The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Take care, see you soon.

One small point, what has this thread got to do with cycling?

All the posters own a bike I should imagine. 🙂

 

[welsh dragon]

Take care, see you soon.

One small point, what has this thread got to do with cycling?

Eh? Cycling? . Ye God's. I might just have go lie down for a while

 

[Exlaser2]

Think I’ve miss read the room .
Perhaps this thread isn’t what I thought it was.
Oh well😢

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Think I’ve miss read the room .
Perhaps this thread isn’t what I thought it was.
Oh well😢

That's gone over my head.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Take care, see you soon.

One small point, what has this thread got to do with cycling?

I posted a ride report and picture Thursday, picture The Last Of Summer Wine with bikes

 

[classic33]

Today's quandary..

Should it be News or news?

I tend to capitalise the N but maybe I'm in the minority or totally out on a limb dumb.

***

In other News (haha) we cba to get out of bed and are saving ourselves for our first party night (albeit abbreviated and no booze for me) since I got poorly way back in January.

Get up!
You've your bike shop to attend to.

 

[classic33]

All the posters own a bike I should imagine. 🙂

I have a quadricycle!

 

[Dirk]

That's gone over my head.

#metoo

 

[ColinJ]

Talking about taking a break, I find it's not so much places like Cyclechat I need a break from as you can pick and choose what you want to read or participate in, but media in general can get a bit overwhelming and depressing at times and sometimes think it's best avoided for a while. I can't help feel the likes of the BBC seem to almost revel in tragedies and sad stories these days. When did we last get some good news stories?

I used to watch the Ch4 news every evening but there was that long, slow build-up to the invasion of Ukraine. People were talking about Putin applying pressure, bargaining ploys and so on. Rubbish! It was absolutely bloody obvious what he was going to do so it was like watching a slow-mo of a multiple pile-up on a motorway. Once the war kicked off I stopped watching the news. I just read a summary of events on the BBC website now.

Yep. Every man and his dug seems to have mental health problems these days. I find it bizarre to be honest. It's almost as though the media encourage it.

Exactly....almost.
I meant that it seems the fashionable thing to have, these days, is 'mental issues'.
Nobody just has a bit of bother and then just gets on with life.

Think I’ve miss read the room .
Perhaps this thread isn’t what I thought it was.
Oh well😢

That's gone over my head.

Ex is saying that the trivialisation of mental health issues is very disappointing in what is otherwise a friendly and supportive thread!

Telling somebody standing on the ledge of a tall building to 'cheer up' or 'get a grip' isn't helpful. I can think of 5 or 6 people I know with very real mental health issues in their 20s and 30s who may well not make it through the next 10 years.

Anyway, back to more cheerful topics... I was going to do a sunny ride on my singlespeed bike to confirm that it IS really quiet now after sorting out the saddle clamp, but my Hebden Bridge pal asked me to meet up for a coffee in Heptonstall, which means going out on my best bike. (No chance of me getting up that long, steep climb without low gears!)

My first reaction was to say that I can't afford to spend £2.50-3.00 on a fancy cup of coffee, but then I remembered that I have my pension now and CAN afford the occasional luxury. I have a £10 note in my wallet which will be used to treat us to coffee and cake.

 

[numbnuts]

That's gone over my head.

The only thing that's over my head is a halo

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Exlaser2]

That's gone over my head.

Ok I will explain. Someone posts something that most people I know in the real world, would think is insulting to 2 sections of the population by trivialising their real problems and I am the only one on here that’s thinks it is insulting. In fact the only other people to post about it, agreed with the OP.
I had thought this thread was an oasis of niceness within the bile that is social media .
As I said, I have miss read the room . 😢

I will not comment on this point again .

 

[welsh dragon]

I used to watch the Ch4 news every evening but there was that long, slow build-up to the invasion of Ukraine. People were talking about Putin applying pressure, bargaining ploys and so on. Rubbish! It was absolutely bloody obvious what he was going to do so it was like watching a slow-mo of a multiple pile-up on a motorway. Once the war kicked off I stopped watching the news. I just read a summary of events on the BBC website now.







Ex is saying that the trivialisation of mental health issues is very disappointing in what is otherwise a friendly and supportive thread!

Telling somebody standing on the ledge of a tall building to 'cheer up' or 'get a grip' isn't helpful. I can think of 5 or 6 people I know with very real mental health issues in their 20s and 30s who may well not make it through the next 10 years.

Anyway, back to more cheerful topics... I was going to do a sunny ride on my singlespeed bike to confirm that it IS really quiet now after sorting out the saddle clamp, but my Hebden Bridge pal asked me to meet up for a coffee in Heptonstall, which means going out on my best bike. (No chance of me getting up that long, steep climb without low gears!)

My first reaction was to say that I can't afford to spend £2.50-3.00 on a fancy cup of coffee, but then I remembered that I have my pension now and CAN afford the occasional luxury. I have a £10 note in my wallet which will be used to treat us to coffee and cake.

I don't think anyone was trivializing mental health problems, just saying that there can be an overload of other people's mental problems and that can impact on on people who don't suffer from those problems or who are coping with their own mild problems. People can only handle so much of others problems.

This is the best thread on this site. If it wasn't here, I wouldn't be either.

 

[Dirk]

Ok I will explain. Someone posts something that most people I know in the real world, would think is insulting to 2 sections of the population by trivialising their real problems and I am the only one on here that’s thinks it is insulting. In fact the only other people to post about it, agreed with the OP.
I had thought this thread was an oasis of niceness within the bile that is social media .
As I said, I have miss read the room . 😢

I will not comment on this point again .

So, when I said 'it's the new black' you automatically jumped to the conclusion that I was using it in a racial way and not using the term as I meant it to be taken ie. in the fashion sense?
Have you never heard of the phrase 'green is the new black this season' or something similar? The fact that it has become very noticeable in society, and that it was dealt with differently back in the day, is interpreted as 'trivialising' it.
People are so ready to take offence these days.
I give up FFS !

 

[Rocky]

So, when I said 'it's the new black' you automatically jumped to the conclusion that I was using it in a racial way and not using the term as I meant it to be taken ie. in the fashion sense?
Have you never heard of the phrase 'green is the new black this season' or something similar? And the fact that it has become very noticeable is interpreted as 'trivialising' it.
People are so ready to take offence these days.
I give up FFS !

You misunderstand his post. He wasn't saying anything about black, he was disappointed at the trivialisation of mental health issues - as explained by Colin's subsequent post.