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Williwaw16 июня 2011 г.'They tried Communism in Russia, Geoffrey, their buses were worse than ours and everybody had to eat cabbage for the rest of their lives.'
218- Williwaw14 июня 2011 г.Читать далее
The production of a single private car consumes the sort of natural resources which could keep a famine threatened village in the Third World going for months. This, combined with the incalculable cost of the road it will require and the fuel it will consume, turns each car into an environmental hand grenade. Certainly we need cars. Certainly catalytic converters are very good things, but to imagine that fitting one will make a car environmentally friendly . . .? You might as well fit one to a bucket of napalm.
222 - Williwaw21 июня 2011 г.
Horns serve no practical purpose: they are there to alleviate personal frustration and to insult and annoy other road users. Their only real use, the one defined in the driving test as 'announcing your presence', is rendered completely useless by the fact that they are used so often to say 'fuck off that that is the only message which other people hear.
110 - Williwaw17 июня 2011 г.
'What, you mean a tram freak?' asked Bruce, relieved to hear that the condemned man was atl least an evil person. 'One of those guys who wants half the damn freeway reserved for buses?'
'Exactly,' said Sam. 'Can you believe the sickoes God put on the Earth?111 - Williwaw17 июня 2011 г.
A transport policy which is prepared to happily allow a million cars into a city that physically only has room for half that number, despite the general suffering of all concerned, will eventually get round to allowing the owners of fun top jeeps to chuck wheelies in Kew Gardens.
17 - Williwaw16 июня 2011 г.
Do cars enable the people who live on main routes and have to listen to traffic all night? Do they enable old people who can't cross roads, or have to walk miles extra to find a crossing? Do they enable the five thousand people killed each year in Britain, or the forty thousand in the US? Above all Deborah, do they enable the hundreds of thousands of people stuck in jams every day? I mean do they really?
17 - Williwaw15 июня 2011 г.Читать далее
There are at present about five hundred million trucks and cars in the world and the Earth is literally staggering under the strain of them. Yet, in fact, only a small part of the world has yet been car colonized. Almost all of the five hundred million cars and trucks are located in the Westernized, developed world, eighty one per cent in fact.
It was lucky for Digby that the three or four billion inhabitants of China, the Soviet Union, India and South America did not turn up that afternoon at the conference and, having had their food bowls thoroughly searched, come into the hall to claim their inalienable rights. Should those populations ever achieve the levels of car ownership prevalent in the West it would undoubtedly and, as a matter of simple fact, destroy the planet. Hence, what Digby really meant was the inalienable right of every man and woman in Europe, North America and Japan to own a car if they so wish.
18 - Williwaw14 июня 2011 г.
He's a public transport nut, he hates private cars, reckons we should all be sat behind each other on stinking buses, picking the chewing gum off our pants.'
'Mother of God ain't people sick?' said Sam in disgust. 'The guy's probably into free love too.'17 - Williwaw14 июня 2011 г.
Most Parisians do in fact speak some English, but out of pure bloody-minded snobbishness they refuse to do so in the company of the British. When accosted by a desperate, sweaty, confused Brit asking, 'Excuse me, but do you speak English?' the immaculately dressed Parisian wjll raise a languid eyebrow and enquire, 'Yes, do you speak French?'. It is a little known historical fact that it was this irritating habit which was the principal cause of the Hundred Years War.
16 - Williwaw10 июня 2011 г.
There were computers, printers, swivel chairs, kettles, stuffed Snoopies and amusing stickers proclaiming that you didn't have to be mad to work there but it helped.
These stickers were originally developed by psychologists as a test to enable office managers to determine an employee's utter dullness.19