From: JMS jmsmith2010 on
On 15 Apr 2010 10:11:05 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>JNugent <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
>they were saying:
>
>> It is safe to say that in any demonstrable case where a driver or
>> motorcyclist had driven or ridden *along* a footway *in the manner of a
>> cyclist*, no-one here would condemn similarly robust punishment for it.
>
>Well, nobody sane. There's always the Medway Handymong.


"Handymong"?

Even though you appear to have low IQ and have limited command of
English I find use of such contrived derogatory terms extremely
distasteful/


I suppose that you think yourself clever.
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From: JNugent on
Phil W Lee wrote:
> boltar2003(a)boltar.world considered Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:42:39 +0000
> (UTC) the perfect time to write:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:27:51 +0100
>> Tom Crispin <kije.remove(a)this.bit.freeuk.com.munge> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:57:15 +0100, Bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A car driver would quite possibly be incarcerated even, for driving on
>>>> the pavement!
>>> Really! I regularly see cars that have clearly been driven on the
>>> pavement, yet the police seem to ignore this offence which you claim
>>> in serious enough to warrant a prison sentence.
>> Stop talking rubbish man. Cars do not drive on the pavement, end of. For the
>> most part they wouldn't fit anyway. Occasionally someone may park on a paved
>> area but thats not the same as driving all the way along it.
>>
> I know of a number of places where motor vehicles driving along the
> pavement to pass other vehicles waiting to turn right is commonplace.
> So much so that the kerbs are all broken down and the pavement badly
> damaged.

And that justifies cycling along footways and through pedestrianised areas,
does it?
From: mileburner on
Adrian wrote:

> Ah, that's where we differ. My views on "absolute right of way" tend
> to take second place to my sense of self-preservation, if it comes to
> a straight choice between the two.

Indeed, and I do not bow to the mighty motor vehicle.


From: Brimstone on


"JMS" <jmsmith2010(a)live.co.uk > wrote in message
news:sq7fs51lm9ptko5kv79f85lebaohkmojho(a)4ax.com...
> On 15 Apr 2010 10:11:05 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>JNugent <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
>>they were saying:
>>
>>> It is safe to say that in any demonstrable case where a driver or
>>> motorcyclist had driven or ridden *along* a footway *in the manner of a
>>> cyclist*, no-one here would condemn similarly robust punishment for it.
>>
>>Well, nobody sane. There's always the Medway Handymong.
>
>
> "Handymong"?
>
> Even though you appear to have low IQ and have limited command of
> English I find use of such contrived derogatory terms extremely
> distasteful/
>
>
> I suppose that you think yourself clever.
> --
Medway Handymong is extremely abusive and deserves all the derogatory terms
inflicted upon him. He appears to enjoy such exchanges, what gives you the
right to make judgments?

From: Bod on
On 16/04/2010 09:49, Brimstone wrote:
>
>
> "JMS" <jmsmith2010(a)live.co.uk > wrote in message
> news:sq7fs51lm9ptko5kv79f85lebaohkmojho(a)4ax.com...
>> On 15 Apr 2010 10:11:05 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> JNugent <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
>>> like
>>> they were saying:
>>>
>>>> It is safe to say that in any demonstrable case where a driver or
>>>> motorcyclist had driven or ridden *along* a footway *in the manner of a
>>>> cyclist*, no-one here would condemn similarly robust punishment for it.
>>>
>>> Well, nobody sane. There's always the Medway Handymong.
>>
>>
>> "Handymong"?
>>
>> Even though you appear to have low IQ and have limited command of
>> English I find use of such contrived derogatory terms extremely
>> distasteful/
>>
>>
>> I suppose that you think yourself clever.
>> --
> Medway Handymong is extremely abusive and deserves all the derogatory
> terms inflicted upon him. He appears to enjoy such exchanges, what gives
> you the right to make judgments?
>
>

He has as much right as you have, to offer his view/s.


Bod