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apollo is a cunt, but he is my kind of cunt
James, perhaps this is why Brother Apollo is still hiding in his cupboard with his T-Rexes disease, if you keep this up, he might end up resorting to eating tinned can of John West's Tuna.
Nobody eat John West's Tuna.
*Nobody.
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If you truly care for him, please support him and let him know how much you love him and want him to feel better about his disability, it would mean a lots to the Brotherhoods.Thank you.
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...hell even the Queen was a mechanic during the war.
Ed, that is one of the your finest retorts ever, chapeau!
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I really don't want to sound sexist but
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I genuinely didn't know who she was.
That is the problem with your comment. You jumped to a sweeping generalisation about a whole segment of society based on nothing but their sex, and then need to "know who she was" to be OK about it. If anything, knowing "who she was" only serves to justify the sweeping generalisation as then you can continue to just say "I wouldn't let most girls touch my bike", and further perpetuate the sexist views.
The vociferous backlash is a good thing, because it was a very sexist and dumb comment. That two of the forums three biggest trolls found is distasteful enough to speak out shows how offensive the comment is.
Apologising is cool and would be accepted by all if you didn't feel the need to qualify the apology with a "genuinely didn't know who she was" which only implies that you believe that the generalisation stands.
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Sorry to continue the derail but these people;
http://www.bicycleworkshop.co.uk/
have been proving that sexist assumption wrong for over 20 years and along with Bikefix and Brixton Cycles they're the best in London.This might be worth a read;
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/nyregion/female-bike-mechanics-on-the-rise-in-new-york-city.html?_r=0 -
BTW, Is anyone else struck by the irony of using the word cunt to attack sexism?
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he also said "girl".
we know how that sits with feminists.
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Thank you Ed for answering. How do these tyres hold up to punctures etc? I literally knew nothing about them.
Yes my question was, as it said, based on my experience of women I HAVE KNOWN, not all women. But I admit it came out wrong, very wrong. Sorry, I'm tired, unwell and only see this on my phone. I missed that she was wearing sidi shoes.
Sorry everyone. Yup, I deserved the nergs.
As you were.
I take that as a pretty full and frank apology. So I think Velocio that your post is slightly unfair.
Anyway. Less casual sexism discussion. More pictures.
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Ed, that is one of the your finest retorts ever, chapeau!
+1, never knew that!
:')
BTW, Is anyone else struck by the irony of using the word cunt to attack sexism?
True that double true
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It's one of the absurdities and quirks of the English that we use sex as curse words.
I read that as meaning, when the English wish to cus somebody, we induldge in a sexual act with them.
Concider me repatronated.
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Gridds... I am disappoint.
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We'll have to wait till Bespoked for some proper photos of it I'm afraid (until circumstance changed).
watch out, Dammit was saying the same
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It's one of the absurdities and quirks of the English that we use sex as curse words.
A trait which is neither unique to the English nor Anglophones in general.
I know many women who take great exception to the use of cunt as a pejorative. Reclaiming its use if they wish, is probably their responsibility. -
A trait which is neither unique to the English nor Anglophones in general.
I know many women who take great exception to the use of cunt as a pejorative. Reclaiming its use if they wish, is probably their responsibility.Aside from English, I only have knowledge of Swedish curse words, which are nearly exclusively about the devil, hell, and being damned.
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Very well, wider tyres last longer, especially in those pattern that reduced the chance of something getting embedded.
It doesn't have any of those puncture resistance belt or anything, but I'm happy to have a bit of puncture in order to have better ride quality, like the Grand Bois 32c Cypres I've used from London to Morocco and only got 4 punctures.