Another pathetic dim witted tweeting driver...

[theclaud]

Is she as ugly as the other girl that tweeted about running cyclists.over? You know the one, face looked like it had caught fire as a baby and mum had put it out with a cricket bat?

Is it wise to criticize someone's appearance when one has a picture of oneself posted alongside? Just sayin'

And, yes, I can see the obvious riposte coming a mile off.

 

[benb]

It did get the airport closed and flights diverted though.
What was the final cost of that?

No it didn't. Indeed the Special Branch officer at the airport deemed it "not credible" at the time, but passed it along anyway, and is was only days later that Paul Chambers was actually questioned in relation to it. It was a farce from beginning to end.

The airport was closed at the time of the tweet due to snow, but not closed due to the tweet.

 

[Drago]

I make no bones about the fact that I am to gargoyles what Lance Armstrong is to pro cycling, so I feel no pangs of either guilt or hypocrisy when I spy a fellow munter.

 

[Mugshot]

So you don't care why they may not know how cyclists should ride safely (I would have thought we need to identify why motorists think the way they do to be able to effectively correct the problem but that might be just me) you just what them to magically acquire the knowledge without any education on it? This is too bizarre, I'm going to bed!

I do agree that there should be more emphasis in both driving lessons and in the test concerning the interaction with other road users. In saying that it's been quite a while since I had my lessons or test and things may have changed, however it seems unlikely considering our young lady having only just passed her test is already showing some concerning traits. She would however have been made aware that the use of mobile devices (lets not kid ourselves, we all know it's a phone she's got in her hand) used in the manner she has is not merely daft or anti social but illegal, so it would appear that despite being fresh out of school the education she has received counted for naught. Maybe though, if she sees enough cyclists riding in a manner which asserts their right to be on the road, whether by riding secondary, primary, two abreast or however they damn well like providing it's both legal and appropriate rather than cowering in gutters and on pavements she will learn and if she's seen that happening on her lessons and seen that when she was a passenger in her parents car she wouldn't need to learn, she'd know. That's how you educate people, make it the norm and stop making excuses for the way you're being treated on the road just because someone feels entitled to act like a bully because they're bigger than you.

 

[Mugshot]

Is it wise to criticize someone's appearance when one has a picture of oneself posted alongside? Just sayin'

And, yes, I can see the obvious riposte coming a mile off.

The thing is, and I'm assuming we're talking about Emma, she's actually rather attractive, it makes no odds to anything of course, but I don't understand the "She's a munter" style comments. She is many things, ugly is not one of them.

 

[Drago]

Emma Way! Cheers dude, that was gonna bug me all day.

 

[benb]

The thing is, and I'm assuming we're talking about Emma, she's actually rather attractive, it makes no odds to anything of course, but I don't understand the "She's a munter" style comments. She is many things, ugly is not one of them.

Ugly on the inside.

 

[Mugshot]

Emma Way! Cheers dude, that was gonna bug me all day. Face like a lepers scrotum and a voice like an Essex Joan Rivers. You got low standards if you think there is any crumb of desirability in her character, behaviour or appearance.

Well I didn't mention her character or behaviour because it's quite clear they leave a lot to be desired, but no, I don't think she's ugly.

 

[Zcapp96]

Riding alongside a companion antisocial? Are you typing that with a straight face?

Try actually reading what I write and you will see I have never said that.

 

[theclaud]

The thing is, and I'm assuming we're talking about Emma, she's actually rather attractive, it makes no odds to anything of course, but I don't understand the "She's a munter" style comments. She is many things, ugly is not one of them.

That, Mugshot, is entirely to your credit. I'm afraid it's bog-standard misogyny.

 

[Drago]

A misogynist with 4 daughters and a grand daughter? Yeah, right. If you wish to name-call a fellow member at least do some cursory research before plumping for moniker.

The only women I have a rabid dislike for are ones that tweet about hurting cyclists. And Teresa May.

 

[theclaud]

Try actually reading what I write and you will see I have never said that.

I know what you said, and it's nonsense. A majority of people deciding that something is antisocial does not make it so. Riding alongside a friend is the very essence of conviviality. Demanding that others get out of your way so that you can carry four empty seats around in a dangerous piece of machinery at speed is antisocial. We have got ourselves into a majority antisocial behaviour situation already.

 

[theclaud]

A misogynist with daughters and a grand daughter? Yeah, right.

The only women I have a rabid dislike for are ones that tweet about hurting cyclists. And Teresa May.

 

[John the Monkey]

I do agree that there should be more emphasis in both driving lessons and in the test concerning the interaction with other road users. In saying that it's been quite a while since I had my lessons or test and things may have changed, however it seems unlikely considering our young lady having only just passed her test is already showing some concerning traits.

She's also part of a road culture that's aggressive and impatient, that views pretty much any offence other than drink driving as not "proper" lawbreaking, and sees road safety largely as the exercise of getting less important stuff out of the way of cars.

The test is to most people, I suspect, largely a hurdle to leap before commencing "proper" driving (speeding while eating toast and holding a mug of tea, that sort of thing). I'd like to see rather more emphasis on skills and knowledge being kept up to date (newspaper columnists, clarkson &c could help by actually knowing the chuffing Highway Code, f'rexample) personally, and the driving license more imperilled by failure to obey the law than it is at present.

 

[Mugshot]

She's also part of a road culture that's aggressive and impatient, that views pretty much any offence other than drink driving as not "proper" lawbreaking, and sees road safety largely as the exercise of getting less important stuff out of the way of cars.

The test is to most people, I suspect, largely a hurdle to leap before commencing "proper" driving (speeding while eating toast and holding a mug of tea, that sort of thing). I'd like to see rather more emphasis on skills and knowledge being kept up to date (newspaper columnists, clarkson &c could help by actually knowing the chuffing Highway Code, f'rexample) personally, and the driving license more imperilled by failure to obey the law than it is at present.

I agree. The driving licence is very much seen as a right not a privilege and much of this is down the abject failure of the courts to impose adequate penalties. Any and every measure which is taken in order to control the real anti social behaviour on our roads is seen and reported as part of a war on motorists. There's an awful lot of voters that drive cars though.