Nuxx:A0d827c9-5b0a-49ed-990b-2c0f07112b5e@z5g2000vba.googlegroups.com

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!z5g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: You couldn't make it up! Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 12:14:20 -0700 (PDT) References:   <76dh8gF1bgdloU1@mid.individual.net>  <76dnr5F1c20ahU1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 50 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.208.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241637260 26895 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2009 19:14:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z5g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.208.50; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3769 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:699880

On May 6, 4:27=A0pm, RudiL  wrote: > > Me too ... It would be nice to have a campaign for road safety. Urban/ > residential speed limits of 20mph everywhere, 40 national speed limit > outside urban/residential areas except on motorways where it could be > 70, and perhaps 50 on dual carriageways. All enforced by speed cameras > everywhere.

Ah, another motorist-hater makes themselves known. Either that or you're an amazingly shit driver if you really think that those speeds are reasonable maximums. Are you one of those fuckwits who goes very slowly everywhere and evidently takes a large amount of pleasure from holding up long lines of people who wish to make reasonable progress? "If I don't have the skill to go above 40mph then I'm damned if anyone else is going to benefit from doing so", eh? You hate being overtaken, even when the overtaker stays within your beloved speed limit, don't you?

> Incompetent drivers like Nuxxy who cannot judge the speed > of their car

I take that as a compliment coming from someone who is either a car- hater or a shit driver.

> And *I do not hate motorists*

is it?
 * Yes you do*. Or you're a very incompetent driver.  Or both.  Which

> speed limits which are often too high anyway.

The coup de grace: the final proof that you have *no idea whatsoever* what good driving is actually about. How the HELL can a speed limit be "too high"? You show a complete lack of understanding as to the purpose of speed limits (or what the purpose *should* be). Just because a speed limit is higher than the maximum safe speed in some conditions at some points, that in no way makes it "too high". Speed limits aren't supposed to set a safe speed for the conditions, drivers are supposed to do that themselves. You really should know that.

Anyone who thinks the speed limits should be as you've said above obviously has a serious lack of skill and confidence behind the wheel, and seems to arrogantly assume that all other drivers are so handicapped. Not the case. Get some training, please, and stop endangering other road users and pissing them off by delaying them so needlessly every time you drive anywhere.

Speed cameras are mainly supported by car-haters, simple people and crap drivers, and in some cases all three at once. Here we have a textbook example.