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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1f2db0b8-b443-413a-a40e-8642181acad9@v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Advice on how to handle a situation Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:55:37 -0800 (PST) References: <3jmtn4d39l5ns3aqd77261jesrsd7pbfl6@4ax.com>  <4isun41g4it65d0b4ioeqek9pbqkcjln80@4ax.com> <1kavn4hhdiaognlobkv8an14mahks0g3jn@4ax.com> Lines: 24 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233118538 5487 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2009 04:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v4g2000yqa.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: 2440 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684145

On Jan 28, 12:47=A0am, judithtaylorsm...@privacy.net wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:24:54 +0000, Phil W Lee > > > >But I thought you got extra points for grannies? > > Ho, ho, ho - really funny - not as good as that couple of yours: > > If you find 2 abreast cyclists more obstructive than single file ones, > you must have been intending to pass dangerously close anyway.

That's a truly absurd thing to say, even for a web-cyclist/psycholist/ car-hating nutter. A child of 3 could see that that made no sense whatsoever. Surely anyone could work out that if you have to go wide by a certain amount to pass a single line of cyclists safely, then you have to go wider to pass a double line of them equally safely? Is Phil Lee really that stupid, or was he just taking any opportunity going (however illogical) to snipe at motorists?

> Commenting on a legal gate in a public park: I'd think it comes under > the heading of "causing an obstruction", and should be investigated by > the police as such.

Yet if that gate was designed to let cyclists through, but not motorists, then something tells me he'd applaud it.