Rant

bump - there seems to be a bit today

ffs BRm srsly, wtf man ?

seriously?

i wasn't really being serious.

first time down the hipster highway for a while for me....fancied a change (coming up from lee bridge i usually go dalston lane then de beauvior (sp?) then angel/roseberry then tap in to the last leg of the highway after farringdon.) Whilst waiting at the junction at goswell/clerkenwell, I decide to take off across through the reds (a rarity for me these days but I was running late) anyways just as im moving off some AMOG wannabe cuts in to the junction from the outside and I guess has to swerve out to avoid me as I pull out,(himself running the red). Now under normal circumstances I would usually graciously apologise for this minor offense but before i could open my mouth the fella calls me a fucking Idiot. Now correct me if I'm wrong but this is not quite the early morning sunshine attitude that one expects on the highway. Considering we were both clearly breaking road law by attempting to run a red and the packedness of the junction, surely he could see that it was an accident that i happen to turn to the right as he is squeezing in to the junction. We then proceeded to babble at each other for the next stretch before i left him behind in the traffic somewhere. I was mumbling about whether he was a hater or not and he was trying to stick his ground about how unaware i am as a rider....Anyways my point is there was no need to call me a fucking idiot.....pal. Next time you get up give yourself a wee slap and say I must not be an aggressive cock on the road. Thanks. Rant over. Morning

Metric Martyrs.

I was thinking today how ludicrous this is. Well, particularly how ridiculous it is that we have two systems in Britain. I think of long distances in terms of miles, but short distances in terms of metres. Except my height, which I only know in feet and inches. At least in the US they are consistent, although the Imperial system is still stupid. The whole powers of two thing might be "easier" to think about (really?) but it doesn't mesh with how we count. If you want the Imperial system, start counting in hexadecimal, fuckwits. Anyway, what I really wanted to say was that if you think displaying weights in metric along with Imperial is some kind of violation of your most important principles, you are a dick. No one is asking you to stop putting up your stupid pounds and ounces, just to put the weight in grams as well. No wonder people shop in supermarkets these days. The love of the Imperial system has its roots in the same slightly pathetic strain of nationalism that venerates the pound and the queen, not for any valid economic or constitutional reason, but because there isn't really a "British" these days and people still want to cling to whatever tribalism they can find. Fuck off and join the BNP, if you haven't already, you small-minded cunts.

"Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school."

See - even John Major didn't mention hundredweights or furlongs.

Just realised that this may be one of the least topical posts ever on LFGSS. Sorry about that.

http://www.steve-olson.com/how-the-public-school-system-crushes-souls/

another person, similar rant. (not me btw) , i think is interesting

Just read that, interesting.

You might also find this interesting:

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

"The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid."

"I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's populated by adults, but that it's very large, and the things you do have real effects. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. They have no function for their form to follow."

"What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates. Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they're called misfits."

Two very, very intriguing articles on Ivy League education. Well worth reading. I'm biased, as I used to work with universities, but if Oxbridge has its way on funding we can reasonably expect to see the same "alumni-factory" culture on this side of the Atlantic:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402674

Anther article that guy links to is http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html which struck a chord with me. When you are in school intelectualism is actively discouraged by extreme peer pressure from all the other kids. What Paul says is that Nerds are just thinking at a higher age level and as such dont have the time to deal with the mental burden of social conformism as well. When you get to a certian age then it all evens out a bit so the distinction dissapears.

Oops. Sorry for the repost. :(

People who ride in one system contraflow bike lanes with the flow making the lane unusable for people actually using it for it's intending purpose..

Re-fucking-tards

what is it with these moron motorists? I ride along 20 mph ish steady as a fucking rock, junctions up ahead on straight roads in heavily built up urban areas right?
theres these pricks behind me in their litre engine shit wagons spoiling to get past, right up my arse, so they floor it, get to the back of the next traffic stream, junction or lights and guess what, I roll past exact same speed and keep going.
so why cant they chill the fuck out? theyre in a 30zone anyway,

-------------join the fucking queue --- you fucking losers--------

aaaaaaaaaah....

.

I don't understand how anyone could prefer Beat Grylls to Ray Mears..

having not read my emails for 2 months because i was studying i find that i have 140 emails of crap, it all seems so alluring during freshers week, the promise of free club entry and the carnal delights that inevitably do not follow, but 9 months later important emails are lost in a quagmire of shit, and the unsubscribe buttons never seem to function in such a black and white manner as the verb would suggest.

ok, so what in God's cock is going on with all these hopeless imbeciles riding with their hands right up close to the stem?

No, this is not the fixie skidders with cut down bars or drops that they don't use, that position is a consequence of the fashion and the usual location of a single brake lever. This I don't particularly condone but I do accept.

However, what I do take exception to is the increasing number of human wastrels I see riding like this on their hybrids and mountain bikes. Where are all the controls? yes, gears and brakes are all operated by holding the grips which are ON THE END OF THE BARS, you desperate fucking morons.

Trying to emulate the fixie prix by sitting up like someone who has just had a corn-on-the-cob rammed up your rectal passage and holding the bars around the stem-clamp does not make you look good at all, in fact you look like even more of a brainless bit of shit as you ride down the inside of slowing traffic at speed and realise far too late that you can't slow down, stop or even simply control your direction with any semblance of competence when that ped steps out or the traffic moves in and cuts you up.

Whilst we are here with this, since when has it ever been a good idea to ride on the inside of an articulated vehicle? or indeed any vehicle? see that huge mass of free space on the outside of this line of traffic? obviously you need your fucking eyes tested as it's the perfect place to do your overtaking but you consistently decide to attempt to squeeze along the kerb.

You know who you are, you must make the changes now, before some driver decides to castrate you with cable ties and post the remains of your pathetic testicles to your mum. Or worse.

Now I know why I started this thread.

That's a good rant.

Thanks. Not too long I thought but I made my point.

ok, so what in God's cock is going on with all these hopeless imbeciles riding with their hands right up close to the stem?

No, this is not the fixie skidders with cut down bars or drops that they don't use, that position is a consequence of the fashion and the usual location of a single brake lever. This I don't particularly condone but I do accept.

However, what I do take exception to is the increasing number of human wastrels I see riding like this on their hybrids and mountain bikes. Where are all the controls? yes, gears and brakes are all operated by holding the grips which are ON THE END OF THE BARS, you desperate fucking morons.

Trying to emulate the fixie prix by sitting up like someone who has just had a corn-on-the-cob rammed up your rectal passage and holding the bars around the stem-clamp does not make you look good at all, in fact you look like even more of a brainless bit of shit as you ride down the inside of slowing traffic at speed and realise far too late that you can't slow down, stop or even simply control your direction with any semblance of competence when that ped steps out or the traffic moves in and cuts you up.

Whilst we are here with this, since when has it ever been a good idea to ride on the inside of an articulated vehicle? or indeed any vehicle? see that huge mass of free space on the outside of this line of traffic? obviously you need your fucking eyes tested as it's the perfect place to do your overtaking but you consistently decide to attempt to squeeze along the kerb.

You know who you are, you must make the changes now, before some driver decides to castrate you with cable ties and post the remains of your pathetic testicles to your mum. Or worse.

It's more aero, you fucking cretin.

I like corn on the cob.

I used to.

I like corn on the cob.

Up the arse?

I like corn on the cob.

that's how i ruined my veneer.

i fucking hate moths and am terrifed of them.

They're are just dusty butterflies, you sissy!