Something totally Awesome Happened.

i don't get the same frisson every time i open the wrapper, that 'what if' moment is what i live for.

Buy frankfurters from Lidl then.

The most awesome thing to happen to me was Ed getting a lift to a bike shop.

Evidently.

So I bought some cans and I was prepared to carry 4 on my bike easily with a carrier bag ... but there was an offer for six.

Would the saving happen to amount to exactly £1, by any chance?

I had an Aero with no holes in it once, it was so awesome I had to give up eating chocolate bars.

My husband doesn't eat chocolate...which I find a bit strange.

The most awesome thing to happen to me was Ed getting a lift to a bike shop.

Quite awesome was also the time when I was offered a lift. By a guy who knocked me off the bike earlier on.

Would the saving happen to amount to exactly £1, by any chance?

hes sitting next to me and says it was 4 for £4 or 6 for £5.50
so 16.6 pence per can saving exactly,
which matters when you drink 50 cans a day

i'm a bit mystified as to why there is no mention of 'massive courier bag' in the OP
6for£5 cans of cheap imported lager does not make you a real fixie-skidder unless you have the gargantuan bag (bag must not contain spare tube or pump, mechanical 35mm film camera's are allowed though)

re-post

riposte.

MrSmyth's going on ignore...

Again...

it's just a cultural observation of an incongruous act that i find puzzling and amusing.
so why do people use 'massive courier bags' but never have a spare tube or pump in them?

i use a massive courier bag. it has tubes. a pump. a spanner. tyre levers. oil. (fuck knows). lights. batteries. massive dildo.

and six tyskie for a fiver.

i'm a bit mystified as to why there is no mention of 'massive courier bag' in the OP

As the whole story revolves around carrier bags, that is perhaps forgivable. After all, trying to carry heavy stuff home in a carrier bag dangling from the handlebars of your bike is so Shoreditch hipster.

(As ever, I cannot be held responsible for spreading stupid rumours and prejudice. Like, implying that Shoreditch hipsters exist.)

hes sitting next to me and says it was 4 for £4 or 6 for £5.50
so 16.6 pence per can saving exactly,
which matters when you drink 50 cans a day

So he did save enough money to buy the forum a beer. :)

why the hate? someone in London who you don't already know was considerate! That's fucking great news IMO. This town's full of cunts.

Granted, in Belfast you're likely to get a pipe bomb chucked through your cheap maisonette double glazing, but at least the little toerag will say "'bout ye?" first!

So, to summarise:

It would have been the most awesome thing if:

Lucas was cycling along when his carrier bag of 6 beers broke and scattered the tinnies asunder, suddenly a friendly lady appears and gives him a massive courier bag containing a 35mm camera, some 7" records *and *a spare tube and pump.
Once on his way he is so overwhelmed by this good fortune that he crashes into a pallet of Kit Kats that are all chocolate and no wafer.

This town is lovely, and if you think differently, you should try New York.

He wouldn't go. Too far from Tooting.

i use a massive courier bag. it has tubes. a pump. a spanner. tyre levers. oil. (fuck knows). lights. batteries. massive dildo.

and six tyskie for a fiver.

i use a massive courier bag too but it usually has clothes,laptop,digital non-hipster cameras and wine in it. if i use it on the bike it has tubes/pump and a few tools too.

i don't use it on 'road' cycling rides though or when mountainbiking.

He wouldn't go. Too far from Tooting.

it's not the distance it's the septics.

This town is lovely, and if you think differently, you should try New York.

No matter how shit anywhere else is, it doesn't stop London from being full of cunts. I try to be nice to people, or at least as civil to a complete stranger that I'll never see again as I'd like them to be to me. Par example;

get out of my way as much as I get out of yours - I swear I'm just going to stop side stepping people and use the Samoan technique

don't dive in front of me when I've clearly been waiting longer than you for the bus/tube/escalator/horse drawn carriage

don't ducking shout "oi, oi, oi, OI!" to the poor young chap behind the till when I was in front of you anyway

ad nauseum infinitum

This barring all the people on here, you're all lovely and can get in my way anytime.

except Joe

i use a massive courier bag too but it usually has clothes,laptop,digital non-hipster cameras and wine in it. if i use it on the bike it has tubes/pump and a few tools too.

i don't use it on 'road' cycling rides though or when mountainbiking.

i don't have a small bag for when i go out on "road" rides. and i've yet to develop the roadie skills of survival in the wilds with a safety pin and a pump.

yet.