They don't get anything out of calling him, so he doesn't understand why they'd do it. Someone else told him it's a nice thing to do and that acknowledging it is helpful to him.
krelvar
joined 2 years ago
Springfield copycats I bet.
First off, epic joyride. That's how you end up with a nickname you get to explain when you're 50.
Second off, we keep saying more people should take public transportation, and I feel this arrest sends a mixed message.
Your pocket bomb doesn't have any actual bomb in it (unless the Israelis put some there, like the Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.) They can burn fast, but afaik they don't explode, just like gunpowder doesn't explode. It burns very fast. On the other hand, they can produce gas and burst the battery pack, which might be considered an explosion, but I'd argue it's not actually one.
Which isn't going to make someone who has it happen in their pocket feel any better.
If I have my physics wrong, please correct me, I'm not a lithium bomb expert :)
I tried the same thing, no luck. It was in 7th grade if I remember correctly - and that was 1984 for me so it's been a minute. :)
The idea of choosing being served raw should be enough to track it down, and I've occasionally searched for it over the years, but...
The short story that sticks with me from junior high, that I have not been able to track down in the last 40 years or so, was if I remember right another lottery style tale. I think it was just the husband and the one chosen was eaten by the rest of the community - the twist was that the eatee got to choose the method of preparation, and in the story, he chose to be served raw. Anyone recall this story? I'd love to track it down.
It's the lingerie that does it.
That's a lot of words to say, "I don't want someone on a bicycle to get something that makes their life a little easier. In fact, cars should get it and not bikes!"
I would love, love love to see more roundabouts here, there's a lot of inertia against them though.
I was talking from the perspective of the effort involved in a full stop on a bike vs a car. You seem to be taking the position that cyclists doing an Idaho stop will never stop or look around, that it should all be on car drivers to avoid oblivious idiot cyclists who will ride out in front of them without warning. I guarantee you any of those states that have this law will still find the cyclist at fault if they run a red light and get clobbered.
If you want to change the topic and talk about whether I have "sympathy for the environment", I also drive an EV. I replaced my gas furnace with a heat pump. I ride my bike instead of driving a car for most of my <10mile trips. Having the ability to roll a stop sign or proceed through a red light when it's clear has nothing to do with any of those things.
Either way the nickname should be "Subway".
"Did you meet Subway?" "... What?" "You gotta hear this story, dude! Gramma, tell Ricky your story!"
"Did you meet The Subway Murderer? Dude, don't fuck with her, she runs this cell block."