Bloody cyclists, riding half-asleep

A.Lee wrote:

Which part of the original post do you think deserves a higher quality mark?

The OP was a reference, tongue in cheek, to the crash in the TdF
yesterday.

Not the crash, just the splitting of the peloton.

160 of them found themselves on the wrong side of a split because they
were caught napping by the wind that was rushing along after that
right-hand-bend.

Armstrong was in the right place, whether by luck or design, and his sly
digs about the failure of Contador to be on the right side of the break
were priceless. Contador would have been eating his liver along with his
dinner last night.

Daniele

Keitht KeithT wrote:

It was carnage, but fortunately no-one was seriously
hurt (some bruised pride, perhaps).


Carnage usually involves a lot of the red stuff - one on-line dictinary
says the word has it's root as "16c: French, from Latin carnaticum
payment in meat"

(local paper reported fire where no-one got hurt but was apparently
'carnage' )

OK then. "It was metaphorical carnage ... some metaphorically bruised
pride."

Daniele

Keitht wrote:
D.M. Procida wrote:
It was carnage, but fortunately no-one was seriously
hurt (some bruised pride, perhaps).


Carnage usually involves a lot of the red stuff - one on-line dictinary
says the word has it's root as "16c: French, from Latin carnaticum
payment in meat"

(local paper reported fire where no-one got hurt but was apparently
'carnage' )



I'd say that it was a shambles for those who missed the break.
(reaches for dictionary.....)

--
Roger Thorpe

....you had the whole damn thing all wrong/
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays...

A.Lee wrote:
mileburner wrote:

"A.Lee" wrote in message
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mileburner wrote:
"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.
Trollometer reads 1:10
That would be a whooooosh on your part then.

Which part of the original post do you think deserves a higher quality mark?

The OP was a reference, tongue in cheek, to the crash in the TdF
yesterday.
Understand now?

Alan.

Not a crash, I thought, but a predictable split when you have a
side-wind and one team moves up to the front.

--
Roger Thorpe

....you had the whole damn thing all wrong/
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays...

Roger Thorpe
...you had the whole damn thing all wrong/
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays...

First Hawkwind, now Jethro Tull. Have you been going through my old
vinyl collection?

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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Yesterday I saw a huge group of riders - all decked out in lycra and
shades, like a huge bunch of poofy stick insects -

Next time you go for a ride dressed up like
post-modernist ponces.

Why do anti-cycling posters always focus on their clothing? It is a common
thread from Matty Parris to The Clarkson Thing. Is it due to the fact that
none of them has a remote chance of fitting into any lycra and this brings
out the us and them mentality? I am a normal fat and unfit car driver and
look at those silly thin, fit, happy people over there. Aren't they stupid
looking?


--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/

"Simon Mason" wrote in message
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"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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Yesterday I saw a huge group of riders - all decked out in lycra and
shades, like a huge bunch of poofy stick insects -

Next time you go for a ride dressed up like
post-modernist ponces.

Why do anti-cycling posters always focus on their clothing?

It is because they think that cyclist clothing is some kind of ludicrous
fashion statement. What they do not realise is that lycra type clothing does
not chafe, offers low wind resistence, and does not retain water (sweat).
And that bright clothing enables the rider to be seen more easily.

Why do anti-cycling posters always focus on their clothing? It is a common
thread from Matty Parris to The Clarkson Thing.

Seems to be deeply ingrained in human psyche to focus on outward
appearance, akin to racism "ooh look at those people with the first
1/4 mm of skin a different colour to ours, they must be really
stupid". Uniforms have long been used to reinforce this. Seems to
give folks a sense of belonging and being loved if they can big-up
their own tribe by putting down another. Perhaps therefore it is a
way to make it more likely that the reader will accept the rest of
what they are saying if the write can make the reader feel more
affinity with the writers "tribe".

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:32:25 +0100, "mileburner"
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"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

Truth: 10/10

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:29:03 +0100,
(D.M. Procida) wrote:

What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Yesterday I saw a huge group of riders - all decked out in lycra and
shades, like a huge bunch of poofy stick insects - come around a right
hand bend, all together, and oblivious to what was on the other side of
it, and coming towards them fast.

They must have been half-asleep, each blindly following the one in
front, and then they were caught napping.

Apart from a few on the front who managed to get away safely they were
all taken by surprise, and scattered right across the road like a bag of
spilled shopping. It was carnage, but fortunately no-one was seriously
hurt (some bruised pride, perhaps). It certainly ruined their ride.

You should have seen the looks on their faces, a combination of horror
and the desperate attempt to make it look as though everything was
normal and they hadn't royally screwed-up.

Wakey-wakey, cyclists! Next time you go for a ride dressed up like
post-modernist ponces think what might be coming in the opposite
direction around that right-hand-bend, because you're not the only thing
on the roads that can travel at speed.

One of the few riders who had obviously kept his wits about him was
interviewed on TV, and he was saying that when you see a turn coming up,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what you have to do
next.

Rocket scientist? These guys were too dozy even to be bicycle-riding
scientists.

Daniele

Loved it, thanks. Produced some interesting comments from those
outwith the know :-)

--

Pete