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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <30afa043-90d9-4b8c-8a7e-6c3e0278860e@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Threatening motorists is fine, but threatening cyclists should be reported? Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 16:27:27 -0700 (PDT) References:    Lines: 40 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.123.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241393247 801 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2009 23:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.123.12; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3426 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:699222

On May 3, 9:43=A0pm, thaksin  wrote: > Marc wrote: > > thaksin wrote: > >> That not make sense? Don't worry, that's perfectly normal. > >> It's a Marc/mileburner thing :( > > >> squish... > > > You are =A0the judith thing and I claim my =A35! > > No I'm not. But while you're here, why do you think its okay for > cyclists to intimidate motorists, but not the same in reverse?

Many here do, on the basis that cycling is "acceptable" and driving "isn't" (unless you're "important"), and therefore cyclists should be able to do what they like, and drivers should be heavily punished for everything that they possibly can be. Good luck in getting more than a few who think that to admit it though. They're too ashamed to do that, and too sure that they'd be unable to defend their position.

BTW, you'll get a lot of "You're Judith", "You're a troll", etc, simply because you're not toeing the party line. Anyone who sticks up for motorists and/or takes issue with others being anti-motorist is doesn't matter how exemplary their behaviour is, such opinions simply aren't allowed to be expressed, as decreed by the self-appointed URC moderator, Guy "Lying Scum" Chapman. Hence, even the likes of JNugent and MattB, who have only ever been entirely polite in putting across their points of view, have been referred to as "trolls" many times, simply because of what they think.
 * always* labelled a "troll" simply for stating their opinions. It

Thereagain you probably don't need to be told any of that...you seem to have become painfully aware of the delights of uk.rec.anti-motorist already. (There are a minority of real cycling advocates here, and I feel for them somewhat that their group has been overrun by car-haters who hijack their cause and pretend to be cycling advocates for PR purposes, but really they've only got themselves to blame for not telling the car-haters to get lost a long time ago. Still, doing that now would be better than not doing it at all, and while it still doesn't seem too likely at this moment, hope springs eternal.)