The Big 'Let's sell our cars and take buses/ebikes instead' thread (warning: probably very dull)
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Maybe they have it online, but deffo not in shops...beansnikpoh said:
A quick google says it's in stock for 65p a jar in Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda. The same search also says that there's a big shortage in France due to a poor harvest of brown mustard seeds in Canada.ugo.santalucia said:speaking of mustard... any idea why supermarkets no longer stock French mustard? I can find Dijon and English, but not the brown French one... it's been over a year now... thoughts?
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Good emergency fishing bait when the tackle shops are closed.First.Aspect said:What are people's thoughts on spam?
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I would have thought even fish had better taste than that.Pross said:
Good emergency fishing bait when the tackle shops are closed.First.Aspect said:What are people's thoughts on spam?
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They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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We go semi-nostalgic as we have prawns in Marie rose sauce without the salad part.rjsterry said:
They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?
Who wants leaves anyway? We replace them with smoked salmon.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
These peeps are livin the fookin dream with this efficient, electric, solar, wheeled greatness.1 -
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Advocado and prawns, Marie Rose saucepblakeney said:
We go semi-nostalgic as we have prawns in Marie rose sauce without the salad part.rjsterry said:
They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?
Who wants leaves anyway? We replace them with smoked salmon.
Total winner..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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That is so ‘Abigail’s Party’MattFalle said:.
Advocado and prawns, Marie Rose saucepblakeney said:
We go semi-nostalgic as we have prawns in Marie rose sauce without the salad part.rjsterry said:
They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?
Who wants leaves anyway? We replace them with smoked salmon.
Total winner.Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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no.photonic69 said:
That is so ‘Abigail’s Party’MattFalle said:.
Advocado and prawns, Marie Rose saucepblakeney said:
We go semi-nostalgic as we have prawns in Marie rose sauce without the salad part.rjsterry said:
They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?
Who wants leaves anyway? We replace them with smoked salmon.
Total winner.
its so 1970s/80s food.
next thing you'll be telling me that Moules a la creme is from Titanic..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Orwas itmeant as a good thing?
I think I have only seen a different version of the one that you have..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Exactly. Mike Leigh 1977.MattFalle said:
no.photonic69 said:
That is so ‘Abigail’s Party’MattFalle said:.
Advocado and prawns, Marie Rose saucepblakeney said:
We go semi-nostalgic as we have prawns in Marie rose sauce without the salad part.rjsterry said:
They're more than acceptable. A regular Christmas Day starter in our house. We even have some Meakin crockery and original Tupperware for the full strength nostalgia hit.MattFalle said:
are prawn cicktails still acceptable in Ricktopia, Rick?rick_chasey said:
Graph is on topic.surrey_commuter said:
I know you like a censored graph but how does that help me identify a substitute for Lea and Perrins tomato and worcester sauce?rick_chasey said:Sometimes the answer, SC, is so obvious, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
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And if you can't work out how to make a ketchup and worcester sauce yourself, then you are beyond help.
I mean in a non ironic utterly delish kinda way?
Who wants leaves anyway? We replace them with smoked salmon.
Total winner.
its so 1970s/80s food.
Our house from 1976 till about 1985Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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so upu need two bikes, psy more for your ticket and you can't travel when you want to.
right-o.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Typical in Holland, you buy a 100 euro beater, lock it at the station multi-storey… people own more than one, it’s convenient, it’s not a bike you care for or maintain other than the odd tyre pump… eventually it will get stolen…mid it lasts 6 months, it paid for itself… often ends up in a canal and is then dredged and goes for metal recycling…MattFalle said:so upu need two bikes, psy more for your ticket and you can't travel when you want to.
right-o
Happy days
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How does this work outside the cities then? Same big hole in the 'solution' as was debated upthread."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Stevo_666 said:
How does this work outside the cities then? Same big hole in the 'solution' as was debated upthread.
'Countryside' will never be 'solved' in places like the UK & France (and probably everywhere else outside of my experience), but 'solving' the cities would make a big difference, and where it is most practical, even if the car-primacy mindset is going to take some shifting, both from institutional and individual perspectives. Certain cities already show how it can be done.3 -
Pretty sure the big cities like London do not have the majority of journeys done by car. But regardless, there is still a gaping hole in Ricks argument as it ignores the needs of those outside of the Ricktopian city limits.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:How does this work outside the cities then? Same big hole in the 'solution' as was debated upthread.
'Countryside' will never be 'solved' in places like the UK & France (and probably everywhere else outside of my experience), but 'solving' the cities would make a big difference, and where it is most practical, even if the car-primacy mindset is going to take some shifting, both from institutional and individual perspectives. Certain cities already show how it can be done."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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but we don't live in Holland.ugo.santalucia said:
Typical in Holland, you buy a 100 euro beater, lock it at the station multi-storey… people own more than one, it’s convenient, it’s not a bike you care for or maintain other than the odd tyre pump… eventually it will get stolen…mid it lasts 6 months, it paid for itself… often ends up in a canal and is then dredged and goes for metal recycling…MattFalle said:so upu need two bikes, psy more for your ticket and you can't travel when you want to.
right-o
Happy days
and we don't have hundreds of Europes to throw around on old bicycles..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Remarkable how posting how other countries do it successfully is borderline troll worthy on here, a cycling forum.0
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Why on earth are solutions for cities derided as being not fit for the countryside?
This only helps 90% of us! Scrap it!- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Are there any major UK cities left where you can't arrive at the station and rent a scooter/bike for the remaining mile of your journey?MattFalle said:.
but we don't live in Holland.ugo.santalucia said:
Typical in Holland, you buy a 100 euro beater, lock it at the station multi-storey… people own more than one, it’s convenient, it’s not a bike you care for or maintain other than the odd tyre pump… eventually it will get stolen…mid it lasts 6 months, it paid for itself… often ends up in a canal and is then dredged and goes for metal recycling…MattFalle said:so upu need two bikes, psy more for your ticket and you can't travel when you want to.
right-o
Happy days
and we don't have hundreds of Europes to throw around on old bicycles.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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I'd say that in simple terms the options are there.pangolin said:
Are there any major UK cities left where you can't arrive at the station and rent a scooter/bike for the remaining mile of your journey?MattFalle said:.
but we don't live in Holland.ugo.santalucia said:
Typical in Holland, you buy a 100 euro beater, lock it at the station multi-storey… people own more than one, it’s convenient, it’s not a bike you care for or maintain other than the odd tyre pump… eventually it will get stolen…mid it lasts 6 months, it paid for itself… often ends up in a canal and is then dredged and goes for metal recycling…MattFalle said:so upu need two bikes, psy more for your ticket and you can't travel when you want to.
right-o
Happy days
and we don't have hundreds of Europes to throw around on old bicycles.
The fact is that the British public are simply not interested in using them.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
2025 electric cars to pay £165 road tax plus luxury car tax at £355 (as most are probably over £40k)
Cheaper to sell your electric motor and buy an old diesel !0 -
The economics of electric are definitely becoming less favourable as time goes on.mully79 said:2025 electric cars to pay £165 road tax plus luxury car tax at £355 (as most are probably over £40k)
Cheaper to sell your electric motor and buy an old diesel !
A couple of years back, I was leaning towards. Not so much now. 2030 is a ticking clock but, unless something starts happening with charging infrastructure on a much larger scale and quickly, I can’t see 2030 happening.*
Unless the manufacturers have already shifted production fully over. In which case used ice cars become more valuable.0 -
From today's paper
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/02/suspect-identified-in-only-one-in-10-bicycle-theft-cases-in-england-and-wales.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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because we're realists discussing it openly not living blindly in Ricktopia.rick_chasey said:Remarkable how posting how other countries do it successfully is borderline troll worthy on here, a cycling forum.
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Fine for the big cities, unfortunately Rick isn't interested in anywhere else. But not to worry, we have a great solution for the rest of the country called 'cars'.pangolin said:Why on earth are solutions for cities derided as being not fit for the countryside?
This only helps 90% of us! Scrap it!"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Holland was extremely car centric until the 70s.MattFalle said:
because we're realists discussing it openly not living blindly in Ricktopia.rick_chasey said:Remarkable how posting how other countries do it successfully is borderline troll worthy on here, a cycling forum.
We’ve already seen some minor success with LTNs.
We are literally running out of space and resources for cars. None of the arguments presented here addresses that challenge. Roads can only be so big, and as we become more and more urbanised, there is an increasing restriction on space to store cars near where the owners are.
Nor is there enough refinable metals for every existing car to be replaced with batteries, and plainly burning fossil fuels is also not sustainable. Plus, for the next decade there is a geopolitical challenge that China refines the vast majority of the metals to a point that that can be used in batteries (around 70-90% depending on the metal) so there is real geopolitical exposure there. China can’t be bossed about like the petrostates can, bluntly.
So unless you can find good arguments against those, the future of general transport cannot fundamentally be orientated around cars as it currently is.
That’s the situation. So if you don’t agree with my train/bike focus, what alternative are you proposing?0
