tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9783312.post5026803486890755518..comments2008-04-17T13:12:01.916+01:00Ted Hoffmannoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9783312.post-23516535244345864032008-04-17T13:12:00.000+01:002008-04-17T13:12:00.000+01:00@ Anonymous:<BR/><BR/>That, I'm afraid is just uninformed and plain crazy talk. We owe an awful lot more to the automobile than you think.Rabbie Macintoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02554135983000878436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9783312.post-75825030823916139312008-04-13T09:44:00.000+01:002008-04-13T09:44:00.000+01:00Cars are evil and must be punished. Tax the feckers off the road, I say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9783312.post-11897957173562972052008-04-11T11:32:00.000+01:002008-04-11T11:32:00.000+01:00I was thinking about the wonders of overtaking last week, but not in the context of driving...<BR/><BR/>At 6 pm, on friday evening, in a central London swimming pool the politics of varying speed make a sedate water-pit into Le Mans... With only one over-taking lane for both directions of swimmer, and everyone from the geriatric to the bodybuilding cramped into the fast lane if they want to do crawl, you get all the machinations of road rage...<BR/><BR/>I've personally ended up sopping wet and being raged at by a Portugese weightlifter as I desperately try to explain the fact that no, I wasn't accelerating to prevent him overtaking, I was simply <I>in the zone </I>...<BR/><BR/>Pool rage is a very real phenomenon, and demonstrates conclusively that its not just the protective shield of steel that turns us all into arseholes...Edwin Hesselthwitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237506914185757749noreply@blogger.com