How was your cycle commute?

[Orang Utan]

shit in my hat and apologise. OK.
shit in my hat and call me a cunt. Not OK.

True, but that doesn't justify escalation of unpleasantness.

 

[pissflaps]

True, but that doesn't justify escalation of unpleasantness.

i'd be curious to know what does...

 

[Orang Utan]

i'd be curious to know what does...

Not much. I don't enjoy conflict. I go out of my way to avoid it.

 

[pissflaps]

Not much. I don't enjoy conflict. I go out of my way to avoid it.

I think anyone that actively seeks out confrontation is possibly a sociopath. i do firmly believe that behavior that puts your life at risk should not go unanswered. We just differ when it comes to what that answer should be.

 

[Orang Utan]

I agree. I just don't think stepping up the conflict will make anyone change their behaviour.

 

[gentlegreen]

I reckon occasionally if we don't take it lying down (hence the increasing popularity of horns on bikes), it will impinge on their braincell - or the ones queuing up behind to do something similarly stupid.

 

[gentlegreen]

AS if by magic :-

Bus company response deleted after seeing it was confidential..

Seems positive enough though.

Apparently First Group use these methods :-

http://www.smith-system.com/home

To recap :-

 

[Orang Utan]

One good way to stay calm and safe is to get off the road and get a nature fix on your way home.
I took these on one of my routes:

excuse amateurishness. Just want to record what I see.
I can also get an art fix on the way home:

All this found in a concrete wilderness. I love London.

 

[gentlegreen]

I had a response from the local amphibian people.
It sounds like the reason I haven't been seeing frogs and toads in recent years is that they've been really good at rescuing them.
I haven't encountered much in the way of wildlife recently - hopefully I will now that it's getting lighter.

Oh yes, and it's apparently too dry for them to emerge.

 

[pissflaps]

fucking vandals. they want locking up!

 

[Orang Utan]

Those feathers on the chicken are real pigeon feathers. A real stroke of genius, I thought!

 

[gentlegreen]

Those feathers on the chicken are real pigeon feathers. A real stroke of genius, I thought!

And there's me thinking it was a pre-existing patch of flaking paint...

 

[Onket]

I agree. I just don't think stepping up the conflict will make anyone change their behaviour.

For the record- I think this is bollocks. Shouting at people & shining a bright light in their eyes or videoing them for the internet won't change much. But if someone's response to nearly killing you is to tell you to fuck off? They don't deserve wing mirrors.

Clearly it's not for everyone, but I think it's entirely fair and proportional.

 

[Orang Utan]

That is not logical thinking!

 

[pissflaps]

fair enough - then let us know what a proportional response in such a situation should be?

 

[joustmaster]

It also makes you feel loads better

 

[Orang Utan]

i dunno. have a word and then leave. Or do nothing. I usually make an angry gesture or shout summat but sometimes I just get on with it. What else is there to do? Get cops involved if they are near?
Some things you just have to shrug off. If I got angry at everyone who cut me up, I'd have a heart attack. It happens several times on every journey!

 

[Onket]

i dunno. have a word and then leave. Or do nothing. I usually make an angry gesture or shout summat but sometimes I just get on with it. What else is there to do? Get cops involved if they are near?
Some things you just have to shrug off. If I got angry at everyone who cut me up, I'd have a heart attack. It happens several times on every journey!

Come on, we're clearly not talking about every single time we get cut up.

As has already been quite specifically stated- it's people who nearly kill you & then tell you to fuck off as if it's your fault for simply being on the road.

 

[pissflaps]

^ that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Why can't you just shrug it off and move on? I don't get it. Don't stoop to their level!

 

[Orang Utan]

Tbh I don't really know what people are arguing here? That smashing a car up is a proportionate response to being endangered and then laughed at? If so, WTF? Have we never left the playground?

 

[gentlegreen]

The one thing I never manage to do is shout out the reg for the camera - I'm thankfully focussed on staying alive.
I also never hang around for a chat - life is just too short - and I'm often short of breath.
This guy seemed to want a chat, (second one on here) but it was enough to get it on camera ..



A shame we don't have Roadsafe in Bristol...

 

[_angel_]

I lubed mine recently - it's now perhaps too loose ...

Too much information.

 

[ddraig]

i got hit last week and whilst discussing with the driver in the bus lane there were coppers 2 lanes away that took no notice

 

[Private Storm]

I'd have difficulty shrugging it off if someone had nearly killed me.

 

[_angel_]

Tbh I don't really know what people are arguing here? That smashing a car up is a proportionate response to being endangered and then laughed at? If so, WTF? Have we never left the playground?

would say it was a pretty restrained one really.

 

[Orang Utan]

But it happens so often, I marvel how people's blood pressure doesn't explode

 

[Orang Utan]

I'd have difficulty shrugging it off if someone had nearly killed me.

But you have to.

 

[Onket]

I'd have difficulty shrugging it off if someone had nearly killed me.

Exactly. To suggest that people "just shrug it off and move on" is actually quite insulting.

 

[Onket]

But it happens so often, I marvel how people's blood pressure doesn't explode

How often are you knocked off your bike, nearly killed and then laughed at by the driver?