Fallen off ? It must be someone else's fault.

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word) and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects of cyclist
stupidity. What next? Cushions all over the beach? I feel a Compo.
claim on the way ?

http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/rai...ail/story.html

"Mrcheerful" wrote

I feel a Compo. claim on the way

You eat some strange things. Most people go to the toilet quietly without
making online announcements about it.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word)

What's your point, little englander?

Would you swim in a puddle on the Strand?

(Cycling is permitted on all of the various parts of the road network that the good burghers,
hopeful of a boost to the tourist trade, have called a "promenade".)

Andre Jute

"TMS320" wrote in message ...


"Mrcheerful" wrote

I feel a Compo. claim on the way

You eat some strange things. Most people go to the toilet quietly without
making online announcements about it.


??????????

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word) and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects of cyclist
stupidity. What next? Cushions all over the beach? I feel a Compo.
claim on the way ?

http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/rai...uffers-horror-
injuries-beach/story-21962862-detail/story.html

Now she and partner Darren Parker, of Selsea Avenue, Herne Bay, are
calling for railings to be installed to prevent other people being hurt.

Installing railings will NOT prevent other people getting hurt.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:33:25 +0100, Tarcap wrote:

"TMS320" wrote in message ...


"Mrcheerful" wrote

I feel a Compo. claim on the way

You eat some strange things. Most people go to the toilet quietly
without making online announcements about it.


??????????

You go to the toilet noisily?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:56:12 -0300, Bret Cahil wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word)

Red herring (as noted by others)

and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects

Why not? The taxes we all pay already go to the same sort of road-safety improvements; if a
particulary dangerous place is identified, why should that part of the road network not get the
attention it so clearly deserves?


Cyclists are sponging freeloaders who don't pay road tax - why should any of that money be spent on
them?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:00:49 -0300, Mrcheerful wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:56:12 -0300, Bret Cahil wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word)

Red herring (as noted by others)

and
demands that railings be put up to reduce the effects

Why not? The taxes we all pay already go to the same sort of road-safety improvements; if a
particulary dangerous place is identified, why should that part of the road network not get the
attention it so clearly deserves?


Cyclists are sponging freeloaders who don't pay road tax - why should any of that money be spent on
them?

"Road Tax" (as you call it - the correct term is Vehicle Excise Duty) has nothing to do with roads;
it is instead a voluntary payment that a car driver chooses to make, which goes into the general
coffers.

And as cyclists in the UK have a higher-than-average median income they pay more taxes than average.

On 29/07/2014 08:59, TMS320 wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote

I feel a Compo. claim on the way

You eat some strange things. Most people go to the toilet quietly without
making online announcements about it.




Psycholists have some weird thought processes.

On 29/07/2014 09:42, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:25:06 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

Cyclist falls off while riding along a promenade (note the word)

What's your point, little englander?

Would you swim in a puddle on the Strand?

(Cycling is permitted on all of the various parts of the road network that the good burghers,
hopeful of a boost to the tourist trade, have called a "promenade".)

Andre Jute


At least the cyclist didn't nearly kill someone else, such as in this story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07...n_5623610.html