RE: [MEDIA]: USA vs UK

From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 15:45:44 MDT

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    >Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:59:13 -0700
    >From: "Spike" <spike66@comcast.net>
    >Subject: RE: [MEDIA]: USA vs UK
    >Regarding Americans' disrespect for authority, I have
    >a theory on that. Long before we get lessons on how
    >our nation was born out of rebellion against authority,
    >we get a more fundamental lesson in the form of
    >instruction on how to cross a road with a bicycle.
    >We are instructed to dismount the bike and *walk*
    >it across the street or intersection.
    >I ask you: is this not absurd? Do motorcyclists
    >push their bikes across the intersection? Not only
    >is it absurd, it is downright dangerous, for two
    >reasons. First, if one walks the bike across the
    >street, one is in the road for more time than if
    >one rides across.

    Very true. Plus as you and I know (being bike owners), there ain't no one
    who'll tell a biker where he can "push" his mount :)

    >But secondly, and more importantly,
    >if one does obey that silly rule, one appears to be
    >a pussy. Word will get soon around, resulting in three
    >or four burly third-graders catching the hapless prole
    >on the playground and beating him beyond recognition,
    >early and often.
    >Clearly, any authority which would suggest such a
    >thing is either stupid, malicious or both, not
    >deserving of respect or obedience. Unless things
    >have changed a great deal since my childhood in the
    >60s, this bicycle thing is one of the very earliest
    >and most important lessons learned by our children,
    >resulting in their growing up to be solid self-reliant
    >minarchists.

    Yup, things have changed. It's all those small, shiny red/green wheeled
    mini-crap push scooters now.

    And yes, you're even more of a wuss if you walk one of those across the
    intersection.

    James...

    >spike
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