Nuxx:E019d6ee-c5de-4ce1-a734-1182d3ebfe1f@q35g2000vbi.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!q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Stupid stuff drivers have shouted Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:42:50 -0700 (PDT) References:   <91a7c17c-8de2-4042-a091-3a478e32f772@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>  <7bu917F23c840U1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247413370 27821 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2009 15:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2906 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:716691

On Jul 12, 3:07=A0pm, Bod  wrote: > mileburner wrote: > > Nuxx Bar wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 6:55 pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?" > >>  wrote: > >>> Shoot them and burn the bodies. > >> At least you're finally being honest about what you really think about > >> motorists. > > > You might actually find that if you rode a bike onec in a while you wou= ld > > lower your opinion of motorists too. > > > To the point you might actually become ashamed to be one. > > I have ridden bikes all my life and have never suffer any abuse by car > drivers.......that's 43 yrs. > I'm also a car driver.

Thank you for your honesty. Of course you won't be thanked by those here who are car-haters and like to exaggerate the danger posed by cars to other road users as one of their many dishonest prongs of attack. (To that end, I suspect that many of the anecdotes that we get here about "maniac drivers" are either exaggerated or made up completely, and not just the more obvious cases like Spindrift's anti- motorist rants. Isn't it wonderful how some people are prepared to distort road safety knowledge, thereby ultimately causing deaths, just because they want to make car drivers suffer?)

I used to ride a bike quite a lot. Never had any problems with drivers either. Nor have any of the normal cyclists I know. The roads are pretty safe in the general scheme of things, despite the best efforts of some to paint them as scenes of great carnage.