I've never 'got'

Jack Whitehall

Fashion trends (very nearly posted in 'I hate' - might still make it there)

Can't you just ignore them?

Good question. Probably advice that can be given for many posts in the thread.

But not really. Fast fashion is shitty for the environment, and I care about that. Brands that appear to be trying to discourage it in one way or another (Patagonia, Fjallraven) are so fashionable currently that there are tons of crappy fakes circulating. I've seen so many fake Kanken bags recently, it's disgusting.

Also never got the 'everyone else is doing it so I will' thing 🤷🏽‍♂️

Kind of over Patagonia for reasons of plastic and 3rd world manufacturing, though I really appreciate their work pushing for organic cotton.

Lee Evans!

Lee Evans!

Innit? Sweaty Norman Wisdom tribute act, playing to stadiums. Strange

dodgy accent aside, Mousehunt was great (yeah, film propped up by Nathan Lane and Christopher Walken, but still).

Yeah, me neither.

Soap cutting videos.

Keep appearing on Instagram, not sure what the appeals is.

People literally cutting soap with a craft knife.

I come here to learn about things that people don’t get that I’ve never heard of.

Soap carving? Or literally just cutting soap up into pieces?

I did it a bit when I was a kid. Before I progressed to whittling wood. Easy to make ephemeral decorative things. Didn't know it was a instagram thing...

Slicing.
Nothing clever or ornate, just slice after slice.

Oh I see. Thought you meant like carving roses or something. Don't get it.

link?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrg53ZPXetw

This is why -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

eugh. i find those videos faintly uncomfortable for some reason

Can’t wait for this covid 19 thing to be over so someone (hopefully me among them) can post that “I never ‘got’ the corona virus”.

Retrobike classifieds.

There's sooo much about that forum that gets my piss on a light simmer but classifieds gets it on a proper rolling boil.

There's a thread that's like one post of stuff then, seriously, like 15 pages of "bump".

Then one that caught my eye recently. Like many sellers on retrobike, he couldn't be fucked with photos, but this guy took it one step further and couldn't even be bothered listing what he had for sale, just a general outline of "Niner straight steerer forks, Thomson stems, Middleburn UNO chainsets, carbon bars, 26” crane creek WAM wheels, Campag record hubbed 26 wheels, 29 SS wheels, 29er tyres, Paul SS road hubs but with the longer axle and spacers so you could fit them to a MTB, old not bling disc brake sets, KCNC VB1 brakes and levers, Sunn BMIX bike (nice) and lots more, obviously nothin geary...."

Stupidly I thought low effort in the thread might mean low prices so I asked about the niner fork and middleburn cranks, specifically asked about price. £200 for the Niner fork which seems optimistic to put it nicely and photos of the 'burns but no price.

How do these people expect to sell anything when they put in so little effort?

You also get warnings from mods if you call people out for selling stuff that's fucked or over-priced.

... why people pay good money to have a custom paint job, yet still insist on having the ENVE logo painted on. It's not a very nice logo. No one care your forks are Enve. It's a distraction from the rest of the work.
The better the paint job the more it baffles me.

You’re just enveous

Agree it’s not a great logo. Similarly I’m not into the painted stem thing

Green(o) with enve.