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Oh YES Sam...let's keep ridin' our "F_ucking bikes down the middle"....
Why is it the complete morons, who can't even spell or parse a sentence, who are the people that seem to be the most outraged on that "Comments" section appended to the bike commuting article in the Sun-Times? I wonder if our illiterate citizens are also the most easily enraged drivers too...?
Sam Schild said:I think this list is pretty good, but reading the comments is eternally more entertaining:
"Are these people out of their MIND???!?!?! Me,and many other drivers have to put up with you absolute MORONS that think it's ok to ride your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!...." hehe. I'd say another PRO is taking up close to ALL of this person's mental capacity (they might not have very much). Bikers must hugely influence their life to have induced this rant. keep riding, or as they would say "rid[ing] your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!" such anger, wow.... keep riding
it is in fact those types people that are my biggest con on the road. the absolute unmittigated rage released by a driver trying to get ahead of you to the next red traffic light is quite laughable. but these people and those who wish to make our bike commute/ride miserable... by taunting us with gestures and verbal lashings muted by their car windows, by purposely driving close as to push us off the road, or cutting us off for no purpose, and new teen drivers who think themselves better for driving and hoot and holler at cyclists...thats what enrages me. im getting hot under the collar just thinking about it.
Oh YES Sam...let's keep ridin' our "F_ucking bikes down the middle"....
Why is it the complete morons, who can't even spell or parse a sentence, who are the people that seem to be the most outraged on that "Comments" section appended to the bike commuting article in the Sun-Times? I wonder if our illiterate citizens are also the most easily enraged drivers too...? Sam Schild said:I think this list is pretty good, but reading the comments is eternally more entertaining:
"Are these people out of their MIND???!?!?! Me,and many other drivers have to put up with you absolute MORONS that think it's ok to ride your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!...." hehe. I'd say another PRO is taking up close to ALL of this person's mental capacity (they might not have very much). Bikers must hugely influence their life to have induced this rant. keep riding, or as they would say "rid[ing] your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!" such anger, wow.... keep riding
Hahaha...
Nice observation Clark. I've noticed that too.
The type of people who enjoy throwing the word "moron" or "stupid" around also tend to have a poor command of the English language. To me, it undermines their intent to position themselves as intelligent people.
Take this lovely example:
"Your gonna do that to the WRONG person on the WRONG day,and get your AS.S BEAT!!"
Anyway, I do agree that if bikes stayed in the bike lanes and cars stayed out of the bike lanes, everyone would get along better.
That said, drivers need to realize that the real danger for bikes comes from the right (getting doored, for example), and what Sam may be interpreting as "riding in the middle of street" is actually keeping a safe distance from the parked cars.
The City of Chicago bike guide specifically instructs bikers to "stay out of the door zone," so Sam needs to realize that bikes are fully entitled to maintain a safe distance from parked cars.
To put it another way, I sure as hell am not going to risk a broken collarbone so some driver can get home a few minutes faster.
Clark said:Oh YES Sam...let's keep ridin' our "F_ucking bikes down the middle"....
Why is it the complete morons, who can't even spell or parse a sentence, who are the people that seem to be the most outraged on that "Comments" section appended to the bike commuting article in the Sun-Times? I wonder if our illiterate citizens are also the most easily enraged drivers too...? Sam Schild said:I think this list is pretty good, but reading the comments is eternally more entertaining:
"Are these people out of their MIND???!?!?! Me,and many other drivers have to put up with you absolute MORONS that think it's ok to ride your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!...." hehe. I'd say another PRO is taking up close to ALL of this person's mental capacity (they might not have very much). Bikers must hugely influence their life to have induced this rant. keep riding, or as they would say "rid[ing] your F_ucking bikes down the middle of the roadways!!" such anger, wow.... keep riding
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