Sometimes you take a good thing for granted.

I was just wandering around the interweb, and uncharacteristically made a post on another bike forum. Made a few objective comments - you know how it is.

And there were a few other reasonable contributors.

But the overwhelming sensation I got from it all, was:

WHAT A BUNCH OF DEFENSIVE, HUMOURLESS, NARROW-MINDED FUCKWITS

With that in mind, I'd like to publicly thank the regular contributors on here (even tynan) for being friendly, thought-provoking, witty, self-aware, and not a bunch of humourless, defensive, narrow-minded fuckwits.

If I've ever failed to convey this attitude before, rest assured it was lurking under the surface.

I am not on ecstasy, BTW.

You're just happy about that 10 quid coupon! Think of all the red onions that can buy!

Shame I bet you're great fun on ecstasy.

rejoice! what an amazing waste of time this place is....love it!

Funny post. considering that everyone on this forum hates your guts.

I think you misconstrued the message when they all said to you, "everyone on this forum hates your guts."

my farts aren't that bad.

You're right (being serious - what a a miserable twat I am). On the whole cyclists are a miserable species. 20 years ago I saved up really hard after working the summer in a shitty factory and bought a Condor 531 frame. I then went out with my local cycling club and had one guy come up to me and say "nice bike, let's hope you can cycle". Even to this day, I see a fat bloke on his Pinarello going in the opposite direction and who refuses to acknowledge that I exist. Thank god that wasting time on here is fun!

everyone knows the formula - man+pinarello=cockhead

Was it Singletrack world by any chance?
The biggest bunch of middle managment, Middle Class, Daily (hate) Mail reading mother fuckers talking about their five grand Yetis and alike...

Awwww shucks I (heart) you too..

I might be on ecstasy, I didn't get an ingredients list with the last speedball I ingested. Party hearty!

No - more a bunch of bitter retired touring riders and going-to-abandon-on-the-first-climb-of-the-etape-despite-a-compact-and-a-1kg-frame brigade.

heh, you know it well also.

it's the forum equivalent of 100 people in a room all shouting and none listening

ha made me actualy laugh out loud :]

Lesbian.

I have to say, since I live in SF, I spend most of my time on the forum over here (for the obvious fact that the content is a lot more relevant to me) but I can't remember the last time I visited LFGSS and didn't belly-laugh at least once for the right reasons.

Thank you all for keeping me in touch with my sarcastic, cynical and very English sense of humour.
And for regulating this forum to keep idiots to a minimum. You wouldn't believe the amount of arrogant kids that post things like 'All y'allz can sukk the dizzick if ya don't liek my fixxxxxie!' in SF.

I mean, they get banned from the forum after a while but it's, like, f*ck me, would you go into a bar and just start mouthing shit at all and sundry? Actually, before anyone goes there, yes - I suppose some people would.

I'm rambling. Thanks for not being idiots, everyone!

group hug!

all the kids in london are shooting/stabbing each other thats why ;)

i went on the southend ride today, and can honestly say i have never met such a total bunch of arse-faced losers. absolutely vile people, if i was you, turpe, i'd stay in SF.

(joke).

i had the time of my life, it was terrific. this is the best cycling club that's not even a club ever.

Oh, don't get me wrong, 99% of the people I've met in SF through bikes 'in real life' have been lovely - it's not like the snotty kids ever actually get out and ride their 'sikk fixxxxies', so I only have to deal with their nonsense on the internet.

I've made some really good friends simply by way of a shared interest in riding track bikes.

^^^^LOL
pj the pressure cooker, letting off vitriolic steam
big hugs slim man

It's relative though.

This may well be the gilded turd of bike forum communities, but compared to the posters on tunbridgewellsvictoriaspongelovers.com and southendonseavintagefordcapricollectors.com, you are all total ladies' bits.

I was cranked off my furry spokemunch on yellow bentines when I wrote the OP.

watch out man, you'll fuck up your shatner's bassoon

or worse, end up on the jessop jessop jessop..

admit it you proposed an alternative to the dewy system on librarybookworm.org and it all kicked off.

No way! I fucking love the Dewey Decimal. I've even got a little book of temporary tattoos that declare the fact (amongst other bibliographic statements), and may apply one before the next roller race.

He did go a bit mental though giving all the 100-150s to philosophy and all the 200s to religion (but failing to foresee the explosion in computing which is now in the oversubscribed 000s or 'generalities').

[/peers over spectacles]

it's all about the clarky cat these days

lol i thought that would make you go off on one. I can read you like a book.

A book that's immaculately covered, accessioned and tagged, and appropriately catalogued for the institution from which it's borrowed; and considerately returned on time with no fucking underlining, highlighting or page folding.

hehehehehe

clarky cat is so last week man!
cake is what all the cool kids are doing.
that and the occasional bit of triple sod...

Today i found the place where the 14-18 year old kids with 'sick fixxxxies' hang out in denver... i may be on trial for murder later. if any of you ever go to denver, and are in the mood to deal with angsty highs chool kids, go to Leala's on 15th st. "you know those hubs aren't NJS right?" FFS yes i fucking do, american bike, american hubs, and i will never have to overhaul them stupid 15 year old with a "DOOM" back patch and a vivalo. where do kids get the money for that?

Have you got any yellow submarines?

Occasionally, I try and read A Different Cycling Forum and then re-discover that it's full of the sort of people who write in to the comic to complain about other cyclists not wearing enough yellow, or similar.