From: Adrian on
%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
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
"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
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
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
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27-Jun-10 Stockholm
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29-Jun-10 Oslo
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