This was filmed Rue Gabriel Perri, near Maison Kouts
Every so often they need to send down a golf cart with a cow catcher on it
It’s poorly designed infrastructure. Don’t blame the people (at least not entirely). The true fault lies with the city planners.
Yeah, I can defo see it. It has barely no space for walking, no place for people to sit and no trees for shade
Its called living in a city. People sit where they want to sit. You are not better than them. You are a monkey on a bike. They are a monkey who needs to rest. Complaining about people sitting down when you are on a bike is literally inventing a problem. Welcome to living among other humans. You arent in a car, you are going slow enough to move out of the way of a person. If it were a pregnant woman or woman with infant child or elderly person you would be the asshole here.
tl:dr Fuck you, asshole, adapt or die. Complain to your city managers who don’t provide benches. Fuck you. These people are just walking on their legs. You choose otherwise. Fuck you. Pedestrians will always have the right of way no matter what. Fuck off. I hate entitled assholes with technology beating off on people who don’t use their preferred technology. They are just using their legs. You choose to use a bike. Your opinion is invalid.
You must be popular at parties.
did you watch the clip? People put chairs in the bike lane, not just sitting on the curb. Those particular people are assholes. The curb-sitters were not actually in the way.
They lack benches. Like I said, blame city managers, not the monkeys that need rest
Would have been a better argument if there wasn’t a park with benches and all just 50 meter down the road… But there is.
I bet there’s a designated place to park those scooters too.
This isn’t mildly infuriating. It’s just regular infuriating
What would happen if you knocked over all the unattended bikes on “accident”
Probably the same thing that would happen if you did it by accident.
You’ve been downvoted, but you are correct. Saying ‘on accident’ is jarring and meaningless.
The people who say it are like the idiots who say they ‘could care less’.
And they can, FUCK. OFF.I know it’s incorrect to say “on accident”, but sometimes I do anyway, just to be wrong by purpose.
I did that shit by “purpose”
My guess is he’s getting downvoted for the snark, not for the factual content. English isn’t most people’s native language.
True, but I’m fairly sure “on accident” doesn’t come from non-native speakers.
OP is showing incredible restraint here not to just kick those parked scooters over.
I would have yelled them to F Off or use the bell aggressively.
I wonder how hard it would be to mount a truck’s airhorn on a bike.
That wouldn’t work on the bikes that have been left unattended, though, hence the kicking.
You could probably get a ton of mileage out of an aerosol air horn, if those are available in your area.
Years ago I did have an air-powered horn for my bike that you could pump up with a regular bike pump. It was pretty loud. The thing with bike horns, though, is that the times you’d want to use them are also the times when you need to be grabbing both brakes. I find just shouting works as well.
Hmmm. Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. So maybe there’s a need for a bike horn that’s super loud and that you can trigger with a finger while you’re braking.
They really aren’t, if it takes great restraint for you to not do stuff like that you probably have real anger issues.
Ride a bike enough in this car-brained world, and you’ll have anger issues too. Actually, driving a car with those idiots around is even worse.
Honestly, though, yeah, I probably wouldn’t actually do that. I talk a big game on the internet, but in reality I’m severely conflict averse.
A friendship ended over something this petty
A friend and I were sitting on the curb, legs stretched out over the bike lane. I saw a bike coming and I picked up our bag and got up. He didn’t move and got mad at me for doing that “without warning” right before the cyclist rode between us (that was the only path they had). Ex-friend then turned their ire towards the cyclist calling them rude and whatnot. Fortunately the cyclist kept riding. I was finally able to tell them the bike is why I moved. And dude just tried to justify they could sit there if we had just curled our legs, saying there was enough room for the bike to pass. Bro. The entire lane is for the bike. We were just taking advantage of the fact there were no bikes around when we sat down. I had thought he would have the same response I had when the cyclist came. Apparently not and he ranted about it the whole way home. I blocked him when he drove off.
ETA: he was problematic before that and the weed wasn’t worth it
Did you ask him to try and sit on the road with vehicular traffic?
Good riddance.
This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris
I’d be knocking over those motorcycles
FWIW saw a scooter parked this way, not on a bike lane but in front of a bike garage. I put a paper on it saying “This is not a parking spot, next time I’m moving it myself” with the intent of being polite but firm. Since then they never parked there anymore. Sometimes people don’t even realize.
OP should devote a day off to doing hourly sweeps while getting belligerent about it.
I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c’est la vie as they say)
Complete opposite here. I understand the parking, that’s just standard asshole Behavior. That I get. I’m used to it. The sitting is just fucking bizarre. Why? Just why? They brought a chair for fucks sake. Out into the street. They passed the wide open sidewalk while carrying their chair. It makes no sense.
Hell…sitting just on the ground I’d even understand. It sounds spontaneous enough. But bringing out a fucking chair is just deliberate and fucking bizarre behavior.
It does if you consider they are clearly doing it on purpose: the message is that they own the place and will sit wherever they want.
om ok with the sitters if they GTF up and step back when a cyclist comes along i. e pay attention.
fuck the parked scoots.
France is a tad crazy about driving and parking, or at least it was when I was there last. It’s kinda like NYC but no rules. I saw a bakery delivery truck back up to corner and back into the lead car, ramming over and over until the next 5 cars where pushed into eachother and he could park in the corner spot.
Cars all over the sidewalks and in the median toward the tower. Noone giving right of way, you had to just take it or you’d never get in.
TIL hell exists, and it’s called France.
Beautiful country, good food, strong on protests. The car situation is a bit strange. The service industry was a bit off-putting, but I was a tourist and well, most US tourists are awful. Maybe half the people there were nice and helpful.
When I was in Paris some years ago, I was amazed how anti-foreigners it felt when it is easily top 5 international tourist destinations in the world. No public bathrooms anywhere, do the French never need to go?!
I went to the louvre and wanted to buy the 3DS museum guide software. I looked for it in the gift shop, it was available in one or two languages but not English. When I asked, the seller laughed at me like I’m an idiot, “oh we haven’t had English copies of it in months! what did you expect?”
What did you think I expected? I expected the most famous museum in the world to keep stocking something which is clearly selling out frequently!
The whole city felt like it didn’t want tourists there. It was such a strange feeling.
French people seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely not French.
In their defence, though, they also seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely French.
Maybe it’s not much of a defence, now that I think about it.
train horn time
Wow, this is awful.
I’ve ridden bikes in many cities (London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Seville), never saw anything close to this bad.
How standard is this in Saint Denis?
