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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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And my point is that "expensive" is also relative. Prices have increased not only in the States but also in other parts of the world, and America still enjoys extremely cheap fuel relative to other developed countries.
Americans do have long commutes, but so do people in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Americans don't have good public transportation except in cities, but the same can be said of most countries around the world. So please do us all a favour and refrain from insensitively complaining about high fuel prices when you have it so ridiculously easy. It's kind of like whining that you 'only' scored 98% on the test. |
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AiddonValentine
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I'm really hoping someone gets the Kenshin live-action movie out here at some point. The OVA just left a really bad taste.
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Ortensia1980
Posts: 803 Location: some town near Amsterdam |
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I'm getting Sweet Blue Flowers as soon as I get my salary. I'm really looking forward to finally watching it, because Takako Shimura is also responsible for Wandering Son which is one of my favourites.
Toriko sounds absolutely hilarious to me. I think that I might have to give that one a go. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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I had a conversation with a visiting Austrian about his car's gas mileage, and from what I understand, European cars also get much better mileage. So you're also using less gas than we are. Also everything in the US is spaced pretty far apart-- often you have to drive several miles to get to a grocery store, and our grocery stores are stocked such that not many are "one stop" shops, thus making us need to drive even further distances. ;p How much gas (volume) do you reckon you buy in a year? |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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Also public transportation isn't just bad in suburbia/country in the US.
Many cities do not have good public transport. I live in a city that has relatively good public transport but I still rate it poor compared to many places I visited around the world. |
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Polycell
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The interesting thing about the mileage situation is that the most fuel-efficient cars(which could rival - or exceed - the mileage of modern hybrids) were banned from sale in the US in the nineties, not too long before the price of gas starting soaring, because they were suddenly deemed to be "unsafe"(an interesting comparison: the '76 Dodge Dart Lite got 36 MPG, while the '13 Dodge Dart gets... 36 MPG, despite being a smaller, newer car with a four cylinder engine instead of six, because it weighs nearly a quarter of a ton more).
So while Americans might pay lower gas prices than elsewhere, we also have to deal with heavier cars and longer distances. |
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Chagen46
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It' s because 'MURRIKA is huge as hell--everything is spaced out and you have to drive FOREVER to get anywhere. My dad has to drive for like an hour and a half just to take me to school and get to work, for example. Yeah gas is cheap but we don't have good public transit because that's "socialism" (that is seriously why so many right-wingers here are opposed to it) and we have to drive everywhere. |
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CrowLia
Posts: 5505 Location: Mexico |
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I may not know shit about American public transportation but I think public transportation is shitty everywhere, and seeing how the US has always been the banner of capitalism and neoliberalism, I can't see how trashy public transport can be blamed on socialism unless you're completely misunderstanding the word. And unless the buses are running on three wheels, I don't see how public transport can be shitty enough to prefer spending whatever you spend on petrol to taking -slower, yet a lot cheaper transportation |
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dragonrider_cody
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It's not chagen that's misunderstanding the word. We seriously have politicians here that argue any government activity is "socialism", "communism", or "fascism", unless they serve their particular political group. I personally love when they use all three words together to describe our government, when they clearly have no understanding of the terms. |
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Chagen46
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Yup. Most americans have no clue what socialism actually IS. In the views of most normal americans, everything is socialism. Public education, unions, health care, gay rights, hell, public fire and police departments are "socialism". I'm not kidding--many right-wingers here are vehemently opposed to public education, though that's more because it actually educates kids instead of religiously indoctrinating them while filling their minds with pseudo-scientific lies. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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BTW you can thank the oil companies for the state of Public Tranportation on the west coast of the US as they bought them all up back in the late '40's and early 50's and put them all out of business, then bribed the states there to build more roads for cars and trucks. Remember Red Cars? |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
Posts: 3524 Location: Bellevue, WA |
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So, an installment of Shelf Life has turned into people spewing their political beliefs? Seriously? I thought the point of these threads was to talk about the article. Guess I was wrong...
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jr240483
Posts: 4378 Location: New York City,New York,USA |
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Doubt it. though Toriko is indeed shelf worthy. Also Right Stuff/Nozomi have that really bad habit of giving potentially good series no english dubs at all. I was glad they give one to ninja nonsense and the thrid, but it's the last known dub made by them. every other title have been sub only. and the biggest gripe dub fans have with them was of all titles they give Emma an english dub I mean come on. Of all titles of Right Stuff , Emma should have at least gotten an english dub cause of it's storyline alone. it's why i am not susrpised this new title didn't get one and it's why i'm skipping it even though i am a yuri fan. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Me? I'm lucky. I only have a twenty-two minute commute each way (that's pretty good for much of New Zealand), and the nearest supermarket is 2km (1.25 miles) away. It's about 1,650L (434 gallons) to run my car annually, and that doesn't include trips such as holidays or seeing the relatives. That works out to be almost exactly $3,000 in American dollars (at today's exchange rate). That's low, yes, but the average Aucklander faces a ninety-minute commute each way and that's if they get on the motorway before 7am. I sure am glad I don't live there.
Eh, that's not out of the ordinary. Urban sprawl is a global problem; in New Zealand we are sacrificing the most productive farmland in the world just to build more suburbs at our cities' fringes. Ugh. |
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