| Re: Is riding on sidewalk a sign of Banana Republic? [boodskap #119825] |
Wed, 10 November 2010 17:50  |
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His Highness the Tibe[1]
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(I knew somehow I was in the right forum. This is connected to
Apartheid, only that it's not so obvious this time. It must be hard to
be discriminated for your color, but it's even harder when you know
you are doing the right thing. Worse, few people out there even care
about your fate and even my stupid neighbor thinks I shouldn't be on
the road, the middle of the lane that is. Riding on the edge is also a
form of discrimination since you must share the same lane with a car,
exposing your fragile life to brutish or negligent drivers. And then
the humiliation. Some struggle over the lane --created by a stupid
sign-- ended up in a driver spitting in my face. If they forbid it on
the road it would be less of a teasing. We are not welcomed on the
road)
On Nov 10, 11:21 am, Gokudomatic wrote:
> On 10 nov, 17:00, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Free Spirits
> of the Jungle" wrote:
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>> On Nov 10, 10:37 am, "Mike" wrote:
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>>> Why have you not yet responded to the question that asked, "How to you take
>>> your wife and four children with you on your bike?"
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>>> Not only can we take our wife and our four children with us, here in the US
>>> in our safer SUVs, we can also take all of their "Stuff" with us as well.
>>> ;)
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>> First of all, you should be buying a minivan not an SUV to carry that
>> much people.
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>> Secondly, do you take that many people EVERYWHERE? How about a quick
>> hop to the market where you don't want to move 6 tons of steel to get
>> a bunch of bananas?
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>> How about a family outing on bike? Hey, the kids may even like it! ;)
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> I'm a lucky non US citizen but I had the misluck to live a couple of
> years near this land of evil. And since I favor cycling a lot, I tried
> there to bike everyday going work. I've quickly lost count on how many
> times I was almost caught in an accident that would have killed me. Of
> course Mike won't go out with a bicycle and his family, he doesn't
> want to die and he's too busy trying to kill others bicycle rides with
> his SUV.
It's all the danger plus the harassment of drivers who feel entitled
to the whole road.
I don't think even a black under Apartheid felt this insignificant.
But life goes on, and we pretend to live in democracy.
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| Re: Is riding on sidewalk a sign of Banana Republic? [boodskap #119826 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #119825] |
Wed, 10 November 2010 19:17  |
His Highness the Tibe[1]
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(Let me tell you something --you guys reading in Europe-- based on my
Wisdom of the Jungle. It's much easier to starve the little SA lion
through boycott than it is for the Big Lion. That's why your elites --
European elites-- keep quiet about the issues, including the war. See,
EVERYTHING is related in the jungle)
On Nov 10, 1:49 pm, "Mike" wrote:
> The kids all have bikes, that is what bikes are for, children.
Really? Well, not all grown ups consider bikes to be for kids. And
what do we do about Climate Change? Oops, you deny it. Let's try this:
What do we do about the obesity epidemic? What do we do about chronic
depression from lack of exercise? My mice would die without their
wheel.
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