A girl I work with lives in Blanchardstown, she drives daily to Summerhill in her car. Why t f?
What’s wrong with a modest hatch back?
She’s unmarried and no kids. What the f does she need it for?
I'm 6'4 .im not a giant but the smaller cars are a squeeze.
American cars with american highways required.Problem solved
Not really true, my Mini has better leg room than either of the (full size) SUVs I’ve owned.
Start of the year and another one of those threads that makes you question the intelligence in this country. Why is that person doing something, because I don't think they should......Away to North Korea with ya.
Fwiw, I drive a fairly big car. I wouldn't be without it. I've had two morons drive into the back of me in the past couple of years. Glad I wasn't in a leaf or similar. When I change, I'm going bigger, fancy one of them pickup trucks. The feel of a bit more height and safety on the road is priority. Also because I'm done with the bats#t crazy path of this country. The country is in bits. I certainly won't be following any environmental net zero agenda that some hypocritical lefty politician or has dreamt up..
Yes but you need to read the post I quoted for full context - they seem to think that people need (or should need) some sort of special permission to drive large cars.
You should be allowed to drive any car that's road legal
you are allowed drive any car that's road legal. that's the very definition of what road legal means!
it's like saying 'anything that isn't a crime should be legal'.
From having been in an accident. Potentially caused by not having my full range of hearing available.
I see you don't want to discuss this anymore. We can agree on that.
You should be allowed to drive any car that's road legal, you will be taxed much more through motor tax and fuel taxes but you are still allowed. Driving any kind of car is in fact an indulgence, it's just that some indulgences are larger than others, that's all - no excuses needed.
You've a bit of a victim complex. Your posts show as much, I cycle, cycle quite a bit in fact.
In my world? I drive. I cycle. I walk. I'm forced to share the same world as you, so maybe stop being so childish.
To answer your question, of course cyclists can be responsible for a collision. That still does not negate my point that you were deliberately attempting to victim blame. Your other anti-cycling posts on here would back up that assertion.
Now should we get back on topic?
In your world, can a cyclist just have an accident and be responsible for it at all.?
How would your arm have gotten broken and your bike twisted from wearing headphones? It's a disingenuous argument based on the premise that the person cycling is at fault for the collision when in fact it is more likely that the perskn on the bike was hit and the headphones had nothing to do with it, nor woukd their absence have made any difference to the event.
Anyhow, this disingenuous crap is dragging us off the topic of the increase in larger vehicles making the roads less safe
Is this a real argument or a pi$$ take?
If I came home with a broken arm and twisted bicycle and wearing earphones me Ma would break me other arm, for me being so stupid.
Or a car driver etc, only a complete clueless moron would wear them driving or cycling on public roads or cycling lanes.
I've read them perfectly, can you explain the reference to victim blaming and left hooking, I'm a bit baffled by the post
You are clearly having difficulties reading my posts or you just havent an actual answer now that you're being called out on it. So to back up your claim that they are moronic for wearing headphones, can you give an example of what might happen to a cyclist wearing headphones that makes them moronic?
You've written about victim blaming and cars left hooking(whatever that is). Have you cycled with headphones or earphones in?
I haven't brought up a situation that happened me. I'm asking to explain your claim that they are morons and to give an example where they are morons for wearing them. Can you really not back up your claim with a specific example ?
What are you on about, are you bringing up situation that happened to you. Wearing earphones while on a public road or bicycle lane is moronic and if you've any common sense you wouldn't need someone to explain why.
You still haven't given an example as to why someone would be moronic to wear headphones while cycling on a road. What might happen in your view that makes them a moron?
I ask because I'm assuming from your posts that you are simply victim blaming. I believe that in your view, the cyclist is a moron because the driver left hooked them or close passed them (both of which are pretty much out if the cyclists control, headphones or not)
He said tall people "require" SUVs, which is bollocks. Regardless, your BMX example is just as dumb, considering the tiny amount of public space the average bike takes up, whether it's a mountain bike, a racer or a BMX. It's like the childish "they should pay road tax because I have to pay motor tax" nonsense that you hear from the sort of weird, self-defeating middle-aged idiots who are too lacking to have considered the consequences of having fewer bikes on already overcrowded roads.
I'll put it really simply for you (because I think that's highly necessary in this instance). Fewer bikes would inevitably mean even more cars. I haven't been on a bike in years, and have no interest in ever getting one, but even I can recognise that they are freeing up space on the roads. They are, like it or not, making the world a better place. Unlike SUVs, which are doing the exact opposite.
with respect, this seems like a bit of an obsession. You and SUVs.
SUVs are not going to be ninjad out of existence. They sell in record numbers. For many of us they are practical.
People working in sales or other jobs requiring the transport of non easily conveyable items but who don’t require a van, people who use mobility aids - walking frames & wheelchairs… people with big families etc. all find SUVs practical… as do many more people. I know several people in all the above mentioned criteria.. one example….my cousins husband installs CCTV and alarms, he has a company Santa Fe which he can keep at home, does the school runs, dance class runs, sports team runs, shopping trips, miscellaneous excursions and of course his work, all in that vehicle.
Your last comment about SUV drivers also doesn’t hold water, you said ‘Also other drivers are more careful around buses too, less likely assume the space behind a bus is unoccupied’…. That statement there you made is an incredibly lackadaisical sweeping statement, presented by you.. as fact, but unfortunately for you as with pretty much all of your anti SUV / anti SUV driver rhetoric is not factual, unless you can back it up ? 🧐
You scoffed at and rudely dismissed another poster who said he wanted an suv as he is a taller gentleman.
If you want to force tall people to drive small cars, then I think it's only fair to force everyone to drive small vehicles. Including cyclists. They don't need mountain bikes or racers. A bmx is sufficient for most.
Nothing miserable about driving a sensible-sized car that fulfils most people's needs. Unless they have 4-wheel-drive (which most laughably don't), and you need that for whatever practical reason, SUVs benefit nobody. They just get in everyone else's way, as the idiots who waste money on them try, usually unsuccessfully, to navigate their way around the place. And your BMX example might have sounded clever in your own head, but it makes about as much sense as I'd expect it to make. like SUVs, most cyclists don't have any reason to use a BMX. Although at least a BMX is actually built for off-road use, so there's that, I suppose.
I'd like to point out that I also cycle.
Well if you've never used them you wouldn't know. Think about it though, it's the same reason most if not all, construction workplaces,workshops, don't allow their use or the use of ear defenders with radios.
Presumably they consider it fashionable. Majority of such plates I see are on brand new or nearly new cars driven by the antithesis of the boy racer cohort. I’d be far more concerned with the amount of cars with bald tyres and one eyed monsters, but each to their own
If motorists are forced into driving tiny misery boxes, all cyclists should be made cycle bmx's. I think thats only fair.
This is one of the worst excuses. I'd nearly have more respect for people who (quite wrongly) think you should be allowed to drive whatever you want, wherever you want, than people who make silly excuses for their obnoxious choices. It's not a requirement; it's an indulgence.
It's not just earphones.
I gave up using my 120db Hornit electric horn on the bike when I found many drivers not hearing it, when just a few cms from their ear.
