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You found me on line to tell me you thought I said something ridiculous. How do people normally react when you pursue them out of the blue to attack them? Warmly?

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So, let me get your position clear - your contention is being visible while walking on a road at night is not safer than not being visible at night? Is that right? And can we park the correlation/causation stuff? It’s up there with Maslow and Kubler-Ross on the list of ‘naive undergraduate tropes’.

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So… your contention, genuinely, hand-on-heart, is that wearing something visible in the dark is no safer than not wearing something that makes you visible. Really? This is a thing you think?

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You have it completely arseways. I mentioned in passing a statistic which shows that pedestrians are safer if they are in hi-vis. Something you agree with. I did not support a hi-vis mandate in any way. Yet you’ve been at me unendingly. We both agree hi vis is good for safety, let’s move on.

So.. you think you’re safer in hi-vis. You are also giving out about legal obligations, which I said nothing about. You realise you are literally agreeing with me, but doing it in a super-combative way?

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No, that’s a tangential treatise that inter alia proves my point. But let’s try to stay on track - what does it mean in your understanding?

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What does ‘safer at an individual level’ mean in your understanding?

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So getting people to wear hi vis in the dark is a good idea?

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Let’s start with people walking around at night. Any issue with that?

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A) who said I want everyone to wear hi - vis? B) you really, honestly hand on heart believe that walking down a road at night is not made significantly safer by making yourself more visible? That’s what you are saying? Honest?

Any chance of not avoiding the question?

Jesus you use a lot of words to make no point. So are you actually suggesting that it’s not safer for pedestrians to wear reflective clothing at night? Are you? Honestly?

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Ah that’s worse. This is too silly to continue

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You realise that says most pedestrian deaths were at night? Are you paying any attention to this conversation or are you just trolling?

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Lights. You’re familiar with ‘lights’ right?

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I’m not. You cannot really be that thick

Nice riposte. It was figurative. Currently I’ve three but it’s still a pain in the hole dealing with all of ye. And no-one has yet made a counter-argument to ‘pedestrians are safer wearing hi-vis’ there’s just a vast pile of the usual narcissistic dipshittery.

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Nope, get in the dumb queue. I can’t argue with 90 daft contentions simultaneously. Either form a class action or go away.

Getting people to wear hi-vis is bad? THAT’s your contention?

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Okay. So ‘yes’. And me pointing that out was bad because..?

Hi Simon. Thanks for being distracting. Maybe answer the straight question and I can deal with both of you concurrently.

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Hi James. So let me ask you a simple question- do you think a pedestrian is less likely to be killed wearing a hi-vis vest at night, or wearing dark clothing? Please give a straight answer.

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What are you talking about? Are you an actual person? If so, what’s your name?

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Oh good lord I just read the replies. Originally I thought your post was dumb, but by comparison, you’re a genius.

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Walk me through the misunderstanding. I can’t wait to be enlightened doc.

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Anton Savage @antonsavage.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Hi! This is thunderingly dumb. Are you wilfully missing the point, or is it accidental?

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What a lovely generous thing to say, thanks so much Emily!

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 18/01/2026

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Anton Savage @antonsavage.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What a lovely thing to say. Thanks very much Tony.

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Anton Savage @antonsavage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Anyone know where you can get a curtain rail for a bay window? It’d be easier to find someone to cooper a barrel.

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Hello admirers. (I’ve never had an admirer before; is that the correct form of address?)

Fiachna Ó Braonáin @fiachnaobraonain.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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Well the sign outside has four stars on it. (I checked as I walked down the road trying to find somewhere that served food not cooked in tallow.)

A fine idea. I shall order two. With extra celery for my five a day.

“Night porter” you say. You’re setting a worryingly high bar…

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