One meter, are you kidding me? Right, good luck with that one. A lot of streets in HRM allow (for some stupid reason) parking on both sides, combine that with traffic moving both ways. Now you’re telling me we need to add 2 meters to the road if there’s a biker on either side? Get real. We have narrow roads as it is, you can’t just say oh give these people this much room; there’s no room to give!
All you damn bikers demand so much respect. Why don’t you start with obeying the fucking laws! They’re called ‘rules of the road,’ not ‘rules if you just so happen to be driving a motor vehicle’. This means you stop at stop signs, you don’t fly through intersections, you don’t swerve between lanes, you use turn signals, etc.
I’ll tell you right now you’re not getting one meter out of me. These roads were constructed with cars in mind, not your stupid organic two-wheeled rust bucket. So suck up that diesel blowing in your face or get a real method of transportation. Later, hippies. —That Guy
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.
HAHA that’s golden like a shower !!
Another biclycle bitch. Bo-ring. OP, you are an idiot. It’s one metre while you are *passing* a cyclist. And while I don’t have a bicycle, I’ll be watching for you not to give cyclists that one metre distance when you pass them, so I can write down your license plate and report you.
Oh shit, thanks for reminding me: I have to report the plate on that 18 wheeler that came so close to me this morning that I had to leave the road and coast on the gravel for a bit. tks.
Why do 4-wheelers have such a sense of entitlement? Get over yourself OP -AKA- grow the fuck up!
Oh, and FYI: bikers ride motorcycles, cyclists ride bicycles. Get it right, will ya? And you can’t possibly believe that cyclists don’t also own cars, motorcycles, etc?
When car drivers become perfect they get to look down on cyclists. Oh wait, that’ll never happen. Many car drivers also flaunt the rules while operating their “real method of transportation”. So much for your pathetic argument.
OP: “Why don’t you start with obeying the fucking laws!”
OP: ” I’ll tell you right now you’re not getting one meter out of me.”
What kind of contradictory, entitled-little-asshattery is this? Explain yourself. Why do the laws apply to others and not you?
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screee, three for the price of one ✔
but o.p., if they did obey the rules, then there would be no ltwwb column.
ffs
And if people in cars obeyed the rules we wouldn’t need as many ER doctors! It’s win-win!
That’s how I roll, paingirl. I was feeling generous this morning…sunshine always puts me in a good mood. 😀
moi aussi clint^^ http://1funny.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/…
This has nothing to do with this bitch, but does anyone else find people exceptionally annoying today?
I stole a guy’s elevator about 5 minutes ago because he didn’t hold the door for me and let it slam in my face. He was all “WAIT A MIN…..*door closes*”
Again, nothing to do with this bitch.
not yet miss kitty, but the day is young. tho the stick in my back isn’t as pointy ☼
Don’t worry OP, soon another cyclist will be getting peeled off the side of a truck or car door 🙂
Quick question Kitty…..how does one go about stealing an elevator??…I mean, the sheer logistics involved boggles the mind! Like, how do you hide something like that? It’s not like you can just jam it in your purse or put it under your coat. (lol ‘dis me being annoyin’ :P)
Maybe you’re just PMSing or pregnant PK ;D. Jk. I had one of those days yesterday. I was just getting so irritated over little things like there was this guy talking on the radio and he had an accent so it was already hard to understand him but it took him like 10 minutes to get out 3 sentences because he kept saying, “uuhhhh uhhhh umm you know uhhhh uhhhhh uhhhh like when ummmm uhhhhhh” GW$#YG#$Y it drove me nuts.
RAGE THE ROAD!!!
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Ahha avast0, you’re silly!
I’m just tired today and my tummy isn’t feelin’ that great. Once I get this project done I might pack it in and go home a bit early.
Wow, PG…that sorta puts a whole different spin on Lance Armstrong’s campaign “Live Strong”…that’s strong alright, but smell isn’t everything.
i’m still not sure if he was a cheater and never got caught or people have sour grape smugglers^^
ill be the first to say it….. pk = preggers??? and its LS’s baby!!!
ahhh rumor mill….. god love ya
That Guy,
You need to get better at adjusting to a changing world. If allowing a metre while passing a bicycle seems like too much to take, just wait until you see what the rest of the 21st century has in store for you.
It ain’t the way it was, but it’s the way it is. Try to deal with it.
I always like how Robin Williams put it, PG: “And every year the French go, ‘He is on chemicals.’ And I’m going, ‘It’s chemotherapy, you little toad suckers.’
because of training, his heart was 30% bigger than most. wish i could process oxygen like that^^
I knew it wouldn’t be long before I got to share this awesome video….
http://gizmodo.com/5809747/heres-what-happ…
yeah, me too….AND he had a resting heart rate of like 8 bpm or something insane like that.
that was awesome zedman, i think i’d stick with the subway^^
“ill be the first to say it….. pk = preggers??? and its LS’s baby!!!” <-- uhhhhhh no. That rumour has already circulated, with the exception of the name of the babydaddy. Everyone in NYC is FUCKING INSANE — drivers, peds, cyclists…. Cheese and rice!
Hey OP, sorry I’m poor and can’t afford a car. I’ll try harder next time.
I’d like to know who all these cyclists flying through red lights or whatever are, I cycle a 20km round-trip to Shearwater every day and I never see these cyclists who weave in traffic and don’t signal and don’t stop for stop signs are (I see plenty of bikes on Pleasant street, the trail, and main road and they all do OK obeying traffic law).
I don’t have time to read all the comments because I am leaving to go for a BIKE RIDE but just in case noone said this:
Let me guess, you’re a fat lazy slob that complains about how far you have to walk when you have to park soooooo far from work.
“how does one go about stealing an elevator?” Hidden in massive cleavage.
Heh heh heh.
I thought it was 3 meters (aka 9 ft)
haha, you are a funny girl. can you imagine 9 ft?
jgo, so would we but they don’t have licence plates so we can write down the numbers and report them.
lol Donk….I like how you think
Is there ANYTHING that cleavage can’t do? 😉
I almost got creamed by another car in the opposite direction, giving a wide berth to a cyclist and going over into my lane (Purcell’s Cove rd.). This new law might actually cause more accidents.
Can someone tell me why at 4 p.m. on Quinpool Road the parking enforcement vultures are waiting there with tow trucks to tow people at 4:01, fucking up rush hour traffic, when on the morning commute when parking is also banned on Quinpool there isn’t a parking guy in sight?
I was on the bus yesterday going to work (Portland St. towards Halifax). This cyclist is riding in the middle of the lane holding up traffic as far as the eye can see. That must be a new law too.
Mutual Respect – Money.
Toaster: apply your brake and pull in behind the cyclist until it is safe to pass.
Senor: I often will hold up traffic (even buses) if I am turning left. In the roundabout I’ll even take up a whole (gosh!) lane.
Look, you bunch of asshats: driving your car you come across a semi, minivan, backhoe, farm tractor, grandpa driving his Previa too slow. You wait for the broken line (ok to pass) and then you look past the slower vehicle and if it’s safe to pass, you go around that obviously too slow motherfucker. You don’t get beside them and then bitch because another fucking semi is coming towards you at 60km/h. Right? Same thing with bikes. Get over it.
You don’t like the law? Too fucking bad, it is what it is. You don’t get the option to choose what laws work for you. I don’t like that I can’t buy beer at a gas station.
Yeah, it sucks that some cyclists are douches to y’all. They are not my problem, you are.
i less than three you cranky
*blush*
“you don’t get the option to chose which laws work for you” i don’t get tickets and don’t get in accidents, you probably don’t either
kba, while i would be honored to be a baby’s daddy, with our miss kitty, i must sadly say that it is not true. alas kitty, it could have been the future ruler of this planet, or what will be left, after may 24, 2012.
Hey buddy, Im going to boot fuck your fucking door in if you pull that shit on me!
I know bike bitches are overdone and boring, but to be realistic, I think that if the government is going to impose more rules for motor vehicle drivers, they need to also start enforcing rules for other vehicles (such as bicycles). I know there are many respectful and careful cyclists on the roads, but there are also a lot of cyclists that don’t follow the rules of the roads. I think if a driver of a motor vehicle has to obey rules to make the roads safer for cyclists, cyclists also have a responsibility to drive within the rules of the road. When is the last time anyone has seen a cyclist getting a ticket for not obeying traffic signals, traffic signage, and driving rules in general?
Well, no shit, sherlock. I know a dude who got a ticket for going thru a 4-way, or maybe it was a red light. Well anyway, thats one. Now fuck off with the obviously obvious.
How narrow do you think the roads are in 500 year old cities and towns of Europe?
http://kevinw.com/Trips/EuropeTrip/A%20cit…
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i’d like to see more of these. the bike cops in this city are awesome and in excellent shape http://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/00-app1/cop-pb…
The difference Cranky is that in those 500 year old cities (such as Amsterdam in your first 2 pics) vehicle traffic is at an absolute minimum because the CITY has realized the ADVANTAGE to limiting vehicles in the downtown city core and they cater to cyclists, (bike lanes, lock-ups, muli-tier parking garages for bikes only, etc. I seem to recall some sort of tax incentive too but I could be wrong), not to mention the state-of-the-art transit system that is in place. It’s actually MORE efficient and faster to take transit/cycle than to drive. And, Oh! Guess what? The city doesn’t grind to a halt and implode like so many people seem to think will happen here if the same infrastructure/restrictions were put in place. Gasp. Shock. In fact, pretty much the entire country of the Netherlands is set up this way. There are FAR more bikes then vehicles on the roads there with the exception of the motorways of course, which is the way it should be. I took a bus and train from a largely rural community approx 1.5 hours from Amsterdam and along the entire route, there was a mated, paved bicycle path running separate but parallel to the roadways. What a novel idea. And it’s engrained and accepted by people at an early age that cycling is the better way to go. A new bicycle over there is coveted like a new car is here. The city of Barcelona Spain is similarly set up as far as vehicle traffic goes except instead of bicycles, the majority drive motorcycles/scooters/mopeds. The result is somewhat the same. A LOT less congestion and relative ease to get across town. But this would require some progressive, out-of-the-box thinking on the part of city council and acceptance on the part of the citizens of this city, both of which, sadly, I don’t think exist.
the giz is all over cycling these days…. this is pretty funny.
http://gizmodo.com/5810246/cyclist-argues-…
that was funny zedman…i like it when he goes in the truck. you’re preaching to my choir clint
Oh, please. For all the whining over how cyclists aren’t licensed, break rules, aren’t held accountable, etc, there’s at least 10 times as many car and truck drivers pulling exactly the same type of asshole behaviour on Halifax roads: turning right on red into crosswalks and cutting off pedestrians who actually have the right of way and a walk light, turning left on green arrows long after they’ve lost the green arrow and holding up pedestrians and oncoming traffic, and generally thinking that ‘might makes right’ rather than that they have a responsibility to share the road with others. Drivers in this city have a lot more to answer for than do a few cyclists.
*grumble grumble grumble*
The 4th Annual World Naked Bike Ride is happening this weekend (June 11) and local Halifax cyclists will once again participate.
2539 Agricola Street.
Body painting starts at 12 pm. Have your naughty bits camouflaged.. The ride begins at 2 pm.
http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.p…
you had to bring that up… uncomfortable naked and too many voyeurs
Yet another ‘feel good’ law that will be unenforceable and scoffed at. How many tickets have been issued for no helmets?
I’m waiting for the ‘no stepping on the cracks on the sidewalk’ by-law.
Cranky – to clarify, I was driving in the opposite direction when this car came at me. He (or she) was passing a cyclist on the other side. I almost went off the road and thank goodness for a shoulder to give a me bit of extra space otherwise *crunch*.
I usually slow down when coming up to a cyclist and wait until it’s safe to pass. As long as I have good tunes going I am not in a rush, plus, I usually am early to any appointment preferring not to be in a hurry to get anywhere.
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toaster, yeah I realized afterwards that I misread your post.
Your problem is with the driver of the other car, not the cyclist. If cycling on the road was illegal you would have a point, but in this case it was an automobile driver who put you at risk.
I think there would be less strife in the world if life was “clothing optional”.
Difficult to take someone too seriously when they’re standing there with their daddy-doodle hanging out.
that’s true NSFW http://zombietime.com/world_naked_bike_rid…
Sooner or later someone would take umbrage to either excessive wanking or gratuitous gagging sounds and then the fisticuffs would begin. Greco-Roman wrestling might find an entirely new audience though….
Dammit Paingirl! I was looking forward to BBQ’ing a few hot dogs for lunch today, but you’ve managed to conduct a nuclear strike on my appetite with that last pic. lol
BTW, I wouldn’t participate in the whole “clothing optional” thing. I couldn’t, in all good conscience, subject the general public to such a hideous sight as my naked self. Besides, I’m hung like a light switch…in the off position 🙁
Well I hope I kick your car next. Because that’s what I have been doing. You get too close to me, you’re going to have your car kicked. Have a great day driver.
FYI, bikers are not motorcyclists! Bikers are criminals who kill people. Also they may be hardrock wannabe’s driving $25000 custom mufflerless noisemakers. Please correct your terms. Cyclists are self-righteous nonconformists who think it is ok to heedlessly endanger themselves and others playing in traffic.
Oh yeah, drive out in front of me off a sidewalk while tring to use a crosswalk and I’ll run you over on my scooter.