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At first I thiought this was dumb, but as it goes on, and on it starts to get funny. Those bikers are ill equipt for road riding. They have no pink spray paint and no superballs to throw at annoying motorists. I did nto see a .44 on either one of them either. What are they thinking?
I am exempt from environmental correctness. I recycled a house. It will take typical greenies two lifetimes to catch up with me environmentally.
Besides, bikes are not environmentally beneficial. If people do not have cars, then global warming may be reversed. Without global warming we will need more heat. That means more fires in fireplaces, more oil, gas and electric furnaces and fans, more manufacturing of coats, gloves hats, insulation. Thus by preventing Global warming, using a bike leads to more polution.
Do some people just go out of their way to prove how dumb they are?
What motorist don't understand is that it's not that the green movement wants to ostracize their use of cars as much as there is a need, not a desire, to cut back on the "total" car oil consumption energy use to stretch out available reserves of oil while other oil replacements can be found.
As far as a return of an agrarian goes the third world is still predominantly agrarian in lifesyle and consumption. Only the developed countries of the first world are overly dependent on fossil fuels to exist.
'Merikkans just dont get it G'Pipes . . . Reading some of these responses I can only picture Pauly Shore or the "Dad" character out of one of those American Pie movies writing them. It's laughable until you are smacked with the revelation of how ridiculous, selfish and steeped in ignorance these comments are. People think it's their Allah given right to wreck the earth so they drive their patriotically bumperstickerd SUV from their beige, milquetoast suburban 'community' 10 miles to WAL*MART 24 hours a day. ME ME ME -CONSUME-CONSUME-CONSUME--We are last in the educated and industrialized world in math, science and other educational stuff. Don't think that ignorance spills over into other areas of our society? Right . . . We are the only country who just doesnt get it. Sometimes when you have a problem with THE WHOLE WORLD, it's not the world, kiddies
How can you not look at our governments keepers and idols, China, and NOT be totally frightened?
This is the road we are on. . . I-666
I am exempt from environmental correctness. I recycled a house. It will take typical greenies two lifetimes to catch up with me environmentally.
Besides, bikes are not environmentally beneficial. If people do not have cars, then global warming may be reversed. Without global warming we will need more heat. That means more fires in fireplaces, more oil, gas and electric furnaces and fans, more manufacturing of coats, gloves hats, insulation. Thus by preventing Global warming, using a bike leads to more polution.
'Merikkans just dont get it G'Pipes . . . Reading some of these responses I can only picture Pauly Shore or the "Dad" character out of one of those American Pie movies writing them. It's laughable until you are smacked with the revelation of how ridiculous, selfish and steeped in ignorance these comments are. People think it's their Allah given right to wreck the earth so they drive their patriotically bumperstickerd SUV from their beige, milquetoast suburban 'community' 10 miles to WAL*MART 24 hours a day. ME ME ME -CONSUME-CONSUME-CONSUME--We are last in the educated and industrialized world in math, science and other educational stuff. Don't think that ignorance spills over into other areas of our society? Right . . . We are the only country who just doesnt get it. Sometimes when you have a problem with THE WHOLE WORLD, it's not the world, kiddies
How can you not look at our governments keepers and idols, China, and NOT be totally frightened?
This is the road we are on. . . I-666
Being spoiled , having everything you want right damn now, and basic selfishness are all harbingers of a society on the brink of collapse. Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, France ,The British Empire etc. are all societies that crumbled when they turned inward in a greedy rush to have it all and leave nothing for anyone else.
Being spoiled , having everything you want right damn now, and basic selfishness are all harbingers of a society on the brink of collapse. Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, France ,The British Empire etc. are all societies that crumbled when they turned inward in a greedy rush to have it all and leave nothing for anyone else.
I would like to see the age demographic on the ME ME ME proponents.
I bet its 30's ?
I think the concepts of 'global community' and 'responsibility' are just foriegn, abstract and incomprehensible theories to them.
Do some people just go out of their way to prove how dumb they are?
Yes they do. I find that people frequently demontrat a lack of intelligence by failing to understand sarcasm. It is generally known that understanding sarcasm is a sign of intelligence. So, sometimes i like to play with it and see how many people will go out of their way to fling insults when they are unwittingly only insulting themselves.
When I was working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I had a fascinating coworker who was ex Navy combat veteran, ex-NSA, was cracking codes on a submarine during the Israel-Egypt war(and took fire from an Israeli aircraft somehow), sailed his own sailboat from North Carolina to Japan and back and survived being hijacked by pirates, rode his bicycle to both Alaska and Argentina, climbed most of the major mountains in the western hemisphere, survived two rounds of chemo for separate cancers, and pretty much stared death in the eye on a monthly basis for most of his adult life. Despite all that dangerous activity, he said the only time he feels like he is taking an unnecessary risk is when he rides his bicycle on the Tennessee roads at rush hour. He has had coins, trash, and even bottles of urine thrown at him as well as countless insults by impatient motorists who , quite frankly, aren't really qualified to hold his jockstrap. In Tennessee, the incorrect assumption was that anyone riding a bicycle is some God-hating hippie tree hugger attempting to undermine America, while in fact increasing alternative transportation is about as pro-America as you can get on the geopolitical map.
When I was working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I had a fascinating coworker who was ex Navy combat veteran, ex-NSA, was cracking codes on a submarine during the Israel-Egypt war(and took fire from an Israeli aircraft somehow), sailed his own sailboat from North Carolina to Japan and back and survived being hijacked by pirates, rode his bicycle to both Alaska and Argentina, climbed most of the major mountains in the western hemisphere, survived two rounds of chemo for separate cancers, and pretty much stared death in the eye on a monthly basis for most of his adult life. Despite all that dangerous activity, he said the only time he feels like he is taking an unnecessary risk is when he rides his bicycle on the Tennessee roads at rush hour. He has had coins, trash, and even bottles of urine thrown at him as well as countless insults by impatient motorists who , quite frankly, aren't really qualified to hold his jockstrap. In Tennessee, the incorrect assumption was that anyone riding a bicycle is some God-hating hippie tree hugger attempting to undermine America, while in fact increasing alternative transportation is about as pro-America as you can get on the geopolitical map.
It's not just Tennessee that is populated by the brain dead haters that demonize anyone not exactly like them.
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