Haha. I was just talking (like, two minutes ago) to another Chiffer about my having to sell my bicycle and wishing I hadn't.Wormdiet wrote:Enjoy it while you can - seriously. That's one of the best things about college - best commute you will ever have.Cranberry wrote:I walk.
Oh no--start hanging out at Goodwill or Salvation Army until you can find another bike. That's how I traveled around at college. I'd spend a LOT of weekend time out exploring the back roads. I never would have covered that much ground on foot.Cranberry wrote:Haha. I was just talking (like, two minutes ago) to another Chiffer about my having to sell my bicycle and wishing I hadn't.Wormdiet wrote:Enjoy it while you can - seriously. That's one of the best things about college - best commute you will ever have.Cranberry wrote:I walk.
I really want one of those floater glass bubble things that the Jetsons ride around in. I wouldn't have to worry about running over dogs or small children that way.
Ok...you must be reading our PMs, because I just mentioned that, TOO!mvhplank wrote:Oh no--start hanging out at Goodwill or Salvation Army until you can find another bike. That's how I traveled around at college. I'd spend a LOT of weekend time out exploring the back roads. I never would have covered that much ground on foot.Cranberry wrote:Haha. I was just talking (like, two minutes ago) to another Chiffer about my having to sell my bicycle and wishing I hadn't.Wormdiet wrote: Enjoy it while you can - seriously. That's one of the best things about college - best commute you will ever have.
I really want one of those floater glass bubble things that the Jetsons ride around in. I wouldn't have to worry about running over dogs or small children that way.
M
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
GaryKelly wrote:$3 a gallon! Oh you Merkans have it soooo tough!
On Sunday July 10th, the UK average price of Unleaded fuel passed the £4 a gallon barrier for the first time ever. Average prices for all regions are now over £4 a gallon. That's over $7.20
Diesel is even more expensive, on average about 18 pence a gallon dearer than unleaded petrol.
GaryKelly wrote:So our fuel costs more than double yours because we don't have a decent public transport system and our country is smaller than yours?Who'd have thought!
What's public transport got to do with it? Ours is crap, actually, and it's more expensive to get a bus from one town to another than it is to drive, actually.TomB wrote:GaryKelly wrote:So our fuel costs more than double yours because we don't have a decent public transport system and our country is smaller than yours?
No, you are missing my point, actually. It's the U.S. that doesn't have a decent public transportation system. I simply meant that it seems to me that you have to rely on your cars a whole lot less than we do, that's all.
I'm not saying that here in the U.S. we are not spoiled and waste to much fuel. I'm simply saying that a Country the size of the U.S., if gas costs $7.00 or $8.00 a gallon, the strife and poverty that would cause here would be beyond compare.
I didn't mean that you should pay that much $$. Don't you think that type of cost is crazy????
Tom
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner GaryKelly wrote:What's public transport got to do with it? Ours is crap, actually, and it's more expensive to get a bus from one town to another than it is to drive, actually.TomB wrote:GaryKelly wrote:So our fuel costs more than double yours because we don't have a decent public transport system and our country is smaller than yours?
No, you are missing my point, actually. It's the U.S. that doesn't have a decent public transportation system. I simply meant that it seems to me that you have to rely on your cars a whole lot less than we do, that's all.
I'm not saying that here in the U.S. we are not spoiled and waste to much fuel. I'm simply saying that a Country the size of the U.S., if gas costs $7.00 or $8.00 a gallon, the strife and poverty that would cause here would be beyond compare.
I didn't mean that you should pay that much $$. Don't you think that type of cost is crazy????
Tom
We have to rely on our cars less than you do? Oh, my goodness! What in the world? is that about??
If you mean by that we'll walk a few hundred yards to the local shops for a pint of milk rather than drive our lazy fat arses to the mall and then drive around for an hour waiting for a parking-space to appear right next to the doors (rather than parking 20 yards away and having to walk to those doors) then granted, perhaps you're right.
But if you work 30 miles away from your home and there's no public transport (or it takes you two hours and three changes of bus and costs more than owning a car if there *is* public transport) then 8 bucks a gallon for petrol I would suggest causes as much feckin pecuniary hardship here as 3 bucks a gallon does for you lot there, if not more, actually.
Why do you think food is so expensive over here compared to the lardass-all-you-can-eat-for-10-bucks you get? Because our "food miles" cost a bloody sight more than yours ever will for one thing.
Oh it really breaks the cockles of my heart to hear you might have to pay £1.50 a gallon for petrol. :roll:
That's nothing Tom, amateur stuff. If you really want to hear a top notch, grade A, world beating rant then just ask Steve Shaw how much fuel he wastes following caravans round Cornwall.TomB wrote:GaryKelly wrote:What's public transport got to do with it? Ours is crap, actually, and it's more expensive to get a bus from one town to another than it is to drive, actually.TomB wrote:
No, you are missing my point, actually. It's the U.S. that doesn't have a decent public transportation system. I simply meant that it seems to me that you have to rely on your cars a whole lot less than we do, that's all.
I'm not saying that here in the U.S. we are not spoiled and waste to much fuel. I'm simply saying that a Country the size of the U.S., if gas costs $7.00 or $8.00 a gallon, the strife and poverty that would cause here would be beyond compare.
I didn't mean that you should pay that much $$. Don't you think that type of cost is crazy????
Tom
We have to rely on our cars less than you do? Oh, my goodness! What in the world? is that about??
If you mean by that we'll walk a few hundred yards to the local shops for a pint of milk rather than drive our lazy fat arses to the mall and then drive around for an hour waiting for a parking-space to appear right next to the doors (rather than parking 20 yards away and having to walk to those doors) then granted, perhaps you're right.
But if you work 30 miles away from your home and there's no public transport (or it takes you two hours and three changes of bus and costs more than owning a car if there *is* public transport) then 8 bucks a gallon for petrol I would suggest causes as much feckin pecuniary hardship here as 3 bucks a gallon does for you lot there, if not more, actually.
Why do you think food is so expensive over here compared to the lardass-all-you-can-eat-for-10-bucks you get? Because our "food miles" cost a bloody sight more than yours ever will for one thing.
Oh it really breaks the cockles of my heart to hear you might have to pay £1.50 a gallon for petrol. :roll:
Never mind, Gary. It's not worth it.
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner Bugger! That's just made me realise I missed lunch. Ya gotta be a special kind of stupid to do that. Maybe I've been traumatised by those 'fat hobbit' comments.GaryKelly wrote:S'okay Tom. I just ate half a hard-boiled egg which was off. Not even the corporate coffee can get the taste out of my mouth. Cost me 35p too, that egg. Probably explains it.
