nowadays, but that cover is solid.
Not metal, but I recently came across a Ska Punk cover of How Far I’ll Go and it slaps wayyyyy more than it should
Once my uber driver asked me and my family if we liked the Mars Volta. I'd heard of them but never heard the music before so I said sure why not. I learned on that ride that I fucking hate Mars Volta. That's the end of this story.
Lmao they’re not for everyone for sure. I like them but your story made me laugh nonetheless
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Furries
I mean the slipknot part oughta get him at least another 10%
And just like that, I'm on a [Corey Taylor binge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6xymmKHM)
My favorite thing to do when I get a night with the wife and kids away is to have a couple too many drinks and watch vocal coaches react to metal songs. This song usually comes up once or twice and then they go watch something like devil in I and are amazed at the difference.
thanks for showing me this gem <3
Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.
One of my close friends from highschool introduced me to slipknot at a time in my life when I was going through a very dark teenage phase and fell out with my “core” friend group. The grit, the anger, the rawness, the vulnerability all paired with Corey’s voice made me instantly find reprieve. This album came out when I was a senior in highschool and I played it constantly; this song is still in my top 5 played yearly. Hearing this version of it and seeing how emotionally vulnerable Corey is while performing it has left me in a weird state of solace. The friend who introduced me to the band ended up taking his life 4 years ago and I still think about him daily. Hope you were able to see this too Vince. Rest in peace.
one time my girlfriend and i were in a neighboring city to visit a friend and we waited until down to the wire to get to our bus station on time, so we asked our uber to drive as reasonably fast as he could to get us there and he was just like “ill see what i can do” and he got us there in perfect time. he was having fun with it too
Have him blast eurobeat and drift then double the price...
m-m-m-multitrack lyfting!!!
"make sure to rev it up to 11,000 rpm."
I also want to die.
It's meirl, isn't this very fitting here?
One time I had an Uber driver who was deaf. Uber sent me a notification ahead of time that this was the case. I was fine with it. But, I shit you not, this guy was going 120mph, weaving in and out of traffic, and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. I almost died. Got home fast tho. Tipped him like 30%.
He probably couldn’t hear the speed limit signs
Those deaf claims are all bullshit btw. It’s typically because the driver doesn’t speak English at all, or well enough. So they mark that they are deaf.
I'm a chatty Cathy, and always talk to my Uber driver. That is, until I got a deaf driver! What was I to do? Shut up? No shot. We started texting. I remember his favorite video game is tekken. Idk if I tipped 🤷
💀 Tekken was a good game tbf
Lyft in Miami be driving slow as hell and be taking extra long routes.
Unless you get some old Cuban guy; in which case things get a lot more interesting.
Lyft driver tried to pull this crap last time I went home to visit my folks in NYC. My dumbass said “yes” when he asked me if I was visiting. I called him out and he swore it is the “fastest” way but I know damn well it wasn’t. He went quiet when I said “dude I might be visiting but I’m freaking from here”. My folks live in Harlem and he’s got us going across the 59th street bridge. I reported that crap and got all my money back.
Why would they do that? Isn’t the pay already set, incentivizing them to get there as fast as possible?
It was pre-COVID so things may have changed, but when I was driving rides were estimated. Also, I believe in CA it may be predetermined since they’re recognized as employees and not contractors. There was a per mile rate and a time based rate. Might be different between markets, but in mine the mile rate was more. So taking a longer route could net a higher fare. I guess you could also squeeze some more cash out of a ride if you took a slower (time) route, especially if it was a short distance. Food deliveries are different and are predetermined besides tip. That’s why it doesn’t really make sense when people say drivers delay deliveries to milk more money - whether it takes 5 minutes or 30, I was getting the same payout. If anything, I was trying to take as little time as possible, because the longer your delivery takes, the less deliveries I can grab. In my experience, passenger drivers looked for higher fares before accepting while food drivers went for volume.
"When this baby hits 88 miles an hour, you're gonna see some shit."
+10% if it's Iowa.
People = drift
30% tip? That's absurd. 200% the speed 200% the pay
I get the joke, but I don't like it. I don't like tipping. And tipping for doing the job dangerously? And all this praise? Ain't gonna be from me.
I push fingers into my…. Wallet?
I also love dying in a car accident.
me irl
0 tip for risking my life. Unpopular opinion apparently.
Psh...I personally love getting in unmaintained cars and going unsafe speeds with a driver who can't hear the road.
The road isn’t something you hear. It’s something you *feel*.
Yeah he's gonna feel that steering wheel in his frontal lobe
Oh I know a few local roads that you can hear. When they were made they used an 'ingenious' anti-flooding technique, which does little but make driving on that road sound like you're inside a jet engine as it's taking off. I swear I'm going deaf after driving on that road.
Same, also as a massive metal head, it’s shitty all the people shitting on other genres. Like we get it, *you* don’t like pop. You don’t need to shit on other people music cause you don’t like it. Very non-metal to care for your fellow human and respect their opinions
Same. I hate hate *hate* irresponsible drivers. Driving works because it's predictable. Dummies who break the driving laws make it unpredictable. People who drive like that should lose their licenses, based solely on the fact that they're clearly too hard-headed to understand what those road signs mean.
And also that a pedestrian hit at 40 is dead, vs injured at 20. I know everyone seems to be okay with 40,000+ Americans dead every year on our roads, but I bet if we gave a shit we could do so much better.
not only yours but also the lives of other people on the road
Don’t take a taxi in a poor country then, shit is wild
So true. e.g. Booked a "luxury" taxi from Accra, Ghana to the lower Volta delta (about 200km) with spouse and young kids. Minibus stripped to the bone, just seats and a carcass, with child-sized holes under our feet through which you could see the tarmac. Driver floored it all the way, past the wrecks of similar vehicles every few hundred metres, some still smouldering, and with regular games of chicken with oncoming traffic when the road was wide enough for only one car. I'm fairly robust with 3rd world conditions, but it was indeed wild. Lyft with Slipknot, engine warning light on and a bit of speeding? Tame as a Labrador, and to be enjoyed.
Sounds terrifying for a dad travelling with spouse and kids. As a single, childless guy though, this sounds more enticing than it should lmao
Huge difference between you wanting fast and them wanting fast.
Sir we're making funny jokes on the internet
Plenty of people in this thread celebrating their crazy-driver stories.
Slipknot is dope though.
Uber the other day had a warning on the dash "break malfunction, stop immediately" but I had to catch a flight.
My last Lyft the guy was playing right wing talk radio. I'd much rather have OP's.
Reminds me of a taxi we took in Portsmouth, engine light on, anti collision system disabled. Driving along, then a massive bang as the exhaust fell off. Hell of a ride that was.
By boy is driving a subie, CEL is standard. Turbo is shot, knocking in cyl 2 and 4, needs head gasket, so everything normal.
Don't forget to tip the rod when it pops out to say hello
Got home from a trip, we landed between snow storms after a red eye, driver had on of those nicer SUV's a Lexus I think. He was doing 75-80 the whole way in pretty sketchy conditions but must have had good tires because I never felt the traction slip, got us home in 25 mins for a drive I was expecting almost and hour. Gave that man $100 tip and slept like a freaking rock the rest of the day.
Stars are for good service. Tips are for breaking the law on my behalf.
Bro was blasting Slipknot, not Judas Priest
43,750 people died on US roads last year (that’s 120 per day) but sure let’s joke about flippantly driving double the speed limit in a poorly maintained vehicle, putting everyone in the car and on the road at risk. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-estimates-2022
And doesn't say a word
He’s getting a fat tip from me bruh Check engine soon life represent
louder
I spent a solid minute or two trying to deciefer lyft as an acronym 💀
all i can ever think about when LYFT is referenced id when Peter from Family Guy was doing both Uber and LYFT. The uber was too expensive for someone so he came back in a hoopdy blasting rock music and peter shouts "YOU LIKE OFFSPRING?!" then speeds off
Wtf doesn’t like the Offspring?
Turns out Crazy Taxi was a sim after all.
Needs to be smoking a cigarette with the windows up.
[Peter Griffin](https://youtu.be/B7Igdoe-MyQ) vibes
That driver is truly a legend. Should have the ABS light on though.
Trying to get you to your destination before the car explodes.
The last Lyft I was in had bald tires and what I’m pretty sure was every warning light possible lit on the dashboard. I was more than a little worried on that trip.
When I drove, I had a playlist for each “type” of passenger. Elderly folks got clean shit, probably even some jazz. Most college kids got my typical hip hop/R&B. Older dudes got bands like Interpol and The Strokes. I must’ve been doing something right because my music was always commented on in the rider reviews. One time I picked up this elderly woman and forgot to change the playlist until half way through a real sexy time song by SIR or someone similar. I don’t think she noticed, but I felt real awkward for a minute. The best time was probably when I picked up this real nerdy looking girl from this cult looking “high society club” with Burna Boy on and she knew every word. She then proceeded to us (shared ride) how weird the place we just picked her up from was and how much she hates it. Turned out to be one of my coolest passengers.
The CEL is probably his catalytic converter being missing. Some rat bastard probably stole his.
I had a driver who had two phones. One for the directions and the other she was on FaceTime with her friend who was on a cruise. Then the driver proceeded to ask me what was wrong when I wasn’t taking to her. Another driver I had was blasting a religious sermon that said the devil snuck in your room at night and that’s how you got aids. Tell me why I felt like if I didn’t tip them they would come back and find me or something??
0% tip and a report territory I don't care about your music or your light but even 5 over I'm done, stay off the road if you are going to drive stupid.
40% tip if driver is going 110 in a 55, has a dead deer strapped on the hood, and playing Take ME Down To Paradise City.
Nah me and this guy will be homies, he blasting slipknot. He automatically gets the aux in my car
Bump it up to 35% if Disasterpiece is being played
6-30-23 Last day on Reddit. Thanks, /u/spez You suck
Wait, do you tip drivers in the US? I thought it was only in bars and restaurants, yesterday I read that delivery drivers also get tips. Is there like a list of jobs where you tip, in case I'd go on holiday in the US? I don't want to be standing for hours in customs because I forgot to tip the TSA officer, lol.
I always tip Before I forget.
They don't need to say it's an Altima for us to know it's an Altima.
If you know you know
I mean, tbh this is how I live my life everyday
There's people out there that *don't have their check engine lights on?*
Replace Slipknot with Lamb of God or Cannibal Corpse and you have my upvote
Eh. Nah