OT: Public transport...

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On 2023-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:03:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice. Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time.

Do that in some parts of the US and we\'ll be reading about you in the
Daily Mail.

Even some quite nice parts of the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Murders

Although I doubt the average serial killer would be interest in Kinsey.

--
Cindy Hamilton
 
On 2023-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 08:45:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

I see no indication in your citations that it was deliberate. That\'s
the part that requires a cite.

You know what they say about the road to hell... I wouldn\'t put it past
LBJ though. The problem I see:

1965 good idea
1970 not working as well as intended
1975 still not working
1980 no joy
1985 Midnight Basketball!
1990 oh, shit they\'re slinging crack on the basketball courts
1995 Personal Responsibility and Work Oportunity Act
2000 another fail


Sounds like the definition of insanity to me and after almost 60 years
there has to have been a lot of deliberation along the way.

Evidence, please. Not conjecture.

--
Cindy Hamilton
 
On 2023-05-04 03:10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 23:13:38 +0100, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-05-03 23:43, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 02 May 2023 14:27:14 +0100, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-05-02 07:20, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

A taxi is also Public Transport.

No, as only one person uses it.

Not true. They have a plate that says [SP], that is, Public Service.
Same as Buses.

https://images.app.goo.gl/gmyVfJFcPCGkahCq8

Why on earth would that have any meaning whatsoever?  It\'s no more
public than my car, just me in it apart from the driver, going to where
I want to go, unlike a bus.

Taxis are public service, your car is not. No matter how much you rant.

--
Cheers, Carlos.
 
On 5/3/2023 9:00 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 04 May 2023 01:43:40 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:06:31 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


By the way, no bus goes from my house to my destination.  Not one.
Ever.

About 15 years ago a bus came within 2 1/2 miles of my home twice a day.
Then the paper mill shut down and that was the only reason for the run.

I see buses around here with one passenger on them.  Not economical,
that\'s where all the libtard taxes go.

Years ago I got transferred from our suburban location to the city where
I would have to pay to park. I considered taking the bus but would have
to drive over two miles to a parking area where I could take the bus.
In looking over the bus company\'s literature they mentioned passenger
miles and fuel usage. It calculated out to 9 mpg per passenger which was
much less than half what I got in my car at the time.
 
On 5/3/2023 8:45 PM, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:03:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice. Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time.

Do that in some parts of the US and we\'ll be reading about you in the
Daily Mail.

When I commuted to the university the first semester I had rides to and
fro from two guys that both flunked out. I ended up hitch hiking the
whole second semester. This was a long time ago and I had no trouble
getting rides or problems with the drivers.

Interesting side note was getting married in Cleveland we honeymooned in
Atlantic city. Driving there one of my wife\'s friend\'s boy friend who
had attended our wedding was hitch hiking back to Annapolis where he was
a naval cadet and we took him as far as we could.

None of these things would happen today.
 
On 2023-05-04 03:00, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 04 May 2023 01:45:08 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:03:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice.  Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time.

Do that in some parts of the US and we\'ll be reading about you in the
Daily Mail.

I was of course only referring to civilised countries.  We grew out of
shooting everything.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_C%C3%A9line_Figard>

Céline Figard (French pronunciation: ​[selin fiɡaʁ]; 23 May 1976[2] – 19
December 1995) was a French woman who went missing and was murdered
during a visit to the United Kingdom in December 1995. She accepted a
lift from a lorry driver at the Chieveley services on the M4 in
Chieveley, Berkshire, on 19 December, but never arrived at her
destination. Following an appeal for information on her whereabouts and
police enquiries, her body was discovered on 29 December, at a lay-by on
the A449 in Hawford, Worcestershire. A post-mortem examination
determined she had been strangled and bludgeoned to death.


<https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-probe-hitchhiker-murder-1011242>

Police probe hitchhiker murder - Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk › news › poli...
Nov 16, 2007 — They are likely to focus on the murder of hitchhiker
Jackie Ansell-Lamb whose body was found in Mere, near Knutsford in 1970.




--
Cheers, Carlos.
 
On Thu, 4 May 2023 06:44:29 -0000 (UTC), Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
wrote:

John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 3 May 2023 21:27:47 -0000 (UTC), Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com
wrote:

Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice. Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time. And I always
ask how long they were waiting. It seems to vary up to TWO HOURS. How
many selfish fucking cunts have passed and not stopped to give someone a
lift? Imagine people were all like me. Half the population could hitch
and the other half drive. Half the petrol consumed, half the congestion,
half the cost. The hitchhikers could pay an agreed small fare.

You\'ve just described uber.

A better model would be many people requesting a ride, and vans
picking several people up at nearby places and dropping them at nearby
places.

That\'s called a bus.

People don\'t usually request a bus, they stand around waiting for one.

Busses are too big for efficient on-demand transport.
 
On Thu, 04 May 2023 08:39:12 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
<hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:03:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice. Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time.

Do that in some parts of the US and we\'ll be reading about you in the
Daily Mail.

Even some quite nice parts of the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Murders

Although I doubt the average serial killer would be interest in Kinsey.

I might.
 
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 4 May 2023 00:13:38 +0200, \"Carlos E.R.\"
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-05-03 23:43, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 02 May 2023 14:27:14 +0100, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-05-02 07:20, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport?  I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.

2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport.  Dafuq?

Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!

1 day on foot!  Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!

Just close them down.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0

A taxi is also Public Transport.

No, as only one person uses it.

Not true. They have a plate that says [SP], that is, Public Service.
Same as Buses.

https://images.app.goo.gl/gmyVfJFcPCGkahCq8

My impression has been that in some places, eastern Europe maybe, Greece
maybe, public transport refers to carriers of many people, and in the
USA the term used is public transportation and it refers to any carrier
open to the public.

If Spain and the USA are more like each other, that\'s fine with me.

I tried to discuss this once on TRip Advisor but got nowhere.
 
On Thu, 4 May 2023 07:28:41 -0400, Frank <\"frank \"@frank.net> wrote:

On 5/3/2023 8:45 PM, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:03:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What would work really well is people being nice. Whenever I see a
hitchhiker, I always give them a lift, every single time.

Do that in some parts of the US and we\'ll be reading about you in the
Daily Mail.

When I commuted to the university the first semester I had rides to and
fro from two guys that both flunked out. I ended up hitch hiking the
whole second semester. This was a long time ago and I had no trouble
getting rides or problems with the drivers.

Interesting side note was getting married in Cleveland we honeymooned in
Atlantic city. Driving there one of my wife\'s friend\'s boy friend who
had attended our wedding was hitch hiking back to Annapolis where he was
a naval cadet and we took him as far as we could.

None of these things would happen today.

Last week I picked up a hitchhiker at the base of Sugar Bowl Road and
drove him and his ski gear up to the lifts. He hitchhikes uphill and
skis cross-country downhill when he goes skiing. I met him later on a
run and offered him a ride back, but he preferred to ski back to the
highway, which I didn\'t know was possible.
 
On 4 May 2023 00:41:22 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:59:34 GMT, Snit wrote:

Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.

I\'ll go for that. OUR society, not Ukraine\'s, not Israel\'s, not
Sudan\'s ....

What radius do you use to define OUR?
 
On Thu, 04 May 2023 05:52:57 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On 4 May 2023 00:41:22 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:59:34 GMT, Snit wrote:

Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.

I\'ll go for that. OUR society, not Ukraine\'s, not Israel\'s, not Sudan\'s
....

What radius do you use to define OUR?

The last time I looked there were 50 states in the US so it\'s hard do
define a radius, particularly with outliers like Hawaii.
 
On Thu, 04 May 2023 08:37:07 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2023-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:59:34 GMT, Snit wrote:

Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.

I\'ll go for that. OUR society, not Ukraine\'s, not Israel\'s, not Sudan\'s
....

Funny thing is, we can\'t just turn off the porch light and hope that the
neighbors won\'t throw their garbage over the fence.

What happens in Ukraine affects the entire world. If they don\'t export
grain and cooking oil, that ripples out through the global economy, of
which we\'re a part.

It\'s a small world after all.

Sure is...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/17/slovakia-joins-poland-
hungary-halting-ukraine-grain-imports

Wheat futures are down 20% from last year while 9% more land was planted
last winter in the US. I doubt the US farmers would cry themselves to
sleep if Russia and the Ukraine are too busy to harvest this year.
 
On Thu, 4 May 2023 06:44:29 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:


This would be very possible with self driving cars. When you\'ve done
your commute your car is available in a pool for others to hire while
you\'re at work.

Something like that has been tried with bicycles although the bikes
weren\'t personal property. It didn\'t work very well.
 
On Thu, 04 May 2023 05:11:21 GMT, Snit wrote:

On May 3, 2023 at 5:41:22 PM MST, \"rbowman\" wrote
kbgd9iFaet3U1@mid.individual.net>:

On Wed, 03 May 2023 19:59:34 GMT, Snit wrote:

Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.

I\'ll go for that. OUR society, not Ukraine\'s, not Israel\'s, not Sudan\'s
....

There is also a place to help others.

If I were a country and the US wanted to \'help\' me, I\'d run like hell. Its
help is as toxic as the IMF\'s.
 
On 4 May 2023 14:03:58 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


Something like that has been tried with bicycles although the bikes
weren\'t personal property. It didn\'t work very well.

Seems to work perfectly well in Europe, senile know-it-all!

--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
 
On Thu, 4 May 2023 13:34:50 +0200, cretinous Carlos E.R., another brain dead
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_C%C3%A9line_Figard

Céline Figard (French pronunciation: ​[selin fiɡaʁ]; 23 May 1976[2] – 19
December 1995) was a French woman who went missing and was murdered
during a visit to the United Kingdom in December 1995. She accepted a
lift from a lorry driver at the Chieveley services on the M4 in
Chieveley, Berkshire, on 19 December, but never arrived at her
destination. Following an appeal for information on her whereabouts and
police enquiries, her body was discovered on 29 December, at a lay-by on
the A449 in Hawford, Worcestershire. A post-mortem examination
determined she had been strangled and bludgeoned to death.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-probe-hitchhiker-murder-1011242

Police probe hitchhiker murder - Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk › news › poli...
Nov 16, 2007 — They are likely to focus on the murder of hitchhiker
Jackie Ansell-Lamb whose body was found in Mere, near Knutsford in 1970.

WTF has this crap got to do with three ngs you cross-posted it to, you
demented troll-feeding senile spick?
 
On 4 May 2023 14:06:56 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


If I were a country and the US wanted to \'help\' me, I\'d run like hell. Its
help is as toxic as the IMF\'s.

But you are no country. You are and always will be an abnormal bigmouth! And
you just demonstrated it again, psycho! LOL

--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
 
On 4 May 2023 14:00:24 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


It\'s a small world after all.

Sure is...

It\'s a small world; but your mouth is BIG!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/17/slovakia-joins-poland-
hungary-halting-ukraine-grain-imports

Wheat futures are down 20% from last year while 9% more land was planted
last winter in the US. I doubt the US farmers would cry themselves to
sleep if Russia and the Ukraine are too busy to harvest this year.

QED! Fucking hilarious!

--
Yet more of the abnormal senile gossiping by the resident senile gossip:
\"I never understood how they made a living but the space where the local
party store was is now up for lease. It probably was more than helium. I
often walk over the the adjacent market to get something for dinner and
people stuffing balloons in their cars was a common sight. No more. I\'ve
no idea if there is another store in town.\"
MID: <kafs2nF6vi1U15@mid.individual.net>
 
On 4 May 2023 13:36:36 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.

I\'ll go for that. OUR society, not Ukraine\'s, not Israel\'s, not Sudan\'s
....

What radius do you use to define OUR?

The last time I looked there were 50 states in the US so it\'s hard do
define a radius, particularly with outliers like Hawaii.

I agree, the US seems to invest too little into its neglected aging senile
blabbermouths who have to resort to Usenet to tell people about their
thrilling lives and exciting personality. Seriously, have you ever wondered
why nobody in RL wants to listen to your so very interesting detailed
stories about yourself? LMAO

--
Gossiping \"lowbrowwoman\" about herself:
\"Usenet is my blog... I don\'t give a damn if anyone ever reads my posts
but they are useful in marshaling [sic] my thoughts.\"
MID: <iteioiF60jmU1@mid.individual.net>
 

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