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Does waba have a donation tracker feed kinda thingey online anywhere? Did we manage to empty your wallet?

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@Bill Sweetman 184328 wrote:

That sucks for him.

Thanks for your sympathy, ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE EPITHET REDACTED

The details are a little unclear to me, and not to victim blame, but

But here I go victim-blaming, because smug biker.

it seems like he was walking on the left side of the MVT against traffic flow

What part of “when I walk the bike trails, I’m careful to the point of paranoia about hugging the right side of the path so bicycles and joggers can pass…. I was walking in a park within sight of the Washington Monument, using a footpath that didn’t seem likely to have many bicycles on it” seems to have overmatched your reading skills?

To be specific: I was in Long Bridge Park, which with one exception (connecting to Boundary Channel Drive to the Pentagon) is a dead-end at the north of Crystal City. And if you’re riding towards the Pentagon there are perfectly decent bike lanes on 12th and Long Bridge Drive.

This article’s suggestion that any of this has anything to do with whether or not cycling advocates have worthwhile things to say about traffic safety in an autocentric culture is unappreciated.

The hostile and ignorant commentary from much of the cycling community rather proves my point.

Thanks for clarifying the situation. Sorry I misinterpreted that part of this angry and unhelpful article that only damages relations between the public and groups advocating for improving safety for everyone using public spaces. Sorry I even read it. I hope you have a future free from further accidents and that you become uninterested in writing angry brain poison for strangers to read.

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That sucks for him.

The details are a little unclear to me, and not to victim blame, but it seems like he was walking on the left side of the MVT against traffic flow and should have known better, which is why he moved without looking and got run into. In the end this is a situation probably a lot of us regular commuters in the area deal with on a near daily basis and I’ve (luckily?)managed to not have it turn out badly in like 5 years of dealing with it. (save one old lady jogger pulling a crazy ivan into me after I came to a near full stop behind her and yes, had rung my bell before accelerating around her, neither of us were anything more than surprised by the collision)

In the interest of self preservation I ride around on the sidewalks rather than most streets on/near through the national mall. I have gotten into the habit of actually not ringing my bell around people there, no matter which side of the path/sidewalk they are on, because more likely than not they will either not respond or step into my path in reaction, so I just go slow and pass them more carefully than usual, expecting them to hold course if given no reason not to do so. It seems like the only thing that works, because I can’t expect tourists or others to know or adhere to the “correct” way to use public space. Do you guys think this is the right way to deal with the situation?

This article’s suggestion that any of this has anything to do with whether or not cycling advocates have worthwhile things to say about traffic safety in an autocentric culture is unappreciated.

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Note to self, method of waving hi to Steve-O must be changed.

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me

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It’s so embarrassing to be a person named anything but Jan with regards to this article, it churns the stomach

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For the nobody concerned: Dumpling 混沌 Hun dun is a homophone in chinese for the primordial chaos, or force, from which all existence springs and continues, a Taoist concept of how and why our universe came in to being and continues to manifest itself in infinite variations, so please don’t confuse it with a simple BUN of DOUGH. Just kidding that’s all bullshit and doesn’t matter.

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@PeteD 183872 wrote:

Dampfnudel?

Gehts net

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@consularrider 183839 wrote:

Ok, do Spaetzle count? Some think of them more like noodles, but others like dumplings. There are lots of dumpling variations in Germany.

Spatzle no, maultaschen yes

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I would just like to request kindly that people actually stop doing snot rockets on public trails unless they make very very extensive efforts to first check that nobody else is anywhere nearby. Seems like one dickhead or another blows his nose all over me about once every other month or so. It’s not a good habit, and it shouldn’t be up to other people to make sure they are somehow not going to get a stranger’s bodily fluids blown onto their body or into the air they will be riding through in a matter of seconds.

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The debate in the general info sticky is making me think it may be necessary to offer a prize to the highest FS’19 milage rider who isn’t on a FS’19 team. dunno what to call it though

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@LhasaCM 183605 wrote:

As a “YMMV” note – the original “you’ve signed up” e-mail went to my Inbox, but the e-mail from “Carol” asking to confirm the e-mail address went into my “promotions” folder (which is different from Spam, somehow). Gotta love Gmail, trying to be helpful like that.

Ahh, so that’s what happened. Didn’t even think to look for it there after the first one went through and it not being in spam either.

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Cant tell if they put their hazard lights on, but regardless, It’s ok, they put cones out.

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I think a mod needs to lock or delete this thread to stop confusing people. Registration for FS 2019 is NOT open yet.

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I, for one, am not ready to party like it’s 1999 about this

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