Urgent please share it puts pressure on the Police
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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Emma Way was apparently a cyclist too...or so she said on TV. Didn't stop her losing her job for being stupid...
Sara_H
Guru
When these idiots say "I'm a cyclist too" the quick as a flash response should be "what bike do you ride?" I'm guessing the response would genrally be "Oh, er, erm it's a erm....."
Cubist
Still wavin'
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More than happy to explain it for you. It's an award based on the fact @User13710 used to keep seeing points she had already made being repeated as original observations. Apparently she felt it was all part of the "invisible woman syndrome" but doesn't really like to joke about it.
Cubist
Still wavin'
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Cubist
Still wavin'
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I'm not sure Spinney likes to joke aboutt the invisible woman thing though, based on my own observations. .
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
Oh FFS
TMN said, with sarcasm 'thanks for spoiling the joke'
My replies were intended to show that I didn't think it was a joke, as in I don't find the TMN thing particularly funny. Not that I find it offensive, nor do I think that it is something that shouldn't be joked about, nor do I think that other people shouldn't find it amusing, quite simply it is just that I don't find it all that amusing myself. Each to her or his own sense of humour, and all that.
That is all...
TMN said, with sarcasm 'thanks for spoiling the joke'
My replies were intended to show that I didn't think it was a joke, as in I don't find the TMN thing particularly funny. Not that I find it offensive, nor do I think that it is something that shouldn't be joked about, nor do I think that other people shouldn't find it amusing, quite simply it is just that I don't find it all that amusing myself. Each to her or his own sense of humour, and all that.
That is all...
Frood42
I know where my towel is
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Did you look at the poll results?
The majority have agreed that it should be left with the authorities to deal with, if he has done nothing wrong then there shouldn't be an issue...
Following the Emma Way incident it was probably best to let it be. Alot of people are still fuming over the fact she only apologised for the tweet despite driving away from the scene of an RTC. This shouldn't of course reflect against "your friend".
You also only have the biased view of your friend, do you have the view of the other party involved?
I have heard of or seen plenty of incidents where drivers have failed to properly overtake a cyclist, indicate, and then proceed to left turn across them without checking their mirrors for the cyclist. So you should be able to understand why some maybe unhappy with this...
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Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
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- Prestatyn, North Wales
You can support your 'friend' how ever much you want. We on this forum are not the ones who posted the status. We are not making him look like an idiot, he did that himself. It wasnt the fact that he said he had knocked down a cyclist that got our backs up, it was the fact that he said "1 down only 1 million to go" that caused all this. The fact that whether or not he was joking (just like Emma Way claimed she had done) is a bit late. The matter has gone to police (the collision should have been reported anyway) and now the idiotic twunt is going to be investigated, whether he likes it or not.
The company he supposedly works for probably hates his guts now after he still had them on his profile.
The part about you being a cyclist is neither here or there. If you genuinely want us to believe that, then use this forum to post images of your bike, give stories from your part of the country, and actually speak in relevance to this forum instead of simply coming on here to back up your friend. A cyclist is someone who often rides their bike to work, goes out on long leisure rides at the weekend, or someone who tours places. A cyclist is not a person who just happens to have a bike in the garage that they havent ridden for 5 years. Popping to the newsagents on your bike does not make you a cyclist, it just makes you a person on a bike. I doubt you even wear hi viz when you go out.
So very true.
When I was knocked off my bike by a copper, he came out with the 'I'm a cyclist too'. 'yeah?' I said. His reply. 'oh nothing special, you know Halfords jobbie'. Me..'hmmm OK right'.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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For someone who has ended a 15 year friendship with this guy over what he wrote, you're sure doing a grand job of sticking up for him. Odd that.
Nobody on here has made him out to be, he's done that himself.
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Frood42
I know where my towel is
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- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
Wow Matthew, you have some interesting views, and I cannot work out which is serious and which is humor.
Anyone who rides a bike is a cyclist, it is not a special status, club, group or tribe...
Whether they ride to work or only go out at the weekends is neither here or there.
It doesn't matter if they can only manage 5 miles or can manage 100 miles.
I would prefer people thought of me as a person on a bike, as that is what cyclists are.
Hi Viz, don't get me started
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glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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MisterStan
Label Required
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- Out there somewhere
About as much as wearing a helmet!
Frood42
I know where my towel is
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- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
About as much as wearing a helmet!
If your are not careful the thread might end up in the Helmets and Headphones section
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