Just, wow.
05-24-19, 02:50 PM
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Grammar could be your friend ... in a different world.
What you just said is that you will no longer engage the bullies and will also will no longer try to be nice, encouraging, and helpful to others.
I assume you meant to say that you plan to stop helping the bullies bully others and will now be surly and snarky to everyone?
Seeking clarification.
What you just said is that you will no longer engage the bullies and will also will no longer try to be nice, encouraging, and helpful to others.
I assume you meant to say that you plan to stop helping the bullies bully others and will now be surly and snarky to everyone?
Seeking clarification.
05-24-19, 02:53 PM
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Is it ok to throw in some well meaning sarcastic humor if, like myself, there is usually no SME content to share?
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05-24-19, 03:32 PM
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The ignore list is a wonderful thing.
I see you recently bumped into fietsbob in the mechanics sub forum.
The error was in thinking he is human. Bob's actually an AI program that parses data together to try and create human like interactions. Sometimes it works so so and sometimes it's a real trip.
Try to think of his writing as beat generation, psychedelic inspired haiku without the usual 5,7,5 constraint
The error was in thinking he is human. Bob's actually an AI program that parses data together to try and create human like interactions. Sometimes it works so so and sometimes it's a real trip.
Try to think of his writing as beat generation, psychedelic inspired haiku without the usual 5,7,5 constraint
Or are you just playing me?
If you are, then I will feel like a real idiot for falling for it. Sorry bob.
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05-24-19, 05:57 PM
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DANG, this is like Déjà vu
AGAIN and Again and again and again and
AGAIN and Again and again and again and
05-24-19, 06:29 PM
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Just try to learn something from everything you read here. This forum can be a great bicycle education tool.
05-24-19, 06:47 PM
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And Bob may be the only normal one here.
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05-24-19, 07:53 PM
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I turned the email notification off ages ago.
Putting a person on the ignore list means that when you read a thread, you don't see their responses ... unless someone else quotes them. So if the OP had you on ignore, he would not see your post, but he would see it here because I quoted you.
So if you suspect that someone has another person on ignore ... quote the "ignored" person. That way the person who put that person on ignore won't miss out on the ignored person's thread.
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05-24-19, 08:21 PM
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Have we tried to make a bike using a frame material composed of defensive dogs that self lubricates? I assume the bike weight to be equivalent to carbon since dogs are made of carbon.
05-24-19, 10:53 PM
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Just, wow.
I have previously posted to a now-closed thread:
This forum seems to have a few know-it-all, snarky bullies on it that make it unpleasant to use. It's no surprise, forums of all topics have them.
In response, I will no longer engage them and instead try to be nice, encouraging, and helpful to others.
In response, I will no longer engage them and instead try to be nice, encouraging, and helpful to others.
Just try to learn something from everything you read here. This forum can be a great bicycle education tool.
Personally I go both ways.
I try to post helpful and thoughtful (or though-provoking) comments, except when I don't.
There's a number of topics that have been thoroughly hashed, and re-hashed, digested and even excreted several times. For those, snarky sarcasm comes out.
It's an on-line forum, and I sometimes respond as if my brother in law's string had been pulled and the normal guff starts out, and I respond naturally.
Hopefully the reader can tell the difference.
I try to post helpful and thoughtful (or though-provoking) comments, except when I don't.
There's a number of topics that have been thoroughly hashed, and re-hashed, digested and even excreted several times. For those, snarky sarcasm comes out.
It's an on-line forum, and I sometimes respond as if my brother in law's string had been pulled and the normal guff starts out, and I respond naturally.
Hopefully the reader can tell the difference.
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
I think I have absorbed all the good advice I can for a complete and agreeable cycling lifestyle, and recently I have clicked on many fewer threads than before.
In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.
I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.
Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”
In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.
I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.
Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”
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05-24-19, 10:53 PM
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There are some who read and there are some who reply. And then there are some who reply that don't read. What a mess ......
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05-25-19, 12:49 AM
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No... I'm pretty sure an abscess is the positive form of recess. Like concave and convex.
An abbacus is a little dingle hopper that humans don't need any more so the doctors take it out when it bursts.
An abbacus is a little dingle hopper that humans don't need any more so the doctors take it out when it bursts.
05-25-19, 12:58 AM
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05-25-19, 01:03 AM
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Email notification? What email notification???
I turned the email notification off ages ago.
Putting a person on the ignore list means that when you read a thread, you don't see their responses ... unless someone else quotes them. So if the OP had you on ignore, he would not see your post, but he would see it here because I quoted you.
So if you suspect that someone has another person on ignore ... quote the "ignored" person. That way the person who put that person on ignore won't miss out on the ignored person's thread.
I turned the email notification off ages ago.
Putting a person on the ignore list means that when you read a thread, you don't see their responses ... unless someone else quotes them. So if the OP had you on ignore, he would not see your post, but he would see it here because I quoted you.
So if you suspect that someone has another person on ignore ... quote the "ignored" person. That way the person who put that person on ignore won't miss out on the ignored person's thread.
05-25-19, 01:14 AM
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I don't know enough about bird watching to know if there's special strategy needed to use bikes, but I always like to learn things about how other people use bikes. My vision and color blindness kind of limit any potential for being a good bird watcher myself.
If you wanted to make the thread more general, maybe it could be about crossing bicycling with other hobbies.
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05-25-19, 01:33 AM
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I like a bit of bird-watching, occasionally. Course, you have to be subtle, it can scare them off if they know.
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I see you recently bumped into fietsbob in the mechanics sub forum.
The error was in thinking he is human. Bob's actually an AI program that parses data together to try and create human like interactions. Sometimes it works so so and sometimes it's a real trip.
Try to think of his writing as beat generation, psychedelic inspired haiku without the usual 5,7,5 constraint
The error was in thinking he is human. Bob's actually an AI program that parses data together to try and create human like interactions. Sometimes it works so so and sometimes it's a real trip.
Try to think of his writing as beat generation, psychedelic inspired haiku without the usual 5,7,5 constraint
we called guys like that "ginger" snaps because no one liked that cookie much
i wore socks made of dirty blond hemp and rubber bands but you cant get "real" rubber bands any more
05-25-19, 07:56 AM
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It’s only an Internet forum, pretty hard to get upset about that! Face to face with real people, then you might have something to get upset about. Personally I find it pretty hard to be “virtually” offended.
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05-25-19, 08:05 AM
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A co-worker showed me the softball forums he participates in. I believe snark, spite and bullying are pre-requisites there. While there is some occasional unpleasantness here, bikeforums has very little to worry about. Thanks to our moderators and the fact that cycling generates more endorphins than softball.