Yeah, shitpost, that’s what I said!

Gone into the wilderness to escape from the woes of modern capitalistic society, yet unable to escape the coping mechanisms used to survive the rat race. Trapped inside the addiction, a smoke and a coffee to wake up, a toke and a drink to pass out, in an endless cycle, just to blur the daily toil into a barely-tolerable disassociative carousel. Even the moments of leisure have become a task to accomplish; have your pittance of a vacation, stressing about how tightly scheduled you are, stressing about how much everything costs, stressing about the mounting responsibilities pilling up awaiting your arrival.

I dunno man, I think it’s just a shitpost.

I won’t lie though, judging from how much of the litter where I live is cigarettes butts and packs, there seems to be a rather large overlap.

Add people who drink Tim Horton’s coffee and that’s a solid 80% of the litter I see.

(Am smoker, will carry smelly butts rather than throw them on the street)

Only one to put out a great solo record after.

This is Ram erasure!

That I have a tendency towards addiction with drugs. I’ve been high (marijuana) more often than not for the past decade, with spurts of alcoholism peppered in throughout my adult life. I also had a phase for about a year where I did shrooms once or twice a week.

I still struggle with my consumption, but at least now I’m aware that it can easily get to the point where it affects my life too much and can cut back when I’m starting to feel like I’m getting sucked in. I think I’ll always be an addict of some form or another, though.

Sriracha on pizza, you’re my kind of people.

I actually had somewhat of a dependency on sriracha at one point in my life. I was working at a summer camp, and the food being kinda bland I brought in a bottle of sriracha one day. Then a few others did the same. At the end of the summer, we were basically daring each other to douse our meals in unholy amounts of that rooster’s sauce.

It took me three weeks after the job ended to be able to taste anything that didn’t have sriracha on it.

Led is the past tense of the verb “to lead”.

Led is a homophone of lead (the metal) whereas lead is a homograph of lead (again, the metal).

Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they’re/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).

In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.

Personally, I just use a u-lock in combination with a small chain lock (well my chain lock actually borked recently, so I’ve been using one of those foldable locks, but you get the idea).

U-lock through the rear triangle, securing the frame and the rear wheel to a solid bike rack or post, with the secondary lock binding my front wheel to the frame is enough to make me feel safe leaving my bike out in most scenarios, even in my city with really high levels of bike theft.

People have laughed at me for using two locks, even for daytime stops that last less than 5 minutes and where my bike stays more or less in my line of sight the entire time. I don’t care if I look paranoid, though. I’ve lost one bike to my city already, I’m not losing another one.

This peaceful-looking rural road seems dangerous to you? I’d take this over my daily commute in a typical North American city :P

Sure, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. Like if I post a picture of my lunch on here, with the justification that calories and nutrition are important for cycling, I think that’d be off-topic.

However, if I shared the same picture and asked people what are their favourite pre and/or post-ride meals, I think that’d fit in better here.

Is this really bicycle-related? Like sure, the article mentions an exercise bike, but I don’t feel like this post really fits the spirit of the community.

You could edit your post to add a paragraph to try and relate this to bicycles!

Thanks, after a few coffees and this image, I figured it out! 😅

I haven’t had (enough) coffee and I’m really not wrapping my head around how you do this

King of the Hill. I love the characters so much, especially the dynamic between Hank and Bobby.

I get stressed out leaving my cheap hybrid out even with two locks. In my city, a $10k would disappear real fast. I don’t need that stress.

Part of me gets where they’re coming from, I think it’s definitely a thing where some inexperienced cyclists on e-bikes ride dangerously at high speeds without having the cycling experience and technique to ride that fast.

However, just like I’ve had bad interactions with people on e-bikes, I’ve had bad interactions with roadies, people on BMX, cycle commuters, mountain bikers… I’ve also had super positive interactions with all of these groups. Generalizing e-bike riders as a whole based on the acts of a small number of people is silly and counter-productive. The more people ride bikes, the more cities have no choice but to accommodate them, which makes things better for everyone.

One of the first rides I did to test my setup before my first small cycle-tour was to the local reservoir! It’s interesting to see the intersection between nature and human infrastructure.

Urban cycling is my fav too, it’s really the best way to explore a city!