Nuxx:4e297676$0$2944$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk

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!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.78.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e297676$0$2944$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Proof of Cyclist Fuckwittery Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:09:10 +0100 References: 		  Lines: 41 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: f64238ff.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=NRT]fjAZOJhD@=;2MRL^KmYjZGX^207Pk` On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:09:06 +0100, Judith wrote: > >> I do however love the Porky Chapman defence. > > his is perhaps the most disgusting creature of the sea: the hagfish. It > uses just the right weapon to turn your stomach upside-down: slime. It is > not even a fish, but one of the oldest vertebrates (older than 300 > million years), lacking any jaw (so it cannot even bite) and with just > one nostril, but displaying rows of teeth on its tongue, which it uses to > enter into the innards of rotting fish through any orifice to feed.

Yes, Chapman is certainly disgusting, and he does indeed use slime as a weapon a lot of the time, but I didn't know that his latest bicycling injury had put his jaw out of action as well as all the other unfortunate damage (including to his L Knee)...you know what they say, "should have worn a helmet", eh?

Just as well he's wearing one now at his wife's behest (a helmet, not a johnny...ugh), although it does seem odd considering his claims that they don't improve safety...perhaps he actually thinks they do improve safety, but he dishonestly pretends not to, because he thinks that fighting possible compulsion is more important than saving lives? That minimising restrictions on cyclists, while maximising restrictions on motorists, is "worth" a few (thousand) deaths here and there? Surely no-one would be such a PoS? But if that was indeed his game then he'd sure hate me for pointing it out, and be very keen to gag me....

Now that I've realised these hagfish references are about Chapman and not Judith, I can't believe it didn't occur to me sooner, though I guess it wouldn't have hurt you to make it clearer. Please try to take that on board in future.

Do they have hagfish off the New Zealand coast? Could you perhaps keep one as a pet, so you can give us even more fascinating tidbits on its lifecycle? You could start a vlog for it, and compare it to Chapman's self-aggrandising blog...I'm sure there would be striking similarities between the two, though the actual hagfish would I'm sure be more interesting, and care more about (real) road safety as well for that matter (it wouldn't care about it at all, but of course zero is greater than a negative).