I've never 'got'

Good point.
Shoulda said, lip fillers make most look like less attractive fish

Yeah, it's milk powder. Very few crisps have meat in them (apart from some posh ones with chicken or beef extracts), but milk powder is in almost all cheese, bacon, beef flavour crisps, and Pringles s'n'v.

I bought a 'Giant' flapjack at the cornershop the other day, and was surprised to see it contained less than 50% oats

I've never got "sitting" with one foot clipped in and one buttock sort of squatting on your top tube elbows on your bars....Stand up man Stop looking so scruffy

Seems very popular in Dulwich whilst staring at the far Norwood Hills.

Doesn't look too scruffy when the pros do it.
Do you live in Dulwich?

My useless fact: The shape of a pringle is a hyberbolic paraboloid.

West Norwood, though we are trying to rename is West-West Dulwich to help property values.

There is a subtle but important difference.

Being seen to have had something done?

Not a public one, sorry

some kind of design genius that I just don't get

Yes.

the whole mod scene thing

also yes.

I think they look marvellous :)
But 2 stroke engine :(
(The original ones, that is)

On the one hand there is the 'women have integrated the male gaze into their aesthetic aspirations and that is unhealthy' argument - aka the inescapable fascist beauty standard. On the otherhand is the 'women are still working for acceptance of their chosen looks and many of them feel empowered (personally and financially - and what is more powerful than money) by deciding to embrace cosmetic surgery and new beauty trends' argument. I'd say Ariana Grande is a good example of this complexity.

All I really meant is men (including me obvs) judge how a women decides to do herself up at their intellectual peril.

All I really meant is men (including me obvs) judge how a women decides to do herself up at their intellectual peril.

You're spot-on here. And my own arguments have also come over very superficial (an irony not lost on me).

I just happen to like how people age. I love (the probably very cliche) b&w photo portraits of people lines and all, the character in faces and expressions, etc.

Vespas - they look, sound and smell shit. Is there some kind of design genius that I just don't get because I'm not a moped rider? Or is it just the whole mod scene thing?

Scooter. Moped is no more than 50cc.

Early Vespas are beautiful, the GS160 for instance. Lambretta are my preference. You sit on a Vespa, you sit in a Lambretta. They ride way better, and look loads better IMHO.

I have never felt nearer death on two wheels than when riding a Lambretta. It wasn't mine and I don't know if that way of cornering is how I should have done it. It didn't feel right or proper.

Moped is no more than 50cc.

The original Mopeds had pedals, like the Honda Camino.

(I had a Camino for a while, then a beige Yamaha Passola, then a Kawasaki AR125, then a Honda Cub 90, then an RD350, then (briefly) an FZ-600, then a ZX6R.)

I was an idiot on a bike though, so had to stop riding otherwise I'd be long dead.

@Constable_Savage all part of the charm!

@Greenbank true! Also, lest we forget the greatest (sports) moped of all time the Yamaha FS1E 👌

My granddad was a lifelong motorbiker (only got a car license once he retired)
He told me to get a motorbike, anyone but not a scooter. Called them deathtraps, uneven weight distribution and unstable.

At the time, 1980, I had a 9 month old Ducati 900SS Desmo. I thought I was the dogs bollocks on two wheels but that scooter nearly killed me.
A couple of years ago I was at the Bristol Italian motor show thing. There was a Scooter Group with all the mirrors, parkas, pointy shoes and Brylcream that you could shake a stick at. Each to their own I s'pose.

Vespa are way more uneven. The Lambretta at least tries to have the engine inline.

I used to have a kitted Vespa T5 (Malossi 172). That thing was evil - fast as fuck, wheelied almost by itself and skittered around all over the place. I seized it rock solid and locked the rear wheel up at 60 on the right hand carriageway of a dualler with an artic lorry in the left hand lane and had the most heart stopping skid to stop over about 70 metres

Sold it after that, bought a Lambretta. Much more refined, even though it shifts too.

the Beastie Boys.

Whut?
Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head were ace.
I'm going to have to go and reassess this.

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We can simplify everything with regex.

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