Cycling and the Other 'arf

My wife relates to this for some reason ... I received the article in my in-box this morning ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2869069/Oh-shame-married-MAMIL-s-Middle-Aged-Man-Lycra.html

So who read that thinking "pah, what kind of lame-ass part-timer is this guy? 3 bikes, only £2k for the best one, still pondering whether to shave, 3 hour rides, no dedicated roller room"?

There's at least 0.5 Scoblebrick of drop there, which suggests this guy isn't even a real MAMIL

So who read that thinking "pah, what kind of lame-ass part-timer is this guy? 3 bikes, only £2k for the best one, still pondering whether to shave, 3 hour rides, no dedicated roller room"?

I mostly read it thinking "fuck me. Live and let live a little, love".

Then I got to the bit about the guy having been diagnosed with MS and started wondering if writing nasty little articles for the Daily Fail about how him doing something that he obviously enjoys and that improves his fitness is, like, SOOOOOO immature! is really the most supportive and understanding course she could take.

BUT CYCLISTS THO

Not really sure what emotion her expression is meant to suggest

To be fair I didn't get much past that 1st photo, her expression got my goat. I suggest he stops cycling and sits on the sofa drinking beer and getting fat.

I suggest he stops cycling and sits on the sofa drinking beer and getting fat.

I agree. His conversation at his wife's horrible dinner parties with her horrible friends will also be immeasurably improved if he gives up going out in the fresh air and takes up watching X-Factor every night on the telly instead.

If she doesn't love him for who he is she should fuck off so he can find someone who will.

Complaining about/wanting to change the other person is the first sign a relationship's fucked.

She's actually the one who's dressed ridiculously - high heels and a little red number for Britain in December, standing on the grass?!

Also, I hate the phrase 'cycling widow'. If the risk of becoming an actual cycling widow wasn't as unnecessarily high as it was I might not mind it...

It is one of those articles where the Mail's subs have made it sound worse than it is in the trunk though.

Cool photo of Brad. The end.

Shit. I clicked a Fail article. Now I have to iron my hands.

I can't believe that poor man actually allowed them to photograph him for pictures that would run alongside such drivel. I am a journalist / news editor and when reporters pitch me ideas among my first questions is, `Hasn't this story already been done, what are we saying that is new?' Clearly so such conversation took place here.

If she doesn't love him for who he is she should fuck off so he can find someone who will.

+10000000 to all of this.

The guy looks a nice bloke, too. Not really sure what he's done to deserve any of this (unless he actually reads the daily mail, obvs, then I have less sympathy for the cunt).

I hope you have someone who proof reads for you?

Clearly I need one.

For Christ's sake, really? The Daily Mail didn't drag these two in off the street. Jennie Price is probably a freelance journo; no cyclists were hurt in the writing of this token bit of journalistic fluff, so don't take it so seriously.

I imagine she volunteered, the mail probably didn't advertise for a "cycling widow who can look cross and attractive with visible panty line, not that I noticed".

I hope their kids don't get bullied.

Richard Price the ex Daily Mail Journalist?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2161360/Jack-Osbournes-MS-I-MS-Jack-It-incurable-making-me.html

Author of 108 articles:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Richard+Price+for+the+Daily+Mail

He deserves his horrible wife! She deserves her horrible husband!

CASE CLOSED.

The article doesn't even say anything, it just lists things about him. He owns bikes, often rides them in lycra. There's no conclusion or point to the article at all.

Indeed, I'm left with no idea of the effect of any of those things on house prices or immigration, least of all whether any of them cause or cure cancer.

She didn't volunteer - she got the job as a gigging journo; either she approached the Mail or she was already on their books.

Edit: There, Greenbank has nailed it.

In any case, they're a right pair of plums.

The Mail review of the Christopher Jefferies programme is amusing today. They didn't like the drama but somehow failed to mention the wagon loads of cash he won in damages off the same shitty newspaper.

3 bikes, only £2k for the best one, still pondering whether to shave, 3 hour rides, no dedicated roller room>

Only £2k for a custom Windy Milla?

I think someone's been lying to his wife.

In any case, they're a right pair of plums

Nah that's just a side effect of the 'embarrassing shorts'