Idiot alert... James Martin

ryan_sherlock

Just read this article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1211917/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Tesla-Roadster-electric-supercar-thats-fast-Ferrari.html

I'm speechless. Seen a few of those cars when I was in California and they are cool but what sort of guy is this? Willfully endangering other road users and then writing about it in a national paper...

CheGuedara

God, I hate those cyclists. Every last herbal tea-drinking, Harriet Harman-voting one of them.... Knowing they wouldn't hear me coming, I stepped on the gas, waited until the split second before I overtook them, then gave them an almighty blast on the horn at the exact same time I passed them at speed.
The look of sheer terror as they tottered into the hedge was the best thing I've ever seen in my rear-view mirror.

What. A. D!ck.

Captain Havoc

I spat out my herbal tea when i read it. I also bet a cyclist has never rapped on his window to make a holier than thou comment. I don't know any cyclist who would be so stupid.

zzzzzzzz

I think twiggo said it best:

@bradleywiggins wrote:

Meal suggestion for this Saturday Kitchen for James Martin, Spotted DICK!

Lumen

Top tip: don't read the Mail. Ever.

ryan_sherlock

Lumen wrote: »

Top tip: don't read the Mail. Ever.

Or watch TV

markpb

Unfortunately there are sufficient idiots like him for the EU to mandate that all pure electric cars have a noise maker attached so people can hear them coming. His fun, assuming he wasn't just being silly, will be short lived

Boosterseat

So its the the writer and not the car which has the toxic emmisions.

blorg

Following on from Wiggins, Robbie McEwan has appealed on Twitter for hackers to "fúck up" Martin's website and well, it seems to be down...

Robbie McEwan wrote:

website of cyclist hater James Martin. Anyone with computer skills feel free to **** it up! otherwise, leave him nasty messages in geust ...

Captain Havoc

I think he's got hate mail now and due to the efforts of Twiggo and McEwan there'll probably be some form of apology coming. Cyclists 1 Idiots 0

kincsem

I sent a message to FEEDBACK at the Mail Online saying his article was "not amusing" and his driving "dangerous".

I'm doing my bit to speed his retirement.

gaffmaster

The only thing more sad than being Jeremy Clarkson is wanting to be Jeremy Clarkson.

DirkVoodoo

I watched the documentary where he entered the Mille Miglia and he came across as a complete tool. Suddenly he thinks he is Jeremy Clarkson and decides to start imitating his journalistic style. I don't mind when Clarkson has a rant, at least he can write. Stick to chopping carrots please James.

Ant

I'd say any feed-back (positive or negative) sent to the Daily Mail would only encourage them to produce more of this kind of rubbish. They thrive on being prejudiced - the more gratuitous, irrational, and unsubstantiated the prejudice, the better.

Blazer

Well I've met some serious assholes on bikes who seem to think that they have right of way over me when I'm on a roundabout...I even had one dickhead pull out in front me causing me to swerve around me...needless to say the little fcuk didn't do it again..
I've nothing against cyclists (i'm one myself) but if some dickhead was rapping on my window giving out about my car and my carbon footprint (which is 3 times lower than the Irish average) I'd personally do the same...just for the laugh mind you
When I'm cycling I don't go around rapping on car windows/leaning on their bonnets etc and I'd expect the same courtesy back from cyclists when I'm in the car.
But it's a sad fact basically that they are assholes everywhere be it on foot/car/bike etc..

Bunnyhopper

Berkut wrote: »

I'd personally do the same...just for the laugh mind you

Yeah, because dangerous driving is so much less dangerous if it's funny... :rolleyes:

Courtesy, as you say, works both ways.

DirkVoodoo

Berkut wrote: »

Well I've met some serious assholes on bikes who seem to think that they have right of way over me when I'm on a roundabout...I even had one dickhead pull out in front me causing me to swerve around me...needless to say the little fcuk didn't do it again...

Thanks for sharing. Of course, without all the facts we don't know what happened, e.g. speeding (must have been going some ould whack to swerve on a roundabout). I wonder why he didn't do it again.

The difference is, you don't write a column for a big (large, not good) newspaper making a joke out of dangerous driving.

Bunnyhopper

Ant wrote: »

I'd say any feed-back (positive or negative) sent to the Daily Mail would only encourage them to produce more of this kind of rubbish. They thrive on being prejudiced - the more gratuitous, irrational, and unsubstantiated the prejudice, the better.

And most of those cyclists are probably illegal immigrants anyway

CheGuedara

Berkut wrote: »

Well I've met some serious assholes on bikes who seem to think that they have right of way over me when I'm on a roundabout...I even had one dickhead pull out in front me causing me to swerve around me...needless to say the little fcuk didn't do it again..
I've nothing against cyclists (i'm one myself) but if some dickhead was rapping on my window giving out about my car and my carbon footprint (which is 3 times lower than the Irish average) I'd personally do the same...just for the laugh mind you

Got that feeling?

redmenace1

another reason not to like Daily Mail, thanks for sharing.
Whoever James Martin is, I wish him well in his descent to hell:P

velo.2010

Didnt he start out on Ready, Steady, Cook or something like Live Lunch!

kenmc

Berkut wrote: »

causing me to swerve around me

Clearly the world revolves around you.

stabu

error ... pls move on.

Blazer

kenmc wrote: »

Clearly the world revolves around you.

damn right it does

Blazer

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Thanks for sharing. Of course, without all the facts we don't know what happened, e.g. speeding (must have been going some ould whack to swerve on a roundabout). I wonder why he didn't do it again.

.

Nah...i was only doing 20 mph on the roundabout..he decided that he couldn't be bothered stopping where he was supposed to and cycled in front of me...hence I had to swerve around him..then he stopped in the middle of the roundabout shaking his fist and cursing at me

DirkVoodoo

Berkut wrote: »

Nah...i was only doing 20 mph on the roundabout..he decided that he couldn't be bothered stopping where he was supposed to and cycled in front of me...hence I had to swerve around him..then he stopped in the middle of the roundabout shaking his fist and cursing at me

Well, see I'm not excusing anyones behavior here. Bad cycling or bad driving are two sides of the same coin, but the reason that James Martin has caused such outrage with cyclists is because he wrote an article publicising his dangerous driving and pretty much relishing his recklesness. Now, if the cyclist had happened to be Ray Darcy and went on the radio the following morning, laughing at how he rode carefree into a roundabout and nearly caused a crash, I would be equally outraged.

Frankly, I hope Martin receives plenty of grief over this. In fact, if I was one of those cyclists and I remember some fat fool in a very rare electric roadster driving dangerously, then happen to read this article, I would report him for dangerous driving.

Nietzschean

http://twitpic.com/hpur0

ryan_sherlock

Berkut wrote: »

Well I've met some serious assholes on bikes who seem to think that they have right of way over me when I'm on a roundabout...I even had one dickhead pull out in front me causing me to swerve around me...needless to say the little fcuk didn't do it again..
I've nothing against cyclists (i'm one myself) but if some dickhead was rapping on my window giving out about my car and my carbon footprint (which is 3 times lower than the Irish average) I'd personally do the same...just for the laugh mind you
...
But it's a sad fact basically that they are assholes everywhere be it on foot/car/bike etc..

The problem is, that the asshole in the car is in a two tonne lethal weapon. A guy wrapping on a door or car window about something, although annoying, will hardly kill anyone. (I know some cyclists riding on the road could cause an accident, but that is not what we are talking about here)

Traffic offense punishment should be linked to the girth of your vehicle?

CheGuedara

Nietzschean wrote: »

http://twitpic.com/hpur0

LEGENDARY!

DirkVoodoo

ryan_sherlock wrote: »

Traffic offense punishment should be linked to the girth of your vehicle?

Then sign me up for the death penalty...gigitty gigitty.

blorg

Berkut wrote: »

Nah...i was only doing 20 mph on the roundabout..he decided that he couldn't be bothered stopping where he was supposed to and cycled in front of me...hence I had to swerve around him..then he stopped in the middle of the roundabout shaking his fist and cursing at me

@Berkut- I am presuming this cyclist was entering the roundabout and you were already on it proceeding around past his junction? If so, bad cyclist.

There is a bit of a problem though generalising from your experience of one bad cyclist whether on a roundabout or rapping on your window to thinking that it is now OK to go around deliberately injuring other cyclists with your car (having come off into a few hedges in my time I can assure you there are injuries.)

This sort of attitude towards an identifiable group is of course the root of racism, anti-Semitism, etc... but it is somehow considered acceptable to foster this "us" and "them" mentality on the roads and laugh about directing violence at bloody cyclists.

Mentally replace "cyclist" in any of these rants with "black person", "Jew", etc. and consider how acceptable such an article now is... I guess the Mail can't advocate violence against these groups any more so the cyclists get it instead.

Blazer

blorg wrote: »

@Berkut- I am presuming this cyclist was entering the roundabout and you were already on it proceeding around past his junction? If so, bad cyclist.

There is a bit of a problem though generalising from your experience of one bad cyclist whether on a roundabout or rapping on your window to thinking that it is now OK to go around deliberately injuring other cyclists with your car (having come off into a few hedges in my time I can assure you there are injuries.)

This sort of attitude towards an identifiable group is of course the root of racism, anti-Semitism, etc... but it is somehow considered acceptable to foster this "us" and "them" mentality on the roads and laugh about directing violence at bloody cyclists.

Mentally replace "cyclist" in any of these rants with "black person", "Jew", etc. and consider how acceptable such an article now is... I guess the Mail can't advocate violence against these groups any more so the cyclists get it instead.

christ..i don't think the jews have as much of a persecution complex as you

Lumen

crashoveroid

Just in case it has not been posted yet http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Finbarrs-Cycling-Club/124680631929?ref=mf#/group.php?gid=31768344319&ref=mf

RobFowl

http://www.thefredcast.com/?p=904

Tesla's response (Tesla’s Senior Communications Manager)

Lumen

RobFowl wrote: »

http://www.thefredcast.com/?p=904

Tesla's response (Tesla’s Senior Communications Manager)

Jesus, get to the point people. F'ing podcasters. Skip the first 6 minutes. Actually, the whole thing is a bit will-destroying.

James Martin isn't even right about the car - the Tesla isn't particularly fast (0-100mph in over 12 seconds compared to sub 9s for the old entry-level F430), so it can't really "go head-to-head with any Ferrari" in any meaningful way. At least Clarkson writes well and is somewhat knowledgable about cars.

Harrybelafonte

Martin doesn't have a clue about cars. I watched him buy that beautiful Maserati to race in the Mille Miglia and his attitude, knowledge and manners were f'cking cringeworthy. He was a knob from start to finish.

Jip

But whenever I drive to London, dutifully paying my £8 for the privilege (on top of my road tax, petrol tax, parking and all the other rip-offs)

This argument gets me everytime, do morons like him think that no cyclist owns a car or something ? We pay car tax on two cars at home which probably gives me twice the right to be on the road than alot of these narrow minded morons.

Captain Havoc

I would just like to take this moment to share with you my love of Bradley Wiggins.
His Tweets:
bradwigginsand http://is.gd/3gqit
bradwigginsand just in case anyone missed it http://bit.ly/1I1iBD
bradwigginsHey James Martin, How about COCK au vin this Saturday
bradwigginsEveryone check out on the web what JAMES MARTIN, TV chef thinks about the thousands of cyclists that enjoy riding bikes around the lanes
bradwigginsMeal suggestion for this Saturday Kitchen for James Martin, Spotted DICK!
bradwigginsGive me Something For The Weekend anyday, Chef Simon top fella!
bradwigginsJames Martin TV chef, The word cock springs to mind, stick to Ready Steady Twat mate

km991148

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Martin doesn't have a clue about cars. I watched him buy that beautiful Maserati to race in the Mille Miglia and his attitude, knowledge and manners were f'cking cringeworthy. He was a knob from start to finish.

yeah, seen that as well, started out ok, then during it I was hoping he'd be put out, and when he was I couldnt help but smile..

Also, check out the previous edits on wikipedia (the register has some here).

RobFowl

Result

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/397229/tv-chef-martin-makes-apology-for-anti-cyclist-article.html

James Martin has made a public apology for comments he made against cyclists in an article in the Mail on Sunday.

Lumen

He's obviously been consulting his PR bunny and decided to back down for appearances sake. What a loser.

I would have had more respect for him if he'd stuck to his guns. We should get Gordon Ramsay and TimAllen to hunt him down and insert a new spine, medieval style.

kincsem

kincsem wrote: »

I sent a message to FEEDBACK at the Mail Online saying his article was "not amusing" and his driving "dangerous".
I'm doing my bit to speed his retirement.

He is still trying to mend fences.


Peter.Wright@mailonsunday.co.uk; on behalf of; tmos.editor@mailonsunday.co.uk
Fri 18/09/2009 13:58

Thank you very much for your email about last week's James Martin column.
I would like to assure you that it was not James Martin's intention to offend any cyclist, or to condone any form of reckless driving.
This article was intended to be humorous, but was clearly misjudged and both he and I, on behalf of The Mail on Sunday, apologise for any offence we may have caused you.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Wright
Editor
The Mail on Sunday
_____________________________________
Northcliffe House
2 Derry Street
London, W8 5TS

Zipp101

And I bet he felt really clever wring that article

humbert

His biggest problem is that he cant write for ****. Also, "furthermore" is one word.

cyclopath2001

RobFowl wrote: »

James Martin has made a public apology for comments he made against cyclists in an article in the Mail on Sunday.

That's not an apology. It's just spin.

Maybe he thinks he's Clarkson?

niceonetom

I hate those "for any offence" weasel apologies. He is a oafish, boorish dick isn't he...

I content myself with the idea that he'll probably be buying wing mirrors much more often than your average motorist if he spends a lot of time driving in urban areas.