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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e286d22$0$2500$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Not worth nicking? Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:16:59 +0100 References:  <8cf43f93246a5cbd3b1a3011a1b55e44@dizum.com> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8cf43f93246a5cbd3b1a3011a1b55e44@dizum.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 4cdd0c1b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=6eUN2O_7Sl>QbE22cTG5i;0g@SS;SF6n7RiiCXJE[K>7I[IU=`hSLf?`:ITG5aA:c7d[T\gb?S2Q? X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3091 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:818004

On 21/07/2011 14:40, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Dave - Cyclists VOR  wrote: > >> As long as a car is taxed & not causing an obstruction & is not in a >> controlled parking zone, the driver may park where he likes - after all, >> they pay Road Tax to use the roads. > > There's no such thing as Road Tax, which was > abolished by Churchill just to make it clear > that drivers do not own the road any more or > less than anyone else.

And there's no such thing as "Nomen Nescio": he normally posts as someone else, and only appears as a sock when he wants to reply to or refer to "trolls" (he doesn't have the guts to do it with his usual posting name, because he thinks the usual psycholists will ostracise him for daring to reply to people with the "wrong" opinions...they insist that such people are ignored, as that's the only way of stopping them from eventually winning the argument).

"N Ron Hubbard" is another similar sock (who may actually be the same person); "his" more-or-less sole "purpose" is to post particularly banal, juvenile and wretchedly useless insults in reply to Judith and me. If someone's going to attempt to take the piss out of me then the least they can do is to be somewhat funny and clever about it. When Rob Morley used to have a go at me, for example, I rather enjoyed reading his scathing, cutting remarks. It's almost a shame that he's more pleasant to me these days. Even Chapman's comments can be amusing (though often not in the way he intended).

But with "Nomen Nescio" and "N Ron Hubbard" particularly, you get the feeling that there isn't much intelligence behind their posts. I think they're probably examples of the type of person who desperately wants to believe that "slower is safer" is the be all and end all of road safety, because that's nice and simple, and therefore they can understand it. They dislike anyone "complicating matters" by claiming that they're incorrect, and so resort to generalised aggression and slurs from behind socks.