The New Knobhead

[Nobby the Bastard]

Most of the 'graffiti' you refer to are actually commissioned artworks.
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[Robby]

The speed bumps do slow traffic. They also show that the council is doing something right now, before the next election.

The other stuff either takes a long time with results that are difficult to measure, or is out of the hands of the local authority, or a bit of both. Frequently secret option number 3, too expensive.

It is rare for a local authority to line up with the one next door on transport policy. Highly unlikely for them to have any kind of decent working relationship with central govt, after the last decade+ of massive funding cuts from central govt to local.

So whilst speed bumps are a shit solution for their knock-on consequences and general irritation for everyone who wasn't driving like a dick in the first place, they do reduce the risk of a kid getting squished.

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[Bhud]

To be blunt, if you have children you tend to see other men who don't have children as a threat. You are an animal like any other animal, and you want to fight them! Everything they do is bad and risky. Riding motorbikes, included. They are selfish and you are not. They are Strangers and you are the Protector! So you tell yourself. Eventually, you internally convince yourself that a guy riding a motorcycle is a subhuman, whose actions are hostile and pose a threat to the cocoon utopia of the future in which your young children and grandchildren will live. However, that isn't the whole story... Everyone tends to justify their life choices and decisions in retrospect, with a kind of blind optimism about future outcomes. I'm not singling anyone out. I do exactly the same thing myself. It's just normal human behaviour. Let's start to look at the whole package, and not just the one topic. People are capable of reason, and they form their own life philosophy. There is no absolute one-size-fits-all good, for the individual, society, nation or even the species.

For example, until recently, I'd been eating a very healthy diet, with meat and organic vegetables. There are very good reasons for this. It completely eliminated a couple of weird allergy issues I had, and solved my joint pain problem, and it improved my skin. I kept it up for years. Of course, you can see, it was the right thing to do! EVERYONE should have to follow suit. Feel fit and healthy. Let's ban sugar, fast food, processed meats, white flour, etc. What's wrong with people? They don't know what's good for them. Anyone who's against my good mission is against all that is good and right, and is in rebellion against rightness, justice, humanity, etc. I'm sure they must be narcissists, psychos, mentally ill somehow, loony conspiracists, etc.

However, a few days ago I decided I'd had enough. I consciously switched back to hamburgers and pizzas I made myself. The allergy issues are starting to return, but I feel great. Not from a rush of fresh air, exercise and endorphins (although I do exercise) but from enjoying the sensation of nice tastes. Everyone finds them nice and we're hardwired to seek them out and enjoy the experience, for evolutionary reasons. But what about health? Well, I'm in my 40s. I've seen what it's like when someone gets to be in their 90s. It's deeply unpleasant, and I always used to think of 70 as "old". Do I want to be 90? Not really. You do not live forever through your children - I bet you couldn't even name your great-great-grandparents off the top of your head. Humanity will never reach that technological utopia in which you're trying to convince yourself your offspring will live, in fond remembrance of you. However, you've got a couple more decades to enjoy nice tasting food, and motorcycles, without dying. This is a simple fact. You come with nothing and you leave with nothing.

If you're tired of your Harley, that's fine. That's your personal choice. But let's establish that it was a different personal choice to your new enthusiasm for EVs. It came from a perspective on mortality and shared commonalities that I suspect we do not all share (not really), and neither should we be made to share these underlying beliefs.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Robby]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Evil Hans]

[Evil Hans]

Anyway, you're all wrong.

The new knobhead is the driver of any A class Mercedes. Not a single one of them knows how to drive, or even gives a fuck.

I give them a wide berth. They're fucking terrifying.
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[Polarbear]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Polarbear]

Anyway, back to knobheads, electric cars and flashy green stips on numberplates...

I presume his was written by an (American) electric car luddite but made me laugh.

https://scontent.fltn3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/284373533_386570673514217_2444640492678909547_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=2c4854&_nc_ohc=NPAz2jJTVaMAX_577Tp&_nc_ht=scontent.fltn3-1.fna&oh=00_AT8Z2hd1AOLoTwWf0bWfOCsomQoPvFKK4D4eeWwqBSZr4Q&oe=62A30D83
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[Ste]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

They are still impulsive which is why they are classed as 'children.'
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Easy-X]

Yes, we should remove all danger from children's' lives. Ban all cars, replace all roads with cycle lanes. Fuck that, even bicycles are dangerous! etc.

Balance required obviously but while you can put a short-term number on the success of road humps "we reduced road accidents by 10%" no account is taken of long term effects on physical and mental health because a) that would be difficult to calculate & b) you probably wouldn't like the answer anyway.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

So driving over a road hump causes you mental anguish? What a fucking snowflake...
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[Bhud]

I think these people remain the biggest knobheads:

https://www.aol.com/cyclists-wear-car-frames-show-230100113.html

Not normal people on bicycles, but rather activists on bicycles.

It seems as though the cyclist lobby, which has been instrumental in "dealing with" petrol cars in cities and large towns, might already be preparing to part ways with the green/EV 4-wheeler lobby.

Would be awfully cynical to predict that all the energy of these disruption officers on 2 or 4 wheels is leading us inexorably towards a world where a petrol guzzling Rolls with a cigar-smoking VIP inside has the roads to itself and its armed honour guard convoy...

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