The cobblestone roads shook up all the drinks I was carrying home on my bike 😠
Two nuns are riding their bikes back to the convent.
One nun says to the other, “I don’t think I’ve ever come this way before.”
And the other one says, “It’s the cobblestones.”
It seems the solution to all your problems are:
- Big trucks
- Suburban sprawl
- Privatized healthcare
- Rabid anti-communism
- Christian-fascist leaders
3 of those are already set in motions.
I live in the Netherlands. Every year I see more and more American trucks on the road. The cancer is spreading.
We need a 500% tariff on US vehicles.
500% import duty is way too much.
80% is enough.
High one-time taxes are not a good idea.
Rather dilute them into 8 seperate yearly taxes.
A curb weight tax of 40% sounds reasonable. A fuel inefficiency penalty of 25% also sounds good.
At least a 15% tax on anything shorter than 1 meter being invisible from the cabin is also very warranted.
That’s 3 of 8.
Additionally, whenever a truck is involved in a crash treat it disfavourably. That should drive up insurance premiums.
So with my 80/80 tax mix they’d actually pay 880% tax in the first 10 years of ownership with 3 basic taxes.
There is hope! I convinced my neighbor to downgrade his f150 into a Tacoma…
I can’t stand big cars.
We need to stop it from spreading. Genuinely ass to see these non-logical small pp vehicles exist here in any capacity.
Ugh, same here in the UK. I live on a tiny road and have to watch my neighbour struggle to parallel park every day. Why does he do this to himself? He looks miserable.
Or a mountain bike with suspension
Or drinking less soda
nah, bring me my christian-fascist leaders!
/s
Maybe throw a housing association in there too. You’ve gotta make sure your fining people for growing the wrong flowers.
Or simply waiting a bit before drinking the soda to let the CO2 settle and stop being a whiny little baby about minor inconveniences.
Let a girl shitpost! My manager insisted that I take the day off to enjoy the nice weather and I’m bored as hell 😠
manager: have a day off, enjoy the nice weather!
home inside: 32°C
Damn right, girl! Shitpost and chill!
Throw a mentos in those bottles and you’ll no longer be bored
You’ll have to wash 3 years of laundry after, but you won’t be bored
Lemmy Shitpost is actually a place where people can come and dissect humor, and eventually turn it political.
Number 4 is reasonable if people are educated on what Marxism is in theory and practice
Now see. That is communism. And communism is just fucking Hitler.
Fascist religious leaders on the other hand might save you in the end.
Ha! I needed baguettes, got two and tossed them in the bike basket, feeling so European, until one loaf bounced out and was run over by a car, at which point I felt oh so American!
somebody crusha ma baguette 🐭😡
American here. I have seen plenty of roadkill in my lifetime, but none of it was ever a baguette.
In my experience the roadkill is way more likely to be the cyclist. You really can’t ride a bike where I live.
Shaking does not affect this the way you think it does. You’ll be fine as long as you wait like 10-60 seconds after shaking vigorously. The liquid and gas pressure inside will reach equilibrium, and no matter how much shaking you do, it won’t degas further.
Also, keep in mind that it’s mostly temperature and surface area that causes soda to degas (fall out of solution).
Fun fact: this is why paper straws are inferior to plastic straws for drinking soda, because paper is insanely more porous than plastic, and causes rapid degassing of the soda inside of the straw, rather than in your mouth, throat, and stomach. (There are other reasons, too, but this one is often not considered by most people)
Carry metal straws. They’re awesome
I raw dog my drinks.
Cool them down and let settle before opening. Should help.
This is why you need aomwthing with tank treads. Like a tank for example
Stupid part is that I can’t ride a tank around here with all the tank-hostile architecture 😠 They got these triangular tank obstacles scattered around everywhere, it’s so inconvenient!
https://www.slashgear.com/1567777/ww2-dragons-teeth-tank-obstacles/
Op didn’t say if they were in Germany or not.
Or just say you’re feeling like Poland and tanks will appear
The worst part is becoming accustomed to fresh, high-quality food and espresso within 100m of every human at all times.
Also, OP, why are you having “American Breakfast”? Where’s your croissant?
Where’s your croissant?
In my MOUF
The deathgrip. As if that croissant owes you money or something.
She’s just still so mad that her drinks are all shaken up.
Are you dipping that croissant in ketchup
I don’t think she’s Scandinavian.
Vad var det du sa
At folk fra Skandinavia pleie å dekke alt med ketchup selv om det ikke passer i det hele tatt.
It’s probably jam
Tomato jam
Are those croissants store-bought or from a bakery/cafe? Because i’d like to know where I can buy vegan croissants that look that good.
They’re from Moss, a chain of bakeries around the Aachen area ^^ Their vegan Streuselbrötchen are incredible as well!
That’s even “worse” than the 15 minute city. MAGA would lose their minds.
Would have been fine if you bought real food/drink.
How would padding it with vegetables have helped? Would seltzer water have been less shaken up?
Shaming someone biking to and from the store for getting zero calorie soda is ridiculous. Post the contents of your last trip to the grocery store. Made on foot or bike I’m sure, right?
To be clear, even if the answer to that was yes and you eat nothing but ‘health food’ it wouldn’t give you the right to sneer at what other people eat and drink.
nah they’re right, I eat like shit
Hats off to those who recognize their own bad habits.
Although really, in terms of bad habits, this is relatively minor.
Although, it is also bad for beer.
Now that’s an argument!! Gotta get a little trolley for my beer trips
Still doesn’t give anyone a reason to be an ass about it. Nobody has a perfect diet and habits without having an eating disorder.
Nah, cola is fine, it’s just that it’s American. There are quite a few awesome local brands you can drink here.
As a Dutchy, and BuyFromEU, Fritz Kola from AH is amazing.
I drink that and Fentimans when I do.
Fentimans or Bundaberg ginger beer and whatever Kinley sells is not even the same league.
They have taste beyond the insane amount of bland sugar.
Sometimes people want some nice snacks and shizz
nice drinks don’t support an Apartheid genocide
Hmm?
coca cola has illegal Israeli bottling plants in the west bank.
huh, that is good to know. Another reason to just get the store brand next time
TIL
As someone who’s lived on a cobblestone street before, it’s nice to look at, but a lot less functional than asphalt or concrete. Especially trying to walk home from the bar with a few drinks in you.
They’re apparently also pretty good for slowing down cars in pedestrian-heavy areas, but yeah, taking a fall on those after a few drinks does hurt like shit haha
On the pro side, if done well, they outlast every tar road by centuries.
I don’t live in Europe, but I’ve heard horror stories about how slippery those streets get in the rain
Can confirm, having worked food delivery in the Netherlands.
There’s a really good reason they’re only used on low speed streets and squares, and now large roads.
They do, they get very slick in some conditions. In winter/freezing conditions it’s an outright hazard. But there really aren’t that many such streets left, and the few that are are slowly being changed to asphalt too.
Also a bitch to walk on in high heels, no matter the weather!
At least 50% of the problem is high heels though. Respect the sacrifice of anyone who wears them
It also makes blisters on your feet hurt A LOT (probably not a problem for most people, but I have a condition that makes me blister a lot more :( it’s ruined so many trips that I would have otherwise enjoyed)
I was very fortunate to go on a vacation last month in Belgium where we rode bikes to several different towns.
It was awesome, but the cobblestone streets in some of those old cities are ROUGH. Just bone shaking. The chain on the bike I was riding bounced off once when I needed to shift.
If that’s the worst part you’re having a goddamn amazing time.
If you shoot your finger against the side (like shooting away a cigarette bud) several times, then slowly rotate the bottle around it’s axel while it’s standing on a table several times, you can safely open them without them squirting all over the place. It truly works, also with shaken soda/beer cans.
What I do with these groceries is put them in a bag on my back or in my hand when cycling. The rack is for other stuff like veggies and other stuff that can handle the shaking or might get shitty when stuffed in a bag.
But you have a nice rack on your bike. Although it looks hard to take anyone on the back, unless they stand upright.
I can confirm, flicking your finger on the side of the bottle works. I have no Idea why tho.
There’s more CO2 dissolved in the water than there can be at atmospheric pressure. The CO2 is constantly trying to escape, but in order to do so it needs a nucleation site that disturbs the water. When the drink is shaken, lots of little bubbles form, and stick to the inner wall of the drink. These bubbles are nucleation sites. Flicking the side of the drink makes them float up and pop.
Increases pressure so the gases dissolve back into the liquid. Probably.
That makes no sense. I apply way more pressure than a flick just by holding the bottle to open it
A backpack would solve this. Our bodies are suspension, so just put anything shake-sensitive in your backpack while driving home.
Maybe you should put something to dampen that. Like bubble wrap, newspapers, stuffed animals?
You’re saying I should have bought more chips?? Don’t mind if i doo
As long as they’re hot they shouldn’t pop. The fizzing over should only happen when it’s cold.
No cobbles in the pictures
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