my plebgate stories and other tales of jobsworths

Weird bike in house phobias... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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I once cycled onto the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. This was a mistake. There were groves in the metal ramp. My wheel went into one and I went over the handlebars. I now walk my bike onto ferries. It leads to an altogether more enjoyable experience.

My barber let's me bring my bike in when I go for a haircut.

Arrgh now it hurts my mind

How so? I 'think of'/believe = I construe a bike as a machine capable of speed, as opposed to construing a bike as a toy... As some do

When you say it like that, it makes perfect sense.

Although you do have to make up an entirely new definition for the word "construe", however.

I also pastoral. It catfish declines, cairn?

Wuh?

Construe- to interpret the meaning of something
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/construe

Ooh good oh. A semiotics lecture.
Please continue.

Bicycle isn't an action / phrase / concept whos meaning can be interpretted many different ways. It's a thing, that exists, not a concept. It can't be construed.

Or something

This reads like when Andypancake was going on about how he wasn't a cyclist. No, actually this is worse.

While a bike is an object it can be understood /considered/construed as having different functions by different people, no?
A toy
A sporting device
A vehicle of transportation
Etc

It's a device that apparently turns people into massive twats.

Loving your erudite contributions to the conversation. At least you're not shouting today:)

erudite

le lol

You say potato I say potato.

To be fair in shops and hotels you're taking stuff onto their property so they have the right to ban you from carrying whatever they feel like.

I keep my bike inside my flat and have managed to put half a dozen tyre scuffs up my hallway in the last year, so I can see why a hotelier might not want the same in their property. Or maybe I'm just a clumsy bastard screwing it up for all the careful types?

If I owned a shop and had a problem with pineapples would I be within my rights to stop anyone entering the premises with a pineapple...?

Genuine question.

Please keep your pineapples away from here.

'pineapples' is that the new safeword?

Fucking Pino's, coming over here stealing our jobs.

Chunks, the lot of them.

My default response to hotel staff is that it's none of their fucking business what I do in the room that I have paid for

steady on now

steady on now

Down with this sort of thing

what kind of lube?

I guess in practice you'd have to show some sort of logic to the decision, so couldn't apply rules arbitrarily. I'd always assumed it was absolutely at their discretion, but thinking about it there must be some sort of intersection with equal rights laws at some point (as per the Christian bakery gay cake episode). Otherwise a property owner could just ban headgear and effectively bar access to a huge chunk of religious folk, for example. Whereas banks can ban full-face motorbike helmets as the reason is clear and fair.

Any lawyers on here?