Rant: Who ARE those people who....

[moanthebairns]

Krikkit said:

Buy some Lycra kecks for your man parts to stop them chafing, but wear some fking clothes. Do the decent thing and have a little modesty rather than shrink wrapping your genitals.

One piece suits at least have a significant safety aspect.

Also agree about vaping, that disgusting sickly sweet cloud of ste which is now everywhere because it's less lethal than smoking proper fags. Be a grown up and smoke properly or give up the blatant nicotine addiction.

So you rather have smoke from a marlboro in the air than a whiff of cola. Weird.

I mean I know I'd far prefer a marlboro, but I'm trying to quit. My mouth waters and I feel like Charlie in the chocolate factory when I go into a duty free. But, if I was an uncool, I've never smoked before kinda lycra wearing cyclist dude I'd prefer bubble gum or cherry or watermelon.

I mean it's not as bad as going into a restaurant or at work when someone has a fking white cheese bding sauce over their meal. That st makes you gag, how anyone can put off milk in their mouth is beyond me. That's more anti social and should be banned and forced underground.

[DoubleD]

I hate vape smoke as well. Horrible sickly stuff.

[BobSaunders]

I don't get vaping.. 'ooooo it's so much more healthy than smoking'. Yeah, i get that bit.. smoking is a known risk as it has had extensive research to say that sucking on a burning stick will release various high temperature atomised chemicals directly into the bits that keep you alive.

But, sucking down atomised strawberry or cookies and cream? wtf.

Re. cycling and MAMILs. Much comfier riding long distances in lycra than t-shirt and shorts. Also, there is noticeable gains. Plus with cycling i stay fit and healthy i am not a drain on the health services now, and later in life, unlike certain sofa dwellers. I like standing in cafe's with my penis outline on show.

Edited by BobSaunders on Thursday 23 August 09:57

[Prof Prolapse]

I'm conflicted about vaping.

I think anything that helps people get off the fags is to be encouraged, it's fking hard, and I respect people who stop or are even trying to. I also don't have any doubts it's better for your health.

But that said I just can't help get past the fact it is basically an "adult dummy". "Modifying" these daft little vapourises and filling them with sweetie flavoured scents? What sort of man does that? I always picture the archtypal blokes with beards who are into things like "retro games". People in flannel shirts who spend their evenings wearing headsets and playing video games, that typically in IT at work who for some reason has children's toys blue tacked to his desk and knows every fking netflix cartoon show. Always nice folk, but deep down you just want to punch them, right in their well groomed, freshly oiled beard.

It's jut not as cool or manly as regular smoking is it? I mean in all honesty, Hollywood has shown us beyond doubt that smoking is cool. Vaping enthusiasts are just nerds.

[crashley]

Wandering past Bank station (London) yday and i truly felt sorry for a guy on a KTM. He'd done the sensible thing and gone to the front of the cars as it went to red, only to be surrounded by what can only be described as a hoard of cyclists, completely trapping him from making a decent getaway up Moorgate. Poor sod then had to sort of tentatively move with them as they pulled away and i finally watched him make his escape up on London Wall. Utter cretins on the pushbikes. And i'm a bloody cyclist too!

[Biker 1]

Prof Prolapse said:

.....What sort of man does that? ....but deep down you just want to punch them, right in their well groomed, freshly oiled beard.

It's jut not as cool or manly as regular smoking is it? I mean in all honesty, Hollywood has shown us beyond doubt that smoking is cool. Vaping enthusiasts are just nerds.

I wasn't going to contribute anything more to this thread, but had to, given the Prof's post!
About sums it up: I used to smoke 20 fags a day, gave up 10 years ago. In the day, it was Golden Vaginia, hand rolled, & no filter. Proper taste & proper cool. WTF is this vaping ste all about?? Getting stuck behind white van man with clouds of cherry 'flavour' steam billowing out the windw & having to breath the ste in - I'd much rather a secondhand Marlborough or other proper fag.

[DoubleD]

Smoking was cool about 30 years ago, but things have moved on.

[moanthebairns]

Biker 1 said:

laugh:
I wasn't going to contribute anything more to this thread, but had to, given the Prof's post!
About sums it up: I used to smoke 20 fags a day, gave up 10 years ago. In the day, it was Golden Vaginia, hand rolled, & no filter. Proper taste & proper cool. WTF is this vaping ste all about?? Getting stuck behind white van man with clouds of cherry 'flavour' steam billowing out the windw & having to breath the ste in - I'd much rather a secondhand Marlborough or other proper fag.

its Marlboro, Marlborough is a street in monopoly.

[Prof Prolapse]

DoubleD said:

Smoking was cool about 30 years ago, but things have moved on.

James Hunt, Steve McQueen, Barry Sheen, Roger Moore. Arnold Swarzenegger, Michael Shumacher, even Albert Einstein, all smokers. Even modern cool cats like Tom Hardy (I think he's awesome since he caught that scooter thief in London and appeared on Cbeebies) smoke.

Who's in the non-smoking corner? Gary Lineker? Jamie Oliver? Russel Brand? Me? All wkers.

[Biker 1]

moanthebairns said:

its Marlboro, Marlborough is a street in monopoly.

Ah, yes Not the first time my laziness has overridden the spell-checker! Camel were nice fags, as were Gauloises. Do they still sell Marlboro 100s? Apparently they could cause internal bleeding - great taste & lasted for ages.
I would steer clear of Egyptian fags - very unpleasant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(cigarette...

[DoubleD]

Prof Prolapse said:

DoubleD said:

Smoking was cool about 30 years ago, but things have moved on.

James Hunt, Steve McQueen, Barry Sheen, Roger Moore. Arnold Swarzenegger, Michael Shumacher, even Albert Einstein, all smokers. Even modern cool cats like Tom Hardy (I think he's awesome since he caught that scooter thief in London and appeared on Cbeebies) smoke.

Who's in the non-smoking corner? Gary Lineker? Jamie Oliver? Russel Brand? Me? All wkers.

I like the way that you have picked the celebs that fit your argument. Smoking hasnt been cool for years.

[moanthebairns]

You still get the 100s.
I was always partial to lucky strike.



Marlboro gold though were heaven though mmmmmmmmm, I knew I had to quit when I saw this lasting me a month.

[CampDavid]

Prof Prolapse said:

James Hunt, Steve McQueen, Barry Sheen, Roger Moore. Arnold Swarzenegger, Michael Shumacher, even Albert Einstein, all smokers. Even modern cool cats like Tom Hardy (I think he's awesome since he caught that scooter thief in London and appeared on Cbeebies) smoke.

Who's in the non-smoking corner? Gary Lineker? Jamie Oliver? Russel Brand? Me? All wkers.

Love this thread, you're like a pound shop Clarkson. Hilarious!

[yellowjack]

crashley said:

Wandering past Bank station (London) yday and i truly felt sorry for a guy on a KTM. He'd done the sensible thing and gone to the front of the cars as it went to red, only to be surrounded by what can only be described as a hoard of cyclists, completely trapping him from making a decent getaway up Moorgate. Poor sod then had to sort of tentatively move with them as they pulled away and i finally watched him make his escape up on London Wall. Utter cretins on the pushbikes. And i'm a bloody cyclist too!

Was this KTM riding action hero in an "Advanced Stop Box" ?

If so he has committed the offence of failing to stop at a red traffic light signal, and probably "deserved all he got" in terms of being swamped by a "hoard" of "Lycra terrorists". Whether you like them or not, advanced stop lines are there, and governed by road traffic law. If your vehicle has a motor in it, stay out of the box. It really is as simple as that.

If he wasn't at an advanced stop line, yet beyond the 'Stop' line, them he committed the same offence. Although in this case, so did the cyclists. So they're all square in legal terms. Yet the cyclists are "cretins" for filtering to the front of the queue, whereas the motorcyclist isn't? How very peculiar...


...how very dare a group of road users use the road in a manner that pleases them. I thought that was the sole preserve of motorcyclists, when their ambition exceeds their talent as they tear around bends on the Cat & Fiddle at three-digit speeds, catapulting themselves over dry stone walls as physics asserts it's authority over wishful thinking?

[Biker 1]

moanthebairns said:

You still get the 100s.
I was always partial to lucky strike.

Marlboro gold though were heaven though mmmmmmmmm, I knew I had to quit when I saw this lasting me a month.

I vaguely remember buying fags in Australia back in the 80s, sold in packs of 25 or 30. Then there were Winston soft packs........ I may need to take up smoking again.

[crashley]

yellowjack said:

as this KTM riding action hero in an "Advanced Stop Box" ?

If so he has committed the offence of failing to stop at a red traffic light signal, and probably "deserved all he got" in terms of being swamped by a "hoard" of "Lycra terrorists". Whether you like them or not, advanced stop lines are there, and governed by road traffic law. If your vehicle has a motor in it, stay out of the box. It really is as simple as that.

If he wasn't at an advanced stop line, yet beyond the 'Stop' line, them he committed the same offence. Although in this case, so did the cyclists. So they're all square in legal terms. Yet the cyclists are "cretins" for filtering to the front of the queue, whereas the motorcyclist isn't? How very peculiar...


...how very dare a group of road users use the road in a manner that pleases them. I thought that was the sole preserve of motorcyclists, when their ambition exceeds their talent as they tear around bends on the Cat & Fiddle at three-digit speeds, catapulting themselves over dry stone walls as physics asserts it's authority over wishful thinking?

Surely let some common sense prevail here; the chap on the KTM is going to be able to move away faster than the cyclists, and it makes sense to let him do that as opposed to effectively just blocking him in for the sake of being at the front? That aside, when they did start moving, surrounding a 200-250kg motorbike in pretty close quarters with 15 or so 70-100kg cyclists all jostling for position- wouldn't that seem unwise? I'm sure you'd moan if he landed on you as a result of having to move for someone skipping around a drain or whatever.

And with apologies, i meant 'horde', ie a large group of people. No mention of lycra or terrorists, just cretin (a stupid person).



As an occasional London cyclist and regular weekend Essex cyclist i wouldn't dream of getting in front of a motorbike because i realise how frustrating it is, don't you see that?

[CampDavid]

yellowjack said:

crashley said:

Wandering past Bank station (London) yday and i truly felt sorry for a guy on a KTM. He'd done the sensible thing and gone to the front of the cars as it went to red, only to be surrounded by what can only be described as a hoard of cyclists, completely trapping him from making a decent getaway up Moorgate. Poor sod then had to sort of tentatively move with them as they pulled away and i finally watched him make his escape up on London Wall. Utter cretins on the pushbikes. And i'm a bloody cyclist too!

Was this KTM riding action hero in an "Advanced Stop Box" ?

If so he has committed the offence of failing to stop at a red traffic light signal, and probably "deserved all he got" in terms of being swamped by a "hoard" of "Lycra terrorists". Whether you like them or not, advanced stop lines are there, and governed by road traffic law. If your vehicle has a motor in it, stay out of the box. It really is as simple as that.

If he wasn't at an advanced stop line, yet beyond the 'Stop' line, them he committed the same offence. Although in this case, so did the cyclists. So they're all square in legal terms. Yet the cyclists are "cretins" for filtering to the front of the queue, whereas the motorcyclist isn't? How very peculiar...


...how very dare a group of road users use the road in a manner that pleases them. I thought that was the sole preserve of motorcyclists, when their ambition exceeds their talent as they tear around bends on the Cat & Fiddle at three-digit speeds, catapulting themselves over dry stone walls as physics asserts it's authority over wishful thinking?

Those stop boxes in that area regularly get about 8 bikes in them. That's 8 cars not in front of you at the lights. Cyclists are awesome.

[Dr Jekyll]

moanthebairns said:

its Marlboro, Marlborough is a street in monopoly.

It's actually a town on the A4 with plenty of parking and a choice of coffee shops near some great Wiltshire roads.

This is biker banter, not board games banter.

[Harji]

moanthebairns said:

So you kicked another mans motorcycle for a traffic violation?

I should say kicked out at him as he tried to squeeze into a gap that didn't exist, and it wasn't just a violation, it was an attempt to force me off the road (he was behind me) and intimidate me. He failed.

[Biker 1]

Dr Jekyll said:

It's actually a town on the A4 with plenty of parking and a choice of coffee shops near some great Wiltshire roads.

This is biker banter, not board games banter.

They also make good wine: https://www.newzealand.com/int/marlborough/