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A picture of a guy on a bicycle taken from a window. The roads are covered in snow and the weather looks cold and miserable. Caption reads “This dude has to be either going to get weed or pussy.”
You just know that this was posted by an USAmerican because thats just how i get to work when it snows in Germany.
Yeah, this isn't that abnormal in Canada either lol. I guess the one thing is that normally winter bikers have fat tires
I still use fairly thin ones, but they are very spiky.
I saw a guy cross country skiing downtown (Toronto) after a huge snow and thought that was pretty funny
I was gonna say this would be an ideal commute for about 1/3 of the year
I bemoan that the bus bike racks we use in Toronto aren't wide enough for fat tire bikes, so I have to use a regular-tire bike
If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.
Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn't be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.
Stuff doesn't shut down because the South is afraid of snow; it's because they don't have the infrastructure to deal with ice on the roads.
It's cheaper to close stuff for a day than buying and maintaining a fleet of salt trucks and plows that'll be used like 2 days a year.
We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn't plow, and nobody has snow tires because it's only going to be a day or two.
Yeah, southern drivers don't know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it's not really fair to compare them. It'd be like mocking Alaskins because they're miserable in 90°F; they don't have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.
Not saying you're mocking or disrespectful, I'm just on my soapbox.
Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads
The issue with "snow" in the south isn't the snow part. It's the ice. Southern snows usually happen when it's warm enough to melt the first bit of snow then it drops to freezing temps and the roads turn to sheets of ice. That and the majority in the south don't have winter tires, they run all seasons because when it does snow, it lasts just a few days at most. Why risk lives when it's just a few days.
Unfortunately this is me this winter. I have an ebike but no car, and my commute is 1h 15m every morning and evening in Minneapolis. I'm scraping by but the money for a car hasn't come together so I'm trying to get warm gear together. It sucks.
Get this person some weed and/or pussy they need it
I actually do get a lot of both tbf
Then share dammit!
I am literally! Lol relationship anarchist.
That seat tho! Never seen anything like it, is it comfortable? Almost looks like a custom mold of a butt haha
EXTREMELY comfortable. Idk it was at Walmart. Just replaced the stock seat with it.
HEY GUYS, CHRIS^tina^ FIX HERE, and today I'm gonna show you how to bundle for winter cycling!
Weed or pussy? Well now I feel like a chump for doing that shit for school or work
Pretty common in Montréal...
Pussy and weed?
My cool Canadian girlfriend.
Say less, everything I hear what makes me want to move there more and more. Say how do they feel about Newfoundlanders who speak French at a third grade level over there
That better be the best fucking pussy
I have been that dude. For both things! Both utterly fucking stupid at the time. But one of them was damn worth the trouble!
Also, cigarette runs when I smoked. Thankfully I quit smoking years ago.
Maybe his weed-dealer boss is forcing him back into the office but he knows his thicc goth coworker will be right in that cubicle with him
Bro, that's me in 2001 riding home from playing PlayStation with friends.
Me going to school back in the day.
On his way home from a second or third job at food service that refused to close despite the storm and had no customers.
To be fair, it's probably safer to bike in the snow than to drive. If you get stuck, you can just pick it up and if you hit something you aren't that heavy.
Or its Luigi on his way to a healthcare CEO
That's just how I get to/from work lol
Shrooms outside is amazing....
No lights on their bike as far as I can see. 50/50 odds they die.
I really don't get it, even the shittiest $2 lights make a huge difference. I've seriously considered buying a bunch to keep in my bag and just hand them out.
And the worst are electric scooters that have bright, built-in lights and people still don't turn them on.
could also be that he has weed, and now needs THAT ONE CANDY BAR
Or tacos
Or tacos.
I don't know how I know but this is drugs, for sure.
Been there.
We're the same.
Being sober during a snow storm is a wasted snow storm
One of my long standing traditions say- when there's a blizzard, and society shuts down due to the snow, that's when I bring out the LSD, a good steel pipe hidden in my vest, a backpack with beer and weed, some music, and go a-hiking through the snowy cityscape under the fucking influence.
Some majestic moments to be had.
Or snacks
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