"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

Well, I am trying to tell you what superior persons do think but
you, erroneously believing yourself to belong to that class, aren't
listening.

It is immaterial whether or not I am a superior person. The
point is that I know a superior class of people when I see it - and you don't.
All you know is what the masses want (democratic rubbish), but the masses are
never superior to anything except in their sheer numbers. They are easily the
lowest common denominator qualitatively and are never to be catered to.
Elementary my dear Watson!

What an unpleasant person you're showing yourself to be Ed. Is that really your aim. So, now, what you're saying is because you regard yourself as above everyone else you should get what you want at everyone else's expense.

I have already told you twice now that I know a superior class of people when I see it. You don’t. That is why you can associate yourself with thuggish mountain bikers.

Superior people, whilst they may not be of the people, are definitely for the good of the people. You're aligning yourself with tyrants and dictators who care nothing for others ... or, to put it another way, you're not even of the common herd as you so perjoratively put it, you're an inferior; morally and intellectually.

Superior types, like Mr. Vandeman and Myself, know what trails are good for – and you don’t. You are indeed of the masses – inferior, immoral and stupid.

You aren't great, you aren't particularly smart and you exhibit
mildly sociopathic qualities.

I am Great ...and I am Smart ... and I am severely sociopathic
when it comes to scoundrels like you!

You sound like a small child having a tantrum. You're neither great nor smart and you prove it with pretty much every post.

You prove with your every post that you are unable to carry the conversation forward. All you do is cover old ground. That is because you are stuck in your ways and unable to appreciate an opposite point of view.

Unlike the honorable and civilized Mr. Vandeman, I am an
expert at ad hominem attacks. You have now entered MY territory!

A perfect example of your inferiority ... superior people don't need profanity and ad hominem to win arguments. Perhaps that's why you keep losing ... you simply don't have the right skills.

You can call names and I will figure out how to call even better (worse) names. You can’t win because I have decades of bile stored up to use on the likes of you.

Mountain bikers as a class of people are the scum of the
earth, and that is what you are too.

There is no class of mountain bikers ... mountain bikers come from all walks and classes ... it's a wonderfully egalitarian activity.

It is a sporting life style that they all have in common. None of them have a clue what trails are for. As a class, they are all woefully ignorant, risk takers, and dumb jackasses - just like you.

You encourage biking on trails
designed and meant for hikers, thereby causing many injuries and deaths.

Deaths from inactivity far outweigh the tiny numbers suffering death from mountainbiking accicents. 0.00123 per million miles travelled. If everyone rode a mountainbike then, yes, more would die from it but there would be a massively greater number who would not die prematurely from coronary diseases.

Reports from the field in the media say otherwise. Biking on trails is dangerous.

You are
so far beneath contempt that it is infra dignitatem for me to even be
acknowledging a scoundrel like you., I regard you as little better than a
criminal.

So, we're equal. I feel exactly the same way about you ... I just don't usually bother to mention it because I prefer to point out the massive flaws in your arguments rather than resort to ad hominem.

A hiker is so far superior to a biker doing trails that there is nothing to discuss – except the wisdom of the one and the idiocy of the other.

As for knowing anything about what is superior, surely you jest!
Anyone who rides his bike on hiking trails is inferior sui generis. You are
indeed fortunate to have someone here like me who knows how to kick your dumb
ass!

So, you consider yourself superior to an ex US President ? As for kicking ass, all you're doing is writing rubbish ... and the world rolls along ignoring you.

Without getting into politics, I think Bush II just did his biking on scrubby desert trails, the kind that nobody ever walks. Even so, it sets a bad example. Bush I is dumb enough to want to jump out of airplanes (skydive). It must run in the family.
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Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain biking!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great