Things you'd like to say, but can't

[ColinJ]

I would like to say this to the Halloween-inspired teenagers who were screaming in front of my house just now... "I say, I would really rather that you didn't drop-kick my front door before running off cackling. It is somewhat annoying and moronic!"

 

[Moon bunny]

You did not seen it, you saw it.

 

[Chief Broom]

Can i say anything here without getting any flak? OK then Bruce Springsteen is crap and 'Born in the USA' is a stupid song with stupid lyrics, i couldnt care less where you were born...
Bike packing is just bikes with a poor luggage system.
Road bikes should be called race/sport/dropbar bikes. Hybrid bikes should be called road bikes.
Ah thats better! so nice that i wont get any bricks thrown at me...i wont will i?

 

[Moon bunny]

And Dutch bikes should be called roadsters.

 

[Ratchet Cat]

Shut up you noisy brainless twit. I couldn’t care less about your life, what you saw on telly last night or your tasteless Halloween party.

 

[ColinJ]

'Born in the USA' is a stupid song with stupid lyrics, i couldnt care less where you were born...

It isn't a song about how great the USA is, it is actually about how the USA sent thousands of young men to fight a stupid war in a far-off land, and didn't help the traumatised survivors of that conflict when they got home.

That doesn't sound stupid to me!

The only problem is that it is far too easy for people to miss that and think that it is just a jingoistic anthem.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It isn't a song about how great the USA is, it is actually about how the USA sent thousands of young men to fight a stupid war in a far-off land, and didn't help the traumatised survivors of that conflict when they got home.

That doesn't sound stupid to me!

The only problem is that it is far too easy for people to miss that and think that it is just a jingoistic anthem.

Yup - right on thread topic

people who think a song is wonderful for reasons that clearly show they have not listened to the lyrics
or know what they mean

any other example?

 

[PaulSB]

^^^ that's saved me a few minutes. Spot on, @ColinJ

 

[Ratchet Cat]

Remixed songs with a drum machine beat and high pitched warbling over the top are utterly talentless rubbish. Oh wait, I did say that.

 

[Chris S]

Yup - right on thread topic

people who think a song is wonderful for reasons that clearly show they have not listened to the lyrics
or know what they mean

any other example?

David Cameron said 'The Eton Rifles' was one of his favourite songs!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if0j3OrtMqY

 

[Chris S]

Yup - right on thread topic

people who think a song is wonderful for reasons that clearly show they have not listened to the lyrics
or know what they mean

any other example?

I don't think Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wildside' would have got airplay if BBC producers had known what 'giving head' meant.

 

[ColinJ]

I could have said this, but given what the people's attitude had revealed I thought it safer to wait until I got home and rant here instead!

"I'm not sure whether you are too stupid to drive, too self-entitled to be allowed anywhere near other human beings, or so high on recreational drugs that you really couldn't see the problem with what you have just done!"

Picture the scene... I was riding back into the centre of Todmorden on Halifax Road, a busy road which is only one lane in each direction. I suddenly came to the back of a long tailback of traffic. I waited. And waited. We weren't moving at all so I started to slowly and carefully filter past the scores of stationary vehicles. Eventually, I saw what was causing the jam - a car had suffered a catastrophic breakdown. Its hazard warning flashers were on. It must have been such a sudden problem that the driver had not even been able to coast over to pull up at the side of the road. The car was stuck in the middle of the lane at an angle to the direction of the road so it was taking up the full width of our lane. There was so much traffic coming the other way that it was almost impossible to get past. The driver was sitting calmly in the car, evidently waiting for a breakdown vehicle to come and rescue him.

This screenshot from Google Maps shows the location of the stricken vehicle:

The car was where 'A646' is shown on the road, with the back of the car where the arrow is, and the front of the car nearly touching the kerb. Just before the pedestrian crossing.

I was walking my bike round the stricken car when the real cause of the problem revealed itself... A young woman ambled out of the Domino's Pizza on the left beyond the Age UK shop with a huge pizza box in her hands, walked to the car, got in, and off they went!

So, free parking in Todmorden is no problem. If you are desperate for junk food, just park where you like in the middle of the road, then go and buy some...

 

[ColinJ]

I would like to say "Oi, Google - NO!!" but I dare not, lest my tech starts shouting at me again!

I was just looking for the Google Meet app on my tablet and muttering to myself about Google when a voice suddenly erupted from my phone "Google was founded by..."! Apparently, Gemini had decided that I was asking about the history of the company. I must find a way of turning that voice off!

 

[cyberknight]

Remixed songs with a drum machine beat and high pitched warbling over the top are utterly talentless rubbish. Oh wait, I did say that.

same goes for those remakes of classic 80s songs like tears for fears mad world sung very slow that went through a surge of popularity a while ago that seemed to be in every other advert .

 

[DRM]

It isn't a song about how great the USA is, it is actually about how the USA sent thousands of young men to fight a stupid war in a far-off land, and didn't help the traumatised survivors of that conflict when they got home.

That doesn't sound stupid to me!

The only problem is that it is far too easy for people to miss that and think that it is just a jingoistic anthem.

Especially ill informed politicians, the lyrics actually say how crap it is in the USA for some people, something Bruce Springsteen writes about alot in his songs