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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 164 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Isn't it supposed to be "fewer" anyway?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He likes cars, not grammar.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Les Lane sounds like Superman’s brother in law.

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[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 154 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

We had some winners in my city a few years ago.

Here's my favorite quote from that article:

“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”

Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car....

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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, "serious" cycling


a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike


is so anti-consumer!

(I love cycling, and I'll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don't fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 108 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is your brain on cars.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Hey now, they specifically added a ton of people to distract from his appearance, which was a kindness

[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 108 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

THANK YOU.

(Obviously this doesn’t matter. Language evolves. And no one cared about this rule until the last 200 years or so. But my parents drilled this particular correction so firmly into my brain that it bothers me when others get it wrong. “Fewer in number, less in amount.” Similarly, “farther in distance, further in degree.” And you stand on a PODIUM, you speak from behind a LECTERN.)

(I might have some lexicographical trauma. 😅)

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.

[–] Ooops 32 points 2 months ago

Car-brains don't do standard logic, only car-logic...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Less bike lanes

100% he's going to make that happen

and cheaper parking

0% he's going to make that happen

Free market, bitches! Prices. Only. Go. Up!

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is that a Tram in the background ?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

Hahahahah ironic

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[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

good news. car brained loser is sitting on 3.36%.

well funded campaign (assume oxford st small biz tyrants and paddington geriatrics), posters everywhere.

https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401/sydney/mayoral

i wish this would be seen as a vindication for active transport... but we all know the anti bike blow hards wont miss a beat.

edit: big fucking lol. dont think they will get a single council seat.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago

After reading the title and seeing the black abyss in the eyes of the great-value Voldemort wannabe, I was scared for a moment that someone who was so openly hostile towards the safety of cyclists could win an election. It brings me great relief to know that is not the case.

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[–] mosscap@slrpnk.net 44 points 2 months ago

Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (39 children)

“Fewer” since they are countable.

ETA this is basic grammar and not something you can just take exception with because you feel like it. The responses I’m receiving are very odd.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.

There's so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.

I'd much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But he's posing in front of a tram? Make it make sense!

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

I guess regardless of country, people pushing shit like this can't seem to make a natural looking facial expression. Its like they try to replicate what happy people look like to them in order to get the response they see others receive but the best they can do is the trail leading into the uncanny valley

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago
[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The candidate for rich people who resent poor people.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

You need to carry a marker and draw devils horns whenever you see his poster. Colouring in the QR code to make it not work is a bonus too.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Probably owns a few parking lots.

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

That just means more cyclists on the roads.

That will just make people like him angrier. Good

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile, if successful, they'd probably complain about traffic and blame it on cyclists being slow in the car lanes

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He has fewer brains than his opponent.

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli

Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.

[–] s3p5r@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

He's still a party member, it's listed in his candidate information sheet. Badly Scanned PDF

[–] kewko@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

I pledge to do absolutely nothing about parking prices, but will try to slow down the cycle lane projects

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

The poster BEFORE ripping it off ;)

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