How conceited do you have to be in order to continue driving your car by yourself. If every person had another person with them, there would be no rush hour, half as many cars, and more human contact. Not to mention your car exudes so much shit, it chokes people. Try putting your exhaust back into your car and see how far you get before you die? And to think Canadians are concerned about second-hand smoke.
—Walking, biking, running, and hating on you in Halifax
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2009.
Conceited?? uhm…
So, I should pick up a cyclist or walker on my way to work?
My car is the only peace I get in my day before my boss, corowkers, random crazy public, annoying tree huggers etc. etc. get in my face. I will keep driving my comfy, air conditioned / heated car thank you.
Go kiss a fucking granola bar, OP.
More human contact? Has it occured to you that people in cars may actually be seeking a reprive from human contact? If I wanted to be surrounded by people I would live downtown and walk to work (vomit), or take the bus (double vomit).
How could that suggestion apply to everyone? My car is a car, not a fucking bus. Get over yourself.
We need a rush hour surcharge, say $5 a day.
More toll booths? that ought to help with the congestion.
smaller cars is the obvious solution.
LMFAO @ Miles. PLEASE, tell me you’re being your lovable facetious self.
I love these pointless uninformed posts. It makes my day.
OP, please get off your environmentally friendly and sustainable all natural high horse, undo my recycled all natural cotton fiber pants, and suck my all-natural-cleansed-with-biodegradable-organic-hemp-and-linseed-oil-soap balls.
I paid good hard money to drive my car, so I’ll drive it where ever and whenever I want, so there and BTW, that’s funny shit Jammie, funny shit indeed.
“Conceited”?? Is this a joke?? Ummm, I don’t think people who drive cars alone are doing so out of “conceit”. So what you’re suggesting is that if a person needs to get to work they’d better have some other people they know ready to go in their direction, otherwise risk their lives picking up strangers on the side of the road? And then it’s ok to drive a car, huh?
Listen, until you move to the middle of nowhere, build your own shelter and forgo heat and electricity, do us all a favor and shut it. Dork.
The other day when I was going to the drug store a large man got out of his smart car at the same time I ( I am not a large man) got out of my 4×4. He gave me a dirty look. I recycle, compost and turn the lights off when I leave the room. I am just not uber granola. Granola people need to get over themselves!
Hm, to do today….walking, check…biking, check…running, check…..hmm…what have I forgotten…oh yes, the hating. Can’t forget the hating.
Mini-freaking-tree-sucking-little-hitlers forcing you into a greener tomorrow. Now shut up and eat your compost.
I walk and bike, I don’t hate people who drive, so please don’t hate me when you see me walking or biking.
I do DRIVE to the Sunday Market though. Ha ha ha (manic laugh) Solo too.
Too fucking bad.
The thing is, this cunt probably lives in Halifax on the Peninsula and doesn’t even have to drive to fucking work. Remember that bitch not to long ago when the cocksucker was upset that someone had a 15 minute commute and just assumed that the person was commuting from some place on the Peninsula to another place on the Peninsula when in fact they were driving on a fucking highway. Hey, you North End Gus’s Pub Mason Jar Drinking assholes: not everyone walks from their shithole home on Belle Aire terrace to their cool arty job on Barrington, ok?
Thank you, Cranky.
Cranky, you are my hero!
Lord please let me win the biggest fucking lottery so I can buy all me friends the biggest most pollutenist vehicles going. It’s idiots like the OP that almost, almost wish Germany won. At least Dolphie didn’t restrict smoking (even though he hated it) and drinking and loved his cars. These tree huggers make him sound like a saint
I wish I drove a nice big Chevy V8 Truck, all by myself, vroom vroom!!!!!!
Fuck that – I want a double decker Hummer with triple exhaust.
I spent ten years taking the shithole bus. If I want to drive one of my three available vehicles(one of them is an F-350, fuuume OP, fuuume, sometimes I drive it just to hear the kickass loud rumbling), I’m going to. I’ll continue to live outside the city, grow my own food, and take off for parts unknown on a whim.
If I had a car and I were constantly driving to work by myself, I would eventually grow a brain and bring someone with me, somehow.
Trantor, you’re a prick. Ain’t nothing wrong with living and working downtown. I suppose I should pay 100 bucks parking and drive the 1.5 km over to work then, huh?
wouldn’t want to walk… no no, that would be vomit….
idiot.
cptsubing, you could have made your argument a little better by citing that you could split gas so you’ll go broke only half as quickly.
Really, were I to need to drive to work, I’d do it for the $$$ reasons and not so much the environMENTAL reasons. You know… the way the world really works.
Hate to rain on the shit parade of the OP and cptstubing, but how do you know everyone who’s alone in a car is driving to work, or even that they’re not on their way to or from carpooling someone?
Yes, I drive to work alone in my vehicle, but I work for MYSELF, therfore carpooling is not an option. And even when I DID work for a soul-sucking corporation, not EVERYONE, lives in the same damned neighbourhood.
You know, everyone bitches and moans about people in Toronto thinking they’re the center of the universe, but I have to say, since I got back here, there are WAY more self-entitled assholes on the peninsula. When I lived in Toronto, people actually UNDERSTOOD that there was more than one neighbourhood in their city.
“Halifax” has been HRM for quite some time – that includes places like Jeddore, Bedford, Cole Harbour and GASP! Dartmouth! Get over yourselves, people.
I just bet this fuckstick is one of those oh so virtuous pricks who bikes on the sidewalk and crosses at lights when they shouldn’t, probably jogs against the red hand at intersections – clearly a health conscious pompous windbag.
Choke on your fucking tofu
Yes, and I will start going to the washroom with others and sharing the toilet seat so we can save water so that I am not considered conceited. No one pays for my car but me so if I want to drive it alone all day all over this city I will.
I’m lovin’ the solidarity on this thread.
No bickering, no massive digressions, no pointless musing. Just a good ole fashioned mass effort to fuck the supercilious cunt of an OP right in the arse.
Nice work guys! 😉
It’s funny they bitch at the small-engine block car driver yet fail to even mention the dreaded V6 (minimum) SUV’s that are everywhere.
To say that if every car had a passenger means fewer cars is a poorly understood statement on the OP’s part…who’s to say they weren’t driving a usual Bus patronrider? And more people in any vehicle means more fuel consumed…spewing more “shit” into the air. Modern cars are considerably better than they used to be.
Stuff the militant granola whackjob act and get your facts straight OP…you are only portraying yourself as a nutcase. Didn’t your mother ever teach you “you get more flies with honey” (shit actually doesn’t attract as many flies as you would think…in the figurative sense not the literal)
also…Jeddore is part of HRM?? Had never realizedknew that…man they really gobbled up quite a few communities eh?
Here’s a map pf what constitutes HRM:
http://www.halifax.ca/visitorinfo/Document…
Notice homw little of it it “Halifax”…
isn’t the “edit comment” button supposed to allow you to edit your comments, and then actually SAVE said edits before you post? Sheesh…
Holy crap!!!
Talk about excessive…really? I mean really really? That’s quite a bit out there…
Have they managed to supply “City” water to all of those communities? Are they paying higher property taxes?….so many questions!!! egads man!
Basically, Halifax county is HRM. I think there are some differences in property taxes for Urban, Suburban and rural but i’m not sure how much they differ by.
I personally look forward to driving to work BY MYSELF. I don’t want to listen to other people complain, talk, hear about their lives. JUST ME….sitting back in my car going over my own thoughts being responisble for myself getting to work not everyone elses sorry asses.
OP must think people go home right after work too NEWS FLASH: they don’t, maybe they go to the gym or the store or somewhere else.
Not by enough, Miles.
And the great part is, infrastructure problems on our land in Dartmouth (flooding caused by improperly run culverts and runoff from nearby developments) are not taken care of by the HRM, because they were “put in place by the county, which no longer exists”.
So we pay higher taxes to be part of the HRM, but anything those taxes *should* take care of, like flooded basements and mud-wrestling pits in our backyards, are not considered woth spending on.
I agree with the OP … with the exception of people who live too far away to get a bus or cycle, walk, etc. anyone driving a car by themselves is at the least ignorant and at the worst selfish. Even if you live too far you should still make an effort to carpool (obvs. this isn’t always possible). Halifax is getting less pedestrian friendly by the minute – this is a huge reason why I am getting the fuck out of here after grad school.
Carpooling provides “more human contact”. Wow! Let’s drive to work while holding hands and singing Kumbaya. In between harmonizing we can talk about our latest red paint ambush on some unsuspecting-conceited-fur wearing-solo SUV driving asshole.
That’s right hellakitty and when you get to Toronto let us know about everyone there carpooling, cycling, etc.
The only one ignorant is you. Some people use their vehicles for their jobs get groceries, run a dozen or so errands, and yes just for the enjoyment of driving.
I agree with the OP’s main point as well. Yeah, some people need to drive, carpooling is inconvenient, buses suck, etc, etc, etc.
The thing is, everyone driving themselves comes at a very real cost. Why do you think it’s such a hassle to enter and exit the city at peak hours? Why are potholes so bad everywhere?
On top of everything else, unless you’ve been living in a bomb shelter for the past 10 years (or 20), there is environmental aspect of it all. Calling someone a “granola eating hippie” because they’re concerned about the future of our planet is pretty dim-witted, short-sighted and just plain stupid. It’s that “living for the moment, the next generation be damned” mentality that still has us driving around by ourselves in the first place.
If previous generations hadn’t been so complacent, we’d have better bus systems, better cars, and this whole argument would be irrelevant.
I’m still amazed that people here find traffic congestion at rush hour a hassle. Seriously, it’s not. It’s frigging easy compared to driving in a metro area in the US or Europe. You want hassle, try the goddamn M1.
Potholes are bad because of A)plows B)an insane thaw/freeze cycle. This is why the majority are either gouges or linear cracks tending towards a gape.
Peak traffic is a hassle in every city, some cities (i.e. the larger ones) being worse than others. Half an hour or two hours, it’s still unpleasant, especially when you have to get home at a decent hour.
Potholes are made worse by plows and bad weather, but it’s the initial fatigue from everyday traffic that forms the initial cracks and deformations. Without these, the freeze/thaw cycle would do a great deal less damage. You think potholes only exist in northern latitudes, head to the tropics.
Been all over, thanks, and I’ve seen more potholes here than in similar latitudes, possibly because there’s no up down up down in temperature. Then chalk it also up to road maintenance being sub-par People can still drive by themselves without being irresponsible for not carpooling all the time, and not everyone drives by themselves.
BT – Thanks for assuming I would move to Toronto and that I don’t realize that the traffic there would be worse. There are many cities all over the world that despite perhaps having more traffic overall are still incredibley walkable and much more pedestrian friendly – Fukuoka, Japan for example. But it’s not like someone who “drives their car for enjoyment” would be capable of anything more than the elementry school reasoning displayed in your post.
The idea of carpooling is fine but I am alone after I drop them off and I am not stopping to pick up strangers just because I have to go somewhere and I am not going to sell my car to take the already too crowded transit. I took the bus for about four years and I enjoy my car now!!! I turn off the lights, I pick up other people’s garbage sometimes, recycle, but just because I fucking drive alone sometimes he calls me conceited?
I love it. The OP makes a valid point and you all shit all over it because you know deep down you’re guilty and have no good reason whatsoever to fuck the environment and pound our roads to shit in your GPS equipped tanks.
Just suck it up and take it. You got caught red handed so just admit you’re ignorant and continue driving to work by yourself. I do it too, but I’m not trying to justify being a selfish twat.
I don’t see how it’s selfish of people to drive something that they paid for out of their own pockets. Also, of course it’s bad for the environment but so are a lot of things and calling people conceited and ignorant isn’t going to magically make them want to change their mind.
Listen tree hugger….this is 2009 and people drive vehicles. Get over it!
Hellakitty:
“But it’s not like someone who “drives their car for enjoyment” would be capable of anything more than the elementry school reasoning displayed in your post.”
^ Fuck you’re an ignorant cunt, plenty of people enjoy driving, and if you ever got past getting your beginners license and crying when you couldn’t get the car into first you’d probably understand that. Eat a fat juicy aids dick and die you fucking dirty whore.