Tongue in cheek article in the Guardian (Nov 2005)

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Thu 4 Jun 2009 11:15
Tongue in cheek article in the Guardian (Nov 2005) - Hector Brocklebank
A small excerpt for you to enjoy:
"I just hate motorists. I want to make everything bad for them. I want to see less parking, higher petrol prices, more speed cameras and road charging to fund the eventual elimination of roads."

The 'full' article:
tinyurl.com/p8yjbc (Links to an anti-car article in the Nov 2005 Guardian)

To be honest, people like this reassure me because in proving they are so mind-bogglingly stupid and detached from the real world, they immediatley discredit their own argument.

Edited by rtj70 on 04/06/2009 at 12:03

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Thu 4 Jun 2009 11:26
Nasty little meaningless rant in the Guardian. - maz64
I get the impression from reading it that it's at least tongue in cheek and not a serious 'argument' (he admits to being a motorist). Isn't he just trying to do a Jeremy Clarckson in reverse?
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Thu 4 Jun 2009 11:39
Nasty little meaningless rant in the Guardian. - craig-pd130

The author is Tim Dowling, one of the Saturday magazine's regular columnists and feature writers. He's a fully paid-up wooly-minded liberal :-D and it isn't a serious piece.
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Thu 4 Jun 2009 11:43
Nasty little meaningless rant in the Guardian. - Statistical outlier
I read it as utterly tongue in cheek and taking the mickey out of the anti-car brigade. But then I am a woolly liberal by most standards :-).

Edited by Gordon M on 04/06/2009 at 11:43

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Thu 4 Jun 2009 11:51
Nasty little meaningless rant in the Guardian. - jbif
... rant in the Guardian. A small excerpt for you to enjoy: >>


Guys, the article was written on: Tuesday 1 November 2005.
Hector is trawling the old archives of the Guardian to find gems such as this to get us hectoring about a complete tongue-in-cheek non-rant article. Fail.

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Thu 4 Jun 2009 12:02
Nasty little meaningless rant in the Guardian. - rtj70
I had not spotted the date and did not read the article. So well spotted.

Because it was an article that was written tongue in cheek I think I'll lock this and wait for Hector to respond.

... and change the main thread title.

Edited by rtj70 on 04/06/2009 at 12:03

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