From the Daily Mail - some drivers eh

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greyingbeard
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From the Daily Mail - some drivers eh

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Does she see nothing wrong in her actions, or simply not care ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ondon.html
Richard D
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I see that at least one of the comments managed to turn it into having a go at cyclists (simply because there was a bike in the frame)!

It's bloody scary, the way that every such story always includes a significant number of comments that can be summarised as "cyclists? **** 'em!"
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OK, I clicked :oops: . Plenty more than one now. Why don't the DM editorial admit it? - they 'seed' their own comments pages with any old sort of concocted 'clickbait' rubbish. And cyclist-bashing - however spurious and irrelevant to the article - is their favourite meme....
[conspiracy theory time!]

In fact - this looks like a variant of Godwin's Law (shall we dub it "Dacre's Law" or something?). Stated simply: any comments column in the Daily Fail, if it is allowed to run on long enough, will degenerate into a series of insults directed at cyclists.
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We all see this sort of thing daily. Why the excitement?
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