Should we make people pass a cycling/motorcycle test before a drivingtest?

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!


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ComandanteBanana wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

How about needing to pass a test and get licensed to post to Usenet?

Simply some people should not be driving!

Simply, some people should not be posting to Usenet.

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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the precipitate.

In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
ComandanteBanana wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

How about needing to pass a test and get licensed to post to Usenet?

Simply some people should not be driving!

Simply, some people should not be posting to Usenet.

Au contraire, mon frere! The freedoms we have left
/must/ be kept open. As wuzzhisname once paraphrasedly
said: "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it."

That's what makes our Western culture so much more
progressive than those Old World cultures that get
a collective hair up their collective ass about
newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammet, and books by
Salman Rushdie et al.

So I see Banana Boy is now resorting to the ancient,
wearisome, cyclists-should-be-licensed argument.
That car-drivers' anti-bicycle canard is over a
century old. You'd think people would get a clue
by now.

At least we're free to rebut.

Without getting decapitated. Just investigated ;-)

And that's what's better about Western/New World society.


cheers,
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
ComandanteBanana wrote:

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

I've been riding bicycles since I was about 4 and motorcycles since I
was about 10, but I keep crashing my car into other cars because it
won't fit through gaps - I reckon I should drive trucks for a while.

On Oct 10, 4:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Yeah and? You are stating the obvious...tha's why the unwashed masses
wont go for it.

Simply some people should not be driving!

Thankyou Cpt. Obvious.

On Oct 10, 8:43*pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:
In article ,
* * * * Tom Sherman writes:

ComandanteBanana wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

How about needing to pass a test and get licensed to post to Usenet?

Simply some people should not be driving!

Simply, some people should not be posting to Usenet.

Au contraire, mon frere! *The freedoms we have left
/must/ be kept open. *As wuzzhisname once paraphrasedly
said: "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it."

That's what makes our Western culture so much more
progressive than those Old World cultures that get
a collective hair up their collective ass about
newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammet, and books by
Salman Rushdie et al.

So I see Banana Boy is now resorting to the ancient,
wearisome, cyclists-should-be-licensed argument.
That car-drivers' anti-bicycle canard is over a
century old. *You'd think people would get a clue
by now.

Uh you obviously FAILED at both critical reading and thinking. He said
if you can't ride a bicycle(pushbike in barbarian lands) or ride a
motorcycle you shouldn't be aloud to drive anything at all...not a bad
idea too bad I thought of it back when I started riding back in '76.

At least we're free to rebut.

Without getting decapitated. *Just investigated *;-)

Water boarded, violated (just searching for contraband comrad)

And that's what's better about Western/New World society.

I thought it was the beer and single malt whiskeys. mmm, single malt,
mmm hic.
--
Keith

In article ,
"S'mee" writes:

Uh you obviously FAILED at both critical reading and thinking. He said
if you can't ride a bicycle(pushbike in barbarian lands) or ride a
motorcycle you shouldn't be aloud to drive anything at all...not a bad
^^^^^

Go back to bed.

idea too bad I thought of it back when I started riding back in '76.

Good for you.

At least we're free to rebut.

Without getting decapitated. *Just investigated *;-)
Water boarded, violated (just searching for contraband comrad)
And that's what's better about Western/New World society.
I thought it was the beer and single malt whiskeys. mmm, single malt,
mmm hic.

Go back to bed.

Maybe have a tomato juice in the morning.


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Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
ComandanteBanana wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

How about needing to pass a test and get licensed to post to Usenet?

Simply some people should not be driving!

Simply, some people should not be posting to Usenet.

Au contraire, mon frere! The freedoms we have left
/must/ be kept open. As wuzzhisname once paraphrasedly
said: "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it."
[...]

This was a hint, not an advocation for newsgroup moderation.

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Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the precipitate.

wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
ComandanteBanana wrote:

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

I've been riding bicycles since I was about 4 and motorcycles since I
was about 10, but I keep crashing my car into other cars because it
won't fit through gaps - I reckon I should drive trucks for a while.



LOL....Thats the attitude! More speed before the gaps helps......

In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:

Simply, some people should not be posting to Usenet.

Au contraire, mon frere! The freedoms we have left
/must/ be kept open. As wuzzhisname once paraphrasedly
said: "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it."
[...]

This was a hint, not an advocation for newsgroup moderation.

No, that was more than a hint. I'm pretty tired of
his blather too. But y'know what? He's like those
stoopid false teeth things that ya wind up, and they
chatter across a tabletop for a while, and it's
supposed to be amusing, but it isn't because it's
so old. That's what CommandanteBanana _is_. That's
/all/ he is, and all he ever will be -- an annoying
kibbitzer with nothing meaningful or useful to say.

Annoying houseflies you can swat. But annoying
kibbitzers? shrug The only way to get rid of them
is to direct them toward something else they can pester
even worse.


cheers,
Tom

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