People on bikes may be rude and may not follow the rules, but can’t be aggressive.
When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.
Original stripe from the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/bum-rush-hour-1846606314
Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113615912203015089
And when they have their own lane:
Literally me every day going solids 35km/h on the bike lane passing the cars stuck In traffic. Is delicious.
Me too. There’s usually an unbroken line of jammed-up cars from my home all the way to my workplace, and I get to ride past it on a separated bike lane.
Every day I walk into the office with a smile on my face.My company have 3 days home office 2 in the office, but I like to go everyday to the office mainly because I love to start the day with a 30 minutes bike ride.
My company has the same policy. I like to go every day cause like you, the commute is a bonus instead of lost time.
And also, I have ADHD and need to be in the office to be motivated to work.Lmao, same for me. I understand that some people are more productive on home, specially if they’re already tired for the commute and transit when they’re finally on the office. But for me, in house they are so many distractions, that I can’t really finish anything in time.
And the same people are the loudest complainers when bike lanes are installed so this doesn’t happen.
Yeah also the Adjuster that killed that CEO was seen leaving on a bike!1!1!1!
He also used a backpack and jacket!!! We will outlaw those next.
Yeah, no more clothes!
Wait that would actually solve the issue of fast fashion.
Most assholes in cars can’t be bothered to stop for twenty seconds – like they’re supposed to – when there’s an obstruction in their lane. They think there’s some unwritten rule that they absolutely have to be moving no matter what’s on the road in front of them.
The proper thing to do in these “squeezed by a bike” scenarios is to just let the fucking bike determine the pace for a little while, and then wait until the other lane is free and you can pass using it.
They think there’s some unwritten rule that they absolutely have to be moving no matter what’s on the road in front of them.
I’ve experienced that more times than I can count from cyclists on sidewalks that think that I should be expected to dodge out of their way just because they ring their little bell.
Maybe they just want to warn you so you don’t startle when they pass.
Mixed use paths are not great for commuting.
Most sidewalks are not “mixed use”.
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At that point, I’d expect the cyclist to pull over and let traffic flow past.
The same way we expect slower traffic to keep right or use turnouts to let faster traffic pass them on mountain roads. Nothing wrong with being slower or less comfortable on the roads, but if you are causing traffic to back up, you can get out of the way.
The biker’s loss is <1min as they use a turnout, shoulder or sidewalk, and the cars all get where they are going without needing to perform riskier passing maneuvers.
Doesn’t generally apply if you have a single car but I’ve been in a situation behind a cyclist where I wasn’t knowledgeable about the road ahead and was unable to find a place to safely pass for a while. I clearly was making the cyclist nervous, and I was nervous. A 10 second delay for the cyclist would have resolved the issue. Instead, I spent more like a minute waiting for a moment with enough visibility to let me safely pass.
Most assholes in cars can’t be bothered to stop for twenty seconds – like they’re supposed to – when there’s an obstruction in their lane.
The problem is that this applies to assholes on bikes, too. This is not to defend asshole car drivers, but you cannot deny that quite a number of bicycle riders have a rather loose connection to the rules of the road.
German right wing party AfD had one just like this, but unironically
Really high Poe factor. I can’t tell if the cartoonist is posting this ironically or not.
I’ve heard enough people regard bicyclists as a menace (and feeling ashamed in the cases when I’m quiet about being a bicyclist) that this really is how we’re seen.
ETA the source explains a lot. Not knowing where it came from, though, seriously high Poe.
It’s a parody news site
IMO. Bicyclists have liberal disregard for traffic laws here. But so do the following groups: pedestrians, motorcyclist, big rigs, cars.
Kelly’s artistic screeds are devoid of irony, but as the invention of Colorado-based cartoonist Ward Sutton, Kelly the character — much like Stephen Colbert’s former Comedy Central bloviator — is composed almost entirely of irony. And that joke-within-a-joke makes all the difference.
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Sutton is a true student of old newspaper comic strips and cartoons, so what emerged was a character whose persona embodied this “man out of time” approach — a cartoonist who is himself a caricature of a blind-to-his-own-buffoonery pundit, producing old-timey cartoons that ripple with parody.
A visual stroll through the Kelly collection is like a meta-history lesson in editorial cartooning before sardonic subtlety became fashionable. Kelly’s illustrations, reflecting wading-pool deep takes on the news, are larded with labels (“today’s no-good teens,” “today’s troop haters,” “benevolent America”) that skewer the worst practitioners of the art form. Kelly sees himself as a political “king of comedy,” but in truth, he is as deluded as Robert De Niro’s bad stand-up Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy.” He would have been painfully mediocre at best in his own era; in our era, he is laughably hackneyed.
Ben Garrison uses this style unironically, so at a glance it’s hard to tell. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/ben-garrison
I’ve heard enough people regard bicyclists as a menace
The point is, most aren’t. But the handful of assholes are the ones that stay in the mind. Just like with car drivers.
Being introspective, I wasn’t great, learning from the bike messenger sector who was adroit at aggressive driving downtown, but to be fair San Francisco has an intense, unkind traffic vibe (at least compared to Vacaville and Sacramento, when my then-girlfriend was driving from Vacaville and Sacramento to visit me every other week.
In my opinion, the best traffic community in SF was on Clement street in the commercial area (a blend of Chinese community and Russian community small businesses) in which everyone drove horribly but did so at five miles per hour, so I could be patient while a cluster sorted themselves out, and in the meantime find an opening to zip through.
This comic is woefully inaccurate. There’s no way there are three people in that car. Also it’s not a car, it’s an SUV or a truck.
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This might be my new favorite sicko with a bicycle helmet on 🚲
Bike needs a ‘Latest fad’ asterisk
The bicycle was invented in 1817. It isn’t the ‘Latest fad’.
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No what I hate about bikes besides everyone saying it doesn’t happen is them not following the rules of the road
like not parking or driving in the bike lanes ? Like not speeding on every street because of the “cushion” ?
like driving without a license ? or insurance ?
oh you were whining about the human powered vehicle not the one the needs gas/coal/oil. My bad.
Every time I take my bike I’m amazed at how many car drivers don’t follow (or don’t know) the rules about overtaking safely.
You only get to pass me if there is plenty of space and it’s absolutely safe for both of us. Just because you’re in a car doesn’t mean you’re entitled to squeeze past and nearly run me over.
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I like the Onion’s cartoons, but they’re also often confusing. At least for this one, I get what it’s trying to say, though the meta-ironic huge labels, extremely bad puns, (in this case also a rather incoherent speech bubble from the dad) make this a fun experience too. But other cartoons like https://theonion.com/stars-and-strips/ also have meaning that I don’t get, or the godfather references or whatever. maybe others appreciate this complexity better. Is it because I’m too young, do they put references to old media often? The Godfather is from 1972. Also, do you think they’re doing this big literalness in the dialogue and the huge labels just to make fun of cartoons and how they influence what you think about the characters? Or is there some trend in other cartoons, where some Cartoons are seen as special for being very literal?
I must “Pick men” to be my sexual partners!
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When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.
I won’t be very sure about that. A pistol has better ADS afterall :P
Funnily, the exact opposite tends to happen to me a lot of times. With the cars just slowly closing in on me from the side.
