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They were standing in the bike lane briefly to take a picture on a famous landmark, Phil, but I'm sure you also think Eric Garner should have been murdered by cops because he sold loose cigarettes

lol this is a great development for this conversation i'm glad it was a white biker yelling at black tourists and not vice-versa or it wouldn't be as wonderful for ilx controversial opinions thread

Dude, go fuck yourself. I mean seriously, rip off your dick and insert it in your anus.

I'm not going to excuse someone shouting something rude -- again, WHITE NEW YORKERS ARE NOTORIOUSLY ENTITLED CUMSTAINS -- but you would not excuse someone stepping into traffic on Fifth Avenue to get a better shot of the Empire State Building either, presumably.

It's amazing how you all are managing to find individual instances of either bikers or drivers doing really mean and dangerous things. Especially since both groups are made up of many millions of people

xp lol I saw people doing that all the time a couple weeks ago in manhattan and they got honked at and were like "oh shit!" and jumped back on the curb

like, they did something wrong, but it's something that's done wrong a hundred times a day

imo people who get offended by honking or dinging a bike bell or w/e in smaller cities need to just get the fuck used to it, it's normal behavior to tell people to pay attention

like if you're not going to excuse people saying something rude, Phil, there's no actual argument here? unless "NO!" isn't rude, but that's a different discussion entirely

no one's saying the family in the bike lane wasn't in the wrong, just that it's a minor wrong

one time I saw a cyclist who was a Knight of the Templar and he murdered an entire family

all without leaving the bicycle?

the bicycle was the instrument of death

Yes, it is a minor wrong. But cyclists are asked more often than any other road users to concede to uses of their very few dedicated lanes for things other than cycling, and it gets under the skin. (When I say "very few" I'm referring to where I live. I know it's different in NYC.) (Also I have also walked across that bridge and you can get a perfectly serviceable picture without exiting the ped lane.)(Where is Morbz with his "fuck tourists" shtick when I need him?)

Bike advocacy groups in Cleveland went to great lengths a couple of years ago to get a "no stopping in the bike lane" law passed, and it's never enforced. You would not believe the number of people who are practically willing to get out of their cars and fight cyclists over it when they complain. (SOME OF THEM ARE BLACK WHINEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACCUSE ME OF SOMETHING ELSE HORRIBLY RACIST?)

when did this turn into morning shock jock radio

Nov. 20, 2002

If we were in 30's Berlin we'd all be Nazi's.
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it's just about ethics in gaming journalism man

I feel like going anywhere by any means is basically a hate crime tbh

Personally I wear a mask to avoid inhaling insects and sweep the path in front of me to avoid treading on them. We all compartmentalize, though - this morning I killed thousands of germs with my morning mouthwash.

But cyclists are asked more often than any other road users to concede to uses of their very few dedicated lanes for things other than cycling,

the horror

Bike advocacy groups in Cleveland went to great lengths a couple of years ago to get a "no stopping in the bike lane" law passed,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomCkCbKHA4

I resent other bicyclists when I'm biking but bow to their moral superiority when driving. I really don't miss biking to my old job in downtown just because it's really fucking annoying when dudes in $500 worth of bike gear need to go top speed in a crowded bike lane with numerous stoplights/crosswalks at 8:30 in the morning. And yeah, occasionally someone does something really assholish and I worry that he's inched up the likelihood of my getting killed by making a driver think we're all the same. Still doesn't equate to, I don't know, killing someone. Which of course is very rarely punished. This thread has a remarkable resemblance to local news comment sections, wtg.

Would you like to make 2000/week working from home?!!!

I've seen enough friends and friends-of-friends get maimed, injured and killed while cycling in the last ten years that it's impossible for me to be glib about people not respecting what little bike infrastructure there is, which apparently makes me Hitler or Bull Connor or something. But nice to see Whiney owning the "entitled cumstain" badge like a fuckin' pro.

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I don't think the entitled one here is the one defending a family's right to take a vacation photo without getting yelled at.

Guess which mode of transport I am using as I type this

People who cycle with their kids like they're mother geese shooing everyone out of the way and holding me up when i have like coffee to get and shit i hope a plane lands on the entire brood

canoe xp

Segway?

Xpost

XP sorry whiney u lose points there for not pointing out their race

Like a functional society that involves not murdering or injuring people should boil down to a very simple common sense equation:

Motorists should yield to cyclists, cyclists should yield to pedestrians.

Once you start constructing dipshit "b-b-but the rules" around roads being for tires or bike lanes being your spandex safe space, you can fuck off

Wow, fuck you for implying I would post while canoeing, mh. FUCK YOU

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surely this dude in whiney's episode looks like that right

Wtf do u have against spandex fp

Not to be serious or anything but a functional society could be argued to have a legit module in place to enable quick transportation of ppl and goods where it was agreed that tourists of any colour shouldn't stand to take pictures idk tho this is complex stuff

I almost posted DtRT Larry Bird Jersey guy like twice in this thread hahahahHahahaha

I have a metal plate in my wrist from the time I got distracted and was trying to brake on a bike while shoving my phone back in my pocket

I am literally the worst idiot of all these demographics

:(

Basically, I feel like everyone should be completely sedentary pretty much all of the time except in an emergency. It would solve so many problems.

it's cool, I can't break that wrist anymore and I have a cool scar

I learned nothing! nothing!

xp dude who apparently stands in for all cyclists everywhere was being rude but generally pedestrians shouldn't walk into traffic without looking where they're going?

no one should do anything unless legally compelled

we live at a T intersection at the bottom of a hill, and bicyclists will always race down the hill and turn either right or left through the stop sign. considering how many cars blow the stop sign at the intersection at 50 MPH, i'm imagining someone will get killed one of these days. i like most cyclists around here, though. we have a lot of ladies with the nice hats and the jingle jangle warning bells and the baskets laden with fruit who go by, looking like they're off to work at the british munitions factory, doing their part and what not.

One time my grandpa accidentally ran over my snotty best friend's skateboard and the wheel came off and he quickly put it back on but we didn't tell him right away and then he grabbed the board and we shouted "no!" but he did anyway and the wheel came off and he fell on his ass in the middle of the street.

Idk what that has to do with anything carry on.

here guys let's be scientific about this

POLL: A Clear Hierarchy of Traffic

That's why I hate grandpas

great, now the air is clear for a new controversial opinion

portishead lyrics are awful

ducklings can be total assholes btw

a duckling killed my mom

is that really an opinion

I thought they were portishead lyrics

really think we need the duckling's side of the story tbf

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