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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <79ba74b9-b202-4e86-b983-3df431c1e382@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cycling wrong way up one way streets to be made legal Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:51:30 -0700 (PDT) References: <1e1a0bbe-a0c0-4c52-8261-153151b7768e@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>  <26e5a277-daca-4106-a6a3-db8be5de7499@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 18 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.217.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212645090 8279 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2008 05:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.217.66; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2134 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:651976

On Jun 4, 3:03=A0pm, "Clive George"  wrote: > "spindrift"  wrote in message > > news:26e5a277-daca-4106-a6a3-db8be5de7499@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > >Why in the name of left-handed Greek buggery have they asked "Captain > >Gatso" to comment? > > Cos he's such an obvious numpty it makes the proposal look all the better.=

Yeah. Damaging public property...terrible. Except that if there were red light cameras and/or pavement cameras for bikes, and there was someone (probably a troll from here) going round vandalising them, I doubt you'd use the word "numpty" about them.

Go on, admit it. You wouldn't. You'd say something like "Shouldn't really do it, but I can understand why".