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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

That bird has more self awareness than most humans combined

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine living somewhere where people beep like that. Nobody beeps where I live.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The horn is the forbidden button, I've only used it once in my life. Although I do wish we had like a "friendly" horn I could honk if somebody left their blinkers on, or their gas metal plate thingie open...

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

My horn is a "the light is green, get off your phone" button.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Where I live a light tap of the horn, as short as you can make it, is a polite "wake up", a quick flash of the lights is also used to tell people their lights are off or another thing is wrong.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Do Americans actually do this?

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

No, this is mostly a Hollywood thing to indicate that the traffic is real bad and the driver is real mad. The reality is that birds aren’t allowed to drive, and probably wouldn’t even want to.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, I used to work in a building in downtown SF that was "historic" (old) with windows that actually opened, and every week day starting around 4pm we'd all close the single-pane windows to slightly quiet the irritating honking that was 17 stories below us. It was still audible but a good pair of headphones had a chance of being successful.

All it ever took was one person's honk to start a chain reaction that would go on for hours.

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

People honk way less in America than most other countries I've been to

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Its common all over the world tbh but you mostly see it in big cities

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

In most places I've been, no, but I've noticed that they do use the horn more on the east coast