Letters to the editor.

[Orcs]

Dear Editor,

In response the letter from Mr Wall-Carpeting, that while cyclist are covered by the law for any damage they may do, this will not recompense a person for the costs of that damage. Secondly as they are unregistered road users it is very hard to prove who they are after an accident should they choose to deny it was them. As I found out when one of them scraped my Range Rover last month in Kensington.

As to Vehicle Excise Duty, even the governments own website referring to the charge calls it a tax.

Ms S Loane-Ranger

[Techno II]

Sir.

With all these references to these cycle fiends......
When was the last time there was a prosecution of someone being drunk in charge of a bicycle.

Or an equine.

Sincerely - MR Trellis of North Wales. (Please ignore any correspondence from my wife.)

[Heedless Horseman]

To All Who May Be  Concerned.
With regard to Bicyclists... whose conveyance is a benefit to fitness for the fight and our green and pleasant Land.
I concur that adequate lighting is essential for ALL such vehicles... those Dynamo things would be perfectly adequate, and 'more green', to use the term, than batteries.

I have been pleasantly  surprised by younglings who had the courtesy to ring their bell on approaching a pedestrian / dog walker. Such good manners is to be a credit to their handlers! Full Marks!  I find it incrediible that such devices are not a standard fitment to ALL such macines.

There are such bicyclists , whose desire for power and speed, precludes such common sense... on the Bridle Path/Footpath now designated, (Without , to mine own knowledge or consent!), as a 'cycleway', do not appear to have such concern for others. Should such cause injury to my large Dog or receive injury from him without  apology, such would possibly accompany his 'bike' well into a Hawthorn! Ha! to You Sir!

As a proud beneficiary of the 'Cycling Proficiency Test' in my, admittedly, long ago, youth... I personally regard such training to be a pre-requisite for the use of Bicycles upon the public roads...for younglings AND their hanlders. And backed up by legislation... re 'Provisional Driving License'.
Until  such time as an 'updated and enlarged' test should become available as Bicyclists become more experienced, the INSURANCE should be borne by the parents... and then transferred upon passing  a 'Full Cycling License', to the fledged Cyclist! May He / She enjoy the pleasures of the  open road... alongside Mororists!

General  D'Isgusted

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Sir

I was driving on a poorly lit road this morning and thought the dark shape in front of me was a cyclist moving away from me, it was a runner in the roadway wearing dark gear with no lights. As to cyclists, electric scooter users and elderly in mobility chairs they make the pavements round here very dangerous. It is obvious that cyclists et al cannot read, Grange road is a no unpowered vehicle area, and pedestrian area covered in signs baring such. Totally ignored.

L.Cpl Jones (ret)

[Heedless Horseman]

I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....

[Techno II]

PAH !!....

That's nothing....

I nearly hit that nice Mr Richard Branson,,,,,His wife, child and mother, near the mother's home near Shamley Green (Wonersh/Guildford) over 40 years ago....True....
Though i wasn't that close to hitting them.

Cheers - Phil.

[jimduncanuk]

I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....

Shearer who?

[DecemDave]

Sir,

Whilst my forefathers since the conquest have always lived by our family motto "Aquila non capit muscas",  I am plunged into the darkest despair to see this once great institution so conceived and so dedicated to the admiration of small but perfectly formed wargame miniatures has been hijacked by fanatical minorities which favour or disfavour the use of two wheeled perambulation.   The world may little note, nor long remember what we write here, but surely we must heed the wise words of Horace that "Omnes una manet nox" .   Whilst I, myself may prefer my Qashqai for the transportation of said little folk to balancing really useful boxes across the handle bars of my (t)rusty velocipede this should not lead me to castigate others for their choices.  

Where Sir?, where? is the leadership to put us back to genuine discussion on, for example the merits of shallower bases to represent well armoured troops fighting in close order? Or indeed, the inexplicable dearth of poses of kneeling firing figures in Czapkas.

I suggest that this forum be shortly taken down for maintenance until the panic induced in these quarrelsome pests brings them back to the one true lane path.  

Your servant  

Captain Decem "Naseby" de Braose

[paulr]

Well said Captain

[pierre the shy]

Well said Captain

+1 from me.....in the middle of writing up a serious battle report right now actually 

[sunjester]

+1 from me.....in the middle of writing up a serious battle report right now actually 

No you are not, you are obviously reading this nonsense! 

[d_Guy]

Sir

In a recent letter from a military gentleman it was claimed that and I quote, “Eagles don’t hunt muskrats”. I must beg to differ. Have seen’ em do so with mine own eyes. I do concede to the gentleman that “we all eat oxburgers with mayonnaise”. As to the two-wheeled travel devices an inner ear injury during a hurling match in my youth has left me, non compos mentis ergo ego non canis in pugna.

Rt. Rev. Maxwell-Smith-Burton, MA, DD (in wistful anticipation)

[DecemDave]

Sir,

I submit that posts on muskrat hunting eagles would be better posted in the Nature file thread.

However, I must commend your correspondent for his suggestion that we should see more dogs in our model battles.  Although they seem sadly neglected in WRG army lists, dogs have often formed part of armies.  Commencing, as every schoolboy knows. with Alyattes of Lydia against the Cimmerians around 600 BC.   

Whilst NML5 do appear in one of my armies, I fear they are more cute pet than warrior. Indeed Rupert's fine poodle has sadly drawn many a ribald comment from those who have faced him on the tabletop.  Perhaps we may look forward in future to something more  fearsome along with a range of handlers through the ages.  Even 1/72 plastics can offer the fine mastiffs in the Strelets 909 box.    Alsatians were used in Polish armies so some handlers in Czapkas would be useful and given that all right thinking Englishmen are dog lovers, I am sure will easily sell in the 200 packs required to maintain our glorious founder's living.

Yours,

Captain Decem "Naseby" de Braose

[FierceKitty]

Dear Sir,

I must voice a protest in the strongest possible terms about protests in the strongest possible terms.

Yours faithfully,

Major Enid Arbuthnot, 23rd Disgusting Bombay Fusiliers.

[Leon]

Dear Readers,

Whilst I have no particular truck with cyclists, I will admit a ceaseless frustration with a minor percentage of most categories of road-user.  Every day my commute to work is impacted by car drivers who can't indicate, can't get in the right lane, or think they have some superior right to drive like aggressive a*seholes.  At other times I have watched cyclists ignore red lights, swerve across traffic and jump onto pavements forcing pedestrians to avoid collision.  And then I've watched pedestrians amble across roads without a care in the world, glued to their mobile phone screens and unaware of the 2-ton metal box heading their way.  

Generally though, these people are the minority who give the majority a bad name and most folks get along fine and have some consideration for other road users.  Except taxi drivers, there it's certainly the majority who need to go back to driving school ...  

- Editor

[Elliesdad]

Sadly vast numbers of people think they are the "special" ones and that society's rules don't apply to them (only to "others").
Of course, there is no consensus as to who is "special" and who isn't.

[Raider4]

My opinion of taxi drivers is completely unprintable.

[Orcs]

Dear Mr Editor,

I totally agree with your comments on Taxi drivers. One of the good ones al like the minority you referred to . You can tell he was a taxi diver due to his reluctance to give change when paying your subs at club. 

Regards

Mr S.K Int

[steve_holmes_11]

Dear Editor,

Dungeons and Dragons 5e makes WRG 7th seem like child's play.
At least there are fewer miniatures to paint.

Yours,
George Engelheart

[Techno II]

Sir.

Once again I have to draw your readers' attention to the paucity of accuracy in the BBCs (so called) News stories.
Today I have, on numerous occasions, heard the presenter talking about the Sewage Crisis.
Check your facts BBC !!
This happened back in 1956, and should be confined to the history books

Yours Col Buffinton-Tuffington (deceased)

(Seriously though  - YUKK !! )