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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-06-21, 03:38 PM
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What a sh-- show.
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I interrupt my previously-scheduled permanent hiatus to say "it's going to get a lot worse".
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I interrupt my previously-scheduled permanent hiatus to say "it's going to get a lot worse".
I'm certainly glad I'm in the suburbs for this ****show.

Careful out there everyone!
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I interrupt my previously-scheduled permanent hiatus to say "it's going to get a lot worse".
hey hummy nice to see ya. Hope you are wrong.
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245 years of peaceful "self governance" ended.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I interrupt my previously-scheduled permanent hiatus to say "it's going to get a lot worse".
Good of you to pop in. Been busy?
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MoAlpha was right: things can always get worse.
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Old 01-06-21, 05:19 PM
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MoAlpha was right: things can always get worse.
For example, my noise (freewheel?) was louder today. Uh oh.
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On a more uplifting note - I had the stock bumpers from my old Jeep in the attic, and was going to put them out for the trash on Sunday. Wife suggested CL instead, so did that. Today they sold, and I get to put $225 in Bike Bucks in my pocket.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
On a more uplifting note
Mine is this: the nearby house with the biggest Christmas display is still running. I think he may have even choreographed the lights to music.
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On a more uplifting note - I had the stock bumpers from my old Jeep in the attic, and was going to put them out for the trash on Sunday. Wife suggested CL instead, so did that. Today they sold, and I get to put $225 in Bike Bucks in my pocket.
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Slow night. Everyone must be looking around going "wut"

I do this every night, but it's a rare, all-caps WUT today.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Slow night. Everyone must be looking around going "wut"

I do this every night, but it's a rare, all-caps WUT today.
I hope we never see the day that warrants punctuation.
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Originally Posted by abshipp
I hope we never see the day that warrants punctuation.
Those are reserved for DEFCON 3 or higher.
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Complete and total insanity.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Slow night. Everyone must be looking around going "wut".
Not the ones who have been paying even casual attention for the last four years.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Not the ones who have been paying even casual attention for the last four years.
I was ready for the Tea Party to go this far in 2012. This is more of the same pretty much.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Not the ones who have been paying even casual attention for the last four years.
Things can still seem surreal when they happen, even if you saw them coming for a while.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I was ready for the Tea Party to go this far in 2012. This is more of the same pretty much.
I wish I could say I predicted this, but I predicted Trump refusing to vacate the office and using the military to enforce that, using the fraud allegations as an excuse to stay until everything is sorted.

There's still time for me to be right, of course.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Things can still seem surreal when they happen, even if you saw them coming for a while.
I know, right? I still think about this a lot.

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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I wish I could say I predicted this, but I predicted Trump refusing to vacate the office and using the military to enforce that, using the fraud allegations as an excuse to stay until everything is sorted.

There's still time for me to be right, of course.
I don’t think the military would obey such an order, and Trump would have no ability to enforce it. No matter what he does, his term ends on 1-20-21. He cannot extend that.
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I know, right? I still think about this a lot.

Good example. Your photo?
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I don’t think the military would obey such an order, and Trump would have no ability to enforce it. No matter what he does, his term ends on 1-20-21. He cannot extend that.
The military would not obey such an order to the same extent that the certification of the electoral college is a routine formality. Or he could have called his insurrectionists that day. This was too early.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Good example. Your photo?
Nope. I was in northern Missouri in the path of totality though. Surreal was a good description.
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