Are we a miserable lot?

[Vantage]

We only ever see your bike when being carried on the roof of your Bentley. We're too busy stading jn the gutter and offing our hats to dare risk eye contact with one as Exalted as you.

You have a hat? Look at you rolling in the money. Us peasants can't afford hats!

 

[Time Waster]

You have a hat? Look at you rolling in the money. Us peasants can't afford hats!

Except for the ones made from folded up newspapers scavenged from rich people's recycling. - said Yorkshireman 1

In our family we could only dream of folded up newspaper hats. We had to walk for half a day to find a tree with leaves to make a hat from. - said Yorkshireman 3

And so on!

Why does things keep degrading into the old four Yorkshiremen sketch type of comments? 🤔

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm thinking of attaching one of these to my handlebars. Then I can go for a ride safe in the knowledge that I won't upset anyone.

 

[Vantage]

I hate cats.

 

[lazybloke]

I'm thinking of attaching one of these to my handlebars. Then I can go for a ride safe in the knowledge that I won't upset anyone.
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Unless they consider it cultural appropriation.

 

[blackrat]

I ride in Texas and usually get a wave from vehicle drivers on country roads. Not many cyclists on the roads these days though, but when I ride on bike trails I get a nod, finger raised or wave from recreation cyclists but not from those who are in racing mode.

 

[Drago]

I ride in Texas and usually get a wave from vehicle drivers on country roads.

Is that before or after they Rolling Coal you?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I completely screwed up the other day and think I ruined my reputation and track record. I've just returned from a cycling holiday, and in a moment of weakness responded to being gratuitously greeted by a cyclist coming the other way on the long, lonely moor, by greeting back. In my defense, I only flicked a finger, but unfortunately also made very brief eye contact from behind my irridium Oakleys.


It ruined the rest of the holiday.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

flicked a finger

Fortunately the right kind of finger

 

[blackrat]

Is that before or after they Rolling Coal you?

Maybe once in the last 20 years, so I think it is a thing of the past. Usually perpetrated by low life's, but even they seem to have grown up.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Very American, one finger only

Allows us Brits to continue to brake with one finger as we greet.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Fortunately the right kind of finger

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Naaah, I'm left handed.

 

[classic33]

Naaah, I'm left handed.

 

[blackrat]

Explanation required, Please.
I received this note from a moderator - I assume:
Your post in the thread: 'are we a miserable lot' was deleted. Reason: Political - please take it to the NACA forum.

Any idea out there why I got this message - and what is the NACA forum?
Thanks.

 

[Time Waster]

It is a ghetto area of this forum that does not appear in the various automated searches. The forum is basically politics free except in NACA where you have to ask to join. Admittance is free if you ask.

AS to what you said I think you made a comment that implied you thought a certain political leader is not suitable for the PM job, i.e. personal and politcal opinion hence NACA territory. You might not be aware but AIUI this forum was once not exaclty as welcoming due to political debates inviting bad behaviour that put people off. I think that might have been when I had joined but avoided the forum poossibly because it was not to my liking back then. I think a decision was made to create the ghetto and things have worked out since. I am sure you will appreciate that the mods want the best for the forum and did what they did for that reason.

HTH