Cyclists - let's kill them all

[choucas09]

So in an act of massive altruism we've gone from kill all cyclists to simply dismembering them. Richard you know what your name is c--kney rhyming slang for, pretty apt here I say. Yes I'm a cyclist and have been for 31 years without colliding with any pedestrians. I, like gwem, take offence to this bigoted thread.

[richard]

 Choucarse - for God's sake lighten up. Do you really think I'm serious about killing and mutilating people ? Can't you detect even a faint trace of humour in this thread ? You, like Gwem, seem to typify the sort of cyclists I've been talking about.  Sanctimonious, pompous, self-righteous bores with their heads shoved up their own bums. Or each others.

[Johnny Mac]

Everyones had a sense of humour bypass! Look what happened last week with Clarkson and the strikers.

[Lezard]

Taxi drivers can be terrible as well. I've seen more than a few stare up at the roof of their car as they shoot through red lights as if to pretend that they didn't see the lights had changed. Brilliant tactic - doubles the chance of killing a pedestrian or two.

I once had a taxi driver fall asleep at the wheel and drive onto the pavement, his tip got severly reduced.

[choucas09]

Richard examine what you and others said here. If I were to launch some unwarranted vitriol against a specific group to which you belonged I'd expect you to be offended. Perhaps you could improve your sense of humour when appraising the world at large. And thanks for calling me (and gwem) "Sanctimonious, pompous, self-righteous bores with their heads shoved up their own bums. Or each others."

Have you ever considered a career as a diplomat?

[Johnny Mac]

WTF happened to this place? Is it the pussy forum now?   :lol:

[gwEm]

Choucarse - for God's sake lighten up. Do you really think I'm serious about killing and mutilating people ? Can't you detect even a faint trace of humour in this thread ? You, like Gwem, seem to typify the sort of cyclists I've been talking about.  Sanctimonious, pompous, self-righteous bores with their heads shoved up their own bums. Or each others.

yep, thats me isn't it.

actually try cycling in London from Angel to Paddington past Kings Cross in rush hour, in the rain, and then we can continue this discussion.

[choucas09]

WTF happened to this place? Is it the pussy forum now?   :lol:

If someone starts a flame thread and the "flamees" respond does that make them pussies?

[Philly Q]

If someone starts a flame thread and the "flamees" respond does that make them pussies?

 :?  What makes you think it's a "flame thread"?  Ignore the provocative thread title, go back and look at the original post:

Why is it that so many cyclists think that traffic lights/pedestrian lights and all the other rules of behaviour on the road don't apply to them ? I was waiting to cross with a bunch of other pedestrians, the lights have definitely turned red and a female cyclist chooses to sail straight through narrowly avoiding maiming myself and several other folks. I've seen this happen countless times as well as their other trick of swerving onto the pavement at the last second as though that's okay.  

That's not flaming, it's absolutely true.  I see similar incidents almost every day.  Aren't cyclists supposed to stop at red lights?

[Matt77]

They should stop at red lights
But we also shouldn't insult each other beyond the normal very wide parameters of banter
ummm... does anyone fancy talking about pickups?
I'm going to buy some Stormy Mondays.
Probably un-potted but maybe potted, depends what suits an ebony board Les Paul

[gwEm]

Why is it that so many cyclists think that traffic lights/pedestrian lights and all the other rules of behaviour on the road don't apply to them ? I was waiting to cross with a bunch of other pedestrians, the lights have definitely turned red and a female cyclist chooses to sail straight through narrowly avoiding maiming myself and several other folks. I've seen this happen countless times as well as their other trick of swerving onto the pavement at the last second as though that's okay.  

That's not flaming, it's absolutely true.  I see similar incidents almost every day.  Aren't cyclists supposed to stop at red lights?
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that is true philly, and no one can deny that. but the fact is cycling in certain parts of London is dangerous, and a number of us have died, luckily no one I know, but I have had some good friends of mine been seriously injured, and I don't think there can be much joking with that sort of thing. you just have to look for the ghost bikes tied up at junctions.

[Philly Q]

OK, then let's change the thread title to "Cyclists - they can be annoying".

I still think the original point was a valid one, and the fact that cyclists get killed on the road doesn't invalidate it.  Pedestrians get killed too, so do motorists and so do motorcyclists.  That doesn't make it too sensitive a subject to talk about.

It was actually a completely reasonable discussion until people started trading insults.

[gwEm]

OK, then let's change the thread title to "Cyclists - they can be annoying".

I still think the original point was a valid one, and the fact that cyclists get killed on the road doesn't invalidate it.  Pedestrians get killed too, so do motorists and so do motorcyclists.  That doesn't make it too sensitive a subject to talk about.

It was actually a completely reasonable discussion until people started trading insults.

I'll take that Philly.. But I do think there are a number of people on the road who really would like to kill all cyclists in a serious non-banter kind of way

[choucas09]

Motorists very rarely drive through red lights - at least if they do, you can bloody well see that they're going to!

"Cyclists, on the other hand, do it all the time."

In fact some cyclists do it a lot of the time, personally I don't nor do the majority of cyclists. So was that a reasonable part of this discussion?

This thread has presented cyclists in such a bad light that, although I tried to stay out of it, I felt compelled to respond in the end.

[dave_mc]

Slightly off topic, transport/road safety common sense relative....
Bus drivers and Taxi drivers, seem to have thier own version of 'The Highway Code'.
In particular when pulling out from a 'parked/loading-unloading position', their code must read :
"Indicate but don't look" or "Signal, Manoever, and Mirror if you like".... :shock:

to be fair, i think buses have right of way. i.e. you're meant to let them out.