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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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e33484e$0$2523$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Bexley driver "'severely embarrassed' after attack. Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:54:54 +0100 References:  <1QvXp.69124$J65.39913@newsfe14.ams2>   Lines: 33 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:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d9e9d2a0.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=LO8IQ6gAUhPc8@`lPX:2J[nok4Z\OSV:VEn On Jul 26, 1:24 pm, "ng...@aol.com"  wrote: >> On 26 Jul., 05:31, "Just zis Guy, you know?" >> >>  wrote: >> >>> Sense >> >>> all round, by the looks of it. The problem is that traffic >>> tantrums can result in real harm; I wish there were a way of getting >>> people like this who are clearly embarrassed by what they have done, to >>> present their experiences for the edification of others. Unfortunately >>> messrs. Grayson and Cholmondley-Warner have retired so no real prospect >>> of a public information film on the subject. >> >> But he wasn't embarrassed by what he'd done: >> "He was severely embarrassed when the footage was posted on to >> YouTube." > > What was there to be embarrassed about by being on youtube? > I am on youtube and am not embarrassed as a consequence of being > there.

Surely it depends on how the footage is presented? If someone else posted footage of you cycling, then entitled it "Here's Simple Simon cycling at 25 in a 20 because he thinks it's clever", and preceded and succeeded the footage of you with long diatribes about how awful and irresponsible you were, then would you not be embarrassed then, even if you still believed that you hadn't done anything wrong?

It's very easy to give a misleading impression by putting something in a particular context. It's (yet another) one of the deceitful ploys that Chapman regularly uses.