[Gimpl]

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[David9694]

Further to A Look at Logical

Further to A Look at Logical Fallacies a couple of months ago. My theory is that the rise and persistance of mass motoring (along with climate science denial, how much plastic there is from tyres and Brexit) is a product of a combination of these techniques, motivated by greed and helped along by passivity, conditioning and stupidity. 

[David9694]

I’m not a vegan, but I think

I’m not a vegan, but I think the vegans are right. Stop exploiting animals for food and for your entertainment. 

A bit like driving, you either have to not think about things too much, or simply not care – the supply industry will help you along by giving you a warm & fuzzy, restricted view of what your consumption entails. If you’re not fussy, then keeping up the payments is all that matters. 

As the monster truck / bike pic upthread shows, taking a minority position often gets a through the looking glass response from the uncaring/ unthinking majority.  “There are cyclists everywhere!”/ “there are no cyclists”.

[Spangly Shiny]

Army Air Tech (A&E)

Army Air Tech (A&E) helicopters here, again through the 70’s 80’s & 90’s ’till they found out I was an old knacker and biffed me out to grass. The other thing worth mentioning is that pilot’s minutes are not measured on the same scale as everyone elses. Each one lasts for between one and 37,  so, “I’ll be there in five minutes,”  can take a sod of a long time in reality.
BTW, you think that SOMZ could become a thing , like BOLA’s?

[Rendel Harris]

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[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

New and improved – update to an old favourite 

Similar, but this one is animated with BOLAS.

[David9694]

You don’t fit in here –

You don’t fit in here – drivers and cyclists variant 

[mark1a]

Yep, my dad was a handler

Yep, my dad was a handler (wafu chockhead) in the Fleet Air Arm back in the 70s/80s/90s and he said the worst thing about when Top Gun came out in ’86 was the pilots got out of their cab (usually Wasp, Lynx, Sea King) at Portland, the Wayfarers & helmet would be theatrically removed like they were Tom Cruise in uniforms suits with many zips and pockets. 

[chrisonabike]

I’m a pilot in the military

I’m a pilot in the military (song)!

Apparently the same in NZ and unchanged a few years back in the UK…

[Spangly Shiny]

Before the advent of modern

Before the advent of modern vegan culture (45 or so years ago), this was a classic put-down about pilots. It was true then, and I’m pretty sure it’s still true today, they’ll still make a point of telling you. If you actually know any socially, their FB images will be full of photos featuring a) the aircraft they fly, and/or b) their u̶n̶i̶f̶o̶r̶m̶s̶  suits of many zips: displaying their captain’s (guffaw) bars.

[Rendel Harris]

Often said, in my experience,

Often said, in my experience, by somebody who talks 24/7 about association football despite one repeatedly expressing a total lack of interest in the subject!

[mark1a]

A derivation of the old joke

A derivation of the old joke “How do you know if somebody is vegan?”, answer is “They’ll tell you.”

Bringing it back to cycling, in a similar vein to:

“There’s a fellow at work who has just taken up cycling.”

“How can you tell? Have they lost weight? Are they much happier generally, do they use the stairs instead of the lift?”

“No, he won’t shut up about it.”

 

[Rendel Harris]

I was on a train a couple of

I was on a train a couple of months before Christmas and two young ladies opposite me were discussing their office Christmas meal and the restaurant they had selected: “Of course you can guess what Andrea said as soon as I told her we were going there, is there a vegan option?” “Oh my God, she’s always shoving it in your face isn’t she!” It amused me somewhat that asking if a restaurant will be serving something you can eat is shoving it in people’s faces…

[David9694]

“Stop forcing your views on

“Stop forcing your views on me.”

Another parallel here, like you worked with someone two years ago whose interesting luch you asked about and now every vegan everywhere constantly goes on about it. 

[David9694]

And I asked the store clerk

And I asked the store clerk what is the one thing that every city resident wants?

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

Me needing affordable housing / useable land devoted to parking lots 

Shurely “we have to build more housing!  But developers won’t build ‘affordable housing’.  And where can we find land anyway (lots of nimbys)?”

Then: “Wait – councils can sell some land (school playing fields?).  That will help cover their debts / increasing welfare expenses – as their income hasn’t kept up.  And we can push some brownfield sites into use.  Hurrah!”

Then: “Oh – developers still won’t build any affordable housing unless they get to use the majority of the land for more expensive homes (with garages…).”

Finally: “But wait – we’re all late-stage capitalists now – so we want to encourage ‘growth’ and aspirational (bigger / additional) house ownership.  So building more expensive homes than affordable ones is OK!  And in fact surely those who get the affordable housing will soon be trading up and thus freeing those cheaper houses?  Hurrah!”

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