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Grown Men who can't drive. Do you find them weird?

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  • #302
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Meh, you object top people saying it's weird not to drive (and I agree with you) by making a passive-aggressive comment about drivers then yourself.

    I understand defensiveness but not throwing insults back.

    Go on Femme Fetale....they're freaks, really, aren't they? Hmmm?:pac:


  • #303
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    As a bloke I've always found that Women who drive & can drive well is a good thing.

    Somehow, I find that a Woman under 40 these days who can't drive is a bit helpless in a way.

    I was never attracted to helpless women myself.


  • #304
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Stained Class wrote: »
    As a bloke I've always found that Women who drive & can drive well is a good thing.

    Somehow, I find that a Woman under 40 these days who can't drive is a bit helpless in a way.

    I was never attracted to helpless women myself.

    Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha


  • #305
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    DeVore wrote: »
    When people say "I couldnt do without my car" what they really mean is "I'm too lazy to be bothered doing without my car and I'm willing to pay not to have to".

    What an odd statement. Too lazy? I live 4 miles from the nearest town, which wouldn't be considers a huge distance in the country. I'm in town approx twice a day, that's 16 miles in itself. Add to that football matches/ training all over the county, meetings etc with my only choice of public transport being a taxi, laziness has nothing to do with it. It's not practical, dare I say possible, to be without a car where I reside and living the life I live.


  • #306
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Many people can't drive to medical reasons.

    At the moment that is the issue with me. I am female it is a pain. And people do find it odd, particularly because I don't like to discuss the nature of the reason why.

    I may be able to drive in a year or so if I get the all clear from a doctor.


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  • #307
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    30 year old who cant drive is more likely to be a sensitive, sheltered metrosexual city boy than not.

    I know quite a few non-driving males of a certain age. The majority of 'em are chin-strokers who don't play sports and have an existential crisis when it comes to making small talk. As far as I know, none of them own this

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  • #308
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    MJ23 wrote: »
    It's just as bad as someone who can't swim. There's no excuse for it, unless you've a physical disability.

    You're not going to swim to Malta, are you?!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #309
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    DeVore wrote: »
    tesco.ie



    Buses



    Trains


    Aeroplanes.

    Actually, what REALLY helps with traveling to parts foreign and domestic is a fat wodge of cash in my back pocket :)

    You arent gonna drive to Malta now are you! :)



    Your life would be LESS limited and restricted. You'd have more cash to do lots of fun things.

    What your life would be, is slightly more complicated. You have to plan ahead just a little more and thats what most people cant do and hence want an expensive car for.
    When people say "I couldnt do without my car" what they really mean is "I'm too lazy to be bothered doing without my car and I'm willing to pay not to have to".

    In the end of the day, any time I need a car for a short period of time for some unexpected, unmanageable situation... I just grab a taxi. If you havent noticed, every third car is one these days :):)


    The only people who I give a pass to on this are fathers/mothers of more than one small child. They just couldnt do the general running around and lifting and dropping without a car. Even one child probably makes things worth getting a car.

    Everyone else might choose to have a car, its a valid choice, spend your money on whatever you want to and I know friends of mine who treat their car like a hobby and invest time and money into it on that basis, but dont tell me its "weird" not to drive..... mostly driving stems from laziness imho. :)

    I will agree with this in bold above. I will be the first to say that yes, I am a lazy fecker, and this is part of the reason I drive. Other reasons to myself having a car is the fact that my parents are old now and had to stop driving, so I'd drop them wherever they need to go so it's most definitely handy in this way for everyone.

    A person either loves driving, or hates driving, it's not for everyone, but it just makes things that little more handier for the family and my lazy self. If my car broke down, I'd just use public transport as I used to most of my life.

    When I was in my 30's I would always have dreams of driving a car, why I'd have these dreams I don't know, but they were always great dreams. So like I said before, I just woke up one morning and the curiosity got the better of me and I decided to purchase one and have never looked back. It just makes things less stressful from quickly getting from point A to point B, and for the family to get around comfortably.

    There is obviously nothing weird about a grown man or woman not driving, because folk are different in the way they like to travel and get around. The weird thing is actually the people that think it's weird.


  • #310
    Stained Class
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    fr336 wrote: »
    Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

    Care to expand on that insightful & meaningful contribution to the proceedings?


  • #311
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Care to expand on that insightful & meaningful contribution to the proceedings?

    No I just needed to convey my amusement. Though that was when I thought you were taking the piss...erm...


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  • #312
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Care to expand on that insightful & meaningful contribution to the proceedings?

    Oh :rolleyes: ffs :rolleyes: have you read the title of the thread is there anything insightful and meaningful to be said ?

    If you are not taking the piss you should be...cuz it's THAT kind of thread :)


  • #313
    thegreatgonzo
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    Rasheed wrote: »
    . It's not practical, dare I say possible, to be without a car where I reside and living the life I live.

    Yeah it's a completely different situation to someone living in a city.


  • #314
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    fr336 wrote: »
    No I just needed to convey my amusement. Though that was when I thought you were taking the piss...erm...

    Disappointed, I thought you'd add on more hahaha's


  • #315
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Disappointed, I thought you'd add on more hahaha's

    hohohohohohohohoho :p


  • #316
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Disappointed, I thought you'd add on more hahaha's

    I did. But apparently there's some Boards conspiracy against you I dunno


  • #317
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Lou.m wrote: »
    hohohohohohohohoho :p

    The C word is done for another 10 months ok :mad::mad:


  • #318
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Lou.m wrote: »
    hohohohohohohohoho :p

    Enniscorthy, is that you?


  • #319
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Driving's lazy if you use it to go to the shop down the street, but it would be stupid to walk somewhere taking an hour, in crap weather, when you could save 45 minutes of that hour by driving there. And remain dry.


  • #320
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    thegreatgonzo wrote: »
    Yeah it's a completely different situation to someone living in a city.

    Oh completely. The limited amount of time I did spend living in cities I can completely see the decreased need for your own car. Which is lovely and comes with it's own perks. Where I am though, with my work and hobbies, I simply could not be without my own transport,


  • #321
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Enniscorthy, is that you?

    No?? Who is that?? :o


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  • #322
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    fr336 wrote: »
    The C word is done for another 10 months ok :mad::mad:

    LOVE THIS :p

    I am a girl I can use the C word :P


  • #323
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Lou.m wrote: »
    LOVE THIS :p

    I am a girl I can use the C word :P

    I can't believe how sexist this forum is!!!!!!!


  • #324
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Driving's lazy if you use it to go to the shop down the street, but it would be stupid to walk somewhere taking an hour, in crap weather, when you could save 45 minutes of that hour by driving there. And remain dry.

    In whcih case |I get a bus/metro..?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #325
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    I'm 22 and can't drive (though I'm female, so I guess that's okay by the OP's standards! :rolleyes: ). For me, it's probably more fear than anything else, but I don't consider anyone else weird for not driving. It's gone really expensive to learn (you'd need at least €1000 to start) and then keeping a car on the road costs about €6000 a year. I've always taken public transport and never really had too much trouble with it.

    That said, I live in Dublin. If I lived where my dad grew up in rural Limerick, I'd probably have learned years ago. I hate the idea of relying on others for lifts and dragging people out of their way so I can go somewhere. I would also hate not being able to just go out whenever I feel like it.

    I'll probably start learning soon enough, but I can't see myself using it much after I pass the test...


  • #326
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    fr336 wrote: »
    I can't believe how sexist this forum is!!!!!!!

    It's SEXY..it's the sexy forum...

    Yeah it can get pretty sexist to be honest.

    Meh ... I am a warrior princess I care not for mortal sexists. :)


  • #327
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Lou.m wrote: »
    It's SEXY..it's the sexy forum...

    Yeah it can get pretty sexist to be honest.

    Meh ... I am a warrior princess I care not for mortal sexists. :)

    No Lou..you are the only sexy one about here...


  • #328
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Lou.m wrote: »
    It's SEXY..it's the sexy forum...

    Yeah it can get pretty sexist to be honest.

    Meh ... I am a warrior princess I care not for mortal sexists. :)
    fr336 wrote: »
    No Lou..you are the only sexy one about here...

    Bitches, please....!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #329
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭fr336


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Bitches, please....!

    Now you're even calling me a woman! What outrage is this!

    Erm..yes..HOW DARE YOU CALL MY LOU THAT


  • #330
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    fr336 wrote: »
    No Lou..you are the only sexy one about here...

    We are all sexy in our own little ways.


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  • #331
    Lou.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Bitches, please....!

    Bitch please what ??


    I'm listening. :)


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