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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!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.stack.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e366cfa$0$2942$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Organ Donors Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:08:10 +0100 References: <008ed5a6-3049-4f6e-8ec3-49d31d103a34@n35g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <99kkj1FbvoU1@mid.individual.net> <0kba37pm7co0r9ejelk1c5j38k3udjmlh4@4ax.com>  <467b375hlfi0b70h47nt30to5ha224n609@4ax.com>  Lines: 25 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d459af7.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC==LY79E:IRJdLZdjTZB0UVlYjZGX^207Pk` > On 31/07/2011 19:21, Robert wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:34:03 +0100, "Simon Mason" >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> "Derek G." wrote in message >>>> Very few people have organs to donate. >>>> >>> Doesn't the Daily Mail call the 1000's of drivers killed each year >>> "organ donors" though? >> No, I do not think so. Perhaps you can find a link. It has certainly >> called cyclists "organ donors"; I wonder why? > > Really? I'm sure you could provide some links to back that up, then. I > think you'll find that it's motorcyclists who are so described, not > cyclists.

Guy Chapman (aka "Just zis Guy, you know?") claims that there is no safety benefit to cycle helmets and yet wears one himself. He also claims that speed cameras save lives (because he hates cars) even though he knows that the exact opposite is true.

Anything Guy Chapman says on road safety is therefore not to be trusted.