Rod Liddle in the Spectator

My next door neighbour is a Daily Mail reading racist, are you suggesting I confront her on her views which have formed over an 80 year+ lifetime or just ignore her opinions/chalk them off to old age and get on with making sure she has food in when the weather is bad.

That depends - does she write a column in a nationally distributed magazine?

Nope, and she would never say anything deliberately offensive to someones face either.

My next door neighbour is a Daily Mail reading racist, are you suggesting I confront her on her views which have formed over an 80 year+ lifetime or just ignore her opinions/chalk them off to old age and get on with making sure she has food in when the weather is bad.

depends - does she write a column for a an inexplicably popular magazine?

/edit - oh snap

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You make a lot of good points, all of which are that Rod Liddle is a cunt. Clever how you made extensive use of Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v which is exactly how the wifebeater and cunt Rod Liddle wrote "his" "article" after a lazy search for other lazy cunt-penned articles on the same theme.

It's just linkbait.

Typical article starting with a "joke" and then following it up with a rant about most of the things that were in the "joke" anyway.

Unfortunately these articles enforces the us/them attitude in the tiny brains of the minority of motorists who have it in for cyclists. It's hate speech and incitement to violence.

Really, who gives a flying fuck? The two loudest voices on the pro/anti cycling debate are as bad as each other. With both sides describing themselves as 'cyclists' or 'motorists' like they're a different race of people. The whole thing is pathetic.

Really, who gives a flying fuck? The two loudest voices on the pro/anti cycling debate are as bad as each other. With both sides describing themselves as 'cyclists' or 'motorists' like they're a different race of people. The whole thing is pathetic.

bullshit.

Why?

Because one side is applauding the death of people.

Nope, and she would never say anything deliberately offensive to someones face either.

In that case, may I recommend a passive-aggressive pamphleting campaign.

Or introduce one of her children to someone of a different ethnicity (same sex for extra LOLs), so that they then fall in love, don't get married, and produce / adopt mixed-race offspring.

She'll recognise that her bigotry has all along been based on fear and ignorance, and will accept people for who, not what, they are, and when you pop round to help unpack her shopping, or put things onto high shelves, she'll say "Gawd bless you, guv'nor, gawd bless us all".

Why?

this has got got fuck all to do with pro/anti cycling, this has got to do with a particular man using his position to unfairly and erroneously berate people based on their choice of transport. it's pro/anti cunt. which are you?

Because one side is applauding the death of people.

Really? I've heard plenty of people on bikes wish for motorists have accidents. Just because you ride a bike doesn't mean you become a better person just as driving a car doesn't make you evil. There are many cunts out there and your mode of transport is not a determining factor.

show us where this is in print and i'll give you a wine gum.

It's obvious he's a cunt, I think you're crediting him with more influence than he has.

I think the problem starts when the views held become something which could actually negatively impact you and come from a person with enough weight/reach to disseminate them. Like there's a driver out there reading Liddle (who, by the way, is a cunt with bells on) and feeling like actually maybe he doesn't need to give me that much room on the road.

I just wrote a complaint to the Spectator, I feel a lot better for it. I managed to leave out that I think Rod Liddle is a cunt, but I did call the article an "odious, hate-inciting, waste of pixels".

Really?

Yes, this "Like many people, I am worried that too few cyclists are being killed on our roads each year."

what an unutterable cunt

Google "rod Liddle cunt" and lfgss is only the fifth hit. Come on, we need to raise our game. Please petition bossman to change the thread name to include that he is an odious cunt.

Yup, he has form in this area.

I've never understood the accusation that cyclists are smug. Is this anything other than psychological projection?

It's actually based on proper research, this:
A recent three-month survey of mine using BPS approved testing methods, found that 87% of cyclists within a 150cm radius of in-car motorists on British roads exhibit signs of 'acute smugness syndrome' (ASS). The test was a four page multiple choice questionnaire that was filled in by the cyclists as they passed near to the cars. Pedestrians (defined by 'those who have never ridden a bicycle *or *driven in a car') were used as a control category to ensure that ASS was exclusive to cyclists.

"Rod Liddle is a Cunt"

just doing my bit for the campaign.

It's so easy to destroy his argument and I'm sure there will be a reply from someone from the Guardian tomorrow. My point was that we need to ignore the obviously inflammatory bullshit and start focusing on the grown up debate.

in case anyone wants to tell him what they think about his article directly

rod.liddle@sunday-times.co.uk

mike brown ‏@mikebro30816865
Agree with Rod Liddle.Like many others.I am worried not enough cyclists are being killed on our roads.Ha Ha.

and so it goes.

The guy's bio says:

"Designer Loves NUFC,Cars,Bikes UKIP and Clarkson Hates PC,Tree Huggers,the bloody EU,wind farms,Global warming stupidity,oh I could go on"

just the kind of person who'd be a fan of Rod Liddle, tbh