cycling terminology

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...st-BANNED.html

OK, call me 'sir' or kumquat or 'hey you'. Whatever.
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Andrew Muzi
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:36:28 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rts-call-word-
cyclist-BANNED.html

Yawn, talk about dumb academic.
The probems started when certain radio shock jocks started abusing them.
Then it be came trendy on TV to promote violence against them.
How they are described has SFA to do with it.

It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!

On 3/30/2019 10:43 AM, Chalo wrote:
It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!


Welcome back! Missed you and your comments.

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 3/30/2019 11:43 AM, Chalo wrote:
It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!

Welcome back!


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- Frank Krygowski

Chalo wrote:
It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles"
as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in
my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!


He's back. That's gotta be a good sign.

Chalo wrote:
:It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

:And... howdy y'all!

Welcome back!

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On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 8:33:37 PM UTC, Radey Shouman wrote:

I'm saddened to discover that we need a euphemism.

I'm not so sure we do. Here's part of a post from me on another forum addressing the common sense objection to this entire "study". QUT is a jumped-up redbrick tech, and Monash is the second university in Melbourne.

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I just don't believe that in the QUT and Monash catchment areas they would in a small study* find even one person who would say in public that he considers cyclists "not completely human", never mind more than half the respondents. Common sense tells us that those questions were either incompetently structured or deliberately phrased to elicit some pre-determined newsworthy response, as is far too often the case in bicycle and much other "research", or the replies were "weighted" out of all relationship to reality. (It's virtually impossible, for instance, to find an unbiased helmet study. The one report I trust isn't from a sample but a simple head count of incidents and hospital admissions of cyclists-- in short, the full universe -- in New York over a period of seven years; you can't argue with a head count!)

*They would need a very expensive study of a structured sample around 3000 respondents, and I'd want to see their questions and their instructions to the interviewers.
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Andre Jute
Statistics are mainly common sense

On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 3:43:16 PM UTC, Chalo wrote:
It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!

Missed you, Chalo!

AJ

On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8:43:16 AM UTC-7, Chalo wrote:
It's funny to me that the professor calls for "people who ride bicycles" as a substitute term, because POB has been used as a mild pejorative in my world for quite a while.

And... howdy y'all!

Oh boy, another old new face to insult. I'm sure it won't take them long. Welcome back Carter.