Cycling is a discriminatory form of transport??

[Fnaar]

"A councillor in Birmingham has said that the city’s £24.3 million ‘Cycle Revolution’ will only benefit “young, white men” and that cycling is a “discriminatory” form of transport."

http://road.cc/content/news/130080-...-revolution-discriminatory”-and-only-benefits

 

[swee'pea99]

A councillor in Birmingham is an idiot.

 

[User6179]

I've always thought of myself as being a discriminating sort person. I prefer cycling to driving. I prefer walking to driving. I prefer a nice bottle of sauvignon blanc from NZ to an alcopop. I prefer Wagner to manufactured boy bands. Probably my weakness though.......I prefer steel to carbon.

Wagner ??
Is it his raw sexual magnetism you like ?

 

[snorri]

a discriminating sort person.

This could be interpreted in so many ways.

 

[Profpointy]

I've always thought of myself as being a discriminating sort person. ... I prefer even Wagner to manufactured boy bands. ......

ftfy

 

[Ganymede]

Soz but there is already another thread on this... no Wagner pix tho'.

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/du...nonsense-youll-ever-read.164889/#post-3273637

 

[Deleted member 35268]

the other thread is off on a totally different tangent

 

[Drago]

And I'm not to blame!

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 3273767, member: 259"]Speaking of Wagner, does anyone else loathe opera music?

God knows I've tried over the years, but once the overture's finished and they start that dreadful singing I'm out.

And the 'acting'!

I'd sooner listen to U2.[/QUOTE]

Whilst I kind-of agree and (also) dislike the warbly style of singing. But having said that, if you avoid most of the late romantic and italian opera, there's some fabulous early and very modern stuff.

Early stuff - Purcell & Montiverdi are great - anything with Emma Kirkby singing - and that's proper singing not "opera" awfulness.

And Philip Glass for the very modern melodic stuff. Ahknaten, or Satyagraha (saw stunning EnO version), or Einstein on the beach for something a bit way out.

And even with opera opera, Magic Flute, Tales of Hoffman, or Der Freishutz are great fun. As is The Mikado for that matter.

But I still can't sit through Wagner

 

[KneesUp]

"A councillor in Birmingham has said that the city’s £24.3 million ‘Cycle Revolution’ will only benefit “young, white men” and that cycling is a “discriminatory” form of transport."

http://road.cc/content/news/130080-councillor-says-birmingham’s-cycle-revolution-discriminatory”-and-only-benefits

He's right though. I mean my local council is terrible - they spend money on swings and slides and stuff that only benefit kids, and they don't even pay council tax. And they facilitate the half marathon, which is clearly not an event that people who can't run 13 miles are excluded from. And swimming pools. God knows how much they cost, but I can't swim so it's discriminatory against me. I may sue.

 

[Profpointy]

whilst the councillors' comments are plainly idiotic, I do have to say, nearly all council spending on "cycling" is money wasted, and quite possibly worse than wasted by making cycling more dangerous - I specifically mean cycle lanes - but appreciate not everyone agrees

 

[Learnincurve]

/sigh

Does he not get that a lot of people of all age, races and sex are scared to cycle in Birmingham because they feel it's unsafe and that it just happens that it's young while men who are least afraid to go on the roads. All he needs to do is look York, Cambridge and Oxford to see the difference it makes when everyone feels safe.

 

[Drago]

Deidre Barlow is clearly a man.

 

[KneesUp]

Eh? Aren't councillors automatically men then? <innocent-looking whistly smiley>

Guilty of assuming "person-in-public-office-saying-something-stupid" was a man.