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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!k38g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: IAM Cycle Safety presentations Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:01:47 -0700 (PDT) References:  <6b638343-909d-4978-85e0-e96061884d3c@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <0fadneKsg9Fn4KrXnZ2dnUVZ8ghi4p2d@brightview.co.uk>     <2b49b208-b1aa-4054-8ee5-ab4a050012a3@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245182507 5924 127.0.0.1 (16 Jun 2009 20:01:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k38g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2438 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:710175

On Jun 16, 4:24=A0pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?"  wrote: > On Jun 16, 2:54=A0pm, Ace  wrote: > > > >Actually the IAM is less bad than the AA or RAC, from what I've seen > > >in the past, but it's still a very odd choice for a cycle safety > > >presentation. > > So, why would you think that a charitable organisation whose primary > > purpose is to improve road safety would _not_ be suitable? > > Having an interest in one aspect of road safety, from a very specific > perspective, is no kind of qualification for speaking about road > safety in a quite different area.

Having an interest only in making things unpleasant for motorists, from a very specific arsehole perspective, is no kind of qualification for speaking about road safety in *any* area.