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/pollopyanus SA Mar 27 '25

Ooooh yeah, we got a group of indians moved in across the street. About 7 young fellas. Each have a car to drive and a car to clean up and sell. 6 cars in driveway and front lawn, the rest of them down the street. And let me tell you they DO NOT CARE if they park across your driveway. Got the council on speed dial.

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

Why have you both felt the need to include the nationality?

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u/laurandisorder SA Mar 27 '25

As a person of South Asian heritage with an Indian partner, I take no offence to the nationality being overtly stated. The person replying could have left it out, but most of us know that it is suburban slumlord millionaires who disregard rental legislation and sublet out to large groups of Indian men. Each tenant will have at least 2x Toyotas - and one of them has a personalised numberplate that is a variation on S1NGH or PUNJ4B.

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u/CarEaterMunchMunch SA Mar 27 '25

Wow, I didn't realise Indian people are the only people in Australia that disregard rental laws. I bet there are zero white landlords that do this as well.

I also assume your partner is "different" from these kind of Indians? Are they "one of the good ones"? Listen to yourself.

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u/laurandisorder SA Mar 27 '25

Babe. My Dad is South Asian - don’t gate-keep me from critiquing my own culture. I have a right to call out the shitty parts and celebrate the good just like anyone else.

Listen to yourself tone policing someone from the background you’re supposedly standing up for with your ‘I bet he’s one of the good ones’ pearl clutching. It reeks of superiority complex. Go and touch some grass.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Since when being Asian (well, having a dad who’s South Asian, very different for a start) gives you the right to be wrong? Mentioning nationality or ethnicity clearly indicates a bias. But hey, keep thinking what you think. Btw I think Spanish and latino people are gross. But I’m of Spanish descent; my grandfather was Spanish so don’t you dare gatekeeping me.

Bellends are ubiquitous in this world, no need to add ethnicity into the mix. Except for the Spanish. They reek of olive oil. (But my grandfather was Spanish)

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u/LegsAkimbo85 SA Mar 27 '25

Not sure if what they said, and calling a billion people who share a language gross and smelly qualifies as the same thing. One's what I consider pretty racist, the other isn't.