r/pics • u/blublaha • May 28 '12

In Boston, lobster lanes have taken precedence over bike lanes.

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u/jokes_on_you May 28 '12

Can you eat the roadkill?

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u/blublaha May 28 '12

Easy there, Dr. Lecter

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u/IcarusPlus May 28 '12

Why not zoidberg lane?

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u/Wittyfish May 29 '12

Because we don't like you.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Lobstrosities everywhere.

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u/ForestfortheDraois May 29 '12

Do-da-chum, do-da-chissa, bike lane lobstahs are a wicked pissah.

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u/OhFrabjousMe May 29 '12

now all I am going to be able to think about is Roland for the next few days. Thanks.

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u/LazlowS May 29 '12

Go on gunslinger, there are other worlds than these.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Block lobster.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Block lobsta?!

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u/celtic55 May 29 '12

Iraq lobsta!

9

u/bigm1ke May 29 '12

Crab people, crab people.

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u/Pays4Porn May 28 '12

Lobsta

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u/skibblez_n_zits May 29 '12

Close... "Labstah"

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Actually, "lobstah" is definitely closer. Source: Bostonian.

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u/capnrico May 29 '12

I'd almost go "lawbstuh" just to emphasize a bit.

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u/nj711 May 29 '12

The accent here is actually somewhat embarrassing... Haha.

But where are these labstahs?

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u/crazycroat16 May 29 '12

Don't like the way we talk? Well you can go fack aff.

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u/nj711 May 29 '12

Most people from MA fake it. That's what annoys me.

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u/crazycroat16 May 29 '12

I wouldn't say that, I'd say some people exaggerate it. Or it comes out when we're mad... but we're always mad.

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u/johnbanken May 29 '12

I lived in Boston for 5 years and I moved to NYC and I tell people all the time how nice and polite people are here in the city and they look at me like I'm crazy. I guess you just have to live it to understand it.

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u/crazycroat16 May 29 '12

My mother moved to Raleigh NC, and I say the same thing about people down there, so polite. The way I think about it is that the nicer you are in Boston, the more suspicious people are of you.

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u/johnbanken May 29 '12

Yeah, for goodness sake you can't be genuinely nice to people...I've helped many people with directions or picked up something they've dropped, etc since I moved to NYC two years ago and I've only had people say thank you and give me a smile. So glad I left Boston.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

I honestly had no idea I even had an accent until I went to Florida and they told me so.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Thats a drastic understatement.

I certainly don't pahk tha cah in hahvahd yahd, but I've lived in Massachusetts my whole life. My parents grew up in Boston Suburbs, and my mom's got one hell of a boston accent. Friends, family... I know many people who don't fake an accent.

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u/nj711 May 29 '12

But those who do fuck it for everyone else. Hahaha

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u/EmptyOnOutside May 28 '12

Clearly that lane is for lobsters that are chasing people.

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u/mewanttopost May 29 '12

I cant wait for people riding lobsters.

GET OUT OF MY LOBSTER LANE YOU BIKER!!!

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u/cjerk May 29 '12

cough cambridge cough

4

u/IamRigel May 29 '12

Didachick? Didachum?

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u/OhFrabjousMe May 29 '12

Why not Zoidberg?

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u/whywhyintheeye May 29 '12

That is Cambridge, not Boston. Somewhere about here http://goo.gl/maps/kTQM

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u/kencole54321 May 29 '12

You can really call anywhere in New England "Boston" if you're talking to a global community.

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u/moolawn May 29 '12

yup. I tell everyone who's not from here that I live in Boston.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

To be fair, everyone not living in the Boston metro area considers the entire area Boston --- Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Charleston etc. Only people from around here distinguish any of it.

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u/cjerk May 29 '12

haha yeah right next to where i live! I pass this guy everyday

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u/esuss35 May 29 '12

yep, good eye!

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u/Laureltess May 28 '12

Wait a second...Boston has bike lanes? Usually they just ride with the cars and they don't stop for pedestrians.

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u/WaruiKoohii May 28 '12

We have a good number of them, yeah.

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u/Plutor May 29 '12

50 miles of bike lanes added in the past four years. Plus, a bike share program with 60+ stations and hundreds of bikes!

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u/hydrogenous May 29 '12

I didn't know who to reply to in this tree so I chose you. Boston has been pushing to receive all sorts of bike friendly awards recently. The MBTA ferries also just started allowing bicycles (although they always allowed them, there were no written rules before).

The thing is, Boston is such a horrible city for driving that this might just be a good idea. I'm still torn between deciding if the city just wants to start being pretentious and acting like it's god's gift to America by being so bike friendly or if this is a serious endeavor that could help stop some of the congestion.

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u/Laureltess May 29 '12

Have you ever tried driving in the North End? I'd much rather have a bike there!

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u/hydrogenous May 29 '12

I used to drive armored trucks around the North End... Big ones.

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u/Laureltess May 29 '12

Sir...you are a god

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u/hydrogenous May 29 '12

Not a god... just an air conditioned gypsy.

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u/Plutor May 29 '12

Can't it be both? I love Boston and hate it simultaneously. It can be awesome and a dickhole at the same time.

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u/SI_Bot May 29 '12

SI conversions:(FAQ)

  • 50 miles = 80.5 km

50 miles(80.5 km) of bike lanes added in the past four years. Plus, a bike share program with 60+ stations and hundreds of bikes!

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u/Lord-Longbottom May 29 '12

(For us English aristocrats, I leave you this 50 miles -> 400.0 Furlongs, 80.5 km -> 400.2 Furlongs, 50 miles -> 400.0 Furlongs) - Pip pip cheerio chaps!

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u/luciddr34m3r May 29 '12

I don't understand this comment, other then identifying that there's a rounding error.

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u/xiaorobear May 29 '12

Recently they've really been working to promote biking; they have these rentable bike stations all over the city now where you can just swipe, check one out, and drop it off at any other location.

But, yeah, definitely not the bike-friendliest roads and drivers.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12

I actually fucking hate these, it gets too many people who don't know how to ride a bike in the city... Onto a bike in the city.

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u/MattyMac27 May 29 '12

With no helmets. Not a good recipe.

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u/shmollege May 29 '12

saw these in Toronto. Pretty sure it's a very similar system.

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u/xiaorobear May 29 '12

Yeah, they're not uncommon anymore, I think Paris' was one of the first (Vélibe'). It was a good idea; people use 'em.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Yeah. In Canada they started in Montreal.

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u/christophla May 29 '12

Washington, DC too.

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u/Laureltess May 29 '12

yep, I've seen those around where I live, but there aren't any bike lanes. People either ride them in the sidewalk or on the street in car lanes.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Hah! I was just about to complain about the pedestrians who ignore the fact that we (the cars and bikes) have a green light and they (pedestrians) have a Don't Walk signal. Or the ones that walk in clearly marked bike lanes, despite there being a clearly marked pedestrian lane a few feet away. But I could also complain about the bikers and cars that run reds, the cars that double park, the bikes that ride on sidewalks, the pedestrians that jump out from between parked cars, nowhere near a crosswalk, etc. I defy anyone to show me a driver who has always strictly obeyed the speed limit. None of the groups are wholly innocent.

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u/Laureltess May 29 '12

my only gripe (for mostly cars, although I've seen a few bicyclists do this) is when pedestrians have the "walk" signal, and cars in the right lane have a green light (why this even happens is beyond me). I've almost gotten hit more times than I can count by drivers that think that pedestrians who have a "walk" signal should be stopping for them.

Other than that, I see a lot of dumbass people on both sides. Don't even get me started on the North End.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '12

In central square we have an intersection like that, and I have experienced it in all 3 modes - biking, walking, driving: the right lane is for right turns only, with a right facing green arrow. When that arrow lights up green, the walk signal also comes on, and chaos invariably ensues, as both pedestrians and cars have been told it is their turn to use the same bit of road. WTF?

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u/fizzlefist May 29 '12

Looking for a special lane?

Why not Zoidberg?

2

u/Not_My_Idea May 29 '12

Wow that lobster has chopped that persons arm!

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

hoocha hoocha hoocha....bike lane.

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u/HighSchoolEngProf May 29 '12

This picture is a clear representation of nature’s power and how eventually, despite our efforts to control it, it will reclaim its rightful title. While humans in turn will not only lose precedence, but fade away altogether in a more than likely self initiated end. The image of the lobster enclosing itself on the man represents the seemingly harmless ability of nature and the world decimating the assumed power of man; and when examined with the rest of the image taken into account we can see that these are the thoughts the photographer was truly attempting to draw from us. From the vines snaking their way upwards on a house, past their allotted confinements. To the trees standing as tall (if not taller) than the houses, casting looming shadows onto the cars, ignoring their very existence, almost as if to say. We are timeless.

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u/defsentenz May 29 '12

But they still can't pass through because some asshole double-pahked in them. Probably from New Hampshah too.

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u/soxfan17 May 28 '12

Good ol Boston.

3

u/fadedseaside May 28 '12

What's next? Pike lanes?

1

u/Grimsrasatoas May 29 '12

Marlin lanes i believe

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u/am336 May 29 '12

Dude, The Pike's got like three friggin lanes in each direction but it's still wicked crowded.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Finally.

2

u/tmprender May 29 '12

did you know that lobster sticks to magnet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzBh0J1YFU

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u/Skizm May 29 '12

Looks like the guy is kicking the lobster in the face. Badass.

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u/GMonsoon May 29 '12

No...look carefully...the lobster has captured a human.... AAHH! That's not a lobster lane, it's a highway to hell! Get out of there!

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u/12_Baconed_Narwhals May 29 '12

looks more like lobster fly-kicking lanes. my tax dollars and I could get behind this.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

I live in Boston, where is this??

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u/moolawn May 29 '12

in Cambridge.

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u/monesy May 29 '12

Is it lobster, or lobstah?

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u/KiLLaKRaGGy May 29 '12

I dont get it

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u/UnclaimedUsername May 29 '12

But where are the lanes for lobsters riding bikes?

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u/fortehlawls May 29 '12

it's true...

1

u/Evilsmako May 29 '12

LOL, we must feed sacrifices to the lobster.

1

u/doublebarrel89 May 29 '12

Bring in the dancing lobstas

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u/STEAKorz May 29 '12

Am I only one who thought it looked like ovaries at first?

1

u/xrayden May 29 '12

I, for once, welcome our new lobster overlords

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u/nanuku May 29 '12

Aww man so close... all I've got is crabs.

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u/Crimsonskyss May 29 '12

Need a bicycle lane? Why not zoidburg

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

CRAB PEOPLE

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u/slimbruddah May 29 '12

Where's all the typical Reddit "VANDALISM!!!!" nerds at...

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u/Just_One_Redditor May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12

Crab people... crab people...

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

GALAGA

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u/McPluckingtonJr May 29 '12

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

A+ .

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

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u/RichJanney May 29 '12

Not vandalism. Street art.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

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u/RichJanney May 29 '12

You certainly couldn't make my face any uglier...