Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Russell Brown,
Moving away from the keyboard to try and resist 140-character flame job on Twitter moron who thinks he knows more than “that berk Knowles”.
If anything, I’d say Knowles has been a case study, from a PR point of view, in how to front situations like this – his demeanour and language has always been impeccable, he’s done a good job in quickly hosing down misinformation and unwarranted speculation while not adding to it and (as I said) he’s sure done a better job of not losing his shit that I could.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Matthew Poole,
(trying to avoid a Craig-like burst of profanity that must be redacted)
Hey, I do it so you don't have to. :) And you're right -- very easy to be be brave with other people's lives when you're sitting behind a keyboard (or in an air conditioned newsroom/studio hundreds of miles away) but feeding the media beast cannot be the prime concern here.
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And the police and everyone else are getting palpably tired of batting away speculative statements framed as questions.
I've got to say there's more than a few people whose self-control has been downright legendary. I'd have snapped "why don't you fuck off and do something useful, you parasites" a loooong time ago.
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And heavens forfend I quote CSI: Miami, but there was a lovely line in last night's episode when David 'Eloquent Sunglasses of Righteousness' Caruso gave a soundbite to the media pack:
"Do your job responsibly, so I can do mine."
YMMV as to whether the Pike Creek gore crows have been anything near responsible.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Brent Jackson,
I would have thought that "missing" would be a much better word to avoid generating unwarranted hope.
FFS, they're not missing. I think we've got a reasonable idea where they are, they're trapped. Perhaps the real issue here is a great deal of wild surmise that is spectacularly useless.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
[...] but there are occasional stories of people on bikes behaving like the worst kind of driver, i.e. knocking over children and then insisting that it was the child’s fault.
Which proves that there are arseholes on bikes, just as there are arseholes in a cars and, for that matter, arseholes on foot. I was in the city yesterday, and got (quite literally) knocked off the (narrow) sidewalk in High Street by an alleged lady who found her conversation with her gal pal much more important than other pedestrians. Oh, and I was the one who got the cover of 'Fuck You' for not being considerate enough to jump in front of a car. Bitch.
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That’s a political problem.
Not it's not -- the problem is that if you're going to be a suicidal cyclist, make sure you're part of a cluster in a slow news week. Really seems to be the only way to make anyone give a shit.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I’d say it’s more a cultural issue than a legislation issue.
And, much as I’d like it to be different, it’s tricky to legislate to keep at home people who believe they are the pivot around which all of creation revolves. In a small dark room. Preferably with a paper bag over their heads.
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It is also funded by the users of faster and heavier transport.
Orly? Never owned a car, seldom drive and mostly use public transport. Still pay local and central government taxes though; and I'm pretty sure everything I buy has transport costs built into the pricing models.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I think you’d become a damn sight more thoughtful as a driver if you had to spend a year’s community service changing colostomy bags and learning how to fit a urinary catheter before getting your license. Your brief moment of fuck-wittery could have profound, life-long consequences, numb-nuts.
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