Get fizz a 2lb hammer – she can teach some manners to the bad motorists. As a kid, she will have no comeback?
(Okay – I know that the Mum could be sued for failing to control her kid etc )
Isn’t a ‘delete’ function in a threaded discussion unrealistic? You can’t take back what you say offline, why should you be able to do so online? And it destroys the context for future users if you decided to delete all your comments.
Maybe this is why WordPress doesn’t offer this functionality right out of the box.
Yup. That also forces you to think about what you write and to proof read it before hitting the Post Comment button We’ve gotten too lazy and too sloppy.
Good point Adam – I usually compose in ‘Word’ before copy/pasting in here. It is when I get too lazy to do that that I hit problems.
Thaks for the tip(s), I will try and get my faulty memory to make fewer mistakes.
I suppose, putting a corrected comment up behind the faulty one gives an audit trail for all to see and will also reveal the thinking behind any corrections etc?
I try to proofread my posts, but my written English isn’t so good. So sometimes I happen to see misspelligs just after hitting “send” – in this case,with the old software I withdrew my post and replaced it with some correction.
Point made Rick and I agree.
The larger text of the new website might reduce my errors but when I see that I have written something wrong or I have misspelt what I just posted, It would be nice to make a change. So maybe an ‘edit’ function instead of a delete? (That is – I can edit what I submitted, not what somebody else did, of course)
My Dyslexia gives me all sorts of mistakes, spelling, wrong word/phrase etc and In the past I could delete the faulty post and replace it with a corrected one. So the ‘edit’ function makes more sense to me…
To date, nobody matching the description of the driver in today’s comic has ever pulled a stunt like that w/me. Then again, I don’t have a child, nor do I ride with them.
That said, if this is based on a real incident, it would only go to prove that Jerks (not original comment) come in all shapes, sizes, and hair colors.
Happens all the time to my wife and I. Anytime you are out with a child on the road on a bike you are “endangering” your child. But stick you kids in the back of an SUV with a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other while driving well over the speed limit and that’s considered perfectly “safe.” It never occurs to these well intentioned drivers that THEY are the reason cyclists (including any children that may be with them) are in any danger.
Very often, right after being violated, cut off or otherwise endangered by a car driver, they’d pull up next to me at a light and start lecturing me about road safety. Yeah dude, if it wasn’t for your road rage and passing me at 50mph on a narrow bridge I would be perfectly safe. People are f***ing entitled morons, always wrong, never in doubt.
The most aggressive honk/yell I’ve ever experienced was a blue haired lady passenger in a GMC Yukon Denali who seemed convinced that I belonged on the sidewalk instead of in ‘her’ beloved lane (3 lane wide road…)
Okay — Now I know why one might want a delete function. What happened to my ‘nickname’ that causes my e-mail address to come up? I’ve modified my profile… twice!
I liked the old ‘like’ system which identified who ‘liked’ the comment and gave us a sort of cameraderie about stuff. Just totals do little – especially when I can ‘like’ my own comment as much as I like to slew the figures!
Now for the one bright spot. Years ago, when my oldest son was little, he was in the bike seat on the back. A guy in a pickup started following us. Finally at a light, he gets out. I am ready to do battle. He walks up and hands me a Polaroid picture — it was years ago — of my son asleep in the bike seat, his oversized helmet against my back, while we went through traffic. He said it was so funny he had to get a picture, he wanted to share one with me. I still have the photo, and the son is in his 30s and rides with his son now. I know, I know, it’s just one motorist who gets it. But it proves they are not “all” jerks. And I’m still riding and watching out for the ones who are.
Yesterady on a ride, a car passed me and turned into the driveway right in front of me. To make it worse, I was in a bike lane and they didn;t even use a turn signal. Dang…. I wore 200 miles off my rear tire slamming on the breaks….
Hey lady… didn;t yu see my flashing red light?
Had a very similar story pop up from a local blogger in my twitter feed last week. Local media picked up on it a bit. Consensus was that the mother should get off the bike and walk. People just don’t get it.
When I log into my old account to post, it now uses my email as my username, rather than “Kapusta”. I don’t want my email public. I can’t figure out how to re-register with a different username. Is the idea to just have us enter a new username and email every time we comment (like I am doing now)?
Hey Rick, can you find a way to make the nav buttons float more towards the left side of the frame? On the iphone they are off the screen to the right and I can’t move the panel over to reach them. Maybe a problem with ipads too but I don’t have one of those.
Actually I just logged back into the new site w/ WordPress and at the top, where it usually says “Howdy, yourname” everything after “Howd” is off the screen to the right and Apple won’t let me pinch the screen smaller to see the far right part of the screen. Definitely something with iphone. Anyone else have similar probs or know how to fix it on an iphone?
Today’s strip is nothing at all about a liberal nanny state. It’s about an older private citizen taking issue with a certain behavior, misguided as she is in doing so. If the state is responsible for anything here, it’s subsidizing parking, building too many roads, incentivizing suburban sprawl, tipping the scales way too far in favor of automobiles, and providing (possibly?) inadequate infrastructure for other modes of transportation like bikes.
It’s amazing to me that there’s even such a thing as public transit anymore and that we’re all not forced to live in some exurban “paradise” (AKA sprawl) given the Conservative One Party Petro-giant Cleptocracy ™ we live in.
Sorry, I subscribe to neither the Socialist-Liberal Nanny State – NOR – the Theocratic, medieval Petro-giant Cleptocracy either. BOTH are slavery.
The woman in today’s strip is parroting the Socialist-Liberal Nanny State. I’m not buying. If she was parroting the Theocratic Right – I’m not buying that either.
@Zorba, @blindpilot, Y’all need to relax. I’m not sure what exactly either one of you are talking about, but I’m sure you don’t need to get in someone’s face (cyber-ly speaking) about it. It’s a comic, about bicycles. Laugh, shake your head, do whatever, just don’t get all in a huff about it!
Sorry for trying to respond to comment and speak my mind about something that is germane to the subject of the day’s strip. I’ll just make all my comments happy, fluffy comments about bikes, rainbows, and unicorns now and never talk about politics or other serious stuff even if it pertains directly to the strip and another reader’s comment…
The number one “disease” that kills kids is motor vehicle wrecks. The most dangerous thing we do to our kids is strap them in the SUV, and that doesn’t even include the air pollution, sedentary lifestyle, and loss of arable land caused by automobilism.
Must be ladies day for the strip, can’t believe I get to be the first to comment!
Get fizz a 2lb hammer – she can teach some manners to the bad motorists. As a kid, she will have no comeback?
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(Okay – I know that the Mum could be sued for failing to control her kid etc
Now that’s just too logical an option and too much like I would have done.
I’m curious – What does the ‘permalink’ do?
Now, I just used Wiki to find out and no longer need an answer.
So I want to delete the question but have no ‘Delete’ button…
Isn’t a ‘delete’ function in a threaded discussion unrealistic? You can’t take back what you say offline, why should you be able to do so online? And it destroys the context for future users if you decided to delete all your comments.
Maybe this is why WordPress doesn’t offer this functionality right out of the box.
Yup. That also forces you to think about what you write and to proof read it before hitting the Post Comment button
We’ve gotten too lazy and too sloppy.
So Tencon could have read the Wiki or just google it up *before* making that post.
Good point Adam – I usually compose in ‘Word’ before copy/pasting in here. It is when I get too lazy to do that that I hit problems.
Thaks for the tip(s), I will try and get my faulty memory to make fewer mistakes.
I suppose, putting a corrected comment up behind the faulty one gives an audit trail for all to see and will also reveal the thinking behind any corrections etc?
That should be ‘Thanks for the tips’ above for example.
btw – I actually used the ‘wiki’ comment to provide an example of where I personally might use the delete function.
I try to proofread my posts, but my written English isn’t so good. So sometimes I happen to see misspelligs just after hitting “send” – in this case,with the old software I withdrew my post and replaced it with some correction.
Point made Rick and I agree.
The larger text of the new website might reduce my errors but when I see that I have written something wrong or I have misspelt what I just posted, It would be nice to make a change. So maybe an ‘edit’ function instead of a delete? (That is – I can edit what I submitted, not what somebody else did, of course)
My Dyslexia gives me all sorts of mistakes, spelling, wrong word/phrase etc and In the past I could delete the faulty post and replace it with a corrected one. So the ‘edit’ function makes more sense to me…
To date, nobody matching the description of the driver in today’s comic has ever pulled a stunt like that w/me. Then again, I don’t have a child, nor do I ride with them.
That said, if this is based on a real incident, it would only go to prove that Jerks (not original comment) come in all shapes, sizes, and hair colors.
Happens all the time to my wife and I. Anytime you are out with a child on the road on a bike you are “endangering” your child. But stick you kids in the back of an SUV with a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other while driving well over the speed limit and that’s considered perfectly “safe.” It never occurs to these well intentioned drivers that THEY are the reason cyclists (including any children that may be with them) are in any danger.
Very often, right after being violated, cut off or otherwise endangered by a car driver, they’d pull up next to me at a light and start lecturing me about road safety. Yeah dude, if it wasn’t for your road rage and passing me at 50mph on a narrow bridge I would be perfectly safe. People are f***ing entitled morons, always wrong, never in doubt.
I can’t believe the crap I get from drivers every time I have my kids play Frogger in the street.
The most aggressive honk/yell I’ve ever experienced was a blue haired lady passenger in a GMC Yukon Denali who seemed convinced that I belonged on the sidewalk instead of in ‘her’ beloved lane (3 lane wide road…)
Okay — Now I know why one might want a delete function. What happened to my ‘nickname’ that causes my e-mail address to come up? I’ve modified my profile… twice!
Let’s see if logging out and re-logging in helps… not that it solves the real problem here… but at least it might help with the future…
Never mind… I’m kind of an idiot, it appears. I missed the ‘show comment as’ option. all better (And, yes, I talk to myself way too much!)
I liked the old ‘like’ system which identified who ‘liked’ the comment and gave us a sort of cameraderie about stuff. Just totals do little – especially when I can ‘like’ my own comment as much as I like to slew the figures!
Don’t feel sad and alone… I like you, Tencon.
Like.
Thank you Platypious
Yes Tencon, rest assured that we like you, even without a button to push
BTW, the old system would let you like your own posts!
The old system allowed us to ‘like’ our own posts but identified us doing so of course
I just made a test and it will not let us ‘like’ a comment more than once.
That seems to answer the question…
Thanks Adam
Now for the one bright spot. Years ago, when my oldest son was little, he was in the bike seat on the back. A guy in a pickup started following us. Finally at a light, he gets out. I am ready to do battle. He walks up and hands me a Polaroid picture — it was years ago — of my son asleep in the bike seat, his oversized helmet against my back, while we went through traffic. He said it was so funny he had to get a picture, he wanted to share one with me. I still have the photo, and the son is in his 30s and rides with his son now. I know, I know, it’s just one motorist who gets it. But it proves they are not “all” jerks. And I’m still riding and watching out for the ones who are.
This was in the news a while ago. Cyclist shot by an off duty firefighter for riding with his youngster and wife on the road.
http://www.wyff4.com/Police-Asheville-Firefighter-Shot-Bicyclist/-/9324882/6180970/-/19tp5gz/-/index.html
You have to wonder about the logic behind that one…
there is no logic – that’s the point.
From the article: “On Monday, they confirmed he has been placed on paid investigative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.”
Paid leave.
Yeah. Exactly. He was rewarded with extra vacation time for shooting someone. Awesome.
Seeing as how that story is three years old do you know what happened to the trigger happy fireman?
He got four months in jail:
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2009/firefighter-who-shot-cyclist-pleads-out-sentenced/
Yesterady on a ride, a car passed me and turned into the driveway right in front of me. To make it worse, I was in a bike lane and they didn;t even use a turn signal. Dang…. I wore 200 miles off my rear tire slamming on the breaks….
Hey lady… didn;t yu see my flashing red light?
Problem /IS/ the bike lane – a cyclist is invisible to carists riding on bike lanes.
Better ride on the driving lane.
Letting the top banner scroll with the rest of the page makes a HUGE improvement in the readability of the comments. Thanks!
Had a very similar story pop up from a local blogger in my twitter feed last week. Local media picked up on it a bit. Consensus was that the mother should get off the bike and walk. People just don’t get it.
Getting used to the new layout – and preferring it. Well done.
When I log into my old account to post, it now uses my email as my username, rather than “Kapusta”. I don’t want my email public. I can’t figure out how to re-register with a different username. Is the idea to just have us enter a new username and email every time we comment (like I am doing now)?
Just change your Nickname in your Profile. Then choose from the drop-down below that says “Display name publicly as”.
Hey Rick, can you find a way to make the nav buttons float more towards the left side of the frame? On the iphone they are off the screen to the right and I can’t move the panel over to reach them. Maybe a problem with ipads too but I don’t have one of those.
Will work on that this evening – thanks for letting me know!
Actually I just logged back into the new site w/ WordPress and at the top, where it usually says “Howdy, yourname” everything after “Howd” is off the screen to the right and Apple won’t let me pinch the screen smaller to see the far right part of the screen. Definitely something with iphone. Anyone else have similar probs or know how to fix it on an iphone?
It is okay on the iPad that I am using at the moment.
It never ceases to amaze me that I actually managed to grow up in once piece – without the intervention of the Socialist-Liberal Nanny State ™.
Socialist-Liberal Nanny State ™?
Whaaaaat? Listen to Rush Limbaugh much?
Today’s strip is nothing at all about a liberal nanny state. It’s about an older private citizen taking issue with a certain behavior, misguided as she is in doing so. If the state is responsible for anything here, it’s subsidizing parking, building too many roads, incentivizing suburban sprawl, tipping the scales way too far in favor of automobiles, and providing (possibly?) inadequate infrastructure for other modes of transportation like bikes.
It’s amazing to me that there’s even such a thing as public transit anymore and that we’re all not forced to live in some exurban “paradise” (AKA sprawl) given the Conservative One Party Petro-giant Cleptocracy ™ we live in.
Sorry, I subscribe to neither the Socialist-Liberal Nanny State – NOR – the Theocratic, medieval Petro-giant Cleptocracy either. BOTH are slavery.
The woman in today’s strip is parroting the Socialist-Liberal Nanny State. I’m not buying. If she was parroting the Theocratic Right – I’m not buying that either.
In other words, a pox on both their houses! Next?
P.S. It never ceases to amaze me that most folks think that if you’re not one of “these”, then you must be one of “those”.
“None of the above”
Don’t think I ever came across the word “cleptocracy” before. Did you just invent it? Sums things up nicely!
Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for coining that one… been around for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
“Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy…”
Check again, Zorba. That was an ignorant and abusive individual not a state of any flavor doing the honking and ranting.
@Zorba, @blindpilot, Y’all need to relax. I’m not sure what exactly either one of you are talking about, but I’m sure you don’t need to get in someone’s face (cyber-ly speaking) about it. It’s a comic, about bicycles. Laugh, shake your head, do whatever, just don’t get all in a huff about it!
Amen to that
Sorry for trying to respond to comment and speak my mind about something that is germane to the subject of the day’s strip. I’ll just make all my comments happy, fluffy comments about bikes, rainbows, and unicorns now and never talk about politics or other serious stuff even if it pertains directly to the strip and another reader’s comment…
Another study in ‘perception of risk’. Sigh… ppl just don’t get it. (Far safer to be sedentary in your big SUV, after all).
The number one “disease” that kills kids is motor vehicle wrecks. The most dangerous thing we do to our kids is strap them in the SUV, and that doesn’t even include the air pollution, sedentary lifestyle, and loss of arable land caused by automobilism.
Check out this shameful journalism from down under – a woman is bullied by a news crew for cycling in Sydney, Australia.
http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8524906
also see response on Sydney Cyclist
http://www.sydneycyclist.com/forum/topics/child-endangerment-verbally-abused-filmed?xg_source=activity
James
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/09/plea-biking-mom