Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
- Thread starter teuchter
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Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It belongs here because it shows - again - that “cyclists should wear hiviz” etc is pointless. It makes fuck all difference.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Eh? One bellend drives into a hi viz truck and you conclude that hv makes fuck all difference?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
If they were texting or bookfacing, they deserve a lifetime ban.
There are cunts in all walks of life, and cunts using phones or updating their bookface status whilst driving are some of the worst cunts on the planet, and deserve appropriate punishment. But this isn't about cars, it's about cunts.
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Plastic Paddy
T & P
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That’s a different discussion altogether though- well worth having, but nothing to do with the supposed existential evils of the motorcar.
Individual cases of reckless or criminal driving behaviour out of a pool of tens of millions are as statistically relevant as individual cases of someone getting drunk in a pub and glassing someone suggesting that pub goers in this country are on the whole unstable dangerous thugs.
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Plastic Paddy
It's not worth having, to be fair. It's been done loads of times on here.
The only conclusion that's ever drawn from it is that cyclists are thicker than porridge.
T & P
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From the individual freedom point of view, some might argue that if a cyclist or motorcyclist doesn’t want to wear a helmet, ultimately they’re not risking other people’s lives- there’s a separate argument about unnecessary extra cost to our health service, but let’s park that for the time being.
But being inadequately equipped to be sufficiently seen at night will definitely affect other users if they end up crashing into a cyclist in ninja mode. Even if they get cleared of any wrongdoing, most people don’t enjoy being involved in a fatal collision, anymore than a train driver enjoys seeing a drunken person fall onto the rails right in front of them.
I don’t necessarily think hi vizs are a must in daytime. A few individual collisions every year out of hundreds of millions of combined journeys are simply inevitable. But just because no amount of safety precautions will ever reduce accidents to zero does not mean a reasonable degree of them will not prevent hundreds or thousands every year.
But being inadequately equipped to be sufficiently seen at night will definitely affect other users if they end up crashing into a cyclist in ninja mode. Even if they get cleared of any wrongdoing, most people don’t enjoy being involved in a fatal collision, anymore than a train driver enjoys seeing a drunken person fall onto the rails right in front of them.
I don’t necessarily think hi vizs are a must in daytime. A few individual collisions every year out of hundreds of millions of combined journeys are simply inevitable. But just because no amount of safety precautions will ever reduce accidents to zero does not mean a reasonable degree of them will not prevent hundreds or thousands every year.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
393 million guns in the US, 15,000 gun murders per year. 32 million cars in the UK, 1,500 road deaths per year.
It means that the a car in the hands of a regular dozy UK driver is as dangerous as a gun in the hands of a crazed american murderer.
Guns and cars aren't the problem - people are. According to you lot. Let's ban car drivers instead of cars. Then put them in prison anyway just to be safe.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
1.2 million accidents and 70 dead each year in the UK from electrical accidents.
DOWN WITH ELECTRICITY!
teuchter
je suis teuchter
With all car drivers in prison these numbers would be significantly reduced.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
With all cyclists in prison it would be ~zero, but where's the fun in that.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
But guns cars are the same thing. They're both made of things.Troll thread or not, and hatred of cars or not, please don’t tell me you are for a moment proposing that as a valid argument against them. Are you?
T & P
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With all pubs closed and all alcohol banned forever, thousands of people a year would be saved from booze-fuelled violent assaults and other crimes. What kind of selfish twat could object to that? Nobody needs to drink, far less so than drive in fact.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Next up, kitchen knives!
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Plastic Paddy
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Plastic Paddy
That e-scooters should be made legal - they are a good thing and by criminalising them you’re giving the police another opportunity to target young black men.
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Plastic Paddy
So they should be made legal for that reason alone, with no regard for any of the other issues around their use?
