On 01/12/2019 18:19, TMS320 wrote:

On 01/12/2019 17:50, JNugent wrote:
On 01/12/2019 17:34, TMS320 wrote:
On 01/12/2019 15:58, JNugent wrote:
On 01/12/2019 14:53, TMS320 wrote:
On 01/12/2019 01:28, JNugent wrote:
On 30/11/2019 23:38, TMS320 wrote:
On 30/11/2019 18:53, MrCheerful wrote:
On 30/11/2019 14:44, colwyn wrote:
On 30/11/2019 14:04, JNugent wrote:

And this was one of a relatively few posts in uk.r.c
to be on-topic?

Oh yes, just tinged with gloating, glee and
schadenfreude. Shame on you!

If enough cyclists get the message then the number of
deaths may decrease.

The message? How about people that know nothing about
riding a bike stop jumping to conclusions and mind their
own business?

Is "Watch where you're going" jumping to conclusions?

I think it is reasonable to assume that not looking was a
factor. Pronouncing the cause of not looking is jumping to
conclusions.

You are surely being a bit hasty in claiming it must have been
suicide.

Eh?

OK, I will remind you (on this occasion) of what you said.

You said: "Pronouncing the cause of not looking is jumping to
conclusions".

I did.

And that means that you prefer the only alternative, that it was not
caused by failing to watch where he was going (sorry for the
double-negative, but it was not inadvertent). The sole implication of
that is that you believe he did it deliberately and so must have been
watching where he was going. I reject that - I say it was an accident,
caused simply by not looking where he was going.

The fault here is in what you wrote. Whatever you thought it meant,
it meant something else. I responded to what you wrote and to its
meaning, not to something still lurking in the recesses of your
imagination.

It means exactly as written.

Then it means what I said. There can only be one of two meanings, and
you have rejected the "not watching out" one.

The imagination is all yours.

As I said a few days ago, for some cyclists, the truth is something
they cannot bear and will not tolerate.

If you want to give advice then give it to drivers. It might help reduce
the 100 drivers a day that run into pedestrians (what was it you said
about truth hurting?). But I suspect drivers would also put up two
fingers in front of your face.

Look up there, higher up the screen...

Yes... almost at the very top... what does it say?

That's right... *uk.rec.cycling*

This is not the place to give advice to drivers.

But look... no-one wants to see you - or anyone else - injured or worse.
So watch where you're going, eh? Look well ahead, and not at the road
just under your dropped handlebars.