I expect you've all seen this. Driver tweets about a collision.

[hopless500]

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013...lence/?post_id=587411206_10151377904011207#_=

She only appears to regret the tweet, not the attitude or the incident. SMH

Yep. That really p*sses me off Even now she doesn't appear to understand what the consequences could have been. Must be pretty dumb - makes me wonder what she was doing at Larking Gowen!

 

[hopless500]

Can I just say, I have never had a thread I originated on CC go to 16 pages before.

Don't go getting big-headed about it

 

[Archie_tect]

Yep. That really p*sses me off Even now she doesn't appear to understand what the consequences could have been. Must be pretty dumb - makes me wonder what she was doing at Larking Gowen!

I have no doubt that they're thinking exactly the same.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I think motorists have this defensive mentality from rising costs which make them feel insecure as motorists. They are victims of rising costs but use this issue as a defensive measure against anyone stepping on their roads.

but, but, but. I'm a motorist too as are most on here. I appreciate my view is probably not mainstream amongst those holding a set of car keys in that I accept my car is a luxury item not an essential right and will be taxed and costed accordingly.

I ride a bike more often and by choice but I'm still a motorist too. If I had been forced to relocate to work 40 miles from home instead of 7 without any semblence of viable PT routes ( v nearly happened) I would be doing 15K more commuting and all by car, be a weekend rider at best but still not any more of a 'motorist' than I am now or less of a 'cyclist' than when I was when I was 10 years old and started riding 3 miles daily to/from school.

Please stop hanging labels on people based on a perceived transport preference. I'm no more insecure or victimised that every time I fill my car up it costs more, than I am that my utility bills and council tax have gone up again and every time I set foot in Tesco, I come out with less money than last week.

 

[Archie_tect]

I received a CV from a 23 year old architectural graduate and thought I'd look to see if he had a Facebook page. His CV contained none of the hobbies and interests which were evident in his photos and pages... and as for his comments and attitude. I should imagine LG were similarly unaware of the dark side.

 

[Robeh]

Lying Stuck up ***** springs to mind

 

[brodiej]

I received a CV from a 23 year old architectural graduate and thought I'd look to see if he had a Facebook page. His CV contained none of the hobbies and interests which were evident in his photos and pages... and as for his comments and attitude. I should imagine LG were similarly unaware of the dark side.

It's an difficult balance though isn't it.

After the Kent young police commissioner fiasco and this, I suspect potential employers may well start looking closely at the online world of their applicants.

Photos of speedometers at 95mph and racist tweets from someone being employed as a police commissioner are pretty damning.

Generally things will be less clear cut - I'm sure we've all made some pretty silly posts on the internet and, of course, in general they are there for ever if you look hard enough

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm sure we've all made some pretty silly posts on the internet...

Speak for yourself mush, mine are always really serious.

 

[glenn forger]

A generation of Americans may have to change their name by deed poll to cover up what they've said online.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A generation of Americans may have to change their name by deed poll to cover up what they've said online.

Wonder if deed poll used to be called something different?

 

[glenn forger]

Genuine EDL Twitter:

The only good Pole is a deed Pole!

 

[glenn forger]

No it's not, I made it up.

 

[Cubist]

Do Marathon Plus come in that size?

Actually if I'm not mistaken they're the intermediate training "Marathon +-=" which are designed to get you used to the feel of Marathons before you move onto the full size ones.

 

[Archie_tect]

Just after we got married [so we would have been 23/24], Mrs A_T took a photo of our old Escort estate's speedometer as it clicked over to [1]00000 passing Leicester Forest East Services doing 60mph flat out... those were the days!

 

[Cubist]

She certainly isn't doing herself any favours by being interviewed. Call me old fashioned, but amongst all the "poor little me" faux-contrite knackers, I wanted to scream at her to stop f*cking chewing gum.

And as a practitioner I see an all too common trait of initial denial until hit with irrefutable evidence, followed by minimising and deflection. So, I did nothing wrong, followed by, well OK, he knocked my mirror, followed by and anyway, everybody does silly stuff, not just me.