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Off yer bikes! Cyclists are a menace to society — and self-righteous to boot

You are just pedalling, you plastic-hatted ninnies, not saving the bloody planet

9 November 2013

9:00 AM

9 November 2013

9:00 AM

 ‘Such anti-cyclist anger reminds me in many ways of the feelings about gypsies that I would hear expressed when I lived in central Europe. In Hungary, people would tell me they disliked gypsies because they were lazy and dishonest. The truth was that gypsies — like, I would suggest, cyclists — were unpopular principally for being different.

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