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09-23-14, 06:05 PM
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@RollCNY People have new onset seizures all the time behind the wheel. I've personally had over 6 people as patients who have had a stroke while driving. One was a 42 y/o non smoker, who happened to have a hole in his heart that he didn't know about. Was that MVA his fault? **** happens sometimes! And sometimes you get hit by things despite following at an acceptable distance. You are being overly rigid in this argument which makes you sound like rpenmanparker
09-23-14, 06:12 PM
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I know that sound crazy, but from what i can dimly remember, every accident I had to go to where we spent
some time on the scene either cutting someone out of a car or hosing the blood off the sidewalk had a pretty
obvious cause that could have led to avoidance if addressed prior to the collision.
If you are a non speeding driver, and you swerve to avoid something, your responsibility is to either clearly
examine the area you're swerving into prior to occupying it, or to just run into the object if you have no clear
path of avoidance. the medical condition thing, I guess you ought to get one free pass, but people routinely
fail to stop driving when clearly they are physically incapable of it any more.
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09-23-14, 06:13 PM
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@RollCNY People have new onset seizures all the time behind the wheel. I've personally had over 6 people as patients who have had a stroke while driving. One was a 42 y/o non smoker, who happened to have a hole in his heart that he didn't know about. Was that MVA his fault? **** happens sometimes! And sometimes you get hit by things despite following at an acceptable distance. You are being overly rigid in this argument which makes you sound like rpenmanparker
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09-23-14, 06:17 PM
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Hoping that you will take this in the constructive spirit it is intended, let me say that phrases like the one in bold are generally regarded as offensive. I can understand the temptation in this instance to use it if only in an ironic sense, but such characterizations have historically resulted in only negative outcomes. Thanks for understanding my positive intent here.
09-23-14, 06:25 PM
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VV, you are right my "no accidents" comment might be inflammatory, but every vehicular collision is a result of a human error, and most likely breaking a law, on someone's part, yet people don't say "I failed to yield the right of way", they say "I got into an accident". People crash in the winter, and blame the snow, when the root cause is imprudent speed for conditions.
If everything was purely luck, you would have days when everyone crashes, and days when no one does. But incompetence is far more predictable than luck.
If everything was purely luck, you would have days when everyone crashes, and days when no one does. But incompetence is far more predictable than luck.
09-23-14, 06:29 PM
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@RollCNY People have new onset seizures all the time behind the wheel. I've personally had over 6 people as patients who have had a stroke while driving. One was a 42 y/o non smoker, who happened to have a hole in his heart that he didn't know about. Was that MVA his fault? **** happens sometimes! And sometimes you get hit by things despite following at an acceptable distance. You are being overly rigid in this argument which makes you sound like rpenmanparker
09-23-14, 06:29 PM
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...my advocacy is now limited to teaching at an running the co-op. What approach is that ?
I did not expect that pointing out the obvious...that there is a lot of foolish behavior on the part of road riders
in order to satisfy some need to "be all that you can be", and that Strava accounts seem to encourage it on the
part of some of them... would be received in the road forum as anything other than a turd in the punchbowl.
The fact that you cannot seem to let it go, as requested several times now my me, seems adequate proof of this, halfie.
I did not expect that pointing out the obvious...that there is a lot of foolish behavior on the part of road riders
in order to satisfy some need to "be all that you can be", and that Strava accounts seem to encourage it on the
part of some of them... would be received in the road forum as anything other than a turd in the punchbowl.
The fact that you cannot seem to let it go, as requested several times now my me, seems adequate proof of this, halfie.
The problem isn't the question.
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09-23-14, 06:36 PM
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@RollCNY People have new onset seizures all the time behind the wheel. I've personally had over 6 people as patients who have had a stroke while driving. One was a 42 y/o non smoker, who happened to have a hole in his heart that he didn't know about. Was that MVA his fault? **** happens sometimes! And sometimes you get hit by things despite following at an acceptable distance. You are being overly rigid in this argument which makes you sound like rpenmanparker
Some might say I am being contrary. But they are wrong. Also nyah nyah.
I rode 25.5 miles tonight, with gears even, in 79 minutes. No records were injured in the course of the ride.
09-23-14, 06:38 PM
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@Ramona_W, I don't think you are antisemitic. I harrumphed solely so you would know the danger of the expression. Besides, I have never heard you defame Arabs, who are also Semites. All clear there!
09-23-14, 06:41 PM
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Dude... I hear you. I'm sorry if you were offended. I'm sorry if anyone was offended. That was certainly not my intention. I'm more than a little familiar with Jewish culture and history and the negative connotations of certain words- for what it's worth I don't say "gyp" either- and it's not a phrase I can remember ever using outside of quoting someone and that post. I used it deliberately there in the spirit of what I had anticipated would be perceived as a light-hearted post about one of my favorite parts of the Bible. (Hence God sighing heavily.) I had thought my time here and people's experience with me and my sense of humor might preclude my being precautionarily penciled in as a closet anti-Semite. I was wrong about this. (I have been taken to task on FB for the last hour due to my assertion the Mariners should attempt to acquire Billy Butler so clearly my judgement is faulty in a variety of fields today.) Some things we do not joke about. Point taken and thank you.
09-23-14, 06:41 PM
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And on an inappropriate comment front, in the thread we cannot mention, it was asked since when did dying absolve one of fault, and I so wanted to say "since Jesus, man". But I dinnit. Don't hate me because I am beautiful.
09-23-14, 06:43 PM
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Very true on me being overly rigid, and I even said it earlier. Of course things happen outside of the limits of human preparedness. Yes, some things really are bad luck. My sole point it has gotten so that everything is an accident. And it's not. Nyah nyah.
Some might say I am being contrary. But they are wrong. Also nyah nyah.
I rode 25.5 miles tonight, with gears even, in 79 minutes. No records were injured in the course of the Museum Park Cafe
Some might say I am being contrary. But they are wrong. Also nyah nyah.
I rode 25.5 miles tonight, with gears even, in 79 minutes. No records were injured in the course of the Museum Park Cafe
09-23-14, 06:47 PM
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09-23-14, 06:49 PM
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The road forum has had exactly that discussion multiple times. Here for example: https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycli...g-too-far.html
The problem isn't the question.
The problem isn't the question.
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09-23-14, 06:52 PM
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@Ramona_W, I don't think you are antisemitic. I harrumphed solely so you would know the danger of the expression. Besides, I have never heard you defame Arabs, who are also Semites. All clear there!
09-23-14, 06:53 PM
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I am personally intrigued by the two threads started by the same guy today that have opposite points: all frames are the same and let's rate frames by grandeur. If they are the same, what's to rate? And he rates BMC very highly, so he could be one of HP's socks. Probably has a pompom on the back.
09-23-14, 06:54 PM
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...I thought I was out of the thread whose very name brings fear to the hearts of men, but they keep sucking me back in with specious argument. ..............................................#cantresistspecious
Yum.
09-23-14, 07:01 PM
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@rollcny people have new onset seizures all the time behind the wheel. I've personally had over 6 people as patients who have had a stroke while driving. One was a 42 y/o non smoker, who happened to have a hole in his heart that he didn't know about. Was that mva his fault? **** happens sometimes! And sometimes you get hit by things despite following at an acceptable distance. You are being overly rigid in this argument which makes you sound like rpenmanparker
09-23-14, 07:10 PM
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OMG I was watching the epic collapse of former Cy Young award winner Felix "The Kind" Hernandez and wishing I still drank. Then they pulled him for Dominic Leone and Erasmo Ramirez who gave up four runs and hit two batters in just over an inning and I started wishing I still drank too much.
#effingbaseballman
#effingbaseballman
09-23-14, 07:14 PM
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I am personally intrigued by the two threads started by the same guy today that have opposite points: all frames are the same and let's rate frames by grandeur. If they are the same, what's to rate? And he rates BMC very highly, so he could be one of HP's socks. Probably has a pompom on the back.