Thread: Cyclists.

Originally Posted by MrLandy

Not when the gravity of the situation is so grave

you could always go make your own video of lance Armstrong shooting up...
i mean a video of something shooting and cars going off the road

Originally Posted by Homestar

It was humour - plain and simple.

Quite true. You could almost call it Unaustralian not to laugh at people actually getting hurt. Even better to pretend to shoot and kill people for fun. Quite hilarious, you know, to do "pretend" violence. Just like bullying is fun for the bullies. And it's clearly not intended to make boof heads laugh uproariously as they buzz another cyclist just minding their own business. Rofl. It's almost as funny as this picture:



No-one hurt here, must be almost-top grade humour too. Have a happy day.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Once I was working a barge, when one of the Deck Hands jumped from the bow of the tug and put his foot straight down a gap between the two pods that it was made up of. The result was a compound fracture of both his Tibia and Fibula. I stopped his bleeding and put my favourite sleeping bag over him to reduce the effects of shock. That's respect. I then started joking with him about how he had destroyed my sleeping bag and made us late, amongst other things. until the chopper took him away. That's levity. I have done the same in similar situations on a few occasions now, and it always seems to be beneficial.

Yes that is showing respect and appropriate levity. Nice one. An entirely different situation.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Perhaps If I spell it out: If everyone was to lighten up a bit and get in touch with their senses of humour, there would be far less agro on the roads.
That applies to both Cyclists and Drivers.

Rubbish. It's not about simply lightening up over serious, dangerous and offensive issues. That's Trumps core tactic by the way, but we won't even go there.

Who put that there?
Cyclist crashes into parked car on learner driver's first lesson | Daily Mail Online

Originally Posted by loneranger

First of all - I can't believe this thread is still going on.

Secondly, until recently I was one of the administrators on a Defender Facebook page. I posted up the link to the 3 and 5 dams challenge here in WA to let anyone know who may have been planning a day 4wding in the hills to be patient as they were likely to encounter large groups of cyclists as there were about 2,000 of us participating. Not a single negative comment.

At the end of the day, I posted up about some of the Defender's I saw whilst on the ride. A few people engaged and another member on the page who participated in the 5 Dams Challenge also commented. Again not a single negative comment.

That is respect.

Cool loneranger.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Who put that there?
Cyclist crashes into parked car on learner driver's first lesson | Daily Mail Online

....that gave me a serious belly laugh......

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Who put that there?
Cyclist crashes into parked car on learner driver's first lesson | Daily Mail Online

This is not funny! This is a serious matter! That cyclist could've died! I mean, seriously, that motorist should've seen him coming and got out of the way!