Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Hayden East,
Maybe something to do with respect? (Not only for your rights as a road user, but also that you’re maybe helping in the grand scheme of things?)
I reckon there's something like that going on. And ta for posting.
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Some of the comments about this including under that Moore ‘column’ suggest a bigger story about selfish, entitled attitudes and where they come from.
The word “blocking” is thrown around but there’s simply no “right” to drive fast and where’s the harm in slowing down until it’s safe to pass a cyclist?
LTSA’s rules for cyclists (h/t Greg) make it clear that they are legally entitled to not hug the kerb if it is unsafe – and are specifically warned:
“Never ride in the ‘door zone’ (the space where car doors open) when cycling past parked cars. Allow at least one metre between you and a parked car.”
Some commenters bray that cyclists have no right to be on roads because they don’t pay transport taxes or license fees. Echoes of the nasty neoliberal user-pays experiment conducted on our population for the last few decades? You’re only a real person if you can pay.
Perhaps the pressure drivers feel to get places at maximum speed may even have something to do with the ridiculously long hours we work as a nation to make up for our low productivity including poor management performance and weak investment and savings.
But Greg’s root point resonates with me too – we forget who we are. Somehow dressing up in a metal skin transforms us from humans into arseholes.
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Hard News: Healing the family feud, in reply to David Ritchie,
Similar face though
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I'll need to grow a forelock
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Cracker: Dig This!, in reply to Dyk Jewell,
experiment with different types and positions
seems like good advice in general
snap (beans)
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That was satire, right?
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Hard News: Moving targets, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
Put simply, I think some people think that natural justice only covers the folk they like.
You'll be aksing us to respect used car salespeople next :)
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The need for fisking of media bullshittery is also alive and well in the US.
On Nov. 4, Anderson Cooper did the country a favor. He expertly deconstructed on his CNN show the bogus rumor that President Obama’s trip to Asia would cost $200 million a day. This was an important “story.” It underscored just how far ahead of his time Mark Twain was when he said a century before the Internet, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” But it also showed that there is an antidote to malicious journalism — and that’s good journalism.
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Next thing you know, my mate is giving me a tour of his new vege plot. “Rotational planting, thass the secret,” he slurred. “I bloody love you mate,” I replied, probably.
Sweet
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to 3410,
Rather, he has a reptilian response of politeness to absolutely everything, whether deserving of it or not, because he’s too spineless to actually stand up for anything.
Quite. What gets me is when people like that insist no one else is ever allowed to form an opinion either, in the guise of being “non-judgemental”. It's OK to say that some things are just wrong. Amorality sucks.