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Neil Mitchell at it again
Did anyone here read Neil Mitchells column in yesterdays Herald Sun
(Page 19, Tuesday 11th May The article starts off as a criticism of the transport policies of Pete Bachelor, but swiftly declines into yet another of his rants agains cyclists, I'll quote the first and last paragraphs "It isn't too difficult to get a taxi licence these days, so here's a idea for our bicycle obsessed Minister for Transport: try some real lif experience, and drive a cab for a month "Cars are heavily taxed and ridiculously expensive to run. They are als secure, convient, and here to stay. Let the lentil-eaters put off thei berets over their helmets and ride to work at the book shop. But please, govern for the rest as well Apart from the arguments presented in his column big enough to drive B-double through, the rest of the article is a badly researched childish Strawman argument A couple of contridictions, 3AW and the Herald Sun sponsor/support th Bike Paths Guide, the Herald Sun Tour and Bicycle Victoria events I cannot understand the "logic" behind criticising the policies of state Transport Minister, and potentially promoting aggressio towards cyclists Discuss - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
"cfsmtb" wrote in message
.. . Did anyone here read Neil Mitchells column in yesterdays Herald Sun? (Page 19, Tuesday 11th May) The article starts off as a criticism of the transport policies of Peter Bachelor, but swiftly declines into yet another of his rants against cyclists, I'll quote the first and last paragraphs, "It isn't too difficult to get a taxi licence these days, so here's an idea for our bicycle obsessed Minister for Transport: try some real life experience, and drive a cab for a month" "Cars are heavily taxed and ridiculously expensive to run. They are also secure, convient, and here to stay. Let the lentil-eaters put off their berets over their helmets and ride to work at the book shop. But, please, govern for the rest as well" Apart from the arguments presented in his column big enough to drive a B-double through, the rest of the article is a badly researched, childish Strawman argument. A couple of contridictions, 3AW and the Herald Sun sponsor/support the Bike Paths Guide, the Herald Sun Tour and Bicycle Victoria events. Ahh, but that's the strategy: he says this and it looks like his comments are independant of the commercial aspects of the station! Personally, people like Neil Mitchell and Derryn Hinch ("Hinche"? "Hunch"? "Hynche"?) bug me as all they really do is express their own opinion without any form of genuine disagreement. "If I don't like what you say, I'll just disconnect you" type of thing. -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
flyingdutch wrote:
Best to ignore him even tho sadly, badly informed ignorant gits like him have far too big an audience as it is... Nah, I like having free speech as long as there's a Right Of Reply These pompous twits really believe they're above it all, hence Ala Jones talking s**t after he quaffed a couple of chardies....and Joh Laws waiting until a convenient time arose to repeat it all Anyway, a old saying, todays headlines wraps tomorrows fish n' chips - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
I flicked thru this at work and ended up tearing it out and its sittin
on my desk now... I debated typing back a reply to the Hun (and his listed personal emai at 3AW) but realised him for what he is. A shock-jock Besides he looks like he could use the side-effects of getting on a bik himself. He was the same **** who harumphed when I suggested on radi that we dont really need to manufacture cars/vehicles that can trave fater than the speed limit "How am I going to passs that truck on th highway" was his response. "You mean the truck travelling ON the spee limit?" i responded He quickly changed the subjec Best to ignore him even tho sadly, badly informed ignorant gits like hi have far too big an audience as it is.. - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
cfsmtb wrote:
Did anyone here read Neil Mitchells column in yesterdays Herald Sun? (Page 19, Tuesday 11th May) The article starts off as a criticism of the transport policies of Peter Bachelor, but swiftly declines into yet another of his rants against cyclists, I'll quote the first and last paragraphs, "It isn't too difficult to get a taxi licence these days, so here's an idea for our bicycle obsessed Minister for Transport: try some real life experience, and drive a cab for a month" "Cars are heavily taxed and ridiculously expensive to run. They are also secure, convient, and here to stay. Let the lentil-eaters put off their berets over their helmets and ride to work at the book shop. But, please, govern for the rest as well" Apart from the arguments presented in his column big enough to drive a B-double through, the rest of the article is a badly researched, childish Strawman argument. A couple of contridictions, 3AW and the Herald Sun sponsor/support the Bike Paths Guide, the Herald Sun Tour and Bicycle Victoria events. I cannot understand the "logic" behind criticising the policies of a state Transport Minister, and potentially promoting aggression towards cyclists? Discuss. -- Mitchell is just a professional stirrer. The problem is that brainless fools who cannot generate an original thought of their own listen to him and some even act out his fantasies, to the detriment and danger of the rest of the community. Recently he ran a rant session on bike paths and should cyclists pay registration to fund them. The whole argument was founded on a misconception because there are no bike paths, they are all shared paths, so by his own argument, pedestrians, dog walkers, horse riders etc should all pay registration too. I'm sorry I don't have a solution to dealing with he and his kind, but I wonder when someone will successfully hold one of them culpable for an act that they have incited. Alan. |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
I was a bit upset reading his article as well. Somehow he doesn't see
to realise that for every cyclist or person taking public transport h sees that is one less car in his way. You can have the best road networ imaginable, but at the end of the day its only going to get you to nex bottleneck quicker He does his best to ostracize cyclists (and vegetarians). I no longe have the article but remember him refering to helmets as 'silly hats and even the article title summed up his purpose For some reason he was even arguing that the cost of imported cars wa too high. Wtf does that have to do with improving the city's transport Besides shouldn't he be supporting Australian jobs/the working class h thinks he is representative of? Maybe he needs another BMW or something - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
"Alan Hutchison" wrote in message
[...] Mitchell is just a professional stirrer. True. [...] Recently he ran a rant session on bike paths and should cyclists pay registration to fund them. The whole argument was founded on a misconception because there are no bike paths, they are all shared paths, Not true. Some paths are shared, some are not. You see this all along the foreshore, sometimes there's one shared path and sometimes there's two paths, one for pedestriand and one for cyclists/rollerbladers. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
Alan Hutchison wrote:
Mitchell is just a professional stirrer. The problem is that brainless fools who cannot generate an original thought of their own listen to him and some even act out his fantasies, to the detriment and danger of the rest of the community. Recently he ran a rant session on bike paths and should cyclists pay registration to fund them. The whole argument was founded on a misconception because there are no bike paths, they are all shared paths, so by his own argument, pedestrians, dog walkers, horse riders etc should all pay registration too. I'm sorry I don't have a solution to dealing with he and his kind, but I wonder when someone will successfully hold one of them culpable for an act that they have incited. Alan. It is the 'Hun' after all. It aint shakespeare and it sure-as-****e ain aimed at people with anything resembling intelligence Almost spat out m weeties the other morning when i heard Mitchell was being muted as th next Editor-in-chief of 'The Age'!! As for solving/dealing with NM, how does one apply for a Bus licence?? - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
cfsmtb wrote:
Did anyone here read Neil Mitchells column in yesterdays Herald Sun? (Page 19, Tuesday 11th May) The article starts off as a criticism of the transport policies of Peter Bachelor, but swiftly declines into yet another of his rants against cyclists, I'll quote the first and last paragraphs, "It isn't too difficult to get a taxi licence these days, so here's an idea for our bicycle obsessed Minister for Transport: try some real life experience, and drive a cab for a month" "Cars are heavily taxed and ridiculously expensive to run. They are also secure, convient, and here to stay. Let the lentil-eaters put off their berets over their helmets and ride to work at the book shop. But, please, govern for the rest as well" Apart from the arguments presented in his column big enough to drive a B-double through, the rest of the article is a badly researched, childish Strawman argument. A couple of contridictions, 3AW and the Herald Sun sponsor/support the Bike Paths Guide, the Herald Sun Tour and Bicycle Victoria events. I cannot understand the "logic" behind criticising the policies of a state Transport Minister, and potentially promoting aggression towards cyclists? Discuss. I certainly did read it and also contemplated writing to the Hun. But am well aware that the lentil/latte reference is only there to incit folk to respond to the egotistical twit. I am sure that the mor responses he gets means he can justify whatever exorbitant fee h charges to put pen to paper Even better is todays response in the Hun from someone in surrey hill saying that cycle commuting isnt feasable for them and that they driv as they find purchasing a ticket too hard Give me a break. Zone one daily or 2 hour mate.. Hello.!!! Its no rocket science It frightens me that people like that are behind the wheel when peopl like me are trying to ride to work safely I wonder if he was the ignorant jerk who abused me on st kilda rd thi morning, revving his engine, flipping the bird and swearing at me to ge over to the other side of the f'ing road I would gladly, but the two lanes to my immediate left were turnin lanes at the arts centre and his ute was sitting over the designate waiting bike box, where cyclists are supposed to be wait safely whe heading straight Honestly, it makes me wonder why i bother sometimes. Being a female must admit that i do find it daunting to challenge men like this as i a always worried that they may take it to another level and hit me. I a not having a go at men here either. Its just another added worry that w women cyclists face sometimes Lets see who else decides to join the Hun debate in tomorrow's paper. - |
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Neil Mitchell at it again
coowoowoo wrote:
Being a female i must admit that i do find it daunting to challenge men like this as i am always worried that they may take it to another level and hit me. I am not having a go at men here either. Its just another added worry that we women cyclists face sometimes. Dont think youre special, coowoo! We male cyclists get abused too y know Altho admittedly I'll be more ready for argy-bargy A well phrase comment inevitably gets a better result th Summat like... "Compensating for something, perhaps?" (much bette coming from a woman no doubt too - |
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