[*BCM*] Quotes from the article
Jon Ramos
jontramos at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 5 19:20:45 EDT 2006
Below are a few choice phrases from the article that I found hilarious.
Ahhh... the 'Yester-year' quote. Everything smelled like apple pie back then.
"...When I was growing up, we were the good guys. Eco-friendly wholemealites with a progressive, faintly Dutch-smelling attitude to life. We were virginy students with handlebar baskets toppling with books; teachers with jacket tails blowing in the wind..."
The vandalism quote.
"...'CYCLIST IN £250,000 TYRE-SLASH RAMPAGE!' says a headline in the Birmingham Post, after Ashley Carpenter was caught sending a 'warning' to 'inconsiderate motorists' with a sharpened screwdriver..."
The perverted quotes
"...a two-wheeled sex pest who 'uses a racing bike to travel around the west of Scotland trying to lure children into posing for indecent pictures' ..."
"...ride-by thief' who has been terrorising mums..."
"...Cyclists, it appears, have gone naughty..."
The yester-year quote is just somebody remembering things better than they really were. Now they want to return "back" to this ridiculous postcard in time. This is a difficult thing to achieve unless you are Norman Rockwell.
The vandalism quote is interesting because it wasn't long ago (few years) when a similar occurrence happened with paintballs & pellets. I remember that it made the news, and then the next night the damage doubled because lots of kids (I assume kids) heard about it and thought this was a good idea. I can imagine if tire slashing happened around here there would be more than a few cyclists that would join the 'cause'. (not that I condone that behavior). This could be looked at three ways, an outcry for better riding conditions, as revenge against bad drivers, or just stupid kids. I wish that slashing tires would raise 250k spent on fixing roads & educating drivers... but I'm not sure the mayor would see it that way, perhaps that could make for an interesting BCM ride... the tire slash ride -- jk
The perverted quotes... well its just silly to think that grown men wearing florescent & spandex would harm children.
Summing up, I guess that all bicyclists are aggressive, sexual deviants that vandalize & terrorize women, children, & property. If that is what the news & magazine articles are saying it must be true.
- Jon
turtle <turtle at zworg.com> wrote:
Boston Critical Mass
wrote:
> How bout... saying "well yes they're crazy, the
> city streets trained them to be crazy. so make a sane environment for them, and
> they will be sane."
That's a good one. I like it!
Honestly, that's exactly what I'm saying. Society breeds disrespect.
So we'd do well to add a whole lot more respect to the equation.
-Turtle
who usually tries to say it in a nicer way, but hey, if it comes from a
cyclist...
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"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we
seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must
pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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