What the Fuck is Wrong with Walking?

[hooplala]

Don't mind me... I'm probably just cranky.

[hooplala]

Laughtrack, feel free to ask Cain or another mod to take my comments out... I basically pulled a Wade in this thread.  I apologize.

[Corvidia]

Laughtrack, feel free to ask Cain or another mod to take my comments out... I basically pulled a Wade in this thread.  I apologize.

Lol, no worries.  It happens.

I took the OP as a strawman, so I responded in kind.

The OP DID take dramatic licence with it's depiction of stereotypical behavior.  Give this a script, and cast of characters with Everyman in a Ford Escort, and it would STILL have a good underlying point, IMHO.

BARELY a dramatic license. At least around here.

[Roaring Biscuit!]

sorta back on topic (and at the risk of sounding like an environment loving hippie):

It's not that I mind you wallowing in your own shit,
It's that I have to wallow in it too.

Seriously, cut back on emissions kids, that shits bad for you.

I think I might work that into my BIP rewrite...  or something in a similar vein

x

edd

[Corvidia]

I am an environment-loving tree hugger, but because I don't want to breathe in other people's emissions. And because I like trees. But this is entirely secondary to my loathing of hypocrites and whining.

[Jasper]

The problem isn't that it's been said already, but that it's impossible to get through to the people who need to hear it.

My hope is that natural selection does it's worst with the likes of them.

[East Coast Hustle]

and yet, the likes of them are outbreeding the likes of us.

[Batty Kissinger]

Walking gives you time to think, gives you time to see stuff, and actually be close enough to other people to say hello.
Instead of being encased in a big metal box your whole life. That's enough of an argument for me.

Where I live, there's a big massive river valley running through the whole city, it's great! But people still drive everywhere, even though it means you have to take an idiotic route to get everywhere to get around the green-space. Walking is much more efficient for many reasons.

[Kai]

I walk and cycle everywhere. My car gets used about once a week to get the groceries.

The OP is preaching to the choir.

[Corvidia]

The OP is preaching to the choir.

Apparently. It's good to know, though.

I pretty much only drive to and from school and work, but they're ten and four miles, respectively, from my house. Not walkable in a reasonable amount of time.

and yet, the likes of them are outbreeding the likes of us.

There's really not a a good way to handle this, aside from waiting for obese mothers to have more miscarriages and for the health problems of those babies who make it to full term to occur.

[Jenne]

Har!  You sound like my husband.  "What?!  Did your son HYDROCARBON his way to home-and-or-school today?"

I think as long as you know the difference between walking because you should and driving because you must, as an individual, that's all that's needed.  As a society, the US sucks at that.  We plan our suburban areas, at least in the Almighty West, without a thought to what that might do to the 1) kids or 2) the environment (let alone the back pocket).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I liked the OP.

What i got from it was irritation at the people who drive EVERY FUCKING WHERE whether they need to or not, and, consequently, complain about how much they spend on gas and how badly they need to lose weight, when both problems would be ameliorated if they just fucking walked in cases where driving wasn't strictly necessary.

[Reginald Ret]

Don't walk across the fucking parking lot to get to another store. It's seriously three hundred feet. Use your car!
Don't make your kid walk everywhere and then wonder why s/he assumes you hate America.
Don't walk a mile you could have driven and then whine about nobody respecting you. That shit is bad for the economy and if you're trying to be a good American--DRIVE!
Don't walk that little distance, save money, and then bitch about the state of the economy and how it's keeping you from getting a full-time job!
Don't prepare your own meals. Turn on the engine and go through the drive through to get your triple-decker cheese burger with extra cheese or your white mocha!

I know driving requires you to work half an hour to an hour more than you would if you walked, but seriously, do it. I am so sick of listening to people bitch and moan about this shit. "Oh my god!" -puff- "I'm so fat!" -puff- "I need money to" -puff- "go to the gym!" or "Working is so hard! I have to, like, go to the office five times a week!"
You drive a gas saving Prius. You hardly ever drive it *anywhere.* You walk unless it's 50 miles or more. And you're fat and whiny and I have to listen to you complain about having to work, the economy and being fat. Shut up and DO something about it!

Or kill me.

fixed.

[potato]

I drive pretty much everywhere because I don't like to leave home, and when I do I like to get everything done at once, plus I have a kid to shuttle around. still, in the 7 years of my car's life, half of its 78,000 miles was put on the first 2 years of its life by my ex, who in his own words "just loves to drive". the other half of the miles I put on the last 5 years after I kicked him out.

I depend on my car. if I just had to get myself around, I'd drive it even less than I do, and probably opt for biking. still, I never do anything as idiotic as drive across the parking lot (unless it's a half mile and I have 15 minutes to get what I need and scram).

all that aside, I'm still going to go to the drive-through for coffee because I'm pretty much always on my way somewhere and the drive-through is generally faster. the places I go for coffee when I have time to sit don't even have drive-throughs (although unfortunately I have to drive to get to them, so I don't go very often).

[LMNO]

I drive my car because I basically hate nature.


No, strike that. I hate humans, and anything that will bring their downfall one day closer is all right by me.