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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!18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <178116a7-f58d-4ac5-8678-7e42568232ab@18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,uk.rec.cycling,rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Are we justififed to hate drivers? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:03:25 -0700 (PDT) References:    Lines: 51 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.153.43.250 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251273807 14385 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2009 08:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 18g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.153.43.250; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.40 Safari/530.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3814 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:727468

On Aug 25, 5:48=A0pm, ComandanteBanana  wrote: > On Aug 24, 10:27=A0pm, David Green  wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:09:13 -0700 (PDT), ComandanteBanana > > >  wrote: > > >(Psychiatrists advise you to let your frustration and hate out... so > > >you become a man at peace. So here I go, I answer below) > > > Now don't be silly. =A0*No-one* on uk.rec.cycling, except for Doug and > > David Damerell, hates drivers. =A0Not in the least. > > > So Guy Chapman supports every single anti-motorist measure, and every > > single car-related tax increase, and thinks drivers should be > > prosecuted for making way for emergency vehicles: so what? =A0He doesn'= t > > hate motorists. =A0He may *seem* to, in every way, but he says he > > doesn't, so he must be telling the truth (it's not like it's part of > > his agenda to lie about it). > > > The same with Spindrift: he may always blame the motorist whenever > > there's a collision, and he may in every way *seem* to hate motorists, > > but he doesn't; after all, he says he doesn't, and he's such an > > obviously honest and balanced person that you simply must believe him. > > > No-one on URC hates motorists except Doug 'n' Dave. =A0Keep saying it t= o > > yourself. =A0Dare to say otherwise and you'll be branded a "troll" for > > life and censored in the new censored group. =A0If the car-haters want > > to lie about hating cars because they believe that they'll get their > > anti-motorist measures more easily if they pretend they're for > > "safety" or "the environment" instead, then you'll just have to go > > along with their deception. =A0Or else. =A0You don't want to get on the > > wrong side of them...they're distinctly unhinged after all. > > Picture this old man I met at the bike shop. He rides his antique bike > on the sidewalk, and this driver cuts him off, scrapes him and... goes > to check his paint. > > Picture all those drivers who casually chat on the phone. > > Picture all who pass on the "slow" lane.

Don't obstructively hog the "fast" lane, then. Can't have it both ways: either the slower ones should keep left and the faster ones should keep right, or neither is the case.