Nobs...
Sewinman
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You do get some Nobs out there don’t you.
I pulled up at the eastbound lights at the south of Westminster bridge. The usual assortment of bikes filter to the ASL. One nodder starts to roll out into the junction and a weasely nasal voice shouts “Lights……..oi you....oi….lights…LIGHTS!…LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTS!!!!”. The shouting chap was a young guy on a road bike.
Said callow youth then turns and giggles at the rest of the group, before he sticks his tongue out and rolls his eyes, as if to say “Look at that naughty cyclist breaking the law, and check me out – self-appointed defender of the highway code…aren’t I a cool, experienced cyclist.....in the right”. I stare at him bemused. We all then set off and he makes great play of catching the nodder up and passing him within an inch at full pace shouting ‘LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTSSSSSSSS’ right in his face, before speeding off.
The nodder was wrong to run the red light, but I know who the main w@nker was in that little turn of events.
I pulled up at the eastbound lights at the south of Westminster bridge. The usual assortment of bikes filter to the ASL. One nodder starts to roll out into the junction and a weasely nasal voice shouts “Lights……..oi you....oi….lights…LIGHTS!…LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTS!!!!”. The shouting chap was a young guy on a road bike.
Said callow youth then turns and giggles at the rest of the group, before he sticks his tongue out and rolls his eyes, as if to say “Look at that naughty cyclist breaking the law, and check me out – self-appointed defender of the highway code…aren’t I a cool, experienced cyclist.....in the right”. I stare at him bemused. We all then set off and he makes great play of catching the nodder up and passing him within an inch at full pace shouting ‘LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTSSSSSSSS’ right in his face, before speeding off.
The nodder was wrong to run the red light, but I know who the main w@nker was in that little turn of events.
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was the main w@nker the one who was running the red light?
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Not in my opinion, it was the overly aggressive guy shouting LIGHTS and acting like a complete prat.0
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He does come across as a bit of a prick.....BUT I imagine that the nodder will now know that red lights are not merely advisory if you are on a bicycle....which is a good thing.
Although there must be better ways of ennunciating this message I TRULY wish it would be given more often.
The problem is you're a noob. You've seen loads of people RLJing on bicycles, so you think it's kind of OK to do it. I did. Until I got more into my cycling and discovered that it isn't OK.
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The world is full is w#nkers.
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have to say that I often feel like shouting the same thing at RLJers, in fact if more of us did it might make it more obviuously unacceptable.0
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If i shouted at every person i see jumping a red light on my commute, i would be shouting the whole bloody way.
they appear to be both nobs for different things.
RLJ is wrong, cyclists policing other RLJ is wrong.
Just worry about you and F everyone else."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Perhaps he had spent months having occasional, quiet, and reasoned words with noobs and got frustrated. I hope he grows out of it though, its not going to be much fun shouting LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! every 2 minutes, as well as getting the occasional slap from a nasty nodder with a penchant for fisticuffs.0
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@ Sewinman, whilst I agree with the sentiment, I fear you have just started another RLJ thread here. Prepare to have the online equivalent of LIIIGGGHHHHTTTTSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! bellowed at you for as long as the thread lasts...0
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BigMat wrote:@ Sewinman, whilst I agree with the sentiment, I fear you have just started another RLJ thread here. Prepare to have the online equivalent of LIIIGGGHHHHTTTTSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! bellowed at you for as long as the thread lasts...
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i've spoken to RLJ's before now an they know what they have done an arn't arsed
the last one i said something too said "oh really, that was a red a light was it?"
so i cant be arsed to tell them any more, unfortunately at one point one will get squished an blame the car driver......Keeping it classy since '830 -
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i just call then cnuts but as my facemask muffles it no one really hears but I feel a little better. If they get a jist of what i've said and ask I say i said red light. The strong T of LIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT makes it work... Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
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MonkeyMonster wrote:i just call then cnuts but as my facemask muffles it no one really hears but I feel a little better. If they get a jist of what i've said and ask I say i said red light. The strong T of LIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT makes it work...
They may end up thinking that you are practising your "safe word" that you have to say through a gimp mask.
In a related vein (fnar), I fear some will see "jist" as derived from jizz; eg "He just jist all over the place". Perhaps "gist" would be better.
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Greg66 wrote:MonkeyMonster wrote:i just call then cnuts but as my facemask muffles it no one really hears but I feel a little better. If they get a jist of what i've said and ask I say i said red light. The strong T of LIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT makes it work...
They may end up thinking that you are practising your "safe word" that you have to say through a gimp mask.
In a related vein (fnar), I fear some will see "jist" as derived from jizz; eg "He just jist all over the place". Perhaps "gist" would be better.
Definitely Friday.
Am I the only one who thinks Nob should have a K? Nobs is a mildly derogatory term for the aristocracy (derived from nobility). Mind you, given Sewinman's posting history, that might be what he meant
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In countries with more forward thinking road and traffic management policies they are.SimonAH wrote:He does come across as a bit of a prick.....BUT I imagine that the nodder will now know that red lights are not merely advisory if you are on a bicycle....which is a good thing.
Traffic lights are a brilliant way of forcing lots of small slow moving traffic to bunch up and get in the way of big fast moving traffic. That is not an efficient way to run a network as it serves the interest of neither type of transport.I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.0 -
No, it grated a bit with me as well. Has Essex Commuter changed his sig to drop the k just for this thread? Admirable if so.rjsterry wrote:Am I the only one who thinks Nob should have a K? Nobs is a mildly derogatory term for the aristocracy (derived from nobility). Mind you, given Sewinman's posting history, that might be what he meant0 -
In fairness, can anyone suggest a way for a "defender of the highway code" to point out the sins of a RLJumper *without* sounding like a (k)nob?
I find that by the time you've said "Excuse me old chap, terribly sorry to bother you, but I wanted to point out..." they're well away.0 -
When I first read the title I was expecting the first page to read
"....what do you do with them when cycling?"
Well that or
"....where do you have them angled when cycling?"
Well that or
"....and the chafing pain!"
Welll that or... well you get the piture.Food Chain number = 4
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Rick Chasey wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:When I first read the title I was hoping the first page to read
"....what do you do with them when cycling?"
Well that or
"....where do you have them angled when cycling?"
Well that or
"....and the chafing pain!"
Welll that or... well you get the piture.
^^Jealousy by Rick Chasey...^^
Heh, a long (or big/tall) anything is a joyful frustration you'll never understand...
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lol, what a glans!DonDaddyD wrote:Heh, a long (or big/tall) anything is a joyful frustration you'll never understand... 0 -
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