[Archived] Rant (4?)

[T J Hooker]

Bidy

Its easy for you to claim innocense after you've removed the posts that your refering to faster than i type them, your blatantly trolling me now and, trying to provoke me into saying something that you can ban me for.

As ove said 3times now, ita funny taht you only choose to play mod when it suits you, leave it to khod, tom m and mike and stop task ng advante; f the system.

All i initially asked was why where, he posts removed, i thought there might gave been somethingore offensive posted that i didnt see, iv no real problem that khod chose yo remove the posts,i was just st curious ad to whethet there wasore to it.

Know doubt you'll be silly now and delete this post also.

[adopted scouser]

Bidy

Its easy for you to claim innocense after you've removed the posts that your refering to faster than i type them, your blatantly trolling me now and, trying to provoke me into saying something that you can ban me for.

As ove said 3times now, ita funny taht you only choose to play mod when it suits you, leave it to khod, tom m and mike and stop task ng advante; f the system.

All i initially asked was why where, he posts removed, i thought there might gave been somethingore offensive posted that i didnt see, iv no real problem that khod chose yo remove the posts,i was just st curious ad to whethet there wasore to it.

Know doubt you'll be silly now and delete this post also.

Can somebody translate this for me please ?

[DE.]

Most people, really

A lot of horrendous drivers out there chief.

A free piece of advice to anybody who chances not stopping at zebra crossings when somebody is waiting (which seems to be a sizable portion of drivers): it's going to cost a lot more than the few seconds of your time if you hit the person or persons trying to cross.

[Biddy]

A lot of horrendous drivers out there chief.

A free piece of advice to anybody who chances not stopping at zebra crossings when somebody is waiting (which seems to be a sizable portion of drivers): it's going to cost a lot more than the few seconds of your time if you hit the person or persons trying to cross.

Although you don't need to stop unless the person has shown the intention to cross by placing a foot into the road. I believe that is the highway code.

[DE.]

Although you don't need to stop unless the person has shown the intention to cross by placing a foot into the road. I believe that is the highway code.

Unless you want your foot broken you'd have to be insane to do so. If a person is standing at a zebra crossing what other intention is there - admiring the paintwork, mesmerised by the flashing lights?

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

A lot of horrendous drivers out there chief.

Hardly most though is it. If it was most then there'd be tens of thousands of crashes every day. Its about 5-10% I'd estimate, and the other 90-95% not only have to drive sensibly, they have to anticipate the idiocy of the 5-10% and basically help them out by getting out of the way of their utterly moronic driving. In that sense most people are very good drivers.

I'd say a sizeable proportion of the 5-10% terrible drivers (especially round here) don't have insurance and don't even have a licence. The rest tends to be made up of boy racers, people who are too old to drive competently and people who are just complete prats.

[Biddy]

Unless you want your foot broken you'd have to be insane to do so. If a person is standing at a zebra crossing what other intention is there - admiring the paintwork, mesmerised by the flashing lights?

Where I live, there is a chippy directly in front of a zebra crossing. Regularly has people standing outside or talking right on the edge of the crossing. So there are situations where there can be people loitering.

I agree though that it is a little tenuous but those are the rules - see the bit below that only says you MUST give way if a pedestrian has moved onto the crossing.

Rule 195

Zebra crossings. As you approach a zebra crossing

• look out for pedestrians waiting to cross and be ready to slow down or stop to let them cross
• you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing
• allow more time for stopping on wet or icy roads
• do not wave or use your horn to invite pedestrians across; this could be dangerous if another vehicle is approaching
• be aware of pedestrians approaching from the side of the crossing

[DE.]

Hardly most though is it. If it was most then there'd be tens of thousands of crashes every day. Its about 5-10% I'd estimate, and the other 90-95% not only have to drive sensibly, they have to anticipate the idiocy of the 5-10% and basically help them out by getting out of the way of their utterly moronic driving. In that sense most people are very good drivers.

I'd say a sizeable proportion of the 5-10% terrible drivers (especially round here) don't have insurance and don't even have a licence. The rest tends to be made up of boy racers, people who are too old to drive competently and people who are just complete prats.

Most may have been an exaggeration , granted. I'm too used to talking about the totality of crap making up most of our first team.

Where I live, there is a chippy directly in front of a zebra crossing. Regularly has people standing outside or talking right on the edge of the crossing. So there are situations where there can be people loitering.

I agree though that it is a little tenuous but those are the rules - see the bit below that only says you MUST give way if a pedestrian has moved onto the crossing.

Rule 195

Zebra crossings. As you approach a zebra crossing

• look out for pedestrians waiting to cross and be ready to slow down or stop to let them cross
• you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing
• allow more time for stopping on wet or icy roads
• do not wave or use your horn to invite pedestrians across; this could be dangerous if another vehicle is approaching
• be aware of pedestrians approaching from the side of the crossing

Aye, I know those are the rules, but IMV they just allow certain drivers to ignore zebra crossings entirely. As a pedestrian you're not going to step out into a road, even with your foot, if a car is approaching at speed.

I see your point regarding loitering in certain areas, but there's a difference between somebody chatting with friends, etc, and somebody clearly facing the road wanting to cross. Either way a driver should at the very least slow down, as if the person does step out and you hit them, you're screwed.

[ABBEY]

but he started it...

TJ you are getting boring (as I'd hidden the post after this). There might not have been anything vastly wrong but its just petty point scoring which no one else wants to read.

TJ, I can play, hide your boring posts all day.

I'm "abusing the system" even though K-Hod has already hidden LOADS of your posts and asked you to stop it. And yet you carry on and get all pissy at me.

Is pissy allowed ?

As long as we know .

[Biddy]

Is pissy allowed ?

As long as we know .

Well it got past the swear filter and seemed quite apt.

[ABBEY]

@#/? not cool

Pissy cool

I had posts removed for arguing with TJ

[K-Hod]

@#/? not cool

Pissy cool

I had posts removed for arguing with TJ

Probably best if you both just leave it, as I said initially. It's rubbish to read!

[ABBEY]

I'm being jovial fella haha ...especially after seeing this bird in fromt of me in the gym with yoga pants mmmmmm . Gonna give me heart attack if she bends over

[K-Hod]

I'm being jovial fella haha ...especially after seeing this bird in fromt of me in the gym with yoga pants mmmmmm . Gonna give me heart attack if she bends over

If you're on here while you're in the gym you're not working hard enough

[Biddy]

I'm being jovial fella haha ...especially after seeing this bird in fromt of me in the gym with yoga pants mmmmmm . Gonna give me heart attack if she bends over

The only rant for that is, why are there no pictures!

[Mike E]

That's the point though, they are riders not drivers, drivers have to pass a test, riders just get out there.

Every cyclist I know (well over a dozen) is a driver

[yoda]

Every cyclist I know (well over a dozen) is a driver

Why do they change attitude when on a bike then and why are they immune to the requirements of the highway code ?

[T J Hooker]

I do think cyclists that cycle daily to commute to work should at least be required to have 3rd party insurance, theyre on the roads at the busiest and most stressfull times of the day so the likely hood of accidents happening is far higher

[ABBEY]

If you're on here while you're in the gym you're not working hard enough

Walking in when I posted ha

[old darwen blue]

Walking in when I posted ha

No pictures, didnt happen.

[Audax]

I saw one forum that got spam attacked real bad and they closed the forum and had up a sign that "Forums are dying", I don't know if they meant their forum, for the record, a type of bicycling forum or forums in general. Sometimes I think the popularity of forums has declined with the rise of other social media. "Dying"? Not sure, some forums have certainly scaled down. Maybe it's like magazines, some magazines work, others fall by the wayside.

[Amo]

I saw one forum that got spam attacked real bad and they closed the forum and had up a sign that "Forums are dying", I don't know if they meant their forum, for the record, a type of bicycling forum or forums in general. Sometimes I think the popularity of forums has declined with the rise of other social media. "Dying"? Not sure, some forums have certainly scaled down. Maybe it's like magazines, some magazines work, others fall by the wayside.

@#/? social media. I'll always be a forum junkie.

[DE.]

Forums are superior to social media, but only if you appreciate the creativity and depth of discussion available. The next generation won't have the patience for such things and will expect everything to be created for them and for 140 words or less to be sufficient as an opinion. I'll be shaking my (probably virtual) cane at them... in my day...

[Audax]

Thanks for the answers, sorry for the run-on sentence that people kindly did not point out to me.

Yes, I don't really care too much for social media, for awhile, I'd check this one face book page daily. I prefer forums myself.

[K-Hod]

Facebook is just full of people showing-off and 'showmances' as well by extension. It's a complete cringefest. It's like people turning life into a competition.

Money talks, wealth whispers etc.

(I'm still on there by the way as it's a necessary evil, but christ it's irritating at times!)