Fixed or single speed

Hi Torpid,

I am also a fan of being nice, I really am. As you may have seen in other threads (the cornering /pedal strike one) I sometimes agree with people, including you :-)

In this thread I didn't agree with one of your points, but I did not intend to be rude in my response to you. I am genuinely sorry if my comment sounded arrogant or flippant.

Obviously, later in the thread I was rude to you, I felt justified in being so, because of your behaviour towards me, particularly with regard to my recent, serious injury.

I am totally happy to let bygones be bygones and chat in a sensible manner about all sorts of things, including gyroscopic theory!

I must admit to not sympathising with your stubborness that drives you to 'deal with those that think they can oppress you', but each to their own. I'm sure you have no intention of actually being violent, anti-social or unduly threatening?

Regards,

mashton

BTW, if you still think that I was rude to you, then please feel free to PM me and point it out (no need to extend this thread (EDIT from 'threat' - freudian slip?) with insult post-mortems). Perhaps I need to wake up to latent offensiveness in the way I post?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

Oooh, I love that video.

And Torpid, niceness should be the default, even if someone is rude why drop to their level... it reflects on them and not you. Escalation of rudeness though, the "eye for an eye" of internet abuse... that doesn't get any of us anywhere and will only reflect on all of us. People who don't know us may arrive at this thread via Google and think "WTF? How childish, screw joining that forum."... so you, I and everyone should attempt to show their best, count to ten, be big enough to drop it and move along. As someone so wisely once said:

Midget hurdles more like.

Oh dear God, I SOOOOOOOO hope that Torpid Construct is not mentally or physically disabled, because if he is then we may be in a whole world of pain after VB's picture post.

Obviously, I hope he isn't anyway...

How am I to know? It's the internet, we're all equal on here.

I once witnessed a bunfight just along those very lines though... it was immense. Poor girl who made the post was lynch mobbed. So it goes.

How am I to know? It's the internet, we're all equal on here.

I once witnessed a bunfight just along those very lines though... it was immense. Poor girl who made the post was lynch mobbed. So it goes.

Racist.

It's "racialist" you white, male idiot! Sheesh.. pay peanuts..

It's "racialist" you white, male idiot! Sheesh.. pay peanuts..

How dare you insult my disability, I have always had problems with smelling.

hippy is fit

Oooh, I love that video.

And Torpid, niceness should be the default, even if someone is rude why drop to their level... it reflects on them and not you. Escalation of rudeness though, the "eye for an eye" of internet abuse... that doesn't get any of us anywhere and will only reflect on all of us. People who don't know us may arrive at this thread via Google and think "WTF? How childish, screw joining that forum."... so you, I and everyone should attempt to show their best, count to ten, be big enough to drop it and move along. As someone so wisely once said:

please stop singling me out. there are several others who you should direct this towards as well. yet, again you choose not to.

again last time i hope. I'll be nice to people who are nice to me. I'm not going to tell others how to act. thats their freedom. their right. But if you are rude towards me then I will exercise my right to act how I see fit, not how you think I should.

please stop singling me out.

It was a reply. Replies tend to have the effect of singling out.

It was in response to this:

Why is it so hard to accept that when you are rude to people they are likely to be rude back?

The point I was trying to make was that responding to someone with rudeness because you perceive their post as rude doesn't help anything or anyone, it is escalation as this is the internet and unless someone has explicitly been rude you lack the evidence by which you can be sure there was malicious/rude intent... there is no tone, no body language, no eye contact, no preceding context... the internet breaks all of that and time-shifts it a little. So... if you perceive that someone is being rude and you instantly respond by being blatantly rude... well how do you know if the other person wasn't just being flippant, or didn't think too hard, or was making a joke (and failed)... responding with rudeness unless you are 1000% sure is escalation on the internet.

That was my point, it was in response to your post. Perhaps I should've quoted it so that you could see that, which is kinda my point again... we can't be sure of intent so instead of rushing to the assumption that someone is slighting us, we should all attempt to take the standpoint that good intent was meant unless it's really freaking obvious that wasn't the case.

I hope that this picture is inappropriate, but it is in my mind:

I hope that this picture is inappropriate, but it is in my mind:

what picture?

mashton is showing us the inside of his mind during moments of fixed-riding-induced Zen.

what picture?

The one of quicksand.

The one of quicksand.

i see nothing Lebowski

i see nothing Lebowski

Possible causes:

a) you have pictures turned off in your browser
b) you have your eyes closed (unlikely)
c) you are so drunk or stoned that a part of your brain has died
d) you have lived in America so long that part of your brain has died
e) you are a stupid cunt

I vote for (d) :-)

It was a reply. Replies tend to have the effect of singling out.

It was in response to this:

The point I was trying to make was that responding to someone with rudeness because you perceive their post as rude doesn't help anything or anyone, it is escalation as this is the internet and unless someone has explicitly been rude you lack the evidence by which you can be sure there was malicious/rude intent... there is no tone, no body language, no eye contact, no preceding context... the internet breaks all of that and time-shifts it a little. So... if you perceive that someone is being rude and you instantly respond by being blatantly rude... well how do you know if the other person wasn't just being flippant, or didn't think too hard, or was making a joke (and failed)... responding with rudeness unless you are 1000% sure is escalation on the internet.

That was my point, it was in response to your post. Perhaps I should've quoted it so that you could see that, which is kinda my point again... we can't be sure of intent so instead of rushing to the assumption that someone is slighting us, we should all attempt to take the standpoint that good intent was meant unless it's really freaking obvious that wasn't the case.

No one can be absolutely sure of someone else's intent and why do you think you are an authority on how one should conduct themselves? I appreciate you taking the time to explain yourself but I just simply don't agree with your argument. It presumes you are the authority on how people should behave. I personally don't think its anyones place to tell anyone else how to behave. PERIOD.

Does that include yourself?

It's VB's (virtual) house. We are all his guests. He actually pays for this place to run, in **real **money, which comes out of his pocket, unless we donate some to him.

That is why, in MY opinion, he has some right to suggest how people behave here.

Does that include yourself?

Good point. (I assume it will be ignored)

I personally don't think its anyones place to tell anyone else how to behave. PERIOD.

Oxymoronic self negating statement.

I like it ! :)

Possible causes:

a) you have pictures turned off in your browser
b) you have your eyes closed (unlikely)
c) you are so drunk or stoned that a part of your brain has died
d) you have lived in America so long that part of your brain has died
e) you are a stupid cunt

I vote for (d) :-)

Actually... damninteresting.com has hotlink prevention in place using referer checking... and they replace hotlinked images with a 1x1 transparent .gif image.

Is that option 'f'?