How to argue your point with a Walker.

[Kamsin]

Despite the fact that roads take up more space than any other type of land use in London, apart from gardens, the asphalt jungle is significantly smaller than some might imagine - accounting for less than 1 per cent of the UK's surface area. Road enthusiasts have calculated that there are 425,000km (264,000 miles) of public road in Britain (including 3,590km of motorway and nearly 57,000km of A road). Working on the basis that road widths range from an average of 26m for motorways to 3m for the 242,000km of unclassified road, that equates to 2,200sq km of road. Compared with the surface area of the UK, some 241,000sq km, this equates to 0.9 per cent of the total. The official government figure is 3,300sq km of road (1.4 per cent of total land area), but this includes verges and hedgerows.

So why am i telling you this, well the next time you get a bobble hat shouting at you for being an a green lane, you can give him this little bit of info.

Just smile and say to him "Look mate there is 242,000 SQ miles of land in the UK with only 2,200 SQ miles being classed as roads. if you think me using that 2,200 is not fair when you have the 240,000 to walk on where i'm not aloud, then I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you because you will only beat me with experience and pull me down to you level. :thumbs

 

[SPARKIEDOO]

or you can just tell him to f@ck off ......work for me !:augie

 

[Dynamics]

or you can just tell him to f@ck off ......work for me !:augie

Another good ambassador for the sport... :augie

 

[Kamsin]

I did get into, lets say a conversation, with a runner on the last run out we did in the Peaks. His opening comment was "Do you know the damage your doing to this ROAD". I pointed out the use of the word "Road" to him, indicating that by its definition it is an area that is constructed for the use by motor vehicles. This went right over his head :doh.

I then asked if he stood on the M1 and shouted at the vehicles on there as they too are causing damage to the ROAD as well. This too went over his head.

So i then resorted to using a phrase that the kids of today think of as a put down, i looked him in the eyes and said "Your an idiot pal, JOG ON" :thumbs

 

[Banshee]

or you can just tell him to f@ck off ......work for me !:augie

I had someone shout at me before when I was on a Green Lane and he started trying to throw sticks at me, so I jumped out and chased him with my 6ft MagLite and he soon sh*t his pants and did one!!!

 

[Kamsin]

I had someone shout at me before when I was on a Green Lane and he started trying to throw sticks at me, so I jumped out and chased him with my 6ft MagLite and he soon sh*t his pants and did one!!!

6 Foot light, really, they made one that big. A tourch taller than me.....