What the Fuck is Wrong with Walking?

[Corvidia]

Don't drive across the fucking parking lot to get to another store. It's seriously three hundred feet. Use your feet!
Don't drive drive your kid everywhere and then wonder why s/he expects you to be a chauffeur.
Don't drive a mile you could have walked and then whine about gas. That shit adds up and if you're trying to conserve gas--WALK!
Don't drive that little distance, waste gas, and then bitch about the price of gas and how it's eating up your money!
Don't go through the drive through to get your triple-decker cheese burger with extra cheese or your white mocha. Turn off the engine and get out of the damn car!

I know walking requires you to get off your ass half and hour to an hour earlier than you would if you drove, 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 to" -puff- "loose weight!" or "Gas is so expensive! I have to, like, fill up my tank three times a week!"
You drive a gas guzzling SUV. You drive it *everywhere.* You don't walk unless it's between the car and the door. And you're fat and whiny and I have to listen to you complain about gas and being fat. Shut up and DO something about it!

Or kill me.

[hooplala]

Yeah, cars fucking suck!!  Let's go back to the horse and carriage!  While we're at it, let's also throw away all the medicine and vaccines... and lightbulbs too.  Actually let's even throw away candles.  And windows.  And walls.

Let's sit around in a cave, around a roaring fire, and tell ghost stories.  Actually, fire is probably too technological... speech is too... let's just sit around in the dark.

[Cain]

I totally got that too from this rant, Hoopla.  No, really.

[hooplala]

I'm get very tired of the "car = evil" rant.  Really.

[Cain]

And?  This seems to be about laziness and hypocrisy.  Cars are used to illustrate the point, as far as I can see.

Unless you think I am missing something?

[Richter]

OP: Among my people we have a saying "It's only a mile".  Walking short distances, or biking, to avoid using a car is a solid idea, and should be done whenever possible.  Especially in cities where everything is basically in a 3 mile radius, and weather often allows.

[Payne]

Laziness and hypocrisy is what I get from it too.

I don't mind folk driving cars. I don't mind them destroying the planet by doing so (hell I'm a big fan of motor sport, not the most environmentally friendly of activities). What I do mind is people bitching about things which they themselves and, sometimes, they alone have the power to change.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

In St. Louis where I live......

walking = drive by target

[bds]

I walk places. Or I get the bus.

People don't tend to bitch about it so much over here, I don't think, so it doesn't piss me off that much. I can totally see where you're coming from though.

[hooplala]

And?  This seems to be about laziness and hypocrisy.  Cars are used to illustrate the point, as far as I can see.

Unless you think I am missing something?

The focus seemed to me to be about fat-asses driving everywhere... if it was about laziness in general it should have been more about laziness in general.  But that argument gets fucking tiring too... what does it matter to you if someone else is lazy?  People need to mind their own business more.  I don't own a car, and walk almost everywhere, but still it's starting to get on my tits.

I felt the OP needed a counter argument.  I gave one.  If you don't like it, that's fine.

[Cain]

To get back to the OP, I used to live in the middle of nowhere, before I was old enough to drive.  And by the middle of nowhere, I mean a village of about 500, with the nearest actual town 20 miles away, dotted with occasional even shorter villages along the way.  Oh, and hills.  Fucking hills everywhere.  I had to climb up hills to get to other hills. 

Well, when you're 16 and all you have is a bike or your feet, you have no choice.  I must have known every inch of the surrounding area by the end of that summer.  And, apart from the occasional days my water leaked and I was stranded miles from home with nothing to drink, I actually liked it.  Maybe its because of that, but being so lazy as to use a car for any of the above things seems...well, pretty bizarre to me.  Not quite sure I see the point.  I cannot really grasp the mindset, even for the amount of times I've said "I want a coffee but I'm too lazy to go get one".

[Cain]

And?  This seems to be about laziness and hypocrisy.  Cars are used to illustrate the point, as far as I can see.

Unless you think I am missing something?

The focus seemed to me to be about fat-asses driving everywhere... if it was about laziness in general it should have been more about laziness in general.  But that argument gets fucking tiring too... what does it matter to you if someone else is lazy?  People need to mind their own business more.  I don't own a car, and walk almost everywhere, but still it's starting to get on my tits.

I felt the OP needed a counter argument.  I gave one.  If you don't like it, that's fine.

Surely a counter argument would...counter the argument presented in the OP, not a strawman of what you wanted it to say?

[hooplala]

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

[Corvidia]

Yeah, cars fucking suck!!  Let's go back to the horse and carriage!  While we're at it, let's also throw away all the medicine and vaccines... and lightbulbs too.  Actually let's even throw away candles.  And windows.  And walls.

Let's sit around in a cave, around a roaring fire, and tell ghost stories.  Actually, fire is probably too technological... speech is too... let's just sit around in the dark.

That was absolutely not what I was saying. I'm saying that walking a mile or two is NOT a shameful thing. Cain's got it right--it's about hypocrisy and laziness. Richter's dead on with what should be done IMO.
I don't actually know how you got "cars = evil" Hoopla. Or "technology = evil," either.

In St. Louis where I live......

walking = drive by target

Different deal. Your safety is more important.

I walk places. Or I get the bus.

People don't tend to bitch about it so much over here, I don't think, so it doesn't piss me off that much. I can totally see where you're coming from though.

When I was at Starbucks (I quit today), that's 2/3rds of what I heard. Usually while getting a white mocha (mmm, pure cocoa fat!).

And?  This seems to be about laziness and hypocrisy.  Cars are used to illustrate the point, as far as I can see.

Unless you think I am missing something?

The focus seemed to me to be about fat-asses driving everywhere... if it was about laziness in general it should have been more about laziness in general.  But that argument gets fucking tiring too... what does it matter to you if someone else is lazy?  People need to mind their own business more.  I don't own a car, and walk almost everywhere, but still it's starting to get on my tits.

I felt the OP needed a counter argument.  I gave one.  If you don't like it, that's fine.

It's about cars and fat asses because that's what I had to listen to, day in and day out. I *still* have to listen to it, just walking around campus. It pisses me off. It's not a shameful thing, either. The pity I get when I appear someplace on foot is extraordinarily irritating.

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

Explain how it's a strawman, please.

[Richter]

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.