Gavin Deane @GJDeane

Cambridgeshire Joined January 2012

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

Slightly surprised on such a lovely day to only see 3 butterflies in my @savebutterflies #BigButterflyCount just now. But then on the way back to the car after my count I saw another 19. Obviously just hiding while I was actually counting.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@MOTHIDUK I appreciate this is not a great photo, but is it possible to ID? I think Eudonia mercurella, but it's quite light-coloured and a bit worn, and there are plenty of similar species. Found in my East Devon garden on Saturday, flying during the day.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@dr_ianjackson I obviously get your point but I think this is a very odd analogy. Getting part way to where I want to be politically is less than ideal but better than nothing. But transport is not like that. A bus that doesn't get me to where I need to go is as much use as no bus at all.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@bedrocm @dr_ianjackson That's a much better analogy than the bus one.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@WillTatton @SurreyRS As well as giving you more time and better visibility of the hazard when you encounter an idiot who doesn't look, part of the purpose of defensive positioning is to be more visible to those who DO look. That's basic safety advice for any road user, not just cyclists.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@djmikewheeler @SurreyRS Encouraging defensive positioning is not victim blaming. A cyclist is more visible when taking primary position. That's why primary position exists.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@GaztenRobpo @TinkerCunt_ @NewSiddy @doctor_oxford @Stillicho82 Did you read this bit?

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@GaztenRobpo @TinkerCunt_ @NewSiddy @doctor_oxford @Stillicho82 You're still confusing the methodology for getting a rapid first approximation (a methodology which evolved over time exactly as one world expect) with actual cause of death records, which are a completely different thing that never conflated "died with" and "died of".

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

2 years ago

@GaztenRobpo @TinkerCunt_ @NewSiddy @doctor_oxford @Stillicho82 She wasn't right and neither are you. You are, like she was, confusing the rapid first approximation with the actual cause of death records. We all learned how this works in the first half of 2020. You should have been paying attention.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@dessie93987930 @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine That's not relevant. They should both be cooperating to solve their mutual problem, and the solution does not depend on either party's reasons for being there.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@marcocatxx1 @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine We can't know whether the truck should be there or not. And neither can the cyclist.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@Mark_Hopkins21 @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine Unless it needs to be down there. The cyclist should presume that the lorry driver does need to be there. Anything else is an immediate attitude failure.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@FaddesWilliam @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine The hierarchy has nothing to do with this.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@Lindaukc21 @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine We don't know why. But neither does the cyclist, so she should presume the lorry driver has a good reason to be there.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@1901gennelm @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine That's not just Scotland. On single track roads anywhere you're supposed to use passing places to let people overtake - they're not just for traffic coming the *other* way to pass you. Scotland is the only place I've seen road signs explaining this though.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@fradical4242 @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine That's not the primary concern here.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@SxB200 @Jontafkasi @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine Since it's not possible to magically make the lorry narrower when the road gets narrower, you don't appear to have a sensible point.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@PompeyCyclist @Jontafkasi @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine That's a perverse interpretation. It's a shared problem with an obvious solution they could cooperate on. But that requires both parties to bring an appropriate attitude to their use of the road, which clearly hasn't happened here.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@sullieship @Paulkf22 @Jontafkasi @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine Driving a lorry backwards down a single track road is not the safest solution to anything, you plum.

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Gavin Deane @GJDeane

3 years ago

@bsd_junkie @JQPubicPTIII @theJeremyVine Not really. "some people". Nothing constructive comes of pigeonholing people in categories like "cyclist" or "lorry driver" or "motorist" or "pedestrian". We are all just people trying to get somewhere. Sometimes, some people can be a right twat when using the road.