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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe30.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Troll Drawings Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:02:54 +0000 References:      <2Oz3l.39883$_I1.28296@newsfe13.ams2>   <93uuk4dmr2dadprkj496okbs5tr25htph7@4ax.com>   <3rlvk4lp5f897idn7nk58oi5fjk0t0bc6i@4ax.com> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3rlvk4lp5f897idn7nk58oi5fjk0t0bc6i@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe30.ams2 1229972592 82.21.204.127 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:03:12 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:03:12 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3054 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:681663

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:44:59 +0000, Peter Grange >  said in > : > >> The point was that cyclists and motorists do not fall into two >> completely independent camps, which makes mutual hatred kinda tough. > > True, but there is a significant set of motorists who never drive, > and they do tend to display the behaviour noted by TRL in report 549 > of 2003: > > "A key finding which should be noted was that, when commenting on > the scenarios it was usually the behaviour of the cyclist that was > criticised – no matter how small the misdemeanour. Few links were > made between the cyclist’s behaviour and any external influences > that could be affecting their choice of behaviour; i.e. the > respondents’ comments indicated that they thought the cyclist’s > actions were inherent and dispositional behaviours. In contrast, the > motorists’ misdemeanours were excused or justified in terms of the > situational influences. As this tendency seemed to continue across > the groups and the individual depth interviews and was unprompted, > it is unlikely that group dynamics had any significant effect on > this finding. [...] This aligns with the psychological prediction of > targeting of members of an ‘out group’.." > Yeah, terrible, innit? Remind me how much you criticise RLJ cyclists? Or those fucktards on that London race? Why dont you just rap up, you hypocritical sanctimonious cretin?