Intelligent Commentary
Sat, May 12th, 2007
Some of you may recall this post in which I discussed my frustration with off-road vehicles of all stripes. Though I don’t really care if people hurt themselves riding them — to my thinking, you should be free to do what you wish to yourself if you’re an adult — I do have serious objections to opening land to ORVs because of the erosion, pollution, and noise, particularly in wildlife areas. Moreover, often times opening up land for ORV use is a way of opening up land for other uses, including harvests and other development.
In response to my entry, a thoughtful reader wrote:
You guys sound like a bunch of dress wearing virgins with too much time on your hands. It’s 2007 and there are at least people who want to go outdoors still. Too many people spend all day behind an xbox but wow your precious little trees are more important than the people who actually go out to enjoy them? Get a life you morons. Not all off-roaders are bad for a forest. Maybe the hick with the chainsaw in a backpack should be shot but not everyone who off roads is going to destroy your little forest.
I almost don’t know where to begin with this. Of course, only “real men” fuck over the woods and enjoy being out doors with other “real men,” while the dress-wearing and womenfolk stay back home, spending all day indoors. It sounds to me, though, that someone has a little bit of a complex about, perhaps, their sexuality, their sexual prowess, and their “manliness.” Who else would use such empty and hollow epithets to deride an enemy, except someone for whom such epithets would hurt directed at them?
That aside, one of the reasons I hate ORVs in general is because I spend time in the woods. I go in the woods to get away from assholes, not to see them speeding by on their miniature cock-proxy vehicles at 40+ mph. Point is, I do get out and enjoy the woods. I actually want there to be woods for others to enjoy down the road, not just eroded trails, huge puddles, noxious exhaust, and beer cans strewn about.
This sissy, however, doesn’t need 450cc’s and a fuckton of gasoline to get himself around in the woods like the real men with the beer bellies. No, this dress-wearing, pinko liberal communist virgin (or whatever) uses his own power to get him over mountains, across rivers, and down trails. That, however, makes me the wuss. How odd.
# Comment by Drew on Sat, May 12th, 2007 at 7:47 pm:
I can’t stand these dumb jocks and their ORVs and it’s a trend over here as well. We don’t even live in a rural area - we live in suburbia next to an open field - and kids and “grown-up” kids insist on driving their quads bikes, etc, all over the place making a fucking noise and asses of themselves.
The cool thing or overt sign of manliness is to drive a 4×4s (or pick-ups as they’re know in the US) and even have special courses where they can learn to drive off-road and they even have clubs that go off and do their self-stlyed 4×4 safaris !! WTF !! We live in a country of distinctive beauty and these morons wanna tear the place up in their big hot-wheel cars (as Jello Biafra put it).
Anyway the trog that left the comment about the “dress wearing virgins” as you so rightly said obviously has a problem with his own manliness and should consider an outlet that addresses that as his ORV isn’t helping much.
# Comment by maria on Sun, May 13th, 2007 at 9:48 pm:
i have an orv license im 14 and the only think i remember from the video is that “stupid hurts!”
last year at school we took a “class”(aka watched a movie) and we took a test i passed they will let anyone drive those things im proof of that luckly i wont ever be using it
i also have a boating licence=D
# Comment by drasch23 on Mon, May 14th, 2007 at 2:22 pm:
I like the term cock-proxy and I plan on using it!
What a db.
# Comment by Pele on Wed, May 16th, 2007 at 1:53 pm:
I hear you. Living in the land of Michigan we see many ORV’s. Usually, it is in the winter months and people snowmobile around the area and proclaim that they are athletes. I don’t see too many four wheelers though.
On a positive note though, we are getting bicycle lanes here in town which is pretty cool.
# Comment by James on Tue, May 22nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm:
My mom lives in the high desert in California and everytime we go out to visit, all you hear is a high pitched squeal of a two-stroke engine and it goes down the road in front of her house. It is a fucking nightmare sometimes. And going to the liquor store all you see are “EXTREME” youth walking around with their female acquaintances (they call them something else) and their facial-hair.
It’s nice at night though when we can kick back in the yard in peace.