Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
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Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby TraceyG » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:45 am
It doesn't add anything to the actual article http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/ ... 2p06e.html and just reinforces to the broader community that us silly cyclists are fair game to everyone else on the roads.
Why don't these journalists attack footy fans where wear their team colors with sponsors' badges?
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby celeste boy » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:52 am
Same article in the Herald in the television commentary.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:58 am
Yes, I've often argued that point, which people get stumped at. Especially since you have to go out of your way to find a plain cycling shirt (I struggled to find one, so I bought 3 when I found them ). It's kinda the same as wearing a Billabong or any brand label isn't it? You don't have any affiliation with the brand, you just wear the shirt..TraceyG wrote:...
Why don't these journalists attack footy fans where wear their team colors with sponsors' badges?
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby g-boaf » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:24 pm
Anyhow - the link to the article above is great, it gives the Newspaper even more traffic and advertising views. So they've achieved their aims.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby Pravda » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:29 pm
Tony Squires pokes fun at sports in pretty much everything he does.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby im_no_pro » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:32 pm
+1 for mine.Pravda wrote:Jesus, it's just poking fun guys, the oversensitivity in some parts of this forum is amazing. Quit playing the victim card and get over it.
Tony Squires pokes fun at sports in pretty much everything he does.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby g-boaf » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:38 pm
I'm just poking fun too... The difference is that Rugby League is some sort of sacred thing.Pravda wrote:Jesus, it's just poking fun guys, the oversensitivity in some parts of this forum is amazing. Quit playing the victim card and get over it.
Tony Squires pokes fun at sports in pretty much everything he does.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:58 pm
I get annoyed if people start crapping on about how I go out to deliberately annoy and hold up motorists, it's those reinforced negative perceptions of cycling that won't help improve the interactions between motorists and cyclists.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby BastardSheep » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:13 pm
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby lobstermash » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:40 pm
However let's be fair - there are usually plenty of off-the-cuff criticisms of hoon drivers around motoring event dates.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby TDC » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:44 pm
My 75 yo father has been riding from adelaide airport to Glenelg for the past decade. A 25 km round trip that he would do 5 - 6 times per week. Every year in January he complains about the once a year riders that appear at Tour down Under time. He reckon they ride all over the place, and lack road skills and manners. There are pelotons of red faced middle aged riders, huffing and puffing their way down the road. Then he says the day after the race finishes, he doesn't see them for another year.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby zero » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:50 pm
Dunno about you soft curlybar riders, but I'll be out training in July on my manly mountain bike for the 3 Ring Circus. (where i will manfully struggle in at least an hour behind the quickest female riders!)TDC wrote:Maybe he is referring to the July only warriors.
My 75 yo father has been riding from adelaide airport to Glenelg for the past decade. A 25 km round trip that he would do 5 - 6 times per week. Every year in January he complains about the once a year riders that appear at Tour down Under time. He reckon they ride all over the place, and lack road skills and manners. There are pelotons of red faced middle aged riders, huffing and puffing their way down the road. Then he says the day after the race finishes, he doesn't see them for another year.
As far as road manners goes, parking a car at the kerb and blocking a quarter of the road for as long as one feels like is worse than anything any cyclist does ever.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby TDC » Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:58 pm
what do you do for the rest of the year?zero wrote:Dunno about you soft curlybar riders, but I'll be out training in July on my manly mountain bike for the 3 Ring Circus. (where i will manfully struggle in at least an hour behind the quickest female riders!)TDC wrote:Maybe he is referring to the July only warriors.
My 75 yo father has been riding from adelaide airport to Glenelg for the past decade. A 25 km round trip that he would do 5 - 6 times per week. Every year in January he complains about the once a year riders that appear at Tour down Under time. He reckon they ride all over the place, and lack road skills and manners. There are pelotons of red faced middle aged riders, huffing and puffing their way down the road. Then he says the day after the race finishes, he doesn't see them for another year.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby zero » Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:25 pm
ride a soft curlybar bikeTDC wrote:what do you do for the rest of the year?zero wrote:Dunno about you soft curlybar riders, but I'll be out training in July on my manly mountain bike for the 3 Ring Circus. (where i will manfully struggle in at least an hour behind the quickest female riders!)TDC wrote:Maybe he is referring to the July only warriors.
My 75 yo father has been riding from adelaide airport to Glenelg for the past decade. A 25 km round trip that he would do 5 - 6 times per week. Every year in January he complains about the once a year riders that appear at Tour down Under time. He reckon they ride all over the place, and lack road skills and manners. There are pelotons of red faced middle aged riders, huffing and puffing their way down the road. Then he says the day after the race finishes, he doesn't see them for another year.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby TTar » Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:35 pm
That's exactly right and it's not being "oversensitive" to object to it.BastardSheep wrote:I was ok with it until this bit "inspired to annoy motorists as only a group of bike riders can". That's the part that's really a dig imho, and not a light-hearted "laughing with them" way.
The best that can be said about it is that it's a lazy and thoughtless joke, but that doesn't excuse the bigotry behind the second part of the remark (ask Eddie Maguire about that) and more importantly it only serves to reinforce the hatred of the bogan motorist -- who knows, maybe it'll be this one "harmless" joke that inspires a lunatic to "teach a cyclist a lesson".
Imagine if Tony Squires was reviewing a doco about Gay history and wrote "Warning: over the next couple of weeks, gay blokes in tight-fitting outfits will be even more flamboyant, inspired to annoy heterosexuals as only a group of gays can."
With good reason, there's laws against that sort of vilification -- a high profile mainstream writer should be aware of the sort of impact a cheap joke can have.
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby ldrcycles » Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:02 pm
The problem is that reinforcing these backwards views of cycling in mainstream media is not just a joke, it's a matter of life and death. I would quite like not to end up under some lunatic's car because he thought I was just "out to annoy motorists".
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby Riggsbie » Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:08 pm
There is not 'real' story so they just dig out the usual nonsense and prejudices....
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby il padrone » Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:36 am
Even worse when said lunatic motorist tells the judge "It was just a bit of a joke"ldrcycles wrote:The problem is that reinforcing these backwards views of cycling in mainstream media is not just a joke, it's a matter of life and death. I would quite like not to end up under some lunatic's car because he thought I was just "out to annoy motorists".
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby g-boaf » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:30 am
il padrone wrote:Even worse when said lunatic motorist tells the judge "It was just a bit of a joke"ldrcycles wrote:The problem is that reinforcing these backwards views of cycling in mainstream media is not just a joke, it's a matter of life and death. I would quite like not to end up under some lunatic's car because he thought I was just "out to annoy motorists".
It is freedom of speech and freedom of opinion. That means you are allowed to preach hatred and openly provocative opinions. If you say otherwise, you are just one of those tree hugging, Socialist-Commies who shouldn't have a right to vote or be heard.
The media in this country are a joke. All extremely right wing. How I'd love to see a couple of left wing newspapers here to balance things out a bit. (And no, SMH is as right wing as News Ltd is).
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Re: Melbourne Age can't resist cycling barb
Postby warthog1 » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:06 pm
Correct, there is right wing and extreme right wing. Hopefully when Rupert finally shuffles off his son won't be quite so bad, probably dreaming thoughg-boaf wrote:
The media in this country are a joke. All extremely right wing. How I'd love to see a couple of left wing newspapers here to balance things out a bit. (And no, SMH is as right wing as News Ltd is).
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