|
Moon Slayer posted:I'd love to bike to work, too bad that it's 90+ degrees with 90% humidity four months out of the year and my work clothes would be soaked through when I got there, or it's -10 degrees with a foot of snow five months of the year. My clothes get soaked with sweat within 10 minutes of walking to and from the car. The south!
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 16:51
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 01:12 |
|
|
As I understand it, the South is full of whiteys originally from the British Isles, hence the term rednecks
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 16:53
|
|
|
Rednecks were just white laborers originally. Sunburn and all.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 16:58
|
|
|
The nuances of the etymology of "redneck" are disputed, but it is known to refer originally to sunburns on the necks of southern white farmers wearing insufficiently shady hats.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 17:08
|
|
|
whatever the source it's OK to call people rednecks Its me, i'm the redneck gatekeeper
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 17:20
|
|
|
hhhat posted:whatever the source it's OK to call people rednecks lets see you holding up the sole of a Louboutin next to your neck first
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 17:49
|
|
|
Elfface posted:Bill Bryson has an anecdote in one of his books about being amazed by this when he moved back to America after living for a while in England. When he was out for a walk, people would offer to give him a ride to his destination, and his next door neighbours once drove to his house for a dinner party. And later he tries to walk across a street and finds it impossible. Similar to this: vyelkin posted:A lot of places in the US don't even have sidewalks. If you want to walk somewhere you either walk in the street and risk getting hit by cars In my Texas city of over 100,000 people, sidewalks are sporadic. People are constantly asking the city to add more, but it's slow, slow going--they are really only a thing in the rich neighborhoods and Broadway. We might have crosswalks, but many outside the city square do not work. They appear to have been installed to appease people that asked for them without the intention of actually being usable. One of these is the crosswalk leading to an elementary school in my neighborhood. It worked the year they installed it and hasn't worked since. I live within 3 and some change miles of my work. There is a sidewalk for about a third of the route, but the rest has nothing but rough wasteland or the shoulder of the road. It takes me 15 minutes to drive through typical traffic, or an hour to walk and at many points it requires crossing highways that have these non-functioning cross walks or no crosswalks at all, so making the attempt is dangerous. I have seen at least one person sprawled out in the middle of the street on that route, post impact, on a day I was driving the other way. I have a bike, but the last time I tried to use it I narrowly avoided getting hit and I just don't trust the drivers around here enough to try again.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:01
|
|
|
Sidewalk coverage varies regionally. Texas is more or less the worst at it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:10
|
|
|
ulex minor posted:lets see you holding up the sole of a Louboutin next to your neck first i dont know what half of these words mean
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:24
|
|
|
hhhat posted:i dont know what half of these words mean Which are the words you're struggling with, other than Louboutin? I myself didn't know Louboutin, but I googled it. I had to work for it but it's a good joke
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:26
|
|
|
marshmallow creep posted:And later he tries to walk across a street and finds it impossible. Similar to this: I sold my car and only biked my last year in Austin...which should be a bike friendly city...but being texas it's not. Had someone get out of their car and try and fight me due to me not getting out of the way fast enough on a side street. Had lots of near miss almost run over situations. My cousin was cycling near the 360 bridge, famous area where Lance Armstrong bikes, and got shot with a bb-gun from a moving car. Cycling in Texas is horrible, most of the cities don't even have sidewalks and it's all highways through small cities, then the places that do have bikelanes treat cyclists like targets.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:30
|
|
|
Yeah, that's what I meant earlier when I mentioned Brussels. It's a mostly-francophone city (and already as chaotic as can be) surrounded by Flanders, and it is assaulted on a daily basis by legions of Flemish commuters, some of them on bikes. That sort of culture clash is just asking for trouble, they couldn't pay me to cycle there
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:36
|
|
|
stupid sexy Flanders
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:47
|
|
|
BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Thats like deep exurbs where everything is 15 miles apart and only guys on suspended licenses don't drive. Anywhere even slightly dense has sidewalks. Nah, there's huge sections of suburban America without sidewalks within twenty miles of major cities.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:50
|
|
|
LifeSunDeath posted:I sold my car and only biked my last year in Austin...which should be a bike friendly city...but being texas it's not. Had someone get out of their car and try and fight me due to me not getting out of the way fast enough on a side street. Had lots of near miss almost run over situations. My cousin was cycling near the 360 bridge, famous area where Lance Armstrong bikes, and got shot with a bb-gun from a moving car. Cycling in Texas is horrible, most of the cities don't even have sidewalks and it's all highways through small cities, then the places that do have bikelanes treat cyclists like targets. I have seen one bikelane in my entire town, and it runs the length of a single cemetery and no farther. It is a joke. I didn't know it got that hostile in Austin, but my only experience there is trying to drive through it to conference in Houston so I'm familiar with the easily frustrated drivers.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 18:50
|
|
|
Empty Sandwich posted:stupid sexy Flanders Just what is it about our flag that causes people to make this association? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:00
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:03
|
|
|
Harry was never Dobby's master so those cum soaked socks wouldn't have freed him. This comic doesn't follow the Harry Potter canon and therefore it has no value.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:21
|
|
|
Push El Burrito posted:Harry was never Dobby's master so those cum soaked socks wouldn't have freed him. This comic doesn't follow the Harry Potter canon and therefore it has no value. That's obviously a sad-sack early-middle-aged Harry, it's pretty clearly a sequel.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:24
|
|
|
Captain Hygiene posted:That's obviously a sad-sack early-middle-aged Harry, it's pretty clearly a sequel. Uh, excuse me, Dobby is dead by the end of the series so he could never do such a thing!! Please get your accurate knowledge of the horrible transphobe's series correct please.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:30
|
|
|
A small town cum tourist hot spot where I grew up had a diagonal crosswalk installed.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:37
|
|
|
ImpAtom posted:Please get your accurate knowledge of the horrible transphobe's series correct please. Yeah I was gonna get further into joking about canon vs my memory but this about sums it up.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:40
|
|
|
Edit it so that it's Dobby asking Draco for his cum socks or I WALK!
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:42
|
|
|
Arrhythmia posted:cum tourist hot spot
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:47
|
|
|
Where can I find this cumtourist hot spot, asking for a friend
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:50
|
|
|
the grand cum tour
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:56
|
|
|
The small town cum tourist hot spots are where it's at. The ones in the cities are too loud and crowded nowadays.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 19:57
|
|
|
I will only travel for the finest small town cum
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 20:16
|
|
|
BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Thats like deep exurbs where everything is 15 miles apart and only guys on suspended licenses don't drive. Anywhere even slightly dense has sidewalks. Lol if you think they still don't drive I once carded someone for cigarettes who still had the under 21 license and party plates on their car.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 20:20
|
|
|
Phlegmish posted:Where can I find this cumtourist hot spot, asking for a friend I think there's a podcast about it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 21:05
|
|
|
Len posted:Lol if you think they still don't drive One of my students owes something like 4000 dollars in tickets, parking, speeding, etc, and his license expired years ago. He can't get a new license until he pays off the tickets, so for years he just...hasn't renewed his license. The only reason he's looking at paying the tickets now is because he needs a new valid ID to take his GED.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 21:15
|
|
|
Is there a "help me find a comic" in bss somewhere? Either way, requesting help finding an old Maakies comic (even if it is in whichever collection) which is something like "Vacations compared by the classes" with a wealthy dude in a resort, well off person in a garden, and then Uncle Gabby sitting on a barrel of morning glory seeds(maybe) tripping his rear end off. Would greatly appreciate it
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 21:17
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/ShadowPowerup/status/1281322564409794563
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 21:37
|
|
|
The powerup comics characters don't go for grabbing boobs because they can't get to them, so they just rub elbows instead.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 22:03
|
|
|
 
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2020 23:54
|
|
|
Re: Americans and walking/footpaths. I have an ex-girlfriend who lives in Indianapolis, and I once went to visit her. So I was at her house, and said I was going to walk to the shops, which was about a 10-15 minute walk. She looked at me like I was crazy, and I had to nearly argue with her that yes, I wanted to go for a walk outside on a nice day and see her neighbourhood. And also when I went on that walk, I can confirm that the footpath was sporadic, so I was walking on the side of teh road constantly looking for cars. And whilst I am whinging about America and the way it's populace gets around. Why do you people hate public transport? In the Indianapolis suburbs, there was maybe 1 bus, and that bus ran once an hour, and stopped running around 6PM. Which is of less than no use to anybody. Comic tax: 
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2020 02:22
|
|
|
I live in rural Ohio a bit south of Akron. People hate public transportation because it's not funded enough to be efficient, but they won't pass anything to give it better funding because it sucks. We've been told our whole lives that public transportation is bad and not worth our time get a car to the point where one of the guys in my social group was arguing with a person who lived in Columbus that all bus systems are bad and not worth the time because it's an hour between each bus and yadda yadda. If I could I would absolutely take public transit to work because I hate driving and I would save so much money not having to drive 30 minutes to and from work each day.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2020 02:28
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:And whilst I am whinging about America and the way it's populace gets around. Why do you people hate public transport? Racism.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2020 02:29
|
|
|
Racism, hatred of poor people, hatred of spending taxpayer money on public projects (because they would benefit poor and non-white people), automakers historically killing it, the list goes on.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2020 02:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 01:12 |
|
|
You know how in Roger Rabbit the bad guys bought the busses in order to kill them to profit off the building of a freeway? That actually happened all over the country and public replacements were not made quickly or well.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2020 02:50
|
|