Rants Raves and Stupid Shit in Seattle.

[Brian Shinamot]

You do realize that you arguing with a guy that got banned from the TV Guide website for arguing in the comment section.

Why do more than half of your posts seem to be about playing Whack A Mole, calling out people for making another alt? Most of your contributions should be related to the hobby, rather than criticizing other people.

[Gostz1953]

This is very untrue. Cars and trucks don't do 100% of the damage to roads. Weather contributes a ton to that. Look what heat waves do to cement and bridges. Fuel taxes are top 5 in the country in WA state. Bikes don't use gas so can't even fathom how you think they pay for the roads. RE taxes heavily go to Fire Departments, Police and schools. Not hard to find if you know how to google. Link to Department of Revenue Website pie chart explaining this here.

https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/fil...ax/homeown.pdf

Vehicle tabs (again something a bicyclists don't pay for) fund other road projects as well as alternative forms of transportation like the light rail. Excise taxes for trucking businesses etc. pay for road projects. Shoot all the business owners pay for these taxes as well. Wonder how your bikes will get transported here without. Wait for it. Vehicles. How will your kids go to school without. Wait for it. Busses. The whole world runs on vehicles that use gas. The bicyclist is just too dense to realize that their self righteousness doesn't pay for shit. Shoot Seattle has an extra. 3% sales tax on vehicle purchases that go to the roads. Guess what, your bicyle purchase doesn't come with an extra. 3% tax when you buy it. The list goes on. Take vehicles away and all these businesses shut down. Vehicles subsidize your entire being. You ain't getting shit from Amazon online orders without the use of a vehicle. All businesses pretty much would shut down without the heavy lifting by the cars. BTW, don't argue back. I do taxes for a living. You will just look silly. If Walter pays taxes that is partially his lane. Funded by him and his hard work. By a lot of our hard work. If you have the time to ride a bike all around cause you have nothing better to do, go to the fucking forest and out of the way of hard working civilization. Don't get in our way and slow us down to your level. Most of us have shit to do. Cause we got to make enough to subsidize the weak as bike riders and our own shit we want.

It's not YOUR lane and there is no requirement to use a bike lane in this state. All users pay property taxes either directly or through rent and it's your motor vehicle use that is subsidized. Cars and trucks do 100% percent of the damage but only contribute an extra 2-4% in vehicle taxes for city and county roads. State gas tax allocated to cities must be used for roads.

[Camhole]

It's not YOUR lane and there is no requirement to use a bike lane in this state. All users pay property taxes either directly or through rent and it's your motor vehicle use that is subsidized. Cars and trucks do 100% percent of the damage but only contribute an extra 2-4% in vehicle taxes for city and county roads. State gas tax allocated to cities must be used for roads.

You do realize that you arguing with a guy that got banned from the TV Guide website for arguing in the comment section.

[MartyByrde]

It's not YOUR lane and there is no requirement to use a bike lane in this state. All users pay property taxes either directly or through rent and it's your motor vehicle use that is subsidized. Cars and trucks do 100% percent of the damage but only contribute an extra 2-4% in vehicle taxes for city and county roads. State gas tax allocated to cities must be used for roads.

Yes, it is not my lane, but I PAID the $1450 over and above all the taxes, etc. For the improvement, including the bicycle lane. Hence, I am correct in expecting bicyclists to use the lane and stay out of my car lane. And that bicyclist is definitely causing issues doing that. It is only a 2 lane road, and at that part (actually along the entire road), it is illegal to cross that line and enter the other lane. But I guess that bicyclist (and obviously others) who cannot exercise maturity or common sense. Plus, I'll say it again: his 2 buddies Were in the bicycle lane.

[EngrJoe]

You are missing the essential point. I already stated that we needed to pay the $1450 assessment separately (as other condo / townhome / home owners needed to do). I am positive that a non-resident bicyclist did not make such a payment. So, my incident with that idiot bicyclist (giving me the finger when he was in my lane, and not in the bike lane, while his other 2 friends were) is accurate, and that he really needed to be disciplined. Remember, he was impeding my progress, not the other way around.

It's not YOUR lane and there is no requirement to use a bike lane in this state. All users pay property taxes either directly or through rent and it's your motor vehicle use that is subsidized. Cars and trucks do 100% percent of the damage but only contribute an extra 2-4% in vehicle taxes for city and county roads. State gas tax allocated to cities must be used for roads.

[MartyByrde]

How exactly do you figure that?

Are you assuming that all bicycle owners pay no taxes? Or that all bicycle owners don't own or use a car at all?

If you are talking about gas taxes, tolls, license fees, and the like, there are hard numbers. In Washington those taxes pay for about 64% of all road costs. And Washington is on the relatively high end of those numbers nationwide.

Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure accounts for about two percent of road spending.

Sources:

https://taxfoundation.org/states-road-funding-2019/

https://ggwash.org/view/36053/more-p...-pay-for-roads

If there is some program out there that says that bicyclists don't need to pay taxes, all I can say is that I wish I knew about it sooner.

You are missing the essential point. I already stated that we needed to pay the $1450 assessment separately (as other condo / townhome / home owners needed to do). I am positive that a non-resident bicyclist did not make such a payment. So, my incident with that idiot bicyclist (giving me the finger when he was in my lane, and not in the bike lane, while his other 2 friends were) is accurate, and that he really needed to be disciplined. Remember, he was impeding my progress, not the other way around.

[Brian Shinamot]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_(stereotype)#text=As%20 a%20 blanket%20 term%2 C%20 jock, soccer%2 C%20 swimming%20 and%20 Ice%20 hockey.

Mean.

Aggressive.

Those are accurate, for sure.

Boys on varsity teams, usually had an arrogance and attitude problem. They thought they were all bad ass.

[Marko Ramius]

... And remember, we paid for that bike lane, not the bicyclist.

How exactly do you figure that?

Are you assuming that all bicycle owners pay no taxes? Or that all bicycle owners don't own or use a car at all?

If you are talking about gas taxes, tolls, license fees, and the like, there are hard numbers. In Washington those taxes pay for about 64% of all road costs. And Washington is on the relatively high end of those numbers nationwide.

Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure accounts for about two percent of road spending.

Sources:

https://taxfoundation.org/states-road-funding-2019/

https://ggwash.org/view/36053/more-p...-pay-for-roads

If there is some program out there that says that bicyclists don't need to pay taxes, all I can say is that I wish I knew about it sooner.

[Brian Shinamot]

You are wrong about the use of the horn. That bicyclist I encountered a few years back was in the wrong. Not legally, but morally. Also, he certainly did not show any maturity. Plus his two buddies were in the bicycle lane. And remember, we paid for that bike lane, not the bicyclist.

As for sharing the road, where there is a dedicated bicycle lane (assuming it is not completely full, which is rare), no need for sharing. Both the motorists and the bicyclist need to exercise both common sense and maturity, plain and simple.

Reminds me of when I was in the right. You let people out of the elevator first! These two girls just walk in together to the elevator, giggling, smiling, totally oblivious that they should be letting me out first.

Then their asshole male friend comes in, we make eye contact, and we're glaring at each other. What he needs to realize is, just because those two girls are his friends, does not mean that they are automatically right all the time. What's going to happen if those girls do the same thing to someone else, and he's not there to protect them? What if those girls do it to some real mean bitchy woman, who will curse them out or even physically attack them? Because then, that's woman on woman, and all things are fair at that point.

I thought about this elevator incident, when you talked about the guy in the bike lane, with his two buddies. Like the elevator, the pack mentality kicks in.

[Brian Shinamot]

There is all this talk about how women have feeling and emotions, and how we need to keep that in mind. I don't disagree with that.

So, why the hell is it, that we don't seem to take into account, that males also have feelings and emotions? It's 2022. We don't live in the cave man days anymore. Yet, we still live in this macho, boot camp, drill Sargent mentality, that men and males are these bullet-proof beings, that you can do and say anything to, and they're not supposed to feel certain ways about it.

You don't have to come on this board and openly admit it. But, if you were to tell the honest truth, you would acknowledge that on this thread alone, so many men are dying on the inside, as they and other men are just beating the shit out of each other, with verbal insults.

Remember, fisticuffs is far from the only way that a male can be badly harmed and damaged.

Step back and think about all of this for a moment, rather than dismissing it.

[MartyByrde]

In general, bicycles have the same rights to roadways and are subject to same traffic regs as cars, with obvious exceptions like freeways where non-motorized vehicles are prohibited. Bike lanes provide a separate and safer right of way that can help minimize car / cycle conflict, and I think cyclists are wise to use them but they are not legally obligated to do so.

And yes there are jerks on 2 wheels just like there are on 4 wheels. It doesn't help either group to fly the bird on the way by, nor honestly does use of the horn (which comes across as, "get the F out of my way! Other than perhaps a quick toot to let someone know you're going to pass. In my experience though, as both an automobile driver and cyclist, most people try to share the road.

You are wrong about the use of the horn. That bicyclist I encountered a few years back was in the wrong. Not legally, but morally. Also, he certainly did not show any maturity. Plus his two buddies were in the bicycle lane. And remember, we paid for that bike lane, not the bicyclist.

As for sharing the road, where there is a dedicated bicycle lane (assuming it is not completely full, which is rare), no need for sharing. Both the motorists and the bicyclist need to exercise both common sense and maturity, plain and simple.

[Brian Shinamot]

I notice that Lee Groinman, Toomgis, Cameltoe, and Camhole only post, when they have something negative to say to, or about, someone else. Why do you all have to be so aggressive all the time? Why not try to be positive for a change?.

[EddyWhtwtr]

Note I said "(I think)", ie, not sure. But whether breaking the law or not, why can't common sense prevail? In that particular case, after the idiot gave me the finger, it would have been reasonably right for me to do something to him (maybe physical harm).

You would be one of the few, in a very, very minority, that would use their head and behave in a mature fashion. Most bicyclists are just jerks, and think they own the road.

And as for motorists invade bike lanes all the time, the same could be said of bicyclists who invade road lanes outside of bicycle lanes. Whether legal or not, it's still the same: if there is a bike lane, then use it!

In general, bicycles have the same rights to roadways and are subject to same traffic regs as cars, with obvious exceptions like freeways where non-motorized vehicles are prohibited. Bike lanes provide a separate and safer right of way that can help minimize car / cycle conflict, and I think cyclists are wise to use them but they are not legally obligated to do so.

And yes there are jerks on 2 wheels just like there are on 4 wheels. It doesn't help either group to fly the bird on the way by, nor honestly does use of the horn (which comes across as, "get the F out of my way! Other than perhaps a quick toot to let someone know you're going to pass. In my experience though, as both an automobile driver and cyclist, most people try to share the road.

[BusSit69]

I spent quite a bit of time this weekend trolling for chicks online. Most of the time I never got any response, the few I did get came hours later. On Saturday evening I had a gal and we were engaged and essentially committed and then she went dark. Three hours later she said, "I'm sorry. I forgot to hit the "send" button earlier to confirm our date". Yeah, sure. She was all the way down in Tacoma so I'm glad that didn't work out. This morning I woke-up to a message from another gal I texted the day prior, "come over today and let's make each other cum". I responded, she went dark rest of day. I guess she found someone to make her "cum" before I got to her.

Tonight a long-time old regular contacted me. Haven't seen her in forevvvvvver. I don't know what kind of shape she's in these days, but I decided to try. She wants to meet me, I agree and start cleaning-up and tell her to let me know when she's at the spot. It's not too far from where I live so I just stayed-put until I heard from her. Two-and-a-half hours go by and I decided she's not coming. That's okay, I'm not out anything since I haven't left. Normally I'd just go about my night, but I decided to let her know that I was out for the night. She replied, "I was just getting ready to drive to meet you but whatever". That pissed me off. Somehow this is my fault. You should all know that she's been flaky in the past, so I sort of expected this. But, apparently it's my fault. So I said, "just getting ready now after two-and-a-half hours? You couldn't let me know? I'm no-showed so often that I just learned to move-on after a certain amount of time, you're lucky I even fucking bothered to let you know. If you're pissed-off, it's your god damn fault, not mine". I'm just not going to take that shit. Fine if she's pissed, but somehow putting this on me is BS.

I've dealt with this in the past and it's an expected part of this hobby. I just seem to be much-less willing to deal with it these last couple of years, LOL. People have always asked me why I liked the street and i've always said it's because of the immediacy of it all. I'm not waiting for potentially hours for a response, driving to somewhere and going dark. But the gals on the street haven't really been working for me, either.

I've come to notice over the past year, most providers are super busy on the weekends. Also guessing they go with who has a big bank roll first. But yeah I tend to text them a day or two earlier, not the same day I have the appnt. All in all, its getting bad, they've made it all about the $. So ef services! If these chix had a regular job they would be fired. No accountability!

[MartyByrde]

Well that just sounds like his thing. We all have our requirements that get us going, sometimes I'm not sure we even know why. There are guys who save-up for the Bunny Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada. Not my thing, just too.... I don't know, but not really my thing. I can't put my finger on it. But some guys love it. When they think about the hobby that's the perception which pops into their heads, so that's what they go for. I think this is why a lot of guys are paying the overly made-up SoCal hookers out on Aurora. When they think of paying for a sex worker, that's the image which comes into their minds. They want the 20 minute impersonal, plastic, overly made-up circus freak show for $$$. It's how they envision it and it's what gets them off. Doesn't do it for me, but the girls are still in business, so....

Same with strip clubs. I don't get the point, but I knew a guy who absolutely loved them. He'd go every weekend and drop a lot of dough on dances, then have one or two come back to his place afterward. He'd spend a couple thousand sometimes. Not my thing, but that's what he liked and it got him off. I can scream and b****h and whine like a little c***t all I want and it still won't put those girls out of business. I mean, come on here.

Most of what you state is fine. I do not go to strip clubs, so what you said about that does not apply to me. However, I still say there is nothing wrong with one making statements about rates, services, etc. , as long as one is not demeaning the op. And if one wishes to express their disagreement with such posts, fine. Just don't go "bashing" the person that made the post.