The "Wasn't sure where to put it" Thread

True true. If you ride like a dick it’s a fair bet you drive like a dick.

Thank you cyclists!
This evening Liz and I did a litter pic on our dog walk. It’s 3 miles and the banks and hedges have just been cut. This drags all the crap out to be seen. We live in a small village just outside Norwich, the 3 miles is country roads and most of it is part of national cycle route 1, all of it is a posted loop walk and every single day we have tons of riders and walkers going about their business as well as drivests driving.
We picked up just over 1/2 a black bin bag of stuff. How many monster and red bull cans did we get? 10 some Costa and Starbucks cups, some kfc and McD shite. And a full bottle of “Jammy Red” wine, full of what I don’t care to know.
How many Kendal mint cake wrappers? None.
How many gel wrappers? Zero not one. We’ve been here 5 year and litter picked maybe 15 times and never found a gel. Well done cyclists, pat yourselves on the back.
Drivests get to fuck.

Definitely worth drinking the wine though

By the way...

'Driver' is a bullshit term. Cyclists are drivers. Motorists are riders.

Thank heyzus I used the correct term of drivest them ;)

I did notice that, and it made me think of the difference between say, Christian and Christianist... Haven't seen driveist before. (Shouldn't that be the spelling?)

And it put me in mind of that driver/rider distinction which struck me about ten years ago. Seemed so damn obvious once I'd thought of it - I was immediately taken with the political dimension of what a rhetorical shafting and con-job that cyclists have copped for a century, being on the wrong side of that coin; it's enough to provoke militant fury. Particularly in the light of increasing sustainability pressures... Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves, but if you drive rather than ride most of your way, it has to be fewer than that.

What I can't understand is that as far as I've seen, nobody else seems to have noticed it and made an issue out of the misnomer.

Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves

Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

Was reminded of this forum earlier and thought I would check out the latest action. It is still delivering, there are some very regular persistent offenders.

https://www.oakleyforum.com/threads/what-oakleys-are-you-wearing-today.822/page-24269

These guys are all on the same pickup truck and gun fora as well.

It is still delivering

..it definitely is 😀

It's also a bit disturbing that it's still going on

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One is wearing a t-shirt from this place

https://www.gruntstyle.com/

https://www.oakleyforum.com/threads/what-oakleys-are-you-wearing-today.822/page-24264

Xmas present sorted

Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

Or perhaps the point is that some fraction of that seventy are like, near enough to actual slaves, and that the brutality of colonialism never really went away; it's just shifted form to something vastly more insidious.

It's not just energy consumption, it's the goods the corporations provide to us.

If you, a well-off westerner, find offense in the suggestion that you're benefiting from the subjugation of many others, then perhaps I can interest you in a subscription to one of Rupert Murdoch's 'news'papers

Not that bad really, just a lot of guys digging their shades.

Wonder if they have an equivalent to measuring the height difference between two objects by the amount of background bricks, would be a really strange communitity if it had that

It just looks like the watch thread on here

this can go here

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nice 👌

This is way cool!

Brilliant

Are we sure that hasn't just been pulled out of a plug hole?

They found my merkin, great news

Not sure whether to put this in the cargo bike or frankenbike or wtf thread so just leaving it here..

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Good for carrying one massive poster, 2 and it's folding like spaghetti.

Made me laugh...
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24405900.big-cat-lynx-sighting-fields-worcestershire-border/