Mickey7The priorities of life
branchIs that a baby or a toy in the right side of the image?
a toy
catharsoare you on the other side of the planet?
or why is your right my left? š š»āāļø
zewmTheyāre from drama class. Itās stage right.
Iām sorry, I mixed up my arms.
HipsterTenZerothats a dog
Sir Lancelot and the Black Knight by Rick Wakeman on āThe Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Tableā is probably gonna do it.
š¾šššš šæšššThis is why I keep mix CDs in my cars. Turn it on and itās already playing the CD I was last spinning. And you know what? I think Iāve got pretty good music taste so Iām gonna let that shit play lol.
I just burned the Chappell Roan album and left it in my wifeās car lol Weāve been bonding over that one. One day, I think Iām gonna get us tickets to see her live.
ElgenzayIāve just got a USB of like a thousand songs on random. Every now and again Iāll take it out and add new songs and sometimes remove some old ones that havenāt stuck
4 minute drive to the grocery store is probably a 4 minute bike ride to the grocery store, just sayin
Good thing they wonāt need to bring back a bunch of groceries.
Good thing they live 4 minutes away from a grocery store. You can fit quite a lot on a bike very easily, and living that far away you donāt need to make big infrequent trips anyway.
Good thing i live in South Florida where if you stay outside for 4 minutes you die from heat exhaustion
thatās not a good thing buddy
Oh shoot
Peope canāt just say āI donāt like the weatherā and leave.
Wednesday things like housing, Healthcare, and food, which depend on jobs. And those can be very difficult to find in a new place.
I work in municipal employee and an expert in Texas development regulations. If I leave Texas, I lose most of my value as an employee.
sounds like American problems that you created for yourselves! Enjoy! (or not)
Good thing that bikes can carry groceries for at least a week.
With a pannier rack and baskets to hang on the rack, I can carry all the groceries we need for 1-2 weeks if I so wish on my bike, no problems whatsoever.
Americans are the only creatures who donāt understand the concept of a grocery basket outside of a car
Most Americans buy a lot of groceries at once because most Americans donāt have quick access to grocery stores, and buying smaller portions of groceries costs a fortune.
I can buy a weekās worth of groceries for a family of 4 for about the price of 10 days of groceries for one person. But it requires being able to haul a lot more than can fit on a bike. And for many of us, the store is also a long way away with no public transit and in a place where the temperature may be lethally hot for months at a time.
sounds like hell
I tried saying ābippity bopping booā just now, but it didnāt move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.
man, itās so wild hearing that the nearest grocery store is 20 miles away. You guys have created unnecessary problems for yourself. Itās so shocking how rough you guys have it and how non-chalant you are about something which is a no-brainer for the rest of the world.
never seen more chumpier chumps than Americans.
Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.
And the scale of the US isnāt something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.
The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.
oh this tired argument again!
You donāt drive across the country daily do you? How long does it take to drive across the country? thatās irrelevant.
the whole of zoning and design of US is bad.
You canāt bring this up when the argument is how far is your local grocery store is to your house. Unless you drive cross country for your groceries!
āNot everyone lives in dense urban areas or suburbsā
Your argument is āthatās how it has always been and we have to solve around itā when the solution is to not to have it that way.
the US is hopelessly into spread out development. Thereās no solving your way out of having to drive 10 minutes to get groceries without substantial changes to mindset and zoning policies. Itās so absurd!
Itās not zoning.
Itās when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.
Europe isnāt more enlightened when it comes to development. Theyāre just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.
america used to develop for density. Go read the book āStrong townsā technolpgical development alone doesnāt explain the car centric development. There was active lobbying and dismantling of alternative methods of construction just to support automobiles.
Americans have been brainwashed into accepting there is no solution to a problem that was introduced by car makers in the 1960s. American cities were dense and had lots of alternate modes of transit before all of it was ripped out under the guise of technological ādevelopmentā and āfreedomā
Dharma Curious (he/him)I genuinely wish I could ride a bike where I live :( Iām not in good enough shape to ride for 10 miles, but even if I were, there are no safe ways to ride a bike around here. Thereās no shoulders, blind hills and curves, no sidewalks, not shit. The road I live off of is the main way other than the interstate that connects two towns, and at least once or twice a month some homeless person walking or riding their bike on that road gets hit by a car. A guy died a few months ago. If I lived somewhere where I could ride a bike, I absolutely would. Healthier for me personally, better for the environment. I used to love riding my bike when I lived in a bikable city, but shitty semi rural Appalachia gives no shits about pedestrian or cyclist safety
Thatās rough buddy. Wishing you either better road planning in the future or a move to a nicer town, biking should be accessible to everyone (even if youāre not in shape, with modern ebikes itās easier than ever to get out and move for relatively cheap)
Ive been considering trying to save up for an ebike to use for the purposes of getting into shape. Iām too damn fat anymore to pedal myself up a hill (and itās nothing but hills here), but if I could get a bike to take to some of the bike paths in a nearby city, maybe I could slowly work up to it and use the motor when I just canāt. That, or a stationary bike until I can make it to the point of being able to do it outside. Lol.
Iunno, I just know I loved riding back in the day, and Iād like to not keel over
I recommend something like this: lectricebikes.com/collections/ebikes/ā¦/xp-black
More than enough range for a dayās riding around the city, on the cheap end but still reliable, and most importantly folds up to fit in your car alongside anything you might pick up along the way. Maybe look for used ones too, theyāre fairly common and you might get a good deal vs. new.
I can in theory but the hills are brutal where I live.
2ugly2liveSame. Even just taking walks around my area can be scary (though I also donāt know how to ride lol). I could go to the store, but only that one store. My actual grocery store + most things are in a strip mall with no sidewalks to be seen, not even a curb to slow down cars thay come too close.
My former boss once challenged me to ride my bike across our main local highway to go get us some pizza. He said if I could accomplish that and get back in less than 4 minutes, heād pay for it.
Then he told the other coworkers to watch as I did exactly that. 3 minutes 53 seconds later, and I was back with a fresh hot pizza.
For comparison, it would probably take like 15 minutes in a car, having to stop at red lights and waiting at the drive through and all that good fun traffic shit.
Disclaimer: When I ride my bike, I donāt obey any traffic signs, Iāll ride straight through the median if thatās the shortest/safest path. Whichever way is quicker, safer, easier, IDGAF.
Yeah but Iām not carrying 6 bags of groceries back to my place tho
Why not? With panniers and baskets thereās no limit to what you can do on a bike, and thatās not even mentioning bakfietsen.
4 minute drive, because if I took 20 steps in a row my heart would explode.
This sounds like a place where everything is built around cars and walking is not a real option. š
Was thinking the same thing. I grew up in a European city and didnāt own a car until my mid-30s, when I moved to a rural area. When visiting the US for business, north of Chicago, I wanted to just walk to the next mall, as it was just 2km according to maps. But there was simply no way of doing that safely. No sidewalk at all, busy road. We are often quick to judge people for taking a car for even short distances. But often there really is no other safe way.
Totally feel you. Iām also from central Europe and currently making a vacation in Thailand and itās crazy how there almost no sidewalks. It feels like the government forces you to rent a scooter or in your case to buy a car to get around safely.
You donāt just have your podcast auto resume whenever you start driving?