Simplicity is the Key to Successful Living...

I cite Hippy as a counter example to this.

Of what?

My paper will be done soon, when I have time..
"Complexity For the Win, A Case Study" ?

Middle-class bullshit.

That poster looks like something Goebbels would have come up with.

Well put.

Like this?

I would rather be dodging cars/transit vans/taxi's/lorries/tanks all day.

God, some of you are wankers... Did Kattt ever say that she was using this article as a fucking template for her fucking life? I don't think so... Utopian thinking it may be, it may also be completely preposterous but I prefer to see it as a little ray of sunshine in a grey world predominantly peopled by boring, uselesss cunts who sit on their fucking fat arses shouting everyone else fucking down... And, most importantly, not being funny when they do it... Apols, just given up smoking...

Bunch of fucking killjoys. Oh sorry I mean realists....

haha teenslain is gonna be the new forum 'angry' now.. rubs hands in glee

God, some of you are wankers... Did Kattt ever say that she was using this article as a fucking template for her fucking life? I don't think so... Utopian thinking it may be, it may also be completely preposterous but I prefer to see it as a little ray of sunshine in a grey world predominantly peopled by boring, uselesss cunts who sit on their fucking fat arses shouting everyone else fucking down... And, most importantly, not being funny when they do it... Apols, just given up smoking...

Agreed.

Great post... apart from the apology.

God, some of you are wankers... Did Kattt ever say that she was using this article as a fucking template for her fucking life? I don't think so... Utopian thinking it may be, it may also be completely preposterous but I prefer to see it as a little ray of sunshine in a grey world predominantly peopled by boring, uselesss cunts who sit on their fucking fat arses shouting everyone else fucking down... And, most importantly, not being funny when they do it... Apols, just given up smoking...

I didn't see anybody suggest that kattt WAS using it as a template for her own life.
But when you post a specific article, then it's fair enough for people to disagree with that specific article too.
I personally tried to keep my posts directed at the article in question....i didn't then choose to go off on a tangent and use a completely different theory to support the original article.
I've already agreed that small steps lead to big things and that positive steps can be taken etc...i merely disagree with the article that the whole thread was supposed to be based on.

It's pretty childish to resort to calling people wankers simply because they choose not to agree with the original post...this is meant to be an open forum after all which means some will agree and some disagree....i didn't resort to calling anybody names because they DO agree with it.
I certainly don't sit on my fat arse all day shouting people down either...i'd say i made y point in a fair and more importantly grown up way.
Maybe if this is how you behave off the cigarettes you'd be better off staying on them or maybe using some patches to help control your anger issues?
Or maybe nicotine patches are harder to come by in utopia?

i think what we're failing to see is that no one is really in any sort of fundamental disagreement. i mean, i don't think that the guy quoted in the first post is trying to say that he expects everyone to start cycling overnight and it will change the world, he is just explaining his poster, and saying what he thinks would be good - in the space of a sentence or two - which i agree with, and mandywaffle, as a cyclist you said you agree that cycling's awesome and more people should ride, and you know... not everyone is gonna ride bikes, of course not! but, you know, there is some middleground, that's all. not really sure how to say it, i just don't think there's all that much actual disagreement here.

If Mandy would just admit that he murders cyclists, and Teenslain would own up to being out of his mind on goofballs then we would get a lot further.

well, this has all developed into a rather surprising brouhaha.

and it even brought Count Willheim of Zweigganhalle out of seclusion in his Black Forest hunting lodge.

Or maybe nicotine patches are harder to come by in utopia?

Nice comeback!

It's pretty childish to resort to calling people wankers

No it isn't.

People who are new to this forum should take a few days to get to know the characters of those who have been here for a while before getting upset with them

People who are new to this forum should take a few days to get to know the characters of those who have been here for a while before getting upset with them

The only people i saw getting upset were people that HAVE been on here for a while.
It's the internet...why get upset?

Surely people that have been on here a while should know better and allow newcomers a chance to have their say too before resorting to calling them names?

Of what?

My paper will be done soon, when I have time..
"Complexity For the Win, A Case Study" ?

i can't remember my reasoning. Something to do with excessive living but yet being simple I think.

Mr Waffle: admit it; you've murdered cyclists haven't you? You've beaten them to a mass of blood stained high quality Rapha clothing using half a cow catcher taken from the front of your sports-tuned Suzuki jeep. And you've laughed while you did it, a loud crazed laugh of glee and derision. Isn't that the truth Mr Waffle? I think it's too late for denials.
If you aren't a petrol sniffing cyclist killing madman then why else would you fail to be moved to tears by possibly the finest article ever written, possibly the finest piece of writing, full stop? A piece of writing that, in it's uplifting tone of hope and joy makes the Gettysburg address sound like the suicide note of piss stained alcoholic?
Wouldn't you just feel better if you stood up now, in your living room or kitchen or conservatory or wherever it is you type out your hate filled anti-cyclist death threats and said "I am a killer of cyclists. I beat them to death and I am sorry". Wouldn't that be a relief?

BTW; sometimes I make my point by saying the opposite of what I really mean. :)

Evidence?

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Funny Dirkbang...always nice to see forum members sticking together in their shared bullying of a newcomer...it can only help to make you all seem even funnier to each other eh?
Thanks for the welcome guys.

Funny Dirkbang...always nice to see forum members sticking together in their shared bullying of a newcomer...it can only help to make you all seem even funnier to each other eh?
Thanks for the welcome guys.

Well you can go and do a critique on a complete stranger's literature choices on doggingwithgrandmasinnewzealand.com or any website about anything at all, and it'll be equally as welcome.
Try engaging in a thread about I dunno, how you like riding fixed wheel or single-speed bikes or something, that might work.

It's the internet...why get upset?

Sorry - I thought you would see the funny side. Welcome.

God, some of you are wankers... Did Kattt ever say that she was using this article as a fucking template for her fucking life? I don't think so... Utopian thinking it may be, it may also be completely preposterous but I prefer to see it as a little ray of sunshine in a grey world predominantly peopled by boring, uselesss cunts who sit on their fucking fat arses shouting everyone else fucking down... And, most importantly, not being funny when they do it... Apols, just given up smoking...

You fucking tell 'em. Miserable bastards. I would rather dodge a hundred incompetent cyclists on my way in than some fat useless wanker in their 4x4 BMW. What is it with people. Good luck on the giving up smoking. Try and stick it through. I still say it is the bast thing I ever did and that was 13 years ago.

God, some of you are wankers... Did Kattt ever say that she was using this article as a fucking template for her fucking life? I don't think so... Utopian thinking it may be, it may also be completely preposterous but I prefer to see it as a little ray of sunshine in a grey world predominantly peopled by boring, uselesss cuntswho sit on their fucking fat arses shouting everyone else fucking down ... And, most importantly, not being funny when they do it... Apols, just given up smoking...

You got my number then :)