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Tedious Bickering
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19-12-2009 9:29pm#1
MOD NOTE: This thread contains all the pathetically argumentative dross which is moved from other threads by mods on the grounds that it's too stupid, off-topic and/or childish even for the Brooomwagon. It's intended to be a cooling-off zone for silly arguments, but on rare occasions something interesting may happen. If you're offended by a post on this thread, please think twice about reporting it - the fact that it's here at all indicates its supreme lack of worth.a few years ago 4 or 5? I was on N11 slip rd, and some absolute loon job, after having a heated 'discussion' on the incident, reversed back up the slip road, stopped, reved the engine like he'd seen too many movies and then dropped the hand brake and sped towards me! I got off the bike and up onto a grass verge and over a concrete railing, he probably wasnt trying to run me over literally, but it scared the shit out of me thats for sure.
The Lesson: asshats are asshats and confronting them just isnt worth it, most dont think, and comfronting them just isn't worth it. you'll end up takling to the wall anyway and more pissed of with them not listening to them.
Much better to just use the adrennaline coursing through your legs to get in some high quality training sprints or burning the touch paper efforts, screaming while doing so is optional
If you run all your doing is encouraging them to keep up their act, I had a similar incident a few years ago (off the bike) when some local tough guys tought they were hard and reversed up a one way street all coked up to attack a friend of mine who had thrown chips at their car after they had jokingly tried to run him over; unaware that I was about 20yards behind after being distracted by a nice dog, well those coked up losers were soundly trounced and had a trip to casualty.
Recently I took it upon myself to chase down a van which had done the usual trick of trying to push me into the kerb, wel he wasn't so tough at the lights when I was banging on his window as he looked blankly forward with a very pale face.
The Lesson: people feel very safe in their metal boxes however their balls often shrink once they realise how thin the metal is and how weak the glass is0
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brianthebard wrote: »Was approaching a roundabout and knowing that the road would split into two lanes I pulled in somewhat to allow cars behind to pass. Sure enough one did, then just as I was almost at the line a van pulled around me and nearly pushed me off the road. I slapped the van to let him know I existed, but he was not happy about this fact. He wound down the window and started yelling at me, so I bet a hasty retreat across the footpath and junction to the left onto the cycle lane (the next junction is to the hospital, its not busy...anyways not the best thing to do but I wanted to get away). While I was doing that he had sped up and pulled in ahead of me, and started yelling at me again. I told him (well shouted back, I wasn't going near the van) that he nearly knocked me off, him shouting back that he didn't, blah blah. When he started to get out I legged it, luckily he didn't follow me further.
The thing that really annoyed me was that either way I was in a bad situation, I'm sure I would've run into him or been run into if I hadn't hit the van, but either way I still got a run in. The fact that he pulled in up the road to yell at me, getting in the way of other traffic, confirmed to me what a giant asshat he was.
The other annoying thing is I went closer to the footpath to be polite to other road users and as reward this happened. From now on I'm sticking to the middle of the lane and I don't care how slow I may appear to drivers.
So that was my friday!
Similar thing happened to me one morning. Was cycling over a bridge in Santry,pretty steep one. There was a lot of traffic building up so I decided to move on up to the footpath. All the cars were stopped and there was a corner up ahead,in the corner of my eye I see this car go straight up onto the footpath beside me .nearly knocking me off. So I proceeded to bang the window with my elbow,car slams on the breaks and winds down the window,I couldn`t really hear what he said but it had the word fcuking twat in there somewhere. He came up behind and reved at me a bit before turning,I just cycled on
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Mirror kickingThe name's Tim, whats yours, Joe?
Its quite a common theme actually - do a search yourself on "mirror kicking", "ulocks as a weapon" "smashy smash" posts as well as the predictable posts of vigilantism a la the "nutter".
Only one post in the top ten from cycling (and its you)
ulocks weapon
One match (quess whoTimAllen)
smashy smash
Only 2 in cycling (and one is ..........TimAllen)0 -
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I think you need to learn the difference between narrow and broad searches.Mirror kicking
Only one post in the top ten from cycling (and its you)
ulocks weapon
One match (quess whoTimAllen)
smashy smash
Only 2 in cycling (and one is ..........TimAllen)
Narrow searches could be considered narrow minded;)0 -
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