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Martin

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Feb 1, 2011, 6:31:43 PM2/1/11
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"The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:

http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600

Any suggestions?

A few interesting ones so far:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=camcycle

Martin

Robin Stevens

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Feb 1, 2011, 6:37:00 PM2/1/11
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Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote in cam.transport:


> "The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
> Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:

> http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600

Snorkelpath, clearly.

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Tony Raven

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Feb 1, 2011, 6:49:43 PM2/1/11
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Unreality Checkpoint?

Tony

Brian Watson

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Feb 1, 2011, 7:19:52 PM2/1/11
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"Robin Stevens" <re...@cynic.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote in cam.transport:
>
>
>> "The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
>> Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
>
>> http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>
> Snorkelpath, clearly.

Genius.

:-)

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Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
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Stuart Moore

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Feb 1, 2011, 9:42:46 PM2/1/11
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Someone on twitter has suggested White Elephant Way, which I like.

County Council Cycle Cockup?

Roland Perry

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Feb 2, 2011, 3:52:22 AM2/2/11
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In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.1...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>,
at 23:31:43 on Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk>
remarked:

Misguided Way, seems the obvious one.
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Roland Perry

ng...@aol.com

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Feb 2, 2011, 4:32:12 AM2/2/11
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On 1 Feb., 18:37, Robin Stevens <r...@cynic.org.uk> wrote:
> Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote in cam.transport:
>
> > "The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
> > Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
> >http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>
> Snorkelpath, clearly.
>
> --
> Robin Stevens  <r...@cynic.org.uk>
> ----http://www.cynic.org.uk/----

Nice one. You'd probably need signposts to divers places as well.

Tony Raven

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Feb 2, 2011, 5:09:13 AM2/2/11
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And an annual competition with celebrity hosting by our very own
Cambridge champion.
http://www.myra-simon.com/bike/bog-snork.html

Tony

Jon Warbrick

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Feb 2, 2011, 5:30:43 AM2/2/11
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In article <alpine.LSU.2.00.1...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>,
Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>"The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
>Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
>
>http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>
>Any suggestions?

"Late Summer Boulevard"?

Jon.

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TimB

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Feb 2, 2011, 6:49:13 AM2/2/11
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On Feb 2, 10:30 am, j...@cam.ac.uk (Jon Warbrick) wrote:
> In article <alpine.LSU.2.00.1102012329440.21...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>,

Cyclovia Devana (after the Roman Road) ?

Chris Shore

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Feb 2, 2011, 11:16:26 AM2/2/11
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"TimB" <twbu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>Cyclovia Devana (after the Roman Road) ?

That sounds like an antibiotic to me.


ZULU

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Feb 2, 2011, 10:00:35 AM2/2/11
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"Martin" <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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"Shona's Folly" should do it nicely...

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zulu

John Lawton

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Feb 2, 2011, 1:19:22 PM2/2/11
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pshore

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Feb 2, 2011, 4:12:59 PM2/2/11
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On Feb 1, 11:31 pm, Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote:


"North West Bank"

Theo Markettos

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Feb 2, 2011, 5:40:56 PM2/2/11
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ng...@aol.com <ng...@aol.com> wrote:
> On 1 Feb., 18:37, Robin Stevens <r...@cynic.org.uk> wrote:
> > Snorkelpath, clearly.

>
> Nice one. You'd probably need signposts to divers places as well.

Davy Shona's Locker?

Theo

Robin Stevens

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Feb 2, 2011, 6:12:29 PM2/2/11
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Theo Markettos <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in cam.transport:

> Davy Shona's Locker?

Not to mention Ham Sandwich (one of the Sunk Ports).

Tony Raven

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Feb 2, 2011, 6:33:54 PM2/2/11
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Robin Stevens wrote:
> Theo Markettos <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in cam.transport:
>> ng...@aol.com <ng...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> On 1 Feb., 18:37, Robin Stevens <r...@cynic.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> Snorkelpath, clearly.
>>> Nice one. You'd probably need signposts to divers places as well.
>
>> Davy Shona's Locker?
>
> Not to mention Ham Sandwich (one of the Sunk Ports).
>

Cambridge Plage after Paris Plage? Or should that be Camepont Plage?

Tony

rosen...@cix.compulink.co.uk

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Feb 2, 2011, 7:07:58 PM2/2/11
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In article <8qu7v2...@mid.individual.net>, tra...@gotadsl.co.uk (Tony
Raven) wrote:

It's the Fen in Fen Drayton, isn't it?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Brian Watson

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Feb 2, 2011, 8:38:22 PM2/2/11
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<ng...@aol.com> wrote in message
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And pedestrians will be frog-marched.

Brian Watson

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Feb 2, 2011, 8:41:36 PM2/2/11
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"ZULU" <zulu.romeo...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Would that be a reference to Shona Cleanpairofheelswhenitallwenttitsup?

nm...@cam.ac.uk

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Feb 3, 2011, 2:13:11 AM2/3/11
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In article <8qu7v2...@mid.individual.net>,

Cambridge Sous Mer?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Alun

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Feb 3, 2011, 4:35:21 AM2/3/11
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The Museum of Concrete Experience

Ian Bidwell

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Feb 3, 2011, 6:10:58 AM2/3/11
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Bog Standard cycleway

Ian

Kev Bishop

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Feb 3, 2011, 8:17:50 PM2/3/11
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"Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
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You forgot the double barreled part Cleanpairofheelswhenitallwenttitsup-due
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nepetismemployingfamilymembersandbringingthecouncilintodisreputebutwehavestartedsowewillfinish

kbrumann

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Feb 4, 2011, 6:18:06 AM2/4/11
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On Feb 1, 11:31 pm, Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

'Cyclebahn' : "Bahn" is the word for track or railway, Most people are
familiar with the term "Autobahn", meaning motorway. So a 'cyclebahn'
is a somewhat aspirational word for a good, even highway for cyclists
by a railway track ;-)

'Cyclebahn' abbreviates as "CB". As someone on the Cycling Campaign's
Members list suggested we could extent the network and have a CB1,
CB2 ...

Klaas

Tony Raven

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Feb 4, 2011, 10:17:58 AM2/4/11
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kbrumann <klaas....@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'Cyclebahn' : "Bahn" is the word for track or railway, Most people are
> familiar with the term "Autobahn", meaning motorway. So a 'cyclebahn'
> is a somewhat aspirational word for a good, even highway for cyclists
> by a railway track ;-)
>
> 'Cyclebahn' abbreviates as "CB". As someone on the Cycling Campaign's
> Members list suggested we could extent the network and have a CB1,
> CB2 ...
>
> Klaas

And it's just one letter away from it's probable ultimate fate, a Cycleban
;-)
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Tony

Judith

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Feb 4, 2011, 10:32:34 AM2/4/11
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:31:43 +0000, Martin <mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

>
>
>"The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
>Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
>
>http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>
>Any suggestions


Organ Donor Lane


bugbear

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Feb 4, 2011, 10:34:39 AM2/4/11
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You should leave the tasteless revelling in death
to mrcheerful.

He's much better at it.

BugBear

kbrumann

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Feb 4, 2011, 10:39:57 AM2/4/11
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On Feb 4, 3:17 pm, Tony Raven <tra...@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:

There you go, we are delivering "tomorrow's" headlines today ;-)

PhilO

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Feb 4, 2011, 11:19:56 AM2/4/11
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On Feb 4, 3:32 pm, Judith <jmsmith2...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Organ Donor Lane

Not quite right. As cyclists have longer life expectancy than average,
Organ Recipient is more likely.

But then it's not like Judith to scaremonger, is it?

Judith

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Feb 4, 2011, 3:25:14 PM2/4/11
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I really do appreciate it.

Judith

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Feb 4, 2011, 3:26:45 PM2/4/11
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:19:56 -0800 (PST), PhilO <goo1...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:


Sorry - I got it from *your* arsewipe paper : the Daily Mail:

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Members of the medical profession refer to cyclists as "donors".
(Daily Mail)


The Medway Handyman

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Feb 4, 2011, 3:38:23 PM2/4/11
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Lycra Lane
Wanker Way
Tosser Trail
Sponger Street
Freeloader Freeway
Dimwit Drive


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Brian Watson

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Feb 5, 2011, 3:39:31 AM2/5/11
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"The Medway Handyman" <davi...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 04/02/2011 15:32, Judith wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:31:43 +0000, Martin<mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
>>> Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
>>>
>>> http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>>>
>>> Any suggestions
>>
>>
>> Organ Donor Lane
>
> Lycra Lane
> Wanker Way
> Tosser Trail
> Sponger Street
> Freeloader Freeway
> Dimwit Drive

Rue Pedaliste?

;-)

Jon Green

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Feb 6, 2011, 10:22:10 AM2/6/11
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On 02/02/2011 02:42, Stuart Moore wrote:

> On Feb 1, 11:31 pm, Martin<mv...@remove.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> "The cycleway next to the Guided Busway" isn't a great name. Cambridge
>> Cycling Campaign have issued a call for ideas:
>>
>> http://twitter.com/camcycle/status/32541295876505600
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> A few interesting ones so far:http://search.twitter.com/search?q=camcycle
>>
>
> Someone on twitter has suggested White Elephant Way, which I like.

Damn, I just suggested White Elephant Trunk Route!

Jon
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PhilO

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Feb 6, 2011, 7:34:59 PM2/6/11
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On Feb 4, 8:26 pm, Judith <jmsmith2...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Members of the medical profession refer to cyclists as "donors".
> (Daily Mail)

What is it you say in these circumstances, Judith? Ah yes:
"I am sure you will have a URL which will back up this claim - or are
you yet another from the Porky school of dishonesty?"

I have tried the Daily Mail website, but all I got was:
"You searched for 'cyclist organ donors' - No results found"

So, where is your reference to this?

If it's just "Judith says the Daily Mail says..." then it is almost
bound not to be true.

pshore

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Feb 7, 2011, 8:31:43 AM2/7/11
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On Feb 2, 9:12 pm, pshore <psh...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "North West Bank"


After bumping into NickMc I've realised that my suggestion is waaay to
subtle (or rubbish).

The North West Bank looks like a normal innocent fenland name but ....

North West - because its NW of Cambridge.
Bank - because it holds back water.
North West Bank - a play on Natwest Bank, because that's where all our
money is.
West Bank - because there's as much controversy as there is near
Israel.

Owen Dunn

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Feb 7, 2011, 9:27:01 AM2/7/11
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pshore <psh...@o2.co.uk> writes:

> West Bank - because there's as much controversy as there is near
> Israel.

Actually, the Guided Bus is remarkably _un_controversial!

(S)

Judith

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Feb 7, 2011, 10:08:31 AM2/7/11
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 16:34:59 -0800 (PST), PhilO <goo1...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Feb 4, 8:26 pm, Judith <jmsmith2...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


I know that you are not very good at "researching" such things - so go
away and try again.

You really are excellent value you know.

--
2009 per billion passenger kilometres:

Cyclists Killed or seriously injured : 567
Pedestrians Killed or seriously injured : 415

Which is the safer form of transport?

PhilO

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Feb 7, 2011, 11:02:38 AM2/7/11
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On Feb 7, 3:08 pm, Judith <jmsmith2...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 16:34:59 -0800 (PST), PhilO <goo18...@yahoo.co.uk>

>
> >So, where is your reference to this?
>
> >If it's just "Judith says the Daily Mail says..." then it is almost
> >bound not to be true.
>
> I know that you are not very good at "researching" such things - so go
> away and try  again.
>
> You really are excellent value you know.
>

Judith,

Your double standards are showing again. If you make a claim it is up
to YOU to provide evidence. Please provide evidence of your "Daily
Mail says claim"

If others make a claim you say they have to provide a url or imply
they made it up, but when you make a claim, I have to research it?

You do appear to be either quite mad or hypocritical.


> --      
> 2009 per billion passenger kilometres:
>
> Cyclists Killed or seriously injured : 567
> Pedestrians Killed or seriously injured : 415
>
> Which is the safer form of transport?

You keep asking this, so I'll keep answering by including the figures
you deliberately miss out:

Killed per billion passenger km: Pedal cycle 21, Pedestrian 26. (DfT
2009 figures).

Hard to say which is safer (when you look at the whole picture).

TimB

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Feb 9, 2011, 10:19:24 AM2/9/11
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Don't feed the troll! If we started another thread we'd be free of
Judith for about five minutes, I suppose....
Tim

The Medway Handyman

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"The word "troll" is in common usage in Usenet. However, the
psycholists have adopted it for their own use to apply to anyone who
disagrees with their ingrained and irrational views. This enables
them to say "ignore him - he is a troll" when faced with facts which
are too unpalatable for the psycholist to contemplate - never mind
discuss in a sensible fashion".

TimB

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On Feb 9, 7:39 pm, The Medway Handyman <davidl...@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

I didn't say anything about 'him', I said Judith - she's a crazy
obsessive who lends nothing to sensible discussion.
Tim

Judith

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:15:11 -0800 (PST), TimB <twbu...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

Ah - diddums - can't you stomach a bit of criticism - or some
straight facts.

--

The BMA view of helmets:


The BMA (British Medical Association) urges legislation to make the wearing of cycle helmets compulsory for both adults and children.
The evidence from those countries where compulsory cycle helmet use has already been introduced is that such legislation has a beneficial effect on cycle-related deaths and head injuries.
This strongly supports the case for introducing legislation in the UK. Such legislation should result in a reduction in the morbidity and mortality associated with cycling accidents.

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