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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

mikedt said:
What sort of "scooter" are you referring to? Because I know the electric ones, that can usually carry two people. These are usually about the size of small motorcycle, but step-thru design. And some resemble a jet ski. And hardly likely to trip over one, unless drunk or something? LOL
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This is what DPB is talking about.
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I think that's the big hangup with the business model for cities. They are dockless, so people just drop them wherever once they reach their destination, or, using your word, abandon them.
 
Oh I've seen those, but the ones I know are all privately owned and wouldn't usually be left lying around willy nilly.

This was a scooter from the public scheme in Beijing. But there's no way the logistics of this scheme could work and be profitable.
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It's correctly parked though, and hadn't moved in a month.
 
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dontpanicbobby said:
No seat on the one I saw @mikedt must be a China thing... Like a biscuit in England is a cookie in the US.
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Maybe an England thing? Because the traditional scooters I know were usually Vespas and Lambettras. Loved by Mods in the 60s, and the music of The Who. Ever seen Quadrophenia?
Some of the electric ones in China are decorated in Union Jacks and lots of mirrors. ;D
 
@LV426 Yeah, but you guys didn't incorporate the languges of the people you took the land from.
You Europeans are to formal for us Americans.
If Aliens are ever discovered they need to look out for American English.
Laotian words are parts of American English.
 
Unforgiven said:
Why is it harder to rescue a puppy than have a child or buy a car? :rolleyes:
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Because millions of pets are killed every year, most having been abandoned and/or abused. Or they're the result of irresponsible owners who failed to have the parents spayed or neutered. Or they're rescued from dogfighting rings, or from living their entire lives chained outside...regardless of weather. They end up being killed because there are too many of them.

Rescues/shelters, through their vetting process, seek to find loving, responsible pet parents who will provide a forever home, with regular medical and other care, and who will treat the pet as part of the family. That's a good thing.

The vetting process may seem like a pain, but it's a win/win situation when the right pet and right parents are united. :)
 
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Okay here is something, with this tablet, with fb, it will only allow me to upload one image at a time, meanwhile when it is downloading, the bar goes download 99 images, still makes me wonder where the cavemen did that date and photos go? Irony Instantgram allows infinite images, but the main themes is go to the other gallery have to dig up the camera app and upload them, what is going on ?
 
I kinda like this ranting place.... Went to a bar with two guys I haven't seen in 20 years...Hung out had fun..at one point two guys come up, brian, obviously on something, and his friend Frank (real names) who has a GRIEVOUS head injury. Like bad...I was talking about a friend who was hurt and Frank heard me, comes over and says 'hey I hurt my head, see my scar?'..
He literally was missing the left side of his head. like a huge flat spot. I was impressed he was walking, talking and playing pool....
We got to talking, he seemed drunk or high, but hey, he has this injury... So I asked how it happened. 'I fell two stories'.. Like you're a roofer or in construction?
"no, I just fell. I was drinking a lot".... With a beer in his hand..??
Overall a nice guy, his friend was kinda druggie-ish...whatever... Said he was hurt last March, had 22 surgeries, Has an aneurysm (present tense?) ...then he looks at me and says :
Frank :"Hey, you got any coke?"
Me: Do you me cocaine?
Frank: "Yeah!"
Me: No Frank, I don't have any coke. But Frank, I think cocaine is a bad idea if you are hurt like that......
Frank: "Yeah, you're probably right.........."

WTF
 
MoodyBlues said:
Because millions of pets are killed every year, most having been abandoned and/or abused. Or they're the result of irresponsible owners who failed to have the parents spayed or neutered. Or they're rescued from dogfighting rings, or from living their entire lives chained outside...regardless of weather. They end up being killed because there are too many of them.


Tried to have a decent chat with this, with my mom, and against all thinking even more of religions too, I think there is always something more shifty to her own mind . But hey once the ARRP rolls her into a nice home, with a window to look at her garden, she will really appericated the matter of her own mind too.

I am a big picture kind of guy too.

Rescues/shelters, through their vetting process, seek to find loving, responsible pet parents who will provide a forever home, with regular medical and other care, and who will treat the pet as part of the family. That's a good thing.

The vetting process may seem like a pain, but it's a win/win situation when the right pet and right parents are united. :)
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*Sorry moody I just quoted you on that, I try to have a decent conversation of preserving of our animals, it is in our fugly arms themselves we twack at others and immensively suffered so much of having more then where it ends up in a statement more and less then. Even given from a different directions they can never forseek their own end game no matter what is right there in the asking forgiveness. Even though we end up killing because we cannot somehow cannot accept, why we are so messed up. :mustachedroid:
 
ok what grinds my gear today I was at starbucks meeting up with a friend i have not seen for awhile. why do people when they get up to leave not clean up after themselves. it really is not that hard TO THROW YOUR TRASH AWAY!!!!! I mean starbaucks is not arestaurant where they have poeple to come in and clean everything up. is it really that hard to pick up a piece of paper and throw it away? or even clean up after your crumbs you made while eating that cookie!!!!!!!

ok i feel better......carry on:D:D:D:D:D
 
ocnbrze said:
ok what grinds my gear today I was at starbucks meeting up with a friend i have not seen for awhile. why do people when they get up to leave not clean up after themselves. it really is not that hard TO THROW YOUR TRASH AWAY!!!!! I mean starbaucks is not arestaurant where they have poeple to come in and clean everything up. is it really that hard to pick up a piece of paper and throw it away? or even clean up after your crumbs you made while eating that cookie!!!!!!!

ok i feel better......carry on:D:D:D:D:D
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A reasonable point. Probably the same reason people throw trash in the street or out the car window. Because they just don't care :mad:
 
  1. ocnbrze said:
    ok what grinds my gear today I was at starbucks meeting up with a friend i have not seen for awhile. why do people when they get up to leave not clean up after themselves. it really is not that hard TO THROW YOUR TRASH AWAY!!!!! I mean starbaucks is not arestaurant where they have poeple to come in and clean everything up. is it really that hard to pick up a piece of paper and throw it away? or even clean up after your crumbs you made while eating that cookie!!!!!!!
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ocnbrze said:
ok i feel better......carry on:D:D:D:D:D
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You're supposed to clear your own cups, plates, napkins, and things away at Starbucks? That's a new one on me. Are you expected to wipe the table clean as well after you've finished? I thought they employed people to do that? Especially at the prices they charge for their "coffee".

I sometimes go to Starbucks, usually in Beijing, and someone clears everything as soon as you vacate the table and leave, ready for the next patron.

Officially Starbucks isn't a restaurant company, but on the other hand they're still serving food and drinks, like a restaurant would.
 
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