Nice chap running

[Mick Mac]

Having read the OP, he seems to be a "Nice Chap", a "Gentleman", "a bit short" and a "big man", with a finger.

I can just picture him.

[Loz]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> -----

> > Why was he running on the road and why do you

> > think he flipped a finger?

>

> You've speculated about the first bit liz but not

> the second. That's a crucial part of the story I'd

> have thought.

Upon rereading, there does seem to be a bit missing, doesn't there? There's some right barstewards around, but flipping the finger just because someone is 'in the drop-off bay for 30 seconds' seems a little unbelievable.

[unlurked]

numbers Wrote:

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> Can see why the OP was angry and wanted to vent

> but this short, balding, bespectacled man with

> poor taste in ill-fitting lycra has already shamed

> himself by sticking his fingers up at a mother in

> front of her young children. There's never an

> excuse for that disgusting behaviour.

>

> sounds like jogging in London isn't for him

> really.

Won't someone think of the children? Anyone?

[alice]

woman as virgin mother

surround her with sanctified screens please

[LadyDeliah]

Where was the car in relation to the pavement?

[Jacqui5254]

Well said Alice.

[Dopamine1979]

We are all capable of committing a fingerflip-worthy offence.

The EDF jury needs more information to consider this case.

[lounge lizard]

I am said partner on lizards login... I was merely dropping lizard at the station, innocent children in the car, lycra clad gentleman running in the drop off zone, I pulled into it whilst managing to avoid him, and received a flipped finger. Very unnecessary, we were not on the pavement, nor was he... Exaggerated response on his part, lizard defending his family in a heroic and admirable manner, really no indication for threatening behaviour

[the-e-dealer]

Threatening behaviour ? Who?

[Loz]

That hardly qualifies as 'threatening behaviour'. Sounds like you got a bit close to him with your car, which he probably considered a bit threatening himself.

[the-e-dealer]

We seem to be talking to Mr and Mrs Exaggeration.

[numbers]

I would see a random stranger sticking their fingers up at me as an unwelcome, aggressive and threatening gesture. I would probalby feel quite vulnerable if I had young children in my care as I would want to avoid confrontation and so feel unable to retaliate.

clearly some on here think its an acceptable way to behave but I don't think it sets a good example particularly to young uns.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Have to say it sounds pretty aggressive to me, and most people are capable of showing a bit of restraint when children are present, but I guess he must have felt provoked in some way.

[LadyDeliah]

Flipping your middle ginger is aggressive? Where the hell have you guys lived? Trumpton?

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is hacking someone up with a machete and 1 is giving a hard frown, I'd put flipping a finger at 0.5.

[Loz]

>:D

[mako]

Two adults 'threatened' by what sounds like unfit old jogger flipping the finger, and offence increased as a 10 month old in the car who would have no idea what happened. Hilarious. 'I pulled into it whilst managing to avoid him' not exactly the same as the OP 'waiting for thirty seconds'. Clearly he has taken offence by you driving too near him. Not sure what the 'heroic amd admirable defence' was either

[Robert Poste's Child]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> Flipping your middle ginger is aggressive? Where

> the hell have you guys lived? Trumpton?

>

> On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is hacking someone

> up with a machete and 1 is giving a hard frown,

> I'd put flipping a finger at 0.5.

You can make the scale as extreme as you like if your objective is to mock the OP, but if the context is dropping someone off at North Dulwich station in the morning I think most people could understand that it seemed aggressive to them!

[Alan Medic]

Basically then you just avoided hitting lycra man when pulling into an area where he shouldn't have been jogging. He probably got a shock and reacted without thinking of the innocent children but how lucky he was not to have been hit by a car. That it was his fault obviously did not compute but next time he may be more careful.

[numbers]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> Flipping your middle ginger is aggressive? Where

> the hell have you guys lived? Trumpton?

>

> On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is hacking someone

> up with a machete and 1 is giving a hard frown,

> I'd put flipping a finger at 0.5.

haha that made me laugh out loud LadyD, good one. well, perhaps I do need to recalibrate my acts of aggression scale!

You didn't grow up in the 1980s South Bronx by any chance? ;-)

[Otta]

I'm with Quids, I think the OP was reasonable and the jogger sounds like a prick.

Yeah yeah, anonymous post on a forum, having a dig about the way the guy looked/dressed. So what, it's not like he's posted a photo and named him.

[El Pibe]

This whole thread is really just a whisker above youtube comments quality.

Nothing to see here, let it lie.

eda - I did like LD's sliding scale of rudeness

eta - I don't know what eda means

eata - although i do have a cold, maybe that would account for it

[JohnL]

Thumbing your nose is the 0.1 then.

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> Flipping your middle ginger is aggressive? Where

> the hell have you guys lived? Trumpton?

>

> On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is hacking someone

> up with a machete and 1 is giving a hard frown,

> I'd put flipping a finger at 0.5.

[the-e-dealer]

I saw someone say f@@ off to someone else on a train wheres that come?

[StraferJack]

who cares - what did they LOOK like? How were they letting themselves down diet-wise?

[spider69]

Perhaps this all started whilst the jogger was trying to avoid a cyclist on the pavement.

Just a thought