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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!news.germany.com!postnews.google.com!d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3dea3a9f-eca4-4cfe-9a79-7bb386fc9b78@d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Spindrift Automatically Blames the Motorist Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:48:02 -0800 (PST) Lines: 42 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.151.152.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233431283 8867 127.0.0.1 (31 Jan 2009 19:48:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.151.152.80; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3565 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684456

No-one can seriously claim otherwise after reading this thread (among many others):

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_frm/thread/ffe2c071420be8f0#

Every time there's an incident between a cyclist and a motorist, Spindrift automatically blames the motorist, regardless of who was actually at fault. Why? Because he thinks the motorist shouldn't be driving in the first place, and that that's more important than who's at fault (or pretty much anything else really). Why does he not just admit that when it's so screamingly obvious? Because he's mental, and he's so deluded that he seriously believes that people fall for the "I'm not anti-motorist" and "I drive myself" rubbish.

It's people like Spindrift, of which there are only a few (but unfortunately they're very vocal and determined), that are almost entirely to blame for what bad feeling there actually is between motorists and cyclists. It's utterly shameful. Only today, I gave way to a cyclist and gave him plenty of space when I could have carried on, and got a wave of thanks. Everyone was happy. It would always be like that between motorists and cyclists if wankers like Spindrift (and the person who posted the Youtube clip, who could actually be Spindrift as well...or at least it could be if Spindrift really cycled) weren't intentionally stirring it and causing conflict between modes of transport where there otherwise wouldn't be any.

People like that don't care about safety, they're just little shits who refuse to play nicely and don't deserve to share the roads with anyone, because they're not interested in cooperating, they're just interested in forcing their particular viewpoint on which modes of transport are acceptable onto *everyone*, all the time. *Everything* that they do which is connected with transport, either on the roads, online or when "debating" transport offline is about giving motorists a hard time for daring to drive rather than cycle. They're utter dicks, and I'd be so very happy if they all disappeared off the face of the Earth this very second. There's nothing useful or necessary about them, they're just parasites who needlessly make society worse and more trying than it has to be. WHEN are they going to accept that they're never going to stop people driving by employing spiteful, bullying, dishonest and militant tactics? Will the penny ever drop?

Well, Spindrift? Will it?