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You’re like a teddy bear stuffed with cocaine–you get people all snuggly with your promise of safety, but aren’t you one of the leading causes of death in the world? Is it this promise of unending desert highways that gets people when most people spend their time sitting in traffic, not knowing that there wouldn’t BE as much traffic if they, and everyone around them, just shared a ride? Or just did something else to move around? And so you get people all angsty with the traffic and the road work delays and you get them enraged at cyclists who don’t “obey the rules of the road”–rules which have been forever trying and NOT QUITE succeeding in preventing YOU from killing and injuring people? While people walking and cycling throw away less money, feel better from a sense of control that drivers don’t have during rush hour, and generally are happier. Hats off, Cars. Way to go. Way to turn us against each other. I didn’t even mention your OWN cocaine habit. —Beieber or Our Benevolence.
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GET A HORSE!
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Dear OB , my commute on Friday return to home was 224 kms.
Saturday was 122kms return & will be the same tonight, when I get in at 2 am or so….
Walking or a bike isn’t an option. (that’s my opinion , you might love a brisk walk over that distance, or take your bike on the highway during Friday mornings rain)
The bus …LMFAO , ahhh that’s a great joke.
So what other options have i got OB ????
Looks like its me & my truck again (did i mention the tools & work gear etc …about 40 kilo’s worth I have to bring as well)
OB , you seem to think the rest of the working/commuting people out there are in exactly the same situation to travel as yourself…. hope you have a marvellous time up there in fantasy land.
OB obviously doesn’t have to take the 52.
Cars are not the leading cause of death in the world, it’s the idiots operating them.
Teddy Bear full of cocaine? And my Christmas shopping is complete.
Sounds a lot like the research of psychologist Leon James.
“The car is not only an object of convenience, beauty, and status. It is also a cultural and psychological object, associated with the driver’s internal mental and emotional dynamics, our ego. Cars are an extension of the self, they are ego-laden objects that can be used both positively and negatively to get our own way on the road. The automobile offers us a means to exercise direct control over our environment. When we enter the car we use it as an outlet for regaining a sense of control. Automobiles are powerful, and obedient. They respond instantly and gratifyingly to our command, giving us a sense of well being that comes with achieving control over one’s environment.
What happens when someone thwarts our sense of freedom? For example, while driving along in a pack of vehicles, a car in the left lane suddenly darts into your lane just ahead of you. Your foot automatically lifts from the gas pedal and taps the brakes, just enough to maintain distance. At this point, aggressive drivers feel thwarted because they were forced to alter what they were doing. That driver forced you to lift your foot two inches. “What a moron. What an idiot.””
http://www.drdriving.org/articles/