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withak posted:
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if that isn't who you picture while reading posts in this thread.
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quote:People on bikes don't have to stop at red lights, and they especially don't have to stop at stop signs, and they very much can go the wrong way down one ways, because bikes are special, and exempt from these things. Also they can ride in the middle of traffic lanes and on the sidewalk. And they don't have to give way to pedestrians on crosswalks, they can just go through them. Fe fi fo fum
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Feb 7, 2022 06:24
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lobster shirt posted:wife and i walked to the park with our kid today, the part walking through quiet residential streets isnt bad but there's a part of the walk where you're on the sidewalk of a big thoroughfare. unpleasant!!! unpleasant to talk and stroll when cars are zooming by at 45 mph. gently caress cars!!! don't forget all the particles and chemicals you're breathing in from the tires and exhaust
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Feb 7, 2022 06:30
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I had a coffee the other day in a nice little mountain town Alfresco on a main Street I couldn't hear anyone speak it it was so loud
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Feb 7, 2022 06:43
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vyelkin posted:i hate czars
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Feb 7, 2022 08:57
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SKULL.GIF posted:Fe fi fo fum I mean, bikes are more maneuverable than cars and can go places cars can't. And everyone on a bike is one less car you have to deal with. That said you shouldn't run stop signs in front of traffic, if only for self-preservation reasons.
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Feb 7, 2022 09:06
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vyelkin posted:i hate czars Sweats Nicholas the Second-ishly
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Feb 7, 2022 09:20
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skooma512 posted:And then you're punished if a cop feels like pulling you over for going with the flow of traffic When I was in high school 20 years ago the chp spokesperson told my class we'll pull you over and ticket you whenever we feel like it
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Feb 7, 2022 10:11
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PeterCat posted:I mean, bikes are more maneuverable than cars and can go places cars can't. And everyone on a bike is one less car you have to deal with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrBXpw9iqDU
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Feb 7, 2022 15:27
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People on bikes should absolutely not do dumb things to endanger pedestrians and other cyclists but it's true that most traffic rules aren't really necessary for bikes if they're just going like 10 mph and there are no cars.
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Feb 7, 2022 15:32
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flying by that pedestrian in the crosswalk and missing them only by a couple inches is the moment my empathy turned off for these guys
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Feb 7, 2022 15:46
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Went on a run yesterday and almost immediately got flattened by a cop who went into the left lane to run a red light while I was in the crosswalk. If it wasn't so cumbersome, I'd love to run with a gopro so I could make bad driver compilations
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Feb 7, 2022 16:39
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Cup Runneth Over posted:don't forget all the particles and chemicals you're breathing in from the tires and exhaust impossible to forget because i live by a major stroad and traffic noise is audible in my house 24/7 like last year when the city froze and half the residents lost power (very bad) nobody was driving and for the first time it was actually quiet. would be nice to experience that without a major disaster killing hundreds of people!!!!
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Feb 7, 2022 16:57
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Being a conscientious street/sidewalk user is absolutely a responsibility no matter how one's getting around. Two things that are true that can be held in parallel: cyclists are capable of being dangerous assholes and bad behavior shouldn't be tolerated; drivers are the principle source of traffic violence because cars are a dozen orders of magnitude more lethal than bicycles and must be reined in. A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair was murdered in a crosswalk this weekend: https://twitter.com/Naparstek/status/1490690321788850178?t=utLL9C63HVPBPUSvPj9JnA&s=19
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Feb 7, 2022 17:11
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tom kite posted:When I was in high school 20 years ago the chp spokesperson told my class we'll pull you over and ticket you whenever we feel like it At least he's honest
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Feb 7, 2022 18:04
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i feel like the life expectancy of doing this is similar to those russian dudes that climb to the top of giant towers with no harness
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Feb 7, 2022 18:06
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saw some high energy car brain in Portugal today. felt like I was back in Canada for a moment. even driving a lil tinycar here is a pain so I'm not sure what motivates someone to do this, but it's probably not one of the good emotions.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:18
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Pretty rad dad pad posted:saw some high energy car brain in Portugal today. felt like I was back in Canada for a moment.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:22
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speed bumps were installed on my street. the cars come down the street at the exact same speed, but now much louder. great
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Feb 7, 2022 18:38
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Horace posted:speed bumps were installed on my street.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:46
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I live about half a mile away from a highway. depending on weather conditions, it’s either quiet, or the noise blasts up and I hear loud droning traffic from sun down to around midnight. it is gloriously quiet on holidays or when we get a cold snap. and they want to add lanes to this highway!! gently caress cars
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Feb 7, 2022 18:47
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imagine surviving concentration camps and then getting run over by a bmw in a crosswalk. what a nightmare https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1490692440633786369
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Feb 7, 2022 19:05
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Horace posted:speed bumps were installed on my street. drat I need to buy an SUV so I can hit these speed bumps at full speed without slowing down! <-- Apparently what everyone who drives an SUV down my street with speed bumps thinks. For some reason both myself and my partner have noticed a wild increase in car brain at our end of the street recently. This is a very suburban street in the central part of the city, pretty much exclusively PMC people, families etc. there wouldn't be a house worth less than $1.5M here. Up until a few weeks ago the biggest car parked on the road near us was a Ford Ranger, which already stood out against all the other predominately Japanese and European cars. Then recently somebody got this enormous stupid looking Jeep wrangler rubicon thing with huge tires, winches all over it etc. (never any mud obvs). Now there's another ford ranger parked behind the first one and some landcruisers too ahhhhhh. These are absolutely not used for work purposes, none of them ever go off-road, it sucks arse.
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Feb 7, 2022 19:09
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As a compromise of getting rid of cars let's start by taxing SUV and crossover drivers 1million USD/mo and nationalizing Ford and GM.
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Feb 7, 2022 19:18
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There's some road work going on here, and people are mad at the metal plates because they're so jarring to driver over at 65 mph. But the speed limit is 30 mph, so
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Feb 7, 2022 19:21
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Blackhawk posted:drat I need to buy an SUV so I can hit these speed bumps at full speed without slowing down! <-- Apparently what everyone who drives an SUV down my street with speed bumps thinks. during the pandemic the number of adventure cars in my neighborhood exploded. id say over 25% are now bigass jeeps, land rovers, landcruisers, even some of those big luxury mercedes suvs that you usually only see in liveleak vids of drift competitions from saudi arabia tons of older models of all of those too, the 1980s cherokee seems mostly highly prized. there’s a pretty cute suzuki samurai nearby tho, so it’s not all bad (never moves from its parking space so I can appreciate it as an objet d’art)
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Feb 7, 2022 19:22
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Blackhawk posted:Up until a few weeks ago the biggest car parked on the road near us was a Ford Ranger, which already stood out against all the other predominately Japanese and European cars. Then recently somebody got this enormous stupid looking Jeep wrangler rubicon thing with huge tires, winches all over it etc. (never any mud obvs). Now there's another ford ranger parked behind the first one and some landcruisers too ahhhhhh. These are absolutely not used for work purposes, none of them ever go off-road, it sucks arse. male boomers are so susceptible to peer pressure it's honestly pathetic my dad used to rag on harley davidson as being dumb and overpriced — "you're paying for the brand, and can get a better motorcycle for less money." one day some guy on a harley made some comment about my dad's bike, and my dad brought it up constantly for like 10 months, and then he traded in his bike for a harley lol Horace posted:speed bumps were installed on my street. speed bumps only work if drivers see them. most of the people slamming into the speed bump are probably sending text messages or watching youtube as they drive Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 19:58 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Feb 7, 2022 19:39
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Feb 7, 2022 19:57
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Polo-Rican posted:male boomers are so susceptible to peer pressure it's honestly pathetic I love the HD example because it's totally backfiring on them now that boomers are on the way out https://youtu.be/EOwxxsPaogY
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Feb 7, 2022 20:01
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I love the HD example because it's totally backfiring on them now that boomers are on the way out NGL I want to ride the HD XDR1200 that thing looks sweet. (But I'm not a motorcycle guy so I will not be buying one, still look's sweet though).
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Feb 7, 2022 20:23
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thats right  Polo-Rican posted:imagine surviving concentration camps and then getting run over by a bmw in a crosswalk. what a nightmare american fate  more reasons to ban cars, killing holocaust survivors probably #1 now
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Feb 7, 2022 20:27
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I love the HD example because it's totally backfiring on them now that boomers are on the way out the ads for those little honda bikes kick rear end. it would be amazing if lots of people transitioned from cars to little motorbikes for short errands. too bad that won't happen because: • american masculinity: ego won't allow for any bike other than a big harley (vintage triumph or ducati may also be acceptable) • american car culture: high chance of getting flattened by an suv, and everyone will posthumously blame you no matter what happened edit: 200 miles per gallon!! jesus christ 
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Feb 7, 2022 20:28
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I kinda want one now
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Feb 7, 2022 22:55
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Polo-Rican posted:imagine surviving concentration camps and then getting run over by a bmw in a crosswalk. what a nightmare Of course it was a German SUV.
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Feb 7, 2022 23:18
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The problem with motorcycles in the US is the same problem as trucks. In the rest of the world they are small and practical, in the US they are loud and obnoxious to make up for a small penis. Pictured, a practical bike in Erbil: 
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Feb 7, 2022 23:20
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i would not ride any motorcycle, simply because motorcyclists would see me as one of them
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lol
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I have a car and a bicycle.
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Feb 8, 2022 04:00
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My former neighborhood's Carbucks has seen the light and dropped the drive through in favor of a walk through. Partly because the city imposed significant costs on their snarling traffic after sustained public outcry, partly because employees rebelled over the off-duty cop the store contracted to manage traffic. https://twitter.com/FrederickMelo/status/1490852888997883905?t=QywQ-4wc-jZf6npdeXSUOQ&s=19
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Cugel the Clever posted:My former neighborhood's Carbucks has seen the light and dropped the drive through in favor of a walk through. Partly because the city imposed significant costs on their snarling traffic after sustained public outcry, partly because employees rebelled over the off-duty cop the store contracted to manage traffic. There's an In and Out burger near me that has cars lined around the block every night. As well as a Starbucks that is the same. I can't imagine waiting that long for mediocre hamburgers and overpriced coffee. I mean, hamburgers and coffee are like the easiest things in the world to make, learn to do some basic cooking!
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