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I live next to a road and combustion-engine mopeds vary from "holy fuck this is loud" to "I can't wait to move out". I used to live close to an airport and that

I live next to a road and combustion-engine mopeds vary from "holy fuck this is loud" to "I can't wait to move out". I used to live close to an airport and that was much better. The specific noise that mopeds make drills into your head. Funnily, I'm never bothered by nails on chalkboard or cutlery on plate, but mopeds, holy fuck, if hell exists, it's full of mopeds.

mulmen 4mo ago
Vespas aren’t mopeds.
- bootlooped 4mo ago
  For better or worse, probably worse, the definitions of both "moped" and "scooter" vary from person to person or jurisdiction to jurisdiction. "Moped" is often used to describe a light motorcycle.
  - mulmen 4mo ago
    No. Mopeds have pedals. That’s the “ped” part of motor pedal.
    - bootlooped 4mo ago
      I'm not disagreeing with the origin of the word, I'm just saying it's expanded and changed. Have you ever "shipped" something that at no point in its journey was carried on a floating vessel? Do you correct people when they say they're shipping something by ground or air?
      - mulmen 4mo ago
        I’m a big advocate of two wheeled transportation. The differences between bicycles, e-bikes, mopeds, and motorcycles are important and meaningful. The misuse of terminology by entitled car drivers and the ignorant public literally kills people every day. Yes, I am aware people are wrong. No, I don’t care to compromise.
        bootlooped 4mo ago
        I'm not sure the difference between moped and scooter is killing people everyday. I don't think it is. Can you give an example?
        anal_reactor 4mo ago
        I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
  - dmd 4mo ago
    Language changes. I guarantee if you ask 100 people to draw a moped, maybe 2 will put pedals on it.
  - prmoustache 4mo ago
    Scooter do not have pedals, mopeds do, hence the name. The Piaggio Vespa is a scooter. The Piaggio Ciao is a moped.
  - porknubbins 4mo ago
    Ive been riding scooters and motorcycles for 20 years and I to this day I have no clear image of what a moped might be. I always imagined a theoretical spectrum from pure bicycle -> gas motor equipped bicycle-> moped -> pure motorcycle, but have never encountered a moped.
prmoustache 4mo ago
I own a Piaggio 300cc Scooter, not called a Vespa because it is one of the big wheel variants (similar to Honda SH line) but it has the same engine as the Vespa 300GTS. It is not at all noisy unless I rev it high, which I try to avoid doing most of the time. It is not loud like for instance a Yamaha T-Max, not helped by it attracting mostly complete retards. Obviously there are always dumb people mounting akrapovic or other noisy aftermarket exhausts on any bike brand but it is also the same with cars.
zakki 4mo ago
Hell is exist but it is not full of mopeds.
- aziaziazi 4mo ago
  Of course, mopeds only runs on the vestibule, then lucifer and its friends wait on bigger and noiser bikes.

mulmen 4mo ago

Vespas aren’t mopeds.

bootlooped 4mo ago
For better or worse, probably worse, the definitions of both "moped" and "scooter" vary from person to person or jurisdiction to jurisdiction. "Moped" is often used to describe a light motorcycle.
- mulmen 4mo ago
  No. Mopeds have pedals. That’s the “ped” part of motor pedal.
  - bootlooped 4mo ago
    I'm not disagreeing with the origin of the word, I'm just saying it's expanded and changed. Have you ever "shipped" something that at no point in its journey was carried on a floating vessel? Do you correct people when they say they're shipping something by ground or air?
    - mulmen 4mo ago
      I’m a big advocate of two wheeled transportation. The differences between bicycles, e-bikes, mopeds, and motorcycles are important and meaningful. The misuse of terminology by entitled car drivers and the ignorant public literally kills people every day. Yes, I am aware people are wrong. No, I don’t care to compromise.
      - bootlooped 4mo ago
        I'm not sure the difference between moped and scooter is killing people everyday. I don't think it is. Can you give an example?
        anal_reactor 4mo ago
        I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
- dmd 4mo ago
  Language changes. I guarantee if you ask 100 people to draw a moped, maybe 2 will put pedals on it.
- prmoustache 4mo ago
  Scooter do not have pedals, mopeds do, hence the name. The Piaggio Vespa is a scooter. The Piaggio Ciao is a moped.
- porknubbins 4mo ago
  Ive been riding scooters and motorcycles for 20 years and I to this day I have no clear image of what a moped might be. I always imagined a theoretical spectrum from pure bicycle -> gas motor equipped bicycle-> moped -> pure motorcycle, but have never encountered a moped.

prmoustache 4mo ago

I own a Piaggio 300cc Scooter, not called a Vespa because it is one of the big wheel variants (similar to Honda SH line) but it has the same engine as the Vespa 300GTS. It is not at all noisy unless I rev it high, which I try to avoid doing most of the time. It is not loud like for instance a Yamaha T-Max, not helped by it attracting mostly complete retards. Obviously there are always dumb people mounting akrapovic or other noisy aftermarket exhausts on any bike brand but it is also the same with cars.

zakki 4mo ago

Hell is exist but it is not full of mopeds.

aziaziazi 4mo ago
Of course, mopeds only runs on the vestibule, then lucifer and its friends wait on bigger and noiser bikes.