We’re all Lycra Louts according to the Daily Mail

We have the Dialy
We have the Dialy Mail,Express,and other tory press,cut into squares,and hung on the nail on the back of out netty door,down the back garden from our hovel!!Us country penny farthing riders are certainly not lycra thugs,what is lycra?never heard of it.Must be the london penny farthing riders the tory press are after! 😉

It gets better… I was so
It gets better… I was so outraged by this ridiculous article that I did some more research. It seems the writer had an affair with Boris Johnson, the well known cycling advocate. Suddenly a motive becomes clear. I also saw that there was actually a correction published to say that there was only one mugging. But the three hit and runs are still claimed as true. And that correction doesn’t appear with the article online.

Oh, and I also saw that this was covered back when it happened, in this thread: http://road.cc/content/news/68530-daily-mail-issues-correction-over-petronella-wyatt-mother-hit-cyclists-column#comment-149754

So sorry for bringing up old news. But it still makes me furious X(

Well, I drove up their ad
Well, I drove up their ad revenue. I was stunned by the article. It is pretty clear just from that article that she hates cyclists. Oh, and men. I quote “Aside from the dangers, male cyclophiles are becoming a blot on our highways.”

It seems the only point that I agree with her on is that the female cyclophiles are quite a pleasant feature of the landscape (I assume this is how she feels, or else she surely wouldn’t have singled out males).

For anyone else who read the story though, I hope you also read the comments. Particularly the one where it was pointed out that she has written the same story before, in 2010. Although that time her poor mother was only hit once. Still got a broken arm though, the poor dear must be really suffering.

And I can understand the writer herself resenting cyclists. After all, in 2010 she wrote “When I was mugged two years ago in Kensington, West London, it was by a youth on a bike who rode on to the pavement, snatched my bag and disappeared at high speed. No one could stop him, even after I yelled that the bag was a fake.”

This is pretty bad, but remember, that was not the only time that she was mugged in 2008. From the more recent article: “In 2008, I had my handbag stolen by a gang of youths on bikes.”

Shocking, two muggings in a single year, and both times by cyclists! Lucky the bag was fake, I wonder if anything else mentioned in the articles was? I do hope that it was a fake arm on her mother, so she can just send it to the shop for repair while she has another cup of tea (held, of course, with her other hand).

I am actually quite incensed by this. For those who are interested, I have put a copy of both articles on my blog at https://sites.google.com/site/tourletour/one-article-two-versions. I think I will write to the DM and demand a retraction, because I don’t believe the story can possibly be true. I urge everyone else to do the same.

Pauldmorgan wrote:
Agreed –

Pauldmorgan wrote:

Agreed – We should all agree not to visit their site or to post links to it here. It only encourages them. The more people click on a particular type of article (whether agreeing or disagreeing with the content) the more they will write that type of article.

We’re just feeding the hate machine.

Yes but it is consistently hilarious, and a British institution. We few shouldn’t ruin them just because of their abhorrent views.

It all suddenly becomes
It all suddenly becomes clear…

As Sarah Barth (I think) mentioned last time something like this came up though, the DM is basically a professional troll. Their web hits (which we are now contributing to) drive their ad revenue.

Ah the letter to Hitler.
Yes
Ah the letter to Hitler.

Yes he was congratulating him on the annexation. These days our governments just do that on our behalf’s……..

Same difference if you look at it on face value. BUT, then you find out what the Nazi’s did…..etc. Not good being a pro Nazi in those days.

Rockall was “annexed” in 1955 😉

The West Bank was annexed by Jordan in 1950 I believe. The UK was one of very few countries to class it as part of Jordan?

So yes in hindsight it looks bad for the letter congratulating Hitler. But back in 1939 the Holocaust that was beginning was unknown to many 😕

Supported the Nazis?? Thats a
Supported the Nazis?? Thats a new one on me

Supported Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists yes….Nazis? Since when 😕