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> HN (and twitter) wants to find people that hate cyclists so we can get angry at them Have you like… ever been on a bike in a country where cycling isn't norm

> HN (and twitter) wants to find people that hate cyclists so we can get angry at them Have you like… ever been on a bike in a country where cycling isn't normalized? There's no need to look for these people, they'll find you > Seems very clear that this article in particular is satire. Its actual underlying point is that a connection between smoking and health problems is as ridiculous as a connection between cycling and health problems. It also seems very clear to me that most of the stuff the British tabloids make more sense when read as bad satire (because they tend to punch down, and punching down is bullying, not satire) than articles intended to be taken at face value, but they genuinely want the public to do the latter.

quietbritishjim 4y ago
> Have you like… ever been on a bike in a country where cycling isn't normalized? There's no need to look for these people, they'll find you Of course, and I never claimed otherwise. I'm just saying, these articles are not those people. > ... stuff the British tabloids make more sense when read as bad satire ... Sure but that's different from what's happening here. The article I quoted has a particular point to make and the use of cycling as an analogy is totally incidental. [Edit: OK, looking back, maybe some of them are just trash tabloid stories. In that case they're just saying anything at all that stirs up emotions to sell papers (it really is like Twitter). Note that many/all of them are not "cycling is bad" but "we heard some people saying cycling is bad". My overall point, don't take them too seriously, is still valid.]