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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!postnews.google.com!h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <52486cfe-bfed-449c-9cc9-8ff01520702c@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cycling city shuns helmets. Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:49:51 -0700 (PDT) References: <5786fa7a-c7aa-4a08-a998-897f4fc2687a@k25g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> Lines: 25 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1304966992 12512 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2011 18:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2584 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:808632

On May 7, 6:20=A0pm, Simon Mason  wrote: > http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Head-to-head-on-the-bicycle... > > Seems to jibe with what I see in Kingston upon Hull - helmets are > "generally shunned" by our thousands of riders too, just like in the > comments in that piece. Like in NL and Denmark, it seems a long way > before they become the norm.

To be fair, Cambridge has an exceptionally high proportion of car- hating leftie psycholist fuckwits. Just look at what happened there on 5 May: it's one of only *10* areas in the whole UK which voted in favour of AV, and not a *single* Conservative councillor was elected (compare that with the sea of blue around it, and indeed in the south and east of England as a whole). It's no accident that the likes of Jackson, Braggins and Raven end up living there. Its only redeeming feature is that the Lib Dems, rather than Labour, have control.

Time for an English parliament. Then the fact that the vast majority of England vote Tory would actually have some significance and the Tory-haters would either have to suck it up or fuck off to bonnie Scotland (which with any luck will be independent soon, since they moan about us and hate us so much while simultaneously relying on us for their defence, free university tuition, free prescriptions, etc...the only thing they actually give us in return is a few drops of oil).