What does a viatologist study?
Carl Rogers
come across the term 'viatologist'. What does this term mean?
A viatologist is one who scientifically studies roads. Data are
collected from field research and through the scientific method, then
interpreted and shared publicly to advance the understanding of roads
worldwide. Viatologists can study broad areas like highway numbering
standards, or focus specifically on pavement types or certain
intersections worthy of interest.
For more information on the study of viatology, including its
etymology and foreign translations, please refer to http://wwtl.info/#viatology.html
.
By your scientific and independent study of roads, viatology may one
day become a legitimate study in scholastic and science foundations.
Cheers,
Carl Rogers
"Environment first, transportology second"
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Reality Check
"Carl Rogers" <postm...@wwtl.info> wrote in message
news:a498198f-0063-46c4...@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
| If you occasionally research these newsgroups,
| then you've probably come across the term
It means one who studies equine excrement, because viatologists are
full of horseshit.
RC
spamtrap1888
> By your scientific and independent study of roads, viatology may one
> day become a legitimate study in scholastic and science foundations.
I don't know about viatrollogy, but at Northwestern University, the
scientific and independent study of roads goes back to 1954 if not
1936, when their Traffic Institute was founded:
Don Freeman
Are you saying that CalRog is wrong? Oh No! The Horror! I am so
disillusioned, what will all of us millions of fans do now? Our hero
has feet of clay. I guess that goes with his head of concrete though.
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-Don
Patrick Scheible
Yes, but I bet it's studied like an engineering discipline: how figure
out what their capacity would be, how to make them safer, how to build
them less expensively to last a long time. Not just pretend they're
some sort of natural phenomenon to take pictures of and leave it at
that.
-- Patrick
David Nebenzahl
> If you occasionally research these newsgroups, then you've probably
> come across the term 'viatologist'. What does this term mean?
The correct term, of course, is viatrollogy, which is the concerted
effort (not study) to increase traffic on a pathetic excuse for a web site.
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NM
If one wears the title of '-ologist' as in geologist for example this
implies the person has completed a recognised educational course in
geology, AFAIAA up until the exams are passed they are geology
students. Which body did the poster graduate from and what other
universities offer courses in 'viat'.
Steve Firth
> If you occasionally research these newsgroups, then you've probably
> come across the term 'viatologist'. What does this term mean?
Someone who studies their own colon, by inserting their head as far up
their backside as possible.
Don Freeman
Dave C.
> >
> > http://transportation.northwestern.edu/about/
>
> If one wears the title of '-ologist' as in geologist for example this
> implies the person has completed a recognised educational course in
> geology, AFAIAA up until the exams are passed they are geology
> students. Which body did the poster graduate from and what other
> universities offer courses in 'viat'.
They all do. Viatology is a cult of mental masturbation. All
universities have students majoring in that. Unfortunately, some of
them discover usenet. -Dave
elmer
Eva Cassidy
What does a viatologist study??
A way to annoy readers in the usenet groups he posts his spew in.
Eva
Matthew Russotto
Patrick Scheible <k...@zipcon.net> wrote:
>
>Yes, but I bet it's studied like an engineering discipline: how figure
>out what their capacity would be, how to make them safer, how to build
>them less expensively to last a long time. Not just pretend they're
>some sort of natural phenomenon to take pictures of and leave it at
>that.
That would be roadgeeking. But Carl doesn't even make it to that
level.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
Richard
> Last time on rec.autos.driving, Don Freeman <freem...@cosmoslair.com>
> said:
>
> >spamtrap1888 wrote:
> >> I don't know about viatrollogy, but at Northwestern University, the
> >> scientific and independent study of roads goes back to 1954 if not
> >> 1936, when their Traffic Institute was founded:
>
> >>http://transportation.northwestern.edu/about/
>
> >Are you saying that CalRog is wrong? Oh No! The Horror!
>
> SuperTroll Cal-El or one of his sock puppets. He should be prepared
> for some combination of the following:
>
> * his sexual orientation will be questioned
> * his living arrangements will be mischaracterized as being in his
> mother's basement
> * he will be encouraged to get out and meet more women
> * his (presumed) religious beliefs will be ridiculed
> * his (presumed) inability to create a competitive road-related web
> site will be mocked
> * he will be called a "redneck"
> * he will be subject to an armchair psychological "analysis" which
> will cast aspersions upon his parentage and upbringing
> * personal details of his life will be ridiculed, such as his
> employment, his income, and/or his place of residence
> * his IP address will be banned from accessing Cal-El's web site
> * he will be seated in a comfy chair and tickled with a feather
>
> Trust me, you do NOT want to be on Cal-El's shit list! The OP should
> quickly recant before The Wrath of Carl is felt upon his person!!
> --http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9111165305855013700
> If you listen carefully, you can hear Carl's wife scream just prior to impact.
Props to this post
Don Freeman
Steve Firth
> In article <w9zaaz3...@zipcon.net>,
> Patrick Scheible <k...@zipcon.net> wrote:
> >
> >Yes, but I bet it's studied like an engineering discipline: how figure
> >out what their capacity would be, how to make them safer, how to build
> >them less expensively to last a long time. Not just pretend they're
> >some sort of natural phenomenon to take pictures of and leave it at
> >that.
>
> That would be roadgeeking. But Carl doesn't even make it to that
> level.
His (lack of) talent is quite astonishing. He had links on his webshite
to roads that I know well, I don't want to dive into his cesspit again
or add to his hit count, so I'll not give a blow by blow description.
However I regularly drive through Switzerland to Central Italy. I do so
several times a year, all seasons, all conditions using mountain passes,
tunnels, autoroutes, autostrade, national and local raods.
The routes, all of them, are stunning. Many of them are quite simply
engineering miracles. Such as this, the road to Chamonix:
The Ponte del Salinello in Abruzzo:
and wandering further afield, the Milau viaduct:
There is the stunning Stelvio Pass:
In fact wherever one looks from Basel to Bari and from Bordeaux to
Trieste there are roads of exceptional design, breathtaking vistas and
intriguing constructional techniques.
And Carl "Fuckwit" Rogers pokes up some lousy photos that a blind monkey
could improve on, and intones appaling schoolboy French and Italian in a
Deputy Dawg accent over videos of 10% of fuck all.
Steve Firth
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9111165305855013700
> If you listen carefully, you can hear Carl's wife scream just prior to impact.
I'd love to but it aint there.
Patrick Scheible
Thanks for posting the links. (Why does it seem beautiful road
structures are the rule there and the exception here? Okay, we have
the Golden Gate Bridge, and the 1930s Highway 1 bridges, but most of
them are boring and utilitarian.)
-- Patrick
Brent Jonas
> Matthew Russotto <russo...@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > In article <w9zaaz31nre....@zipcon.net>,
Wow, that picture of the Milau viaduct is nothing short of stunning.
Thanks for posting that link!
BrianW
> Matthew Russotto <russo...@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > Patrick Scheible <k...@zipcon.net> wrote:
>
> > >Yes, but I bet it's studied like an engineering discipline: how figure
> > >out what their capacity would be, how to make them safer, how to build
> > >them less expensively to last a long time. Not just pretend they're
> > >some sort of natural phenomenon to take pictures of and leave it at
> > >that.
>
> > That would be roadgeeking. But Carl doesn't even make it to that
> > level.
>
> His (lack of) talent is quite astonishing. He had links on his webshite
> to roads that I know well, I don't want to dive into his cesspit again
> or add to his hit count, so I'll not give a blow by blow description.
> However I regularly drive through Switzerland to Central Italy. I do so
> several times a year, all seasons, all conditions using mountain passes,
> tunnels, autoroutes, autostrade, national and local raods.
>
> The routes, all of them, are stunning. Many of them are quite simply
> engineering miracles. Such as this, the road to Chamonix:
You could also have posted links to some of the spectacular and
beautiful bridges in the UK, such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tinsley_Viaduct_and_Blackburn_Towers_21-04-06.jpg
I wonder what Mr Todgers would make of *that*?
Steve Firth
>
> You could also have posted links to some of the spectacular and beautiful
> bridges in the UK, such as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tinsley_Viaduct_and_Blackburn_Towers_21-
> 04-06.jpg
>
> I wonder what Mr Todgers would make of *that*?
Umm, the Tinsley viaduct is an evil piece of crap. I'm assuming that
your irony is going right over my head.
Ian Dalziel
wrote:
And the towers came down this year.
--
Ian D
BrianW
> BrianW <brianwhiteh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You could also have posted links to some of the spectacular and beautiful
> > bridges in the UK, such as
> > 04-06.jpg
>
> > I wonder what Mr Todgers would make of *that*?
>
> Umm, the Tinsley viaduct is an evil piece of crap. I'm assuming that
> your irony is going right over my head.
Indeed! We do have some fine structures in this country.
Regrettably, Tinsley viaduct ain't one of them. Although I must admit
it grew on me (*) during the three years I lived in Sheffield. I was
particularly sad to see the cooling towers demolished.
* rather like a skin cancer
Derek Geldard
wrote:
>BrianW <brianwh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
It occupies the very Nadir of British civil engineering (although it
is by no means alone there) & in fact FWIR I feel sure it was not
essential to build a 2 level viaduct at that point to begin with,
there being plenty of alternatives.
The prime motive for building it would appear to be monumentalism.
However, before we go into paroxysms of admiration for the Milau
viaduct did anybody else notice the accessory steel lattice towers
being built halfway between the original spans ?
Derek
Steve Firth
> There's a funny story behind this video. It was made for a guy named
> Carl TAYLOR, who used to troll this group back in the day. Taylor
> claimed that his wife died in a car crash when a 25-year-old "Yuppie
> man-child" driving an estimated 85 MPH crashed into his wife's car.
How odd, several UK driving and transport groups were trolled by "Bob
Peffers" a mad Scotsman who posted reams of guff about his departed
wife. Opinion was divided as to whether she was imaginary or if she had
committed suicide by car to get away from him. He made near identical
claims to those of Taylor.
H.B. Elkins
>It was at that moment that I reailzed what a complete twit Carl Rogers
>is.
You misspelled "twat."
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