[Closed] Oh dear Danny Macaskill - please don't do the Playboy Mansion thing 🙁

I'd like to think my sport was a little bit cooler than that.

I'm not sure MTBs have ever been cool, apart from to those who ride them.

And now you can judge/frot/self combust:

Dude's gotta earn a living. I'm not going to judge, I have no idea if he does well/OK from riding/hopping etc but he won't be able to do it forever. I doubt it will be a full "tits out" affair anyway.

I'm outraged! Way too many swoopy helicopter type shots and not enough bike riding.

you are a hypercrit.

Cliched, and boring. Jesus there is hardly any riding in it, pretty desperate stuff.

Way too many swoopy helicopter type shots and not enough bike riding

At least there was a strong story behind it.

It wasn't his best riding, although that nose manual down the lawn was pretty heroic (did he manage it all in one go?). It's actually quite a cool location to film, the overly-manicured gardens look kind of surreal and the waterfall is an infamous location that no one else will have ridden before.

So it's a fairly standard 6/10 from me. I am not outraged.

it was no imaginate and he didnt even leap 50 bunnies in a single bunny hop

Danny continuing his theme of riding in odd places around the world. Certainly more pleasant backdrop than a rusty railway.
I liked the backwards nose-wheelie thing down the lawn, but the rest of the riding was a bit meh.
And the wave goodbye at the end? sheesh....

I must admit it wasn't the best danny movie I've seen. Hardly any riding. As I previously guessed it would have women as a backdrop in an iconic location.
I didn't expect the flamingos and monkeys mind.

all I could think was that I bet theres a lot of hugh heffner's semen in that pool

im a strange person really

all I could think was that I bet theres a lot of hugh heffner's semen in that pool
im a strange person really

Nah, I'm sure he has it drained. (The pool that is)

The video was ok, not great, not offensive in anyway.
Just danny riding around Hugh's house , a man who has made a fortune through the clever marketing/branding of soft porn.
As seen on the Simpsons, fresh prince and was it not in one of the Beverly Hills cop fims.
And was not Bridgett jones dressed as a bunny girl in one of the films, it is an iconic image wether you disagree with it or not.

Bit disappointed he did not do,
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I'm not offended, just think it's tacky.

Well it will be after touching [i]any[/i] surface in that compound.

Total fromage

all I could think was that I bet theres a lot of hugh heffner's semen in that pool

God I love the eighties!

wrecker - Member
I'd be surprised if all of the fluid in that pool isn't Heffners semen. It is probably crystal clear by now considering the amount he's dispensed.

More like powdered milk.

"Pffft"

Crap video compared to his others.

Its a sorry concept and he's gone down in my estimation whatever his reasons or motivation.

shark. jumped.

Crap video but cheesy and in no way sexist or exploitative. Ad for Hugh and Red Bull and that was it. Will any of the "Massively Outraged" from pages 1 & 2 like to return?

Who was massively outraged?

Opinions not outrage...

[i]Crap video but cheesy and in no way sexist or exploitative.[/i]

So, as well as Danny we saw some monkeys and birds and parrots, oh, and some girls who just happen to be draped around the garden and tennis court and pool in way that almost made them seem like they weren't really human beings at all but just....objects?

Hmmmmmmmmm

Sexism issues aside, I've always thought that waterfall feature in the pool would be a gigle to ride trials on. My view hasn't changed.

Is the one in the red the head bunny then?

looked like a shampoo/yoghurt/special K/etc video to me albeit with more bunny tails/ears than usual and a bloke riding his bike. A bit crap, in an advert kind of way.

Lifer - Member
Who was massively outraged?

Read the first few posts from before the video was out

I just have and have no idea what you're talking about. Saying something seems like a crap idea is not the same as being offended by it you realise?

So, as well as Danny we saw some monkeys and birds and parrots, oh, and some girls who just happen to be draped around the garden and tennis court and pool in way that almost made them seem like they weren't really human beings at all but just....objects?
Hmmmmmmmmm

If those women wish to spend there afternoons cavorting around the playboy mansion in bikinis who are you to say that's wrong, they are not braking the law .

They looked like humans to me. Do you have to be buttoned up to the chin to appear human.

If you are offended by naked flesh don't look. But you can't tell people how to dress or behave who are acting of free will with in the law.

If you are offended by [s]naked flesh[/s] people's opinons don't look. But you can't tell people how to [s]dress or behave who are acting of free will with in the law[/s] think

FIFY.

I'm not offended, I am debating.

It's what forums are for .

From what I posted on page 2 in response to you as you're debating:

"chip - Member

If I see a glamour model I don't think women are being objectified, just that woman who is probably getting paid handsomely for doing a job she probably has to work hard to keep (excercise diet ) in a cut throat industry.

I have a bigger problem with more socially acceptable fashion modelling industry using rake thin woman thus promoting an unhealthy image."

So you don't think there's anything damaging about the body image created by the 'glamour' ( 😆 ) industry? Take a look at the 'No More Page 3' campaign and [url= http://page3stories.org/category/stories/ ]Page 3 stories[/url] to see how (some) women (and men) are affected by it.

I am debating.

I thought someone said there'd be a bike in that video?

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One of the classic STW threads 😆

We are indeed a Broad Church 😀

I read the first 3 or 4 page three stories on your link .

Seriously, I have always found people who play teams sports the least embarrassed about nudity .

The human body is not to be ashamed of and if someone is going to be emotionally troubled by naked breasts they are in trouble.

I'm not offended, just think it's tacky.

Well it will be after touching any surface in that compound.

You'll have noticed there wasn't a single Dabbed foot from Mr Macaskill throughout that entire video, The bike however had to be burned soon after he manualed it out of the gates...

I think what disappoints the most isn't the Tackiness of it, that's sort of a given with Playboy/Hefner, but that the riding isn't all that imaginative/inventive/new for him. There's way too much copter-Cam and if it hadn't been shot in Hugh's palace of conspicuous consumption and aspirational flesh dolls, then it wouldn't be particularly noteworthy by standards of Danny Macaskill's other riding videos...

The human body is not to be ashamed of and if someone is going to emotionally troubled by naked breasts they are in trouble.

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Unfortunately, MTBing seems to attract a fairly puerile following for some reason. Pretty embarrassing sometimes.

I'm not even engaging in your "debate" but your constant twisting of the discussion away from what anyone else is saying is starting to irk.

and is anyone in the anti-page3 groups "emotionally troubled" by breasts or are they simply pissed off at objectification of women and using breasts to sell newspapers?