[i love cars] I don't need a Tesla to take big loads

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vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

i got hit by a car once because a guy turning right was so busy looking for cars coming from the left that he didn't bother looking for pedestrians coming from the right and lemme tell ya, boy do i hate cars

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

ArmZ posted:

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1439339481929117697?s=20

lmao

# ? Sep 19, 2021 20:40

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

I really love how everything is designed now assuming you're in some huge SUV or truck so if you're in a smaller car you have to pull onto the crosswalk just to be able to see if any cars are coming

# ? Sep 19, 2021 20:43

Tiler Kiwi: Feb 26, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7KCsDd9UAw

# ? Sep 19, 2021 21:01

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

ArmZ posted:

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1439339481929117697?s=20

This is a situation where you let air out of the tires

# ? Sep 19, 2021 21:24

Loucks: May 21, 2007; It's incwedibwe easy to suck my own dick.

God Hole posted:

a distracted driver with an expired license and a traffic violation record 10 pages long drifted 6 feet over a solid white line and a rumble strip to kill one of my friends and permanently cripple another. both of them had flashing lights on their bikes visible from two miles away and highway construction-grade reflective triangles on their backs. the driver got rpobation

I hope someday to be on the jury of someone who responds to something like this by caving in the driver�s skull with a bike lock.

Doesn�t have to be at the scene. Even years later is fine.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 21:51

Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

ACAB

all cars are bastards

# ? Sep 19, 2021 21:54

paul_soccer12: Jan 5, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

if you ride a bicycle, you have at least one DUI, no exceptions

# ? Sep 19, 2021 21:58

Buck Wildman: Mar 30, 2010; I am Metango, Galactic Governor

# ? Sep 19, 2021 22:59

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
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Mayor Dave posted:

The bigger your car the worse of a person you are

thats why i hate escalades, suvs, and humvees and lifted trucks the most

# ? Sep 20, 2021 00:04

Sphyre: Jun 14, 2001

Mayor Dave posted:

The bigger your car the worse of a person you are

unironically true

# ? Sep 20, 2021 00:07

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

if u drive a car you should be thrown into a volcano

# ? Sep 20, 2021 00:07

Buck Wildman: Mar 30, 2010; I am Metango, Galactic Governor

all drivers should be required to fight their vehicle in the pit to prove their right to rule over it

# ? Sep 20, 2021 00:15

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

i hate cars but i love maglev bullet trains that make the 1200-km trip from Beijing to Shanghai in two and a half hours

# ? Sep 20, 2021 00:24

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Colonel Cancer posted:

And then build the most shameful bicycle out of the cubes, a unicycle

One of those little tricycles that kids ride but they glue clownshoes to your feet

# ? Sep 20, 2021 01:26

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

ArmZ posted:

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1439339481929117697?s=20

lol that this little fiat is a worse polluter than both of those ugly pieces of poo poo next to it

# ? Sep 20, 2021 01:32

paul_soccer12: Jan 5, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

fix it again tony

# ? Sep 20, 2021 02:47

Donkwich: Feb 28, 2011; Grimey Drawer

gently caress cars

# ? Sep 20, 2021 04:21

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

thetan_guy42 posted:

Scooters are the worst of both worlds, none of the physical exercise/ mechanical simplicity of the bicycle and none of the carrying capacity/ protection of the car. Plus you look stupid on them, still dependent on fuel I could go on and on

everyone uses vespas, at least in Florence Italy (lol)

# ? Sep 20, 2021 04:39

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Polo-Rican posted:

Gonna get sushi tonight, which of course means I'll just walk 5 minutes and pick it up without a care in the world because of my car-free lifestyle 😎💯

what's your rent lol

# ? Sep 20, 2021 04:42

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Sphyre posted:

this ones for actionjackson

https://twitter.com/taylr/status/1439275384269414401

ty friend

# ? Sep 20, 2021 04:48

Deadly Ham Sandwich: Aug 19, 2009; Smellrose

vyelkin posted:

i hate cars but i love maglev bullet trains that make the 1200-km trip from Beijing to Shanghai in two and a half hours

President Xi, please ~~send Chengdu J-20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft~~ build a bullet train in America. We crave freedom!

Sphyre posted:

this ones for actionjackson

https://twitter.com/taylr/status/1439275384269414401

Every American city was like this before they paved and bulldozed the city to make way to cars. While many cities are trying to rebuild their light rail network, I think nearly every city still has fewer miles of rail than they did a half-century earlier.

I know for sure Houston still has less light rail than it did a full century earlier.

# ? Sep 20, 2021 06:42

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

modern light rail sucks so bad. austin's line is an absolute joke

# ? Sep 20, 2021 06:48

Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

i say swears online posted:

modern light rail sucks so bad. austin's line is an absolute joke

maybe you should try using the actual good rail in austin such as the zilker zephyr

# ? Sep 20, 2021 07:38

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

actionjackson posted:

what's your rent lol

1200 in Los Angeles rent controlled 11 years ago in a �transitional� neighborhood

# ? Sep 20, 2021 08:02

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

maybe you should try using the actual good rail in austin such as the zilker zephyr

it doesn't have connections outside its loop, there are major gaps between city-wide lines

nobody google the zilker zephyr

# ? Sep 20, 2021 08:15

Sphyre: Jun 14, 2001

actionjackson posted:

ty friend

imagine you and your large dog taking a leisurely stroll to catch a streetcar to your parents house

this is what could have been

# ? Sep 20, 2021 10:34

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

i say swears online posted:

nobody google the zilker zephyr

but it has such a cool name. I want to know what it looks like

# ? Sep 20, 2021 15:43

lobster shirt: Jun 14, 2021

i say swears online posted:

modern light rail sucks so bad. austin's line is an absolute joke

i took the light rail in houston to go to a baseball game yesterday

# ? Sep 20, 2021 16:49

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Smythe posted:

1200 in Los Angeles rent controlled 11 years ago in a �transitional� neighborhood

um i wasn't asking you but thx anyway (the person I quoted lives in Brooklyn according to their profile, which I'm sure is not cheap)

Sphyre posted:

imagine you and your large dog taking a leisurely stroll to catch a streetcar to your parents house

this is what could have been

are pets even allowed on public transit anywhere in this country?

# ? Sep 20, 2021 16:50

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
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Laugh and cry

i say swears online posted:

modern light rail sucks so bad. austin's line is an absolute joke

you should see san jose. VTA is so loving lol. its slower than biking/walking because it can only run at like 10 MPH and stops constantly at every light even though it has it's own ROW. and so predictable no one really uses it and it was stillborn and hasn't really changed so they've been funneling to more bus lines.

# ? Sep 20, 2021 17:06

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

paul_soccer12 posted:

fix it again tony

the only good fiat:

# ? Sep 20, 2021 17:20

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

actually the mephistopheles with the 22 litre airplane engine is pretty cool too just because of how outrageously dumb it is lol

# ? Sep 20, 2021 17:23

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

the fiat 500 is good:

quote:

The next morning, while the Red House was buzzing and teeming, like a beehive preparing for the swarm, we saw a small automobile coming along the road. Very few cars passed, so the fact roused our interest, especially since it wasn�t a military vehicle. It slowed in front of the camp, swerved, and turned in, jolting over the rough ground in front of the strange fa�ade. Then we saw that it was a vehicle familiar to all of us, a Fiat 500A, a rusty, beat-up Topolino, with its suspension pitifully misshapen.

It stopped in front of the entrance and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of the curious. An extraordinary figure emerged from it, with great effort, as if he would never finish getting out. He was a very tall, corpulent, ruddy man, in a uniform we had never seen before: a Soviet general, a high-ranking general, a field marshal. When he was completely out of the door, the tiny auto body rose a good few inches, and the suspension seemed to breathe. The man was literally larger than the car, and it was incomprehensible how he could have got into it. His dimensions were further enlarged and accentuated; he took a black object out of the car and unfolded it. It was a cloak that hung to the ground from two long rigid epaulets, of wood; with a casual gesture, attesting to a great familiarity with that equipment, he whirled it around and unfolded it over his back, so that his outline, which had been rounded, became angular. Seen from behind, the man was a monumental black rectangle of one meter by two, who advanced toward the vault of the Red House with majestic symmetry, between two lines of puzzled people whom he towered over by an entire head. How would he get through the door, wide as he was? But he folded back the two epaulets, like wings, and entered.

That heavenly messenger, who traveled alone through the mud in an ancient, disintegrating small car, was Marshal Timoshenko in person, Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, the hero of the Bolshevik Revolution, of Karelia and Stalingrad. After his welcome by the local Russians, which for that matter was singularly sober and lasted only a few minutes, he came out of the building again and chatted informally with us Italians, like the rough Kutuzov in War and Peace, on the field, amid the pots of fish cooking and laundry hung out to dry. He spoke Romanian fluently with the Romanians (since he was, rather is, originally from Bessarabia), and even knew a little Italian. The damp wind stirred his gray locks, which contrasted with his ruddy, tanned complexion, the complexion of a soldier, and of a hearty eater and drinker. He told us that yes, it was really true: we would be leaving soon, very soon; �war over, everybody home�; the escort was ready, also the provisions for the journey, the papers were in order. In a few days the train would be waiting for us in the station in Starye Doroghi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truce