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Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their
driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zbatt.jpg -- Simon Mason http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ |
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Simon Mason said the following on 12/04/2008 10:08:
Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zbatt.jpg Your highlighted bits say it all really! -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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Simon Mason wrote:
Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zbatt.jpg I've seen much worse. There was some idiot in our local rag whose pet hate was "people sticking to the 30mph speed limit and holding him up". Mind you, he also said his "130bhp Mondeo diesel" was the best car he'd ever had, so that showed what a connoisseur he was. |
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"Simon Mason" wrote in message . uk... Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. I heard a couple of radio interviews with him recently, and he came across as quite a miserable, bitter pillock to be honest. He spent large amounts of time in both cases whinging about how punk destroyed the market for the sensitive singer/songwriter like himself, and destroyed respect for such because none of the protagonists of punk had any knowledge or talent. This from the man behind 'Remember You're a Womble'... he should also be tied to a post and flogged with nettles for encouraging Katie Melua to record the appallingly emotional and scratchy cover of NRandy Newmans' 'I Think it's Going to Rain Today'. Rant over... Tim -- We got a thousand points of light | Greetings from Birmingham, UK For the homeless man | All about me: www.nervouscyclist.org We got a kinder, gentler, | Is your ISP pimping your data? Machine gun hand Neil Young | www.badphorm.co.uk |
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Simon Mason wrote:
Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zbatt.jpg Dunno. The only bit that specifically mentioned bikes was a complaint against something that I consider to be rude behaviour. Yes, I can manoeuvre my bike through static traffic to the front of the queue. But there are very few autos that I can out-accelerate. As a driver, I get annoyed when a cyclist butts in front of me like that. As a cyclist, I try not to do so to other drivers. (Do unto others...). I note that he didn't launch into a rant about how cyclists have no place on the road, giving a litany of asinine reasons. He's not, perhaps, the best driver on the road, but he's probably not the worst. |
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Jeff wrote:
Simon Mason wrote: Every week in our local rag a "star" is asked a series of questions on their driving experiences. Here wombling Mike Batt fits the "get out of my way" driver to a tee. http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zbatt.jpg Dunno. The only bit that specifically mentioned bikes was a complaint against something that I consider to be rude behaviour. Yes, I can manoeuvre my bike through static traffic to the front of the queue. But there are very few autos that I can out-accelerate. As a driver, I get annoyed when a cyclist butts in front of me like that. As a cyclist, I try not to do so to other drivers. (Do unto others...). There are a few points. Firstly most drivers will overtake a cyclist to get to the back of a queue knowing the cyclist will almost immediately have to filter past them. Second it is safer to start in front of a car rather than at the side. So if you have been filtering as is reasonable in a long queue it is safer to move in front of the lead car. If it is a short queue on a fast road I will wait in place. It is particularly good to be directly in front of a car as when accelerating fast at a traffic lights your foot might slip, chain break etc. I have been over the top at a major junction due to this happening. Now I make sure I pull away slower and safer. I note that he didn't launch into a rant about how cyclists have no place on the road, giving a litany of asinine reasons. He's not, perhaps, the best driver on the road, but he's probably not the worst. He did criticise punk, which probably offends the sensibilities of the mainly forty-something readers of this group. |
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