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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <329838ca-ceaf-44d4-9e75-a8eca98b48c0@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Motorist letter in local rag Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:49:10 -0700 (PDT) References:  <0MadnRYYcLkzzGLanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@plusnet> <1230b283-c8bf-4a7b-add6-30eab564b021@n14g2000pri.googlegroups.com>   <79a795f2-b57c-4340-b78c-de340166839e@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com> Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.204.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1208090950 958 127.0.0.1 (13 Apr 2008 12:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.204.241; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2185 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:646973

On Apr 11, 11:01 pm, "james.an...@gmail.com"  wrote: > On Apr 12, 1:29 am, Nuxx Bar  wrote: > > > You think it's all right to refer to motorists as "rats" just because > > they're trying to avoid the most congested routes? > > No, that's terribly unfair. Rats are intelligent social friendly > animals, they'd never willingly spend an hour a day, alone, on the > mundane act of repetitively operating machinery. > > I'd say motorists are more like sheep, but that's probably unfair to > sheep. Bah.

Some of them are, but not all of them. Why would you tar all motorists with the same brush when you presumably don't like the same thing being done to cyclists?