Nuxx:814eb238-8823-4438-82ff-bb2dcbb49ec9@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <814eb238-8823-4438-82ff-bb2dcbb49ec9@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.rec.driving Subject: Re: Child Death In Redditch Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:36:29 -0700 (PDT) References:   <7qog949oit5gq8bancgu6k86skl3rsq64r@4ax.com> Lines: 34 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.129.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217964990 26448 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2008 19:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.129.172; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2774 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:660973

On Aug 5, 3:30=A0pm, judith  wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:35:50 +0100, Paul Boyd  > wrote: > > >Nuxx Bar said the following on 05/08/2008 06:13: > >> An interesting message from elsewhere. =A0A 10-year-old boy on his bik= e > >> was killed on a heavily traffic calmed, bus-only road. =A0Hardly a > >> surprise, then, that there has been no mention of it here on > >> uk.rec.anti-motorist, since no motorist can be blamed, and no anti- > >> motorist measures can be called for as a result of the tragedy. > > >What has this to do with cycling? > > Are you just not bright? > > "A 10-year-old boy on his bike was killed on a heavy traffic calmed, > but-only road" > > "What has this to do with cycling?" > > How about =A0- "he was on a bike" > How about "he was on a bike and on a bus-only road"? > > Any you wonder why people take the piss out of you.

It is silly, and rather comical in a sad way. I think it's because with the anti-motorist crowd, "What has this got to do with cycling?" has become an automatic response to any thread that I start, as part of a desperate effort not to address any of the points I make for fear of making it even more obvious that I'm right. Strangely, the same question is never asked of the likes of Spindrift and Chapman when they have a go at Safe Speed or make other anti-motorist comments (which of course they do pretty much every time they post).