OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[Comeds]

Buffalo's 97 Rock, Buffalo's best station for Classic rock from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s!, just called to fire me.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

i think I first heard her on Archer.
very diverse career

Lucille Bluth and Mallory Archer are very similar and she killed both.

 

[puckhead]

by the way, she was a really good psycho in Play Misty for Me

 

[puckhead]

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Bad idea. Don't say it again.

 

[Comeds]

Bad idea. Don't say it again.

That will really break the stereotype that the Democrats are not the part of working people huh?

I work an hour away from my home, about 35 - 40 minutes in current traffic, and I hate it. Please by all means - in addition to the rising gas prices and wear and tear on my car - tax me on top of that. And if traffic ever gets back to what it was, maybe they can come up with some sort of misery tax they can levy on me for my two hours a day I am completey frustrated and miserable.

 

[thedddd]

That will really break the stereotype that the Democrats are not the part of working people huh?

I work an hour away from my home, about 35 - 40 minutes in current traffic, and I hate it. Please by all means - in addition to the rising gas prices and wear and tear on my car - tax me on top of that. And if traffic ever gets back to what it was, maybe they can come up with some sort of misery tax they can levy on me for my two hours a day I am completey frustrated and miserable.

I agree and it also to compound this bad idea. It would also hinder travel and tourism to the extent if you are wanting to drive to your vacation and could hurt small town tourism and businesses.

 

[dash]

I think Pete should call it the yardage tax as in I'm going to take you out to the back yard behind the woodshed and beat you to a pulp if you ever suggest something this stupid again.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

That will really break the stereotype that the Democrats are not the part of working people huh?

I work an hour away from my home, about 35 - 40 minutes in current traffic, and I hate it. Please by all means - in addition to the rising gas prices and wear and tear on my car - tax me on top of that. And if traffic ever gets back to what it was, maybe they can come up with some sort of misery tax they can levy on me for my two hours a day I am completey frustrated and miserable.

One thing I really hate is when politicians and activists are like "we want to get people out of their cars!" and then do shit like this to try and advance that agenda.

I lived in one of the most traffic-clogged places in the western world most of my life. I can tell you with relative certainty that anybody who can use rapid transit on a daily basis to go to and from their jobs & other places of importance already does and anybody who doesn't either can't or doesn't have an existing convenient mode of transit that doesn't double the travel time compared to their cars.

What's more, it's usually poorer areas where transit connections are less-common and people rely more on cars. Yeah, let's help those people by adding a few hundred bucks a year to all the other vehicle costs they already have to deal with. Should help them climb outta poverty.

 

[Comeds]

I also assume if they are going to charge people who use roads more than they are probably going to refund school taxes for people who do not have children.

 

[thedddd]

One thing I really hate is when politicians and activists are like "we want to get people out of their cars!" and then do shit like this to try and advance that agenda.

I lived in one of the most traffic-clogged places in the western world most of my life. I can tell you with relative certainty that anybody who can use rapid transit on a daily basis to go to and from their jobs & other places of importance already does and anybody who doesn't either can't or doesn't have an existing convenient mode of transit that doesn't double the travel time compared to their cars.

What's more, it's usually poorer areas where transit connections are less-common and people rely more on cars. Yeah, let's help those people by adding a few hundred bucks a year to all the other vehicle costs they already have to deal with. Should help them climb outta poverty.

I will take this a step further with the travel clogged and mass transit. You can live in areas of Atlanta where you will have to commute 20 miles one way JUST to get to the nearest mass transit. That 20 mile trip would take an hour in some cases.
Let me add these 20 miles are not on country roads but through suburbs/interstate around the city.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I will take this a step further with the travel clogged and mass transit. You can live in areas of Atlanta where you will have to commute 20 miles one way JUST to get to the nearest mass transit. That 20 mile trip would take an hour in some cases.
Let me add these 20 miles are not on country roads but through suburbs/interstate around the city.

That was happening in Toronto too. To get to the commuter rail in some suburbs like Mississauga or Brampton (those two cities were the 6th & 9th largest in Canada as of the 2016 census & keep growing) you have to deal with traffic is now nearly as bad as inside Toronto in many areas. What's the point of spending 20-30 minutes just to get to another part of your commute that will take another 30-40 minutes to complete? Might as well just drive the entire way.

Of course that brings up the lack of transit but there it's an even worse problem because the price of transit construction in North America is astronomical. For me I think the best thing to do is go heavy on BRT. Rail costs way too much to build. Completely grade-separate bus lanes where buses can go 80-100 km/h without issue is probably going to be the most cost-effective and logical way to move people around in the future. Because of the grade separation they can be fully electric w/overhead wires & catenaries too without making your streetscape look like this:

 

[esls79]

I actually don't mind commuting here into Los Angeles. I used to have a 10 minute drive to and from the office and now that I no longer live in the city itself I have an hour and 30 minute drive each way (48 miles each way total). As bad as that sounds and with pre-pandemic traffic levels pretty much back, I gladly accept it over the mass transit options.

With the proliferation of fuel efficient and electric cars here in California, the gas tax doesn't really serve its purpose anymore. This is only a viable idea if you get rid of the gas tax as you can't have both. The rich who can afford these fancy Tesla's and ugly ass bmw i3's get to pay less tax than regular people all because they are rich.

/which is totally the way it should be - what's the point in attaining wealth if I don't get special treatment for it?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I actually don't mind commuting here into Los Angeles. I used to have a 10 minute drive to and from the office and now that I no longer live in the city itself I have an hour and 30 minute drive each way (48 miles each way total). As bad as that sounds and with pre-pandemic traffic levels pretty much back, I gladly accept it over the mass transit options.

With the proliferation of fuel efficient and electric cars here in California, the gas tax doesn't really serve its purpose anymore. This is only a viable idea if you get rid of the gas tax as you can't have both. The rich who can afford these fancy Tesla's and ugly ass bmw i3's get to pay less tax than regular people all because they are rich.

/which is totally the way it should be - what's the point in attaining wealth if I don't get special treatment for it?

The only time I ever really despised commuting was when I worked in Scarborough and lived close to Hamilton. Mornings were okay but evenings could take 2+ hours some days (Fridays in the summer were god awful, I had to start drinking while I was still driving home).

Rest of the time you just time accordingly and cut off as many people as you can while swerving in and out of the shoulder lane.

 

[Comeds]

 

[Comeds]

Anyone else getting loaded tonight?

My mother told me she prefers my brother, which hurt, but then my wife agreed so it got worse.

 

[dash]

Might be time to send in Theodore Tugboat...

 

[thedddd]

Might be time to send in Theodore Tugboat...

Highly underrated kids TV show!

My two oldest boys loved that show even more that Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sadly I will never forget we were planning on going to Erie to see the full size Theodore and this was right when they cancelled it along with all those events.
Curious is it still in the port of Halifax?

 

[thedddd]

Might be time to send in Theodore Tugboat...

Btw...#suezcanal on Twitter has a lot of good ones.

 

[dash]

Highly underrated kids TV show!

My two oldest boys loved that show even more that Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sadly I will never forget we were planning on going to Erie to see the full size Theodore and this was right when they cancelled it along with all those events.
Curious is it still in the port of Halifax?

Just last week they announced it's being relocated to Hamilton.

From Halifax to Hamilton: Theodore the Tugboat to call the Hammer home

The iconic tugboat has been purchased by president of Burlington-based McKeil Marine.

www.thespec.com