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[Slap47]

Woman almost dies like 30 times.

"Yeah, they're about the same".

 

[The Grimace]

Speaking of which:

Non-metro tier cities and small towns depend on cars, too? Imagine my shock!

It's like these retards have never been to or seen anything outside of Tokyo.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Non-metro tier cities and small towns depend on cars, too? Imagine my shock!

It's like these retards have never been to or seen anything outside of Tokyo.

Japan exists as more than just Tokyo?

 

[Markass the Worst]

Japan exists as more than just Tokyo?

What a ridiculous statement. Next, you'll tell me the Netherlands exists outside of the Randstad. That just can't possibly be true at all.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Looks like Toronto wants to pass Congestion pricing to spite the Yanks. Since every retard up here is Anti American because of the trade war but won't say anything about Jeets.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Looks like Toronto wants to pass Congestion pricing to spite the Yanks. Since every retard up here is Anti American because of the trade war but won't say anything about Jeets.

Get your shitty Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla out of the way, you filthy commoner.

Can't you see the Lincoln Town Car or Chevy Suburban carrying your betters!

Get on the metro where you belong.

 

[CEO of Gay]

I made a bingo card with a number of common elements in this thread. There are about 27 variables so you can play along at home.

View attachment 7101577

https://mfbc.us/m/mpbcyak

Ooh! Oooh! I wanna play!

One could probably completely fill all of these bingo cards if he went far enough back in the thread, so to keep this at least a little challenging and fun, let's establish some basic rules first. You can only reference use a single collection of r/fuckcars screenshots. This means a single one of @quaawaa's (or other major thread contributor's posts). You may reference other posts, but only when they have been posted after your main collection, and when they reference or address your main collection. For example, let's say quaawaa brings us some fresh milk, r/fuckcars sperging about bike towing and how bikes could totally replace OTR trucks. On the next page, @Markass the Worst makes a post quoting quaawaa's, refuting the r/fuckcars screenshots with facts and logic and physics and other science. You can quote Markass's post to tag, for example, your "Easily Disproven" square.

Does that sound fair to the rest of you?


Okay, starting with my free space, let's see what quaawaa's post #12,876 brings us.

Spoiler: quote by quote plays

Akita in northern Japan is half parking

I think that qualifies for "Sperging about parking lots"

Wow this is so ugly, it looks just like literally anywhere in the US.

Wow. These look exactly like a dilapidated midwest US suburb.

I think that gives me both "Anti-American" and "Suburbs BAD"

didn't there used to be like a lot of american miliatary presence in northern japan?

There's my "Distorted Past"

However, I'll take the bad urbanism in Japan over Houston and it's suburbs any day.

I was in Tokyo, Niigata, and Nagoya for holiday two years ago. As a tourist, I never felt I was in a stroad-ish hellscape

Excuses that would never be tolerated if the picture was of the US:

I think that's enough for "Japan worship"


Although the word "carbrained" showed up in multiple posts, I don't think it was conceptually close enough to "carbrained propaganda", so it feels a bit cheap trying to claim that last square to claim bingo.

That's retarded and untrue. They have plenty of street parking, even in the middle of Tokyo. I literally posted a pic from my last Japan trip somewhere in this thread (but I don't want to search for it so I'll just post it again):

That gets me "Easily disproved", and "Misleading photograph"

Final result:



Darn, so close. Oh well. Maybe next round.

 

[quaawaa]

Cyclists dindu nuffin:


Telling cyclists to make themselves visible at night is like telling a woman she deserved to be raped:


Canceling an author who agrees with them about cars being "murder machines":



People hate cyclists because black people jaywalk:


Jeremy Clarkson convinced people to hate cyclists:

Good excuse to repost this:

Rush Limbaugh made people hate cyclists:


Car commercials tell people to run over cyclists:


Big Oil, Gas, and Auto brainwashed people into dehumanizing cyclists:


Reminder that these people are currently telling each other to firebomb Teslas:


Drivers hate everyone:

Explain this meme then:


Source (Archive)

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Get your shitty Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla out of the way, you filthy commoner.

Can't you see the Lincoln Town Car or Chevy Suburban carrying your betters!

Get on the metro where you belong.

Nah I'm the one that makes others slow down because they think my Black Ford Explorer is an undercover cop car

 

[Yamamura]

Looks like Toronto wants to pass Congestion pricing to spite the Yanks. Since every retard up here is Anti American because of the trade war but won't say anything about Jeets.

On the topic of congestion pricing it's funny if you tried to apply it to anything they like. For example let's say the problem is that on public transit the subways are too full like in the case of India or Japan.

The solution? Increase the prices during peak times to discourage people who don't really have anywhere important to go. You hear these twits screech to high heaven how "it's a war on poor people", "traveling should be a human right", "build a second track". Literally every argument people have been using against congestion pricing but they don't see the irony.

They really are like the meme of Manray trying to give Patrick his wallet back.

 

[quaawaa]

On the topic of congestion pricing it's funny if you tried to apply it to anything they like. For example let's say the problem is that on public transit the subways are too full like in the case of India or Japan.

The solution? Increase the prices during peak times to discourage people who don't really have anywhere important to go. You hear these twits screech to high heaven how "it's a war on poor people", "traveling should be a human right", "build a second track". Literally every argument people have been using against congestion pricing but they don't see the irony.

They really are like the meme of Manray trying to give Patrick his wallet back.

Increase the transit fares to pay for the full cost of service and watch how quickly they drop the “pay for your fair share” and “cities subsidize suburbs” rhetoric and start demanding you pay for their transportation.

 

[unaboomer]

A post about stadiums being in the suburbs/city center:

I apologize in advance for quoting a post from 20 pages ago, I'm catching up on this thread:

If your routine doesn't involve visiting the stadium throughout the week, why would living within walking distance of one be a good thing? Seasonal events that draw massive crowds from all over are exactly the sort of thing that makes sense to do outside the city center, where more space can be dedicated to infrastructure that can support massive bursts of directional traffic.

Ostensibly, having daily needs nearby makes sense, but these people have no nuance: everything must be at your doorstep at all times, even things that you can't afford to do more than once a year or things you may not have any interest in doing at all.

Also, considering how transit trannies put a dollar value on every conceivable externality associated with cars, including unquantifiable "social costs", how much would they assess a swanky downtown venue for degrading the quality of life for residents? Why is it suddenly acceptable to socialize negative externalities when it profits a private venue instead of average citizens? Sounds awfully capitalist, comrade.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Why are so many of these types of movements always devolve to "America Bad" instead of actual constructive criticism of urban planning?

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

Why are so many of these types of movements always devolve to "America Bad" instead of actual constructive criticism of urban planning?

Because those movements are mostly made up of young americans with a 'grass is greener' mindset. They grew up romanticizing idealized photos of cobblestone streets in quaint euro towns or picturesque nippon villages, assuming they show everyday reality
Then they look at their completely normal upbringing and think it to be the absolute worst -> then it evolves into the "America is.. LE BAD!" mindset

 

[Kyria the Great]

Because those movements are mostly made up of young americans with a 'grass is greener' mindset. They grew up romanticizing idealized photos of cobblestone streets in quaint euro towns or picturesque nippon villages, assuming they show everyday reality

That's why I love the casual Japanese countryside channels that show the life as it is and it very much reminds me of small town America even with what looks like the local dive where everyone goes to.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

That's why I love the casual Japanese countryside channels that show the life as it is and it very much reminds me of small town America even with what looks like the local dive where everyone goes to.

I think it's just typical small town behavior, be it middle of Kansas, northeastern Poland or one road village on a small Japanese island. People that live here usually have simple, uncomplicated needs (and I don't mean that in a negative way at all), don't bother frothing at the mouth for new bike paths (what for? The Road fits bicycles, cars, trucks and horses) or at the new craze in politics. They're usually more level-headed and focused on more earthly stuff- say, this year's harvest
Sure, it's not all sunshine and roses, but I find it easier to be around small-town people, no matter their nationality

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Why are so many of these types of movements always devolve to "America Bad" instead of actual constructive criticism of urban planning?

Jealousy.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Looks like Toronto wants to pass Congestion pricing to spite the Yanks. Since every retard up here is Anti American because of the trade war but won't say anything about Jeets.

Canadians will never hate Americans as much as they hate themselves.

Also, considering how transit trannies put a dollar value on every conceivable externality associated with cars, including unquantifiable "social costs", how much would they assess a swanky downtown venue for degrading the quality of life for residents? Why is it suddenly acceptable to socialize negative externalities when it profits a private venue instead of average citizens? Sounds awfully capitalist, comrade.

It gets worse than that. You know how urbanists idolize density, and that's why cities are good? You can make a clear case that between criminals, gays, welfare leeches, and all manner of other vermin are an enormous "societal cost" to the point where cities are a net negative wealth generator if you applied to a price tag to all of those.

Because those movements are mostly made up of young americans with a 'grass is greener' mindset. They grew up romanticizing idealized photos of cobblestone streets in quaint euro towns or picturesque nippon villages, assuming they show everyday reality
Then they look at their completely normal upbringing and think it to be the absolute worst -> then it evolves into the "America is.. LE BAD!" mindset

I've mentioned this before that even going on road trips (Houston and Florida in particular) always looked cooler and more fun than what was going on locally but never have I thought that my own town was "bad" and when it finally started to look like more like a "big city" (or at least major suburb) I found it kind of depressing. OK, I have a grocery store and Taco Bell closer to me now...but it's also much harder to get out of my own neighborhood.

I can also assure you that your own city will start looking 1000 times better if you move out to your own place and start getting a steady income.

 

[IdiotPlusPlus]

The solution? Increase the prices during peak times to discourage people who don't really have anywhere important to go.

Peak/off peak fares have been a thing for over a century now, and like congestion fees they have completely failed to solve the issue they propose to solve, because anyone who can shift travel outside the peak hour would do it anyways to avoid the crowds.

It's why it's clear to anyone with a brain it's just a cash grab and excuse not to increase services/infrastructure, because the only way to convert peak to off-peak travel is to have more things available to do, and shift business start/end time to stretch the peak out.

Congestion is nearly always a flow rate/shock absorption problem, which is often why it only takes a small amount of traffic changing mode to reduce it, or a small number of shitty drivers to cause a large increase.

I hate trash tier urbanist pretend rail(unlike roads) congestion doesn't exist, trains are often run so tightly that one dickhead causing a delay to one train causes hours of late running unless you start cancelling services to give time to get them back in place, something roads can't really do as drivers make autonomous decisions.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

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