Most dangerous road users

Controversy:

Why do we have to have rear lights, but most of the pedalcabs don't?

hahahaha next time you pull up aside one ask him his name lol if you can understand a word he says , convo will go like this , "hello" refugee will say "allo " you say "nice bike " he says"tony blare" hahahaha

im just gonna be more general here.... women drivers! the two times ive been knocked down, was by women at roundabouts not paying bloody attention.

no offence, but well.. them is the facts!

you might want to add 'female cyclists' to that personal danger group because there's one here who's fully prepared to poke you in the eye with a blunt pencil should she ever meet you :-)

^ heheheh!
EDIT - also ^^ hehehehhe!

South Africans park their cars in a "Grudge"

what about foxton's cunts in their cuntmobiles?

we called those cockmobiles, collect them all!

http://flickr.com/groups/foxtonscockmobiles/

Other cyclists. I avoid them!

Most dangerous place I've ever been was the big London to Brighton bike ride. I accidentally happened across it last year and rode along with for 5-10 mins, half the time stationary. I saw two people come down in that time. I barely escaped with my life!

Recommend cycle training for everyone! I went with CTUK, paid £8, subsidised by Council, and got a couple of hours with a v cool dude chatting urban tactics. Winning is getting to your destination safe.

we called those cockmobiles, collect them all!

http://flickr.com/groups/foxtonscockmobiles/

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[quote=Object]You're basing an assumption on a persons skin colour..[\quote]

Surly it's just the same?

I'd be prepared to disupte is as semantics. An assumption is different to an assertion.
Claiming people of a particular breed will act a certain way is different to assuming they will.

Once is naive whereas the other is based on some form of biased.

You could easily argue that postulations through naivity are a form of idiocy induced racism though.

Tommy, to be honest I re-considered my point after I'd made it but editing the thought seemed somehow wrong. I prefer a linear chain of though, as is the joy of debate.

fucked up that quote too :]

Don't worry I'm not mad on this type of subject tends to end in a tortological (spelling?) conversation arguing over small points but with the basic theme of be respectful to people, but I am mad at this constant drizzle I have been wet more in the past two weeks than I was all winter commuting.

moroccanish: that guy from ghana who all ways cuts me up , its not a racist comment and isnt implied to be

Ok, even if it wasn't implied as a racist comment, it certainly was a sweeping generalisation of a whole race's driving skills... which in my book is the same thing.

It's hard to tell if these posts are serious or not !? :)

How is mentioning someone's country of origin a racist statement ? Are any of these statements racist ?:

I was talking to this guy from Scotland the other day.

Hippy, who comes from Australia, last cleaned his bike in 1997.

I met these two girls from Spain, one was a real looker.

This bloke from France nearly killed me when he turned into my path.

Any of those statements racist ?

In the meantime, I accept that if I'm in England, I'm part of the minority, but if I'm in the caribbean, then its totally different.

Point of order, chap. If you've spent most/much of your life in England then those who've spent their entire lives in the caribbean will quite probably single you out as 'English'. Even if you were born in the carib.

I don't think morroccanish is being racist at all. He's talking about observations from personal experience. I don't see anything wrong with adding someone's ethnicity into an anecdote if it helps build a picture or is in some way relevant. If you're adding their ethnicity in to make the point that all people of the same race are stupid/ugly/violent/whatever then sure you're being a bit of a racist cock-monkey.

My surname is Dutch Jewish and I once had a bank teller refuse to serve me in Berlin because of this, do I win a prize?

:)

id like to know when the colour of someones skin was mentioned to there driving standards , indeed if the above comment was infact a statment to my comment about the crazy ghana taxi driver , did i once state he was black or white or otherwise, as i read in a post ghana is a country not a race and it would seem that by mentioning where some a person is from in reflection to there driving is a ignorant comment made by my self and maybe i should of tiptoed around the fact that the crazy taxi people carrier driver was not from ghana and had no driving skill and now im falling asleep boaring my self thinking about it , am i allowed to mention the fact my bike was made in taiwan and not in italy , would that be a semi racist comment are bikes made in italy superiour to those made in taiwan because if my bike was made in italy would it be made better ! and i have fallen asleep ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

add foreign tourists, I think they're more than welcome but they don't seem to remember that when they cross the road the traffic comes from their right. I lost count of the number of times I've swerved round/clattered into someone crossing the road, blatantly only looking left and then saying something ridiculous in an American/French/Italian/(insert countries where they drive on the right) accent about how I should be watching where I'm going.

Getting back on topic.
Anyone who is not paying attention to what they're doing whilst driving a car.
This could be: school mums shouting at kids in the back, texting van drivers, drivers on the phone, Mr "I've waited 5 minutes and now I'm going to pull a bad tempered tyre smoking U-turn", red-light running bus and taxi drivers. Those cunts that look right at you and then pull out.
Peds on the phone, peds using I-pods, peds running along the road and then into it without looking, peds on cycle paths, dog-walkers in Battersea park -

Everyone is out to kill me personally. That's how I think for the entire journey to work and then I eat a chocolate biscuit, take a sip of tea and all is right with the world again!

id like to know when the colour of someones skin was mentioned to there driving standards , indeed if the above comment was infact a statment to my comment about the crazy ghana taxi driver , did i once state he was black or white or otherwise, as i read in a post ghana is a country not a race and it would seem that by mentioning where some a person is from in reflection to there driving is a ignorant comment made by my self and maybe i should of tiptoed around the fact that the crazy taxi people carrier driver was not from ghana and had no driving skill and now im falling asleep boaring my self thinking about it , am i allowed to mention the fact my bike was made in taiwan and not in italy , would that be a semi racist comment are bikes made in italy superiour to those made in taiwan because if my bike was made in italy would it be made better ! and i have fallen asleep ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

Nope you didn't mention the colour of the driver's skin. My comment about adding in someone's skin colour to an anecdote and how I didn't, generally, see this as problematic was directed generally. But I didn't make this clear and just ploughed on with my train of thought!

its kool man im just a honest kinda guy with a bike (bianchi pista!) typing my thoughts on to a web page i didnt mean to start a politcal chat , but do we really have to be so politicaly correct it is what it is and you shouldnt have to tiptoe around, before people start throwing there skirts up because i mentioned a crazy ghana taxi driver who cuts me up im sure if i typed the taxi driver was northen monkey would you all be shouting racist then? tooo funny

@ moroccanish - The longer you spend here the more you'll find that threads can go loopy at the drop of a hat. It's all good fun though and the people are cool. Welcome to the board.

Feel free to abuse northern monkeys as much as you like, because we all know the south is superior ;)

I think that illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are the most dangerous things on our roads. is there any way we can put them in to the poll?

Are you the Rev Jim Jones, by any chance?

nah, my bro is the reverend jeremiah Jones tho, i didn't make it through pastor school cos i was a racist

I think that illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are the most dangerous things on our roads. is there any way we can put them in to the poll?

Yes and poor people too. I can't concentrate on the road when they are loitering by the side of it in their rags. God knows what diseases I might catch if they come too close.

Jimbo Jones, you are quite irrevocably mad sir. It is as clear as mud to any eye, that the MOST DANGEROUS thing using our roads in fair Blighty, are hedgehogs. Yes, hedgehogs. Can't you see how they are plainly designed to cause a puncture. They're absolutely hellbent to cause mischief to cyclists. I say we put them on the same boat as my cousin illegals, and send them somewhere horrible.....like The Caribbean!

The sun, sea, coconut water, stuffed crab-backs, marlin fishing, and rum-soaked nights - it would be bloody torture for them! I see we get rid of the lot. Can someone please report me to Immogration in Croydon? Please.