Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

atleest im safe :P and having way more fun than you...

That's what you like to think.

Empty cans, why keep taking the bait?

im unsubscribing becouse most the people in this thread are dick heads,

2 days between joining and flouncing. Is this a new course record?

Have just read most of this thread and feel as though a small portion of my life has been stolen. Edscoble talks sense. Empty cans on the other hand needs to take a reality check and review his riding.

I'm dyslexia and born-deaf, I don't use that as an excuse for my poor English.

Best advice I can give you is to read your post before you press submit, that'll help greatly more than you think.

What Ed means here is just ignore people that go on about spelling obsessively.

I don't understand how jumping out of traffic at a right turn, cycling slowly across a pedestrian crossing, waiting for traffic to go through and then re-joining the road at the back of the queue is supposedly more fun than just staying on the road.

I mean, it's only a right turn. And a slow one at that.

and dude i have dyslexia, i struggle with spelling along with other things, it makes me feal dumb, other people often make me feal even more dumb, but i do my fucking best! what else do you want?

So am I, I still make mistakes but I also use a spell checker and I take notice when people bring to my attention mistakes that I have made be they basic spelling or more difficult mistake to rectify like homophones. The forum has been an excellent source of criticism for me, you need to have your mistakes pointed to to be aware of them, and if you can't take a little ribbing grow some fucking balls. I still make plenty of mistakes but I also still make a fucking effort to improve rather than just blaming dyslexia all of the time. You can at least try to use a spell check most browsers have them installed as standard now so it's no awkward plugin (I had this problem a few years ago when the plug in would not work with my browser, very frustrating.).

Having a problem be it dyslexia or a more severe problem does not mean you should use it as an excuses in your life for poor performance. You just have to try harder, now grow up and start taking responsibility and take the easily available steps open to you such as the spell checker and google. Without a computer I am practically illiterate, with it I can write large document. The computers + internet are amazing tools, use them. Your spelling mistake on this forum are easily rectifiable with a little effort.

I'll through this website in which I use for reference too. I still make loads of errors in this area but I am still slowly learning more.

http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node00.html

I have considered getting a bike cam just so I can see if what I get so upset about really is all that worth getting upset about. I get really embarrassed when I catch another cyclist behind me and I've just shouted abuse at a driver for something that doesn't actually seem worthy of the abuse.

Also, to see if I do stupid shit that I shouldn't be doing.

Will you be waving at the camera as you ride? Will we see if you actually read a book at the traffic lights?
Concerned people want to know.

;)

I was thinking about the same jayloo. This morning I even went as far as thinking "do I even enjoy the commute?" after seeing so many stupid cyclists. Perhaps I should focus on the good cyclists and all that. But spotting negative is easier I suppose.

Perhaps where empty cans live is a really small town. Where I grew up I always rode however I wanted. There weren't many lights, perhaps 10 all in and traffic was almost non existent. Still, I certainly don't ride that way in a city such as London!

I thought edscoble was querying the meaning of 'irl' due to ambiguity, i.e. he wasn't sure what it meant. He wasn't just being arsey or patronising.

I'm most prone to point out errors in other people's written English when it creates ambiguity, because I have a form of semantic-pragmatic disorder. I don't filter out 'unlikely' meanings based on context like most people do, so I'm constantly scrambling through a surreal linguistic universe in order to understand what the fuck people are going on about.

That can be contracted to smegmatic disorder, I believe.

Are you calling me frigid?

Are you calling me frigid?

You know you need to wash it, right?

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Especially the cheese box blah blah blah

oviusly "i'll" bad spelling habbit i cant get rid of, so what...

Clearly not.

And Ignore.

I've not heard the term 'frigid' for years. I remember it being a common insult at primary school, although i) I never used it, and ii) was never accused of it.

I dunno - You seem a little frosty at times.

#hippysaidso

see post 269

I only saw '69'.

Will you be waving at the camera as you ride? Will we see if you actually read a book at the traffic lights?
Concerned people want to know.

;)

I miss taking the train just for reading. I don't get nearly as much reading in, now that I don't take public transportation.

I was thinking about the same jayloo. This morning I even went as far as thinking "do I even enjoy the commute?" after seeing so many stupid cyclists. Perhaps I should focus on the good cyclists and all that. But spotting negative is easier I suppose.

Yes, the few times recently that I've ridden into the Centre around rush hour have been horrifying. I've begun hanging back b/c it makes it so much nicer not to get undertaken at the light, have to pass them, have them not observe the rules of the road, have to pass them again, etc. Or contend with girls who, improbably, have put their arms through the loops of a carrier bag. I have to admit to being really prejudiced against Dutch bike riding girls in skirts with stupid shoes on and no foot retention. They are usually so ridiculous in their road skills.

Festus, we have been through this time and time again. There are many, many different ways of meeting women and asking them on a date. "Calling them out" at the lights is not one of them. It hasn't worked for you in the past and it won't in the future. Encouraging other people to do it in order to make your approach seem 'normal' is frankly just weird.

:-)

you plum

I have to admit to being really prejudiced against Dutch bike riding girls in skirts with stupid shoes on and no foot retention. They are usually so ridiculous in their road skills.

Hey! I conform to 3 out of 4 of those things!

Although beach cruisers and Dutch bikes are quite similar.

It's this notion of collective responsibility that I don't get. If someone does something stupid on a bike it's not your responsibility just because you are on a bike as well. I often walk places, and I drive a car as well, when a numpty ped walks infront of you, or a car swerves to close to you are they giving me a bad name? No - the notion is ridiculous. Aside from that I doubt that calling out is likely to make much difference - I got a lecture from someone a few years ago after a move that I admit was not my finest hour. I just thought he was a patronizing twat - which he was.

Your last statement I agree with to some degree but to try suggest what other cyclist's behavior has nothing to do with you, is wrong- doesn't make it right but it's plain wrong. The fact the cycling is still becoming 'normalised' or filtrating into the mainstream means folk still look at us with our silly jaunty caps and trouser legs rolled up as a different species. It's no different to me getting a plane/train. Finding that I'm sitting next to an old lady that's never fratenised with 'brothers' and on spotting me, she grabs her hand bag before I get any closer (due to what she has read in the Sun).

example: you're riding through a green light, loads of peds then step out causing you to swerve/and or brake. When you take it up with them i.e. what the hell are you doing some idiot says "you all jump lights, so fuck off". I've also heard this messed up thinking from drivers too.

I have persecuted these so called 'many women' - they didn't complain at the time.

This is just racism by the back door.

like Mother T, yeah?

Do bad cyclists include those who use taxi's to drive them AND their bike home?

No just those who over use ">" and wear fucking dodgy sailor boy jackets [/if not for injuries blah blah blah]