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Andy

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1140 on: December 16, 2009, 07:08:20 PM »
Please stop being a jerk to me.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1141 on: December 16, 2009, 07:09:07 PM »
I hate the soda machine at work. Yesterday, it dispensed a soda can that, upon coming out, promptly exploded in my face.

There's an enlightenment lesson here.




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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1142 on: December 17, 2009, 07:10:30 AM »
You know what I don't hate?  Andy, that's what.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1143 on: December 17, 2009, 10:32:16 AM »
You know what I don't hate?  Andy, that's what.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1144 on: December 17, 2009, 11:42:45 AM »
That guy in the car that yelled 'F***** F****T F****T' at me while I was riding my bike. Actually yelling out of a car at passersby in general, although the Doppler shift makes it sound funny.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1145 on: December 17, 2009, 12:18:56 PM »
You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1146 on: December 17, 2009, 12:22:59 PM »
You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.


Then the old people yell at you (at least they do here) for riding on the sidewalk. I think I explained this earlier on in the thread, though.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1147 on: December 17, 2009, 12:52:08 PM »
Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1148 on: December 17, 2009, 12:59:28 PM »
An observation from living in Manhattan just a couple months - I am much more scared of cyclists than cars. Much. I've never risked getting clipped by a car going the wrong way down a one way street, blowing a stop sign. With cyclists, it happens almost daily.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1149 on: December 17, 2009, 01:32:57 PM »
Yeah, in Montreal the cyclists are a much bigger menace than the cars, too. But I'm talking about stuff like Mark from Helsinki is describing: seemingly arbitrary acts of hostility from motorists directed towards cyclists who are just doing their thing.

And as a pedestrian, I can say with some confidence that this:

You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.

is not the correct answer to the problem. At least not in places that actually have pedestrians.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1150 on: December 17, 2009, 01:55:21 PM »
I think the big thing with the pedestrian/bike/big steel box on wheels trifecta in most cities is that the automobile and the pedestrian were given clear "road rules" in the early stages and bikes were kind of an afterthought.

Some city planning (like helsinki) appears on the surface to be very friendly to bikes. And there are admittedly a lot of bike trails and even an online map system (like mapquest, but it actually sometimes works) that gives you bike trail directions.

But in reality one is very vulnerable as a city cyclist. One (edit)never is often not terribly sure where one should be biking. Sometimes the roads are just too dangerous and I take the sidewalk, much to the dismay of angry seniors.

Drivers, at least the ones here, seem ready to run over anything that is smaller than what they're driving.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1151 on: December 17, 2009, 02:10:46 PM »
Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.

The blatant disregard for stop lights/signs could very well be the main issue.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1152 on: December 17, 2009, 03:12:14 PM »

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1153 on: December 17, 2009, 03:43:26 PM »
Please stop being a jerk to me.

Never. I'd hate that.
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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1154 on: December 17, 2009, 04:05:09 PM »
Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.

Being in the way and slowing the cars down.  Natch.  Also what harris said: the scads of bikers who act like pedestrians when it's convenient and then cars when it's convenient.


Also the whole fucking existence of "Critical Mass" elevates my anti-bike rage by 3 points at all times, including while asleep.
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