Why do peds always give you a mouthful?

[Scruffmonster]

These incidents are not serious ones! The majority of which are very minor and often I overlook them know.

The camera is not the problem. When my old one broke, I still found that I had the same amount of incidents.

I'd suspected for the longest time that you may be the creation of some weird internet troll, garnering attention through contentious issues. I still like to believe that as I don't like to think that a real person could churn out such mind numbingly stupid nonsense.

In this instance, you called someone an idiot, then asked why peds always give you a mouthful. That's retarded. YOU were the insulting person. YOU were the person running away from someone who clearly doesn't like being called an idiot by some random kid on a bike.

Grow up.

 

[400bhp]

You know that feeling when you just want to shake someone and give them a slap across the face.

This thread....

 

[PK99]

I'd suspected for the longest time that you may be the creation of some weird internet troll, garnering attention through contentious issues. I still like to believe that as I don't like to think that a real person could churn out such mind numbingly stupid nonsense.

In this instance, you called someone an idiot, then asked why peds always give you a mouthful. That's retarded. YOU were the insulting person. YOU were the person running away from someone who clearly doesn't like being called an idiot by some random kid on a bike.

Grow up.

Difficult to argue with any of that, but go gently on Matthew he is Autistic/Aspergers and while your criticism of his behaviour is valid, he needs educating more than criticising.

 

[Scruffmonster]

Difficult to argue with any of that, but go gently on Matthew he is Autistic/Aspergers and while your criticism of his behaviour is valid, he needs educating more than criticising.

Apologies, I didn't know that he had a medical condition that causes him to act this way.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

When the ped ran across infront of me, I said "Idiot" as I passed.

You've just answered the question in your thread title.

And if you still had any doubt:

So I then cycled away just as he was about 50 yards from me. (Just to pee him off more)

So what is it with these people?

I'll bet he was wondering the same thing.

They always seem like the rough type who should know better.

You should know better, you've been involved in enough confrontations.

I know someone has mentioned you need to be cut some slack because you have Asperger's, and that's fine on here where people are likely to be aware of that, but out on the street you need to adjust your behaviour because the next person you give abuse might not wait to hear that you have this.

GC

 

[Big boy]

Not being a hardened cyclist and in with it, like, whats a ped?

im presuming pedestrian, around here a ped is a moped.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Buzz them as safely as is possible for you! I know some on here consider buzzing dosey pedestrians as a crime but it teaches them to look out for further cyclist, and for that car or van that wont just bruise them if it makes contact. If they're getting on a bit or blind for example then they have an excuse, but dosey chavs on their bloody mobiles can see you, they just consider cyclists as insignificant, and "something that wont hurt me if it hits me".

 

[Matthew_T]

Apologies, I didn't know that he had a medical condition that causes him to act this way.

It doesnt. And it isnt medical.

Autism might indirectly affect me (reading out numberplates and noticing more than the average person would), but it doesnt affect the way I act on the roads. That is down to my personality.
I am very opinionated which can seem like a disadvantage on the roads. People have told me that if I am going to say something to someone, then I need to back it up when they confront me. Not necessarily, why should things decrease into animalistic behaviour? Saying something to someone does no harm. It is the morons among us that 'act out of nature' and feel that it is a confrontation.

In the case of this thread, what I said was not confrontational. However, the ped acted like an imbocile and just seemed like the type who doesnt understand the concept of disapproving someones actions.
I wasnt even talking to him anyway as he wasnt the one who inconvenienced me. There is nothing wrong with speaking to people the way I do. I am rarely agressive and it shouldnt be seen as a confrontation.

That fact is though is that there are idiots out there who will react in this way. People need to understand that not everything someone says is to instigate physical confrontation. By allowing themselves to react that way, they are just agreeing that they are idiots who dont know any better.

 

[Mugshot]

I had a ped walk out on me a day or so ago, I had just pulled out from a junction and could see an old lady dithering on the other side of the road, then she stepped out and started to cross. I stopped pedaling which gave her plenty of time to get across safely. As she got to my side she finally looked in my direction and saw me freewheeling along.
"Oh, I'm ever so sorry," she said,
Well I wasn't having that, so I jumped off the bike and pushed her into the hedge, the police turned up and told me to get back in my caravan.......hang on, am I getting threads mixed up here?

 

[green1]

In the case of this thread, what I said was not confrontational.

When the ped ran across infront of me, I said "Idiot" as I passed.

Make your mind up.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

In the case of this thread, what I said was not confrontational. ... There is nothing wrong with speaking to people the way I do.

Are you having a laugh?

People need to understand that not everything someone says is to instigate physical confrontation. By allowing themselves to react that way, they are just agreeing that they are idiots who dont know any better.

And you need to understand that your behaviour is likely to get you a slap from some 'idiot'. When you're lying on the ground don't forget to shout after him that calling him an idiot wasn't intended to instigate physical conforntation.


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[Robson3022]

Weather you like it or not calling him an "idiot" will get the reaction you got. Then teasing him by letting him catch up a little and pedaling off is only going to cause you problems. Why not just keep riding?

What would you have done if he had jumped in his car/mates car and caught up with you and give you a good thumping?

It certainly wouldn't be deserved but why instigate this behaviour?

My advice would be lighten up a little and don't let this or lots of the other incidents bother you.

 

[Scruffmonster]

It doesnt. And it isnt medical.

Autism might indirectly affect me (reading out numberplates and noticing more than the average person would), but it doesnt affect the way I act on the roads. That is down to my personality.
I am very opinionated which can seem like a disadvantage on the roads. People have told me that if I am going to say something to someone, then I need to back it up when they confront me. Not necessarily, why should things decrease into animalistic behaviour? Saying something to someone does no harm. It is the morons among us that 'act out of nature' and feel that it is a confrontation.

In the case of this thread, what I said was not confrontational. However, the ped acted like an imbocile and just seemed like the type who doesnt understand the concept of disapproving someones actions.
I wasnt even talking to him anyway as he wasnt the one who inconvenienced me. There is nothing wrong with speaking to people the way I do. I am rarely agressive and it shouldnt be seen as a confrontation.

That fact is though is that there are idiots out there who will react in this way. People need to understand that not everything someone says is to instigate physical confrontation. By allowing themselves to react that way, they are just agreeing that they are idiots who dont know any better.

Apologies for the broad brush term. I'd paint many conditions as medical and probably could have used a different term. Though if you deem that autism doesn't affect how you behave and that's 'Just your personality' then you need to read a whole lot more. I mean that sincerely.

I still have a loosely held belief that you're at least 50% troll on here.

The point you fail to realise is that you're judging everyone else by your own twisted set of rules. It's not a case of you being better than someone when you call them an idiot for something low ball and they respond by hitting you. You would BOTH be in the wrong.

Matthew, in the simplest of terms, you can't expect to go around calling people an idiot and then trying to claim the moral high ground. You say that you're 'rarely' aggressive... You're ALWAYS aggressive.

Stop shouting at people. Just stop it. Ask yourself this; Does it make you happy to insult people? I really hope not as it's just not cool.

 

[Arch]

Not necessarily, why should things decrease into animalistic behaviour? Saying something to someone does no harm. It is the morons among us that 'act out of nature' and feel that it is a confrontation.

Um, because we are animals, perhaps?

You're contratdicting yourself there: saying that reacting with violence is animalistic, but then saying that it's the morons that act 'out of nature'. 'Nature' is how animals act.

There is nothing 'out of nature' in reacting to being insulted. It's not reacting that is the unnatural trait, I'd say, the thing that elevates most of us 'above' animals (although I'd hesitate to place the human race as a whole higher than the rest of the animal kingdom).

Most people don't like to make mistakes. Pointing out that they have done so, especially rudely, embarrasses them. Many people react to embarrassment with anger to try and direct the fault away from themselves. This is what you're finding out.

I find the best way to vent your feelings when someone annoys you is under your breath or in your head. You can be as rude as you like about them, imagine all sorts of clever insults and guesses about their personal characteristics, and lay imaginative curses on their heads. By the time you've done all that, you've probably forgotten just what they did in the first place, and you can move on.

 

[Hicky]

You have either a lot of growing up to do or a lot of defending yourself to do.
Either keep your opinions to yourself a little more or join a boxing gym because that someone sometime who is next called an idiot will not be so understanding.