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

[ufkacbln]

Actually the positive thing about this is the way that most news programmes have discredited the "Road Tax" claim

 

[glenn forger]

The very same Look East presenter has form for stupid road tax remarks.

 

[Archie_tect]

Will people stop commenting on the colour of the elephant's toe nails and see the elephant!

 

[cyberknight]

I bought my sons first car and his grandmother bought him his second, both were second hand and a little knocked about but would have been more than he could afford. It's very difficult to know but your tone suggests you think there is something wrong with a family member helping when it come to the purchase of a car, is there?

Not at all .
I assumed the parents paid for the car and the act of them watching her crush it because of her sheer idiocy (?) and following repercussions from them might get through to her more than the likely slap on the wrist the courts normally hand out.
I am a parent and i would give anything to help my kids as most parents would , i just wonder how you mistook my post .

 

[Mugshot]

I am a parent and i would give anything to help my kids as most parents would , i just wonder how you mistook my post .

I think you know full well and I dont think I was mistaken either.

 

[Andy_R]

Will people stop commenting on the colour of the elephant's toe nails and see the elephant!

Is there an elephant in the room? Where? I suffer from pachydermophobia you know. I wouldn't have come in if you'd told me about it.

 

[Archie_tect]

There, in the corner, behind the standard lamp.

 

[cyberknight]

I think you know full well and I dont think I was mistaken either.

Sorry , no i think you have mistook my post completely, i have clearly explained my post yet you continue to harass me .If you have a problem with my post and my reasoning behind it your are welcome to report to the mods and let them decide .
If not please explain yourself fully as your posts so far have only come across as abusive rather than reasoned and so i fail to see how you can validate your obvious spite.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Her sex and looks have got nack all to do with the fact she has driven like a cretin and made a big mistake boasting about it.

 

[Andy_R]

There, in the corner, behind the standard lamp.

looks like a non standard lamp to me

 

[User28924]

Sexism in this thread is pretty crap, as are the personal attacks on her appearance. Grow up.

I like the comment about unreliable government statistics. Are they unreliable when they show cyclists don't cause accidents, cars do. Or only when they don't fit with our preconceptions? Confirmation bias.

 

[glenn forger]

Prepare for your flabber to be ghasted:

http://hanlonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2013/05/why-do-so-many-people-hate-cyclists.html

Of course most motorists are not like Ms Way. Most have at least one or two brain cells in their heads. But it cannot be denied that there is a rancid minority who really have it in for the two-wheeled brigade.
You can tell by the arguments that they use that logic is not really the issue here. The brute fact is that motor vehicles kill several thousand people a year in Britain (better than it was, and better than almost anywhere else, but imagine the hoo-ha if this happened on the railways).
Most of these dead people were pedestrians or cyclists. Many of them were children. Cyclists, on the other hand, kill, on average, one or two people a year. Even factoring the difference in numbers, the car is at least a hundred times deadlier than the bike, whichever way you look at it.
So what are the arguments that the cycle-haters use? There's the 'road tax' claim, as made by this particular imbecile. Sigh. There is no such thing as 'road tax' and has not been for decades. There is something called 'vehicle excise duty' which operates on a sliding scale and is (supposed to) relate to a vehicle's efficiency. This is not a hypothecated tax, it just goes into the general pot. Roads are paid for out of general taxation, taxes which are as likely to be paid by cyclists as anyone else.
Very often someone wheels out the 'lycra lout' tag. As well as being a tired old cliche this, I think, reveals something else about cycle-haters. 'Lycra' is associated with physical activity. I have been cycling (mostly wearing ordinary clothes) in London since the mid 1980s and I have noticed that there is a strong positive correlation between the likelihood that an alteraction with a motor car will result in strong language, and the size of the waistline of the driver. People who are too fat to get on a bike simply hate the sight of someone whizzing past their expensive vehicle, a car which is probably capable of 150mph, as they are stuck in endless traffic.

 

[fozy tornip]

This young woman's attitude is a proportionate response to TrafficDroid's inexcusable provocation, I'll wager.

 

[glenn forger]

Idiot. There is no defence to smashing into another human being and fleeing the scene.

 

[Glow worm]

Prepare for your flabber to be ghasted:

http://hanlonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2013/05/why-do-so-many-people-hate-cyclists.html

Blimey - looks like someone's getting sacked from the Daily Wail in the morning!