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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!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e30e27b$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Saved by her helmet Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:15:54 +0100 References:  <993l3uFe90U1@mid.individual.net>     <%glXp.112485$fQ4.56408@newsfe16.ams2> <2301c70c-4f6b-47c8-839d-84ae42d95ccf@a15g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>  <37ed108f-f25d-43db-b2b1-e525794e852d@h4g2000vbw.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 82 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d78416a7.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=bFd\e]=CTOo@1V>X_9IZai0g@SS;SF6ngR9OH0:RnENdil^C9_LA;Zg`:ITG5aA:cg?6^e:bh95H` X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 4840 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819148

On 26/07/2011 23:24, Simon Mason wrote: > On Jul 26, 8:11 pm, Squashme  wrote: >> On Jul 26, 8:00 pm, Dave - Cyclists VOR  >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 26/07/2011 10:08, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>>> On Jul 25, 10:31 pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?" >>>>  wrote: >>>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> Hash: SHA1 >> >>>>> On 25/07/2011 20:51, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>>>>> On Jul 25, 8:39 pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?" >>>>>>  wrote: >>>>>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >>>>>>> On 25/07/2011 09:02, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2:23 am, Phil W Lee wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> You will never encourage people to do anything by telling them >>>>>>>>> that it is dangerous. And increased numbers improve safety, so >>>>>>>>> anything that reduces numbers is likely to reduce safety. >> >>>>>>>> Yes. Nobody wears a helmet in NL or Denmark and they are the >>>>>>>> safest countries to cycle in the world. >> >>>>>>> Don't exaggerate. I believe the helmet wearing rate in Amsterdam is >>>>>>> a dizzying 0.3%. >> >>>>>> Ah, but do the American and British tourists count? >> >>>>> I believe they are indeed the ones doing the counting, the Dutch don't >>>>> seem to give a toss either way. >> >>>> True, they look upon foreign helmet wearers as very odd beasts indeed. >> >>> Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a >>> person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and >>> rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be >>> overwhelming evidence. >> >>> -- >>> Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a >>> legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a >>> vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster >>> University >> >> Do you wear a helmet?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > When he's unblocking gutters, yes.

Just what was the purpose of that post? You claim to have moral superiority over those who mock you, but I can't really see a difference.

There are a lot of jobs that I'm glad other people do so I don't have to, and "unblocking gutters" is one of them. I would be hopeless at it, and at hairdressing, and at many other jobs that you no doubt look down your nose at, just as many people would be hopeless at what I do. We're all different, and we all have complementary skills, and that's why the world works as well as it does (not that it couldn't work a lot better, and not that some aren't trying to make things worse). For someone who's proud of not having a degree, you can be remarkably snobbish.

You're not so different to Chapman really: you both attempt to wind your opponents up with deliberately provocative remarks, then play the "persecuted innocent" when you reap what you sow and get some provocation back. Also I have noticed more and more lately that you evade and ignore questions which you're uncomfortable with answering, because doing so would make your position look weak...now who does that remind me of?

And for the avoidance of doubt, being "not so different to Chapman" is
 * not* a good look.