There’s a regrettable tendency for some cycling advocates to demonise their fellows who wear lycra and ride road bikes, especially expensive machines made from carbon fibre and equipped with exotic groupsets. It’s an unfortunate attitude because so-called “lycra louts” are the pioneers of riding on the road in Australian cities. As a group they’ve had [...]
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Are Toyota Prius drivers wankers?
Educated elites often show distaste for the sort of conspicuous consumption exemplified by McMansions, but it seems almost everyone likes to show off, even greenies. Two US researchers, Steven Sexton and Alison Sexton (they’re twins), have coined the term “conspicuous conservation” to describe people who spend up big to signal their green status. The standard [...]
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