The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

No, you haven't missed anything. Unfortunately, the list of good dad jokes is, umm, rather short.

Ah! I did wonder if it were a joke! :rotfl:

It's just that sometimes, memes and stuff don't load properly, so I wondered if it were that.

PasturesNew

These bike schemes would never work..... it ends up that somebody's drunk and in town, wants to get home, gets the bike, then dumps it near their house.... and they don't care.

Where I used to live, the nearest town has such a scheme now - and it seems they just made their boundary smaller - and if you take a bike outside of the boundary area it's £10 or something ... but if they've changed the boundary and you used a bike back in the past you might not know they changed the rules... which is where modern life sucks as rules change at the drop of a hat and then people get all "smug" about "well, don't you know that? you should know that...." well, you can't always know everything about everything, with all the constant changes of everything... you have to trust/rely on some things not having changed as you weren't informed. These days, increasingly, YOU have to go round digging about to see if things are different. No wonder everybody's getting angrier.... there are more ways for you to be "caught out" these days, often with huge fines/penalties.

Pyxis

I had to google 'dad joke' as I thought they must be jokes about dads, but they are just corny jokes!

Can't mums tell corny jokes?

(Or was it just me? :rotfl:)

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

These bike schemes would never work..... it ends up that somebody's drunk and in town, wants to get home, gets the bike, then dumps it near their house.... and they don't care.

Where I used to live, the nearest town has such a scheme now - and it seems they just made their boundary smaller - and if you take a bike outside of the boundary area it's £10 or something ... but if they've changed the boundary and you used a bike back in the past you might not know they changed the rules... which is where modern life sucks as rules change at the drop of a hat and then people get all "smug" about "well, don't you know that? you should know that...." well, you can't always know everything about everything, with all the constant changes of everything... you have to trust/rely on some things not having changed as you weren't informed. These days, increasingly, YOU have to go round digging about to see if things are different. No wonder everybody's getting angrier.... there are more ways for you to be "caught out" these days, often with huge fines/penalties.

Well, if we do get driverless cars, perhaps the same technology can be used for self-returning bikes!

silvercar

Boris Bike's seem to be replaced correctly in docking stations most of the time, so I don't understand why these yellow bikes are being dumped.

I have also seen vehicles moving Boris Bike's around London to free up docking stands etc

I can't ride a bike, nor can DS1. OH can ride properly, DS2 could if he hadn't given up on learning, he at least has some co-ordination. DS2-GF had some injury as a child so has a doctor's ban on cycling. Pretty hopeless lot here. Any other NPs can't ride?

PasturesNew

People don't really want the hassle of bikes/docking stations.... we all just really want instant/free taxis everywhere

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Boris Bike's seem to be replaced correctly in docking stations most of the time, so I don't understand why these yellow bikes are being dumped.

I have also seen vehicles moving Boris Bike's around London to free up docking stands etc

I can't ride a bike, nor can DS1. OH can ride properly, DS2 could if he hadn't given up on learning, he at least has some co-ordination. DS2-GF had some injury as a child so has a doctor's ban on cycling. Pretty hopeless lot here. Any other NPs can't ride?

I can ride one, but due to the shape of my pelvis, it's extremely uncomfortable, so I don't enjoy it. I've never ridden one regularly as a result, and wouldn't want to now, anyway, with the traffic.
I used to ride a motorbike. The seats on those are ok.

Exercise cycles were the same...too uncomfortable.

And I did try better saddles...gel and the like.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Any other NPs can't ride?

Me - primarily because riding a non-existent bike is a tad tricky :rotfl:

I used to and probably could now were I to be so inclined - but I can't envisage that because;

a) I usually want/need to carry more than I could on a bike, and

b) the roads around here aren't, IMO, conducive to safe cycling. People do and I take my hat off to them for their bravery/foolhardiness because many of the roads are narrow with frequently restricted visibility.
I look out for cyclists, take care at blind bends, give them plenty of room and wait patiently when necessary for a safe opportunity to pass but there are many drivers who don't. Oh, and

c) It's bloody hilly and usually rains a lot around here

PasturesNew

I think electric scooters might suit more people than bikes would.

Yesterday morning I was parked outside the launderette "waiting" ... and a bloke went past riding one of those - with his daughter on it in front of him - doing the "school run". Man, daughter, lots of luggage/bags ... on the road. No helmets, just for the record (not that you need them).

It was a quiet/side road, but there's still a bit where they'd have had to cross both sides of the road at a junction, where cars turning in at that point wouldn't have expected such a vehicle to be crossing right over...

I like the idea of an electric/foldable scooter. It's "less faff" than a bike, especially storage requirements and portability.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

c) It's bloody hilly and usually rains a lot around here

It rains a lot everywhere doesn't it... except in advert-land where everybody's perpetually in the dry.

I just looked up averages.

London: 23 inches/year
My county: 28-30 inches/year
Your county: 130 inches/year