From: Steve Firth on
MasonS(a)BP.com <MasonS(a)BP.com> wrote:

> 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.

That's the "some of my best friends are black" defence.

And an Alfa, <wipes tears of laughter from eyes> so you're not keen on
motoring then but you are a big fan of breakdown organisations.

> 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.


I don't have a narrow blinkered view of people. I judge them by the
bollocks they post.

> 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.

<snort> You need to smarten up your act and not talk like a brainless
pratt if you want people to take you seriously. I'd reckon the chances
are slim.
From: MasonS on
On 6 Dec, 19:13, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
> Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's the "some of my best friends are black" defence.

No - it's the I can see the picture from boths sides defence. Can you?

> And an Alfa, <wipes tears of laughter from eyes> so you're not keen on
> motoring then but you are a big fan of breakdown organisations.

I wouldn't know. In 35 years of driving I've never used a breakdown
service. When my old British Leyland cars used to conk out, I fixed
them myself on the side of the road. My last Alfa 156 did 130,000
miles, never broke down and it went around Moldova and Ukraine on some
very dodgy roads.

--
Simon Mason
From: Conor on
In article <cb415707-1c7a-4a8d-83db-688283f71829@
19g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says...
>
> On 6 Dec, 13:23, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <867b9ab4-a44a-433c-9d1c-c983963201b2
> > @g25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says...
> >
> > > The carbon coming out of your car is *new* carbon that was previously
> > > locked away for millions of years.
> >
> > So it isn't new carbon then, is it? Its old carbon being released.
>
> That's as dumb as saying that the molten iron in the Earth's core is
> the same old iron from when the Earth was formed 5 billion years ago
> (that's 5,000 million years) and we can therefore tap into it and pour
> it over the planet's surface with no harm done.

What do you think volcanos do?

--
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: MasonS on
On 6 Dec, 19:25, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <cb415707-1c7a-4a8d-83db-688283f71829@
> 19g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says...
>
>
>
> > On 6 Dec, 13:23, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> > > In article <867b9ab4-a44a-433c-9d1c-c983963201b2
> > > @g25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says...
>
> > > > The carbon coming out of your car is *new* carbon that was previously
> > > > locked away for millions of years.
>
> > > So it isn't new carbon then, is it? Its old carbon being released.
>
> > That's as dumb as saying that the molten iron in the Earth's core is
> > the same old iron from when the Earth was formed 5 billion years ago
> > (that's 5,000 million years) and we can therefore tap into it and pour
> > it over the planet's surface with no harm done.
>
> What do you think volcanos do?

I wasn't aware they spew iron/nickel into the atmosphere, they don't
go down far enough.

--
Simon Mason

From: mileburner on

"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1jabf70.okj2s5pvisuoN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk...
> MasonS(a)BP.com <MasonS(a)BP.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Nobody has argued such a thing. I have however pointed out that when
> "mileburner" claimed that riding a bicycle produces no emissions that he
> was incorrect. I cited a booklet producing by a cycling pressure group
> as evidence.

Oh another twist of Firth.

If you care to read back you will see that I claimed that my *vehicle*
emissions would be nil.

My bicycles do not breath.