In article <1j8lqef.15qzcth101ip0fN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>,
Sn!pe  wrote:
>BTW, just out of idle curiousity and to display my own prejudice, 
>are you a cyclist?* I note also that you post from chiark, irrelevant 
>as that no doubt is. I'm afraid I'm just the kind of chap who likes to
>put people in boxes, all neatly labeled.
>
 I am indeed a cyclist, in the sense that I own a bicycle and
frequently use it for local travel.  By the same categorisation I'm
also a pedestrian, a bus-user and a train-user.  I'm probably right
down near the bottom of urcm posters in terms of annual milage cycled
though.  Cycling as a leisure activity isn't far up my list of desires.

>* JFTR I should declare that I have a strong dislike of those cyclists
>who disregard the Highway Code; I cannot believe that if elected that
>kind would not bring those thrusting attitudes to the committee. 

 With the exception of occasionally passing a stuck red light with
care[1] I believe that my cycling behaviour is universally in
accordance with the Highway Code (and frequently find myself thinking
imprecations at cyclists who, for instance, pass working red lights at
speed or endanger me on the pavement).

  [1] Something which I could apparently do quite legally by
     dismounting for sufficient time to pass the stop line, which wouldn't
     actually make it any safer or obliviate the need to proceed with care
     since other directions will have green lights

-- 
Jonathan Amery.      Were the whole realm of nature mine,
   #####                That were a present far too small;
  #######__o         Love so amazing, so divine,
  #######'/             Demands my soul, my life, my all.    - Isaac Watts

"Jonathan Amery"  wrote in message 
news:pzB*aHaVs@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> In article <1j8lqef.15qzcth101ip0fN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>,
> Sn!pe  wrote:
>>BTW, just out of idle curiousity and to display my own prejudice,
>>are you a cyclist?* I note also that you post from chiark, irrelevant
>>as that no doubt is. I'm afraid I'm just the kind of chap who likes to
>>put people in boxes, all neatly labeled.
>>
> I am indeed a cyclist, in the sense that I own a bicycle and
> frequently use it for local travel.  By the same categorisation I'm
> also a pedestrian, a bus-user and a train-user.  I'm probably right
> down near the bottom of urcm posters in terms of annual milage cycled
> though.  Cycling as a leisure activity isn't far up my list of desires.

Do you own or drive a car?  Are you an eco-activist?

>>* JFTR I should declare that I have a strong dislike of those cyclists
>>who disregard the Highway Code; I cannot believe that if elected that
>>kind would not bring those thrusting attitudes to the committee.
>
> With the exception of occasionally passing a stuck red light with
> care[1] I believe that my cycling behaviour is universally in
> accordance with the Highway Code (and frequently find myself thinking
> imprecations at cyclists who, for instance, pass working red lights at
> speed or endanger me on the pavement).

Good for you.

In article <hcp9cs$msk$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
Mr Benn <nospam@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>Do you own or drive a car?  Are you an eco-activist?
>
 I neither own nor drive a car, however this is more due to being an
inveterate city dweller (York then Cambridge) than any actual thought
about the environment.  I have owned a car in the past (well,
actually, my wife was the owner of record), but it got used
infrequently and we didn't see the need to replace it when it stopped
working.

-- 
Jonathan Amery.       Once the heron, to set his path.
   #####              Twice the heron, to name him true.
  #######__o       Once the Dragon, for rememberance lost.
  #######'/        Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.    - R.Jordan.