Mass arrests 'Critical Mass' cycle ride during Olympics opening

[dellzeqq]

Smeggers - why don't you get over people going for a bike ride? By which I mean you, Bucky Boy and the rest accept that some people's idea of a night out is not the same as yours.....

 

[dellzeqq]

So it could have just as easily been the FNRTCC?

well, we're guilty of invading private property (Gatwick). (Although Gatwick's license does commit them to offering hospitality to passers-by)
And rumour has it that people fill the night air with strange cries.

It does sort of come down to the same thing, though. We've kept the police informed, and some of our regulars are police officers, but we do cross a few boundaries. I'm sure that somewhere it says that we're not allowed to assemble at Hyde Park Corner. I do hold up the traffic on the South Circular to let the FNRttCpeeps turn left off the Common. Now....nobody minds (other than the taxi drivers at HPC). Smiling helps. It's just a bit odd......

 

[Linford]

that, Smeggers is the salient point, and if you'd taken the trouble to think about it you might have asked yourself why this ride was pepper-sprayed when all the previous CMs, including the one that 'hi-jacked' Parliament Square for 90 minutes was not. It's called Olympic Worry Syndrome. The authorities are all hyped up. There are police officers from Norfolk patrolling Kensington. There are 'specialist' police officers from Gibraltar in London, ffs! There are ten thousand troops, three and a half G4S securitypeeps, and no Met police officer will been allowed leave for weeks on end. And that's before we get to the aircraft carrier, the missiles on top of blocks of flats and Matthew Parris' cheesewire. It's security hysteria.

Remembering Atlanta or Munich is a good enough reason to lock it down......

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[MissTillyFlop]

Zoe Smith!

She's strong, but I don't think you could accuse our Zoe of being bearded, she's quite pleasing to the eye in fact...

 

[dellzeqq]

well, the girl did great!

 

[MissTillyFlop]

well, the girl did great!

She did - I think she is made of Magic - cannot compute how that is physically possible!

 

[Tiberius Baltar]

600 posts and counting he he he losers.

I decided to go on my own Critical Mass ride this morning and "reclaim" some of the streets in Liverpool. It was amazing! I liberated some streets by riding down them! I'm thinking of getting some T-Shirts printed up and really going for it by liberating some free space like all the parks and cycle paths around the city oh ..... hang on ..... if I'm physically riding round roads and parks and cycle paths and haven't had a single problem riding 30 miles into, around and back out of the city then I guess someone else must have already liberated this space before me?

Well can I just say thank you to Critical Mass thank you very much! Liverpool, Chesire, and Lancashire plus North Wales and Manchester are all ok to cycle in. You just stay down in London where your needed, we don't want or need you up these ways we're fine for liberated free space thanks.

 

[theclaud]

Oh good grief. I replied to a post. I used the term the person I was replying to used. I didn't conduct a linguistic audit of the the thread to see whether anyone else had used it first. There was nothing remotely disingenuous about it.

The rapid descent into personal attack is the reason I rarely enter into these debates. Eventually it'll just be you and Del agreeing with each other and no dissenting views to cause you discomfort.

Eh? I called you on something you wrote. The imaginary personal attack thing is very tiresome. You might try not misrepresenting what people write - if you can't do that without checking back through the thread, then you might be best advised to check back through the thread, or refrain from the guesswork.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Religous fundamentalist to boot.

The old dear in the questionable frock is clearly shifty as well.

That's no old dear, it's Geoffrey Palmer in drag. Look closely and you will agree wth me.

The chap with the beard is Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who lives between homes in Canterbury and Tehran and is given to using the scriptures as guidance when deciding on political issues.

As everything I write is (as it were) scripture, there is no need to doubt me or question my judgement.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Eh? I called you on something you wrote.

You made an accusation of dishonesty based on your misinterpretation of what I wrote. You don't know me, so can't be expected to know how far from the mark you are, but it's the easy slide into attacking the person rather than debating the issue which I find tedious and which stifles debate here.

 

[Cubist]

From what i read it would be relatively easy to "hijack" the ride: A group of say half a dozen riders arrive, seemingly unconnected, and position themselves near/at the front of the ride. One of them leads in a particular direction the rest of the 6 follow and the Mass momentum is established. The 6 (unconnected riders) take it in turns to "randomly" lead and Hey Presto a "hijacked" ride. No one has organised to Mass but the Mass has followed the predetermined route of the hijackers.

You hacked into the German road race team orders didn't you....

 

[dellzeqq]

600 posts and counting he he he losers.
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stylish!

 

[theclaud]

You made an accusation of dishonesty based on your misinterpretation of what I wrote. You don't know me, so can't be expected to know how far from the mark you are, but it's the easy slide into attacking the person rather than debating the issue which I find tedious and which stifles debate here.

"An accusation of dishonesty"? Do get over yourself. Your account demonstrated the opposite of what you apparently wanted it to demonstrate. The "attacking the person" thing is just nonsense. It might be that you actually believe that some unspoken alliance of Cyclechatters is out to get you, but that would be more than a little paranoid, so I'm doing you the courtesy of taking it for some kind of argumentative strategy.

 

[toroddf]

Well, after getting some facts from an informative first hand source in a major 'paper down south, it seems like I owe CM and Dellzeqq an apology. It is hereby offered.

CM is normally a force for the good and a local CM (a hybrid between Critical Manners and Critical Mass... we use knife and fork up here when wolfing down the local lambs) could/will do an excellent job for us. Probably to the extent of saving lives as the death rate here is atrocious.

And yes, the unfortunate incident was a hijack. That was 0.1 % of all rides CM has so far done. Not fair.

And now; the talking is over and the walking (a local CM) will begin.

 

[theclaud]

600 posts and counting he he he losers.

I decided to go on my own Critical Mass ride this morning and "reclaim" some of the streets in Liverpool. It was amazing! I liberated some streets by riding down them! I'm thinking of getting some T-Shirts printed up and really going for it by liberating some free space like all the parks and cycle paths around the city oh ..... hang on ..... if I'm physically riding round roads and parks and cycle paths and haven't had a single problem riding 30 miles into, around and back out of the city then I guess someone else must have already liberated this space before me?

Well can I just say thank you to Critical Mass thank you very much! Liverpool, Chesire, and Lancashire plus North Wales and Manchester are all ok to cycle in. You just stay down in London where your needed, we don't want or need you up these ways we're fine for liberated free space thanks.

Is this a reverse enflouncement with a double-botched round-off?