Why don't you post on Society, Culture & Politics?

[Globalti]

My Dad was a GP in rural Oxfordshire for most of my young life. When I was 15 he announced that he'd had enough of general practice and we were moving to Newcastle upon Tyne where he was going to be a university lecturer in Social Medicine. This turned out not to be the dreamy academic life he had imagined, sitting all day sucking a pencil and writing learned papers and he was completely unprepared for the bitchy, competitive, back-stabbing academic life and was eventually diagnosed with Alzehimer's at the age of 55, at which point he retired with relief. I don't know whether the Alzheimer's made life difficult or the difficult life caused the Alzheimer's but I sometimes get a glimpse of how the mind goes off its gimbals when things become stressful and I do believe the stress may have contributed to his illness.

Of course the good folk who inhabit S,C&P will pop up now and demand to know where is my peer-reviewed study in support of that belief......

 

[anothersam]

Yes. It is a good thing that CC is a broad church & we can come on here for social as well as strictly bicycle related chat.

I heartily agree. Much as I love cycling, to chat about it all the time, even on a forum called CycleChat, would bore me to tears. My preference is to have bikes scattered here and there...

 

[Globalti]

Hmmm.. interesting link, thanks User3094. It says: "Individuals also endowed with high intelligence, curiosity, persistence of effort, tenacity, energy, and enthusiasm are able to reach heightened levels of creativity in art, science, and politics" and as it happens he was a compulsively accurate painter of geometric modern art as well as a talented musician with his own choir specialising in technically difficult early music.

 

[IDMark2]

If you want the serious reply - about 40% of all the forum's posts are in the café. Which means, statistically, that many people must spend more time in the café than elsewhere.

Or, that the Cafe is the only place they feel comfortable posting and they just read the other bits.

 

[Archie_tect]

I heartily agree. Much as I love cycling, to chat about it all the time, even on a forum called CycleChat, would bore me to tears. My preference is to have bikes scattered here and there...

Shaun's got the balance right then.... he'll be very happy, I am.

 

[John the Monkey]

Because Society, Culture and Politics are all-pervasive and affect every one of us in everything we do, while cycling and drinking beer are important but not the be-all and end-all of life?

Could be.

I come here to be a little silly, and to have fun. P&L, and Commuting[1], for that matter, are incompatible with those aims, for me at least. That's not to say that I'm uninterested in them, just that this isn't the place in which I want to engage with them.

To go back to the point someone made about this being a cycling forum - back in my usenet days we had lots of discussion about off-topic posting. Our view at the time was that it was the best way to keep the people whose on-topic knowledge kept the groups going coming back.

[1] And I say that as a 130 mile per week cycle commuter.

 

[Archie_tect]

When I need advice CC is now the first reference point... then Sheldon Brown's site!

 

[Fubar]

So would most of the café....

(And especially the "tea" thread.

Makes total sense. I'll give up CycleChat with immediate effect and will instantly be transported onto a bicycle racking up 500 miles per week. Thanks.

 

[classic33]

Makes total sense. I'll give up CycleChat with immediate effect and will instantly be transported onto a bicycle racking up 500 miles per week. Thanks.

Used to do half that on a weekend.

When I'm finally made to stop riding either a bike or the quad, I take it I'll no longer be eligible to post on here.
The last eighteen months have had two major conditions revealed. I'm now on the transplant list and I'm suffering from severe bone thinning, both brought on by long term(37years) use of a drug used to treat a condition I was born with. The bone thinning is useful for someone who's split their skull four times this year.
Treatment for either can't be started until I'm no longer taking it, but that aint gonna happen any time soon. I took up cycling, against medical advice and continued with it since. Only the last 15 months I've not spent as much time in the saddle as I'd like to have. Four weeks ago the head received another crack & the bruises are still visible in places from where I hit something.

 

[summerdays]

I don't want to produce evidence to back up anything I say, and I'm not good at debating, so it's not going to be for me. I will occasionally peek at a thread that catches my eye but mostly I ignore the threads until one is reported. I try to ignore threads elsewhere too (helmet ones being an example). I guess I prefer discussion rather than conflict. My views have been changed/influenced over the years by what I've read throughout CC.

Someone said that we are all effected by the things discussed in SCP but I'm not a very political person, and although I do vote, I can't be bothered to get really worked up about it. Once a party is in power, I'm stuck with them for the next five years anyway. Though I have been known to write to my MP to express my views on rare occasions.

I don't see a problem with members not contributing to all sections of the forum, I wouldn't be able to add much to the racing or mechanical side but I see read bits of those too. I think we find our niche in the forum and mine isn't the debating society.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

If you want the serious reply - about 40% of all the forum's posts are in the café. Which means, statistically, that many people must spend more time in the café than elsewhere.

Statistically with my head in the oven and feet in the freezer my overall body temperature is spot on. (not a serious suggestion but you get the idea)

It could be that the café is just that, where friends can have a chit chat, as per the tea thread and is much more how Twitter and Facebook work as a connected series of 1:1 or 1:several conversational posts whereas there are only so many people that need to reply to a 'how do I index my gears' or 'how do I mickle my chain sparkly' thread before it dies a death of repetition.

It doesn't mean people aren't in those tech sections and looking at these threads though.

I could double my technical post count overnight by simply quoting & typing +1 or just repeating the good advice of someone who got there first, sometimes I do but often other posts will just get a like from me instead, as a means of commending the info it contains.

The cafe; and SC&P I guess; get a disproportionately high post count because they are a conversation pit not a question and answer session.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I don't want to produce evidence to back up anything I say, and I'm not good at debating, so it's not going to be for me. I will occasionally peek at a thread that catches my eye but mostly I ignore the threads until one is reported. I try to ignore threads elsewhere too (helmet ones being an example). I guess I prefer discussion rather than conflict. My views have been changed/influenced over the years by what I've read throughout CC.

Someone said that we are all effected by the things discussed in SCP but I'm not a very political person, and although I do vote, I can't be bothered to get really worked up about it. Once a party is in power, I'm stuck with them for the next five years anyway. Though I have been known to write to my MP to express my views on rare occasions.

I don't see a problem with members not contributing to all sections of the forum, I wouldn't be able to add much to the racing or mechanical side but I see read bits of those too. I think we find our niche in the forum and mine isn't the debating society.

Sorry Summerdays, but that's just opinion, do you have data to back that up?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Sorry Summerdays, but that's just opinion, do you have data to back that up?

That's already been explained to you. If you can't see it I feel sorry for you.

 

[Fab Foodie]

That's already been explained to you. If you can't see it I feel sorry for you.

Eh?
Sense of poor humour failure this evening?

 

[mr messy]

This thread seems to be veering this way and that...time to get back to the original OP

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