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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!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!87.79.20.101.MISMATCH!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2a07e1$0$2938$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Unlawful Detention Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:29:37 +0100 References: <4e286934$0$2488$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <98r85jFudjU1@mid.individual.net> <0otg2716k1r5c3ovepuasjeoiag8bqh4re@4ax.com> <98rhjsF9q8U1@mid.individual.net>  <4e28a923$0$2533$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>  Lines: 66 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: 39ed5597.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=UG9gP?olcVA_0c5Pki^71DYjZGX^207PK` On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:33:05 +0100, Nuxx Bar  wrote: > > > > >> You're entirely correct of course. Do you perchance have a Google >> Groups link to the thread containing the "offending" Phil Knee post? I >> know he X-No-Archives everything, but perhaps there's a reply or two >> quoting it (since it's too barking to have been ignored!) > > Message-ID: <590io41a3kq3fgf4d802i7bcql13bmhall@4ax.com> > > - > > From: Phil W Lee  > Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling > Subject: Re: Traffic Light Detectors > Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:45:24 +0000 > ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... > > nobby  considered Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:12:28 +0000 the > perfect time to write: > >> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:25:30 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?" >>  wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:36:09 +0000, Phil W Lee >>>  said in >>> : >>> >>>> BTW, I've just thought of a method that works for any vehicle - call >>>> the police on your cellphone, report the problem, and get clearance to >>>> proceed. >>> >>> Ha! I like that. And if it happens often enough they will be sure >>> to pressure the council to fix the problem :-) >>> >>> Guy >> >> >> Do you really think that the police will give you permission to >> proceed? >> > If it doesn't, you can report it as "Unlawful detention" > > -

Thanks. Good old Phil Knee always comes up with the goods.

> Pure Gold

Absolutely. Of course, with Mr Lee, the absurd things he says are only part of what makes him so open to piss-taking; it's the fact that he never retracts what he's said, even when he's clearly screwed up, which makes him one of *the* targets (he could have saved some face by taking back the "cabbie" remark for example, or at least passing it off as "a joke" (albeit a very tasteless one)).

In that way, he's rather like Chapman (and other psycholists..."Never retract or apologise as it makes you look weak"), although it does of course go without saying that he's nowhere near as bad as The Arch-Car-Hater overall. If I ever accuse anyone of that then I hereby declare that I will apologise unreservedly and profusely to them. That would be a truly horrible and unwarranted thing to say under any circumstances.