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Gah, really does make me angry sometimes.
Basically the reporter crossed a road without looking, got hit by a cyclist (which he didn't hear - someone remind him of the green cross code please), then found out the cyclist shouldn't have been using that road anyway (which obviously absolves him of the need to look for vehicles prior to stepping out into the road as he would have heard a tram), gets angry about it and writes for the daily mail. Surely he has some responsibility for stepping out into the road without looking? (awaits tj comment that a cyclist should always be able to stop, which while correct is nothing more than a nice idea if someone steps straight in front of you without looking.)
What an idiot. I for one don't beleive the cyclist was travelling 20-30mph when it hit him as the cyclist would have not been able to cycle off with such haste!
he even stated that it was an 'accident'. surely he should look up the meaning of accident as it doesn't mean you can search for criminal proceedings against the other party!
Of course it happened.... it's the Daily Wail....
It's more sad that people actually read it.
First words of the headline "Cyclists can ride drunk"
No they can't, its been illegal since 1872. If they manage to lie in the first 4 words of the headline how anyone can take this rubbish seriously is beyond me.
Clearly someone doesnt remember the green cross code,
Stop, LOOK, listen.
He should be grateful to cyclists, had it been a Prius (The Silent Killer!! Future DM headline) he might not had been walking ever again.
Next time it could have been a childs face!
I haven't even clicked through as it's bound to be bollocks.
I have left a comment though as its diametrically opposed to DM views it will most likely be censured!
What a rag.
Similar rant in londons evening standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23941784-cyclists-have-had-an-easy-ride-for-far-too-long.do
includes the quotes
"The last time I rode a bicycle I collided with a traffic light. "
and
"But deaths on the road due to drunken driving are not that common either (... only 16%, or 460, came as a result of drink-driving)"
got to love his fleeting generalisation of ALL cyclists in this sentence...
Cyclists are a rather sanctimonious breed; they like to think they are clean, green and relieve congestion on the roads while keeping themselves fit. And, worse still, many of them want to convert you to their two-wheel cause.
I suppose he must have interviewed all cyclists before writing this piece of bilge
Vintage Mail Cycling Rage, great stuff!!!
Insurance is the Answer??
Of course it is! Then we can mow people down with impunity!! That’s all I ever wanted of course, the right to kill using a Bicycle without any financial comeback, and of course keeping my carbon footprint down…
We are of course all,in the eyes of most Mail Writers and readers, Pinko, lefty, tree hugging, liberal types with no regard for “common decency” or the rule of law…
Of course the paper/papers you read are all wrapped up with your personally identity and your view of the world, The mail is clearly for the kind of chap confured and angered by just about everything, don’t worry we’re on a long list of things that "Mail Man's" angry fist shaking shall be brought to bare on:
-Same Sex Marriage
-Gay Clergy
-Gay people in general
-Women Bishops
-Women drivers…. (Or just general Misogyny)
-Single Mothers
-Stay at home Dads
-Speed Cameras
-Foreigners (Or “Swarthy Types”)
-Muslims (Or “Islaams”)
-Europe (Nothing specifically about Europe, they just don’t like the continent as a whole)
-Immigration
-Teenagers (All of them for one reason or another)
-The Welsh
-The Scots
-The Irish
-The NHS
-Lax or ineffective Policing
-Excessive or over-intrusive Policing
-Texting
-Use of Slang
-The Middle classes
-The Upper classes
-The Working Classes
-The “work shy” benefit scrounging “Underclass”
-The concept of a Classless society
-People who don’t know their place in society
-The Moon
-The Stars
-The Sun (Big round Nuclear Bastard in the Sky)
-The Sun (National paper owned by the same Bastard who will soon own Sky)
-Wind farms
-Greenpeace
-Petrol prices
-Travellers
-Estate agents
-Tradesmen
Cyclists are somewhere behind all of that lot I reckon (Plus some others I’m sure), so they’ve got a fair few “Beefs” to sort out before they get to us…
I heard that reading the Daily Mail causes cancer.
The Daily Mail Song:
Mosley street has a built in scalextrix track for single speed races, just watch out for the trams, that sometimes run there,
-Same Sex Marriage
-Gay Clergy
-Gay people in general
-Women Bishops
-Women drivers…. (Or just general Misogyny)
-Single Mothers
-Stay at home Dads
-Speed Cameras
-Foreigners (Or “Swarthy Types”)
-Muslims (Or “Islaams”)
-Europe (Nothing specifically about Europe, they just don’t like the continent as a whole)
-Immigration
-Teenagers (All of them for one reason or another)
-The Welsh
-The Scots
-The Irish
-The NHS
-Lax or ineffective Policing
-Excessive or over-intrusive Policing
-Texting
-Use of Slang
-The Middle classes
-The Upper classes
-The Working Classes
-The “work shy” benefit scrounging “Underclass”
-The concept of a Classless society
-People who don’t know their place in society
-The Moon
-The Stars
-The Sun (Big round Nuclear Bastard in the Sky)
-The Sun (National paper owned by the same Bastard who will soon own Sky)
-Wind farms
-Greenpeace
-Petrol prices
-Travellers
-Estate agents
-Tradesmen
Missed out the BBC 🙂
Classic Viz Top Tip;
Confuse Daily Mail readers by telling them Gypsies are the natural predators of Paedophiles. 😀
the daily mail is a newspaper for ignorant, bigoted, curtain twitching hyacinth bucket types.
James Martin brags about running groups of cyclists off the road in his daily mail column and that, I’m afraid, is about the level of this rubbish.
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I heard that reading the Daily Mail causes cancer.
No that's licking it on daily basis; due to the mineral oil in printing inks, The mail ran a similar article making claims about about the Guardian: [I] "Guardian Gives you Cancer! And might make you Gay also!" [/I]
But hey had to print a partial retraction as The guardian doesn't actually give you cancer...
Haha, every few months there's something about the Daily Mail on here. They really do employ the most cack-handed journos around... The best cutting I've seen from one was (although not quite the Daily Mail causing cancer itself) that watching too many medical dramas was detrimental to your health. If it was about hypochondria, maybe; could have been an interesting article.
left my abuse of the reporter too 😀
My comment did seem to get posted. Surprise surprise. I was polite as well
we need to go thru the comments marking the loonies down. One wants number plates on helmets 🙂 Thats me sorted then
One of my neighbours takes the Mail, and used to keep previous days papers for me to use to light my woodburner.
I've had to ask her to stop tho' as it makes for terrible fire-lighting paper, it just kinda smoulders and won't catch, so it's not even any use for that.
Haha, every few months there's something about the Daily Mail on here.
more like every few hours. I've no problem with people reading the daily mail, what I can't stomach is people posting links to the daily mail.
I can't view the Daily Mail website anymore as I've installed "Kitten Block" which, "replaces the Daily Mail website with pictures of tea and kittens".
I feel much better after seeing all those kittens and all that tea. Ghastly newspaper, no time for it.
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it is terrible fire lighting paper! i too have discovered this. it must be the unique combination of printing inks and paper chemicals but i like to think its cos its full of XXXX
You wouldn't have so many uninsured cyclists if Diana was still alive.......bloody foreigners, ban the burka, women and gypsy's are pedo's and Hitler was my mum
Sounds like the Daily Mail to me.......Fox news but 50 years ago
Before WW2 the daily mail supported Adolf Hitler and his Nazi thugs.By their freinds shall ye know them!
Comments section didn't go too well for that Evening Standard cockbag did it?!
😆
To. Him. Handed. Arse.
