I want the governer to fucking piss off...
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I want the governer to fucking piss off...
fucking governator treated the mass transit funds like a piggy bank for his pet projects, so now, because of lacking funds, an already shit system is even more shit, with fewer lines (and it was already anemic in my area), and the lines have have more limited runs (so I'm pretty much housebound saturdays except for friends picking me up or deciding to walk several miles)
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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The Vigilante
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Don't you have a bike ? You can cover up about 15 miles in an hour if you're not too out of shape, and it's free. It might be a good solution for you, especially if you live in a weather friendly area like California where you can bike pretty much 12 months a year.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no one - for I am the meanest motherfucker in the valley.
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Count Arioch the 28th
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Depends, is Callie as hostile to bicyclists as they are everywhere else in America?The Vigilante wrote:Don't you have a bike ? You can cover up about 15 miles in an hour if you're not too out of shape, and it's free. It might be a good solution for you, especially if you live in a weather friendly area like California where you can bike pretty much 12 months a year.
Fun fact: American law states that a bicycle is a vehicle and needs to be on a road and not a sidewalk. American motorists resent that and make it their business to go out of their way to harass cyclists whenever they see them. I was run off the road several times when I was a kid and hit more than once by a car and then yelled at to "Get the fuck off the road, you fucking idiot!" while I was lying on the grass bleeding. My dad who is an avid cyclist has had people throw stuff at him from cars, had people sic their dogs on him, had a bike (an expensive racing bike, mind you) totaled because someone ran over it with their car.
The area I live in has a lot of Mennonite settlements (Think slightly more liberal version of the Amish). I saw a young mennonite woman on a bike with her infant daughter get run off the road and screamed at by some fuck in an SUV. I regret not following that guy and rearranging his face, the cowardly fuck.
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I always wondered why so many cyclists seem to be filled with rage.
I rode my bike like a kamikaze racer, so the occasional honks and screams were expected.
I rode my bike like a kamikaze racer, so the occasional honks and screams were expected.
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
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-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
My last couple of bikes got stolen. And I'm not exactly financially solvent enough to buy a new one. I may go get a new lock and use my Dad's, but the simple fact is, I live in Sacramento. While we're have a fairly nice summer compared to usual while the rest of the country is practically aflame, "relatively nice" is still in the 90s.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Dylan Moran on SUVs:Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I saw a young mennonite woman on a bike with her infant daughter get run off the road and screamed at by some fuck in an SUV. I regret not following that guy and rearranging his face, the cowardly fuck.
I think that says it all.I mean really, how small does your cock have to be?
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Your relatively nice weather has left us on the coast with fog for thirty days straight. We're just lucky we've had four clear nights in the last week. It's the hottest summer everywhere in the US... Except the bare coast in a few spots, like here in Santa Cruz.
CA is hostile, but not as bad. We have lots of bike lanes - but we have many roads that literally haven't been repaired in twenty years, so they not only don't have bike lanes, there's no place off the road to go. Cars are supposed to go around you, but... There's been times that going across a narrow - like a bridge - some asshole in an SUV yells at you insulting your parentage for being in his lane going only the speed limit.
-Crissa
CA is hostile, but not as bad. We have lots of bike lanes - but we have many roads that literally haven't been repaired in twenty years, so they not only don't have bike lanes, there's no place off the road to go. Cars are supposed to go around you, but... There's been times that going across a narrow - like a bridge - some asshole in an SUV yells at you insulting your parentage for being in his lane going only the speed limit.
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Legally speaking, automobiles are required to defer to pedestrians and cyclists. Given that 1 ton of metal will smoosh a person, it's not difficult to understand why. Doesn't mean that's always the case.
I've heard stories on NPR about cyclists and drivers beating each other up in the canyon hills outside LA over using the roads.
Once while walking down an Indianapolis city street I saw a yuppie in a Mercedes SUV tailgate, honk and flip off a cyclist. The cyclist caught up with him and took his side mirror off with a kryptonite lock. Ballsy but the asshole deserved it.
I've heard stories on NPR about cyclists and drivers beating each other up in the canyon hills outside LA over using the roads.
Once while walking down an Indianapolis city street I saw a yuppie in a Mercedes SUV tailgate, honk and flip off a cyclist. The cyclist caught up with him and took his side mirror off with a kryptonite lock. Ballsy but the asshole deserved it.
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I really need to try that sometime.Wesley Street wrote:Once while walking down an Indianapolis city street I saw a yuppie in a Mercedes SUV tailgate, honk and flip off a cyclist. The cyclist caught up with him and took his side mirror off with a kryptonite lock. Ballsy but the asshole deserved it.
A friend of my dad got paralyzed when he got hit in the back of the head by one of those wide metal rearview mirrors while biking on the side of the road.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no one - for I am the meanest motherfucker in the valley.
yeah, people with cars all too often ignore bikers or actively antagonize them, I remember in high school taking the normal road became dangerous once you were in sight of the school because the cars used the bike lane as an extension of the turn lane into the school lot. Everyone knew they weren't supposed to, but they were more concerned with dropping off their dumbass kids so they could get on with their own shit, so concerned they were actually willing to endanger other minors going to school. So a lot of people used a narrow path through a large plot of farm land right next to the school. It wasn't particularly convenient with the layout of the school, but it was better than the alternative.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Cars are supposed to use the bike lane as an extension of the turn lane. Bikes that aren't turning should merge to the left of such cars and bikes that aren't should merge with traffic.
What annoys me - on bike or when driving - are the people who slide to the right in such lanes, and then don't turn. They make it too tight to slide by in my car and turn and dangerous to do so on my bike because I don't know what the hell they're up to.
But yes, it's getting to the point where many schools in the Bay Area have signage basically banning cars from turning or using certain streets while school is getting in and out because of the danger of having so many of them queued up on the street.
"No Right Turn 7am to 10am or 2pm to 4pm" or "No Thru Traffic" with cones during these times are becoming more common.
-Crissa
What annoys me - on bike or when driving - are the people who slide to the right in such lanes, and then don't turn. They make it too tight to slide by in my car and turn and dangerous to do so on my bike because I don't know what the hell they're up to.
But yes, it's getting to the point where many schools in the Bay Area have signage basically banning cars from turning or using certain streets while school is getting in and out because of the danger of having so many of them queued up on the street.
"No Right Turn 7am to 10am or 2pm to 4pm" or "No Thru Traffic" with cones during these times are becoming more common.
-Crissa
to the end of the block? huh. Didn't know that.Crissa wrote:Cars are supposed to use the bike lane as an extension of the turn lane. Bikes that aren't turning should merge to the left of such cars and bikes that aren't should merge with traffic.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Uh, doesn't this thread run afoul of the no-politics cooldown phase....
But at least in our state we can blame the Feds for nixing our guys's plan to toll an interstate and thereby leaving us with no funding for mass transit nor stopping our bridges from collapsing....
But at least in our state we can blame the Feds for nixing our guys's plan to toll an interstate and thereby leaving us with no funding for mass transit nor stopping our bridges from collapsing....
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Josh_Kablack wrote:Uh, doesn't this thread run afoul of the no-politics cooldown phase....
But at least in our state we can blame the Feds for nixing our guys's plan to toll an interstate and thereby leaving us with no funding for mass transit nor stopping our bridges from collapsing....
Yeah, it has actually become physically impossible to tax Americans. That's why Pawlenty was forced to raise fees instead. Oh yeah, and why we have to pay for police forces with voluntary "speeding ticket" donations.
The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges.
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
fixed that for my circumstancesCrissa wrote:And it's tough on those who wanthave to live there.
-Crissa
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Count, you had the shittiest childhood ever.Depends, is Callie as hostile to bicyclists as they are everywhere else in America?
Fun fact: American law states that a bicycle is a vehicle and needs to be on a road and not a sidewalk. American motorists resent that and make it their business to go out of their way to harass cyclists whenever they see them. I was run off the road several times when I was a kid and hit more than once by a car and then yelled at to "Get the fuck off the road, you fucking idiot!" while I was lying on the grass bleeding. My dad who is an avid cyclist has had people throw stuff at him from cars, had people sic their dogs on him, had a bike (an expensive racing bike, mind you) totaled because someone ran over it with their car.
The area I live in has a lot of Mennonite settlements (Think slightly more liberal version of the Amish). I saw a young mennonite woman on a bike with her infant daughter get run off the road and screamed at by some fuck in an SUV. I regret not following that guy and rearranging his face, the cowardly fuck.
Count Arioch wrote:I'm not sure how discussions on whether PR is a terrible person or not is on-topic.
Ant wrote:You do not seem to do anything.Chamomile wrote:Ant, what do we do about Psychic Robot?
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Count Arioch the 28th
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what, did they literally get beaten half to death and then physically dragged into the gaping maw of hell?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
fucking epic
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.