Path: ...!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: JNugent Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Madness: Driver almost hits oncoming vehicle while overtaking cyclist Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 12:17:41 +0100 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <5ebfe554.219988484@news.eternal-september.org> <5ec1ee65.287844000@news.eternal-september.org> <5ec21530.297775515@news.eternal-september.org> <5ec1809b.325273890@news.eternal-september.org> <5ec33c4c.373323296@news.eternal-september.org> <8aedc991-9314-4e07-bb7c-e3d685c111a9@googlegroups.com> <5ec26090.382607578@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net X2YIqBO4gX29MS8AAAhKZgNfXH17V+GEHuQOrxWt5YCiJ8lvqu Cancel-Lock: sha1:kywrZrQ1RgB+OUcHe7tcCSjTSOw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 In-Reply-To: <5ec26090.382607578@news.eternal-september.org> Content-Language: en-GB X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 200517-0, 05/17/2020), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3652 On 18/05/2020 11:19, Kelly wrote: > Simon Mason wrote: > >> On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 8:44:11 AM UTC+1, Kelly wrote: >> Although certainly nobody would want any of the stuff >>> that even approaches harassment, as has recently been touched upon in >>> the group here. >> >> One of the troll here, "Judith" once wrote to my employers in an attempt to get me dismissed. When "she" failed, "she" contacted >> London HR and a group of four of them even turned up at our work's AGM in London to try and get me the sack. Nasty people. > > 'Nasty people' is hardly a strong enough term for them. Bringing what > should remain in usenet out into real life in that manner is an > absolutely despicable thing to do. In reality, though, that simply didn't happen. It was a pure wind-up. All that happened was that the poster Judith said she was going to do it. But she didn't. In those days, I used a valid email address in my usenet details (no longer!) and Judith emailed to tell me that no-one had been down to London and that no-one had been to the BP AGM. I had no reason to disbelieve that. Travelling to London - from where I understood Judith to live - would have been an expensive trip, and in any case, there would have been no question of gaining access to the AGM of a large public company without some prooof of entitlement to be there. IIRC, Jusith did make some reference to buying (literally) a few BP shares to be able to get in (as part of the wind-up), but again, I don't believe that it ever happened. In those days, I had quite a few emails from various people in ukrc, some of them quite surprising. I wish I still had that email account (but I don't). Clearly, there were (and in at least one case, still is) posters who had and have an exaggerated impression of their own importance and relevance. Openly and repeatedly boasting of being paid overtime for other duties whilst posting to usenet was probably not a wise thing to do. It was clearly rankling with some. I never believed it. There always seemed something odd about it.