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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/great-escape-car-smashes-lorry-121900903.html?vp=1


This is not so much about the Yahoo story about a car driver who almost took out the M25 recently and the quick thinking HGV Driver who saved Xmas for a lot of people and himself from a lawsuit? This is about the comments about how people drive that follow the story.

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It's the dynamic of how people talk depending on who's in the room. The conversation on a major highway and the people talking are car drivers and HGV drivers is identical to the conversation on a city street where the people talking are car drivers and cyclists. HGV to car driver: you t**t. Car driver to cyclist: You T**t. Just an observation.

El Pibe Wrote:

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> It's worth remembering the statistics that 1% of

> all of us, 10% of prisoners, 25% of violent

> prisoners and 86% of people who comment on UK news

> websites, are psychopaths.


Yes, but what about the percentage of people who comment on local forums?

In defence of the bottom half of the Internet the new yorker recently published a fascinating account of the background of the brown moses blog which started out in the guardian comments secriin


http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_keefe

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-brown-moses-how-an-unemployed-british-man-became-a-poster-boy-for-citizen-journalism/

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