Our join dates and number of posts are similar to the point that you seem to "rush in" as often as I do. Most of my activity addresses transit and suburban issues because they are interesting to me as opposed to Condos for instance. Nothing wrong with Condos, I am just not interested.
Your objection to my posting on UT appears to be based on my opinions being contrary to yours, Chacun a son gout mon ami.
I don't think I rush into threads and immediately attack the other forumers with posts dripping with sarcasm and condescension as much as you do.
My objection is not the fact that you live in the suburbs nor your ideals, but that you feel the need to belittle everyone else for discussing ideas contrary to your beliefs. You are clearly intelligent and you love your neighourhood, but many of your posts are relentlessly and perhaps needlessly negative and argumentative. Let's bring up a few posts, shall we?
On a comment regarding people with professional jobs who cycle (their existence is denied):
The vast majority of your bikes are ridden by "others", deceive yourself if it feels good but please don't try to elevate your wishes to facts for consumption by the rest of us.
On a forumer criticizing sprawl:
If you really feel this way so strongly why are you a self identified resident of a suburb? let me guess, you are a 20 year old student living with mom & dad and taking advantage of their incredible stupidity to be living in such a place.
On professors (and why not to trust them):
We have all heard the voluminous justification pumped out ad nauseum by professors who are required to publish or perish. Their output generally consists of pages and pages of foot notes linking their current volume of drivel to that of their fellows and little original thought, after all, they are not going to call into question the status quo that provides them with a nice living are they?
An article discussing new ideas for the suburbs (the downtown is but inferior):
The planner is proposing developing the space between these homes and the street with separate buildings- not purchasing them and expanding them to the curb or allowing the present owners to do so. If the current owners wanted to live in an urban wasteland they wouldn't have purchased the nice homes they are in now, they would have bought on Bathurst...College...you name it.
A forumer comments on another entirely different forumer's post:
I am sorry that your comprehension skills are not up to the task but your disability does not allow you to ignore reality just because you don't understand it.
A forumer discusses his degree in Political Science (And off on a tangent we go):
JN_12: In order to enhance my appreciation of your problem please explain to the less enlightened of the board members and me what is "Political Science", why would one spend 6 years and $40,000 to attain certification and what would one expect to do with that diploma?
A simple urban density concept floated by a forumer, is turned into this:
These facts may disappoint you but they are the reason that you are really wasting your time trying to recreate quaint little 16th century European ant hills in Toronto.
Then a question is asked!
Since this thread is your project it may be time for you to get off your ass and do some homework yourself instead of begging others to provide you with information.
Of course, when people speak up, you respond like this:
You seem to define a Troll as someone who doesn't share your views, if this is the case I am proud to be declared a Troll.
I am not particularly pro-car, just opposed to the war on cars.
It is abundantly obvious that this topic is a waste of any thinking person's time but if you are amused with it by all means carry on.
I reserve the right to inject contrary opinions if and when I like.
Home made statistics (opinions are opinions unless they are mine, in which case they are far more accurate than others):
I will henceforth confine my postings to this forum to answering queries where I can help, letting the air out of windbags and questioning home made statistics used to prove a position.
Of course I'm not perfect too (perhaps I protest too much), but I try to avoid putting down people- you don't convince people by slagging them! Sure, the left-wing cabal may hate the suburbs, but I protest against retaliation because I fail to see the need for such animosity and accusations towards fairly benign opinions.
