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Here's your THREAD for today on Guy Ritchie being reported and exactly why The Daily Mail is so dreadful - yes, more reasons than you thought!
A. Firstly, solidarity with @MikeyCycling as abuse and threats are directed at him. Remember that @SuptAndyCox of @MPSRTPC and other
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A. Firstly, solidarity with @MikeyCycling as abuse and threats are directed at him. Remember that @SuptAndyCox of @MPSRTPC and other
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Police Services have called for 3rd party reporting (by dashcam and other cameras) of careless/dangerous driving.
B. Language "The lycra-clad vigilante who shopped stationary Guy Ritchie texting behind the wheel: Road safety warrior..."
(i) Lycra is in all sorts of clothing
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B. Language "The lycra-clad vigilante who shopped stationary Guy Ritchie texting behind the wheel: Road safety warrior..."
(i) Lycra is in all sorts of clothing
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- it's a tedious shorthand for anti-cycling bigotry.
(ii) "shopped" - a bit of well 'ard pseudo-criminal argot - such as you'd find in, er, a Guy Ritchie film - tands in for informing the police of a crime which endangers other people. For which the criminal receives the
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(ii) "shopped" - a bit of well 'ard pseudo-criminal argot - such as you'd find in, er, a Guy Ritchie film - tands in for informing the police of a crime which endangers other people. For which the criminal receives the
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"punishment" of a few penalty points and a fine he can well afford.
(iii) "Vigilante". Do look it up - it's someone "executing summary justice" or maybe "undertaking law enforcement". He isn't - he is reporting a crime to the police, which is different.
(iv) "Warrior" - my New 4/
(iii) "Vigilante". Do look it up - it's someone "executing summary justice" or maybe "undertaking law enforcement". He isn't - he is reporting a crime to the police, which is different.
(iv) "Warrior" - my New 4/
Shorter Oxford says: "A person whose occupation is warfare". It also says "a hardy or courageous person" which is fine - but he's NOT occupied in warfare: he reported someone breaking the law in a way which has a negative effect on others' safety so that the law breaker got
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some penalty points. It's NOT warfare for Chrissakes!
C. Mr Ritchie already had 9 penalty points. You have a very few small chance of being caught for infringements of road traffic law in the UK, so maybe Mr Ritchie is either very unlucky or else not very good at driving
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C. Mr Ritchie already had 9 penalty points. You have a very few small chance of being caught for infringements of road traffic law in the UK, so maybe Mr Ritchie is either very unlucky or else not very good at driving
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within the law.
D. The real issue is why the "road safety" industry isn't promoting and getting involved in 3rd party reporting.
And how the DM and others abuse the English language to bolster bigotry.
Do RT if you like this thread
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D. The real issue is why the "road safety" industry isn't promoting and getting involved in 3rd party reporting.
And how the DM and others abuse the English language to bolster bigotry.
Do RT if you like this thread
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and do keep @SuptAndyCox tweet to hand, here it is https://twitter.com/SuptAndyCox/status/1284361145214738433
...and..it's not as if Mr Ritchie is going to suffer very much by not driving for 6 months is it?
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...and..it's not as if Mr Ritchie is going to suffer very much by not driving for 6 months is it?
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