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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!d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <0490f025-80ea-4dc6-937f-385a3abed321@d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Government Could Raise Speed Limit Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:16:37 -0700 (PDT) References:  <8u7gpmFpncU1@mid.individual.net>    <8ufomfF9acU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 37 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 1300414597 3204 127.0.0.1 (18 Mar 2011 02:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3141 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:802817

On Mar 18, 12:52=A0am, The Medway Halfwit  wrote: > On 15/03/2011 11:59, Nuxx Bar wrote: > > > On Mar 15, 12:25 am, Adam Lea =A0wrote: > >> On 14/03/11 22:10, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > >>> Or you can book on the sleeper, which is actually rather civilised. > > >> What is it like? I may be using it this summer. > > > I hope for your sake that you're not 6'4". > > Being 6' and 4" must be the cause of your bitterness. > > I'm much happier being 5' and 11"

Hi Guy. :-) Or is it Squawky Tony?  Or maybe Phil Knee?  One of the lead car-haters anyway.

Thanks for your concern, but I'm very happy being 6'4"...I rather like being taller than almost everyone else, and it does give me a kind of natural authority, whether or not you might think it "should". Taller people are statistically more successful, you know.  Any taller and it would start to be impractical, but 6'4" means I don't quite have to stoop for most doorways, etc.  The only issue is with things such as sleeper cars (and indeed the legroom on "normal" trains)...where space/ money needs conserving, people above 6'0" or so tend to be neglected. Still, it's a small price to pay, and if I could choose my height, I wouldn't change it. Sorry to disappoint.

And really, I'm not bitter, I just despise dishonest car-haters who lie about road safety in order to try to bully me and others out of their cars. (There's enough legroom in my car after all.) Is it so unreasonable to take exception to such people? Others on this thread have also done so. No-one who knew me in real life would describe me as bitter. Height-related bitterness tends to be the preserve of the little folk.