Boomerang Dave:
With respect, do track back and see who in the order of things started where with the personal insults. I think you’ll find that I respond with kind. I have engaged in discussion and debate with everyone. If you also look in the other thread which I debated in, you’ll also note that I discussed at length in there too.
I can’t find any insult that I’ve directed at you in my original post. Oh, of course, how silly of me, the fact that I’ve comprehensively demolished the points you made using perfectly reasonable language, constitutes an insult in your Boomerang Dave world.
And your response, because you have no reasonable reply, is to distract from the points made, by personally insulting the messenger who exposes your deluded opinions with reasoned comment. How clever you are!
Boomerang Dave:
The subject here isn’t your ability to out manoeuvre me, neither is it how bruised and hurt you feel because I happen to disagree with you. You might also note that I haven’t accused anyone of being a troll - merely because they may disagree with me. Neither am I small minded enough to think that someone may be trying to stop me from having my say - purely because they disagree with me. Those are all your issues - not mine.
The subject was my reply to your disrespectful and quite frankly deluded comments that; “It’s been realised for some time now that a great number of HGV drivers are very poorly educated, lacking the academic skills that could make them better professionals, with a greater understanding of wider issues.”
Apart from still waiting for a reasoned argument from you justifying that inane comment, I’m still incredulous that you consider that in any way acceptable in a forum for truck drivers. What exact qualifications do you possess to make that judgement? I suspect none, although given your penchant for telling all and sundry what a clever boy you are, you’ll be telling us next you’re also a part time brain surgeon.
Boomerang Dave:
I happen to enjoy debate and discussion with like minded or otherwise people. If by me saying that some truck drivers shouldn’t be allowed to push a pram or a wheelbarrow because they are well… ‘thick’ if that gets to you, I don’t really care, I’m not your nanny - grow up - get a grip. You are not exposing anything other than your own ability to misquote, misunderstand and take offence where no personal offence was intended against any specific individual. Perhaps, you lack self esteem, if so - go speak to a counsellor, get some therapy, but do please stop trying to trip me up with your bollox about grammar etc. Your no where near as smart as you think you are, you’re not running rings around anyone.
There you go again. I wasn’t misquoting you, you chose to ignore that fact, and by saying you meant no personal insult, doesn’t mean you haven’t crudely insulted an entire sector of workers… with the natural assumption that you are in some way better than they are. Yet once again you can’t resist insulting me personally, instead of crafting any sort of reasonable reply.
I am starting to think your name might actually be Walter Mitty. After all, we now hear you got bored with driving, to “…operate several other computers around me, on one I’m knocking up applications in php where a dot in the wrong place can corrupt all, on another machine I’m writing up news articles that appear in newspapers, mags, websites etc, on another machine I’m editing photos to go with the articles, on another I’m editing video, on another machine I’m dealing with anywhere between a few dozen and a few hundred of my own incoming email messages…” Now, apparently you want to revisit the tarmac… How lucky we stupid, ill educated truck drivers are to have you amongst us!
Boomerang Dave:
FWIW, I have offered stacks of ideas, potential methods of improving road safety both in this thread and in the other thread I mentioned. What have you suggested to improve matters? Try doing that instead of crying into your soup because I’m not interested in responding to your personal ■■■■■■■■ about how bright you think you are compared to me. That’s not the mission here is it?
Ah, I didn’t realise you were on a mission. I was responding to your deluded post where you basically said, in your opinion, that most truck drivers don’t meet your educational standards, that others can’t reason with your logic, that some people quite reasonably replying to your posts, " …have already provided very good reasoning why arrest is justified."
Boomerang Dave:
The idea is to discuss better ways to improve road safety - to which so far you appear to have offered nothing.
Do a search, I think you’ll find I’ve contributed far more practical advice and comment, based on real world experience, that your self appointed “expert” comments.
Boomerang Dave:
Furthermore, there is no need for you to quote the entire blocks of text which I wrote… I know what I wrote. It just clogs up the page unnecessarily.
Only someone as self obsessed as you appear to be would believe that my quoting your text is to aid your memory.
I have done that, quite reasonably, each time, so that others visiting this discussion can see the comments being made in context. And judge it for themselves! (Of course, you don’t believe truck drivers are intelligent enough to do that, which may explain your position.)
Boomerang Dave:
Now all that said, I have blocked Carryfast, mainly because he just writes the same dull single sentences and fills up the screen with the same continuous rants. I even think he’s entitled to his opinion, there is nothing I can or want to do to stop him having his say, I’m just not interested in what he says. I’m just as entitled to ignore him as you are to have you say. Just a shame you are focussing on me - rather than putting your own points forward.
And that is your response isn’t it. Ignore those that you can’t argue with.
I have been putting my points forward, it’s just that they are not the points you want to hear as they respond to your comments, not your personal agenda here.
Boomerang Dave:
Now if you want to come back at me with lots more bollox about how smart you are and how grammatically challenged I am - go for it. Before you do though, consider these minor factors. When I write my post into this thread, I blind type at however many words per min… at the same time, I am operating several other computers around me, on one I’m knocking up applications in php where a dot in the wrong place can corrupt all, on another machine I’m writing up news articles that appear in newspapers, mags, websites etc, on another machine I’m editing photos to go with the articles, on another I’m editing video, on another machine I’m dealing with anywhere between a few dozen and a few hundred of my own incoming email messages… many of which get less attention than you are getting. I then manage the email accounts of umpty other users and I set out the ROP - that’s Run of Paper for a well known title. In the small windows of opportunity that appear between, I’m knocking out posts in here. They won’t all be brilliantly written, most will have errors in them… like I really care what you think about me personally.
Yes Walter! Now have you taken your tablets, because your mum will be wanting you to have an afternoon nap sometime soon.
Boomerang Dave:
Over to you - what would you do to improve things for road users - including cyclists?
Well before I do that, could you possibly start answering, in a measured manner, some of the points I made with regard to your insulting posts?
