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From: Adrian on 6 Dec 2009 13:33 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > Mention of a car is like a red rag with a bull to you lycra tossers > isn't it? You can't see past the word "car" and go into your automatic > anti-motorist rant. To be fair, that's an accusation that could easily be laid in reverse on many others...
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 13:44 On 6 Dec, 18:28, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote: .. > > Mention of a car is like a red rag with a bull to you lycra tossers > isn't it? You can't see past the word "car" and go into your automatic > anti-motorist rant. I was thinking that earlier on when I was planning my holiday. I will be driving my Alfa Romeo 159 to Estonia and then back through Sweden and Norway in June. 3000 miles all told. Won't be wearing any lycra though. Like Medway Man, I am sorry I don't fit into your very narrow blinkered view of people. You need to broaden your mind and not decend to insults and limited thinking if you want people to take you seriously. Very Daily Express. -- Simon Mason
From: Adrian on 6 Dec 2009 13:49 "MasonS(a)BP.com" <MasonS(a)BP.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > I was thinking that earlier on when I was planning my holiday. I will be > driving my Alfa Romeo 159 to Estonia and then back through Sweden and > Norway in June What ferry route were you planning back from SE/NO?
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 13:50 On 6 Dec, 18:30, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Mas...(a)BP.com" <Mas...(a)BP.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they > were saying: > > >> > Yes, but then I'm not the one trying to justify my driving a big > >> > engined car by stupidly arguing that a cyclist is breathing out more > >> > CO2 than a 1.5 tonne car gives out. Say if I drive to work in my 2.2 > >> > litre car, then over a year I will have burned nearly 1000 litres of > >> > petrol, yet would eat the same amount of food as usual and thus put > >> > on weight as my exercise has gone. > >> Ah, I think I see where your logic is failing. > > I would eat the same amount of food cycling to work and back whether I > > was in the car or not. I know this as when I go on holiday I eat as I > > normally do and gain weight, so you can take the food out of the > > equation as I eat the same when I am driving or cycling. > > ...and that's exactly where your logic is failing. > > Maybe they should tax fat bastards more, and bill it as a green tax? > Income tax %age = BMI? Hear hear. They use up more of the Earth's resouces than thin people. They eat more, cost more to shift around the place, cost more in clothing material, take up more space on public transport and when they have a coronary, fit people have to pay to get their arteries cleaned out. -- Simon Mason
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 14:06
On 6 Dec, 18:49, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Mas...(a)BP.com" <Mas...(a)BP.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they > were saying: > > > I was thinking that earlier on when I was planning my holiday. I will be > > driving my Alfa Romeo 159 to Estonia and then back through Sweden and > > Norway in June > > What ferry route were you planning back from SE/NO? None. I will catch the Hull - R'dam ferry as I live in Hull. The only other ferry will be the Tallinn - Stockholm one. From Oslo I will drive to Malmo and then to mainland Denmark on the Oresund bridge and then the Great Belt bridge. The tolls for those are around £80 and petrol in Norway is £1-35 a litre! War on the poor motorist or what? 15-Jun-10 Ferry Out 2100 16-Jun-10 Magdeburg 17-Jun-10 Warsaw 18-Jun-10 Warsaw 19-Jun-10 Vilnius 20-Jun-10 Vilnius 21-Jun-10 Riga 22-Jun-10 Riga 23-Jun-10 Tallinn 24-Jun-10 Tallinn - poss day trip to Helsinki 25-Jun-10 Tallinn 26-Jun-10 On ferry 27-Jun-10 Stockholm 28-Jun-10 Stockholm 29-Jun-10 Oslo 30-Jun-10 Oslo 01-Jul-10 Copenhagen 02-Jul-10 Copenhagen 03-Jul-10 Hamburg 04-Jul-10 Wageningen 05-Jul-10 On ferry 06-Jul-10 Ferry in 0800 |