Poll stuffing time!

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

I can't ditch my car in '07, I don't have one ....

Bleve said:

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

I can't ditch my car in '07, I don't have one ....

That would be a "yes", then. :-)

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done. Anyone have a bot-net for hire? I'm sure we can get this close to 99.9999% in favour of YES.

😉

"Stuart Lamble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

Shame there's not a "Use your pushy more and car less" option. With 3 junior
cableguys, only one of which can maintain any sort of reasonable speed on a
bike, a car is still unfortunately way more convenient. I did manage to
reduce us to just one car though this year. :-)

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

As someone who has never held a car license, or indeed owned one, I face a small moral dilemma voting in this "poll".

Ok, fk it ...

:p

OzCableguy said:

"Stuart Lamble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

Shame there's not a "Use your pushy more and car less" option. With 3 junior
cableguys, only one of which can maintain any sort of reasonable speed on a
bike, a car is still unfortunately way more convenient. I did manage to
reduce us to just one car though this year. :-)

w00t!

quote='Bleve'Stuart Lamble said:

theage.com.auform.htmlOpen ↗

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

I can't ditch my car in '07, I don't have one ....[/QUOTE]admirable, I would like to say the same....one day, probably sooner than later, meanwhile ... I'm a problem...6 bikes and three cars( the 3M's), well one for part time use 'cos M1 was just recently written off so still legally mine till I settle the claim, M2 is in the "garidgedforever" category, only driven when hell freezes over, and the M3, (to replace M1), I have named BB for "bio-diesel babe" is for trips beyond biking reason...

but wherever possible YES ...

as at 5-30 poll was :

Yes - 66% [img]theage.com.au1pix.gifOpen ↗[/img]
No - 34% [img]theage.com.au1pix.gifOpen ↗[/img]

Total Votes: 173

cfsmtb said:

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote.
*sniff*

As someone who has never held a car license, or indeed owned one ...

Hey, I knew you were funky ... !

Donga

gplama said:

done. Anyone have a bot-net for hire? I'm sure we can get this close to 99.9999% in favour of YES.

😉

Try the next best thing, ie: actual votes.

Currently working on that via contacts. 😉 🙂

seeing as how my car is a 68 vw beetle in the middle of a restoration (which has already taken 3 years and is nowhere near finished, one could go so far as to say its only just started.) i ditched my car in favour of a bicycle 3 years ago.

the question is, will i be ditching the 50cc scooter in favour of a bicycle in 2007? the answer is... at least 75% of the time, just like last year.

hmmmm... i agree, lets send this poll to every single one of our cycling buddies and really mess things up for the stats office!! 😉

cfsmtb said:

Try the next best thing, ie: actual votes.

Currently working on that via contacts. 😉 🙂

you mean people-nets!? 😉

In aus.bicycle on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:16:46 GMT

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

But I haven't owned a car since 1986....

Zebee

Zebee Johnstone said:

In aus.bicycle on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:16:46 GMT

Stuart Lamble said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

But I haven't owned a car since 1986....

Zebee

Does my really ugly light truck count as a car? I'll only be doing
about 10,000km in it this year instead of 40,000...

BTH

Donga said:

Hey, I knew you were funky ... !

Nah, tone deaf, and nowhere near as funky as Soul Brother Number One for art thou in heaven.

BTW - perfect soundtrack for the windtrainer eh? 😄

On 2007-01-04, Stuart Lamble (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

Does anyone else feel uneasy about poll stuffing and biased self
(and friends of friends!) selected samples?

And besides, it's a poorly phrased question. I don't have a car to
give up, and I'm not going to stop riding my bike when practicalities
allow.

--
TimC
"Eppur si muove!" (And yet it does move!)
-- Galileo Galilei

TimC said:

On 2007-01-04, Stuart Lamble (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

http://www.theage.com.au/polls/form.html

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

Does anyone else feel uneasy about poll stuffing and biased self
(and friends of friends!) selected samples?

Well, the Age does disclaim the poll as being not scientific in nature.
They obviously understand the biases such polls introduce, so I have no
qualms about calling for a bit of poll stuffing in this case.

Quoted message said:

And besides, it's a poorly phrased question.

Indeed - I was thinking that my answer, strictly speaking, should be
"no", because I won't be giving up the car completely - just as much as
is reasonably convenient (meaning to/from work, and similar trips; my
dive trips, amongst other things, will still be in the car.)

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cfsmtb said:

gplama said:

done. Anyone have a bot-net for hire? I'm sure we can get this close to
99.9999% in favour of YES.

😉

Try the next best thing, ie: actual votes.

Currently working on that via contacts. 😉 🙂

Likewise. Please post the link to all your BR companions!

--
Bean

"I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it" Pink Floyd

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

TimC said:

Does anyone else feel uneasy about poll stuffing and biased self
(and friends of friends!) selected samples?

No.

--
Bean

"I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it" Pink Floyd

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

TimC said:

On 2007-01-04, Stuart Lamble (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

theage.com.auform.htmlOpen ↗

"Will you be ditching your car in favour of a bicycle in 2007?"

Go forth and vote! :-) As I write this, I'm the sole "yes" vote. *sniff*

Does anyone else feel uneasy about poll stuffing and biased self
(and friends of friends!) selected samples?

And besides, it's a poorly phrased question. I don't have a car to
give up, and I'm not going to stop riding my bike when practicalities
allow.

--
TimC
"Eppur si muove!" (And yet it does move!)
-- Galileo Galilei

as the Age suggest it is hardly a valid scientific approach to run a poll... and rest assured a.b isnt the only "interest" that will respond... or for that matter seek to encourage its brethren to do likewise!

as for the topic limitation, this is so common...the question postulator usually gets it so wrong and rather than offer choices that make sense (or nonsense if thats the aim), limit choices for whatever reason...laziness, agenda, too darn complicated an issue, or their general readership cant differentiate concepts more than on-off anyway, etc.

read between the lines and vote as you wish (even if your aim is to ensure the result is skewed anyway...ah!) remember the 2006 ABS Census?...who is a bicyclist/velocipedist/bentist(?...hmmm verybentist?) by religion?

as at 9:16am Fri 5thJan07
Yes - 63% [img]theage.com.au1pix.gifOpen ↗[/img]
No - 37% [img]theage.com.au1pix.gifOpen ↗[/img]

Total Votes: 1940