Nuxx:E519d5db-f9ad-4663-912e-a2afdf65975f@j8g2000yql.googlegroups.com

Path: number6.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j8g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Bike cam vids Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:26:58 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 40 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.248.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1239402418 7589 127.0.0.1 (10 Apr 2009 22:26:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j8g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.248.79; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3384 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:694496

On Apr 9, 10:04=A0am, "anern"  wrote: > By popular demand, I've but together a more watchable, shorter version of > some of my handlebar cam videos... > > http://www.phase7.org/DodgeyDrivers/Highlights.htmlhttp://www.phase7.org/= DodgeyDrivers/RougesGallery/dodgeydrivers.htmhttp://www.phase7.org/DodgeyDr= ivers

Let's face it, you're desperate for a driver to "wrong" you whenever you're out and about with your camera, and gleefully go home and upload the video as soon as it happens. Not only that, but what the driver does is invariably trivial (if indeed they do anything wrong whatsoever), and is invariably engineered by you in some way (or at least you can see it's going to happen and do nothing to prevent it, instead just making sure that you're going to get a good videot of the incident).

You're typical of that small bunch of militant, car-hating, nutter cyclists who constantly go round trying to cause conflict with motorists simply because you don't think they should be on the roads at all, thereby giving the majority of ordinary cyclists a very bad name. Why can't you just accept that not everyone agrees with you that driving should be banned? Are there other ways in which you consistently try to make life harder for those who are doing legal things which you personally would rather they didn't?

And don't you think you would stand a better chance of getting what you wanted if you explained to people why you thought they shoudn't be allowed to drive? Presumably you think you have a good case for thinking that, otherwise you wouldn't be so determined to make things difficult for drivers, so why not tell everyone just why they should get rid of their dreadful cars? You wouldn't stand much of a chance of persuading people to ditch what is a very useful form of transport, but you stand even less chance of it when your strategy is simply to attempt to bully, intimidate and irritate people into doing what you want them to do.

Why not practise here? You've got a lot of fellow car-haters here, some of whom are man enough to admit it and will step in and back up your arguments. So, let's hear it: why shouldn't people drive?