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Drago said:
Speaking of 4x4's and school runs...

One I see on my dog walk most mornings. Woman lives in a cul-de-sac in the village and takes her toddler to the child minder each weekday morning.

The child minder lives in another cul-de-sac that backs on to the woman's. A nice easy walk of less than a hundred metres, probably closer to 50, using the footway that cuts between the two, the same footway along which I stroll with the dog.

But no, she spends an age loading toddler into her Honda CRV and then drives out onto the main road, along a bit, into a side street and then into child minders cul-de-sac, a journey of a quarter mile or more.

Being lazy is one thing. While I'm disciplined and don't agree with laziness I do at least understand it. However, in recent years the trend appears to be for people to put an amazing amount of time and effort into their attempts at being lazy, far in excess of the energy and time required just to do it the normal non-lazy way and I really struggle to get my noggin round it.
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Walking is what the poor and the old do!

I have to display how wonderful my life is with my shiny car.
 
cougie uk

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Drago said:
Speaking of 4x4's and school runs...

One I see on my dog walk most mornings. Woman lives in a cul-de-sac in the village and takes her toddler to the child minder each weekday morning.

The child minder lives in another cul-de-sac that backs on to the woman's. A nice easy walk of less than a hundred metres, probably closer to 50, using the footway that cuts between the two, the same footway along which I stroll with the dog.

But no, she spends an age loading toddler into her Honda CRV and then drives out onto the main road, along a bit, into a side street and then into child minders cul-de-sac, a journey of a quarter mile or more.

Being lazy is one thing. While I'm disciplined and don't agree with laziness I do at least understand it. However, in recent years the trend appears to be for people to put an amazing amount of time and effort into their attempts at being lazy, far in excess of the energy and time required just to do it the normal non-lazy way and I really struggle to get my noggin round it.
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She might regret her laziness when she's wheelchair bound at 60.
 
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Drago said:
Speaking of 4x4's and school runs...

One I see on my dog walk most mornings. Woman lives in a cul-de-sac in the village and takes her toddler to the child minder each weekday morning.

The child minder lives in another cul-de-sac that backs on to the woman's. A nice easy walk of less than a hundred metres, probably closer to 50, using the footway that cuts between the two, the same footway along which I stroll with the dog.

But no, she spends an age loading toddler into her Honda CRV and then drives out onto the main road, along a bit, into a side street and then into child minders cul-de-sac, a journey of a quarter mile or more.

Being lazy is one thing. While I'm disciplined and don't agree with laziness I do at least understand it. However, in recent years the trend appears to be for people to put an amazing amount of time and effort into their attempts at being lazy, far in excess of the energy and time required just to do it the normal non-lazy way and I really struggle to get my noggin round it.
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My next door neighbour's daughter lives about 300 yards away on foot, half a mile by car. Like yours, there is a pedestrian cut through (that I also use on my bike).

She quite often does that when leaving one or more of her kids with her parents - but she is leaving them because she is going off to do something else, so doesn't then drive home in the car, but continues to where she is going.

So in her case at least, it is about time saving overall. Though her kids are old enough to be self-loading into the car, and can put their own seatbelts on.
 
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DRM

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Drago said:
Speaking of 4x4's and school runs...

One I see on my dog walk most mornings. Woman lives in a cul-de-sac in the village and takes her toddler to the child minder each weekday morning.

The child minder lives in another cul-de-sac that backs on to the woman's. A nice easy walk of less than a hundred metres, probably closer to 50, using the footway that cuts between the two, the same footway along which I stroll with the dog.

But no, she spends an age loading toddler into her Honda CRV and then drives out onto the main road, along a bit, into a side street and then into child minders cul-de-sac, a journey of a quarter mile or more.

Being lazy is one thing. While I'm disciplined and don't agree with laziness I do at least understand it. However, in recent years the trend appears to be for people to put an amazing amount of time and effort into their attempts at being lazy, far in excess of the energy and time required just to do it the normal non-lazy way and I really struggle to get my noggin round it.
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Of course being lazy can work the opposite way, had my prescription to collect, and all the glass jars/bottles to drop off at the bottle bank, on Saturday, so as I was too lazy to move the van, get the car out, put the van back and get in the car and drive round, I walked round, in all honesty it was probably no slower then including all the palaver swapping vehicles round and driving
 
biggs682

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DRM said:
Of course being lazy can work the opposite way, had my prescription to collect, and all the glass jars/bottles to drop off at the bottle bank, on Saturday, so as I was too lazy to move the van, get the car out, put the van back and get in the car and drive round, I walked round, in all honesty it was probably no slower then including all the palaver swapping vehicles round and driving
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I think I would have got the old Marin Bear valley out and ridden depending upon the amount of stuff to drop off
 
mustang1

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Is this the right place to mention Porsche's investment in some company that makes synthetic petrol?

I heard about synthetic fuels some years ago but I did not realise Porsche have a racing series where they only use this new type of fuel.
 
Jameshow

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mustang1 said:
Is this the right place to mention Porsche's investment in some company that makes synthetic petrol?

I heard about synthetic fuels some years ago but I did not realise Porsche have a racing series where they only use this new type of fuel.
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Sounds like green washing tbh.
 
Rusty Nails

Rusty Nails

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cougie uk said:
She might regret her laziness when she's wheelchair bound at 60.
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Nah. She drives to the gym and does spin classes three times a week.
 
CXRAndy

CXRAndy

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mustang1 said:
Is this the right place to mention Porsche's investment in some company that makes synthetic petrol?

I heard about synthetic fuels some years ago but I did not realise Porsche have a racing series where they only use this new type of fuel.
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That's all they can produce 😁

They will need literally tens of thousands of sites like the one in South America to make enough fuel just to satisfy the United States fuel demands let alone the rest of the world
 
CXRAndy

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On the back of stellar sales figures in Europe Tesla is adding a 4th shift to increase production further. Tesla hope to produce 500,000 vehicles this year from the German plant and anticipate 1,000,000 vehicles per year in the near future
 
icowden

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Rusty Nails said:
C'mon. Tell us how much commission they pay you for the PR?
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I know. It's almost as if Tesla owners have a passion for their Teslas (Teslae?) and just really think they are good.

One of the dichotomies that many cannot get their head around is that Tesla tends to do badly on reliability charts but brilliantly on customer satisfaction charts.
 
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