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can you scan the tribes article mr scoble? please?

alright give me five minutes.

edited - can't find the damn cable for the scanner, where is it?!

a 6 for the steamroller?!?!

Not my steamroller, that got an 11.

aw that's really kind of you. EDIT to try and look for the scanner cable

This makes me think its about time I actually bloody joined.

the surly isn't anything special though is it? it's overpriced but cleverly marketed and a bit heavy.

fatties fit fine tm

good idea if you ask me, especially for america when loadsa people be diggin snow tyres and whatnot.

Tange is heavy, but its lovely to ride.

yeah it hasn't really changed that much in the fifteen years I've known it. Except now EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF GRAFITTI is constantly being photographed by cunting tourists and 'arty' students who couldn't create a piss up in a truman brewery.

when i first started working in the area the truman brewery was still closed/empty and the only places to go of an evening were the comedy club and 2 pubs, food was brought from the cafe opposite the comedy club or from a kebab shop there was nothing else there apart from the rag trade, shoe/handbag wholesalers and suit warehouse called uomo dolemeti (sp?) commercial road was dodgy as fuck, not somewhere you went late at night unless you were a truck driver on a sex detour from dover to the a1.

Not my steamroller, that got an 11.

It's 'one better'.

I used to visit my aunt when she lived in an apartment on Commercial Street, it was all dusty, sun-bleached wholesalers, and the back of Spitalfields was a massive hole in the ground. The abiding memory I have of them visits was 'deserted'.

that hole in the ground was after a fire which was probably started to help get some of the planning consent granted (allegedly) i don't remember the original market but the middle area was used for 5 a side football and there used to be a black and white printers in a basement unit.
digital photography didn't really exist then. :-)

I remember the indoor footy. The market was about 10 stalls, one guy who flogged old McDonalds toys, someone who made stuff out of Coke cans, and a tofu stall. My first and last tofu experience!

the surly isn't anything special though is it? it's overpriced but cleverly marketed and a bit heavy.

Yeah it's over priced over here but I still think it's a good bike. It depends what you want from it. It's pretty strong and can be set up in a wide variety of ways which is what I like about it.

I remember the indoor footy. The market was about 10 stalls, one guy who flogged old McDonalds toys, someone who made stuff out of Coke cans, and a tofu stall. My first and last tofu experience!

there was a mini skatepark in there years ago too. But they got rid of that (used by about 300 inner city skater kids a week) to make football pitches (used by about 60 overpriveledged city workers a week)

it seems your supposition of my agitated state is a long way from the truth. the only thing that is likely to get me mistaken for a hipster is my bagaboo bag which i use for carrying my stuff around, shopping in sainsburys etc. my usual cycling attire is way off the hipster radar and so is my bike. i'm too old to care about agonising over whether an NJS nosewipe or keirin sweatband is going to make me look cool.

I just find the whole hipster thing amusing.

Bagaboo bag! With a hipster wort like that on your back you need no njs or tight jeans. Charted Hipster status is only one step away.

me using my bagaboo is nearly as bad as your* dad wearing your sisters jeans and growing a whispy mustache.

HIPSTER FAIL

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me using my bagaboo is nearly as bad as your* dad wearing your sisters jeans and growing a whispy mustache.

Josef Fritzl?

Funny, those who try to follow hipster culture generally get something badly wrong and fail. Loads of people on here tick all the boxes without trying, but don't want to be labelled a hipster.

I ride a small plastic tractor round my office, which makes me an idiot.

me using my bagaboo is nearly as bad as your* sister wearing your dad's jeans and growing a whispy mustache.

HIPSTER FAIL

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Corrected.

...I ride a small plastic tractor round my office, which makes me an idiot.

Cool people think this is stupid - which is cool. Stupid people think this is cool. Which is also cool.

Funny, those who try to follow hipster culture generally get something badly wrong and fail. Loads of people on here tick all the boxes without trying, but don't want to be labelled a hipster.

I ride a small plastic tractor round my office, which makes me Nathan Barley.

Fixed, but still an idiot ;)

I want to be a hipster but I've got too much 'junk in ma trunk' for those jeans.

The hipster trend has destroyed all that self-confidence I gained from J.Lo's shining example!

Cool, I'm now a hipster. Anyone who's ever met me will know this to be true but it's nice of CTC to officially confirm it.

:)

junk in ma trunk.
fucken mint-ox.

I ride a small plastic tractor round my office, which makes me an idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk

Preacherman!

Cool people think this is stupid - which is cool. Stupid people think this is cool. Which is also cool.

Archi and wibble

My reference up there was too subtle for ya, too busy being self-perpetuating media nodes?

If I blame it on a steaming hangover, can I get away with that one going completely over my head at the time?

6 for the steamroller for being a damn yank, possibly.