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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.bahnhof.se!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 1.3 million potholes on UK roads! Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:54:54 -0000 References:    Lines: 35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 981ada19.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=iBNVKLXWNoY9X09@c[7NWVnok4Z\, davidlang@no-spam-blueyonder.co.uk says... > > mileburner wrote: > > delboy wrote: > >> Motorists contribute £45billion a year to the Treasury in various > >> taxes and duties, but about only 10% of that figure is spent on roads > >> and transport projects. The recent cold weather and ice have opened > >> up many potholes in our poorly maintained roads. These affect cars - > >> I have just knocked my steering out of line by hitting a particularly > >> nasty pothole hidden under a puddle of water, and bikes. I can't > >> really look where I am going because I am too busy looking at the > >> road surface to avoid the potholes. > >> > >>  Makes you wonder what you pay taxes for, apart from > >> MP's expenses, supporting failed banks who pay their staff huge > >> salaries and bonuses, an army of civil service bureaucrats who also > >> get bonuses, paying for illegal wars, etc, etc, that is.  >> mode> > > > > You have answered your own question. > > > > Don't forget foreign aid, the NHS, welfare benefits, the police, and > > to allow the local bureaucrats to piss away your money. And also to > > keep freeloading scroungers like Medway comfortable in their > > retirement :-) > > Wonderful! He insults me even when I haven't posted.  Nice to know I've got > you so wound up Milewanker. > > Living proof that Snow White and Dopey had a love child.

You didn't expect anything else, surely? I mean have you ever "met" a reasonable, honest, decent car-hater? If they were nice people then they wouldn't be car-hating control freaks in the first place.