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How did the unmountable saddle conundrum resolve itself?
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Who’s the tandem guy in this thread? I have a couple of questions for him.
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Just said yes to Marion-Bermuda 2021. I have a year to train for tolerating: sleep deprivation; sitting on hard surfaces; scopolamine; living dirty, stinky, and wet; rich WASPs; and alcohol.
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I thought about you and your clouds of mosquitoes yesterday.
At the edge of the property I mow there's this thicket. In the summer it tends to be covered over by vines (wild grape, cinnamon vine(?)), looks terrible.
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A few times a summer I venture into the thicket and try to kill the overgrowth by cutting vines. Every time I do it I'm amazed by the swarms of mosquitoes therein.
There's basically no mosquitoes out in the lawn, but step a few feet inside this area and they're buzzing all over. You got to keep moving, to the extent possible, because if you remain still for even four seconds they'll be on you. It's crazy.
At the edge of the property I mow there's this thicket. In the summer it tends to be covered over by vines (wild grape, cinnamon vine(?)), looks terrible.
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A few times a summer I venture into the thicket and try to kill the overgrowth by cutting vines. Every time I do it I'm amazed by the swarms of mosquitoes therein.
There's basically no mosquitoes out in the lawn, but step a few feet inside this area and they're buzzing all over. You got to keep moving, to the extent possible, because if you remain still for even four seconds they'll be on you. It's crazy.
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I believe they are censored because their links are notoriously spam.
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The thing about the censor is it can't understand context.
Eg. "Everyone thinks Joe is a tough guy, but he is really a big ***** cat" the word before cat SHOULD be ok in this context, but in other circumstances it could be censored. The censor is a very blunt instrument.
Eg. "Everyone thinks Joe is a tough guy, but he is really a big ***** cat" the word before cat SHOULD be ok in this context, but in other circumstances it could be censored. The censor is a very blunt instrument.
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So, it didn't know that by "tits" I was referring to male breasts, which are universally acceptable.
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Well, using "Preview Post" revealed that they fixed the bug I used to use to bypass the filter. Now I know what I'll get up to this weekend.
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I'm sure they'd be shocked to hear me say it and it's more my own prejudices and insecurities than anything about them and yet...
However, they let even Geraldo Rivera into the host club, so it's not that exclusive a group.
However, they let even Geraldo Rivera into the host club, so it's not that exclusive a group.
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Agree. The censor is stupid as said earlier. It actually once blocked a YouTube link I wanted to post because said link had a 3 character string in it that by itself could be offensive.
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Do you consider LesterOfPuppets to be a serious tandem cyclist?
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