Critical Mass: Douchebag of the Month - March 2011

[Sri Hanuman]

Hey, all it takes is one bad batch of acid. Problem solved.

[Douche_Supreme]

I lived in Austin for many years and the Naked Unwashed Jobless Stoned Hippie made up 90% of the Critical Massers, and Austin is so bike friendly you can ride from one end of town to the other almost without even having to get on the street. I'm talking bike trails here people. But did that stop the damn hippies from having to annoy everyone else... HELL NO! It's not about social change, its all about appearing like you care about social change, while you party like a stoned Grateful Dead (ugh, glad Jerry's Dead) Fan. Good Call Screw the Critical Massers!

[joan ranger]

so, here we are again discussing the benefits of taekwondo vs. aikijutsu.

[joan ranger]

so, here we are again discussing the benefits of taekwondo vs. aikijutsu

[Yoj]

This is the true. Unless of course, you want to involve some funky Relativity where each car is traveling at different speeds, and therefore the occupants of each car are operating under a different meaning of time.

So if they are both moving at different speeds then at some point car A has a collision with car B, but B does not collide with A?

Did the accident occur because Schroedingers cat escaped and ran across the road?

[TaeBo_Master]

homernoid: speaking in generalities, two cars collide. the onus is on the one who hit the other first. regardless of whether or not the one who hits two, is by law, guilty of a number of infractions according the The Highway Traffic Act. what you are saying is that one is by law, the defendant as one had 'more ability to harm or injure is bearing more responsibility. of course because he struck two first. without speaking legal ease, how do you justify your incoherent statement. ps. here's a bar of soap. go wash out your mouth.

Whereas typically, a 4-month necro isn't that big of a deal... in this case, I lobby to have this poster dragged out and shot.

You are an idiot, the cars hit each other at the same time. Physics is not your friend is it?

This is the true. Unless of course, you want to involve some funky Relativity where each car is traveling at different speeds, and therefore the occupants of each car are operating under a different meaning of time.

[Homernoid]

joan ranger you are a MORON.
Imagine folowing picture:
a pedestrian, while totally ignoring traffic rules, crosses a street in a very dangerous way. the driver of that car aproaching realizes in a blink the pedestrians mistake. The named driver is still in a comfortable distance to stop his vehicle thus avoiding an accident.

now the prized question:
is that driver allowed to run over the foolish pedestrian or is there the easy to comprehend rule to be cautious and to avoid accidents for the sake of it?

tell me, please.
not understanding that very basic fact makes you a moron indeed.

[Yoj]

speaking in generalities, two cars collide. the onus is on the one who hit the other first.

You are an idiot, the cars hit each other at the same time. Physics is not your friend is it?

[It is Fake]

homernoid: speaking in generalities, two cars collide. the onus is on the one who hit the other first. regardless of whether or not the one who hits two, is by law, guilty of a number of infractions according the The Highway Traffic Act. what you are saying is that one is by law, the defendant as one had 'more ability to harm or injure is bearing more responsibility. of course because he struck two first. without speaking legal ease, how do you justify your incoherent statement. ps. here's a bar of soap. go wash out your mouth.

When he's done you need to use that soap as well.

[joan ranger]

homernoid: speaking in generalities, two cars collide. the onus is on the one who hit the other first. regardless of whether or not the one who hits two, is by law, guilty of a number of infractions according the The Highway Traffic Act. what you are saying is that one is by law, the defendant as one had 'more ability to harm or injure is bearing more responsibility. of course because he struck two first. without speaking legal ease, how do you justify your incoherent statement. ps. here's a bar of soap. go wash out your mouth.

[Homernoid]

i say take all bike riders off the road. they are a bunch of spandex-wearing yupppy-old men who should take up the sport of 'rocking chair'. get off the road, it was never built for you and it is you, and only you who are to blame for accidents.

joan ranger, you are a fucking moron.
the question, who is to blame for what, usually is a judical question. and in that quiet obvious way, more often than not, the party with more ability to harm or injure is bearing more responsibility and therefore, in case of an accident, is (more) to blame, at least.

And this is, why Gustard is absolutely right, when he's saying:

I dont care how ridiculous you think these cyclists are - that you seem to be happy to point out how spoilt, misguided and stupid they are and yet seem relatively uncritical of the utterly psychopathic behaviour of the driver in this youtube video makes you, Phrost, MY douchebag of the month.

[joan ranger]

i say take all bike riders off the road. they are a bunch of spandex-wearing yupppy-old men who should take up the sport of 'rocking chair'. get off the road, it was never built for you and it is you, and only you who are to blame for accidents.

[Gustard]

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I dont care how ridiculous you think these cyclists are - that you seem to be happy to point out how spoilt, misguided and stupid they are and yet seem relatively uncritical of the utterly psychopathic behaviour of the driver in this youtube video makes you, Phrost, MY douchebag of the month.

[All Dice]

I've done a few CMs. What's this got to do with martial arts?

People have a right to protest whatever the fuck they want and do it whatever the fucking way they can get away with. So far CM has not been able to be stopped despite arrests, fines, "police escorts" you name it.

I say more power to them.

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[ChenPengFi]

Right. But did you get there dicking around chatting with friends and coasting or did you get there riding like you meant to get somewhere? I support bikes in the right application (like downtown Osaka, where I've lived for the last three years). I can beat the subway over short distances even on my fruity little one-speed with the basket.

My point is not that i support obstructing traffic, i clearly do not.
The terms "traffic' and exactly who is doing the obstructing are somewhat subjective.
In the pic i posted a cyclist in the back of that heap could argue that the cars are all doing the obstructing, after all the speed limit is 25 and they're just sitting there...

CM is an infrequent occurrence, and publicized.
If you cannot plan your day well and get angry because something you didn't account for comes up you have issues.
When i commuted, what i did see daily was a blatant disregard for the law by motorists in regards to the safety of cyclists.
I don't routinely put other people's lives at risk because i'm in a hurry.

Is that Honolulu? I wish I could control my body temperature well enough to live there. Once I broke a sweat on the bike ride to work I'd be dripping all day.

Yes. Even after a shower? When i rode i was living east of Honolulu, so i usually had a tailwind and a slope in my favor on the way in which helped.

That's something that keeps me off a bike in mid-summer. Can I get a note about that from a doctor to show the massers if they obstruct me in the future?

I think your summers are hotter than here, no?
It rarely hits 90 here.
I just try to avoid any and all construction, parades, demonstrations etc. when driving.
I would personally not run over a pile of naked hippies on bikes if they happened to obstruct me; if only for the reason my subsequent arrest and the explosion of patchouli/hippie pheromone that would permanently engulf the city would more than nullify the momentary glee i might have felt.