Can cars ever be trusted?

[Drago]

Ha ha. Better still, put it into politics(ncap) so it cannot get closed or get little replies...

There are those who would accept that challenge.

 

[albion]

'Move reflects wider state of politics around active travel – arguing around the margins and doing little to change lives for better'
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand.../uk-dangerous-cycling-offence-achieve-nothing
'In the six days since a law to prosecute dangerous cyclists was announced, somewhere close to 30 people will have been killed on UK roads, none of them struck by bikes'.

 

[Drago]

More people are killed each year in the UK by stampeding cattle or lighting strike than by bicycles. Where is the specific death by stampeding cattle law?

Toothpick ingestion kills as many as bicycles do in a typical year. Toasters kill more people than bicycles do, either directly by electrocution or indirectly by fire, yet where is the Morphy Richards law?

We, the enlightened, know these truths but good luck getting car driving unwashed masses to acknowledge that.

 

[Punkawallah]

I think Optimus Prime can be trusted, although technically he was a lorry.

Always found lorrys to be most courteous.

 

[Sterlo]

More people are killed each year in the UK by stampeding cattle or lighting strike than by bicycles. Where is the specific death by stampeding cattle law?

Toothpick ingestion kills as many as bicycles do in a typical year. Toasters kill more people than bicycles do, either directly by electrocution or indirectly by fire, yet where is the Morphy Richards law?

We, the enlightened, know these truths but good luck getting car driving unwashed masses to acknowledge that.

You are Chris Boardman AICMFP

 

[Cycleops]

More people are killed each year in the UK by stampeding cattle or lighting strike than by bicycles. Where is the specific death by stampeding cattle law?

Toothpick ingestion kills as many as bicycles do in a typical year. Toasters kill more people than bicycles do, either directly by electrocution or indirectly by fire, yet where is the Morphy Richards law?

We, the enlightened, know these truths but good luck getting car driving unwashed masses to acknowledge that.

It's a populist move by the government (I'd have thought IDS would have more sense, especially as he looks the image of my late dad) who have a election coming up don't forget.
I would add that cattle don't even need to be stampeding, walkers have been trampled by cows simply walking through their field.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

walkers have been trampled by cows simply walking through their field.

You’ve visited the fields of walkers as well, that cows go to visit out of curiosity?

 

[Cycleops]

You’ve visited the fields of walkers as well, that cows go to visit out of curiosity?

Unlike Bully XLs.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Unlike Bully XLs.

The alternate name for SUV style cars

 

[presta]

More people are killed each year in the UK by stampeding cattle or lighting strike than by bicycles. Where is the specific death by stampeding cattle law?

Toothpick ingestion kills as many as bicycles do in a typical year. Toasters kill more people than bicycles do, either directly by electrocution or indirectly by fire, yet where is the Morphy Richards law?

We, the enlightened, know these truths but good luck getting car driving unwashed masses to acknowledge that.

Of course, but the people to say that to are the motorists, preaching to the converted on here achieves nothing. I've made that argument more times than I could count, but to the anti-cycling motorists on Twitter, and usually with no support from other cyclists.

 

[Drago]

It's a populist move by the government (I'd have thought IDS would have more sense, especially as he looks the image of my late dad) who have a election coming up don't forget.
I would add that cattle don't even need to be stampeding, walkers have been trampled by cows simply walking through their field.

Indeed. I thought IDS had become a little more humane and compassionate in his old age, but clearly I was wrong.

He looks very like my Dad too...Brother dearest!

Of course, but the people to say that to are the motorists, preaching to the converted on here achieves nothing. I've made that argument more times than I could count, but to the anti-cycling motorists on Twitter, and usually with no support from other cyclists.

I dunno. It made me feel better for the 34 minutes it took me to type it.

 

[classic33]

More people are killed each year in the UK by stampeding cattle or lighting strike than by bicycles. Where is the specific death by stampeding cattle law?*

Toothpick ingestion kills as many as bicycles do in a typical year. Toasters kill more people than bicycles do, either directly by electrocution or indirectly by fire, yet where is the Morphy Richards law?

We, the enlightened, know these truths but good luck getting car driving unwashed masses to acknowledge that.

*Covered by the Animals Act, 1971, Section 5.

 

[MikeG]

Ha ha. Better still, put it into politics(ncap) so it cannot get closed or get little replies.
https://ncap.cyclechat.net/forums/news-current-affairs-politics.204/

Help me out here. Were you concerned with the size of replies (presumably with an eye to the forum host's digital memory limits), or were you concerned with the number of replies? Because if it were the number of replies that interested you, presumably you would have used the word "few" (or "fewer") rather than "little". I'm curious, because I am trying to derive some meaning from the word soup that this thread started with......and the more I look, the less I see.

 

[Drago]

*Covered by the Animals Act, 1971, Section 5.

"Any person caught sniffing the rest of the exercise bike in the ladies gym will be imprisoned without trial."

Doesn't seem very relevant to me.

 

[berty bassett]

Not Christine !