Facebook post blood boiling

[mjr]

Bonkers, I drive and cycle but we as a family can't and won't do every journey on a bike, we are not living in the dark ages!

No-one's saying to cycle every journey, but don't you agree that people reach for the exhaust (crack) pipe more readily than makes any sort of sense? For example, it's 1km to the Post Office from my house with a cycle track all the way, easy cycle parking and a good light-controlled crossing, but a tiny car park and a dodgy near-blind junction to get back onto the main road in a car, but I'm sure plenty of people would still drive there and back to post a letter. That's f'd-up, isn't it?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I remember getting into a discussion with @GrumpyGregry when I first started on this forum about the rights and wrongs of kicking someones mirror off if they close passed you. I said then (and still do) that I think it is wrong but must admit the thought has crossed my mind a couple of times when I have been on the road.

It is wrong.

It is on a list of many wrong things I've done.

It is quite near the bottom of the list.

If folk didn't fetishise cars so much I doubt folk would think it as wrong as it seems they do.

It is nothing compared to what dozens of cph cyclists will do to a car whose driver has erred.

 

[Apollonius]

Facebook, bikes and cars are all what the users of these technologies make of them. The factor we cannot control is the humans behind them. As for Facebook, I am currently being highly entertained by a series of threads on our village in the past, which is bringing out all sorts of memories and old photos of the place. It is magic, and full of love and good humour.
Don't blame the messenger for the message!

 

[Justinslow]

No-one's saying to cycle every journey, but don't you agree that people reach for the exhaust (crack) pipe more readily than makes any sort of sense? For example, it's 1km to the Post Office from my house with a cycle track all the way, easy cycle parking and a good light-controlled crossing, but a tiny car park and a dodgy near-blind junction to get back onto the main road in a car, but I'm sure plenty of people would still drive there and back to post a letter. That's f'd-up, isn't it?

Yes, but I believe the majority of people to be just plain lazy, I don't necessarily believe that's the cars fault.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Kill everyone

 

[mjr]

Yes, but I believe the majority of people to be just plain lazy, I don't necessarily believe that's the cars fault.

Oh well. I think they've been conned.

 

[i hate hills]

A member of our family on my wifes side posted the following on facebook. My feckin blood is boiling.

Whats the difference between red & green, f**k all if your cyclist

So true, sometimes ya just get the urge to push em off.
They're always complaining that drivers don't respect them but the way they think they own the road makes me want to push em off. Also if there's a cycle path why don't they use it??? Makes me want to push em off......don't get me started about cyclists....

Yep ,riding 2 or 3 abreast,blood pressures going up again thinking about it.

Just push em off John....

,right I will

Ok calm down ....Facebook imo is for f**king losers . When you're out on your bike with your "friends" thats REAL people you can smile and think of said family member and their 200 odd kiddy on friends..........

 

[crazyjoe101]

... between red & green....

Lol the guy can't even form a sentence, whatever he was trying to say the difference between he just used the same word twice? Difference between green and green? Twerp.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Read it again and again, for you are the Angel of Death and the time of reckoning is at hand. View attachment 156737

Is that image culled from the internet? Stressed Eric was one of my must watches way back when it was on. The episode Pony was genius.

 

[Bazzer]

A member of our family on my wifes side posted the following on facebook. My feckin blood is boiling.

Whats the difference between red & green, f**k all if your cyclist

So true, sometimes ya just get the urge to push em off.
They're always complaining that drivers don't respect them but the way they think they own the road makes me want to push em off. Also if there's a cycle path why don't they use it??? Makes me want to push em off......don't get me started about cyclists....

Yep ,riding 2 or 3 abreast,blood pressures going up again thinking about it.

Just push em off John....

,right I will

Having spent most of the day at hospital with child 2, I think there are bigger things in life to get wound up about. (Although I'd confess to sometimes having a short fuse). Having defended cyclists on more than one ocassion a specific vehicle forum I am a member of, I am well aware of the prejudice faced by cyclists, quite apart from the abuse suffered on the road.

As I think @classic33 said earlier in the thread, motorists also need to get their own houses' in order. Only the other day as I cycled to the hosptial from work, I had an 18 tonner decide to do a 3 point turn on an A road (a gap in the cars but heh feck the cyclist), a white BMW who almost T boned me, a driver who thought her BMW Z8 would look better with a cyclist shape in the side and a Toyota Aygo driver who seemed pissed that a cyclist wanted to pass her roller skate on wheels, even though said roller skate wasn't going anywhere because it was stuck in standing traffic and I wasn't.

In the interest of balance, I also saw 4 cyclists without lights, when they were clearly required, including a PCSO who so far as I could see had no excuse as he was riding a hub dynamo bike.

 

[david k]

I've asked this before and never received a proper answer, so I'll give it one more go

What does Facebook do so well, that you can't do it with email and goodness, gracious the telephone?

Where do I start? Lots of things, Facebook isn't email and isn't phoning, it's different, not better not worse just a different method

 

[classic33]

Having spent most of the day at hospital with child 2, I think there are bigger things in life to get wound up about. (Although I'd confess to sometimes having a short fuse). Having defended cyclists on more than one ocassion a specific vehicle forum I am a member of, I am well aware of the prejudice faced by cyclists, quite apart from the abuse suffered on the road.

As I think @classic33 said earlier in the thread, motorists also need to get their own houses' in order. Only the other day as cycled to the hosptial from work, I had an 18 tonner decide to do a 3 point turn on an A road (a gap in the cars but heh feck the cyclist), a white BMW who almost T boned me, a driver who thought her BMW Z8 would look better with a cyclist shape in the side and a Toyota Aygo driver who seemed pissed that a cyclist wanted to pass her roller skate on wheels, even though said roller skate wasn't going anywhere because it was stuck in standing traffic and I wasn't.

In the interest of balance, I also saw 4 cyclists without lights, when they were clearly required, including a PCSO who so far as I could see had no excuse as he was riding a hub dynamo bike.

Electric assist?

 

[david k]

I guess I must just have an awesome lot of friends on Facebook. Some close personal friends in real life, some cycling acquaintances, some music people, groups for orchestras and cycling clubs, Facebook events for publicising concerts and races, organising social events, announcements of life events (births, engagements, marriages, deaths etc), nice photos of places I'll never go, humorous exchanges, politics, wordnerdery, and NO CCd TO ALL EMAIL CHAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

True, you can use it positively with friends or as a medium to join or start arguments. You can change settings, delete 'friends' , remove yourself from groups etc. If you don't like your experience, then you can change it which I do now and then
There are people I am friends with but are removed from showing information in my feeds, another good tip

 

[Bazzer]

Electric assist?

Don't know about that. Saw his fluorescent top long before I saw his bike and clocked massive rear light and oversize hubs as I passed him.

 

[briantrumpet]

True, you can use it positively with friends or as a medium to join or start arguments. You can change settings, delete 'friends' , remove yourself from groups etc. If you don't like your experience, then you can change it which I do now and then
There are people I am friends with but are removed from showing information in my feeds, another good tip

Oh, and add to those: blocking any games that your friends are playing from appearing on your newsfeed, and not using any apps that trawl through your list of friends and all your posts and photographs, or signing on to other websites using your FB log-on. Oh, and using a good ad and pop-up blocker to cut out all the fluff.

I think sometimes people forget that all this is provided for no subscription fee (and I'm aware I'm subverting that with the blockers), so a bit of work on the user's part to make it work for them isn't too much of a price to pay for a pretty awesome communication tool.