Sunday, 1 March 2009

Cyclists and Schrödinger's cat

Before I start with this tirade I want it on the record that I have a lot of friends who cycle in London and they are in no way the people I describe below (one of the main reasons for this is that they have brains and like to keep them inside their head).

Can you remember back to the days of GCSE physics where you heard about Schrödinger's cat? No? Anyways, in a nutshell it was a thought experiment where something could be in two states that contradicted each other at the same time. In the case of the poor cat it was alive and dead.

This same rule can be applied to cyclists in Central London. where some believe they can be a vehicle and pedestrian at the same time. For example;
  • Riding on the road and coming up to a red light? You're no longer a vehicle, you're a pedestrian now and that green man applies to you as well as those silly people walking across the road directly in your way!
  • The roads got a traffic jam? No worries. Just switch from a vehicle to a pedestrian and you can cycle down the pavement scaring the shit out of those idiotic people using their legs to walk down it.
It's this retarded attitude of switching between states on a whim that risk them crashing into a law abiding pedestrian or causing some poor sod in their car to swerve to avoid smearing these tards across the tarmac. I've lost count the amount of near misses I've had with them which that makes me want to stick my brolly in their spokes next time I see one >.<

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