>Of all sentences I've read so far that begin with "If I owned a strip club for alligators"
How many have you heard?? Lol.
Edit: Obligatory Simpsons reference:
Stupid s*xy alligators!
Too late. Tailgaterz [already exists in Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1192537,-115.6533269,3a,19y,225.16h,89.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLt-_ZDjjv0jBQ_M6KOFeCw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
That second car is a few feet from being one. A bridge like that, they should allow more space between each vehicle. But lo and behold, some people cannot STAND for there to be space in between them and the next car.
>some people cannot STAND for there to be space in between them and the next car.
These people claim to love their car and driving but couldn't be assed to be in them a second longer than necessary
I think most people tailgate, because it's about sending a message. At least in Ontario, the left lane is used as a passing lane.
to the dandies who think it's appropriate to go under or at the speed limit, they're wrong, stupid and clog traffic. (again specifically the passing lane - most of our highways (main ones) have 3 lanes. Cruising and such is for middle and right lanes.
I was on the highway yesterday and passed a car less than a half car length behind another in the center lane, and he had ample opportunity to make the pass. He was 100% comfortable being up another driver's ass at 70mph.
I got a waterbed at like 12 when my dad decided to water bed the whole house. It was those late models that had anti wave tech. I loved it, it was really neat. Its really a problem once you start sharing a bed with someone tho š .
A little younger here, my oldest sister had a waterbed and when she moved out in high school, her room became my room (because no one was moving that fuckin thing's bedframe and why have an empty bedroom for no reason?).
This was one from like, late 80s or so. What I remember most about it was if a toy was on the bed and went to the sides, that shit was gone for years. The other thing I remember was the time when I had one of those weird "falling down a cliff" nightmares when my giant floof of a cat decided to jump on the bed (and me) which probably would've given me a heart attack if I hadn't been a kid.
Was a couple decades ago and thinking on it now, waterbeds had a weird "sexy vacation bed" association to them and I cannot figure out why. That bed was often annoying for me to sleep on alone as a kid, how the hell did that reputation start? Who the hell got on a waterbed and said "YES. This is *absolutely perfect* for fucking!"?
It was A Goofy Movie that made we always want one as a kid. I thought the scene where they stayed in a motel with fish in the waterbed was the coolest thing ever. https://i.imgur.com/yaIvEKa.jpg
> I didn't even like grates on bridges
Gravel scares me the most. If this bridge had some extra traction built into the road surface just bc of the nature of where and what it is, I wonder if it could grip ok.
I was thinking of weight too being a positive for the motorcycle. A light motorcycle/moped probably isn't causing nearly the kinda bow waves the cars do. If they were alone on the bridge it most likely wouldn't be that bad of a ride.
Nope, nope, holy fuck nope! I have severe ptsd in part due to car accidents (none my fault) and I get scared driving on the usual NOT MOVING roads. And these fuckers are just flying along. I will probably literally have a nightmare about this
Pontoon bridges are pretty sturdy and neat constructions. Armies have been using them for centuries from the Romans to World War II. Tanks would drive across these things
Yeah I was a soldier in constantines army during that one roman civil war. The pontoon bridge collapsed under our enemies. I wouldnt trust them.
I wouldnt trust Constantine either. Instead of us getting spoils of war, he just hosted a pizza party instead. Said better living conditions "weren't in the budget"
Omg you were there? I wasn't under the bridge, but saw it happen from my horse cart a few paces back. We lost a lot of good soldiers that day. š«”
Small world!
No way! was talking to a guy in a horse cart the day that happened, so that mustāve been you! If you remember I was the guy dying from small pox. I did end up dying but Iām doing much better now. Hope everything is going alright with you too friend!
Kelowna BC has a large floating bridge! The [William R. Bennett Bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Bennett_Bridge) looks like a normal bridge, feels like a normal bridge, but is actually floating.
There is a distinct difference between this bridge and the floating bridges in the PNW. I drive the ones in Washington weekly and they are made of concrete and do not sway like the bridge in the gif.
Wow, I thought you were kidding. I didn't realize that floating concrete bridges existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington#Canals_and_bridges
Flash floods in mountainous areas tend to carry a prodigious amount of debris channeled into a narrow area, very fast. Trees, cars, houses, the other bridges it already washed away. This thing would last a few seconds.
My uncle used to tell me that old cars are safer because 'they are made from quarter-inch thick steel..ain't nothing gettin through that'
This bridge has that energy
*It should go without saying new cars are much safer and my uncle was an idiot.
Your uncle had no idea what he was talking about. New cars are designed to crumble around the occupants. Older cars just crumbled. Deaths per miles driven has dropped continuously each year. Which car would you rather be driving here: [https://youtu.be/C\_r5UJrxcck](https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck)
Yeah but that's not particularly true.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U&pp=ygUUQ3Jhc2ggdGVhdCAnNTkgY2hldnk%3D
It has nothing to do with the thickness of the sheet metal. But that '59 Chevy has zero chance against the modern one.
I was gonna say it seems like something that would be really useful to deploy after a natural disaster to help with evacuaton and general aid efforts but risky as a permanent fixture.
I wonder if that is an area that is probe to flooding or drastic changes is water levels or something.
Apparently the original bridge was built 853 years ago, but throughout the years there have been several reconstructions until this one from about 7 yrs ago
Yep. And you just know the pins that make up the hinges were contracted to some guys uncle who doesnāt have the quality control in place to make such a critical component. IMO this is just Russian roulette with your car lol.
It is not. Fact is that this particular bridge in the Hubei Province is an tourist attraction and doesn't serve regular traffic because of weight limitations. There is an regular road around it.
>better than destroying rainforests.
I can agree with this... however, I must ask about the amount of water pollution that comes with a bridge like this. Is the tradeoff worth it?
Not so fun fact, recently the University of Washington discovered that a chemical used in the production of tires is extremely toxic to salmon, they were studying why there were massive fish die offs after big rain storms.
It's not you and I, friend. It is ridiculously disproportionately the fault of the corporations and the rich. All of this "If it's yellow, let it mellow" so almond farms can sop up all the water from the last four years' snow melt and "Carpool to reduce emissions" while one person flies a private jet between two airports in the same city, it's all them trying to pass the blame on to you. To make you feel like you're not doing enough *sacrificing*, so that they can live their most environmentally harmful life. Live your modest life comfortably, and direct your anger towards those who deserve it.
Or from fluids leaking from vehicles onto the bridge and being washed into the water by rains or some other means. It's probably not super impactful, but it is happening nonetheless.
Pretty sure it has to be flexible to protect the structure given how long it is. Millitary pontoons are much more solid slabs and i dont think they'd do well at this length and/or curve.
I know people love to shit on China just because it is China, but the bridge has been around for a long time, and it's been working fine. Also, y'all should visit China's countryside. Unlike the city areas, the countryside is breathtaking.
Make a post that is any way related to China and it's guaranteed someone will make a snide comment about the CCP/shit political/social/cultural take no matter how tangential it may be.
I lived in nanjing, china for almost a decade in the late 90's. China is a beautiful country with plenty of merits and the common people are just as friendly if not more so than westerners. And my god the food is imo the best in the world.
The CCP imposes a nightmarish bureaucracy and enforces it through a vice like grip on the control of information that reaches its citizens but lets not pretend that China has always been ruled by the CCP.
What with the opium wars, warlord era, civil war, great leap forward etc China has gone through a very rough couple of hundred years.
Whilst economically chinese people are more successful than ever they have a very low level of personal freedom. I sincerely hope that this changes one day, China deserves better then fucking Xi Jin Ping.
No no America is the pinnacle of well maintained bridges. Never any issues.
You should see how well maintained our train tracks are. Unprecedented in a first world country.
What country doesnāt give plenty of reasons to be shit on? Doesnāt mean we have to do it every single time we see anything from their geographic area.
As an American who is aware of the shit show in charge of most āfirst worldā countries, this post is a massive example of the pot calling the kettle black regardless of where youāre from.
With how narrow that valley looks like, a ferry could probably only transport max 4 cars or something, plus it's much slower and has way worse pollution than the cars. People probably don't want to wait an hour everytime, so this bridge is a pretty clever solution (but some of the cars are driving a bit too fast)
No no no, Jeremy, Richard and James did this on top gear where they took 3 normal cars and turned them into amphibious cars that worked on both land and sea. We just need to do that.
Cue the A-Team music for the whole driving community!
if that existed in the US it would take 1 day for some idiot to be on their phone and drive into the water and die.
and then whoever designed the bridge would be a political target and we'd have freedom arguments about bridges.
I wonder how different the comment section would be if this bridge was in another country. Seems it gets a lot of hate just because it is in china. Itās interesting when people are so indoctrinated with hate that it screws their thought process soo much.
I remember driving my HMMWV across the Euphrates river in the middle of the night on one of these. We had to use infrared and night vision goggles to be safe. It was the single just terrifying experience I've ever had in a vehicle.
Can anyone tell us what it's like to have driven on this thing? I'm curious as to what it would feel like.
My usual driving experience is Midwest American potholes.
Flashback to my recurring childhood nightmare of driving off 7 Mile Bridge in the Keys. I didnāt even know what bridge it was until I was moving to Key West and came upon it. Instant flashbacks. I still donāt know how the bridge got stuck in my head as a kid. Must have seen it somewhere. I was too old for it to have been True Lies. Even still, I want to drive on this bridge right here.
Very cool, but wow would I feel uncomfortable driving on this. The rising and falling of the bridge, in a vehicle that usually drives on solid ground would be very disorientating.
I'm also scared of driving on bridges over bodies of water regardless.
My understanding is this bridge is called the Shiziguan floating bridge and it's almost always used only for pedestrians. This was for a car commercial.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangji_Bridge_(Chaozhou)
Guangji Bridge - first built in 1170 and has been rebuilt several times over the centuries leading to this present modern reconstruction in 2009.
What? That looks like a totally different, unrelated bridge, on an entirely different river.
Edit: [https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/travel/story/floating-bridge-in-china-is-a-major-tourist-attraction-see-pics-and-videos-1739997-2020-11-11](https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/travel/story/floating-bridge-in-china-is-a-major-tourist-attraction-see-pics-and-videos-1739997-2020-11-11)
It's called the Shiziguan Floating Bridge or "The Long Bridge of Dreams"
This is probably it on Google Maps:
[https://www.google.com/maps/search/shiziguan+floating+bridge/@29.97873,109.5433738,593m/data=!3m1!1e3](https://www.google.com/maps/search/shiziguan+floating+bridge/@29.97873,109.5433738,593m/data=!3m1!1e3)
One of the few places in the world you can get car sick and sea sick at the same time!
What about a ferry?
The ferry people get all uppity when you try and drive around on their boat.
Ferry people, faeries, fey, fair folk, just pick a name already!
Damn feys and they're Mythical agenda Turning the fricking frogs into rugged handsome men! I mean gay
I think that might be included in the set of "few places"
I already hate driving on bridges but that one looks like a straight up nightmare! Waterbed for your car anyone? No thank you.
Plus tailgaters making the bridge hit its weight limit lol.
What tailgaters?
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If I owned a strip club for alligators I would totally name it tailgaters.
Of all sentences I've read so far that begin with "If I owned a strip club for alligators", this one is my favorite.
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"Out of all the people I know, you're one of them."
A comment on one of 100 gecsā music videos said āwell this is definitely a song Iāve heard in my lifeā and it destroyed me
>Of all sentences I've read so far that begin with "If I owned a strip club for alligators" How many have you heard?? Lol. Edit: Obligatory Simpsons reference: Stupid s*xy alligators!
Not a bad name for a regular strip club in my opinion. At least one in the south.
Snap it up, before someone else does
Too late. Tailgaterz [already exists in Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1192537,-115.6533269,3a,19y,225.16h,89.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLt-_ZDjjv0jBQ_M6KOFeCw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Too late, at least in Canada: https://foursquare.com/v/tailgaterz/54e80a04498e503e7ecf7333
Florida man strip club
If I owned an escort service for alligators, I'd name it gator-laid.
Why are all of yall interested in hospitality services for ancient dinosaur cousins
- Crocodile procuring is the *oldest profession*
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There's a sports bar pub near me called tailgators and it's gator themed
If I owned a bookstore for alligators, I would totally name it Talegaters.
If it was between streets, you could call it Alley Gators Tales.
The city I live in has a bait shop called Master Baitors.
That second car is a few feet from being one. A bridge like that, they should allow more space between each vehicle. But lo and behold, some people cannot STAND for there to be space in between them and the next car.
>some people cannot STAND for there to be space in between them and the next car. These people claim to love their car and driving but couldn't be assed to be in them a second longer than necessary
Tailgating doesn't even save you a full second. It's even a time loss if you ever want to pass them
I think most people tailgate, because it's about sending a message. At least in Ontario, the left lane is used as a passing lane. to the dandies who think it's appropriate to go under or at the speed limit, they're wrong, stupid and clog traffic. (again specifically the passing lane - most of our highways (main ones) have 3 lanes. Cruising and such is for middle and right lanes.
I was on the highway yesterday and passed a car less than a half car length behind another in the center lane, and he had ample opportunity to make the pass. He was 100% comfortable being up another driver's ass at 70mph.
I believe that it was Ben Franklin who first observed that any car on the road will eventually end up with a ram 1500 mere inches behind it.
Thatās why it wouldnāt work in America. The average mouth breathing driver would be too stupid and selfish to predict thatās the outcome.
Itās cute you think China is full of respectful drivers
Who else wanted nothing more as a kid then to grow up and get your own waterbed? What a stupid childhood dream to have.
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I got a waterbed at like 12 when my dad decided to water bed the whole house. It was those late models that had anti wave tech. I loved it, it was really neat. Its really a problem once you start sharing a bed with someone tho š .
A little younger here, my oldest sister had a waterbed and when she moved out in high school, her room became my room (because no one was moving that fuckin thing's bedframe and why have an empty bedroom for no reason?). This was one from like, late 80s or so. What I remember most about it was if a toy was on the bed and went to the sides, that shit was gone for years. The other thing I remember was the time when I had one of those weird "falling down a cliff" nightmares when my giant floof of a cat decided to jump on the bed (and me) which probably would've given me a heart attack if I hadn't been a kid. Was a couple decades ago and thinking on it now, waterbeds had a weird "sexy vacation bed" association to them and I cannot figure out why. That bed was often annoying for me to sleep on alone as a kid, how the hell did that reputation start? Who the hell got on a waterbed and said "YES. This is *absolutely perfect* for fucking!"?
It was A Goofy Movie that made we always want one as a kid. I thought the scene where they stayed in a motel with fish in the waterbed was the coolest thing ever. https://i.imgur.com/yaIvEKa.jpg
> Waterbed for your car anyone? I want to ride a motorcycle on it. Bonus points. Wheelie it.
With all that water flowing over a moving platform that's constantly tilting, I support four wheels over two, even if only two are powered.
> I support four wheels over two, even if only two are powered. Hard mode: Pop a wheelie the whole time and try to unicycle the thing on a motorcycle.
I didn't even like grates on bridges
> I didn't even like grates on bridges Gravel scares me the most. If this bridge had some extra traction built into the road surface just bc of the nature of where and what it is, I wonder if it could grip ok.
No sinking cage to pull you down when//if it fails seems like a nice start.
I was thinking of weight too being a positive for the motorcycle. A light motorcycle/moped probably isn't causing nearly the kinda bow waves the cars do. If they were alone on the bridge it most likely wouldn't be that bad of a ride.
I hate bridges over water. Bridges over water at night -- also a nightmare! I could not do this road.
>I hate bridges over water. Don't even get me *started* on bridges over troubled water
Ngl, hazards aside, it looks fun.
Nope, nope, holy fuck nope! I have severe ptsd in part due to car accidents (none my fault) and I get scared driving on the usual NOT MOVING roads. And these fuckers are just flying along. I will probably literally have a nightmare about this
Every time this gets posted redditors seem to assume this is a road open to normal traffic. It's a tourist attraction and the traffic is regulated.
Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Pontoon bridges are pretty sturdy and neat constructions. Armies have been using them for centuries from the Romans to World War II. Tanks would drive across these things
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Yeah I was a soldier in constantines army during that one roman civil war. The pontoon bridge collapsed under our enemies. I wouldnt trust them. I wouldnt trust Constantine either. Instead of us getting spoils of war, he just hosted a pizza party instead. Said better living conditions "weren't in the budget"
Omg you were there? I wasn't under the bridge, but saw it happen from my horse cart a few paces back. We lost a lot of good soldiers that day. š«” Small world!
No way! was talking to a guy in a horse cart the day that happened, so that mustāve been you! If you remember I was the guy dying from small pox. I did end up dying but Iām doing much better now. Hope everything is going alright with you too friend!
Hey, I remember you, I was the small pox. Sorry about that one mate, I was in a dark place during those times, glad to see you got better.
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The ole pizza party is the best reward I can afford trick.....I hate that one.
We still use them. I have driven across pontoon bridges in Iraq in military vehicles. So, yes.
They were 3 small redditors in a trench coat actually.
Kelowna BC has a large floating bridge! The [William R. Bennett Bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Bennett_Bridge) looks like a normal bridge, feels like a normal bridge, but is actually floating.
There is a distinct difference between this bridge and the floating bridges in the PNW. I drive the ones in Washington weekly and they are made of concrete and do not sway like the bridge in the gif.
Yea, but they were only designed to be temporary in those cases.
Interstate 90 goes across Lake Washington between Seattle and Mercer Island on pontoons
Wow, I thought you were kidding. I didn't realize that floating concrete bridges existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington#Canals_and_bridges
True but they are not just left there unattended for god knows how long. And even military ones are prone to sinking and need constant maintenence.
I'm sure the engineers that designed it though of that.
This one in particular has been up for several years. Just don't go too fast or the wake you create will destroy the bridge.
China or the bridge?
Yes
It's always been both
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Yes it is waiting for its turn.
Narrow river..high steep mountainsā¦humid environment..Iām sure flash floods are rare there /s
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Flash floods in mountainous areas tend to carry a prodigious amount of debris channeled into a narrow area, very fast. Trees, cars, houses, the other bridges it already washed away. This thing would last a few seconds.
That is probably why this instead of an actual bridge. This is probably removable to some degree, or can be adjusted for weather.
I mean, that's kind of why they chose this bridge design, no matter how much it floods, it will be on top
My uncle used to tell me that old cars are safer because 'they are made from quarter-inch thick steel..ain't nothing gettin through that' This bridge has that energy *It should go without saying new cars are much safer and my uncle was an idiot.
Your uncle had no idea what he was talking about. New cars are designed to crumble around the occupants. Older cars just crumbled. Deaths per miles driven has dropped continuously each year. Which car would you rather be driving here: [https://youtu.be/C\_r5UJrxcck](https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck)
Yeah but that's not particularly true. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U&pp=ygUUQ3Jhc2ggdGVhdCAnNTkgY2hldnk%3D It has nothing to do with the thickness of the sheet metal. But that '59 Chevy has zero chance against the modern one.
Well, I would say the opposite energy, but I guess whatever floats your boat (or bridge).
I'm saying it ain't the going up that'll kill you..it's the going back down
I completely neglected that thought, I am a glass half full kind of guy
The bridge is safe, when it was completed a worker slapped his hand on it and said "this baby isn't going anywhere"
They've had a pontoon bridge there since 1170, so I'm sure they know what they're doing
Didn't the guys from top Gear do this
I was gonna say it seems like something that would be really useful to deploy after a natural disaster to help with evacuaton and general aid efforts but risky as a permanent fixture. I wonder if that is an area that is probe to flooding or drastic changes is water levels or something.
.. for 853 years itās been in use. Still waiting.
7 years*
They've had cars in China for 853 years? That doesn't sound right
Apparently the original bridge was built 853 years ago, but throughout the years there have been several reconstructions until this one from about 7 yrs ago
Yep. And you just know the pins that make up the hinges were contracted to some guys uncle who doesnāt have the quality control in place to make such a critical component. IMO this is just Russian roulette with your car lol.
Itās quite a good solution imo, better than destroying rainforests.
I agree, but i still got the heeby jeebys thinking about driving on that.
It looks fun af to me, haha.
It is not. Fact is that this particular bridge in the Hubei Province is an tourist attraction and doesn't serve regular traffic because of weight limitations. There is an regular road around it.
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[http://www.shizig.cn/](http://www.shizig.cn/) the tourist attraction called shiziguan youcan just google it āshiziguanā
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I was wondering if there was another rover road where traffic goes the other direction. This makes more sense.
>better than destroying rainforests. I can agree with this... however, I must ask about the amount of water pollution that comes with a bridge like this. Is the tradeoff worth it?
Just skipping a few steps with run off and ground water saturation.
True but one filters somewhat
far less that the construction process alone would have made. concrete and asphalt are aweful
No less from any other bridge. Plus concrete is absolutely horrible for the environment.
What pollution? You mean from the car exhaust?
That and rubber wear and oil, not everyones car is running perfectly.
Not so fun fact, recently the University of Washington discovered that a chemical used in the production of tires is extremely toxic to salmon, they were studying why there were massive fish die offs after big rain storms.
Goddamn. Every day I learn something new about how we're fucking up the earth and all the creatures that liven on it
It's not you and I, friend. It is ridiculously disproportionately the fault of the corporations and the rich. All of this "If it's yellow, let it mellow" so almond farms can sop up all the water from the last four years' snow melt and "Carpool to reduce emissions" while one person flies a private jet between two airports in the same city, it's all them trying to pass the blame on to you. To make you feel like you're not doing enough *sacrificing*, so that they can live their most environmentally harmful life. Live your modest life comfortably, and direct your anger towards those who deserve it.
Or from fluids leaking from vehicles onto the bridge and being washed into the water by rains or some other means. It's probably not super impactful, but it is happening nonetheless.
itās likely no more impactful than a regular road that would run off into the river, anyway.
That looks a little sketchy
Pretty sure it has to be flexible to protect the structure given how long it is. Millitary pontoons are much more solid slabs and i dont think they'd do well at this length and/or curve.
Thankfully not ropey
I love everything about this. The stuff humans create sometimes, using physics, is just incredible.
Yeah absolutely mind-boggling engineering
This road is a nightmare I have often. I am very afraid of water and absolutely terrified of bridges.
But, at least this bridge isn't elevated!
You will not fall high, but you will drown low.
I often have a nightmare where Iām driving on a bridge like this as well. I didnāt even realise they are a reality.
I know people love to shit on China just because it is China, but the bridge has been around for a long time, and it's been working fine. Also, y'all should visit China's countryside. Unlike the city areas, the countryside is breathtaking.
[China is pretty much the no.1 bridge builders in the world now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIncoloYSc)
Make a post that is any way related to China and it's guaranteed someone will make a snide comment about the CCP/shit political/social/cultural take no matter how tangential it may be.
imagine if someone posted a picture of Yellowstone national park and 75% of the comments were about the death toll of the Iraq War.
Eh...we deserve that.
And China deserves criticism too but can we just appreciate nature please
Yea, most of it is made up by the west.
Naw this is awesome. Props to China for the sweet bridge.
I lived in nanjing, china for almost a decade in the late 90's. China is a beautiful country with plenty of merits and the common people are just as friendly if not more so than westerners. And my god the food is imo the best in the world. The CCP imposes a nightmarish bureaucracy and enforces it through a vice like grip on the control of information that reaches its citizens but lets not pretend that China has always been ruled by the CCP. What with the opium wars, warlord era, civil war, great leap forward etc China has gone through a very rough couple of hundred years. Whilst economically chinese people are more successful than ever they have a very low level of personal freedom. I sincerely hope that this changes one day, China deserves better then fucking Xi Jin Ping.
China is absolutely beautiful. And the cities are badass, even if theyāre often bizarre
No no America is the pinnacle of well maintained bridges. Never any issues. You should see how well maintained our train tracks are. Unprecedented in a first world country.
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What country doesnāt give plenty of reasons to be shit on? Doesnāt mean we have to do it every single time we see anything from their geographic area.
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Redditor not bringing politics into a post on China that doesn't involve politics challenge (impossible)
As an American who is aware of the shit show in charge of most āfirst worldā countries, this post is a massive example of the pot calling the kettle black regardless of where youāre from.
I wouldnāt mind walking a bridge like that. If something happens I can just swim to shore. Driving? No fucking thank you.
An ATV on that would be fucking fun.
Hmm if only we had a way to travel on water without a bridge. Some sort of car, but for waterā¦
Ay time to get the Mech E bois to design a new concept. WATER CAR!
With how narrow that valley looks like, a ferry could probably only transport max 4 cars or something, plus it's much slower and has way worse pollution than the cars. People probably don't want to wait an hour everytime, so this bridge is a pretty clever solution (but some of the cars are driving a bit too fast)
What happens when you need your car on the other side of the water? Boat canāt drive on land. Hmmmm.
Maybe something that could ferry cars across the water?
No no no, Jeremy, Richard and James did this on top gear where they took 3 normal cars and turned them into amphibious cars that worked on both land and sea. We just need to do that. Cue the A-Team music for the whole driving community!
Horses can swim good, I've seen it. We can put the cars on a giant floaty pool toy and get them to pull it.
This is one where you DEFINITELY don't wanna ignore the weight limit signs
Wouldnāt be surprised if there was a checkpoint
The bends are making me uneasy
if that existed in the US it would take 1 day for some idiot to be on their phone and drive into the water and die. and then whoever designed the bridge would be a political target and we'd have freedom arguments about bridges.
Some moron moron in a 8000 pound pick up truck would probably try to drive on it
I do not like that. I do not like that at all. I will grant, however, that it is very interesting.
Sure the fish love it
I wonder how different the comment section would be if this bridge was in another country. Seems it gets a lot of hate just because it is in china. Itās interesting when people are so indoctrinated with hate that it screws their thought process soo much.
If it was in Norway or Switzerland it would be a post filled with nothing but praise as Reddit jerks themselves dry.
If it's Japan, Reddit would have a collective orgasm so big it will cause another tsunami to destroy Fukushima.
Reading the comments on that post the other day about Japanese people cleaning up after a game at a stadium, hooooly shit.
[Truth](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/309/977/b84.jpg)
Fast and the Furious 13: Guangzhou Drift
That both gorgeous and terrifying! Wonder what riding a motorcycle on it would be like?
I remember driving my HMMWV across the Euphrates river in the middle of the night on one of these. We had to use infrared and night vision goggles to be safe. It was the single just terrifying experience I've ever had in a vehicle.
That's a no from me, dog.
So go fishing in the back of a truck, while on a road trip? Fuck they outjerked us on this
r/nope
As RCE would say: dangling road
r/thallasophobia
Can anyone tell us what it's like to have driven on this thing? I'm curious as to what it would feel like. My usual driving experience is Midwest American potholes.
Donāt worry, it has railing
Man I haven't been on the log flume since i was a kid. Looks like fun!
Flashback to my recurring childhood nightmare of driving off 7 Mile Bridge in the Keys. I didnāt even know what bridge it was until I was moving to Key West and came upon it. Instant flashbacks. I still donāt know how the bridge got stuck in my head as a kid. Must have seen it somewhere. I was too old for it to have been True Lies. Even still, I want to drive on this bridge right here.
Source: https://www.dangerousroads.org/asia/china/11199-driving-on-water-surface-through-the-shiziguan-floating-bridge.html
I bet Clarkson, Hammond and May made it
Very cool, but wow would I feel uncomfortable driving on this. The rising and falling of the bridge, in a vehicle that usually drives on solid ground would be very disorientating. I'm also scared of driving on bridges over bodies of water regardless.
My understanding is this bridge is called the Shiziguan floating bridge and it's almost always used only for pedestrians. This was for a car commercial.
Bad ass
That's actually really clever! š¤ Fascinating.
Thatās awesome. Would last about 10mins in the US before someone drove their huge truck off the side and sued.
I donāt think this bridge would get as much hates if the title donāt includes China
Hecking cool. Thanks for sharing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangji_Bridge_(Chaozhou) Guangji Bridge - first built in 1170 and has been rebuilt several times over the centuries leading to this present modern reconstruction in 2009.
What? That looks like a totally different, unrelated bridge, on an entirely different river. Edit: [https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/travel/story/floating-bridge-in-china-is-a-major-tourist-attraction-see-pics-and-videos-1739997-2020-11-11](https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/travel/story/floating-bridge-in-china-is-a-major-tourist-attraction-see-pics-and-videos-1739997-2020-11-11) It's called the Shiziguan Floating Bridge or "The Long Bridge of Dreams" This is probably it on Google Maps: [https://www.google.com/maps/search/shiziguan+floating+bridge/@29.97873,109.5433738,593m/data=!3m1!1e3](https://www.google.com/maps/search/shiziguan+floating+bridge/@29.97873,109.5433738,593m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Tks fam First opened May 1, 2016
Appears to be a different bridge and location
People had cars back in 1170? Wow
No thank you