Supply and demand, my arse. [Archive]

The_Dover

28th April 2006, 14:02

Look at these profiteering cunts.

Bollocks they raise their prices cos of the situation in the Middle East and the barrel price going up. Just like fuckin BP whose profits always seem to increase.

Fuckin tea leaves (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10379357)

Jonty

28th April 2006, 14:06

I bet if you traced the ultimate shareholding of Exxon you'll find some quite happy politicians.:angry:

Lou Girardin

28th April 2006, 14:38

I thought this was going to be a thread about Dover hocking his hips on K Rd.

Squeak the Rat

28th April 2006, 14:57

So did I, but I was wondering where the demand side came in......

GR81

28th April 2006, 15:03

mongrels! :ar15:

Qkchk

28th April 2006, 15:10

Cant just blame the Petrol companies - the bloody NZ Govt is raping us as well. You would think they make enough $ out of us in RUCs/Regos let alone their ever increasing profit share they take from the petrol as tax!

limbimtimwim

28th April 2006, 15:25

pritch

28th April 2006, 15:55

You would think they make enough $ out of us in RUCs/Regos let alone their ever increasing profit share they take from the petrol as tax!

This is approaching a sensitive area.

<RANT>The rest of the country is being taxed extra on their fuel to pay for the spectacular ineptitude of the successive Councils elected by similarly somnambulant Auckland voters.

The rest of the country should get a reduction in road tax, Auckland should get an increase! </RANT>

Lou Girardin

28th April 2006, 16:22

The rest of the country should get a reduction in road tax, Auckland should get an increase! </RANT>

Your getting 12% of our fuel excise as it is. That's 12% of 1 million peoples gas guzzlers ('coz we're all rich up here) fuel bill. I tell you what, we'll keep all ours and you keep all yours.

Qkchk

28th April 2006, 16:28

Your getting 12% of our fuel excise as it is. That's 12% of 1 million peoples gas guzzlers ('coz we're all rich up here) fuel bill. I tell you what, we'll keep all ours and you keep all yours.
Too bloody right............... I'm sure you'll have plenty of cars down south to pay for all those lovely roads.

Fooman

28th April 2006, 16:37

I saw something funny while riding into the metropolis of Tauranga over easter weekend.

It was a sign reminding drivers about cyclists. "One metre bubble" and all that.

Someone had spray painted on the sign "Pay RUCS then you dildos".

I LOLed.

This argument against cyclist's use of the road really pisses me off.

I pedal to work every now and then, and I pay road user charges, via rego on my car[1]. Yet I don't get a discount for the rego on my car when I do pedal in to work - less congestion and less damage to the road would suggest that I should! Never mind that the rates I pay to the local council also goes towards roading and cycleways/tracks.

Would the wankers[2] who complain about cyclists prefer it if I was in front of them in my car instead?

FM

[1] The motorbike is a) not road legal and b) doesn't have an engine in it at the moment anyway...

[2] No doubt the same wankers who go through 30 km/h road works at 100 km/h, not realising the damage they are doing to the structure of the roading, and their car, and other car's windshields/bikers helmets/lights. Ignorant knuckledragging troglodytes (present company excluded).

The_Dover

28th April 2006, 16:41

I have no problem with cyclists using the road.

If they obey the road code.

Not like all the lycra wearing haemorhoid smugglers I see running red lights, nearly hitting pedestrians, putting other road users in danger.

Not to mention looking ridiculous in lycra.

limbimtimwim

28th April 2006, 16:51

This argument against cyclist's use of the road really pisses me off.Oh, I wasn't argueing against cyclists uses of the roads. I just found the way the observation was put topical and slightly amusing.

Having said that

ARE YOU A CAR OR A PEDESTRIAN? MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU HYPROCRATES! WHY DO YOU RUN A RED LIGHT WHEN I CAN'T? WHY DO I NEED A LICENCE AND YOU DON'T MISTER CYCLIST? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!! PAY RUCS YOU DILDOS!!

Thankyou. :drinkup: :drinkup:

Squeak the Rat

28th April 2006, 17:04

WHY DO YOU RUN A RED LIGHT WHEN I CAN'T? WHY DO I NEED A LICENCE AND YOU DON'T MISTER CYCLIST? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!! PAY RUCS YOU DILDOS!!
Ahhh, the old let's get pissed off at bikers bc they can lane split and we can't argument eh? No, wait we're the bikers.... damn...:wacko:

limbimtimwim

28th April 2006, 17:07

Ahhh, the old let's get pissed off at bikers bc they can lane split and we can't argument eh? No, wait we're the bikers.... damn...:wacko:I wasn't being serious. Honest. But some people do feel that way. I really don't have a problem with cyclists. Good on them I say, doing less damage than us to the planet. Sometimes I see that smiling too, so there has to be something good about it.

:drinkup:

Qkkid

28th April 2006, 17:08

Scouse

28th April 2006, 17:08

This is approaching a sensitive area.

<RANT>The rest of the country is being taxed extra on their fuel to pay for the spectacular ineptitude of the successive Councils elected by similarly somnambulant Auckland voters.

The rest of the country should get a reduction in road tax, Auckland should get an increase! </RANT>Just cause you Ride a boring Hornet dont take it out on Auckland Look take a deep breath and say to your self "its ok if somone rides a better bike than mine even if they live in auckland" but I have got some sympathy for you as I had a ride on a freind of mines Hornet and I thought to meself fuck this is a realy depressing bike to ride

Fooman

28th April 2006, 17:13

Oh, I wasn't argueing against cyclists uses of the roads. I just found the way the observation was put topical and slightly amusing.

Never said you were!

ARE YOU A CAR OR A PEDESTRIAN? MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU HYPROCRATES! WHY DO YOU RUN A RED LIGHT WHEN I CAN'T? WHY DO I NEED A LICENCE AND YOU DON'T MISTER CYCLIST? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!! PAY RUCS YOU DILDOS!!

Thankyou. :drinkup: :drinkup:

You forgot wearing the helmet on the handlebars as well, that always cracks me up...

Join the lycra-clad revolution dude. They're the real rebels on the road...don't obey the road code and dress in ridiculous full body condoms, unlike godfearing and morally upright bikies eh :blip:

FM

Qkkid

28th April 2006, 17:19

Fucken retards if ya ask me. They still cant ride in single file either!

RIDE IN SINGLE FILE YA BASTARDS!

Fooman

28th April 2006, 17:21

I have no problem with cyclists using the road.

If they obey the road code.

Just like everybody else on this distinguished forum huh? :doh:

FM

(doing something to deserve the red rep)

Squeak the Rat

28th April 2006, 18:22

(doing something to deserve the red rep)
I was going to ask about that. For one so young (kb-wise) you are much bad-repd, mr buddha-finger. :lol:

Was it he napier lads re the bike for sale?

Cyclists=good. In single file!

Qkkid

28th April 2006, 18:25

Just like everybody else on this distinguished forum huh? :doh:

FM

(doing something to deserve the red rep)
hey havent you got any green rep buddy:nya:

pritch

28th April 2006, 18:33

I thought to meself fuck this is a realy depressing bike to ride

It could just be the way you ride:devil2:

28th April 2006, 19:05

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453851.3097222224.html

I saw something funny while riding into the metropolis of Tauranga over easter weekend.

It was a sign reminding drivers about cyclists. "One metre bubble" and all that.

Someone had spray painted on the sign "Pay RUCS then you dildos".

I LOLed.
Well that might have been funny if the Morons that wrote it had attended primary School and learned what a puntuation mark was for.
Look At Dover's perfect use of a coma in this thread title. Without it the whole meaning changes. Bling to Dover.

29/4 Edit- Doh, I meant to type comma

Rhino

28th April 2006, 19:45

Well that might have been funny if the Morons that wrote it had attended primary School and learned what a puntuation mark was for.
Look At Dover's perfect use of a coma in this thread title. Without it the whole meaning changes. Bling to Dover.
The word is spelt comma.:laugh:

Shit, I've caught "Hitcher Disease.":gob:

Fooman

28th April 2006, 20:11

I was going to ask about that. For one so young (kb-wise) you are much bad-repd, mr buddha-finger. :lol:

Was it he napier lads re the bike for sale?

Cyclists=good. In single file!

Not as far as I was aware - no rep until today. That bike would have been mine, but my wife decided to give birth the day the bike was shown/sold.

I'll have to park in disabled places and start mowing down grannies on the footpath now to live up to my rep now :innocent:

FM

Storm

28th April 2006, 20:24

Ease up mate, people might think you're an inconsiderate cyclist if you do that
:D:D:D

28th April 2006, 21:22

The word is spelt comma.:laugh:

Shit, I've caught "Hitcher Disease.":gob:
Good spotting. Don't you mean 'I've caught Hitcher's Disease'. In which case you will be collected in a Commer Ambulance and rushed to Hospital before you end up in a coma.

Insanity_rules

28th April 2006, 21:35

Wow we've gone from gas to cyclists to semantics and punctuation. I love how this place moves!

N4CR

28th April 2006, 21:39

This oil crap is about a shortage of refineries, not oil. They are stopping maintenance and shit like that so that it pinches supply and drives up prices while they don't spend a cent more in day to day operations.

Cool to know the real story eh?

marty

28th April 2006, 21:41

according to my son there's nothing like manualling (that's the flash name for old-school wheelie-ing without pedalling) 3 abreast for 100 metres down the main st of cambridge on $15 grands worth of MTB's. they always wear helmets and gloves though....

marty

28th April 2006, 21:42

or should that be grand's? or grands'?

no - plain old grands i think.

Felicks

28th April 2006, 21:43

Hmmm, fair argument.

I ride a motor bike to work sometimes, ride a push bike at other times (like when it's wet so the motor bike don't get wet) and use the car when its REALLY wet!!

Cylists complain about car/truck drivers for a multitude of reasons - and rightly so. I have had more than enough close calls to last me a life time and I honestly have to say I don't thuink I was responsible for any of them.

Car/truck drivers complain about cyclists similarly. Again they are justified owing to the red ligth runners, cycle on foot paths (grannys, mums with prams etc don't like that despite what anyone says), cyle up one way streets the wrong way and cut in and out or moving traffic with reckless abandon. Then of course there are those who use their helmets as handle bar ornaments...give me a break - little wonder our ACC bills keep going up.

We all know the majority on both sides are fine - it's the minorities that wreck it for everyone else and create the tension. The reality is - the minorities will never improve their driving, so....

This argument will never end as much as we'd like it to damn it.

marty

28th April 2006, 22:04

i ride a motor bike to work, a pushbike to work, and drive a car, depending how i feel, the weather, how late i am, if i can be fucked.

in/on each mode of transport i behave like everyone is out to kill me. i have lost friends on bikes, motorbikes and cars, both to impatient drivers, and due to their own impatience, and i don't plan on joining them.

and at the moment, 100% of my cycling, and probably 80% of my m/cycling is done on country roads in the dark, so i am VERY careful.

marty

28th April 2006, 22:06

and i enjoy not being a large user of petrol/diesel. the busa is ok for economy (about $20 a week), the car's on LPG, and the bike is on nutri-grain bars.

Pixie

29th April 2006, 12:12

The word is spelt comma.:laugh:

Shit, I've caught "Hitcher Disease.":gob:
He may be implying that he was in a coma when he posted it

29th April 2006, 14:57

Wow we've gone from gas to cyclists to semantics and punctuation. I love how this place moves!
It's always been about grammar! Sometimes some motorcycle stuff slips in.

scracha

29th April 2006, 18:14

HYPROCRATES! WHY DO YOU RUN A RED LIGHT WHEN I CAN'T? WHY DO I NEED A LICENCE AND YOU DON'T MISTER CYCLIST? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!! PAY RUCS YOU DILDOS!!
Thankyou. :drinkup: :drinkup:

Like half the bozo's in cages aren't running red lights routinely? Bicycles cause almost zero congestion and cause no damage to the roads so why the hell should they pay?

To be honest, I'm not brave enough to cycle in this country.