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The culture has beaten me. My son will not listen to me. It seems he wants to learn how to drive a car. How many times have I told him that a true gentleman maintains a strict wall of ignorance between himself and that machine. A true gentleman uses public transportation. A true gentlemen walks to the store or park. Driving is so… middle class.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede
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But if you had succeeded, it still would have been miserably, no? I am confused as to the point.
Chuck, you failed at parenting when you spread your tainted seed.
My sympathies.
@3- Rent a car. Well, you still need to know how to drive, but HAVING a car is a lot less necessary than most people think.
OP: Awesome title. Please reuse always for all future writings.
THE culture (has beaten you)? Like, all of it? The very existance of culture is assaulting you? WEIRD. Perhaps you’d prefer a life with no culture at all? Of course without culture, we would’nt have have this fine online forum on which to kvetch…
No man maintains a strict anything, not really. and no true gentleman would maintain a ‘wall of ignorance’ about anything, for damn sure.
@20: or just say: “Driving is so… pedestrian” hehe
lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull:.
@26: sorry dude: he’s real- and he votes. check it: His bday is in Feb of 69 according to the voting records, and lives in P2.
@34 ACTUALLY they found , based on their criteria, that they were “just as bad”. http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/09/29/mythb…
wild generalization anyway -depends on the bike too. motorcycles are not better in regards to air & noise pollution emitted from engine? yeah sure. Are emission controls crap for bikes? Of course. But better in regards to MPG and therefore less supporting the oil industry & their 1% political views?/ rape of the planet’s oldest graves? / death of 100’s of 1000’s of people in wars for oil?
Hmmm.
Heavy duty deisel trucks and restaurant cooking systems are actually the worse thing for the environment (i.e. in regards to air quality) than cars and motorcycles these days. Weird huh?