Big girl's blouse alert.

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Angry Cambridge pensioner hits out at passing cyclist with bag of dog poo - Crime - UK - The Independent

 

[Mike63]

....What a disgusting woman.

On a lighter note....the last time I was in Cambridge I saw, on a cycle shop window.
.......somewhere near the railway station.

"If cycles were invented today they would be the solution, not the problem"

.....Mike

 

[flecc]

"If cycles were invented today they would be the solution, not the problem"

.....Mike

And if the private car hadn't existed and it was invented today, it would be banned. Today's governments wouldn't dream of allowing such freedom.

 

[peerjay56]

And if the private car hadn't existed and it was invented today, it would be banned. Today's governments wouldn't dream of allowing such freedom.

You're forgetting that it was never envisaged that the hoi polloi would also use them

 

[mountainsport]

Angry Cambridge pensioner hits out at passing cyclist with bag of dog poo - Crime - UK - The Independent

I can just imagine the cyclist saying to the pensioner, right! now you've messed with the wrong person.

MS.

 

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I can just imagine the cyclist saying to the pensioner, right! now you've messed with the wrong person.

MS.

I'm surprised he didn't call his Mammy.

 

[Clockwise]

I don't think I own a jacket that costs £100 let alone one that costs £100 just to have it cleaned.

 

[jackhandy]

Sounds like the sort of old harridan that would have been first in the queue for handing-out white feathers.

Seems she makes herself a damn nuisance on a regular basis: How else could the bloke react short of returning the crap quick-smart?

 

[Sheffmax]

I don't think I own a jacket that costs £100 let alone one that costs £100 just to have it cleaned.

It was only £25 for his dry cleaning. Poo is poo and should not be used as a weapon.

 

[flecc]

You're forgetting that it was never envisaged that the hoi polloi would also use them

I think in these more egalitarian times it would be envisaged and the prospect treated with horror by the elite.

Unfortunately the car arrived as an invention when the common man was still penniless scum in the eyes of the ruling class (though salt of the earth in speech) who could never afford such a thing.

 

[Scimitar]

I think in these more egalitarian times it would be envisaged and the prospect treated with horror by the elite.

Unfortunately the car arrived as an invention when the common man was still penniless scum in the eyes of the ruling class (though salt of the earth in speech) who could never afford such a thing.

Those fellers Ford and Austin have a lot to answer for.

 

[flecc]

Those fellers Ford and Austin have a lot to answer for.

True, and William Morris too.

Strange how the aims of the likes of Gottfried Daimler and Carl Borgward seemed rather different in Germany, always trending upmarket. It took a dictator to create a peoples car there, and that company still tries to escape upmarket with their Phaeton, Audi and Bugatti divisions.

 

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Post Great War differences, too. There was an army of demobilised drivers here, who, having tasted it, were eager to carry on doing that by any means possible and of course a huge amount of war-surplus machinery to do it on. The motor car/cycle industry received a huge shot in the arm during the war.
The situation in Germany would have been a bit different, I've no doubt. Of course, the economic woes of the Weimar Republic didn't help.

 

[NZgeek]

Those fellers Ford and Austin have a lot to answer for.

Possibly not common on a forum like this, But I'm a car nut (and VERY much a Geek!) and have a 1929 Ford Model A.

So, I travel by both: Cause and Solution

According to local weirdos though, we ride cycles, because we can't afford cars....