fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
The Death of Irony
- Thread starter Landsurfer
- Start date
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ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
I was more meaning how silly it is, if they're getting everyone else to put a mask on.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
What's an iron ?
If you like ironing could you be said to be irony?
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I used to smoke (reluctantly, i always found it incredibly hard to stop)
Popped into a village shop on one of my rides, fully togged up in ss jersey and shorts. Lady chuckled and said...
I wouldnt have thought youd be a smoker ??
Im not averse to a little self abuse...i replied
Popped into a village shop on one of my rides, fully togged up in ss jersey and shorts. Lady chuckled and said...
I wouldnt have thought youd be a smoker ??
Im not averse to a little self abuse
...i replied
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
OP
OP
Landsurfer
Veteran
Who’s wearing a mask ???I was more meaning how silly it is, if they're getting everyone else to put a mask on.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
OP
OP
Landsurfer
Veteran
Good point .. well made ..The woman you mentioned in the OP buying 40 fags.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Was she wearing a helmet and a mash while smoking 40 fags????
I'm getting confused
Note for the Americans - fags does not mean THAT - smoking them means something different
I'm getting confused
Note for the Americans - fags does not mean THAT - smoking them means something different
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Yeah - OK
would be even more impressive if she had been wearing mash though
bit messy - wouldn;t fancy trying to clean the helmet after
That's what is so ludicrous about the signs. As if a potential robber is going to obey a sign and take their helmets off.
a.twiddler
Veteran
Used to be that I would roll up at the pump with my open face helmet at some petrol stations and wouldn't be allowed to fill up if I didn't take it off -the staff wouldn't press the button at the desk to start the pump. My local one is OK with that but then going in to pay I would have to take it off anyway to hook my mask over my ears. Ironical? Yes. Does it bother me much? No.
After years of helmet wearing it's second nature to take it off when going indoors, and I have no issues with mask wearing though in the past I have raised the helmet thing with staff. Why are faceless customers with hoodies OK to buy petrol with no issues when you can see my face with the helmet on?
I have come to accept that many employees at the bottom of the food chain have a feeling of powerlessness to change things and when they say "It's policy" it feels as if they might exercise discretion if they could but fear consequences if they don't follow these rules handed down from above. I used to see anti-motorcyclist, anti-cyclist stuff round every corner and get quite militant but these days I think, why put people who can't change things on the spot? If I get really annoyed it's better to write to someone further up the chain.
As for banks, who has been in a bank recently? I live mid way between two towns and in both of them there used to be a branch of my bank. One of them has now closed and I fear the other one may close soon too. Internet banking has done for them. The irony here is that its own success has led to branch closure. It is reassuring to have a bricks and mortar branch to visit as sometimes, just sometimes it is useful to talk to a real person when you have an issue that doesn't fit the tick-box system that is online banking. If it's a case of use it or lose it looks as if the success of the online version for most routine things will finish off the other branch.
Both of these branches were in pedestrianised areas so the helmet thing never arose. The thing with online banking is that if I choose I could wear my helmet (and nothing else) and no one would be bothered.
After years of helmet wearing it's second nature to take it off when going indoors, and I have no issues with mask wearing though in the past I have raised the helmet thing with staff. Why are faceless customers with hoodies OK to buy petrol with no issues when you can see my face with the helmet on?
I have come to accept that many employees at the bottom of the food chain have a feeling of powerlessness to change things and when they say "It's policy" it feels as if they might exercise discretion if they could but fear consequences if they don't follow these rules handed down from above. I used to see anti-motorcyclist, anti-cyclist stuff round every corner and get quite militant but these days I think, why put people who can't change things on the spot? If I get really annoyed it's better to write to someone further up the chain.
As for banks, who has been in a bank recently? I live mid way between two towns and in both of them there used to be a branch of my bank. One of them has now closed and I fear the other one may close soon too. Internet banking has done for them. The irony here is that its own success has led to branch closure. It is reassuring to have a bricks and mortar branch to visit as sometimes, just sometimes it is useful to talk to a real person when you have an issue that doesn't fit the tick-box system that is online banking. If it's a case of use it or lose it looks as if the success of the online version for most routine things will finish off the other branch.
Both of these branches were in pedestrianised areas so the helmet thing never arose. The thing with online banking is that if I choose I could wear my helmet (and nothing else) and no one would be bothered.
