I confess...

Sheldon Brown said they were good for training, so I got one. I think a moderate number of people get into fixed gear bikes same as how I did.

i find it hard and stressfull to spell right, atleest i try, no need to make me look dumb.

good luck with that.

tiswas- soooo? dont care.

mrsmyth- that dont even make sense

^^You need to fill your empty cans with empathy for other people. It'll make life more pleasant for them, but a fuck of a lot more pleasant for you.

You're lucky that people are giving you advice like this when you're only 19. It'll save you from being a sophomoric cunt well into adulthood.

I stuck my finger up at a bunch of school children, after one said something to me. Even though I had no idea what they said, and it could well have been something positive. I'm sure regardless of what they said they'll have deserved it for something anyway.

I confess that the first time I read this I read it as "stuck my finger up a bunch of school children" and instead of my first thought being "oh i must have misread that" it was "but why would you post this on a public forum?". Luckily I went back and corrected my interpretation before getting to the "they were asking for it anyway" parts.

^^You need to fill your empty cans with empathy for other people. It'll make life more pleasant for them, but a fuck of a lot more pleasant for you.

You're lucky that people are giving you advice like this when you're only 19. It'll save you from being a sophomoric cunt well into adulthood.

what ever i do to try and be better at anything its never enough for people like you so why bother.... just think i could be alot werse, i cud tlk lyk dis, u no wat i meen mayn, dus i sound kwl?

...plenty of others who dont mind at all.

I couldn't give a fuck how you write or talk, as long as I can understand it (and I've worked with a lot of people with communication difficulties). I'm just saying why don't you try to stop being defensive, dismissive, and contradicting yourself from one rant to the next. I'm sure some of the stuff you do is great.

Who are 'people like me', by the way? I'm genuinely interested, seeing as I'm someone who has trouble conforming to societal norms. Or do you just mean 'people who disagree with you'?

I like it. its edgy.

See Finnegans Wake

Ooh super.

^^You need to fill your empty cans with empathy for other people. It'll make life more pleasant for them, but a fuck of a lot more pleasant for you.

You're lucky that people are giving you advice like this when you're only 19. *** It'll save you from being a sophomoric cunt well into adulthood.***

Are we taking bets?

I started interest in fixed gear due to an honourable darling passing my self to completion (requirement; unrelated start-point).
Such is life, press any key.

many people get into fixed gear bikes same as how I did

I love your posts

what ever i do to try and be better at anything its never enough for people like you so why bother.... just think i could be alot werse, i cud tlk lyk dis, u no wat i meen mayn, dus i sound kwl?

...plenty of others who dont mind at all.

empty cans, we have this problem on here sometimes, or rather, several interconnected problems, beginning with a generation gap, am literacy gap, and culminating in very different attitudes to communication on the Internet. This forum also at times has a fairly direct 'style'. (I couldn't bring myself to write 'style' without inverted commas.)

Those of us who are getting on a bit were all surprisingly young once and, like you, probably didn't listen to advice that we were given by older people, principally because, quite frankly, some of that advice was very poor, and we wouldn't have wanted it even if it had been good, as the good advice to our inexperience appeared indistinguishable from the poor advice. Like you, we also had considerable difficulty telling what was meant kindly and what was aimed at confusing us.

In this case, let me assure you that advice pointing out simple and easy-to-use methods to improve your spelling is meant kindly and is neither meant to discriminate against you because you are dyslexic, nor is it thoughtless and ignoring your dyslexia.

Dyslexia makes correct spelling difficult; it does not make it impossible. There are even dyslexic proofreaders. Many dyslexic people benefit from technical aids such as TextHelp, or other spellcheckers such as the browser-based ones that others recommended. Many dyslexic people refuse to see dyslexia as an absolute barrier to achievement.

Quite apart from dyslexia, it's a matter of general confidence and willingness. It's a very small step and very small effort to get used to using one. If your Internet presence features better spelling, you will immediately be taken more seriously and understood better. It's certainly superficial that good spelling should assume such importance, but if anything, the Internet has probably increased the importance of such superficial factors.

Of course, you may not want any of those advantages, and I'm sure you're right when you say that there are people whose spelling is even worse or even txtspk. The further you can get away from their level, the better.

Sorry if this sounds patronising. It is meant sincerely.

Empty_cans, as a reaction the popularity of 'txt spk' and general appalling standards of spelling and grammar generally found on internet forums and message boards, this forum has developed an almost psychotic fervour for language pedantry. It is a 'thing' on this forum. It is not everybody's 'thing', but there you go. You can't please all the people all the time, and all that. Please do not take it as any kind of personal slight. It can be quite funny, it can be quite boring; do not expect it to stop.

The collective 'we' are also incredibly fussy about which bicyles are worthy, and can't stand a good proportion of other cyclists. However, exactly which bikes are worthy and which other cyclists are cunts varies enormously from person to person.

I confess that the first time I read this I read it as "stuck my finger up a bunch of school children" and instead of my first thought being "oh i must have misread that" it was "but why would you post this on a public forum?". Luckily I went back and corrected my interpretation before getting to the "they were asking for it anyway" parts.

I can see how that could have been misread. Thankfully you reread it before reading the end bit haha.

I confess i cant trackstand, at all

I spent years slagging off the hipsters in Melbourne with their stupid fixed one gear bikes, (had a road bike) then I got one in London and realised it's a lot of fun. I rightly get a lot of shit from my mates because of it.

I'm wearing a vest, and it's too small.

I feel like a parody 'Strine.

Ugly Betty is good.

NEXT!

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Yeah Neil... Deep...

I can't trackstand.

and I prefer beanies to helmets because they look cooler.
I think I may suffer from minor hipsteritis

Im afraid it might be terminal.

Recently I've been having little flashes of terror imagining what would happen if my stem snapped at particular moments. I've got the fear. Phase, or subconscious telling me it's spotted some microscopic crack?

Is it a quill stem?