What a lovely young woman...

[Flying Dodo]

Ok, the individual in the video was an inconsiderate driver and an abusive individual. But for arguements sake if the driver looked like an overt homosexual would you make comments about them being a faggot etc.? Because to me it is the same.

Exactly. The issue should just be about her poor driving skills.

 

[Riding in Circles]

You lot are getting far to easy to hook. The issue is about her poor driving skills as well as her seriously poor attitude, but lets face it she and the passenger were no oil paintings, unless you are into Rubens.

 

[JonnyBlade]

'Fat is a feminist issue' ................................. The Full Monty

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

How very british, the assailant is being defended as a poor victim, leftist rhetoric.

Out of interest did you make that statement up yourself or simply cut and paste from the reader’s comments section of the Daily Mail website

 

[jefmcg]

Does she pay for two seats on a plane?

First post? I hope you are proud of yourself.

 

[Riding in Circles]

Out of interest did you make that statement up yourself or simply cut and paste from the reader’s comments section of the Daily Mail website

Telegraph.

 

[whitebait]

Do you think that, the motor vehicle drivers, I held up when I was 30 odd stone, cycling to work , had the right, because they were pissed at me for slowing them down, to take the piss out of my size ?

It happened to me almost every day for about 8 months

Whenever I see a 'bigger' cyclist (bear in mind I'm no whippet, 16st and 6'6") I always want to shout some words of encouragement. I don't know if they'd prefer that to just being left to get on with it, but I find cycling knackering enough, I can't imagine how tough it'd be carrying twice that weight!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I realise now how easy it is to get carried away with comments I would not have normally made. My comment #15 is regrettable and even my reference to "A whole lotta Rosie" was inappropriate. I apologise for those a posts.

 

[BentMikey]

Whenever I see a 'bigger' cyclist (bear in mind I'm no whippet, 16st and 6'6") I always want to shout some words of encouragement. I don't know if they'd prefer that to just being left to get on with it, but I find cycling knackering enough, I can't imagine how tough it'd be carrying twice that weight!

+1 I passed some very large folk on the L2B, and was awed and impressed by their achievements.

My comment about the driver was fatist, sorry for that, but it was only sparked off by her terrible behaviour. I wouldn't have said a word otherwise.

 

[Riding in Circles]

+1 I passed some very large folk on the L2B, and was awed and impressed by their achievements.

My comment about the driver was fatist, sorry for that, but it was only sparked off by her terrible behaviour. I wouldn't have said a word otherwise.

You are like a stick insect.

 

[gregsid]

I find a lot of people resort to rudeness when they make a mistake or are embarrassed.

I'd like to think that a lot more would "resort" to an apology after a mistake.

 

[Bicycle]

I'm with the folk who think some of the comments about size and weight in this thread are a little offensive and typical of the insularity of the chat forum.

These barbs of slowly escalating vindictiveness sometimes remind me a little of 'Lord of the Flies' or the excellent 'Cabaret'.

I was a little cross with myself the other day; few of us are as clean as we think we are.

I was following favourite daughter up a gut-busting climb and two distant figures on bicycles appeared ahead.

It was a portly (ish) middle-aged couple on MTBs.

She passed them with ease and with aplomb, but at the top said something about not having thought she would.

I replied with something like "Pffff.. They're hardly built like mountain goats. It's tough carrying all that up a hill."

The reply, quite tersely and quite rightly so, was "At least they're out having a crack at it".

I felt very silly and small for quite a while.

The driving in the clip is unfortunate (although many of us have rolled out like that).

The reaction with the extended finger is just childish, but hardly a capital offence.

The build of the occupants of the car is neither here nor there.

 

[Adasta]

I'd like to think that a lot more would "resort" to an apology after a mistake.

You'd think that would be the case.

As it is though, the world is in fact the finest example of the destructive nature of the defective ego. People are often hurt/embarrassed/upset/shameful after making a mistake. There is no problem with that at all. The problem is how the "wounded party" responds. If you were to make a mistake, admit that you were wrong, and then be mocked/belittled/abused by the wounded party for being, say, being bloody stupid in the first place, that might make you resentful of ever having made the mistake and ever having apologised for it. The apology just brought more abuse.

Lots of people grow up in families or environments where aggression exists where humility should. The problem is that this is self-propogating.

P.S. I hope that didn't sound too much like a rant.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I think you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. Your post does not sound like a rant and is a very well argued case

You'd think that would be the case.

As it is though, the world is in fact the finest example of the destructive nature of the defective ego. People are often hurt/embarrassed/upset/shameful after making a mistake. There is no problem with that at all. The problem is how the "wounded party" responds. If you were to make a mistake, admit that you were wrong, and then be mocked/belittled/abused by the wounded party for being, say, being bloody stupid in the first place, that might make you resentful of ever having made the mistake and ever having apologised for it. The apology just brought more abuse.

Lots of people grow up in families or environments where aggression exists where humility should. The problem is that this is self-propogating.

P.S. I hope that didn't sound too much like a rant.

 

[SportMonkey]

Did you get the number plate in that, I reckon it's a worthy report of driving like a knob and not wearing a seat belt.