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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe01.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: On my head be it if I don't wear a helmet Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:46:08 +0000 References: <360885f4-c437-4f85-883c-b56ea59ccb89@h16g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <58d7d375-0a38-4222-9772-c5c3f3df9249@b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>          Lines: 42 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.23.23.138 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe01.ams2 1235094369 82.23.23.138 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:46:09 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:46:09 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3190 X-Original-Bytes: 3147 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:686472

JNugent wrote: > Phil W Lee wrote: > >> JNugent  considered Fri, 20 Feb 2009 >>> Phil W Lee wrote: > > [ ... ] > >>>>>> Only when all drivers are truly terrified of their vehicle coming >>>>>> into >>>>>> contact with anything else will the balance be reasonable. >>>>>> A 9" spike on the steering wheel boss and a ban on driver seatbelts >>>>>> would be just about right. >>>>>> Passenger seatbelts are probably a good thing though, since they >>>>>> barely affect driving behaviour. > >>>>> >>>>> You just aren't in favour of motorised transport, are you? > >>>> Yes, but I have the wish for any perpetrator of motorised violence to >>>> be the first victim of it. >>>> Then it would stop. >>>> Dead Stop. >>>> You, on the other hand, obviously approve of the huge death toll >>>> annually inflicted by society's love affair with the infernal >>>> combustion engine. > >>> I think that's usually regarded as you losing, isn't it? > >> Not unless you feel that blaming the victim is an acceptable outcome. > > No - your construction of strawmen to misrepresent what has been said > and telling plain lies about what you say has been done (as well as your > truly weird beliefs about the appropriate punishment for mistake-making > by drivers) are marks of a desperation on your part. > >> But then I suppose that's what you've been trying to do all along. > > You are just being silly.

Its the only way Lee can balance enough to ride his bike - he's got a large chip on *both* shoulders... :)