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My cousin had his blue and white YT Wicked Pro 27.5" stolen. Anyone local please keep an eye out.
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Thievering gypsies eh?
Dat's racist.
how does one 'bend a tyre right off' and hence remove bike ? 🙂
seriously though, whereabouts in Glasgow ?
I have no idea how you bend a front tyre off. :p
Bikes were in Kelvindale though, cheers.
I'm in the west end, so will keep an eye out. Probably swiped by some Maryhill scum. The YT is pretty distinctive, should be able to spot that a mile off.
I'm in Pollokshields but will keep 'em peeled regardless.
I'm in the west end, so will keep an eye out. Probably swiped by some Maryhill scum.
I'm Maryhill scum.
Tonight's lesson, children, is in two parts:
1. Don't call everyone in one area "scum" just because they live in a poorer area to you.
2. If you do, don't assume that people who live in that area won't see what you've written.
😉
Ben give him his bikes back then...
It wasn't the OP I was talking about - but the "gypsies" comment makes me disinclined to help him either.
That's a shame because Ben's input would have made all the difference.
Maryhill's Winston Wolf
NSFW
He left THAT in communal bikeshed?
He left THAT in communal bikeshed?
Sometimes I even take my bike *outside* - I'm just asking for it to be stolen really...
Sorry to hear this but hopefully he takes his thousands of pounds worth of assets up the stairs to the flat in future 🙁
Sometimes I even take my bike *outside* - I'm just asking for it to be stolen really...
Not really but leaving them in a communal bike shed isn't really that clever. Sorry to point that out but it is only a matter of time.
My old flat was not far from where this was nicked. We had a locked bike shed downstairs that got broken into three times in six months. Kept the wife's town bike in it but even that got the wheels nicked as they couldn't bust the lock. They came back a few days later to nick the rest of it but I'd taken it away by then.
Such as shame, as it's nice that developers put space for bikes but bad that you couldn't even keep a £100 town bike in it. I think they're really attractive for thieves because they can get in during the night or working day and be fairly sure they won't get disturbed. If they do get disturbed is easy just to walk off as no one is sure who is who in a block of flats.
I am in Uddingston will keep a lookout for it
That's a shame because Ben's input would have made all the difference.
Maryhill's Winston Wolf
Brilliant 😀
Thanks for the comments, I'm sure the lesson will be learned and any replacements not kept in a communal bike shed. Sometimes it's just not practical to have a bike inside either.
1. Don't call everyone in one area "scum" just because they live in a poorer area to you.
2. If you do, don't assume that people who live in that area won't see what you've written.
1. I didn't. You've just assumed that.
2. See answer No. 1
Yeah, okay, try replacing the word "Maryhill" with "Scottish", and try arguing you're not calling all those people scum.
Bencanttakeajokecooper 😉 Everyone has come across examples of Maryhill scum. They exist as you know, nowt wrong with that. Same as gypsies and nazis. It's not offensive to say the word if there's a chance it was scum from Maryhill! 😉 <~winky face
Oh dear - there's a chance it was done by a black person too, would it be okay to blame black scum? The problem occurs when you attach a pejorative term to a descriptive one.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in the slightest bit offended, I just think it's funny when silly people show their prejudices.
I'm in Milngavie, unlikely to see it from my Ivory tower.
This is the funny thing about Glasgow, it can be so ridiculously tribal, even between small areas right next to each other.
I was being sarcastic, my neighbour and her current partner are heroin users. Milngavie scum then? What school did you go to Ben having met you, you seem terribly well spoken to be slumming it it Maryhill 🙂
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that given the close location of Maryhill to Kelvindale, that the scum who have stolen the bikes are from that area. He's not saying that all people in Maryhill are scum, just that they may have came from that area. I've had personal experience of bike thieves who were very organised working from the Mayhill area. Nothing against Maryhill at all,it was just that's where they were based out of.
His 'prejudices' may have been based on that same experience rather than any discrimination. Sounds like your the one jumping to conclusions here Bencooper