@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk
Post #1718927
2023-11-12 23:38 UTC
Replies (40)
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@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk 2023-11-13 08:14
So the responses to this are interesting! Some “kids are cute”, some “yay moving away from fossil fuels” and then some real bah humbug “cars are still terrible regardless, boo” responses that seem to think telling me this will help somehow?? Ah well. When there’s more than 2 buses a day to my rural village let me know ok
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@Shunra@tooot.im 2023-11-12 23:40
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk reminds me of my son’s VERY perplexed expression when I sang him a song about clocks going “tick-tock”.
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@grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org 2023-11-13 00:10
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk those are the sounds of the gremlins that pedal on the inside.
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@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz 2023-11-13 00:28
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Trains will always go choo choo.
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@amyipdev@blahaj.zone 2023-11-13 00:40
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk maybe even the "shshshsh" of some lighter-engine public transit (LRT/trams/trolleys) and bikes...
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@SharkAttak@masto.ai 2023-11-13 02:29
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I don't wanna know how the sons of those who like "rolling coal" act instead..
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@jamiehs@mastodon.world 2023-11-13 02:53
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I love this! I too love the electric whine of newer cars. In IMSA racing in the US the top class of cars are now hybrids and some of them launch from the pits on electric only; it’s the coolest to see them start on electric and then explode into action: https://youtu.be/fPV6POyNMYk?t=44
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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 04:03
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk like the subway!
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@argonaut@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 04:08
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk @lisamelton@mastodon.social Right back to my childhood, and into that past’s future, when spaceships went “eeeee”… 🤩
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@phrees@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 05:05
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I'm holding out for "Whuuummmuuummmumum! Pshaaaaaaaaaaaw!!!"
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@englram@augsburg.social 2023-11-13 06:06
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk It's not the big city which is noisy. It are the cars within on fossile fuel that are making most of the noise.
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@isagalaev@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 06:34
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk on the other hand, cars in movies still make a squealing brake noise when they just normally stop, even though they haven't been doing that in reality for decades. And some software still uses the floppy disk metaphor for "save" :-)
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@badri@snipetteville.in 2023-11-13 06:39
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk gosh, who would have thought we'd be witnessing the evolution of onomatopoeia? 😮
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@odddev@hachyderm.io 2023-11-13 07:17
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk My 1yo son's vehicles sound like they have 1000 PS and were forged in the fires of mount doom.
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@songgao@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 07:37
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk our 2.5yo always “charges” his toy cars and never fuels them. His thinks gas stations are just for car washes. But he does fuel his trains which is a sad reflection of the lack of good train infrastructure in the US
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@kofanchen@drosophila.social 2023-11-13 07:41
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk my 3yo turn of her "imaginery phone" with 'boop!' finger tapping gesture 🫵
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@IanSudbery@genomic.social 2023-11-13 07:53
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk my friends 3yo loves to play at shops (sometimes it's a pharmacy, sometimes a post office, sometimes a fish and chip shop or ice cream shop). When it it comes time to pay, this is done by putting a flat palm on the counter and going "beep" - to them contactless is just how money works.
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@monk@social.unboiled.info 2023-11-13 08:02
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk imagine a future that's not normalizing cars
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@JustinMac84@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 08:10
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk the reason to do that will be awesome. I do think brrrm noises are cool though and will miss them!
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@ralfchr@brettspiel.space 2023-11-13 08:17
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk @azrael2k@brettspiel.space Well, electric cars are still „cars“ that take away space from bikes and pedestrians in our crowded cities. How about „ssssss“ as sound from bikes or „taptap“ from people walking as real improvements… 😉
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@nik@toot.teckids.org 2023-11-13 08:23
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Think of a future where children don't think cars were toys.
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 08:25
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk The future is change!
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@kimbielby@mastodonapp.uk 2023-11-13 08:29
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I think that is fantastic!
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@djasa@cztwitter.cz 2023-11-13 09:02
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk for some reason, even people who grew up with these vehicles, manage only seldom to reproduce their propulsion sound range. 😂 https://youtu.be/f4BBvrMvT_A
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@Uraael@rant.lol 2023-11-13 09:02
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk And where pop tarts are the closest food representation of phones rather than bananas.
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@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social 2023-11-13 09:09
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk „Aaah don’t touch the lamp it’s hot. Oh wait, it’s cold. And no hot bulbs have been sold since 1 year before your birth.“
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@exil_inselette@norden.social 2023-11-13 09:09
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I was with friends some weeks ago who have a three-year-old child. They have a car but ride bikes more. The child brought some of his vehicles. All with four wheels. I asked it if it didn't have a toy bike. No. Yesterday the mother wrote to me that she had tried to buy toy bikes for very small children. There are none except from Playmobil. And she doesn't like Playmobil. I wish for a world where children play with bicycles! With or without an electric motor.
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@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org 2023-11-13 10:04
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk but somehow trains still go chuff chuff
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@budgetduurzaam@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 10:43
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk 10 years ago, my son already played with electric trains… even did I, 50 years ago.#carsKill #thinkOfAFuture
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@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk 2023-11-13 11:10
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk I suspect it'll take a while. Police cars and ambulances speeding past buses all sirens blaring are still called: "Nee-naws."
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@beecycling@romancelandia.club 2023-11-13 12:17
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk What strikes me most when I'm on the local electric bus is the silence when it's stationary at bus stops or traffic lights. It's positively eerie in comparison to the noise of an idling internal combustion engine.
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@Dtl@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 12:29
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk There's a very short story by China Mieville that touches on something similar "The Rules" https://www.tor.com/2015/08/04/book-reviews-three-moments-of-an-explosion-stories-by-china-mieville/
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@sheislaurence@mastodon.social 2023-11-13 12:50
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk that is literally the script of an electric car ad from about 6 years ago? I think it was Renault.
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@ludibriumventis@wandering.shop 2023-11-13 13:00
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk it reminds me of the time that I was playing telephone with my friends toddler and when I said ring ring instead of answering with the pinky and thumb handset motion, she swiped her palm and held it to her face.
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@CatLover12@kbin.social 2023-11-13 13:31
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk My son says he has to plug in a car when he's playing! "Needs to charge!"
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@RealGene@mastodon.online 2023-11-13 13:33
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk My neighbors' Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV makes a flying saucer "whooo". This week I will put the studded snow tires on my car, so it will just make the sound of walking on broken glass.
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@jcorgan@sigmoid.social 2023-11-13 14:26
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk This reminds of when (a long time ago) my young niece made a styrofoam replica of a camera for some school project. It was great, but we could not figure out what one square hole was. "That's the USB port, dummy!"😂
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@dieterjosef@mas.to 2023-11-13 17:11
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Most kids when playing a locomotive still sound rather like an old black steam engined one, not like a Diesel or electric train. Maybe your kid will change when he sees a sports car with a more interesting sounding combustion engine. Or he will find it too loud and noisy, like myself when some young man tries to show off his car on the street.
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@lobau@noodle.social 2023-11-13 17:11
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Ah, it took way less time than I thought! Glad to hear :) https://twitter.com/lobau/status/747836955136667648?s=20
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@boogiechild@dragonscave.space 2023-11-13 18:00
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Awe!