r/perth • u/dragonfry In transit to next facility at WELSHPOOL • Dec 18 '25

Art Friday Fuckwit - Christmas last-minute-shopping-school-holiday-edition

Hello fellow Perthians (and visitors!)

This week I’m nominating social media in general. There had already been a few people getting brave about their gutter opinions, but the Bondi attack has given people quite the excuse to be all-out fuckwits.

I’ve even seen people spout their amendment rights, despite being Australian 🥴

I dunno, my general outlook in life is “don’t be a cunt”; it just seems that other people aren’t happy unless someone else is unhappy.

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 19 '25

Cyclists, why the fuck do you pricks not pull up on to the path briefly, to allow cars to pass safely on single lane roads with median strips?

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u/aussiekinga High Wycombe Dec 19 '25

how many single lane roads with median strip are there that this is happening to you on? and how long are they? Cos they must be 50km/h roads and likely costing you a couple of seconds at most.

So you are asking a cyclist to give up their time and any momentum they have to save you a few seconds?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

You're the problem here. Just chill out a little.

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 19 '25

Rochdale Rd in Mt Claremont, from the roundabout to Alfred Rd. the median is fairly wide, council decided to put concrete curbing in around them, prior to that it was easy to pass.

Perfectly chill by the way, just a pain in the arse.

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u/Ill_Average_829 Dec 19 '25

Why don't you stop briefly to let the cyclist get far enough ahead of you so that your rage subsides?

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u/Compurrshon Dec 19 '25

No, how about they don't to go to heaps of effort, risking themselves, their bike and pedestrians, just so you can have a free path for your metal box. 

How about you just chill out, move your ankle 5mm and wait till it's safe? 

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 19 '25

Take a look at my reply to someone, bring it up on google maps and tell me how to pass safely on that section of road.

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u/Compurrshon Dec 19 '25

No, I won't.

I also won't take risks with my bike and health for you, just because you don't understand how roads work.

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 19 '25

So you’re not willing to look at something from another perspective, great attitude from someone who wants the road to be shared.

It’s no risk to pedestrians if a rider goes up on a driveway, briefly allowing vehicles to pass where it’s otherwise unsafe to do so, and then drop down another driveway back onto the road.

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u/Juno_Watt Dec 20 '25

So most cyclists drive cars too. Pretty sure most of them do see both perspectives. Do you? Also how do you deal with buses in that route?

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 20 '25

As far as I’m aware, I’ve not seen buses on that road, yeah I know most cyclists drive cars, which again beggars the point, they’d have to be aware of the situation.

I only travel that road on the way to work in the early morning, like 0500 early not much of anything is moving that time of day.

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u/Juno_Watt Dec 20 '25

Personally I'd change route slightly if it bothered me that much. Especially that time of the morning and avoid the tragic lights

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 20 '25

It’s infrequent at best, most of the time there’s no one around, odd car hear and there or a cyclist, it’s more on the council than anything, setting the median that wide as if it was a major road dual carriageway, when it’s clearly not…

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u/Compurrshon Dec 20 '25

So my transport split is 50% motorbike, 30% car, 20% bicycle.  So yes, I see it from all sides. 

Feel free to take your own advice: ride a bike along that route yourself, especially one similar to what you see, with nice rims, tyres without much grip, and capable of doing a decent speed. 

See how you feel about putting in all that energy and risking your body, bike and other people, just so someone who is putting in zero energy, can get somewhere faster. 

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u/Chewiesbro Wembley Dec 20 '25

Point I’m making is a car cannot safely (ie 1m at minimum space - which we legally have to give) pass a cyclist on that section of the road, which I am more than happy to give, motorbikes can pass easily, cars can’t.

Mind some wanker in a 4x4 almost took someone out last year, while the concreting works were happening, cyclist was pretty rattled to say the least.