What have people got against motorists?
- Thread starter Orang Utan
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Dr. Furface
One small step for me
What was the point of your ridiculous first post?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Lordy, yes. And I really should be doing it. I'll get to it right after I've finished this drink.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
you say that cos you get to drive monster trucks into caves for the lols and a jobPolitics of envy.
Nah on a more serious note have you ever walked into round Milton Keynes away from the town center. Loads of green spaces and under passenger, but tbh when I visited a mate there I was a bit shocked about how much was out of view from the roads. OK at night it feels like it could be a good backdrop for a 21st century clockwork orange and it's still a souless place, but more to it then meets the eye.
but yes, I do know MK a bit, it is lovely in parts. I slept two nights in the bushes surrounding Willen Lake once and Willen Lake has always had the most epic roundabout. Its just a big no-rails disc tilted so you fall off when it gets fast but can keep the highground if you don't slide off. People just run on it. And they've got a witches hat which is a sadly underused bit of awesome kids park play stuff in modern play parks
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
No lols involved mate. I really really don't get the adulation for old land rovers. It's the most stressful part of this job and given the choices between having a fucking 101 as my own transport and not driving I'd be signing up for some kind of travel card faster then the torries can throw money at the knuckle draggers in NI.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
What really grinds my gears are rich people with shit cars (cf my sister).
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
How dastardly of them. Of course these non-drivers are the people to blame not the councils/governments that has run down and destroyed public transport over the last 30 years.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
All drivers are cunts, but ones who buy second hand cars and run them to the ground are marginally better cunts than those who buy 'performance' cars - they're the worst kind of cunts
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
What about buying second hand performance cars and running them in to the ground?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Pricks
joustmaster
offcumdun
A couple of years ago I was cycling north over tower Bridge. There are a fair few lanes and turnings off the north end.
I pulled along side a Mini. The guy driving the car was watching a program on an ipad in his lap.
I pulled along side a Mini. The guy driving the car was watching a program on an ipad in his lap.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
On your bike
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I developed really horrible depression and anxiety last year. If i didnt travel by car, i didnt travel, because I couldn't handle being around strangers well enough for public transport. Without my car I'd almost certainly have lost my job and any traces of social life.
It's just one example, but im a passionate driver. I'm about as un-petrolhead as it's possible to be, but I'd give up lots in life if i could keep having a car. It's my freedom and independence.
It's just one example, but im a passionate driver. I'm about as un-petrolhead as it's possible to be, but I'd give up lots in life if i could keep having a car. It's my freedom and independence.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sorry, that was the bitter laughter of someone who had to take two weeks worth of recycling to the tip today because we'd get rats otherwise. It's also the bitter laughter of someone who has taken her children to every single kids' party and outing because, you know, eco warrior etc. All I'm saying is that there are drivers and there are passengers in this life and smugly announcing that you are 'car-free' doesn't impress me if I am then required to drive everywhere.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sorry, that was the bitter laughter of someone who had to take two weeks worth of recycling to the tip today because we'd get rats otherwise. It's also the bitter laughter of someone who has taken her children to every single kids' party and outing because, you know, eco warrior etc. All I'm saying is that there are drivers and there are passengers in this life and smugly announcing that you are 'car-free' doesn't impress me if I am then required to drive everywhere.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I like the private car. There are many pluses!
I made a thread which went to 15 pages wholly in praise of the fantastic car
A thread in praise of the private car!
I made a thread which went to 15 pages wholly in praise of the fantastic car
A thread in praise of the private car!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
don't spam this thread, please
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
This is a thread to document the obnoxious and dangerous behaviour of motorists, not earnest defences of their planet-killing habits by the motorists themselves.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
I was driving a van for work today when I found myself behind someone driving one of those silly little electric cars. I know they are allowed on the roads and it's their right to use the roads but they really should go to tracks like brands hatch or silverstone which are setup purely for driving if they want to play with their electric car - I mean they don't even pay road tax!
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
I would have thought India woudl been the higest deaths per population, but they're not, though their actual total deaths per year's size of a small city!
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Parking on the fucking pavement.
Ah but it's only illegal to drive on the pavement, not to park there. If you see a car parked on the pavement, that's not evidence that anyone unlawfully drove the car into that position. They could easily have placed the car in that spot using a crane.
/actual public policy on this issue
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I really hate the way they keep getting away with things while atually getting jailed for it. Can't they play by the rules?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Seems like the problem here is that you don't like your friends very much.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
I never mentioned my friends.
Most of my post alluded to my husband claiming to be some sort of eco warrior whilst 100% relying on me to drive to most places that we ever need to get to, and absolutely not understanding my frustration.
