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A picture of a guy on a bicycle taken from a window. The roads are covered in snow and the weather looks cold and miserable. Caption reads “This dude has to be either going to get weed or pussy.”

    • Osan@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.

    • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
      131·
      3 months ago

      Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn’t be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn’t plow, and nobody has snow tires because it’s only going to be a day or two.

        Yeah, southern drivers don’t know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it’s not really fair to compare them. It’d be like mocking Alaskins because they’re miserable in 90°F; they don’t have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.

        Not saying you’re mocking or disrespectful, I’m just on my soapbox.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        51·
        3 months ago

        The issue with “snow” in the south isn’t the snow part. It’s the ice. Southern snows usually happen when it’s warm enough to melt the first bit of snow then it drops to freezing temps and the roads turn to sheets of ice. That and the majority in the south don’t have winter tires, they run all seasons because when it does snow, it lasts just a few days at most. Why risk lives when it’s just a few days.

      • hateisreality@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        They have no ice combat infrastructure they can deploy. There was a storm about ten years ago and the roads froze the night before in an area with great winter prep. I slid home barely on a straight road 2 miles took 45 min, in an area where they can handle that. In the south they’ve got no chance.

  • RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    3 months ago

    Unfortunately this is me this winter. I have an ebike but no car, and my commute is 1h 15m every morning and evening in Minneapolis. I’m scraping by but the money for a car hasn’t come together so I’m trying to get warm gear together. It sucks.

  • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    Weed? Not likely. This is more like “im sweating and shitting and need at least a bump.”

    -Former opiate addict that has literally rode a bike in a blizzard to score. Like pictured.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      3 months ago

      Eh, while the Dutch are great bikers they aren’t super snow resistant, especially with global warming snowfalls are getting rare and a couple centimeters brings the country to a halt (but yeah they still bike).

      • Hagdos@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Dutchman here. I love riding in fresh snow. Very serene, empty roads, and plenty of grip. It takes effort, and I’ll be wearing lots of layers, so I’m very warm.

        Fuck old snow or black ice though. Like you say, snow is rare so I don’t have studded tires or chains and stuff. Usually the cycle tracks are well salted and plowed though. There’s even an app mhat can de bicycle route planning over plowed roads only.

    • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
      4·
      3 months ago

      Say less, everything I hear what makes me want to move there more and more. Say how do they feel about Newfoundlanders who speak French at a third grade level over there

      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
        2·
        3 months ago

        For some reason Newfoundlanders have been the butt of every joke for a long time and I still have no idea why.

        • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
          1·
          3 months ago

          It’s fine, we’re so nice we never say anything about it. Plus at this point so many of us have left for Alberta everything outside of the capital city threatens to be little now than a retirement village.

          We were getting a lot of biking infrastructure but now that the conservatives are in you can bet that’s gonna stop.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      You get 6 points a year. You’re at 5 now because last February you were snowed in for 5 days without power. You just have to make it until Dec 31st.

  • TheHotze@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    To be fair, it’s probably safer to bike in the snow than to drive. If you get stuck, you can just pick it up and if you hit something you aren’t that heavy.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 months ago

          You must have tree trunks for legs, but my very literal perception of this joke has always been ‘uphill, no downhill — just uphill’. As if they were on some kind of treadmill of hell.