Comments on: More on the idiocy of environmentalists http://slinq.com/blog/2009/11/23/more-on-the-idiocy-of-environmentalists/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pete http://slinq.com/blog/2009/11/23/more-on-the-idiocy-of-environmentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Pete Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:29:22 +0000 http://slinq.com/blog/?p=162#comment-48 As a motorcycle rider, it's cars that I find to be the problem. Dawdling along often at 50mph max. (but then right up your arse after you've overtaken them and then slowed for a 30 limit); unable to pass parked cars if something is coming in the opposite direction; dipping their headlights just *after* they've dazzled you (most car drivers don't seem to think that other road users might be looking more than 20ft ahead); believing that they can out accelerate you on the outside lane of a dual carriageway after exiting a roundabout. I could go on... As a motorcycle rider, it’s cars that I find to be the problem. Dawdling along often at 50mph max. (but then right up your arse after you’ve overtaken them and then slowed for a 30 limit); unable to pass parked cars if something is coming in the opposite direction; dipping their headlights just *after* they’ve dazzled you (most car drivers don’t seem to think that other road users might be looking more than 20ft ahead); believing that they can out accelerate you on the outside lane of a dual carriageway after exiting a roundabout. I could go on…

]]> By: Kieran Simkin http://slinq.com/blog/2009/11/23/more-on-the-idiocy-of-environmentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kieran Simkin Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:59:34 +0000 http://slinq.com/blog/?p=162#comment-47 They're my roads, I paid for them. I don't consider people who don't pay road tax or insurance to be valid "road users", particularly when they rarely feel the need to stop at a red light (or zebra crossing) and often wobble about as if they either drunk or retarded. Such behaviour is commonplace - to operate a motor vehicle with such a disregard for the rules of the road would be a crime, because it puts people's lives at risk. Just because your pathetic vehicle doesn't have an engine doesn't mean you can't cause a crash in which a real person in a proper vehicle might die. Being a road user comes with responsibilities and cyclists rarely meet any of them; consequently they are not worthy of the title "road users". "Road freeloaders" at best. I think of them as "road menaces". They’re my roads, I paid for them. I don’t consider people who don’t pay road tax or insurance to be valid “road users”, particularly when they rarely feel the need to stop at a red light (or zebra crossing) and often wobble about as if they either drunk or retarded. Such behaviour is commonplace – to operate a motor vehicle with such a disregard for the rules of the road would be a crime, because it puts people’s lives at risk. Just because your pathetic vehicle doesn’t have an engine doesn’t mean you can’t cause a crash in which a real person in a proper vehicle might die. Being a road user comes with responsibilities and cyclists rarely meet any of them; consequently they are not worthy of the title “road users”. “Road freeloaders” at best. I think of them as “road menaces”.

]]> By: Luke Marsden http://slinq.com/blog/2009/11/23/more-on-the-idiocy-of-environmentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Luke Marsden Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:25:04 +0000 http://slinq.com/blog/?p=162#comment-46 "the fact that you haven't got a metal box around you to protect you isn't my problem" Actually it is, you signed up to the responsibility of protecting other road users (i.e. pedestrians and cyclists) from your dangerous hurtling metal box when you got handed your license :P Otherwise I agree with you, driving is on-par with taking the bus in terms of emissions if you share occasionally, it's just flying we've got to worry about heh. “the fact that you haven’t got a metal box around you to protect you isn’t my problem”

Actually it is, you signed up to the responsibility of protecting other road users (i.e. pedestrians and cyclists) from your dangerous hurtling metal box when you got handed your license :P Otherwise I agree with you, driving is on-par with taking the bus in terms of emissions if you share occasionally, it’s just flying we’ve got to worry about heh.

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