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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe15.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Spindrift: "Vile Car-Hating Fanatic" (Not Said By Me) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:04:51 +0000 References: <30f5b32b-8ca4-4f1e-b146-08d44e210a28@41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <58Ifl.107$zv7.34@newsfe01.ams2> <7PJfl.508$oF2.135@newsfe15.ams2> <5uLfl.9804$lT1.1549@newsfe18.ams2> Lines: 91 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5uLfl.9804$lT1.1549@newsfe18.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe15.ams2 1233093963 82.21.204.127 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:06:03 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:06:03 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 6455 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684130

Brian RobertsOn wrote: > "_"  wrote in message > news:7PJfl.508$oF2.135@newsfe15.ams2... >> Brian RobertsOn wrote: >>> "Nuxx Bar"  wrote in message >>> news:30f5b32b-8ca4-4f1e-b146-08d44e210a28@41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... >>>> Spindrift has recently been polluting the SafeSpeed forums with his >>>> usual agenda-driven, dishonest, hate-filled rubbish (and refusals to >>>> answer any questions), before once again being banned (as he has from >>>> oh-so-many other forums, and not just SafeSpeed/PH but all sorts of >>>> cycling ones), not for his point of view, but for being a disgusting, >>>> trolling cunt as per, who simply makes the same copied and pasted >>>> allegations again and again no matter how often they are refuted. >>>> >>>> An interesting discussion has resulted, away from the eyes of trolls, >>>> where an incredible number of people seem to have the same >>>> "misconception" that Spindrift, and a number of other fanatical >>>> cycling trolls, hate cars. How strange! It was pointed out that a >>>> certain poster was really interested in cycling, and had been >>>> perfectly welcome on a particular cycling forum - until they said that >>>> they liked cars as well. Immediately, it was made very clear to them >>>> that they were no longer welcome. As someone says, in some web- >>>> cyclists'* eyes, you are allowed to drive as long as you don't enjoy >>>> it too much. It seems that being pro-cyclist is optional and >>>> unimportant, whereas being at least somewhat anti-motorist is most >>>> definitely mandatory. >>>> >>>> When are you absolute fuckwits (you know who you are) going to give it >>>> up and admit to hating cars? Why are you so ashamed of doing so? Is >>>> it because you know that such hatred can't be defended (in which case, >>>> why practise it?) Or is it because you've decided that you'll have a >>>> better chance of inflicting misery on drivers if you play dirty and >>>> pretend that you care about "safety" or "the environment" instead (in >>>> which case you're a lying piece of shit who is weakening genuine >>>> safety and environment-related efforts)? Either way, you're scum >>>> really, aren't you? >>>> >>>> Oh, BTW, several of the contributors to the SafeSpeed thread in >>>> question are quite happy to admit, on that very thread, to being >>>> fanatical cyclists themselves, and no-one has a problem with that. >>>> Why is it that cyclists who enjoy cycling are tolerated on motoring- >>>> related forums, but not the other way round? Why are web-cyclists the >>>> only ones who discriminate against posters based on which modes of >>>> transport they enjoy? >>>> >>>> Oh, and if you ever decide to argue with Spindrift (pointless though >>>> it is to try to reason with a deranged lunatic) on any forum, for >>>> goodness' sake don't let him get hold of your workplace or home >>>> address. At best, you'll receive a high volume of deeply disturbing, >>>> abusive letters (and the more you stick up for motorists, the sicker >>>> the content will be). At worst, you'll have to move due to receiving >>>> multiple bomb threats. You have been warned. >>>> >>>> (And if, by any chance, you're a reasonable person who supports speed >>>> cameras, why do you suppose it is that all of the worst, most >>>> demented, most dishonest, most infamous transport policy-related >>>> Internet freaks, like Spindrift, Chapman, and Jaded, all seem to >>>> support, rather than oppose, cameras? Having read their posts, do you >>>> really think that they support cameras because they want to save >>>> lives?  Do they seem like altruistic people to you?  Or do they seem >>>> like lying, selfish, obsessive, extremist nutters who have an axe to >>>> grind against motorists and capitalism and see speed cameras as a way >>>> of getting what they want?  Which do you *honestly* think is closer to >>>> the truth?  I rest my case.) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> * This has become the term for "Spindrift/Crapman-like car-hating >>>> wanker who frequents cycling forums, may or may not actually cycle, >>>> and (despite denying it) hates drivers so much that they are prepared >>>> to kill people in order to make things worse for them, while launching >>>> despicable and vitriolic hate campaigns against anyone who exposes >>>> their anti-motorist weapons for what they are". >>> Still a trolling imbercile then, Nuxx? >>> >>> I hate cars and have no problem admitting it. Anything that puts more >>> points on the licences of car drivers is just about fine with me. >>> >> Still smarting about that drinking problem and work all this time later, >> Glug? > > Who knows, but that was a long time ago, so not nearly as much as all the > motorists who have fresh endorsements on their licences are smarting. Oh the > thought of that does my heart good, knowing that I have a stain free licence > because I cycle everywhere. ;-) > > Brian. > > Been thrown out of the pub early again, Glug? LOL at someone who handled a public vehicle full of paying punters while pissed being sanctimonious about speeding drivers! FOAD you hypocritical old loser