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On Mar 31, 9:49 pm, "Wm..."  wrote: > Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:33:11 >  > uk.net.news.moderation Mark Goodge  > > >If people are cycling less, then that's a good thing as far as safety is > >concerned as cycling has always been more dangerous than driving. > > I have a major issue with that, MarkG. > > I am hoping you meant it as a foil.

It's his opinion and he should be allowed to state it. It's not like it's even such a stupid thing to say. I'm sick and tired of this constant touchiness and "You can't say that!"-itis that some cyclists demonstrate (not that I'm convinced that you're really a cyclist...you suddenly seemed to "become" one having "met" the psycholists in UNNM). Anyone who says something like the above either gets "You're a troll" or (in the case of people like Mark Goodge, who it would be unwise to dismiss as trolls) "If I didn't know better I'd say you were a troll"/"You're troll-enabling"/etc.

Can't you see that this "Oh no, I have a major issue with you stating that opinion, I hope you won't do so again" attitude is exactly that demonstrated by (some of) the current URCM "moderators", and exactly the reason why we're having these constant problems, and the reason why Judith and I are banned (and Matt B always seems to be close), and the reason why Matt B gets bullied, and the reason why....

Just get over yourselves, FFS. Time to accept, very belatedly, that the world wouldn't work half as well as it does if everyone thought the same, was good at the same things, etc.

So that's decided then. A new age of all cyclists tolerating everyone's opinions and being receptive to new ideas which don't necessarily involve punishing motorists for ideological reasons poorly dressed up as "safety". A new era of mutual respect, acceptance and pragmatism. A new dawn of wonderfulness and loveliness. A new...oh, I'll just stop kidding myself. Rule number one: once a psycholist, always a psycholist.