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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

You need to carry a marker and draw devils horns whenever you see his poster. Colouring in the QR code to make it not work is a bonus too.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

The poster BEFORE ripping it off ;)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I guess regardless of country, people pushing shit like this can't seem to make a natural looking facial expression. Its like they try to replicate what happy people look like to them in order to get the response they see others receive but the best they can do is the trail leading into the uncanny valley

[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.

There's so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.

I'd much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is that a Tram in the background ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Hahahahah ironic

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I have to drive a van every day for work, but even I find this repulsive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile, if successful, they'd probably complain about traffic and blame it on cyclists being slow in the car lanes

[–] [email protected] 154 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

We had some winners in my city a few years ago.

Here's my favorite quote from that article:

“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”

Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah because someone who never exercises, you know the type of person who only moves around the city in a car, buys sporting goods frequently. Yep.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car....

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don't fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

It is exactly what some people I know do. If there's a lot of car enthusiasts or bored teens old enough to drive in that area I can believe seeing that kind of thing. Although I do think it's an exaggeration.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, "serious" cycling


a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike


is so anti-consumer!

(I love cycling, and I'll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli

Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

He's still a party member, it's listed in his candidate information sheet. Badly Scanned PDF

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Probably owns a few parking lots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I pledge to do absolutely nothing about parking prices, but will try to slow down the cycle lane projects

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

Car-brains don't do standard logic, only car-logic...

[–] [email protected] 165 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Isn't it supposed to be "fewer" anyway?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Les Lane sounds like Superman’s brother in law.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, less is perfectly acceptable. GoT is very annoying for turning people into grammar pedants for a 18th century style suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

wtf is GoT? I don't use linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Wasn't GoT that TV show with all the boobs and dragons?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They probably mean that those convenient areas adjacent to the lanes on a road should be seen as “less bike lanes, but more car park”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ahhhhh... This actually does make sense. I love you.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He likes cars, not grammar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

well, he hasn't met mine yet. she's in fine fettle for her age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Cars and, based on the looks of it, insects. I didn't realize how much like a lizard he looks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry; I don't know what that is. I meant, like, "tsk tsk tsk. Shame."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't really expect more than like 2-3 Lemmy users to know anyway. It's just a random joke.

Coat of arms of Slovakian Trenčín region (Trenčiansky samosprávny kraj (TSK)).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you from there, or is this just a random fun fact? Either one is cool, but I'm curious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Cool. I'm from Kentucky in the US. Hello 👋🏻

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