Gentle Reminder for Every Week

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i sudder to think what would have popped up if browers were set to allow pop ups :eek:

Don't worry, I sometimes lie in bed at night softly suddering too.

losers, i use my jet pack!

My gentle reminder is more for the lurkers who are probably coming to shows over the next 4 days so they don't get hosed on the drive into town.
As for driving vs biking, whatever makes sense for people is exactly what they should do. Biking makes more sense for me usually, but sometimes driving is better. I will be driving tonight to go to the suburbs. I prefer to be in a car when getting in accidents involving other cars.
In response to the bike locking safety factor here at the club, one of the guys that works here had his bike stolen after leaving it locked to a signpost out front overnight. It is the signpost by the alley that no longer has a sign on top of it. Other than that I think bikes have been pretty safe on our block. If the upside down u rack and the remaining sign posts are full you can lock down to the raailing by the Backbar stairs.

frankly, i wish there was a way i could get to and from the club without a car, as i like to drink. alot. $25 cab rides are about the only option as i live in that big section of virginia that looks like a metro station should be there, but there isn't one. but…i also don't see why everyone is getting so crazy about chimbly's post. lighten up folks

actually bus/metroed into the city today for a conference. i was of course stuck waiting in balston for a bus for like 45 minutes. also, i don't know how the suitwearers in the area do it. i sweated so much today

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
i also don't see why everyone is getting so crazy about chimbly's post. lighten up folks

You obviously can't read.

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
i also don't see why everyone is getting so crazy about chimbly's post.

Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

i wrecked my car last month and have been too lazy to get another one.

haha.

Originally posted by Skeeter:
Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

Guys, guys. Come on. I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in. Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit. There are options.

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:

Originally posted by Skeeter:
Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

Guys, guys. Come on. I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in. Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit. There are options.

It is impossible for every human being to live next to a transit.

Originally posted by Skeeter:

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
i also don't see why everyone is getting so crazy about chimbly's post.

Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

but…this one was obviously meant to be at least semihumorous. i repeat my "lighten up folks"

If you're a well paid yuppie and/or willing to live in a shacky studio or one bedroom apartment with an overpriced rent, you should be able to pull it off (living next to mass transit). Otherwise, you're selfish and evil, god damnit!

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:

Originally posted by Skeeter:
Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

Guys, guys. Come on. I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in. Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit. There are options.

It is impossible for every human being to live next to a transit.

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
Guys, guys. Come on. I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in. Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit. There are options.

Of course there are options for some people and I also encourage all people to use available alternatives (I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake), but the basis for your argument is just so short sighted. Gimme a break. Many circumstances lead people to wind up living where there do, primarily $$$. Do you think it's just some sort of coincidence that typically in this country it's the low income low density areas that have limited access to public transit? What are all those people supposed to do? Move to NW DC where theres a subway stop every two blocks? Do you think all the people who have to drive to their crappy minimum wage jobs in PG county or wherever do it by choice? These choices exist for some people (generally white people with money) but tha sad fact is that most people get stranded with few options.

Gentrifier.

Originally posted by chaz:
I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake

Well as I always say, I'm against gentrification…Unless of course I happen to own property in the area! ;)

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Gentrifier.

Originally posted by chaz:
I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake

Ride my bike to the club!!!! :eek: Are you fucking nuts?? With the D.C. living pond-scum, my bike would be gone in a second, it's much more desirable than my car.

Not only that, it's so much more fun playing kill the pedestrian in DC when you have 3,000 of metal under you instead of 17lbs of 358 steel.

I like to put liquid lead in my gas tank just as I cross over the state line into DC, and watch the fuckers choke half to death as I drive by.

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

Do you speak Norsk? Sounds great. Go for it!

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.

Do you speak Norsk? Sounds great. Go for it!

You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world….they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.

Can you imagine that in DC…..one weekend and they'd all be missing, in some pawn shop in MD/VA.

I've heard bicycle theft is really bad there. People steal bikes and then toss them in the canals.

EDIT – this is in Amsterdam, which is in no way representative of Holland as a whole!

Originally posted by Bollocks:
You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world….they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.

I love the French more and more each day…
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5382586