Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

It's up to the people just as much as the police to enforce law and etiquette, imagine if everyone cycled, drove and rode with disregard to law, it'd be fucking chaos out there.

Imagine if we all waited for a policeman to tell us the difference between right and wrong.
I learnt a lot from my peers, and absolutely nothing from the police.
Except how to be patronising.

And to be honest , you seem to be one of the decent posters on here

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Imagine if we all waited for a policeman to tell us the difference between right and wrong.
I learnt a lot from my peers, and absolutely nothing from the police.
Except how to be patronising.

The only thing I've learned from them is how to shoot innocent people and stop 'ethnics' in the street.

My favourite Jones is Milton "I don't know about you, but I really hate
sitting in traffic. 'Cause I always get run over." Jones, off that there Radio 4 comedy half hour.

My gf called out a guy for having a rusty, poorly kept bike today. I'm glad he didn't decide to kill her & our unborn child.

I remember riding through Hungerford back in the 80s and hearing someone make a disparaging remark about my roadcraft.

I remember riding through Hungerford back in the 80s and hearing someone make a disparaging remark about my roadcraft.

in the 80's i rode on the pavement.

No, no. You misunderstood me. He reprimanded YOU . Your were quite within your rights to tell him to fuck off or kick him off his bike.

Here to help.

I think that either of those responses would have been inappropriate and counterproductive.

^^ when you were 6, right?

Is it time yet?

Soon

... our unborn child.

Congrats.

Moving on...

What's somewhat interesting, and would make for a good thought experiment is how would society develop if said society adopted BrixtonJ's policy of zero agonistic behaviour- no display/shouting/etc but straight to direct physical confrontation.

The implications would be far reaching and pretty serious I suspect.

It would totally separate man from the animals, in that we'd become the only species to go from insult to action without the associated warning period, and would lead (assumption) to everything becoming extremely unpredictable, as your intentions in any given situation would be almost impossible to predict.

Just like BrixtonJ's cycling, from his description come to think of it.

What you're describing sounds very much like how I remember Chelmsford pubs on a Friday night to have been.

I worked with a plasterer for a while, his advice was "smack then in the face straight after they shove you" as (and he's quite correct) generally after the verbal stage it goes "shove, shove, punch", i.e. the aggressor gets the first blow in after the agressee shoves back.

But then that is assuming a modicum of predictability. In your straighttofisticuffs utopia, there would (probably) be no shove.

That was my point- zero to hero, no warning, bodies falling everywhere.

Brixton Jones world would be one filled with excitement

Brixton Jones world would be one filled with excrement

because everyone would be shitting themselves, awaiting their next beat down.

amiright!

List?

No list.

Lists are akin to a warning.

NEVER give a warning.

Hold me back

E's not worth it.

I say he is worth it!