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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!novia!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!85.12.40.131.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2fca09$0$2945$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: fed up with hate speech? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:19:20 +0100 References: <6e503016c8a204b2cf25830faa73cb2a@dizum.com> <61860b86-4ec8-4012-96ad-7baf6a281a11@e21g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>  <5bbd67e3-5309-4271-8917-1b306f0cdba7@dp9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>  <65cd62e4-7238-4330-903a-355761f271d3@df3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>   <48e7f249-b74e-4d55-a5db-cf02bdbcfde1@g16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>     <597394a1-8df3-4293-b21c-91a05970ca25@y24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>  <4e2eed09$0$2935$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <231d24d5-8b04-441c-8bdf-dbd14ea13705@r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Lines: 21 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: <231d24d5-8b04-441c-8bdf-dbd14ea13705@r18g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 4b3db284.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=W4>TQ5WjX2UoS>6CUf2S_]YjZGX^207P[`I89R X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2844 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819019

On 26/07/2011 19:02, Simon Mason wrote: > On Jul 26, 5:36 pm, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> On 25/07/2011 22:31, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >> >> >> >>> Truth is, neither of us *needs* to ride a bike for transport. We do it >>> because it is substantially more enjoyable than the alternatives. >>> Especially in weather like this! >> >> And especially when you deliberately work to make the alternatives (or >> at least the main one) artificially more unpleasant than they need to be. > > Really? > I thought the air-con, hi-fi, cup holders, comfy seats and so on made > them a veritable travelling Sultan's boudoir.

So far, the car-haters have mainly concentrated on bullying drivers by changing factors external to the car itself. However, that's not to say that they won't eventually move on to sorts of things that you list above. Their petty unpleasantness knows no bounds.