Meet Tammy Ruffell, who wants to kill all cyclists.

[glenn forger]

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...tructors-to-understand-cyclists?commentpage=1

NSFW for swearing:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...39e33-ad1c-4bb4-811a-4c321510af14-460x88.jpeg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...7adce-df47-44c1-be90-76672fa347ca-460x72.jpeg

Horrible, but nothing new. Till you realise she's a driving instructor in Bristol:

http://www.banesdrivinginstructors....riving-instructors/188-tsr-school-of-motoring

 

[Glow worm]

Charming. Her partner sounds delightful as well.

On another note, I agree with a lot of what a contributor called 'Lord Upminster' writes below the Grauniad piece linked above. The bit about the weird British fetishisation of the motor car strikes a particular chord...

It's [antipathy toward cyclists] a purely Anglo-Saxon (USA-Britain-Australia) thing: in continental Europe it barely exists. I've been cycling and occasionally driving in France for two years now, and although as a driver I've suffered a fair bit of jostling, horn-blaring and tail-gating, on my bicycle I've never experienced the slightest ill-feeling or lack of consideration from motorists: rather the opposite in fact. But then as this recent article explains, the French don't and never have fetished motor cars in the way that the British do: they're simply regarded as a useful artefact on a par with a washing machine or a vacuum cleaner and not as a cultic object or a status indicator.


The trouble is that in British society anyone of driving-licence age still riding a bicycle is regarded as either eccentric or disqualified for drink-driving. There's a vague feeling that in some way they're letting the side down by not driving: metaphorically raising a finger to everything that Middle England holds dearest. Bicycles are for losers, weirdos and continentals.

The driving instructor is just another inevitable bone-headed product of an unpleasant little car sick country.

 

[Drago]

I'd be bitter too if I'd mis-played the hand life dealt me so badly I ended up working as a driving instructor. Poor dearie.

 

[raleighnut]

The Institute of driving instructors (or whatever they're calling themselves now) ought to be alerted,
Serious Professional Misconduct to express that sentiment publicly.

 

[Profpointy]

I'd be bitter too if I'd mis-played the hand life dealt me so badly I ended up working as a driving instructor. Poor dearie.

That's a piss poor comment on what after all is an honest living, fulfilling a worthwhile need and requiring a modicum of skill and training.
Hey, roadsweeping is an honest living, and whilst not an aspirational career choice necessarily, it would also be piss poor to malign someone doing that (important) job too.

Of course, the woman in question is clearly an unpleasant cow, but criticise for that, rather than being of lower status than you.

 

[Mugshot]

Of course, the woman in question is clearly an unpleasant cow, but criticise for that, rather than being of lower status than you.

Lower status than a copper?

 

[slowmotion]

I wonder if she instills a hatred of cyclists in her pupils.

 

[raleighnut]

Lower status than a copper?

Bailiff ?

 

[Drago]

Christ, I'm somewhere sub-cleaner. I'm the biggest waste of a Masters degree and expensive private education you'll ever meet ,but a) I make no bones about it, and b) don't go round calling entire sectors of law abiding society canutes and wishing death upon them.

I never criticised her for being of lower status than me, because I don't know what her "status" is, or mine for that matter. I was suggesting I'd be bitter too if I had a s***e job that forced me to sit in a car all day. As a cyclist I cant imagine a worse way to spend a working day.

 

[glenn forger]

The Institute of driving instructors (or whatever they're calling themselves now) ought to be alerted,
Serious Professional Misconduct to express that sentiment publicly.

ADI. I've reported her, think a few others have.

 

[glenn forger]

Christ, I'm somewhere sub-cleaner. I'm the biggest waste of a Masters degree and expensive private education you'll ever meet ,but a) I make no bones about it, and b) don't go round calling entire sectors of law abiding society canutes and wishing death upon them.

Master's.

 

[Mugshot]

b) don't go round calling entire sectors of law abiding society canutes and wishing death upon them.

Wait until you retire and become a bailiff you'll be able to to your hearts content then

 

[Drago]

Nope, when I retire won't be doing anything except drinking scotch from my cottage overlooking the Norwegian Sea.

Well, from a glass actually, but I'll be in the cottage.

 

[Mugshot]

Nope, when I retire won't be doing anything except drinking scotch from my cottage overlooking the Norwegian Sea.

Well, from a glass actually, but I'll be in the cottage.

That sounds rather better than being a bailiff to be fair.

 

[benb]

ADI. I've reported her, think a few others have.

Good. Please keep us updated.

I remember once a driving instructor gave me grief for not using the cycle path (actually a shared use pavement)