Author Topic: Southend Cycle Town - part 2  (Read 237411 times)

Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #500 on: 15 July, 2010, 08:53:22 pm »
Cabbie illegally parked in the cycle lane indicated me to cycle round him in the road, I indicated for him to get out of the bloody way!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/TPJqIOl63zk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/TPJqIOl63zk&rel=1</a>

Wowbagger

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #501 on: 16 July, 2010, 08:28:22 am »
It's a shame you didn't take his wing mirror with you.
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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #502 on: 16 July, 2010, 08:33:46 am »
Cabbie illegally parked in the cycle lane indicated me to cycle round him in the road, I indicated for him to get out of the bloody way!


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What a complete arse.  You should report him to the Hackney Carriage licencing office, then we'll see how serious the Council are about keeping the cycle lane clear.

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #503 on: 16 July, 2010, 11:44:07 am »
A section of the path will be closed on the 25th July.   I wonder how eastbound cyclists will negotiate crossing the road twice?

Seafront Cycle Path Closed 25th July &laquo;  Cycle Southend


Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #504 on: 16 July, 2010, 11:48:48 am »
Cabbie illegally parked in the cycle lane indicated me to cycle round him in the road, I indicated for him to get out of the bloody way!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/TPJqIOl63zk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/TPJqIOl63zk&rel=1</a>

Pleased you stood your ground  :thumbsup:

What is it with taxi's ? Going into work this morning a taxi had just dropped off a fare at the hospital main entrance (tower block). If he drove 20 meters on there is a purpose built rab for turning around but no he had to pull across the road, despite clearly seeing me aproaching, and perform a three point turn  :(   

Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #505 on: 19 July, 2010, 08:29:11 pm »
Another idiot had to be put straight about 'road tax' on the Echo's website:

Back in the saddle events promote cycling in Southend (From Echo)

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #506 on: 19 July, 2010, 08:39:56 pm »
Another idiot had to be put straight about 'road tax' on the Echo's website:

Back in the saddle events promote cycling in Southend (From Echo)

Nicely done.  He's been told.

Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #507 on: 19 July, 2010, 10:19:22 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/q5Eszlv_XAA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/q5Eszlv_XAA&rel=1</a>

Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #508 on: 22 July, 2010, 10:01:28 pm »
I'm starting to feel like the lone voice in the wilderness:

London to Southend bike ride success (From Echo)

clarion

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #509 on: 22 July, 2010, 10:08:15 pm »
Dust off & nuke it from orbit.
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Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #510 on: 22 July, 2010, 10:30:12 pm »
Wish I could but it is just so difficult not to respond to the ignorance being posted there!

clarion

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #511 on: 23 July, 2010, 09:27:30 am »
I think all Southend residents with an IQ over 75 (I think they are all known to this forum, from the evidence) should be evacuated, and the appropriate authorities seal the town off for 'decontamination'.
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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #512 on: 23 July, 2010, 09:34:38 am »
Wish I could but it is just so difficult not to respond to the ignorance being posted there!

I have learned that it really is totally pointless to engage with these cretins.

The problem with stuff on the Echo website is that the agenda is set by the usual suspects (the editor, one Martin McMeil, is more than just a council apologist) and to get involved in the "debate" on their website just dances to their tune.

It's probably better, if you want to get stuff off your chest, to post it on your own website and link to it from the Echo site. That way, you don't need to get involved in knockabout with the likes of "Baker Boy" or "Southend Mechanic". Just present them with your stuff.
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montysboy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #513 on: 23 July, 2010, 09:53:43 am »
Wish I could but it is just so difficult not to respond to the ignorance being posted there!

I honestly wouldnt bother getting involved - you'll just end up going crazy like Baker_boy!  :P

Let them have their rants, I doubt many people read those comments anyway.


Iain

Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #514 on: 23 July, 2010, 10:16:06 am »
I doubt many people read those comments anyway.


Iain

You'd be surprised. It is well known that the local police, the council, and our MP read that website. If there are no rebuttals from cyclists they all assume everything is hunky-dory.

clarion

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #515 on: 23 July, 2010, 10:17:22 am »
Baker Boy is a poppet, isn't he?
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montysboy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #516 on: 23 July, 2010, 10:36:50 am »
Baker Boy is a poppet, isn't he?

Shouldn't that be muppet?  ;D

Iain


clarion

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #518 on: 23 July, 2010, 10:59:38 am »
I've benefitted from his wisdom and apercus before.  Southend is too small for him; a great with such as that needs to break the bonds of provincialism and come to London to get shanked as soon as he opens his gob to sprinkle his apposite aphorisms upon the great and the good in society, in the tradition of Samuel Johnson.

He was a tosser, too.  But from Lichfield.  Which is a bit like Southend-on-Sea.  With a stonking great cathedral.  And without the sea.
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Clandy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #519 on: 23 July, 2010, 12:49:22 pm »
There's a very interesting statement from 'BD' at the bottom of the comments here:

Back in the saddle events promote cycling in Southend (From Echo)

clarion

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #520 on: 23 July, 2010, 01:10:34 pm »
Curious.  Wonder what he knows.

Is Baker Boy's mastery of what I presume to be the English language regressing, btw?
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montysboy

Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #521 on: 23 July, 2010, 02:04:40 pm »
'Baker boy' turns up on most cycling related topics:

If it wasnt so sad all of his jibberish would be funny, actually I had to laugh at the comment about the laser pens we all wear.  Now if I were to wear one of these he'd know about it alright - more like a light sabre than laser pen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/H-SduY4A2kE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/H-SduY4A2kE&rel=1</a>  ;D


Iain





Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #522 on: 23 July, 2010, 07:17:55 pm »
Cycling England are/were at the civic centre this week with SBC trying to get more money out of them.</rumourmonger>

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #523 on: 23 July, 2010, 08:02:41 pm »
I'm starting to feel like the lone voice in the wilderness:

London to Southend bike ride success (From Echo)

I'm afraid I gave up posting on the Echo sitea long time ago. I was suffering from concussion far to often from all the banging my head against a brick wall.
Never argue with an idot....
They just bring you down to their level
then win on experience.

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Re: Southend Cycle Town - part 2
« Reply #524 on: 24 July, 2010, 08:19:13 pm »
Oblivious peds on the western esplanade path.

Oblivious peds
Never argue with an idot....
They just bring you down to their level
then win on experience.

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