On 17/08/17 00:44, JNugent wrote:
On 16/08/2017 23:55, TMS320 wrote:
On 16/08/17 16:45, JNugent wrote:

I have made no suggestions.

An inch is not your suggestion? Well blow me down.

For the thickness of the ropes attached to lifebelts?

The phrase was "the better part of an inch".

So what? By implanting "an inch" in your own mind, your imagination made
it large enough that the victim should have seen it.

It is similar to the way you like to exaggerate cycling speed.

It was not a suggestion, it was an estimate based on direct observation.

I have said nothing derogatory about the vision of cyclists.

Oh? I am sure nobody is fooled.

Except you, obviously.

Try to unravel the negatives and see what you end up with. Do you think
everybody else likes being insulted?

I have said something about their concentration and prioritising of
progress over safety, leading to their sometimes not looking where
they are going.

Not looking will definitely result in not seeing. Not seeing does not
imply not looking.

But not looking is a guarantee of not seeing.

Why repeat what I just said?

There is no connection between the ill-advised behaviour of Citizen A
and that of Citizen B.

Citizen B cannot rely upon absolution because of what the bigger boys
did.

Did citizen A have absolution? If yes, then definitely yes.

"If".

It is about bicycle riders receiving worse treatment than motor vehicle
drivers for the same sins. It certainly happens here.