http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... city-roads
Mr Grimes, a Manchester Evening News Journalist with quite an attack on city centre cyclists.
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The words nob and head spring to mind
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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Roger Geffen demolished him very easily on Radio WM this morning.
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John Holiday
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Our problem is that his moronic views coincide with a large chunk of the population!
We still have a lot to do to convince the majority of the sense of our viewpoint!
We still have a lot to do to convince the majority of the sense of our viewpoint!
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Well, I guess if cars can't use the road without causing danger to other road users - they will have to go 
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These morons are a genuine threat and I meet them when ever I have any correspondance with English media. They are a menace because it reinforces the idiot's views that we are in someway second class (a promotion). Keep shouting bikes are bad and cyclists a menace and the idea of behaving responsibly on the roads is undercut.
He may be a boring wee troll like that cynical git in Wolverhampton, but they are preaching a subliminal message that it is OK if we get hurt - we deserve it.
He may be a boring wee troll like that cynical git in Wolverhampton, but they are preaching a subliminal message that it is OK if we get hurt - we deserve it.
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John Holiday wrote:Our problem is that his moronic views coincide with a large chunk of the population!
We still have a lot to do to convince the majority of the sense of our viewpoint!
I wouldn't go as far as to say that,its a small minority,though the problem IMO the law is doing nothing to discourage them from that viewpoint and as such they believe it to be the truth
but then morons are rather hard to get through to.Edit:- for my appalling grammar,sorry
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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ChrisButch
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The only point of interest when this sort of thing appears is in the attached comments, if the newspaper site concerned admits them. Only a few years ago you would normally find a majority of those who comment in agreement with the article. Not so nowadays. Both in this case and a few others I've seen recently the comments are overwhelmingly hostile. I find that modestly encouraging.
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He'e right Alan Turing's conviction should be quashed.
'Give me my bike, a bit of sunshine - and a stop-off for a lunchtime pint - and I'm a happy man.' - Reg Baker