The Times......again!

johnnyhotdog

what is it with the Times? Surely this sort of article can't be helping us either? It looks like a snide, underhand way of painting cyclists in a bad light as it's written by one:

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/li ... 171166.ece

:roll:

geoff_ss

There's really no difference between drunk cycling and drunk walking. The person most in danger is the drunk rather than other people although both can cause accidents to others occasionally. Being so drunk you can neither cycle nor walk safely isn't very attractive whatever you're doing - even if you're only being a pain to others indoors

Geoff

Shadowduck

There really are some idiots writing for the papers, aren't there? But since I don't buy a paper, I don't suppose they much care what I think...

NWLondoner

I just replied to that article and said what a stupid person she is.

johnnyhotdog

i can see a barrage of snide articles like this, supposedly written by cyclists, in order to redress the balance after the hard time matthew parris got.

it's pathetic.

richardjallen

You can still cause distress to others by putting yourself under the wheels of their car.

johnnyhotdog

richardjallen wrote:

You can still cause distress to others by putting yourself under the wheels of their car.

....or riding into their pram.

....or knocking them down.

....or breaking their hip.

....or damaging their car.

it's just stupid.

nick hanson

NWLondoner wrote:

I just replied to that article and said what a stupid person she is.

I asked if she genuinely behaved like that,wouldn't she be better keeping it to her self?.
God,i must be getting OLD

NWLondoner

nick hanson wrote:

NWLondoner wrote:

I just replied to that article and said what a stupid person she is.

I asked if she genuinely behaved like that,wouldn't she be better keeping it to her self?.
God,i must be getting OLD

LOL i know the feeling :shock:

grayo59

I think this was a genuine attempt at self-depracating humour and done in a tongue in cheek manner. Not in the Parris "decapitation is a lark" league.

IMHO

Shadowduck

Interesting... At least two or three forum members have left comments on the article, but they're not yet showing up on the site. Are they usually that slow or have we got a bit of censorship going on..?

Genuine attempt at humour or not, she's still an idiot.

buddha

Looking at her hairstyle (picture in the paper, not shown on website) I wondered how she managed to ride a bike at all. Drunk or not.

Adamskii

The Times really does fill it's papers with sh!te. This has just remined me never to buy one of their papers.

NFMC

Hang on...the Sunday Times has a regular section on cycling (pretty brief but it has comment and answers a few basic queries) and, a few pages before this piece, there was a two-page spread on expensive winter cycling clothing. All being largely positive as well.

This article did read a bit 'daft' when I read it on Sunday but most weeks it's OK.

And...I've never cycled smashed but I'll cycle after a couple of pints when I wouldn't drive after even one. Helps the beer belly if nothing else!

OffTheBackAdam

Hmm, the number of times I'd cycled drunkenly back from the bar to my halls whilst at Uni, and several back home from the Greendale Oak of a Sunday, whilst out with the lads on the early winter's club run, and not just after the "Christmas 10". On one memorable occaision, I was being driven back and we picked up another of the lads, who was dressed as a fairy in a pink tutu, he'd just fallen off, so it was a pink fairy with holed and bloody pink tights.
I somehow can't get into the pulpit and preach about the sins of this woman. :oops:

Nuggs

A mate at work got absolutely leathered a few years back. He picked up his bike at the station, began to cycle home (country lanes) and woke up, upside down in a ditch, still clipped-in at 6am.

He called in sick the next day...