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From: Conor on 20 Dec 2009 07:42 In article <16aee150-383c-46fa-af05- 63d8b42b11cb(a)m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > That was more than *two years* ago. > How many thousands of people have been killed by cars since then? 6,600 roughly. How many billions of miles have been driven since then? > The number of peds killed by cyclists per annum is between 0 and 1. > More people are killed putting their trousers on - keep trying. Deaths from smoking outweigh those from cars tenfold.... -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 20 Dec 2009 07:44 In article <ec021bb1-a0d7-46fa-8d89-9899437968b0 @c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > Good man! > At last you accept there is a difference between fuel from crude oil > and its carbon emissions and fuel from bio sources and their > emissions. Not really. The end result is carbon being emitted. You're as bad as those stupid fuckwits who bleat on about carbon emissions being the death of us all and then say that Carbon Trading and Carbon Offsetting is an acceptable thing to have. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: MasonS on 20 Dec 2009 07:49 On 19 Dec, 23:31, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > > >Exactly how can a gritting lorry miss a cycle lane BTW? > > > Ask the gritters, but it shouldn't be too difficult to open your eyes > > and note that they do so. > > You get full kerb to kerb coverage.... Really? I have just been out in the car just to prove you wrong yet again. Just to the right of these parked cars is a cycle lane. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4845/013sy.jpg Kerb to kerb coverage? Yeah right. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6295/020j.jpg -- Simon Mason
From: JNugent on 20 Dec 2009 07:51 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> Phil W Lee wrote: >> Or how about this from The Evening Standard :- >> "A City fund manager has been knocked down and killed in a collision with a >> cyclist on his way to work. >> Nick Bancroft was a year away from retirement when the accident happened >> just yards from his �2 million Holland Park home". > That was more than *two years* ago ....so that death, caused by an anti-social-turd-on-a-bike, obviously doesn't matter. It's just collateral damage, possibly regrettable (not certainly so - the victim may have been a "motorist", of course) but totally acceptable (to SM(a)BP and PWL) because riding on footways makes cyclists feel better. > How many thousands of people have been killed by cars since then? What's the relevance of that question?
From: MasonS on 20 Dec 2009 07:52
On 20 Dec, 01:11, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> Exactly how can a gritting lorry miss a cycle lane BTW? > > > Ask the gritters, but it shouldn't be too difficult to open your eyes > > and note that they do so. > > Errm. So gritter lorries are so accurate that they can spread grit within a > +/- 5% area and so deliberately miss a cylcle lane? Yes - local photos taken in the last hour. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6295/020j.jpg http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4845/013sy.jpg You see, it's quite easy to miss a cycle lane. -- Simon Mason |