Normally i have no sympathy for the cyclists in the city. but today it was over-ridden by another idiot driver on portland street. Police need to line that entire road and nail every one of the fucking idiots that drive that route and drive like maniacs. Red-light runners, not amber but a full on red. Left turners into on-coming traffic, and today, the point of this bitch, a woman pulled out and made a left hand turn into the path of an oncoming cyclist. she wasnt even looking over her left shoulder, she was looking right to make sure she was going to beat the oncoming traffic from her right. The worst of it all, there was not a single car coming after the cyclist and myself, or the car she was trying to beat and get ahead of. to the cyclist’s credit, he avoided getting smoked like a pro, he must have dealt with this shit on more than one occasion. HALIFAX drivers need to fucking smarten up. —Icky
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2014.
OVER-RIDING ONE’S LACK OF SYMPATHY
“Normally i have no sympathy for the cyclists in the city. but today it was over-ridden by another idiot on portland street.” Icky
How did you over-ride your own lack of sympathy? If you lacked sympathy for cyclists in the first place, how did you manage to do that? Do you find that your thought patterns are confused?
On the other hand, was it the idiot on Portland Street who over-rode your lack of sympathy? Was your lack of sympathy lying out there in the street? Was the experience painful?
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Try crossing at 4 corners during rush hour. Its like frogger, you’re lucky to cross alive, even with a legal light and crosswalk.
Boo-yah.
my lack of sympathy, MM is usually due to the fact i see just as many idiot cyclists on the road as well, which would preclude me from feeling sorry for them experiencing the idiots that drive like maniacs on portland street. then again, i also lack sympathy, but not empathy and have since i was a child.
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: Cuja12 (09/15, 10:57AM)
My point was logical rather than about the lack of sympathy itself. It was about the bitcher’s (your?) incoherence.
If one over-rides one’s lack of sympathy then, by definition, one acquires sympathy which is the opposite of lack of sympathy. (Conversely, if one over-rides one’s sympathy then one, by definition, acquires a lack of sympathy.) But Icky’s (your?) point was that he acquired a lack of sympathy with the cyclists on Portland Street by overcoming his lack of sympathy, which is incoherent. It doesn’t make sense.
I am glad to learn that while you lack sympathy you have acquired empathy since you were a child. But can one have empathy without, at the same time, having sympathy?
Write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
LOL MM’s routine is so predictable and yet amusing. It’s like watching a Roadrunner cartoon.
Bitcher: I like pie.
MM: A PIE PERSUASION
You state clearly that you like pie, though one must wonder the reason for your position? Are your thoughts towards pie perhaps symbolic of a distinct hatred for cake or other deserts rather than a simple love for one kind of baked good? Please get back to me as soon as you can as there is much to discuss.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Bitcher: I dunno, I just like pie. Apple pie, blueberry, rhubarb. All pie. I like pie.
MM:RSVP Bitcher
I was actually asking you what your definition of pie was, since your thoughts on the subject are incoherent. Please read further as I say more things that are mostly boring.
What defines an idiot cyclist?
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: Ho!s+ (1:46PM)
I can see that you have discovered my secret.
But what is to be understood by being a secret?
A secret is conceptually connected with that which is kept from others. If it were not kept from others, then it would not be a secret.
Then if Ho!s+ has discovered your secret does that mean that it is no longer a secret?
Superficially yes, but a discovered secret is thereby elevated to the level of a paradox, that which while superficially self-contradictory is in fact incoherent.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The Roadrunner.
Instead of calling ‘fake bitch’, I’m calling ‘fake commenters’ because most of you degenerates don’t work often enough to own your own vehicle. Hence, you don’t know how cyclists are.
idiot cyclist consists of, failure to use hand signals, riding on the sidewalk and any other miriad infractions i witness regularly. the ones who demand to be treated with respect but fail to respect the rules and laws themselves. just like idiot drivers. MM truly you have made some rather odd assumptions. But since you lack the insight that I assumed i didnt need to give you(i thought you might be able to piece every situation together in your mind) i will enlighten. NORMALLY i lack sympathy for cyclists BECAUSE of witnessing regularly a total disregard for rules and laws by the cyclists i see on a daily basis. That lack of sympathy extends to this forum when another biker comes on with a bitch. Now, in this case, i totally could empathize, with the biker in this case that was almost hit by an idiot driver on portland street. Especially if he had chose to write a bitch about the experience. So whereby i may have felt a sympathetic response as well, if however fleeting for the cyclist. That being said, this morning’s commute showed me the same scenario im used to, more idiot drivers, and two idiot cyclists that dont know how close they came to collisions(not accidents) by their own behaviour. Does it clarify. I would not want you to be confused on the matter any more.
could be worse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0jkps-hBk
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“SOME RATHER ODD ASSUMPTIONS”
“MM truly you have made some rather odd assumptions. But since you lack the insight that I assumed i (sic) didnt (sic) need to give you (i (sic) thought you might be able to piece every situation in your mind), will enlighten.” Cuja 12 (10:10AM)
What can this possible mean? I suppose we should start with Cuja’s assertion that I have made “some rather odd assumptions.” Cuja does not appear to realize that one does not “make” assumptions, odd or otherwise. They are the sort of thing one “has,” the sort of thing one “possesses” prior to engaging in coherent thought, something you have monumentally failed to do. Try to understand that there is no such thing as “assumptionless thought” if I might use such an awkward construction.
Of course, one of your own “assumptions” is that I lack the insight necessary to grasp your assumption that you didn’t need to give me. I’m not sure what, if anything, that could possible mean. In any case, you are right in maintaining that piecing every situation (together?) actually occurs in the mind. Where else could it possibly occur? In the big toe?
That said, I feel my own mind becoming increasingly numb with your rambling, incoherent observations. I think the best course of action would be for you to read over my previous post which, clearly, you have spectacularly failed to grasp. Take your time, think about it, and when you have emerged from the toils of confusion, incoherence and mindlessness, write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!