Holding cars up...
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This is really an odd post and representative in part of a style of criticism I'm getting used to in this forum:
My prolixity ( you seem to imply) is a function of sublimated fury...
I am too pro-car, say others ...
I am suspected of trolling to upset cyclists...
I just haven't got my head round the hegemony of the motor car....
My verbosity is a function of having nothing to say...
I am a cyclist, but not one who agrees with some of the stuff I see on this forum. If I wordily suggest that Magnatom, Traffic Droid and others are slightly angry, this is somehow part of the evidence of sublimation of my own fury through prolixity.
I am a wordy bastard. I have been since I could talk.
On occasion, Magnatom does get pretty abusive in his videos. It is not edifying and it is not something I'd want to children to watch and to learn from.
Most people who know me would say I don't have an angry bone in my body... But they may just be missing my hidden fury.
Cripes! Look out, it's all about to spill out online after being held in for nearly fifty years! I hope there's room for all my fury on the Internet.
The term "dissenters" is unnecessarily flattering, I think.
Hip Priest
Veteran
I'm quite enjoying the clash of opinion and style between theclaud and bicycle.
Succinct & Catty v Verbose & Droll.
Succinct & Catty v Verbose & Droll.
400bhp
Guru
[observation mode] I wonder if there is a strong correlation between road positioning and age?
A graph of distance from the gutter on the y axis and age on the x axis would be downward sloping?
And one of where we [cyclists] see ourselves in the pecking order on roads.
A similar graph?
Is this education? Someone mentioned cycling proficiency tests. Did they stop in the 70's? Did they teach certain riding styles that would be deemed "out of date" now?
A graph of distance from the gutter on the y axis and age on the x axis would be downward sloping?
And one of where we [cyclists] see ourselves in the pecking order on roads.
A similar graph?
Is this education? Someone mentioned cycling proficiency tests. Did they stop in the 70's? Did they teach certain riding styles that would be deemed "out of date" now?
400bhp
Guru
This is really an odd post and representative in part of a style of criticism I'm getting used to in this forum:
My prolixity ( you seem to imply) is a function of sublimated fury...
I am too pro-car, say others ...
I am suspected of trolling to upset cyclists...
I just haven't got my head round the hegemony of the motor car....
My verbosity is a function of having nothing to say...
I am a cyclist, but not one who agrees with some of the stuff I see on this forum. If I wordily suggest that Magnatom, Traffic Droid and others are slightly angry, this is somehow part of the evidence of sublimation of my own fury through prolixity.
I am a wordy bastard. I have been since I could talk.
On occasion, Magnatom does get pretty abusive in his videos. It is not edifying and it is not something I'd want to children to watch and to learn from.
Most people who know me would say I don't have an angry bone in my body... But they may just be missing my hidden fury.
Cripes! Look out, it's all about to spill out online after being held in for nearly fifty years! I hope there's room for all my fury on the Internet.
I'm not an especially close follower of his oeuvre, so I don't know whether there's any truth in this, but it certainly isn't the case in the video that opens this thread, which is rather amusing and shows a fairly good-natured response to an idiotically angry and abusive driver. And yet your entire contribution to this thread is to misrepresent the cyclist in the video. the children thing is absurd. Forgive me if we're a little bored with it, and if this weariness is exacerbated by your unwillingness to prune your ungainly poetry into something a bit more snappy.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Is that the royal "we"?
Yeah! Posting in the middle of the lane like that, you'll give us all a bad name. Just squish up and pull in to the left a bit to give the other posters space to get past. You don't pay for the forum, so stop whining
No, it's a breezily inclusive one. I don't pretend to speak for everyone, but if I'm alone in my distaste for Bicycle's uniquely tedious output, I'll eat my mudguards.
Sir/Madam,
OK. Point taken.
I'll see what I can do about shortening my posts.
The 'children thing' is key to me. If someone is posting to raise awareness of shortfalls in the standards of driving, but is not behaving courteously on the roads, that isn't something I'd encourage my children to watch.
Bless you for reading and committing to memory my entire contribution to this thread, but I believe you may be wrong. Some of my entries contain nuggets quite unconnected with Magnatom. To tell the truth, I usually fall asleep halfway through reading one of my own posts, so I may be wrong.
You and I seem to disagree about the video opening the thread. I complimented some of it (the clever ending) but thought the rider was being a little self-indulgent and offensive. He also sought a dialogue the other party clearly did not want. Lecturing a traffic queue about VED may be your sort of funny, but it isn't mine. I prefer fart jokes.
Your fascination with my prose style (which I readily admit is shaky and varbose) just tickles me. Yours is fabulous. I worship it and aspire to getting somewhere near it if I live to be a hundred.
Meanwhile, I'll keep posting and I'll try to take on board any hints you have about my style.
Oh Bugger! I've just typed another marathon entry....
And it's full of gaps where none are needed.
My theory was a variant on Dellzeqq's - that Bicycle claims all the virtual space he can as a proxy for all the tarmac he cravenly surrenders yet secretly longs to possess.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Oh ok, thank you, only I got the impression from your post that it may include me, could you maybe edit it so it says something like "we're (excluding Mugshot) a little bored with it", thanks again
400bhp
Guru
Oh ok, thank you, only I got the impression from your post that it may include me, could you maybe edit it so it says something like "we're (excluding Mugshot and 400bhp) a little bored with it", thanks again
If you watch that video and worry about the example Magnatom is setting the children, then there's possibly something wrong with you. Anyway, this setting examples thing reminds me of this, in which (in case you are wondering) you are the New Kidz On The Block fan:
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