For those who don’t frequent the political forum Lixy is a troll who answered the call for a Cyber Jihad against the US in early 2007. For some strange reason he chose T-Nation to spread spread the drivel.
Most of the veterans have dismissed him so it looks like he is creeping into the other forums. He’s fun for comic refief now and then.
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[quote]Kilosprinter2 wrote:
Remember the 40 yr old virgin? He got ranked on for biking to work. Even I thought he was a dork when he couldn’t pick up his date though, lol. Maybe when gas goes over $10/gal it won’t be uncool to use a bike as transportation.
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If I could ride a bike to work, I would. Even if my job weren’t 45 miles away, I cannot ride a bike on the interstate.
I tried public transportation, but it has been mapped out in such a retarded way that it takes me an hour and twenty minutes to do the trip, and it only takes me 40 minutes by car.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
I thought Lixy was a “she”.[/quote]
Depending on who you ask, I’m a slacker living off welfare in Sweden, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Afghan hills, a college kid in the US, a commie, a radical and much more.
Rainjack (who else?) in his sexist rants, refers to me as a female in some twisted and outdated denigratory way. Not that I find it offensive or anything, but just for the record: I am a man.
I was watching the local news the other day today when some fat ugly chick was smoking a cigarette in some big chevy truck. The news reporter was asking her how she felt about gas prices and she said the government wasn’t doing enough to help people like her out. Give me a break, try dropping your pack and a half smoking habit, buy a reasonable car to haul your fat white trash ass round and save $8/dayx365days ~3,000ish yearly. Gas prices aren’t THAT bad, but most people that bitch already waste tons of cash on meaningless garbage (cigarettes, gambling (local casino), alcohol, super expensive clothes…). But then again, some low income folks who work their asses off and try their best to get by are suffering, and I really do feel for those people.
[quote]lixy wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
I thought Lixy was a “she”.
Depending on who you ask, I’m a slacker living off welfare in Sweden, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Afghan hills, a college kid in the US, a commie, a radical and much more.
Rainjack (who else?) in his sexist rants, refers to me as a female in some twisted and outdated denigratory way. Not that I find it offensive or anything, but just for the record: I am a man.[/quote]
I flip off whoever I think is in charge of this shit in my head when I drive by the gas station. I literally just get angry- mostly because I have no control over the price. These people base the price on the FUTURE availability of oil. Then you have all these analysts that say that its going to to higher and higher. Then it goes higher.
I dont care what other countries are paying, we are paying too much. Yes driving different cars or changing driving habits will help and the U.S. consumption hasnt really gone up and the world is comsuming more. I’m not sure what these idiots think is going to happen but its all a downward spiral. No shit people are spending less, I’m not sure what they really expected.
[quote]Bigpull wrote:
Yes driving different cars or changing driving habits will help and the U.S. consumption hasnt really gone up and the world is consuming more. [/quote]
Huh? The US consumes in excess of 100 quadrillion BTU yearly. Regarding oil, you folks slam down more than 20,730,000 barrels per day.
The US is still very much ahead in terms of “consuming more”.
[quote]lixy wrote:
Bigpull wrote:
Yes driving different cars or changing driving habits will help and the U.S. consumption hasnt really gone up and the world is consuming more.
Huh? The US consumes in excess of 100 quadrillion BTU yearly. Regarding oil, you folks slam down more than 20,730,000 barrels per day.
The US is still very much ahead in terms of “consuming more”.[/quote]
US demand is stable, world demand is rising is what he staement meant.
[quote]TheDudeAbides wrote:
Kilosprinter2 wrote:
I mentioned using a bike as transportation sometimes and someone suggested I hand in my man card.
I’m heavily considering riding a bicycle to work this summer - 25 miles round trip, sidewalks all the way. No mass transportation available in the burbs. It might be a good way to lose a couple pounds as well. Training days will suck though.[/quote]
I am heavily considering the same.
The tough thing for me right now is my car is really on a downward trend at the 100K mile mark and I will need to replace it shortly.
I never gave a ton of thought to gas mileage before, but now it’s impossible not to. For instance, I absolutely love the Infiniti G35x I test drove… but is 19/24 mpg good enough any more for a sedan in these days of $4 plus a gallon for gas?