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• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1 mile

  take the bus

  This is a complete fiction, right?

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know why everyone’s going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That’s huge time savings regardless of the weather.

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Colleges love to flex their local bus service. Especially if it’s a big campus in the north.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fiction or American.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You think people take the bus in America?

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  • LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I actually did this at my US college.

    I could take the bus which went 1 mile in 5 min which stopped outside my student apt complex.

    Or I could walk for 45min along sidewalks around a couple city blocks and effectively walk like 4 miles to go one mile because there was no direct walking path through the residential neighborhood between my apartment and my college.

    I wish I was lying

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  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not really. I used to take a bus every day to get to the metro station for a distance of only 1.5 km (0.93 mi). It’s because I was always o

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  • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When I was 330 lbs. (150kg) it would take me 30 minutes to walk a mile, and I would be post-exercise dumb for at least 30 more. You don’t want to the post-exercise dumb for class (taking or teaching).

    Now (225 lbs. [~102kg]), it would still take me about 15 minutes to walk it, tho at that pace my HR wouldn’t significantly increase, and I might decide to take the bus instead, if there’s any sort of weather.

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    • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For everyone, I’d like to point out that the bones on this man were the same size, carrying 150kg vs carrying 100kg. They would continue to be the same size at 70 or 60kg.

      Imagine, the next time you wonder how fat people have poor health outcomes: the same 10 square centimeters of bone in the legs could be carrying 40, 50, or a full 100 kg of weight. Or worse, the cross section of cartilage between the bones. Or worse. More weight than that.

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    • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks. Yes I get it. I am projecting too much of my own experience here.

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If it’s a campus bus it’s almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.

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  • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ??? Free college buses around campus in the winter time is dope what’s the problem

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  • Katzenmann@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why? Do you live in america or something where bus infrastructure is bad?

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    • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m moderately flabbergasted that you’d consider anything other than walking for that kind of distance.

      But I don’t know the particulars here so maybe I should have kept my thought for myself.

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    • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Non-american with great infrastructure here: For anything below 2 km I’m walking.

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  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Free bus and constant buses arriving? Why not.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eh, 1 mile is pretty far when carrying a heavy backpack. If it’s free, I’d take the bus.

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    • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pfft. When I was young, I had to walk to TWO schools while carrying TWO heavy backpacks. The bus wasn’t free because buses were still feral vehicles that tried to kill us on our way to school.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wtf kind of school are you going to if you have a heavy packback? Unless you are taking welding equipment to school or something you really don’t need much at all. School backpacks are usually pretty small.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean depends on the weather and how much time you have. I have a shop I go to regularly about 5-10 minutes walking distance away. Some days I just don’t feel like walking and take the bus. If she had to go there more than once per week I can completely understand some days just not feeling like it.

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    • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah fair enough really. Again I don’t know what’s going in everyone’s life so I shouldn’t judge.

      But really everyone’s a weakling these days, except me of course. I’m very tough (I drive a cybertruck)

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  • papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Does it feel better if you say it’s a shuttle instead?

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  • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I took the bus for those distances several times when in college.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    1 mile take the bus

    This is a complete fiction, right?

    Wait. Hear me out.

    Chilly snowy winter campuses, especially in the frozen North where it gets chilly and snowy, will often be nigh impassable after they close down the underground tunnels – which they invariably do permanently as soon as there’s any report of crime down there - and then it’s either walking in your moon boots across the couldn’t-afford-to-clear snowy campus pathways in 2ft of snow, or take a bus from one collection point to another and cut down on the trudging.

    I dunno how OOP rode his bike, though, unless it wasn’t snowy and kids are used to the shuttle service (me, I’d speed-walk across campus a few times a day. I was in great shape!) .

    Just, small bus routes can be crazy-valuable if they avoid risk. That’s all.

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  • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its a greentext, so yeah.

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  • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve known people who have taken the subway/metro to get between classes on the same campus, so this is still plausible

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  • flx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    maybe she had a tight timetable idk

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• festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  fake: anon has a girlfriend

  gay: uhhhh oh no is this real

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I war of the worlds’d my partner once. It’s the sort of thing you do once, realize just how fucked up your actions were, and learn never to do it again, or a yearly tradition if you’re with precisely the right person.

  Created like 2 years of emotional dependence from that. Really stagnated our personal evolutions. Truly a terrible joke. I regret it weekly.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What did you do exactly, if you don’t mind us asking?

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      NO

      It’s replicable and I know one of you will consider trying it despite the flashing warning signs. I’d rather not instigate others into betraying the trust of those closest to them. When I said that I regret it weekly, I was entirely sincere.

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    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I once somehow convinced my girlfriend that we didn’t have a dog and she had just imagined it. I stopped making jokes like that afterwards.

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  • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You what

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    • belastend@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Faked a narrative so convincingly that the partner really thought something (i guess) terrible has happened.

      You know, like when War fo the Worlds was aired for the first time, people really thought aliens had attacked the US.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not looking to date myself or offer others my abhorrent methodology, but this is what I took inspiration from.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What does the titular WotW reference mean here? I haven’t seen the movie.

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    • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I assume it’s in reference to the 1938 radio adaptation of the novel The War of the Worlds, which was framed as though it were a legitimate news broadcast being periodically interrupted by reports of an alien invasion. What we might consider “found footage”-style nowadays if there had been, you know, actual footage. Story goes that a non-zero number of people didn’t get the memo that it was a radio play and thought Martians were actually invading.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      [Your joke is excellent but my nose is bleeding and I blame you.](en.wikipedia.org/…/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_ra…

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• lowleekun@ani.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fake: anon has a girlfriend gay: anon dislikes women so he pretends to ‘prank’ them

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• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First time green text EVER had me laughing! Ever.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Op should tell her asap. Op caused this and if op truly cares about the situation they should take responsibility and the blame.

  Worser cases reality 1: The panic attack was unrelated and Op is a stone cold bastard for not asking/showing empathy about it.

  Worser cases reality 2: Gf thinks there was someone else and she had cheated with on accident, these panic attacks keep occurring as its settles as a deep trust issues complex.

  Best case reality: Op tells her straight to the point and offers a sincere apology. Gf forgives op, and the relationship is strengthened in the long term.

  Mixed reality: Gf is furious and dumps Op on the spot. They both dodged a red flag and were simply not compatible in finding eachothers boundaries. You don’t pull jokes like that on a single whim, it’s clearly part of their nature.

  This is a green text and probably fake btw.

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is […] probably fake btw.

    YOU SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW GODDAMMIT

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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you the kind of person who thinks pranks are inappropriate too?

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pranks are only funny when everybody is laughing.

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    • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      As someone who has experienced psychotic episodes in the past, this “prank” would really fuck me up in a really unfunny way.

      We don’t know much about the gf, but we know that she supposedly had a panic attack over it, and that’s not funny.

      I’d find it funny only if I was told within a couple minutes (before having a panic attack, contacting my psychiatrist, and making arrangements for a potential inpatient stay), and I would absolutely dump a partner who’d refuse to apologize for this.

      You honestly wouldn’t apologize to your partner after your ‘prank’ gave them a panic attack?

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not at all, i just respect that people have personal boundaries and its ok to not be compatible with everyone.

      Personally i would love this prank. But i also dis experience one where my headphones disappeared and reappeared in my Locker where i would never put them. I am autistic and mentally just spiraled till my best friend came clear.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sounds like really good boyfriend material, as usual. Instead of being grateful that someone found their wretched existence worthy of love (or whatever that was).

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    good thing it’s unreal and homosexual

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I used to race the bus to work and I’d usually win. It’s hard over any significant distance.

  Good on you OP. Keep on peddling.

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