Other CYCLISTS being pussies!! (signalling, owning the road)

So I know the road can be intimidating.
I know it can be even more intimidating if you don't know the rules of the road, your rights and where you should be on it (you shouldn't be on it if this is the case)

BUT what is with, what appear to be very confident and knowledgeable cyclists, giving the most..PIDDLY...barely raising their arm away from the bars, turning signal. Even Lycra-clads.

If we as cyclists want to be respected and given the space we need isn't it courteous and just nice to let other road users know what we are doing, so that they can be safe too?

This morning two lycra's over-took me and then pulled out into the right lane and both gave the weakest most ridiculous hand signal. Lucky if any motorist saw it.

Should I have yelled at them wildly?

Other cyclists being what, now?

Cyclechat >>>>>>>>>>>>

Other cyclists being what, now?

Pussies. You know, wetlips, jelly manlets, big girls blouses. Personally I think anyone caught giving a limp-wristed hand signal should be immediately reported.

I quite like pussies.

Not into limp wrists though.

Apologies, when I wrote "pussies" I wasn't referring to the VAGINA!
I meant just too scared.

Fun fact: 'pussy' being used as an insult for 'scared person' derives from the word for cat not for vaginas. I, for what it's worth, am a massive pussy. I also have 4 cats.

Better a pussy than a bitch. I'm not a dog person at all.

It's more aero. Hands sticking out isn't aero...

The complaints on here these days are proper shit.

#htfu

Where's the merge-hammer when you need it?

mums net obvs

There is this thread about pussies and dicks
http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/184495/

It is a good point tho'. One reason why drivers sometimes don't tolerate assertive riders who take the lane when they wish to avoid being passed close like when passing a side road, going through a road narrowing, passing parked cars or moving through a junction is because most riders prefer (are scared into) riding on the left

cycle training forum >>>>>>>>>>>

Should I have yelled at them wildly?

You didn't...
Pussy

Damn...touché.

I knew it was to do with cats. Everything is cats.

I do this.

Often when I feel a 'proper' signal is unlikely to benefit other road users, but mostly when I see someone-who-may-or-may-not-be-Finty and wish to cause a kerfuffle on t' forum.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pussy

I do this.

It doesn't really annoy me that much. But I do like considerate road users. Makes the place more friendly.

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Isn't it de rigeur to point and wag your finger as if chastising an imaginary child for the style conscious MAMIL these days?

Actual OED:
a. Chiefly colloq. A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat, esp. sweetness or amiability. Freq. used as a pet name or as a term of endearment. Cf. puss n.1 3, pussycat n. 3.

• c1557–65 in T. Wright Songs & Ballads (1860) lxxiv. 209 Adew, my pretty pussy, Yow pynche me very nere.
  
• 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hv, You shall haue euery sawcy boy..to catch vp a woman & marie her... So he haue his pretie pussie to huggle withall, it forceth not.
  
• 1836 Thackeray Let. 2 July (1945) I. 314 How have you passed the night dear Pussy?
  
• 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvi. 266 ‘What do you think, pussy?’ said her father to Eva.
  
• 1932 A. Christie Thirteen Probl. xi. 193 ‘The dame de compagnie, you described, I think, as a pussy, Mrs. Bantry?’ ‘I didn't mean a cat, you know,’ said Mrs. Bantry. ‘It's quite different. Just a big soft white purry person. Always very sweet.’
  
• 1941 A. Christie N or M? iii. 38 Old boarding-house pussies. Nothing to do but gossip and knit.
  
• 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock iv. 73 ‘Your rear gunner is a hit with the ladies.’ ‘Jake knows how to make the pussies purr; it's an old Jamaican custom.’
  [1959 M. Richler Apprenticeship Duddy Kravitz i. ix. 50 Milty ran off crying... ‘What is it, pussy-lamb?’]
  
• 1986 D. Potter Singing Detective ii. 45 But tonight there isn't a pussy in sight. Not even a four-legged one. All good people have gone home.
  
  
  

b. slang (chiefly N. Amer.). A sweet or effeminate male; (in later use chiefly) a weakling, a coward, a sissy. Also: a male homosexual.
In quot. 1904: a man likened to a house-cat; a dependent or ‘domesticated’ man.

• 1904 ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man xxi, I shall invite Roxmouth and his tame pussy, Mr. Marius Longford.
  
• 1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith vi. 65 You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients—the way they bawl out the nurses.
  
• 1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 193 Pussy, an effeminate boy.
  
• 1958 L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 157 ‘I first met Henry James in a brothel in Algiers. He had a naked houri on each knee.’ ‘Henry James was a pussy, I think.’
  
• 1967 ‘iceberg slim’ Pimp v. 103 Look Preston, I got lots of heart. I'm not a pussy. I been to the joint twice. I did tough bits, but I didn't fall apart.
  
• 1972 T. O'brien Combat Zone 45 You afraid to be in the war, a goddamn pussy?
  
• 1988 J. D. Pistone & R. Woodley Donnie Brasco 119 If he beat me up or cut me, then I would be a pussy in everybody's eyes.
  
• 1993 G. Donaldson Ville 20 He believes the only thing worse than being a pussy is being a big pussy.
  2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 125, I..wanted to ask her to Homecoming, but I was a pussy and embarrassed about being in love with her because she was fat.
  

There's no etymological information in your citation, nor indeed any reference at all to the term as used offensively, so while I am happy to concede that you are an authority on your second and third assertions, I await a more robust reference for the first.

Or, given that the term is widely understood and used as being offensive, we should just let it go.

we should just let it go.

Giving up on an argument? Pussy.

dear OP. go away. forever.