What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
I don’t live in a town at all. I live in the country. I don’t want to walk to a grocery store 15 minutes away because I don’t want them to cut down a bunch of trees or plow up a farmer’s field to make one.
Great. I don’t live in a village. I live out in the country. Are you saying we should chop down the woods and pave over the farm fields so that I can walk to a bunch of shops?
Sorry, you want me to raise my family in a one-room hovel? Because I think “you didn’t raise your child living like a medieval peasant, therefore you had a choice” is being a little pedantic.
No one is forcing you to talk to someone who has the inability to think. If I thought that’s who I was talking to, I’d stop replying. I guess you enjoy this conversation.
“Grinch” and “Scrooge” may not be synonyms, but they have both been used to describe Jews like me for the crime of not celebrating a Christian holiday.
Oh yes. Especially when I was in school. And I don’t mean just from the kids.
This was close to 40 years ago and I still haven’t forgotten my elementary school teacher telling me to stop being such a Grinch and sing the Christmas songs for the school Christmas show because “we sang the dreidel song for you.”
I hate that fucking dreidel song, by the way. It feels like some Nazi wrote the worst holiday song ever just so he could blame the Jews for it.
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean he approves of other Christians filling those little free libraries with tracts and other religious texts. I’m sure many Christians would say that was inappropriate for children, who seem to be the main target for the little free libraries.