Comments on: The Shweeb – A Pedal-Powered Monorail http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/ Deliciously Geeky... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: blairf_felgenheimer http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/comment-page-1/#comment-406317 blairf_felgenheimer Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:39:49 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27563#comment-406317 First of all I dont write stories about 'Africa' but if I did I would know the difference between an egregious racial slur such as the one you infer when you speak of the multi-colored continent of Africa and the worldwide common use [ even in New Zealand ] of the term Kiwi to describe a person from New Zealand. <br><br>Theres nothing 'racist' or derogatory about the term at all, no more than calling an Australian an "Aussie" or someone from the USA a "Yank". So youre either trying to stir controversy where none is needed [ read as eTroll ] or you lack the cultured education to know the difference. <br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_%28people" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(people</a>) First of all I dont write stories about 'Africa' but if I did I would know the difference between an egregious racial slur such as the one you infer when you speak of the multi-colored continent of Africa and the worldwide common use [ even in New Zealand ] of the term Kiwi to describe a person from New Zealand.

Theres nothing 'racist' or derogatory about the term at all, no more than calling an Australian an “Aussie” or someone from the USA a “Yank”. So youre either trying to stir controversy where none is needed [ read as eTroll ] or you lack the cultured education to know the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(people)

]]> By: blairf_felgenheimer http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/comment-page-1/#comment-396694 blairf_felgenheimer Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:39:49 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27563#comment-396694 First of all I dont write stories about 'Africa' but if I did I would know the difference between an egregious racial slur such as the one you infer when you speak of the multi-colored continent of Africa and the worldwide common use [ even in New Zealand ] of the term Kiwi to describe a person from New Zealand. <br><br>Theres nothing 'racist' or derogatory about the term at all, no more than calling an Australian an "Aussie" or someone from the USA a "Yank". So youre either trying to stir controversy where none is needed [ read as eTroll ] or you lack the cultured education to know the difference. <br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_%28people" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(people</a>) First of all I dont write stories about 'Africa' but if I did I would know the difference between an egregious racial slur such as the one you infer when you speak of the multi-colored continent of Africa and the worldwide common use [ even in New Zealand ] of the term Kiwi to describe a person from New Zealand.

Theres nothing 'racist' or derogatory about the term at all, no more than calling an Australian an “Aussie” or someone from the USA a “Yank”. So youre either trying to stir controversy where none is needed [ read as eTroll ] or you lack the cultured education to know the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(people)

]]> By: yewsuck http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/comment-page-1/#comment-396689 yewsuck Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:16 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27563#comment-396689 Kiwi? nice rascist comment. When you write stories about Africa, do you refer to them as __gers? Kiwi? nice rascist comment. When you write stories about Africa, do you refer to them as __gers?

]]> By: blairf_felgenheimer http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/comment-page-1/#comment-396687 blairf_felgenheimer Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:51:16 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27563#comment-396687 Does a toothless kiwi carny help you into the ride too? $30 to go nowhere .. sounds like the typical taxi ride in Detroit.<br><br>Seeing how you cant pass anyone on the same track I imagine the first time you get stuck behind a sleeping homeless person and have to push them to your destination you'de lose interest really fast. Does a toothless kiwi carny help you into the ride too? $30 to go nowhere .. sounds like the typical taxi ride in Detroit.

Seeing how you cant pass anyone on the same track I imagine the first time you get stuck behind a sleeping homeless person and have to push them to your destination you'de lose interest really fast.

]]> By: ehud42 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/21/the-shweeb-a-pedal-powered-monorail/comment-page-1/#comment-396686 ehud42 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:38:01 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27563#comment-396686 Years ago (decades?) Popular Mechanics or Popular Science had an article about someone proposing a similar pedal powered, tube based human trains in Winnipeg no less... Years ago (decades?) Popular Mechanics or Popular Science had an article about someone proposing a similar pedal powered, tube based human trains in Winnipeg no less…

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