Epic win

This guy hassling cops comes off as a right fuckhead. Totally undermining his (occasionally valid) arguments by being a self-righteous cock.

But that's what I think he's trying to convey here.
Being a self-righteous cock is not against the law.
Using your authority to prove a point, is.

Using your authority to prove a point, is.

how?

going by your mate's argument: can you tell me the exact law that says you can't use your authority to prove a point?*

*being a bit of a cunt here, myself

Let me give you a hug.

You know you want to...

Where's brave when you need him...

I really like the megaphone guy.

This guy hassling cops comes off as a right fuckhead. Totally undermining his (occasionally valid) arguments by being a self-righteous cock.

I really like the megaphone guy.

NotQuitePrecise.

He is brilliant. I want him to hug me.

Is it the same bloke?

it's the same dude, dude!

ZOMG.... I need a lay down..

Not that pajamas.
I was referring to the "Everything is OK", done in Camden Lock.
He's using a megaphone, shouting some crap and when confronted by the poo-poo, that he can't be there,
no one can actually tell him why he can't be there, he just can't. And then, again, violence towards the guy from the poo-poo.
I'm hardly defending him here, but definitely not defending the Police attitude.

I know the one you mean and I can kind of agree with you on that point, despite his bizarre attempts to bring religion into it about half way through that video.

However the RLJ video, I would say, is entirely different in context. Oliver is absolutely right (in my opinion blah blah). The police officer completely mishandled the situation and wasn't expecting someone who can run rings around him verbally, but Danny clearly went into that situation in an aggressive-defensive (if that's possible) stance and frankly, as PJ says:

going around trying to cause shit isn't the same as demonstrating against it.

Just because you're the louder speaker doesn't mean you're right.

... The police officer completely mishandled the situation and wasn't expecting someone who can run rings around him verbally, but Danny clearly went into that situation in an aggressive-defensive (if that's possible) stance and frankly, as PJ says: ...

Agreed.

the "everything is ok" guys are great. i dont think danny comes off very in the rlj video but everything that he's saying is true, to be fair to the officer, danny is being pretty stand-offish and its really easy to see why he got pissed off.

I'd believe the punhun if he said he'd never jumped a red.

Thank you. You'd be totally wrong to, though. When I first came to London, I didn't bring my bike--and I couldn't stand it after a very short while of taking public transport. For some reason, I'd imagined that I wouldn't cycle in London, at least not at first. When I eventually got my bike to London, the sense of freedom was completely overwhelming. It made London liveable for the first time.

Jumping lights used to be my default mode of approaching them. I thought that that was just a normal part of the freedom that I was entitled to on the bike. Mind you, this was in the days when footway cycling still had a much higher profile than red light jumping (there were far fewer sets of signals and All Green Pedestrian Phase junctions, where the offence is at its most visible, hadn't been introduced yet).

Years passed and I got involved in campaigning and actually started to learn about how traffic works, and that when people rant about law-breaking by cyclists, that actually gives them a great excuse not to cycle--after all, who wants to be a lowly law-breaker?

When people say that cyclists don't belong 'on the road', behind that, among other things, is a mixture of envy of the freedom of cycling and a fear that if they started to cycle, they would become just like the law-breakers whom they see. Now, obviously, drivers constantly violate traffic laws, as well, but they're not perceived to be in the minority--it's that combination of being a minority and committing highly visible transgressions that's a real stumbling-block to promoting cycling further.

But yes, I don't jump red lights now and haven't for years. I might do it in the middle of the night when there's no-one around, although I have stopped then, too, just to feel what it's like. Otherwise, there's absolutely no point. Set off early enough so you don't end up in a mad rush and enjoy your ride. I'm totally in favour of reducing the number of traffic signals in London and in changing the way signal phasing works in a lot of ways, but there's a lot of work on these things to do still before we can see significant improvements.

I saw Oliver waiting at a red light once, true fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0XEXOnMgQ

Apparently it can go 80mph easy?!

Not quite understanding the design of the frame but pretty impressive on the speed

Toe overlap?

Oh! No...

Slack chain.

Cranks on pointing the same direction...

I've done it once.

Even the bars are at the wrong angle!