saving humanity

My regular readers will know that in general, I'm extremely patient both
with the immature fuckwits here who seek peer approval by posting oh-
so-clever (so they think) attempts to appear surreal, and with the
morons who populate the roads of my belovèd (*waves* at TOG) France.

This afternoon, I yet again asked myself, whether people really deserve
'saving'.

We were going to the restaurant that I just mentioned. I had F., my
mate's girlfriend on the K100, and he was alone on his Fazer, as we had
left F.'s flat and lover boy had to go to his lock-up to get his bike,
so the lady in question elected to stay on the BMW.

We're going up past the Père Lachaise cemetary, and as we're going past
a junction, there's a car indicating left to turn, and so the **** in
the Renault 25 or whatever who was behind and who wanted to go straight
on, pulled out without looking. I had sort of <fx: wiggles nose> sensed
that he was going to do it (his wheels turning right were a dead
giveaway), and so I dodged around him. F. hadn't seen it coming, and so
the sudden movement made her grab a hold of me, which wasn't an
unpleasant experience in itself, but she was obviously scared. I rarely
use the horns on the K100 as they're, well, fucking loud and I don't
like aggression of any sort, so I just revved the engine, stopped in
front of matey and pointed to my eyes with index and middle finger in
the internationally recognised gesture of 'use your eyes, twat !'

We continued on our way, and Mr Renault pulled up next to me at the
lights, wound down his window and started to rant, using the 'tu' form
towards me which was downright disrespectful, considering that I
continued to address him as 'monsieur', and to use 'vous'. I reminded
him that had we fallen, he'd have been in the wrong, what he did was
illegal, etc. The whole time, he didn't stop ranting and screaming,
saying he'd **** my mother, etc. I sort of stopped, looked at him, and
realised that in fact much like porl or Ace, his tantrum wasn't for my
benefit, but for his. He didn't even hear what I was saying.

Now when I think back to every time that I've had occasion to remind a
motorist that his actions have caused me to take evasive action, it
occurs to me that the 'anger' or aggression directed at me is almost
always in direct proportion to the 'degree' to which the person is in
the wrong. That is, someone will do something a bit silly, he or she
will say, 'pardon!', and we'll say no more about it. Someone does
something downright fuckwitted and borderline lethal, and they'll go for
your throat if you dare to point it out to them.

I'm actually tempted to not even bother trying to discuss it, if someone
isn't willing to listen. From now on, I'll spend maybe ten seconds
trying to reason, and if the fuckwit in question has blown a gasket and
is busy ranting and raving, then I'lll just hit him and walk away. Put
him down on the ground, make sure he's in the 'recovery position', and
leave him. There's no point in trying to talk sense into someone's
who's as thick as shit, so why bother?

 

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:14:44 +0100, wrote:

Snip incident

Only problems with that would be that the ranter may take exception to
being hit, and may respond in kind, or report you for assualt and some
one else may note your reg and report you, and then you get a knock on
the door, a chat with the local law, and a nice charge of GBH on your
record - whatever your excuse(1).

Cant see the point really, just walk/ride away in the first place -
though you could always report them for the threatening behaviour (yes
officer, I was frightened for my life etc)

(1) Ah, bitter experience raises it's ugly head


--

MRO# - cant remember

TDM850 - Gone
GSXR750 - Waaaaaaah, flash flash, bugger, burble burble

 

Wow, when did then personality transplant kick in?

Next you'll be saying it's ok to use force to stop your house being
burgled...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

Guilt and displacement.

That's the stuff. So drop us a line from the courthouse.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

<picks up gauntlet>

Oh, I dunno, we still bother with you...

--
Spete
www.gimmemoney.mine.nu
www.spete.homeip.net

Occasionally, I'll be consistent

 

Bitter, bitter, eh ? S'not my fault if she wouldn't shag you, Richard.

 

I've never said anything different. Where I differ from the UKRM
Hoodlums, is that I don't agree that it's OK to _go after_ the burglar
after he's committed the crime, and beat crap out of him.

 

No, but you go after him to arrest him, and if he resists? Well.

 

Well indeed. Except I'm not plod (space for witty rejoinder _________

______________________), nor are most people advocating the 'beating up'
of the burglar.

 

Citizens arrest ;-) (Is there actually any such thing as citizens arrest?)

 

says...

When I was younger, all the car drivers were out to kill me and they all
pulled out in front of me. Now, after 26 years of riding bikes etc
etc........

 

Ho yuss

 

****, what took you so long ? I've only been riding five years, and I
saw this fuckwit pulling out even before he realised that he was doing
it.

 

wrote:
[snip tedious post]

How do you manage to be so boring and yet so prolific?

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

He's a Jock.

hth

 

You don't get off that easily.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ben Blaney

I thought he was a bog-trotter?

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I'm sure he belongs to some third-world shithole or other.

 

He's whatever he feels like belonging to at any particular time. He's
tried, and failed, to be British(, Scottish) and Irish - now he's
doing the same with French.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ben Blaney

Well, he *claims* to.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"