From: mileburner on

"Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7nphnqF3n4836U6(a)mid.individual.net...
> "mileburner" <mileburner(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>
>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
>> message news:SIDRm.11223$Ym4.7974(a)text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>> The only good cyclist is a dead cyclist.
>
>> That comment certainly highlights the problems that cyclists face on the
>> roads.
>
> I find it hilarious that David Lang, the Medway Handyman (http://
> www.medwayhandyman.co.uk/) thinks that he's actually doing anything
> positive by advertising his business in this manner.

Not only that, he makes remarks which are hateful and thoroughly offensive
and publishes his home address in the public domain.


From: Adrian on
"mileburner" <mileburner(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

>> Do you buy bike bits as a motorist, too?

> Clearly it *is* too hard for a non-cycling motorist to understand.

At the moment, I'm neither a cyclist or a motorist. But at other times, I
am both.

> And yes, I do.

You would seem to be heading towards agreeing with Duhg that somebody who
uses a car, no matter how occasionally, can never be a "proper cyclist"...
From: Adrian on
Peter Grange <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

>>> You are qualifying the argument after the event, which is a well-known
>>> usenet ploy.

>>It's difficult to correct you before you're wrong.

> You changed the argument afterwards, not me.

Not at all.

> There is no qualification about "as a cyclist" in the original
> statement.

There shouldn't need to be.

> Am I or am I not a cyclist? Yes I am. Do I pay VED? Yes I do.

But not as a cyclist you don't.

I sometimes wear a hat. Am I a hat-wearer? <checks reflection> No, I am
not. Does whether I wear a hat or not affect whether I pay VED? No, it
does not.
From: Peter Grange on
On 3 Dec 2009 10:20:42 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>"mileburner" <mileburner(a)btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
>like they were saying:
>
>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
>> message news:SIDRm.11223$Ym4.7974(a)text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>> The only good cyclist is a dead cyclist.
>
>> That comment certainly highlights the problems that cyclists face on the
>> roads.
>
>I find it hilarious that David Lang, the Medway Handyman (http://
>www.medwayhandyman.co.uk/) thinks that he's actually doing anything
>positive by advertising his business in this manner.

Presumably he can arrange to kill cyclists in a "reliable, honest,
polite and friendly" manner then.

--

Pete
From: dan on
Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> writes:

> I sometimes wear a hat. Am I a hat-wearer? <checks reflection> No, I am
> not. Does whether I wear a hat or not affect whether I pay VED? No, it
> does not.

And again, I sometimes drive a car. At present, I am not driving a
car. Last time I paid VED I was not driving a car. It seems that
paying VED and driving cars are no more closely linked than paying VED
and wearing hats.


-dan