On today's feature presentation of "The Poster's Thinly Veiled Fetish" we present... uh, roller skating women?Also horse riding.
Why can't they have normal fetishes like voleyball, right?
Right?
I love it that he puts "Dutch" among a list of things he thinks are inherently bad lmao, at least we can agree on that specific one
There's only two things I hate: people who harbor irrational prejudice against other cultures, and the Dutch
the devil doth shit dutchmen and even worse they're riding bikes
It's pretty clear this guy has never rollerbladed.
Roller blading takes more time to begin and end, requires an uncomfortable kind of footwear that restricts where you can go, has very limited top speed, is slower to accelerate and decelerate, takes up just as much horizontal space as a bike does, is much less stable, and has a higher skill floor. And no way does it mix with pedestrians.
He could at least have seemed honest if he said skateboards, which are equally sexy and actually get noticeable mileage.
Complains about unnatural bike posture and testicle damage compared to the... slightly bent posture of rollerblading with aching ankles and feet (until they strengthen up, i guess? i never got there). I think you might be right about the never rollerbladed before part.
Cycling is great for your back, I have no idea where that's coming from either. I have had back aches go away just by riding a bike for an hour.
Then explain my still ongoing back aches that agravate every time I try to ride my bike again while I'm still waiting for the appointment with my traumatologist
Your bike geometry is probably very wrong for you, or potentially some back issues that should be worked with the traumatologist.
But way too big or small bike can definitely make your back hurt, along with potentially other body parts such as neck, hands or knees.
If you have a cash to burn and will to try (and potential health problems resolved), bike shops can help you with choosing right size and bike type for you.
Probably my seating position, not at the bike but everywhere else. Plus maybe my scoliosis. I went to an emergency traumatologist and told me it wasn't anything extremely wrong and it looked like only the muscles affected. He told me to get 10 sessions of kinesiotherapy and after that do an X ray. Which was weird cuz why wouldn't I get the X ray first and why an X ray and not an tomography or ecography that actually looks at the muscle. So I went to a kinesiologist that isn't in my medical insurance but which I trust and told me I didn't have anything extremely wrong but I should get a tomography (or something like that) which he told me to wait for the medical-insurance-covered traumatologist to ask so I can get the scan free, and in the meantime gave me three sessions of kinesiotherapy (90 minutes of massages each session). 99% of pain/annoyance went away, but whenever I try to ride my bike again my lumbar muscles starts to feel a bit funny so I get scared and stop.
Last time I measured my bike frame it was the correct size for me. It's a 26" wheel mtb and the seat has always been at the horizontal level as the handlebars.
I went to the bike shop to get a stem extender and now it looks goofy and I don't like how it feels, but I only rode it 20 blocks since I got it. Anyways, the dude told me "ah you should get a 29" wheel bike to solve your problem" which basically gives me the same seat-handlebar-relative-position but it doesn't look goofy.
But anyways, before all this I used to cycle 15 - 20 km each day with a ~5 kg backpack which was not a good idea at all.
I won't comment on the medical part anything since I know jackshit, but happy to hear you've had some good help on the back problems.
Yeah 26" mountain bikes are pretty much all just kid sizes for the past 10 or so years, mostly because of the racing trends lol.
So you are saying the "correct" size for my height is still incorrect cuz it's meant for mtb racing and not for everyday "long distance" commute?
That's a whole another can of worms, but there's commuters from cruisers to fixies so preference? But I meant that the racing trends have moved all adult sizes to 29ers basically
Recumbent bikes should be buyable for about twice the price of a good road bike or hybrid. It's the velomobiles that cost close to what a sedan does.
Where I live it's either someone making one in their garage or paying for an imported one 5X to 10X the price you would get them for in the US or Europe. No local factory is making nor assembling recumbent bikes
To use inline skates as a means of transportation, you have to carry both skates and walking shoes, which is not something you have to do with bikes or skateboards. There is also a lengthy transition time between skating and walking because of the need to take off your skates and put on normal shoes, which is not a thing with bikes or skateboards. Inline skates are just not practical for going to the shop, lol.
Ehm, lock pedal cyclist here. I carry sandals often in backpack to wear in office etc. /s
Eh... not really? If you're cycling and you want to go in the shops you have to stop, get the lock out of your bag (which you had to carry with you) and lock your bike up. Transition time is probably similar between both modes of transport.
You overestimate the time required to chain your bike up and underestimate the time to change out of inline skates and into walking shoes
I wonder which is more likely to cause an injury, rollerskating or biking. I've only tried rollerskating once but I spent most of that time falling onto the hard floor and hurting my butt.
Per mile, skating is way more hazardous.
This is mostly because people who are not Sonic employees don't get around on skates very much.
Bicycles predate automobiles by several decades and asphault was invented for bicycle use. Also pneumatic tires. Pedestrians had the right-of-way everywhere in every road until the oligarchs invented "jaywalking."
Automobiles were forced on the public, their popularity was manufactured. People don't even notice how unhappy and stressed out they are when they drive the brainwahing is that effective.
I notice how unhappy and stressed I am when I drive.
Then again, I’m in the city and there’s few things in the world more stressful than driving in virtually stand still traffic in nyc. I don’t mind long drives in the country. In fact, I love them.
But I’m much, much happier taking public transportation. I never want to get a car again. I have friends here that drive exclusively and I just don’t understand it.
Driving down a road in the countryside is really quite underrated... But it also wouldn't be affected by changing urban planning to include less cars.
roller blades are a utopian mode of transportation that has failed every time it's been tried.
yes I still have scars because I didn't wear the protection gear that one time
That actually kinda seems plausible (am manly man that used to be really into both skateboards and rollerblades.
When I was growing up they called them "fruit boots." I did not grow up in a progressive place or time
What the fuck is they talking about with describing things as Lindy? Are they talking about the (extremely fake) Lindy Effect? Miss me with that anecdote shit.
I want to believe in the Lindy effect because the word capitalism was first used in 1840, but the First Paris commune happened in 1790 so communism will win, check m8 r*dditors
I was confused by that, too. I chalked it up to me not being up to date in anglo online slang, but seriously
Lindy Effect
Oh it's a silly concept that was popularized by the Black Swan guy. I guess if you don't have leftist economic theory, it takes many idealistic laws and principles to try to feel like you grasp the hidden truths or whatever.
What exactly is the Lindy effect? I looked at the Wikipedia entry for it and I still feel like I don't know what it is
the lindy effect: the longer something has lasted, the longer something will last in the future
Is that seriously it? Why is it named after a dead restaurant chain?
guy seems to consider "gayness" bad and associates it with bicycles negatively
guy also has "a keen interest in ancient Mediterranean practices and lifestyles"
looking up the lindy effect, the very first paragraph on wikipedia clearly says it doesn't have anything to do with humans. it statistically cannot. it's about how institutions that are long lived are more likely to perpetuate than new ones.
i don't feel like giving this weirdo the benefit of the doubt i think he he literally authored 3 books and based his personality around an idea he fundamentally does not understand. that was formulated by a bunch of comedians riffing about a diner they frequented
lol at the idea that a scientific concept about institutions could have nothing to do with humans.
it's barely a scientific concept but yes, institutions are made by people, i wasn't very clear. take your pedant medal 🎖️
You know, I can't think of a single woman's issue in which I have ever asked myself, "But what would a tweedy male intellectual who probably doesn't interact with many women think of this?"
Some people (
) are just enraged by the sight of someone doing anything but driving. One of my pet theories is that they realize driving a 2 ton gas guzzler is objectively terrible for themselves, everyone around them, the environment, etc, but have also attached their identity and sense of self to their TurboRamCanyonaro XXXL Ranch Style pickup that's never hauled anything more than little Jimmy or the weekly Costco run, so even the existence of any alternative (bicycles, trains, busses, walking, etc) is an attack on who they are and not just a better way of getting aroundI think its the same energy that drives the people who hate vegans. The knowledge that the vegan is probably right and they don't really have a good counterargument other then its just too big a step for them makes them feel that the vegan must be judging them because they're the kind of person whose super concerned with what everyone else does and thinks
miss me with that homophobia but he's right about rollerskates being a cuteness multiplier
