On 8 Aug, 19:35, ®i©ardo
nowhere.com> wrote:> Squashme wrote:
>> On 8 Aug, 17:16, JNugent
NPPTG.com> wrote:>>> Squashme wrote:
>>>> On 8 Aug, 14:18, "Mike P"
privacy.net> wrote:>>>>> Squashme wrote:
>>>>>> On 8 Aug, 14:05, "Mike P"
privacy.net> wrote:>>>>>>> Squashme wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8 Aug, 09:44, JNugent
NPPTG.com> wrote:>>>>>>>>> Doug wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Pity the poor vulnerable ped on our roads while motorists encased
>>>>>>>>>> in a steel shell run them down.
>>>>>>>>>> "A baby girl was flung 10ft through the air after her mother was
>>>>>>>>>> hit by a car as she held the child in a carrier seat.
>>>>>>>>>> Thirteen-week-old Tilly Dickman landed on the road, still strapped
>>>>>>>>>> in the seat. It protected her from the force of the impact and
>>>>>>>>>> amazingly she survived unharmed.
>>>>>>>>>> Her mother Sarah was also hurled into the air. But, although her
>>>>>>>>>> head smashed the windscreen of the car which hit her, she too
>>>>>>>>>> escaped serious injury..."
>>>>>>>>>> More:
>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042558/Caught-camera-The-hor...
>>>>>>>>> This incident could have been reported so differently:
>>>>>>>>> (a) Idiotic mother with vision obstructed by hood walks out into
>>>>>>>>> the path of approaching traffic - pundits ask whether it might
>>>>>>>>> have been a cry for help.
>>>>>>>>> (b) Improvements in design of child seats and car front ends save
>>>>>>>>> lives of careless pedestrians.
>>>>>>>> Well, the "idiotic mother" was a motorist, and only temporarily a
>>>>>>>> pedestrian. The child was protected by a car-seat. And as a
>>>>>>>> pedestrian she was facing the daily dilemma of how to cross our
>>>>>>>> busy roads. Walk some distance to a controlled crossing, or take a
>>>>>>>> chance with a gap, in the forlorn hope that other motorists will
>>>>>>>> act as social beings.
>>>>>>> Well, she was idiotic in the fact she didn't walk the distance to a
>>>>>>> proper crossing. Especially in that traffic and the wet road. Her
>>>>>>> fault entirely.
>>>>>> Where was this crossing in this one-way system?
>>>>> I neither know or care.It makes no difference anyway. It's a simple choice
>>>>> to make. You either ENSURE that it is safe to cross, which she clearly did
>>>>> not, or walk to a crossing. It is pure and simple Green Cross code like we
>>>>> were taught at school 30 years ago FFS.
>>>> Spoken like a true motorist. As long as the roads are nice for us,
>>>> stuff the pedestrians. Make it all convenient for motorised traffic,
>>>> and let those without go hang. They can walk 200 yards to a crossing,
>>>> and if they don't, it's their fault completely when they get hurt.
>>> You aren't Doug posting under another name, are you?
>
>> You better ask him. But really, you had better get a more recent issue
>> of your linguistic analysis software. And you from Bletchley Park too!
>
> Well, if you're not Doug, have you borrowed his blinkers?
>
I resent these suggestions! Can't a chap be a proud, independent, sui
generis fuckwit?
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of Circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of Chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
"Invictus" - W.E. Henley. 1875
Stone me! Apologies, that's really way over the top, isn't it?
But very good anyway.
