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Don't be a wankerDon't be a wanker: One Aussie's message to drivers
"As a white, middle class, hetero male, it’s not often I get to feel like a hard done by minority. It’s why I love cycling. It gives me an insight into some full blown, Aussie bigotry.”
That’s the view of TV reporter and cyclist Charlie Pickering, who has made a video encouraging drivers to ‘stop being a wanker’.
On the ABC show The Weekly, Charlie takes to the roads to poke fun at drivers who (wrongly) believe that they pay for the highway upkeep and should take priority.
On a serious note, he points out that four in every five crashes between bikes and cars are caused by the latter.
In the familiar format Aussie show Family Feud, clipped for this feature, the host asks: “What's something annoying a cyclist might do?" -- the reply 'everything' was the third most popular answer.
Pickering concludes: "Stop being a wanker. More people would ride, the roads would be less congested if everyone, cars and bikes, just stopped being a wanker... Because only when we all stop being wankers can we all pull together."
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If we all pull together doesn't that make us all wankers?
If we all pull together doesn't that make us all wankers?
Reminded me of this:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/232428030743135948/
Last Leg remake please. Or just show this as is.
What is it with the violent animosity against cyclists in anglo-saxon countries? As a Swede I find it both bewildering and shocking. Cyclists take up 1/6th of the space on the road, we save society a bunch of costs, and we don't poison your kids/grandkids/spouse/environment with exhaust.
This is brilliant. Needs to be widely shared and watched. It would be interesting to see data on how much exercise cyclist-haters partake in. Pushing the guilt buttons a little, maybe? Just a theory.
Yes, the message is for everyone that's out and about. As we all know, it's not the car, bicycle, motorbike... or any other form of transport that's at fault (including pedestrians). It's all about the grey cells controlling the limbs... controlling the vehicle...
Some grey cells are considerate to others around them, others behave like they're alone in their own microverse... So what's changed in the last million years? The only way to ensure civility is through well constructed laws and enforcement of the law. As we see far too often though, this is where we're dropping the ball IMO.
I need to send this video to my boss.