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Keep Honking! I have a clown fetish and am very close!

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

? What major cities have constant honking? Is that actually a thing? Or just an American thing.

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Before I answer what country your from? I'm from the Chicago region.

[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Your northerly neighbor. I’ve been to a few US cities as well.

All the tropes I’ve seen are about a few American cities, usually not portrayed in other countries.

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

its pretty common is highly dense cities, Chicago, NY and LA. I wouldn't be surprised if Toronto has it in certain areas. But i can't say for sure since ive never been and you northern neighbors are much more pleasant than a lot of US folks haha

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What a crazy concept! I hear a beep like five or six days I have to drive somewhere in the city closest to me. It’s a fairly large city.

I hear a beep every zero evers around where I live. Maybe five or six times in the twenty years I’ve been here.

I can’t imagine hearing a car horn often like that! Maybe I’d get used to it?

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Maybe I’d get used to it?

"How often does the train go by?" - "So often you won't even notice it."

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've been to Toronto numerous times and have never heard a single honk. Even when our hotel is directly next to the perpetually-clogged Highway 401. People are so used to traffic jams in Toronto that they know honking won't make it move any faster.

Do people in the US not realize that honking accomplishes nothing? Were used to the traffic, why honk?

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Back when I was living in downtown Calgary the honking was incessant, due to a handful of different protests (Palestinians really work the horn)

I can see for protests as that’s all you can really do is make noise, but DT Calgary is otherwise normally quiet. I live there myself.