Apalling actions from an Arriva bus driver

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Matthew,

The (concerned) members of these pages who advise you to wind your neck in are wrong.

The members of the established cycling club who admonished you for your riding are wrong.

It's clearly not a matter of you ignoring or disagreeing with constructive criticism and advice.

I am in no doubt that you are absolutely right and everyone else is utterly wrong.

I think you are quite right to have left the club so you can ride in your own, individual style. What do they know?

Please ignore any advice I've given you. I am wrong. Listen only to people who say you're right.

I've seen your videos and you are absolutely right in every one of them.

I liked the one where you admonished a woman who swore in front of a child. I admire the way you kept responding to her right down the street. I think you showed her who was right there, and no mistake!

I loved the one where you poke fun at two club members on a ride with you for nearly having a coming-together on a roundabout. They'll have had a hearty chuckle about that. "Ha ha ha ha", they'll have said. "Ha ha ha ha".

I will study your entire Youtube channel in my search for enlightenment, joy and wisdom. Do not for one moment believe that viewers watch your channel just to see a Mr Angry-Boy Shouty-Shouty Comedy of the Absurd. They watch because they believe you are right and good and noble. And you are!

Anyone who says you just go out looking for situations and then wind them up to the maximum to get footage is so utterly wrong that we need a new word to say how wrong they are. It is truth and justice you seek. They who see that not are blind. Blind and wrong. Blind and wrong and stupid.

I see that you do not want to be a Youtube slebbrity. It is clear that the thought never entered your head. You seek confrontation only in your quest to educate other road users. That is clear. It cannot be otherwise. The mighty shall be mighty and the right shall be righteous, or something like that.

It is right that you were critical of that attention-seeking loon TrafficDroid... He is looney-tunes. He is nothing like you. You are right and everyone else is wrong. He is wrong. We are wrong. I am the walrus.

It is clear that you do not want to be Judge Dredd or Superman or that one with the surf board. In fact the word is that they all want to be you. Except the one on the surf board, but he's a bit odd anyway.

None of these awful things would have happened to you if the drivers hadn't passed you wearing loud shirts or smiled at you with teeth missing or overtaken you on an unbroken line when you were doing over 17mph. Or been Welsh, which I gather you have a tiny issue with.

We are all wrong and you are right. Keep on going exactly as you are. Everything will be perfect forever and you will save us all and it is like, wow!

You do realise people with aspergers find it hard to understand sarcasm !?
 

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@GC, I don't claim to be prescient, but I fear the thread is about to plunge into an irretrievable tailspin. Although arguably, it did that many pages ago.

The fair way to deal with that would be for the people spoiling the thread to cease. It's unreasonable to lock a thread to constructive comment for the sake of a few who don't know how to, or rather choose not to, follow the forum guidelines.

GC
 

Kbrook

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Matthew... I am sorry why is my comment wrong, did they give you permission? Why is that wrong, they might not want to be seen together for a variety of reasons? Please explain why its wrong that I ask that question , I genuinely don't understand. It may be me being thick, in which case I am sorry, but I would not want a private, if inoffensive conversation on the Internet.
 
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Ok, what about this one? It was you that said you don't film them.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0U1vpCcYNE

That was a year ago. It even says in the title.
 
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"Young and Ex-whippet"
Matthew... I am sorry why is my comment wrong, did they give you permission? Why is that wrong, they might not want to be seen together for a variety of reasons? Please explain why its wrong that I ask that question , I genuinely don't understand. It may be me being thick, in which case I am sorry, but I would not want a private, if inoffensive conversation on the Internet.
It was an incorrect statement in the sense that I dont need their permission. And for what reason would I be denied? They knew I was filming and did not say anything personal. I said more things which were personal (that I probably shouldnt have said).
If they are together in public then they have no expectation of privacy. Its really that simple. Irrelevant if they dont want to be seen together. If they are doing something that naughty (I understand what you mean by 'together') then they shouldnt be messing about with other people lives.
 
You do realise people with aspergers find it hard to understand sarcasm !?

I wrote some reasonable, considered and practical advice earlier in the thread (#361).

It was 'liked' by the OP (whatever that means), who then said he only confronts other people where he feels it necessary to educate them (I paraphrase).

My piece of sarcasm was more a flag of surrender. The OP seems to cherry-pick advice and be fuelled largely by the misplaced enthusiastic support of some who believe him to be a courageous herald of a new tomorrow.

I do not. I find his actions (almost all that he films) to be gauche, egocentric, ill-considered, often ill-mannered and always more inclined to increase rather than decrease blood pressure.

I and some others have been pleading with him to back off and stop making a clown of himself for months. The large number of views on Youtube are freakshow views (a youtube hangover from Victorian society).

This young man will get hurt or worse. Some on here egg him on and support him.

I was being sarcastic (childishly so) and was also waving a flag of surrender. I am perfectly happy to be wrong, but I find the OP's behaviour disturbing. Others do not.

I am not a doctor and know almost nothing of Asperger's. Matthew, the post in question was childishly sarcastic. This means that I think the opposite of every opinion I give in the post.

This post is not sarcastic. I seriously think you should take the advice from the club you left, get back and ride with them, try to stop your grotesque head-shaking, finger-wagging, rule-preaching, interventionalist attitude and stop confusing the number of Youtube viewers you achieve with some barmy sort of acceptance and inclusion.

Your friends are VC Melyd and other local riders, not fellow moon-barking would-be cam-slebs on CC.

I surrender. Both in his matter and in my fruitless attempts to dig up an apple root in the garden. I've stuffed the cavity below it with dry wood and will burn it. I cannot dig another ounce of soil or cut another millimetre of tree root.
 

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If they are together in public then they have no expectation of privacy. Its really that simple. I.

Actually Matthew it is not so simple - in might be in US law but in the uk OFCOM guidance clearly states that there is to some degree an expectation of privacy


Legitimate expectations of privacy will vary according to the place and nature of the information, activity or condition in question, the extent to which it is in the public domain (if at all) and whether the individual concerned is already in the public eye. There may be circumstances where people can reasonably expect privacy even in a public place.


http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/privacy/
 
That was a year ago. It even says in the title.

Ok, well you said you don't film rides etc and basically slated the club you were a member of... Yet... there are two easily seen videos put up by you, dated recently as well as another saying how amazed you are at reaching 1 million views whilst dressed in this club kit and making direct reference to why you reached that many!

On a side note if you have a potential audience of 1 million then you may want to think carefully about naming a local coach company as having crap coaches too, unless of course you have proof?
 
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