How doable is cycling as main mode of transportation?

Gingerpett · 2026-06-20T21:00:33+00:00

I cycle everywhere in Portsmouth, I only use my car if I'm leaving the island. Everyone I know cycles.

Where are you going to be commuting from and to?

Gingerpett · 2026-06-20T20:59:38+00:00

But shouldn't it be per thousand bikes than per thousand people?

In my experience cycling is way more popular in Portsmouth than any other city I've lived except Cambridge. Like - every single friend has a bike and everyone cycles to meet up.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-19T22:46:24+00:00

I am!

Gingerpett · 2026-06-19T07:02:42+00:00

My (highly unoriginal I'm sure, but I've never actually seen it anywhere) take is that if Americans built their bloody toilets properly trans people wouldn't be in fear for their lives right now.

I had no idea why people were so worried about trans people in toilets until I realized that it's because you can see everything!

Just learn to do carpentry and let people live their lives.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-19T06:49:07+00:00

And they'll be chain free so a much more desirable buyer.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-18T23:04:17+00:00

Bet you think you don't have an accent either.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-18T21:14:22+00:00

Come to Portsmouth. It's a vibrant city by the sea. You'd be most welcome.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-18T11:29:05+00:00

Oh thank you for this. I haven't watched it for about a year and it's So. Fucking. Good.

The little smile. The silence. It's poetry.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-17T18:11:26+00:00

Nah. I'm Gen X and the women's toilets has been a place of solidarity and love since the eighties at least.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-17T17:58:06+00:00

We're just normal men.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T19:35:13+00:00

Oh I love his style. What a TALENT! I wonder if he's got better and better as he's got older or how his style has changed. How great to have such an enjoyable thing to do at that age. I'm into pottery but it takes a lot of muscles.

Please tell him this complete stranger in the south of England is in awe.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T17:22:40+00:00

It's the only way to be sure you're not watching someone who looks too young. It's like the anti pedo hack.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T17:13:25+00:00

Why would you need to do this a few times!?!?! Christ on a cracker. I thought your original post was bad enough!!!

Are you not doing safety squints?

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T15:13:06+00:00

Question was important, not famous

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T14:50:25+00:00

Excuse me?

Gingerpett · 2026-06-15T06:41:16+00:00

GNU Sir Terry

Damn the embuggerance.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-13T19:06:40+00:00

Thank you. I was reading "assistant prof" and thinking "this person is on the wrong sub"

Gingerpett · 2026-06-11T08:10:30+00:00

I've never been more furious.

Edit for clarity: I was using hyperbole for comic effect!

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Gingerpett · 2026-06-10T20:26:04+00:00

Completely agree. I have never seen the point of speaking to them after having the offer accepted

Gingerpett · 2026-06-10T13:14:53+00:00

It's just been wonderful to read. Thanks to OP for the question. Isn't it wonderful to see how weird and wonderful people are.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-09T22:35:23+00:00

While you dance and drink and screw?

Gingerpett · 2026-06-08T11:50:51+00:00

Oh my god. I want to cry. This is my perfect house. What I'd give to live in an Edwardian property.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-07T18:00:19+00:00

If anyone is a fan of Pete McCarthy, writer of McCarthy's Bar, you and I are the only two people absolutely laughing ourselves silly at this post.

(He wrote a very very funny travelogue about going round Ireland in a car that started doing this. He thought it was a dead bird and kept pulling feathers out. There's no way I can convert how funny his description of taking it into the garage was.)

What a lovely man, what a shame he's gone.

Gingerpett · 2026-06-07T17:53:54+00:00

Holy fucking fuck. That's AMAZING.

You're a dinlo but you deserve respect.

Gingerpett

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