theclaud
Reading around the chip
Have you asked Shep tho?
What % will keep driving cars instead of feed their families?
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slowmotion
Active Member
Well, seeing as how I sold the van last October, I guess I must be "marvellous and intoxicating". That's put quite a spring in my step.
mudsticks
Squire
Course it depends on your definition of 'saintly' or even 'interesting'
But I've just done a very brief survey of one person.
She tells me she's had a very rich, interesting, exciting, eventful and even fun life whilst attempting to do what she felt was the 'better' thing'.
Including, lots of adventures involving trains, bicycles, and yes even pointy, fall-offable mountains too -
Although in all fairness, betting shops figured not so much, in this whirly gig of a life well lived.
What a fun sponge eh .??
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Fab Foodie
Guru
Every journey starts with a first step ;-)
mudsticks
Squire
Particularly if you don't have a van anymore..
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Only anecdotal evidence, not very scientific but, I live in a “deprived area”:
1. Our street is a cul-de-sac of 11 houses, there are 20 vehicles. Of those 11 houses, I have never seen the occupants of 8 of the houses walk out of the street. One woman takes the car to visit her daughter, in the next street (perhaps 500 metres away), another, drives her child to school each day (the school is in the next street, about 750 metres away).
2. My two eldest grandchildren (23 and 26yo), have never been on a bus, metro or train. They were ferried everywhere by car, by their parents, now, they drive their own cars. They do go for “long” walks occasionally, say, 1.5 miles, according to Strava.
I think car use is very well established.
1. Our street is a cul-de-sac of 11 houses, there are 20 vehicles. Of those 11 houses, I have never seen the occupants of 8 of the houses walk out of the street. One woman takes the car to visit her daughter, in the next street (perhaps 500 metres away), another, drives her child to school each day (the school is in the next street, about 750 metres away).
2. My two eldest grandchildren (23 and 26yo), have never been on a bus, metro or train. They were ferried everywhere by car, by their parents, now, they drive their own cars. They do go for “long” walks occasionally, say, 1.5 miles, according to Strava.
I think car use is very well established.
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slowmotion
Active Member
Oh dear. Some people can be so cruel....
mudsticks
Squire
Think of it more as being liberated from the yoke of fuel, insurance, tax, parking, maintenance .Oh dear. Some people can be so cruel....
Whilst being able to cycle and walk more..
What's not to like ??
slowmotion
Active Member
You have obviously never attempted to bring an eight by four sheet of 18mm MDF back home from Builder Depot on your bike.
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mudsticks
Squire
mudsticks
Squire
I did have to go pick up a 40kg battery yesterday..
Wouldn't have wanted to carry that on my shoulder for too long..
matticus
Guru
You've got me thinking ...
Yesterday I got home from work [by bike, as it happens] to find 4 bags of compost and 3 (3L?) tins of paint (assorted) in the back garden. AND YET no-one living in the house had travelled anywhere except on foot or by bike.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?? Am I in dreamland? Did I sleep-walk, and unconsciously steal a neighbour's car to fetch this from the WIck's depot??
[Disclosure: no cargo-bikes or trailers left our garage either.]
qigong chimp
Settler of gobby hash.
She did down a pint of lager tops in shep's local that time, so must be a real person.
qigong chimp
Settler of gobby hash.
So from memory:
Take one:
You're looking out across a broad expanse of beautifully manicured lawn on a lovely summer's day. A great throng of people are gathered. A festival? All is animation and noise, humanity expressing itself in all its marvelous inventiveness. To one side, apart, alone, stands a woman; still, composed, eyes on the ground in front of her. Your notice her just long enough to wonder at the pathology - autism, extreme shyness? - that sees her unable to engage before your attention slides away because look! Nigel Farage is Morris dancing, fag in hand, while Lord Botham opens bottles of beer with his buttocks! Quick, get a picture! Wonderful: oh brave new world that has such people in it!
Take two:
Same scenario in every detail save one. The grassy lawn has been replaced by a an expanse of red hot coals. The roiling seethe is revealed as physics, necessity, gravity, pain management, compulsion.
Now the most interesting thing is... how does she do that?
With apologies to Ms Weil
Take one:
You're looking out across a broad expanse of beautifully manicured lawn on a lovely summer's day. A great throng of people are gathered. A festival? All is animation and noise, humanity expressing itself in all its marvelous inventiveness. To one side, apart, alone, stands a woman; still, composed, eyes on the ground in front of her. Your notice her just long enough to wonder at the pathology - autism, extreme shyness? - that sees her unable to engage before your attention slides away because look! Nigel Farage is Morris dancing, fag in hand, while Lord Botham opens bottles of beer with his buttocks! Quick, get a picture! Wonderful: oh brave new world that has such people in it!
Take two:
Same scenario in every detail save one. The grassy lawn has been replaced by a an expanse of red hot coals. The roiling seethe is revealed as physics, necessity, gravity, pain management, compulsion.
Now the most interesting thing is... how does she do that?
With apologies to Ms Weil
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qigong chimp
Settler of gobby hash.
Are storks diversifying in an era of falling birth rates?
