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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7b30712b-04e6-4894-889c-ba1c98313797@v39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: The Motorist-Haters: *Bad News* for Cyclists Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:44:47 -0800 (PST) References: <1ccceece-d128-4a8c-90be-6f7826ff439a@m42g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 87 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.153.43.253 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235328288 8875 127.0.0.1 (22 Feb 2009 18:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.153.43.253; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 5126 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:686766

On Feb 20, 6:09=A0am, Phil O'Sofa  wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:12:09 -0800 (PST), Nuxx Bar wrote in > uk.rec.cycling : > > and in the last nine hours no one appears to have taken the bait. > > >Those who realise that the closet motorist-haters like Spindrift and > >Chapman > > I do not know who these characters are so will ignore the > personalisation. > > >The motorist-haters generally oppose new road-building, and above all, > >they oppose motorways and fast dual carriageways, because they're just > >for those selfish cager wankers. =A0 > > And an extravagant consumption of resources in terms of cash and > materials. > > > If > >they'd had their way, we'd have no motorways today, and no bypasses. > > And what's the problem with that? Life is about the journey not the > destination. > > >Can you imagine how much traffic would be trying to get through all > >those towns and villages which have former, now bypassed, trunk routes > >going right through their centres? =A0 > > I can imagine the freight and passengers that have no interest in > these irritating townships in the way of the journey between A and B > would use that new fangled device the "train". Does your imagination > run out of ideas so quickly? The verbosity appears to have no off tap. > > >The risk to cyclists and > >pedestrians, not to mention the constant unpleasantness and irritation > >for anyone living or working in the settlements in question, would be > >hugely increased. > > Going back to one dimensional thinking - why? Are you alleging that > every road user in control of a combustion engine powered device is a > selfish ignorant cnut? I think many might take you to task on this. > > >The proper cyclists need to tell the motorist-haters where to go, > > How about proper and considerate road users (like myself) daring to > tell the obnoxious bile spewing dorks to wind their individual / > collective neck in and realise that on this tiny island there is > plenty of room for everyone to go about their business? > > It's the car obsessed lard arses that should make way so that the > ambulances can get through to cart them off after the heart attacks > that will invariably follow for getting so worked up on the issue of > sharing road space. > > Once they get off their own driveway they are in the communal network > of roads and communal means sharing. If they don't like it, the planet > is plenty big enough for them to fuck off and find somewhere where the > combustion engine is cherished or even adored. > > I hear Los Angeles is such a commune. > > -- > "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of > arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to > skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries and chocolate in > the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming > WOO HOO - What a Ride!" > > anon > > So learn how to use your DELETE key and strip the irrelevance from the > messages you reply to!

I should really, but it's good to preserve the crap for future use against the trolls when they contradict themselves. And anyone who spouts illogical shit like "Life would be better without bypasses" is bound to contradict themselves sooner or later.

Try using the "It's better without bypasses" line with those whose communities have been bypassed recently, or better still, with those who are still crying out for a bypass. They actually care about safety. You are quite clearly one of those whose hatred of motorists eclipses any wish to improve safety; the top (and only) priority is to make drivers suffer, no matter how this impacts upon other road users. Quite incredible. No wonder you don't like it when someone tells it how it is.