least favourite mode of transportation

we calls it a scram

I hate the idea/existence of cars the most, but still end up using them, and would rather take a 50 mile car trip than a 50 mile bus trip. So what should I be voting for?

how far from point A is point B?

Ugh as a carless person living through the summer in New Mexico, I am gonna have to say by foot. Even the bus is better (AC!!!).

I've never been on a train.

omg I love all forms of transport, I'd probably have to say plane though even though I love arriving in a new airport!

I know it's not the q but i fucking love trains!!!

planes are the worst but mostly because of airlines, also not enough room for anyone over 5'6" or so

so i pick planes

busSUXXXXX but i am especially hating cars this week so that's my vote

Poop trolley.

i hate cars because you have to park them somewhere, and they're expensive and pollutey and drivers are rude to non-drivers. i like bus for the most part.

aw but they're all good, except planes, because I've never been on one. Also bikes, which are conceptually great but I'm the only person in the world who can't ride one. Fuck you, bikes, I'm giving you my vote.

foot, bike, and train are tied for #1 best imo

Nothing is more physically uncomfortable than a plane (in coach, anyway, but I have never sat in 1st class). It still doesn't look like optimum fun.

I like cars because I can smoke in them and listen to my choice of music through speakers and not headphones.

Is a coach like a horse and carriage?

i love trams and metros so much, when I go to a new city I always read up on the subway there. Stockholm and St Petersburg ftw so far

xp It's like spending four hours in two square feet of space with no way stretch or move or even sleep unless you're really determined to. It's like a David Blaine stunt.

st Petersburg metro is the most awesome transport exp of my life, although overnight train with sleeping carriage to st ptersburg was also awesome.

also, trams in riga are insane and moonlight at night for xtra $$$

i voted cars but i make an exception for my DSO's car (cuz i like riding around with him).

I might say cars because they are hella bad for our earth

Haaaaaate foot. Sorry.

ppl w/ small feet hate walking most i bet

fresh air+exercise+getting where you're going = win for me

xp: planes are pretty awful for the environment, too.

I have small feet, and I like walking.

i have huge feet & i love walking

i do like small cars (subcompacts/roadsters/smart cars/minis). most of my car-hate is reserved for SUVs and hummers.

fuck walking, anywhere.

yeah, but planes are cancelled out because they take you to such awesome places. Cars have another level because you can sing along to Nelly songs in them though.

people with cankles hate walking

why, does he shout racist stuff while you're walking with him?

yeah he's like walk faster ho

I have cankles, (I think? but then I thought I had side boobs, but I don't) and I like walking.

jk cankles are the best mode of transport

they're the product of my Greek peasant ancestry -- helpful in getting heavy buckets of fish up the steep hills or something.

wait how does a person "have" "side boobs?" I thought "side boob" was just a portion boob seen from the side, perhaps through a loose sleeve cut

as in "Anne Hathaway is wearing a loose billowy dress and in this photograph we have captured some side boob"

why anne hathaway?

xp nabisco - we covered this in the no boys allowed in room thread. ENBB had an illustration of side boobs as her display name for a while.

I know it's not the q but i fucking love trains!!!

wz debating whether to do 'least favorite' or 'most favorite' first

also, bus v coach is meant to imply 'urban bus ride' vs 'eight hours on the motorway via national express', but i guess that only works if u r english - horse-drawn carriage etc would come under 'wacky write-in vote'

xposts this is the definition i understood of 'side boob' yes

side boobs would also count as "wacky write-in vote"

motorbike and sideboob

we covered this in the no boys allowed in room thread

I don't know what to do now

My long Amtrak hell last year was as miserable as flying coach, except it lasted three days westward and four days eastward. Easy choice for me.

sideboobs are boobs that angle off to the side, making it more difficult to achieve traditional-looking cleavage.

there has to be a better term for that

patriotic sorts, for instance, can call them "eagle boobs"

apologies for the lack of van/lorry options: not being particularly au fait with them myself, i did not stop to think whether they presented a sufficiently dissimilar transportation experience to the car to justify their own category. this was an oversight on my part.

Like a commercial van or truck? It is a bit different than riding in/driving a car, especially longer distances. It's less physically comfortable, for one thing. When I did it, it had this "life during wartime" appeal for me, but I can see how it could be unpleasant for others.

You need to be in the back with the guitars, amps, drumkit, "roadie", hangers-on, bottles half full of piss, farting etc

people fart in bottles?

Drummers probbaly do

I wish there was a Chicago-specific "CTA" option, because I would sooooooooooooooooooo choose that.

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I've never been on a train.

― an unctuous tamal (called) (not named) (Abbott), Thursday, August 6, 2009 12:26 AM (1 week ago)

omg how?

can't believe there was only one wacky write-in vote.

didn't vote, too contentious

probably a lot of americans have never been on a train. we spend all our money on highways lol

yall should take a train ride just for the hell of it it is awesome btw

I'd think that most Americans that live in the northeast have taken Amtrak somewhere -- just because it's fairly convenient, those tiny states being so close together and all. Don't a lot of people commute by train there?

yeah i have been on hundreds of trains bc i am from east coast but i mean if abbott lives in the mtn west it's understandable!

tram 2

fuck you

Whoever voted bike is a monster.

And foot too. WTF people.

had great times on this train:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/856059480_e45ecdddc8.jpg?v=0

http://www.gregscoasterphotos.com/images/scbb/cave_sign.jpg

train (overground; local) 0

wooo! this is my favourite of them all fwiw

Yesterday I remembered having some really bad experiences on houseboats, but I still stand by planes as being most awful.

train (overground; local) 0

wooo! this is my favourite of them all fwiw

― cockles (country matters)

louis in that case you should go and vote for it in this poll

most favouritest form of transportation

wayyyyyy ahead of ya pardner

if 'bus' and 'coach' were combined due to reconciliation of american/uk disconnect then we'd have a deserved winner imo

planes deserved to win.

I voted foot but not because walking in of itself is bad - it is awesome! - but because for me personally it is quite difficult.

both buscoaches and planes deserved to win and that bit in Speed is this thread's symbolic oracle

if 'bus' and 'coach' were combined due to reconciliation of american/uk disconnect then we'd have a deserved winner imo

i feel they are markedly different transport experiences

i voted car: it's the buslike experience you brought upon yourself

Buscoaches and planes both have their places, but I can't say that I enjoy flying ever and there are situations where I do like riding a bus.

i voted car: it's the buslike experience you brought upon yourself

Huh?

Thomp, I just get the feeling that most people voting for 'bus' were voting for Greyhound-style long-coach-trip experiences. As opposed to the gaiety of a municipal jaunt (which I can get behind to an extent)

How many people really simply love flying? I do (disclaimer: my flights are always 2 hours or less).
I just hate airports.

flying's great w/ a window seat in business class going somewhere awesome, glass of champagne when u sit down and xanax once you've leveled out. i mean c'mon u want to feel international once in this life it's the way to do it

i really enjoy takeoff and landing but hate airports and hate the boring middle of the flight breathing stinky air and being cramped

^this is true, but a rare rare experience.

xpost

i mean when i'm by a window i like it, not any other time xp

Yeah I always get a window seat and figure out beforehand which side will have the better view, then settle down with my ipod, order a drink or two, and take photos of SF, Seattle, the Sierras, LA, etc...

Dont mind flying as most of my trips are ~ an hour tops, or 4 hrs to perth, but the one time to the UK, I was stir crazy from the noise and the confined space after about 8 hours.

I might have to reconsider my flying opinion once I actually cross an ocean.

I'm mildly claustrophobic so being in a space I cant get out of squicks me a little.

^^ with ya on that. I think my preference for cars, is based on the claustrophia thing which is accented when I feel like I have no control over my environment.

i always get really psyched to fly and be in airports (unless there's a delay) but then once i actually get on a plane i'm like "wait, this kind of sucks"

Metropolitan bus is the only form of transportation that I've accidentally sat in a puddle of someone else's piss on, is why.

Less likely to happen on any other form of transport, i think.

Maybe subways.

Thomp, I just get the feeling that most people voting for 'bus' were voting for Greyhound-style long-coach-trip experiences. As opposed to the gaiety of a municipal jaunt (which I can get behind to an extent)

When I voted for 'bus' it was for the kind that do municipal jaunts. All the coaches I've been on have been fine (although should probably say I've never had the Greyhound experience and never been on a coach for more than 4 or so hours max at a time).

Local buses are just the pits.

I think local buses are great! But I've said that before. Anything -- ANYTHING -- is better than walking.

man, i love walking. when i was a kid i had this fantasy that when i was, oh, 20 or so i would walk across the country. just start somewhere, walk until i got tired, stay there, and then keep going the next morning until i got to the other end. it still sounds heavenly, but on a less continental scale. i would love to do the lyke wake walk! (it's probably for old people, but it still sounds dreamy)

i love walking too

I love walking, but not so much as a mode of transportation.