Cringeworthy discovery

peat

I was having a sort out of my digital media t'other day. I got looking at some of my phone pictures i had backed up from the turn of the decade. Lots of pictures of me and my friends, smiling, lovely full heads of hair etc.

Then i noticed several pictures dotted around of groups of cyclists. I only started road cycling in 2012 so i found it a bit odd. Then it struck me - I was one of those cretins that gets worked up about cyclists riding '6 (meaning 2, obviously) abreast and I had been bothered so much that I was taking photos on my phone, while driving, presumably to show them to my housemates, to act as a starter for a rant, of these lycra clad morons taking up all MY road.

Thankfully, time and experience has toppled ignorance on this matter. But it get's me thinking, what opinions that i hold now about various things will i subsequently change through exposure?

Life, eh?

andcp

Peat wrote:

But it get's me thinking, what opinions that i hold now about various things will i subsequently change through exposure?

Start with sexuality. Let us know how you go on.

de_sisti

Race (not the competitive type).

sloppyschleckonds

Self-improvement is masturbation

ayjaycee

I firmly believe that any car driver who takes photos whilst driving is a very dangerous individual who should be banned. I doubt I will ever change that opinion.

chris_bass

ayjaycee wrote:

I firmly believe that any car driver who takes photos whilst driving is a very dangerous individual who should be banned. I doubt I will ever change that opinion.

But where would we be in a world without google streetview?

andy9964

ayjaycee wrote:

I firmly believe that any car driver who takes photos whilst driving is a very dangerous individual who should be banned. I doubt I will ever change that opinion.

Try it for yourself, you might change your mind

d00d4h

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Self-improvement is masturbation

Masturbation is self-improvement

debeli

Peat wrote:

I was having a sort out of my digital media t'other day. I got looking at some of my phone pictures i had backed up from the turn of the decade. Lots of pictures of me and my friends, smiling, lovely full heads of hair etc.

Then i noticed several pictures dotted around of groups of cyclists. I only started road cycling in 2012 so i found it a bit odd. Then it struck me - I was one of those cretins that gets worked up about cyclists riding '6 (meaning 2, obviously) abreast and I had been bothered so much that I was taking photos on my phone, while driving, presumably to show them to my housemates, to act as a starter for a rant, of these lycra clad morons taking up all MY road.

Thankfully, time and experience has toppled ignorance on this matter. But it get's me thinking, what opinions that i hold now about various things will i subsequently change through exposure?

Life, eh?

This is a strange one, but you invite comment. You will receive comment.

The whole 'camera while driving' thing has been addressed. It is not a great thing, but the OP is somehow a confessional, so a confession might seem to be prerequisite.

What troubles me about the confession is that it includes the implicit confession also that the OP is the sort to find something that makes him/her cross, take a picture of it and then regale his/her social group with rants and pictures.

That just sounds slightly (slightly?) troubling social behaviour to me. I rather fancy that this sort of attitude and this sort of desire to judge and hand out opprobrium (whatever the trigger ) may be as hard to grow out of as the leopard's spots.

Whilst the OP says that he/she is now a road cyclist and is ashamed (or similar) of having held the views he/she once did... I suspect that the delight of judging and condemning may still lurk within.

I hope not. Having said that, as a lifelong (and keen) cyclist, I often find myself quietly grinding my teeth while driving behind a pair of cyclists who are riding two-abreast when it would be easy for them to tuck in and allow a pass. I do it, of course, but in my case there is always a perfectly good reason.

peat

Very observant. While this is just a small step in recognising & rectifying my faults, I am still very much a loathsome individual. I just ride a bike aswell, now.

crankycrank

You are a loathsome individual and deserve punishment.

ayjaycee

Don't be too hard on yourself. So long you remain a cyclist, you might just about get away with only being a partially loathsome individual rather than a 'very much' one.