Nuxx:4fa3f610-88e7-4c6d-8edd-ded23f8274a0@q14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4fa3f610-88e7-4c6d-8edd-ded23f8274a0@q14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Who Am I? Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 38 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242325835 1120 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2009 18:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3327 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701448

I pretend that cycle helmets don't make things safer, despite knowing that they do really, because I believe it's more important to "promote cycling" than it is to save people's lives, and I also believe that no restrictions on cyclists should ever be advocated due to cycling being the most superior form of transport. However, obviously it's different with my kids (their lives aren't expendable like those of the hoi polloi), so I make sure they always wear helmets whenever they cycle.

Staying with the "It's worth unimportant people losing their lives as long as it means more people end up cycling" theme, I also advocate speed cameras despite knowing that they kill people. This is because speed cameras are a major source of irritation and misery for all normal drivers (even those who pretend they "never speed"), meaning that more and more drivers are giving up their cars and cycling instead, which has to be a good thing and is obviously worth the death toll. But once again, this clearly doesn't apply to my kids, who are special, so I've told them that they should avoid cameras at all costs, due to unpredicable road user behaviour around them and the consequent elevated accident risk.

I've also pissed off thousands upon thousands of people across a multitude of newsgroups, forums and websites. Countless web pages, forum/newsgroup topics, blogs etc are devoted to the subject of how much people hate me. Complaints are constantly being made to all manner of bodies about my unacceptable behaviour. I've been banned from every cycling-related forum. The mere mention of my name or avatar causes derision and huge amounts of heavy abuse towards my family and me. I receive abusive phone calls in the middle of the night because people hate me so much. Basically, people don't like me very much. This is because (in part at least) I lie at the drop of a hat, I never admit when I've been beaten (and just call the person who's beaten me a "troll" instead), I constantly try to censor my opponents, I am always pursuing hidden agendas, I abuse adminstrator privileges on sites where people have been stupid enough to give them to me, etc, etc.

Who am I? Can you guess?