Argus season is here - opening shot by the motorists

[Shebeen]

So this appeared in our local community paper yesterday. I think a decent reply is in order.

 

[NixM]

Sounds like the stereotypical octagenarian who has retired to Fish Hoek (probably from Zim) and has nothing better to do than think of things to complain about.

[Spinnekop]

People reading and writing in news papers.  Attention seekers of note.  One can only laugh!

[BarHugger]

Zoologist contributing to pollution and destruction of the environment........

 

Magnus Ilithio Malaka Horribalis

[dirtypot]

I saw this in the paper yesterday.  I thought it was quite amusing 

[Juanhein20]

He sounds like a clever "assholis road user" 

[Blackbeard]

The fact that he would bother to tell all and sundry that he is a zoologist and uses the title Doctor in his byline says enough about the gentleman. He is desperate for recognition/validation - so ignore him.

[Capricorn]

I saw this in the paper yesterday.  I thought it was quite amusing 

I have to agree. no use taking it too seriously, albeit it is a view shared by quite a few motorist on a less intellectual level.

[V12man]

He is a published author.....

[Shebeen]

Sounds like the stereotypical octagenarian who has retired to Fish Hoek (probably from Zim) and has nothing better to do than think of things to complain about.

yes yes yes, but it is so much fun actually. False Bay Echo is the BEST newspaper, I've even seen people writing in to complain about the white tar paint wearing thin on stop streets there.

 

but to be honest, he does have a point. And it was quite funny. The war of bike vs car is well known and has no end in sight.

 

I'd like to say that

a)bikes actually been round longer than cars

b)bikes are cheaper than cars

c)city is promoting use of bike transport

d)bike transport is better for environment

e)sport biking is hugely beneficial to the local population from a health and tourism perspective.

 

There are lots of assholes(his word, not mine) on bikes, but just as many in their cars. We need to work together as we're both going nowhere.

 

Of course i will do this in a witty and insightful way.

[Blackbeard]

He is a published author.....

so is E.L. James.

 

Edit: having done quick search, my comment above might be a bit unfair towards James.

[avatar]

Shame, the poor retard...

 

Dale Kenmuir

(1945–), South African–born fisheries scientist and writer. His adventure stories draw on his experiences in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. Most of the stories portray what has since become an outmoded approach to conservation, as a semimilitary operation against poachers, although he does explain how game reserves have to take into consideration local residents and the need for funding through commercialization. His hero, Tom Finnaughty, features as a teenager visiting a game reserve on the Zambesi (Dry Bones Rattling, 1990; Ol’ Tangletooth, 1990), and as an adult game warden (The Tusks and the Talisman, 1987; Sing of Black Gold, 1991). This is a stereotyped masculine world, in which women are identified with nature. Lyrical, evocative descriptions of the bush and wild creatures are interspersed with passages of clichéd, tough dialogue. If boys have emotional problems, the problems arise from troubled relationships with their fathers, as in The Catch (1993) and Song of the Surf (1988). The latter portrays a sensitive eleven-year-old whose rejection of his father is confused with his revulsion when his father leads fishermen in obtaining a permit to cull seals because they threaten their catch. Father and son are reconciled, but the tension between conservation and commercial exploitation remains. 

[Juanhein20]

 

[Mellow]

Hehe, good read. I can understand how non-cyclists experience the gathering of us ' Clogolodites'

[Rocket-Boy]

Enjoyed the article, was quite funny.

Probably written by someone too overweight to actually cycle though.

[nonky]

That is FUNNY.