Please, please explain.....

[threebikesmcginty]

I've never understood the "mouth breather" insult. I do it quite often. Should I stop?

It could be that they always have their mouths open in a permanent gormless expression, longers.

 

[rich p]

I can do both of those without being shouted at!

...on or off the bike too!

I've seen the beer thread

 

[swee'pea99]

Thanks CP, but given that our local boys in blue could not be bothered to speak to the driver of a coach which very very nearly fetched Mrs A off due to a dangerous overtake despite giving them sufficient information to positively ID the driver, I fear reporting strange creatures leering from the window of a passing car will not exactly get them jumping to attention. Also, as I said, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'd still love to know what they get from it though.

Unfortunately the police aren't for the most part terribly interested in looking out for ordinary citizens, and many of them positively dislike cyclists as much as the mouth-breathers. They're interested in kudos among their peers, and you don't get that by speaking to sloppy coach drivers.

No, what you need is some saddo armed with a shotgun, who's clearly just a ranting loser who's not actually going to do any harm to anyone, so long as no-one's stupid enough to go prancing around in the firing line - then you can get tooled up and go along for some Real Police Action.

How many police marksmen were required for this one incident? Along with the helicopter, of course...so vital in a siege scenario, where no-one's going anywhere...? 59. That's right folks - 59 fully armed, highly trained plod, all on serious salaries. No wonder he was hit by five different cops simultaneously. Amazing it wasn't more. 


Now *that's* police work! 

Evenin' all...

 

[Arch]

I imagine they come from what a friend of mine once described as the shallow end of the gene pool.

I think that's generous. I think they are more like the bath of Dettol you have to walk through on the way to the pool...

(Do you still do that? Not been swimming for yonks.)

 

[Headgardener]

I think that's generous. I think they are more like the bath of Dettol you have to walk through on the way to the pool...

(Do you still do that? Not been swimming for yonks.)

Nice one Arch. No they have showers for that all over clean feeling now.

 

[roundisland]

Its happen to me about 4 times in since starting cycling 2 years ago. It always angers me when it happens. I want to learn to laugh at it then i guess they wont be getting the result they wish for.

In the summer It happened I was in town, I was so mad that I cycled after the car. I saw lights in the distance and I was hoping that I would have been able to reach them before the lights turned green. Luckily for me the lights changed before getting to them because I wouldn't have had the breath to utter a word had I reaching them.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Its happen to me about 4 times in since starting cycling 2 years ago. It always angers me when it happens. I want to learn to laugh at it then i guess they wont be getting the result they wish for.

Agree that laughing completely confuses them (not that it's too difficult to do this with such morons).

 

[ComedyPilot]

They are sadly desperate for attention. Their lives are total insignificant blips, they were ignored and possibly neglected/abused as kids, so they now vent their pathetic frustration on what they think is an easy target. Laughing at them will be a good bet to rile them and frustrate them even more.


ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha,

 

[Bman]

They do it for a laugh. It's as simple as that. They also think they can get away with it (and they usually do if no-one reports it).

A S59 would be a good surprise for the driver and may make him think twice about giving his scummy mates a lift in the future.

 

[snorri]

but can anyone give me even the tiniest notion of why they do it?

Some young men, when confronted with a mature adult whose physical prowess is so obviously vastly superior to their own have a desire to express respect and awe. However, poor communication skills and the short time scale available as you whizz by, results in their utterings being completely unintelligible to all except members of their own peer group.
Enjoy the praise Gerry, you deserve it, and try to acknowledge it with a regal wave lest you offend.

 

[longers]

It could be that they always have their mouths open in a permanent gormless expression, longers.

"Shut your mouth, you look gormless" then eh? I've been told that before.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Some young men, when confronted with a mature adult whose physical prowess is so obviously vastly superior to their own have a desire to express respect and awe.

Hang on, it was Gerry they shouted at, not me!