God moves in mysterious ways

Jim Newman wrote:
Mrcheerful wrote:
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

What is it with usenet that turns people from knowledgeable, helpful
members on some groups (DIY, car maintenance) into total
embarrassments for the human race on this one?

Mr C, the fact that you can the above in any way humourus would be
shocking for people who know you from the other group.

in what way does my post make it humorous? It is just an astonishingly
unusual way to go involving a UK cyclist. I often see cyclists carry out
some of the maddest, most dangerous manouevres on roundabouts, I recently
came across a cyclist going the wrong way around a large roundabout, and I
have little doubt that in this case the cyclist was at least in part
responsible for her own demise: so God moves in mysterious ways.

Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp

I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.

I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about the
cyclist.

Mrcheerful wrote:
Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp
I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.

I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about the
cyclist.


You know what you wrote. We know what you wrote.
We know what you are, and I suspect you do too.

--
Roger Thorpe

Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC.....

"Roger Thorpe" wrote in message
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Mrcheerful wrote:
Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp
I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.

I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about the
cyclist.
You know what you wrote. We know what you wrote.
We know what you are, and I suspect you do too.

--
Roger Thorpe

Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC.....

do people get similarly enraged by programmes such as : "1001 ways to die" ?
Which details strange ways to die and will probably get to this incident
eventually.

I made no jokes about her job getting on top of her, or the pressures of the
office, or getting canned.

Mrcheerful wrote:
"Roger Thorpe" wrote in message
news:FmNbo.109274$y_2.102902@hurricane...
Mrcheerful wrote:
Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp
I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.
I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about the
cyclist.
You know what you wrote. We know what you wrote.
We know what you are, and I suspect you do too.

--
Roger Thorpe

Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC.....

do people get similarly enraged by programmes such as : "1001 ways to die" ?
Which details strange ways to die and will probably get to this incident
eventually.

I made no jokes about her job getting on top of her, or the pressures of the
office, or getting canned.


I think that it's quite possible to find the Darwin awards funny so long
as you don't think about it too much and lack empathy.
What you have done here, in addition to displaying the lack of empathy
or insight required to be a functioning human being, is to view all
cyclists as an homogeneous single group, with the fate of one being the
consequence of the 'sins' of the others. This kind of thinking leads you
to a very bad place indeed.

Oh and by the way, you can stick your god up your arse.

--
Roger Thorpe

Standing on a golf course, dressed in PVC.....

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:58:54 +0100, Roger Thorpe
wrote:

I think that it's quite possible to find the Darwin awards funny so long
as you don't think about it too much and lack empathy.
What you have done here, in addition to displaying the lack of empathy
or insight required to be a functioning human being, is to view all
cyclists as an homogeneous single group, with the fate of one being the
consequence of the 'sins' of the others. This kind of thinking leads you
to a very bad place indeed.

I think it's simpler than that. He is setting out to be deliberately
offensive in the hope that instead of simply laughing at his pointless
idiocy, he will make people angry.

I doubt if he would actually delight in the death of another human
being, though some people (e.g. Mike Vandeman) genuinely do seem to be
that deranged. Making use of tragic deaths to further an agenda is
not, alas, at all rare - it's a staple of groups like Headway and
BeHIT's campaigning and a cynical exploitation of the public's
susceptibility to the fallacy of misleading vividness. If people who
did this were able to get past the cognitive dissonance I suspect they
would be genuinely horrified at what they had done.

Guy
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"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
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Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp

I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.

I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about the
cyclist.

You expressed the opinion that it was probably her fault whilst in
possession of no evidence - that's offensive.

Budstaff wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:2kLbo.38511$qQ6.22039@hurricane...
Simon Mason wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
news:KBzbo.38132$qQ6.15222@hurricane...
you couldn't make it up: Container falls off truck onto cyclist

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ter.6486725.jp

I don't normally inhabit this nutjob infested place anymore, but I
knew that poor woman and this just shows what a nasty piece of pond
scum you are.

I merely reported it here, I did not make offensive comments about
the cyclist.

You expressed the opinion that it was probably her fault whilst in
possession of no evidence - that's offensive.

that was subsequently, and I may be correct.