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25 miles a day each is quite a lot, especially as a lot of those are kids who shouldn't be driving.

I used to know a lot of Americans in the Pacific NW who would drive 100 miles a day on their commute. An hour each way on the interstate didn't seem much different to my hour each way on the tube to them.

Oh yes, driving 3 hours a day (1.5 hours each way) were considered perfectly acceptable going in and out of Vancouver.

Oh yeah, I know that, I was more pointing out that yes, 3 trillion miles is a lot, but there's quite a lot of Americans and a fair few of them think nothing of a long commute.

Pre-pandemic days I used to spend a fair bit of time in the US working, quite often in small towns. It was pretty common that if you wanted to get to the restaurant or supermarket that was next door or across the road from your hotel you would have to drive. There was literally no other way to get there. Outside a few of the cities the place is amazingly car-centric.

This. Spent a month riding a motorbike across the US and the amount of times I couldn't even get from the hotel to the restaurant next door without driving was insane. No paths, ditches / walls between places, 6 lane highways.

Totally insane.

Also, it's incentivised. Drive through everything; banks & convenience stores where you don't even have to leave your seat.

Ah yes, more than once I've walked through a drive through cash machine as that was the only option.

Last time I was over there this was the walking route from the hotel to the supermarket

and the parking lot when you got there

Ha. I did that once - bike blew the rear tyre and had to get cash for the repair. Everyone else was looking at me like I was insane.

The states is bonkers for driving. My father in law was working there for a while and an english colleague got picked up by the police for walking down the side of a road to get to a reastaurant which was about 500m from his hotel.

Isn't that the anecdote everybody tells?

I don't know many people.

you don't even have to leave your seat.

Do you have any idea how uncomfortable a loaded AK on a single shoulder sling is to carry around? And that’s if you’re going ultralight without a spare magazine and ankle gun. A car with a gun rack makes life so much easier.

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My mother in law was arrested and beaten by police in the US just for having legs.

What was she doing with them? Had she failed to declare them at customs?

I was on holiday in Florida many years back, the villa we rented was on a golf course, and a huge Walmart at the entrance to the estate.

We walked along the golf course to go get some shopping and about 150m in to the trip a security guy on a golf cart pulled up and told us "walking isn't allowed on the course"
When we explained what we was doing he looked as us like we suggested he shaved a cat and covered it in marmalade. Could not comprehend walking the kilometer or so a store.
I am sure he considered shooting us.

Isn't that the anecdote everybody tells?

Yeah, happen to me before.

In fairness, those issues were not prevailing in every states in the Us, take Davis in California whose resident usually rides bicycles as a mode of transport.

VW campers are the apex predator of the greenwashed cuddly face

It's mad that lefties seem to think that the interests of canal boat dwellers, camper van cunts and micro house enthusiasts somehow are part of our agenda. My analysis is that we all used to occasionally hang out and smoke spliffs with the same white guy with dreadlocks when we were younger. Last we heard of him he is now living on a canal boat (bought with the dosh his parents gave him for house deposit). Still wanting to be mates with him we support his diesel fuelled wood burning agenda against..... the canals becoming commercialised or something?

I am sure he considered shooting us.

Can't even outrun him, either.

Off he fucks:

To Herne Hill… there goes the neighbourhood.

Again

Who's paying for the fancypants movers? Is this included in the perks of being a PM?

You think Bojo is paying for literally anything himself?

Top story atm is their most recent £50,000 jolly on the official jet…

I wonder if there steam off that wall paper