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From: mileburner on 3 Dec 2009 14:31 "JNugent" <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message news:f6mdnYg1VJWrkIXWnZ2dnUVZ7shi4p2d(a)pipex.net... > mileburner wrote: > >> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >>> That presupposes that motorists are stupid enough to want to cycle. Why >>> on earth would any sane person want to do so? > >> Health, fitness, cost, respect for other who want to breath clean air, or >> just for plain enjoyment. I am sure there are plenty of other reasons >> too. > > You were doing fine until you used the word "respect"... > > When one thinks of how many people, rules and situations for which too > many cyclists have absolutely no respect (not even for themselves, it > sometimes seems), that word is resonant with irony. It was *only* one of the reasons. Perhaps it would have been better to say: respect for the environment.
From: mileburner on 3 Dec 2009 14:41 "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:3LTRm.11461$Ym4.281(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > OK. Explain to me how much a tax disc for a cycle is? This is irrelevant, because a tax disc cannot be issued for a non-motorised bicycle.
From: mileburner on 3 Dec 2009 14:49 "Peter Grange" <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:8e3gh5lqapfmukpl2qje3t8lbcfscc1lna(a)4ax.com... >> >>How much is a tax disc for a push bike? > > Dunno, what's that? Maybe someone should start selling them.
From: mileburner on 3 Dec 2009 15:01 "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:wYTRm.11470$Ym4.8288(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > > I'm not advertising my business. I only work in a very specific area. I > have no idea where anyone here lives, and if they are a cyclist they > wouldn't employ me anyway - which suits me. That reminds me of when I was browsing a car dealers forecourt a while back. I saw a car which took my interest and the salesman/owner came out and said to me "you wouldn't be able to afford that mate". Little did he know that I was interested in buying and I had enough money in the bank at the time to write a cheque for the price on the screen. I walked by and bought elsewhere.
From: mileburner on 3 Dec 2009 15:04
"The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:%WTRm.11468$Ym4.2662(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > mileburner wrote: >> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in >> message news:SIDRm.11223$Ym4.7974(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >>> Squashme wrote: >>>> On 2 Dec, 16:28, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >>>>> mileburner <milebur...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Why is it the cyclists who seem to have a complete inability to >>>>>>> correctly apportion blame? >>>>> >>>>>> Possibly because cyclists tend to see safety as more important >>>>>> than blame. >>>>> >>>>> No, cyclists see whining on about safety as important. However they >>>>> don't have a clue about safety. Otherwise they would not ignore red >>>>> lights, place their safety above that of pedestrians, and cycle >>>>> down the blind sides of large vehicles. >>>>> >>>>> I'll take your pronouncements about safety seriously the day that >>>>> cyclists place safety above their own convenience. >>>> >>>> I certainly find being dead rather inconvenient. >>> >>> The only good cyclist is a dead cyclist. >> >> That comment certainly highlights the problems that cyclists face on >> the roads. > > Then they should keep off them. So that The Medway Handyman can selfishly use the roads as he sees fit, because he has paid a few hundred quid in tax? I don't think so Sonny... |