FNRttC FNRttC to Brighton - November 27th 2009

[dellzeqq]

I'll see your noumenon and raise you a ding-an-sich. And throw in a bikelyness of the bikely bike while I'm at it.

User S
Chris B
Andrij B
Andy C
Matt L
John E
Mick D
Luke C
Ian A
Adrian C
Tim O
Martin F?
Rob H
Andrew
Mike E plus 4
Andy Ar +1 (there being another Andy A)
Andy A
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Pippa G
Kats I
Els V
Tom V
Martin T
Clive P
Jasper R
Davy S
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Beth P
Angela-Marie G
Lee H
Arthur C
Robin B
Susie F
Alastair M
Chris L
Rachael W
Dave C
Katarzyna K
Christian B - one of the original GANG OF FOUR!!!!
Steve W
Barney P
Stuart A
Kieran O
Nathan W
Lee T
Des O'D
Neil G
Sig E
Paul McN
Lee H-T
Daniel R
Mark H (yes, that Mark H - be very afraid!)
Andrew T
Jane D
Emma D
Joth D
Jen 'Bromette' N
Daphne 'Bromette' Y

now turning people away........

 

[mistral]

Noumenon

do doo do do do

Kant understand

 

[MacB]

Have I got this right? Your building a bike to suit the handlebars you've found?

worryingly, yes - have just contacted Corridori about having an Amazon built up to my specs, seems reasonable to me, £23 handlebars require £2k of bike to suit them

 

[MacB]

This to me raises profound ontological questions. Where exactly is the thing that is the bike located? It might even be time to use the word noumenon! What? Am I not in P&L any more?

not only that but you're not even coming on this ride so bug off

 

[theclaud]

I'll see your noumenon and raise you a ding-an-sich. And throw in a bikelyness of the bikely bike while I'm at it.

Harumph. My contention is that MacB is employing a process of defamiliarisation to make us see, or at least feel that we see, the irreducible bikeliness of the bike - a bikeliness which is transparent to the point of inaccessibility when observing a machine that looks, on the surface of it, more like an actual bike. You were up to something similar with that saddlebag...

 

[MacB]

Harumph. My contention is that MacB is employing a process of defamiliarisation to make us see, or at least feel that we see, the irreducible bikeliness of the bike - a bikeliness which is transparent to the point of inaccessibility when observing a machine that looks, on the surface of it, more like an actual bike. You were up to something similar with that saddlebag...

Madam, your contention is tripe!

 

[theclaud]

Madam, your contention is tripe!

Outrageous! They'd have indulged me in P&L. Some of them might even have been fooled...

 

[MacB]

Outrageous! They'd have indulged me in P&L. Some of them might even have been fooled...

not fooled but too overcome by sudden sleepiness to reach the end of your post - I've had to glance to the left a couple of times to make sure it's not Dell I'm reading

 

[theclaud]

I've had to glance to the left a couple of times to make sure it's not Dell I'm reading

You cut me to the quick, MacB! Much as I am an unqualified Dellzeqq enthusiast,I was hoping I had carved out my own particular brand of gently pretentious high-structuralist cyclo-cultural criticism, with an added touch of bracing marginality from the Welsh Riviera. And now I find that I am not only missing out on the FNRttC, but as a mere shadow and pale imitation I am surplus to requirements anyway! And I quite like your funny handlebars.

 

[MacB]

And I quite like your funny handlebars.

In which case I love you again and you need to get on this ride, I'll chip in a fiver to your costs and Teef would fall over himself to pay the whole lot would be up for the same

 

[dellzeqq]

but beware the proviso in the OP. I am serious. Temperature drops, ride gets cancelled. The survivors of the November 2006 ride will back me up on this.

 

[MacB]

but beware the proviso in the OP. I am serious. Temperature drops, ride gets cancelled. The survivors of the November 2006 ride will back me up on this.

I think that you'll find the word cancelled doesn't exist in Lushketeer parlance, it becomes extended beverage time instead

 

[theclaud]

In which case I love you again and you need to get on this ride, I'll chip in a fiver to your costs and Teef would fall over himself to pay the whole lot would be up for the same

This is all very kind, and thanks to young Walnuts for a similar sentiment earlier. I shall miss you all, but am kind of resigned - I've decided to use it as an opportunity to remind people down here that I exist, and to see if anything can be salvaged from my neglected allotment. I'll be in town the weekend before if any Lushketeers want to ping me about a pint...

 

[Davywalnuts]

This is all very kind, and thanks to young Walnuts for a similar sentiment earlier. I shall miss you all, but am kind of resigned - I've decided to use it as an opportunity to remind people down here that I exist, and to see if anything can be salvaged from my neglected allotment. I'll be out on the lash in town the weekend before if any Lushketeers want to ping me about a pint...

Now now theclaud, you know i've got that excuse for not coming out cycling trademarked already!

 

[theclaud]

Now now theclaud, you know i've got that excuse for not coming out cycling trademarked already!

You've got about a hundred of the things! You can't claim exclusive rights to all of them. Anyway, it's a bit lightweight if you count a week-old hangover as any kind of excuse. I drank NOTHING last night for once and I felt a bit ropey on the bike this morning. That's not a mistake I'll be repeating...