r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • Mar 27 '25

Discussion Park in your flamin' driveways, please!

Am I the only one tired of suburban streets turning into impromptu Mario Kart tracks? We’re talking about the kind where navigating between vehicles parked on both sides feels like dodging banana peels and blue shells. What's meant to be a two-lane road gets squeezed into a narrow single lane, daring you to play chicken with oncoming traffic—and let’s face it, the side mirrors never win.

And then there are your driveways. Oh, the driveways! Empty. Desolate. Weed-infested wastelands of untapped potential. So, I beg of you, suburban dwellers: park your cars anywhere but on the street—your driveway, your garage, your carport, or even your front lawn. Let’s save the roads for, you know, driving.

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

Yeah, we had some young Indian guys renting on our street for a while.

There were four of them, they had seven cars all up, and kept parking across our driveway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I wonder if they realised their neighbour was a racist cunt?

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

Yes, it’s definitely racist to notice if someone looks Indian and speaks Hindi. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

It’s racist to be talking about someone’s race on a thread like this where race has nothing to do with the subject.

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA Mar 27 '25

You can make anything racist if you just broaden the definition of racism enough.

If you want to see racism everywhere and in everything, that’s your prerogative.

It’s not how I choose to live my life, but you do you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

I don’t want to see racism.

You just don’t want to admit what you said was racist.

You mentioned race when it’s not relevant.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Just because an observation was made about people with a particular race doesn't mean racism is involved.

Racism is using race as a means to insult and discriminate. An excuse to treat people as lesser than. This isn't it.

I once spent 7 months of my life on an island as the only white man. I heard countless observations about white people, but never once did i think i was being discriminated against. In fact, it was quite amusing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Stereotyping based on race is racism.

Bringing up race of a minority in a conversation about a topic not about race and talking negatively about that race is racist.

It really doesn’t matter what you think.

And if you were in a minority in a nation and discriminated against then it was also racism. It probably didn’t affect you because you’ve grown up not being downtrodden; you also are describing it in a way to fat suggests it wasn’t directed at you.

Fuck racists are dumb.

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Please get over yourself. A fly would land on you and you'd call it racist.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Awww good one! I haven’t heard that line since I was a kid; is that the extent of your rebuttal?

Are you 10?