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Until I've spoken to you, or met you I've no idea if you are make or female. If I'm dialing a courier company and asking for Jim you can make some basic assumptions. Until I've met you I've no idea if the idea you purport on a forum are your own, etc. Hence why I take forums with a lighthearted approach. Its just fun.
Back on topic
I've no idea what you look like, what you do for a job, what face you are pulling whilst reading this, what you are really thinking or how good you are on a bike. Any argument we may have you may quickly refer to wiki/any google search to back up your argument. Whatever you tell me I've got to take it as the truth or at face value. Face to face theres no where to hide.
How about if I phone you? By your argument that's not "real" either?
I know what you look like, and my photo has been posted (and Jamie'd) on here before. My job is fairly well documented also. You won't know what I'm "really thinking" face to face unless you're psychic, and my bike skills are a) crap b) broadly irrelevant and c) fairly well known also. So your argument basically boils down to "it's not real because he might be looking stuff up," which is a bit odd.
If the only way interaction is "real" to you is face to face, I can only conclude that you're either on the Asperger's scale or a sociopath.
Hence why I take forums with a lighthearted approach. Its just fun
I guess it's just having an appreciation that not all people see it that way. From just a quick scan of current threads that should be pretty obvious.
Hence why I take forums with a lighthearted approach.
Agreed. There's a difference between fun and reality though. You've said they're not real. It's a strange choice of words, and one you've used repeatedly. Clearly you're blind to your own stupidity.
How about if I phone you? By your argument that's not "real" either?I know what you look like, and my photo has been posted (and Jamie'd) on here before. My job is fairly well documented also. You won't know what I'm "really thinking" face to face unless you're psychic, and my bike skills are a) crap b) broadly irrelevant and c) fairly well known also. So your argument basically boils down to "it's not real because he might be looking stuff up," which is a bit odd.
What's even more odd is that someone who works in recruitment for "Purchasing & Supply" probably spends a lot of time talking on the phone to folk he doesn't know the first thing about 😕
RealMan - what happened to him?
His last post was the back end of last year and I found a post from earlier saying that he was going to Russia in December and asking about Visas. I guess that's where he is, then.
RealMan - what happened to him?
Hope he's back by July.
Indeed! I just remember the days of yore when we had myriad TdF threads with spoilers in the titles and what not. His is truly a valiant contribution!
Pedalthread...VERY Pre hack he posted an inbred "with a bit of thread on the fork to measure travel" every.pigging.day. for months. The prawn,TJ,TSY. I miss them, The easy thing to do was just ignore them if you wanted.Like a lot of the posters on here I have had a ban,mine was for creating a character called randompedantry and following TJ around. (he was in on it) I literaly got nothing done in the week before the mods twigged. I got a weekend and Randompedantry got a 1000 years (about 997 to go)
Hence why I take forums with a lighthearted approach.
I don't really want to get bogged down with this, so this is the last I'll say on it.
Lighthearted is fine, I do the same myself usually. You have to take what's written, well, anywhere on the Internet with a pinch of salt. That's a fairly sensible, healthy approach.
But to dismiss what you / others write as "it's only the Internet, it's not real" is bogus. You're still interacting with real people with real feelings, opinions and emotions. Sure, they might not be revealing their hand to people they don't know that well, or trying to project the persona that they want people to see, but they're still people. We're not all a bunch of Eliza programs and NPCs.
It's not clear to me whether you're asserting the former or the latter, TBH.
I once attempted to register the username "engorged", or somesuch, and was told to try again.
Heh.
Shame, it would have looked pretty good!
[b][u][url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/engorged ]engorged[/url][/u][/b] - Member
STW Will Eat Itself.
I got a weekend and Randompedantry got a 1000 years (about 997 to go)
I don't remember that so I just looked it up. It was "tantrumpedantry" and the ban expires 7 Dec 107303 😯 (at 11:31 if you're going to be clock-watching).
Cougar I don't dismiss everything. I take posters with a pinch of salt unless I've met them. Some are great people. Some have disturbed me, hence why I treat anyone I don't know as bogus until proven otherwise.
I remember one lad used to shout at female walkers and on the odd occasion I saw him- had an odd way about him when around females in general (barely concealed anger) is the best way to describe it.
I dont conceal anything about myself- I act goofy alot, but in real life I'm tight with money but generous with time.
(Back ontopic though)
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I like 'peterfile' but when I mentioned the IT Crowd link/reference I dont think he chose it for that reason(?)
STW Will Eat Itself.
You have to be very flexible.
With that, goodnight! *bows*
Ah, that's right; there was a forum member here for a while called random something or other.I got the idea from him. I understand that you will have a list of the "baned" but I like the idea of a spreadsheet with them all counting down the length of the ban.
Cougar I don't dismiss everything. I take posters with a pinch of salt unless I've met them. Some are great people. Some have disturbed me, hence why I treat anyone I don't know as bogus until proven otherwise.
That's some mighty fine back pedalling. Stop saying "hence why" too.
I remember one lad used to shout at female walkers and on the odd occasion I saw him- had an odd way about him when around females in general (barely concealed anger) is the best way to describe it.
I was having a bad day and you promised not to mention it
Agree about here so hey folks
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Njee20 why is it back pedalling? If I know an element of stw'ers personally. Still smarting from earlier?
I once attempted to register the username "engorged", or somesuch, and was told to try again.Heh.
Shame, it would have looked pretty good!
engorged - Member
😆
Hora? How do you feel about helmet effectiveness and rotational head injuries?
There's more than a touch of TJ about you today, can I claim my £5?
Face to face theres no where to hide.
Wanna bet?
Hora, Njee20, in "Big hitters, be hitting" shocker!
You should soon receive that feeling of having your heads knocked together. Or at least being temporarily dispossessed of your ability to continue, pointlessly bickering.
Stop it!
**is posting from death bed, while suffering a touch of the Aztec two steps**
Solo the big S...hitter
I've made it 😀
I've made it 😀
Outta the park, apparently.
Shame, it would have looked pretty good!
[b]engorged[/b] - Member
Now got a fit of the giggles!
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<waves at TJ>
[i] tazzymtb - Member
Solo the big S...hitter[/i]
Not after being NBM for 48hrs.
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[i] Northwind - Member
<waves at TJ>[/i]
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No, no you didn't!
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