[Closed] Do STW'ers actually like anyone?

Most of us liked your mum.
🙂

They seem to love roadies, but hate mountain bikers.

i hate everyone especially other bike riders.

[i]Most of us liked your mum[/i]

But yours was better.

The 2 Ronnies?
Tommy Cooper?

No

Themselves.

Thinking about it, I can't recall any negatives about Steve Peat.

Thinking about it, I can't recall any negatives about Steve Peat.

Suspension or spd's ?

Everyone loves me 😀

I like lots of people....Thatcher, john Major, Robin Cook, Ricky Gervais to name but a few.

It s just a standard response of people trying to be clever or cool to dislike things or people that are generally though to be popular.

It's just their way of making out they are superior in some way, for not liking things.

For example, why click on a thread titled " The Grand National" just to say That you don't watch it and anyone that does is somehow inferior ???

Just don't click on the thread if it doesn't interest you, and let your superiority remain a mystery 🙄

Everyone loves Jedi, no?

Yes, unless its the one that becomes Darth Vader.

It s just a standard response of people trying to be clever or cool to dislike things or people that are generally though to be popular.

I hated hipsters long before it became cool to do so.

No, not even myself

Themselves.

No I think I'm a tool and I'm getting really annoyed by my own company at the moment.

Better to hate everyone/everything and work backwards from there, that way you don't waste time liking something, only later to realise that you don't really like it after all.

****ing hate this thread too btw...

i love everyone. it takes far less energy to love people than to hate them.

There is definitely a 'tipping point' where people who were once liked/loved become loathed through jealousy, envy, or, the saddest IMO, just so the detractors can try to appear superior as NG has said ^^.

We only have to look at the cycling 'names' on here to see it on a smaller scale. Jedi, Ed Oxley, Dialled Mike, Cy, (first names that spring to mind) can barely put a foot wrong, whereas Brant, who has been well known for a long time, has the highest profile and considerable success in his various guises, polarises opinion.

It's a sad trait which seems to be worse in the UK than anywhere else 🙁

Better to hate everyone/everything and work backwards from there, that way you don't waste time liking something, only later to realise that you don't really like it after all.

I like this, I'm stealing it to be my new mantra, cheers ya ****

has the highest profile and considerable success in his various guises, polarises opinion.

i'm not a fan of me ATM. upset the GF and her friend last night. now in the doghouse.

not really a fan of babies.

There are even people here who hate the Royal Family!

No hate in my life. I'm too busy having fun on my bike 🙂

I hate smug people who bang on about cycling somehow removing the need for hate.

Like pie, there is always room for hate. 8)

What's the alternative? just fawning over every self promoting asshat on earth?

I like sheeps

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Babies are rubbish, really - at least at first. Some become cool at like 6-9months or so.

Our second is a great laugh, our first one at that age was indifferent and only really interesting to us.

just fawning over every self promoting asshole on earth?

I would rather reserve my 'hatred' for those who truly deserve it ie. those who have done nothing, achieved nothing, contributed nothing, yet have gained fame and fortune by virtue of being famous for being famous eg. any Big Brother contestant, footballers wives etc etc.

It s just a standard response of people trying to be clever or cool to dislike things or people that are generally though to be popular.

It's just their way of making out they are superior in some way, for not liking things.

For example, why click on a thread titled " The Grand National" just to say That you don't watch it and anyone that does is somehow inferior ???

Just don't click on the thread if it doesn't interest you, and let your superiority remain a mystery

To the OP
JEDI
Pie
Riding [ though not the style in question]
Moaning
Hope??

I thought of Hope as being one of the 'built up then slagged off' examples.

No-one mentioned fawning

You obviously haven't read the axle rose thread.

I love Dear Leaders! 😆

Babies are rubbish, really - at least at first. Some become cool at like 6-9months or so.

Our second is a great laugh, our first one at that age was indifferent and only really interesting to us.

Sorry to burst the bubble, but no baby is cool.

Ours is. Impossible not to smile back when she grins at you.

You obviously haven't read the axle rose thread.

Bloody wuss...

😆

I properly like few people - they make up the small circles of friends I have. Most folks are nice enough to spends some time with, on a sliding scale. A very few people I really dislike and avoid.

This seems normal to me

Sir David Attenborough.

There was no slagging off or critising anyone on the STW ski and snowboard thread and that's got over 1,000 posts.

molgrips - Member

Ours is. Impossible not to smile back when she grins at you.

^^ no offence, ben, but it's exactly this that i don't like about babies.

why are people unable to have a baby in the room without randomly making "gu gu" noises? why does a baby in the room attract so much attention? why does the topic of conversation revolve around babies when one is in the room?

why to parents deem it necessary to show you pics of their sprogs without your asking and then get stroppy that you don't take a massive interest in the little shit machine....?

or maybe it's just me?

And remember Hitler was a baby once, all babies have the potential to grow up to be the most evil dictator in history!

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a good point well made....

why do [s]parents[/s] 'overbiked' middle aged biffers deem it necessary to show you pics of their [s]sprogs[/s] niche bike without your asking and then get stroppy that you don't take a massive interest in the [s]little shit machine[/s] overpriced MLC 'steed'....?

MSP do you really have to invoke Godwin's law? 🙄

Steve Peat, you mean the Stella advert on a bike? A corporate pawn used to reach places normal advertising is outlawed. Downhilling with lager tins on his helmet, dear me.

No-one is perfect not even me, well nearly, I don't want to get irritated, it's just that after five minutes of television news or any Internet forum it's very hard not to feel just a little outraged.

or maybe it's just me?

no. it's not just you.
you obviously haven't had your sensibilities addled with or the aggressive parenting gene that makes previously sane adults turn into self centered cretins once little olivia/oliver pops out.

or what i call "parent blinkers".

Bunnyhop, it did get a little sketchy when someone mentioned telemark!

😉

maybe it's just me?

Nah. I don't understand why people coo over babies either, and I fathered one (the count is going to stay at one). He's smashing and it was still love at first sight and all that, but he was a horrible little sod when he was tiny. That's my opinion of my own baby, I'll spare you my thoughts on other people's... 😉

There is alot of keyboard warriors here finding fault of everything! 😆

MrSmith - Member

or maybe it's just me?

no. it's not just you.
you obviously haven't had your sensibilities addled with or the aggressive parenting gene that makes previously sane adults turn into self centered cretins once little olivia/oliver pops out.

thank you Mrs Mith.... infact, you're right. the babies themselves are ok. my gripe is with the parents/style of parenting....

thank you Mrs Mith.... infact, you're right. the babies themselves are ok. my gripe is with the parents/style of parenting....

I'm the same with horses.

There [s]is[/s] [b]are[/b] alot of keyboard warriors here finding fault [s]of[/s] [b]with[/b] everything!

MrD, if you're being that picky, at least spot that "alot" should have been "a lot".

ton - Member

i love everyone. it takes far less energy to love people than to hate them.

You're doing it wrong. 🙂

I'm not [i]that[/i] picky 🙂 I'm just helping someone with their World Englishes issues.

I would rather reserve my 'hatred' for those who truly deserve it ie. those who have done nothing, achieved nothing, contributed nothing, yet have gained fame and fortune by virtue of being famous for being famous eg. any Big Brother contestant, footballers wives etc etc.

Why on earth do these people truly deserve 'hatred'?
They're full of themselves and believe they are special..... like ALL young people.

I hate poorly thought out opinions! 😉

I only hate evil people.

I hate poorly thought out opinions!

These people haven't even had the decency to do something to become liked or highly regarded, so it's fairly easy to skip straight to the 'hatred' stage and thus save a lot of time 8)

There do seem to be quite a few folk who are held in high regard for being associated with something good, rather than being the cause of good. I can't say I hate them for making the most out of a fawning public; they are just irrelevant. But I feel something close to disgust for the fawning public who thing they are important.

its nice to be liked 🙂

Sorry to burst the bubble, but no baby is cool.

Baby Jake is cool
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Unless he grows up to be a Christian of course 🙂

Benefit claimants tend to be well liked on here.Especially when they show a very strong interest in your steed.

I have a theory on this..

In life we tend to befriend people that we connect with.. and unless we or they have some severely twuntish tendencies then we remain friends..

The cult of celebrity however is slightly more corrupt.. people with low intelligence worship persona's created for monetary gain.. Not only does this low intelligence public have short little attention spans and fickle herding tendencies, but also the people that create the persona are hungry for more.. more love, more money, more fame.. Often they will try to achieve this by pandering to the lowest common denominator with little consideration for integrity or indeed for anything genuine.. and so the public lose interest and move on..

celebrity is a crack whore.. with herpes

I think these guys are genuinely liked by all though.. unless there is something fundamentally very wrong with society..

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Bradley wiggins and Victoria pendelton: liked on stw?

I have no idea who bradley and victoria are but they sound vile..

celebrity is a crack whore.. with herpes

I read this as 'celery is a crack whore.. with herpes' and agreed completely.

Anyway, I've always assumed that the endless 'hatred' the people on here profess for all sorts of relatively minor things - celery is an exception obviously - is some sort of emotional blow-off valve.

But it is a shame, I give you the words of Morrissey: 'It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind' in the full awareness that in a moment someone will pop up to declare their undying hatred of The Smiths and all that they stand for. I hate that... 😉

Benefit claimants tend to be well liked on here.Especially when they show a very strong interest in your steed.

I do not see anything wrong with the statement, whatsoever.

Is SurfMatt still = AWESOME?

Is there anyone who is universally liked and respected by the STW massive?

Not likely to ever get universal like and respect because I refuse to idolise anyone and usually find that even those who could be respected are often unlikeable. I'm not a people person 🙂