http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Autocation en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:03:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335517 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:23:26 +0000 neddie 335517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote> and you think no one’s going to be able to get to you</blockquote></p> <p>Until you realise you’re stopped in a queue at the lights, and that <strike>cyclist </strike>human on a bike you just screamed at is rapidly approaching... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335515 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:09:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only snake advice required in Scotland is how to find them. There are some quite fruity types on Mull it is a good place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335514 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 14:08:40 +0000 crowriver 335514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>---</p> <p>For some road ragers, it’s a need for control, to counter other drivers whom they feel violate their proxemic space, or it's a need for possession of their lane or their part of the road. For others, it’s unchecked anger and aggression. It’s hormone-based, primitive, small-brain thinking, bringing a lack of emotional intelligence and the need to dominate someone else and their unsharable space. Add in unchecked egos, the need for superiority, narcissistic pride, and male genital one-upmanship (my vehicle is bigger than yours). </p> <p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-act-violence/201301/the-psychology-road-rage" rel="nofollow">https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-act-violence/201301/the-psychology-road-rage</a></p> <p>---</p> <p>A catalyst of road rage is anonymity. Numerous studies show people exhibit more aggressive behavior when their identity is hidden. “You’re in a car, and it’s kind of a weapon, and you’re in a protected environment, and you think no one’s going to be able to get to you” </p> <p><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/the-crazy-psychology-behind-road-rage-and-how-to-beat-it.html/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/the-crazy-psychology-behind-road-rage-and-how-to-beat-it.html/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335513 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:57:53 +0000 gembo 335513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a row from a farmer on Mull for walking on her field. Sheep grazing in distance.</p> <p>We shot the breeze.</p> <p>She changed the row to advice about snakes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335511 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:45:28 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My pal and I once got run off the road on Mull by a farmer who turned out to be Mad Eddie. Red pickup. My friend was Doctor Xerxes Captain. Mad Eddie meets Xerxes Captain is like Jamaican dance hall mashup. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335504 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:57:10 +0000 gembo 335504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cocoshepherd some of them are on the moonshine, some more chilled. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335501 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:47:39 +0000 CocoShepherd 335501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A friendly farmer once drove directly at me as we passed one another on a single track country lane. I was coming downhill at speed and he came round a bend at speed which made it difficult for me to react quickly and keep control of the bike as I had to brake and swerve sharply. He also leaned over towards the window within the car as if to say get out of my lane you cyclist scum. Aggressive sneer all over his face. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335500 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:32:10 +0000 gembo 335500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats</p> <p>I was going to warn you as we cycled HIS road last week but was later in the day - he moves between the secret bramble spot and cockburnhill farm </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335499 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:26:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 335499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nobody in my entire adult life has ever <em>spontaneously</em> suggested or threatened fisticuffs except from the driver's seat of a motorised vehicle.</p> <p>Some of those people were so unsuited to combat that even I could have certainly defeated them. </p> <p>I think I know the farmer you mean. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20315#post-335498 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:50:38 +0000 gembo 335498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stems from Elaine Paige Twitter comment about Road tax from. August 2019</p> <p>Supposed error but</p> <p>Autocation is normal people having an altercation they would not have normally because they are in a car.</p> <p>I met farmer walking on road. Nice, normally drives a big red van straight at me on narrow road. </p>