Rubbish posts! What should I do? Dear LFGSS...

Blamenger.

i hip the blamesters

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What makes a good introduction thread?

In as much as they usually contain formulaic fawning, self-deprecation, frame boasting, technical begging and inability to round out nicely.

Just a simple introduction I guess. The bikes to faces is a nice way.
Not "Hello everyone, do you wanna buy my bike". IMO
There's no pressure to make yourself known so urgently.
I think some people think there is and they're so desperate to feel part of the forum they ask the first thing in their head.
Why not answer other peoples questions, help others out, meet ups, etc and get known through that rather than start off a poor thread.
How many people have been shot down on their 1st thread? I think that's sad but some have it coming :(

^A lot of first time posters come across as very very simple in their introductions.

^A lot of first time posters come across as very very simple in their introductions.

ha ha! True.

^A lot of first time posters come across as very very simple in their introductions.

As do many long-term contributors...
(Present company excepted) ;-)

Here's a list of all the crap that has been posted on this forum over the last year.

For your convenience, it's now accessible through a simple link

http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=564742

^^^^ And this is why I haven't done one. It's not as if there needs to be an entire thread dedicated to me looking like an utter cock. I'm also quite self-concious, which doesn't help.

Then again, I quite enjoy the slow revelation aspect of discovering someones character as they join in the posting at their own pace.

I wonder if everyone's thinking about the same thing when they think of hipsters. I think I know what they are, straw boaters and white plimsoles right?

In fact...I've never introduced myself since my first post about not getting an LCC discount at BLB in April 2007.

Hello, My Name Is Todd ;-)

I can no longer keep up with all the bullshit posts, nor all the sex drinking so I've given up. BikeRadar is so much cooler than you guys anyway.

Dare i ask whether there is a limit to how much one can discuss bikes? As a rare attender of drinks, i sometimes feel like i miss out on a whole side of things.

Not "Hello everyone, do you wanna buy my bike". IMO

+1
By the way, does anyone want to buy
a black and white JF Wilson frame?
or some Titanium NJS dust caps?
or a Unicrack?

Please tell me what price you'd offer. I won't post a price. That'll make it too easy ;)

The drinks are the best part(s).
They provide the ammo for a lot of the piss taking that goes over a lot of peoples heads.

You should come down, Superprecise (unless you are miles away, of course).

Thanks for the segue..

FS frameset

Thanks for the segue..

FS frameset

Is that OTP, and do you operate a Ride to Work scheme

It's PTO.

@ BRM, i have been to a few things and each time has been fucking excellent. i missed have just missed you. my course is sufficiently time-consuming that i'm cooped up in my tragic holloway basement flat every night. after the 15th i will be at everything, zing!

here's one...

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread8791.html#post246930

I won't post a price. That'll make it too easy ;)

Don't forget to not post the size either. That is key.

@ BRM, i have been to a few things and each time has been fucking excellent. i missed have just missed you. my course is sufficiently time-consuming that i'm cooped up in my tragic holloway basement flat every night. after the 15th i will be at everything, zing!

Sweet. Let me know when you are going to head to a West/South drinks and I'll make sure I'm there (or dare me or call me names like the rest of them, and I'll bow down to the feeble pressure and head out).

I haven't searched but reckon we should do a 'faces to bikes' thread but I'm not sure so what do you think?
I've got £1000 pounds. What bike should I buy?

I've got 84p. What chocolate bar should I buy?

I've got 84p. What chocolate bar should I buy?

Double Decker.

^^ Oi! Thor of the Antipodes, you going to westies tonight or will i be forced to call you names…