The “Think!” Adverts don’t really think
by SynRaptor on Sep.09, 2010, under Angry Rants
We’ve all seen those adverts which are designed to shock you into driving more responsibly by showing you what can happen if you drive badly blah blah. While the sentiment is fair enough and I agree that most people can’t drive for shit, the “Think Bike” adverts massively piss me off.
Now you may be wondering what brought this onset of anger on and that was that I was stuck behind a chav on a moped who was texting whilst driving and we were on a 60mph road. I could tell he wasn’t actually looking where he was going 100% of the time because the c*nt was swerving all over the road and only had one hand on the handlebars. Not only had the prick overtaken me on the wrong side of the road at 50mph when I’m pretty sure that legally mopeds cannot do such a speed, but he then brought out his phone and started fucking about with it.
Similarly a road down the road from where I live with two pubs on it have Think Bike red signs everywhere on about 5 lamp posts all down the road. I know from a few years back that a biker had been killed on that road when a driver had pulled out of the pub and there was a consequential vigil there every night for about a month. While I do not speak ill of the dead, I can’t ignore the fact that every time I have been down that road, I can’t remember seeing a motorised two-wheeled vehicle on that road doing less than 50mph, especialyl seeing that the limit is 30mph.
The Think! adverts also had their own go and trying to convince us that we as drivers are all irrepsonsible and yet all bikers are responsible and alert motorists. There was an advert they did which had the “now you see him now you don’t” rhyme in it showing the drivers perspective of how a moped driver can stray into your blind spot when they’re behind you. The massive flaw with the advert was that even when the moped driver was in your blind spot and you couldn’t see him, you could clearly hear the indicator “click” for the driver to turn right before th moped driver crashes into his right hand side door. Now my main argument is why was the driver trying to overtake on the right, and may I add, the wrong side of the road, when he can clearly see the guy indicating. It’s bullshit and double standards.
So in conclusion, yes I am aware of bikers on the road, but they never seem to do anything responsible themselves. Why victimise four wheeled drivers when the two wheeled drivers think they can do what the fuck they want.
September 10th, 2010 on 2:54 am
Today’s motorist are tomorrow’s organ donors. All drive like pillocks and should be destroyed.
September 10th, 2010 on 4:35 am
Buyer beware.
And what I mean by that is that you, the biker, are more vulnerable that us, the car dweller.
Hence it makes logical sense that YOU should drive like Mormons because if YOU end up in a crash YOU will die. Not me, but YOU, the biker.
Therefore I have no regret in saying that every biker that passes me on a blind bend (in a 30mph limit) at 80mph I think to myself, if you’re lying in a ditch on the other side of the road when I get there I won’t fucking stop. You deserve to die. Not because I’m an arrogant prick, but because YOU put your life in danger, not me. And also that you’ve not only put your life in danger, but the life of others. If someone else is coming round that bend and you hit them, you will die. But… they might also spin off the road causing horrific injury to their passengers.
And that, bikers, is not acceptable.
I think that’s about all I have to say on that matter!
September 20th, 2010 on 2:05 pm
I had the experience yesterday of being subject to the arrogant God complex that bikers have. I was innocently driving down a country road where I came across not less than a hundred bikers.
These bikers were swerving all over my side of the road, all of them with one hand flapping up and down to try and make me slow down. FUCK OFF.
I will not slow down so that you can take over 95% of the width of the road.
So, of course I sped up, holding down my horn at the ones on my side of the road until they moved across. Had I been more quick thinking, I would have driven down the road with my hand out the window giving them all the finger as I passed.
Pricks.