upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
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- The middle bit
I'm actually quite enjoying reading this thread. If you dont like it dont read it.
That's me told then.
I'm actually quite enjoying reading this thread. If you dont like it dont read it.
I'm actually quite enjoying reading this thread. If you dont like it dont read it.
Cobblers. Such utter cobblers, in fact, that it could tempt one to the sort of utterance that sensitive sorts and diligent Moderators characterise as "playing the man, not the ball". Lee spotted immediately what you were up to in your first despicably disingenuous post on this thread, and I'm afraid everything you've written is more of the same. Oblige me by not pretending partly to agree with me, would you? A preference for Vs over Discs aside, we agree about precisely nothing.
I agree, it's kind of like watching Jeremy Kyle....
Sir/Madam,
I'm beginning to sense that I may be making you cross with my endless babbling, so I shal, proceed with caution.
On 'playing the man', I wonder where you'd put the endless lampooning someone's prose style. As it is, no-one mocks my style more than I do myself. If they were handing out medals for the ridiculing of my prose, I'd be in pole.
As to my 'despicably disingenuous post', I take it that was a post you disagreed with. I find none of my posts dispicably disingenuous, although it sounds quite a fun quality. If I do have that quality, I might see if I can bottle it. It makes me feel like Dick Dastardly.
On the matter of 'pretending partly to agree' with you, there was no artifice. We both think the woman in the clip was behaving in a vile way. That is agreement. I think she and the cyclist made matching bookends up to a point. You think otherwise. That is partial agreement.
On brakes, I had no idea you were an advocate of the V-Brake. Yes, I do like them on roadified MTBs. For brain-out roadbikes I prefer callipers and for the dirt I am a reluctant convert to hydraulic discs. Mechanically, my fave is the V-Brake, but so few bikes are right for them.
Surely you and I must agree on some other issues.... I'll offer you some of my opinions:
1. Sage and Rosemary are hugely under-used herbs in this age when people seem to put Basil in everything.
2. Apples can be left on trees well into November and still taste delicious, cooked or raw.
3. I believe a shirt should always be ironed as follows: Sleeves, collar, shoulders and then body from buttons to buttonholes.
4. Unless you are Italian or unbelievably stylish, brown shoes cannot be be worn with a navy blue suit.
5.Foot-operated parking brakes (as in some Citroens and M-Bs) should not be offered in conjunction with manual transmission. It makes a mockery of their raison d'etre.
Aware as ever that the Internet is nearly full and that you have better things to do than read my pointless prose, I'll leave it there.
But do tell; do you agree with any of the deeply held beliefs outlined above?
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I'm just glad he changed 'proceeding' to 'preceding' - I got completely thrown the first time I watched it!
I think it's a good clip. I think she's unnecessarily rude but shows behaviour not atypical for a stressed out driver who's been stuck in traffic. I don't think Magnatom needed to talk to her - the irony of the video would have been just the same. He could have just let it go and posted a funny clip all the same.
I do wonder why cyclists have such a bee in their bonnet about this road tax thing. It's so obvious what the drivers mean, it always seems to come across as schoolyard childish argument when cyclists respond "I don't pay road tax, but neither do you." Let's just call it splitting hairs!
The tanker video remains by far and away the scariest cycle clip I've seen. It still freaks me out when I watch it.
Good debate on this thread though - don't shut it down, I'm enjoying it.
Which is a suitably prolix way of saying that we (except for Mugshot) have got your number.
You wouldn't have had the "you've been holding everyone up" line, though. There's a very simple reason why you should talk to motorists who behave badly towards you, and that is that they are counting on you not doing so.
LOL
I will raise my own point of order though, I asked to be excluded from the "bored" we, not the "number" we. However I do understand that it is entirely impractical to expect you to check which group I'd like to belong in each time