Never thought I'd see the words "Uttar Pradesh" on the fediverse.... For the unknown- Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India. A lot of weird and bizzare shit happen there.
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Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India
Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Man is Florida Man's Indian cousin.
Bihar has to be Ohio then
Has Ohio got that bad a rep?
Sounds more like the Florida of India.
You're not kidding. I realized this when I heard about a 22-year-old woman who was killed by being pushed into a boiling vat because she resisted her assailants.
I'm from Mumbai and you can't pay me enough to visit Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, or Jharkhand.
Well, Mumbai is the top metropolitan city in India. It makes sense you don't want to visit Uttar Pradesh or any the other "hell states". And, If you live in South Mumbai, you're probably part of the top 1% or 5% of the country. So yeah, it makes sense overall.
And, If you live in South Mumbai,
Nope. Been a long time since I visited that part of the city.
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I remember reading some COVID-related news from there, though that wasn't on the fediverse because I wasn't on the fediverse yet at the time.
That news was likely the mass cremations of people who died of COVID. Uttar Pradesh had one of the highest mortality rates in the country in the wake of the pandemic. A lot of them were low-income folk who died on the way to (or right outside) public hospitals that refused to accept them due to overcrowding, lack of equipment and supplemental oxygen, and gross mismanagement
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Ohio of India
Oh...oh no... Containment has been breached, Ohio is spreading.
But isn't Taj Mahal located there?
I like that it's Ohio, but not quite Florida.
I've been in India multiple times fur work (not UP). The traffic there is insane. There's a set of unwritten rules you have you follow, and a shit ton of written ones you must ignore in order to survive.
I'm not joking when I say that stopping in a zebra crossing for pedestrians to walk would get you in an accident, because nobody expects a car to stop for people.
I don’t see anything wrong with this design, it’s just missing the “no left turns” sign (or it’s being ignored).
I have a forked road like this near where I live, where OpenMaps gave illegal directions and I was able to submit a bug report tha left turns are not allowed
I am gonna guess it was supposed to be one way road which was turned into 2 way by just planting some sticks in the middle. The funds allotted to work was probably pocketed for another couple luxury SUV.
It doesn't help that the Indian driving culture has a concept for "slow the fuck down" and that right of way seems to belong to whichever vehicle is largest.
Sure, but this video is also speedup...
Looks to me like just bad driving and a refusal to watch for traffic
not taking those things into account in the design is bad planning, good design guides or forces idiots to not do idiotic things.
The absolute fearlessness of the bus drivers 😭
holy shit
The drivers? How bout that guy who just popped out mid turn and kept walking lol.
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