[Closed] Things you think are normal, but other people don't?

Pink shirts.

Not as in the sadly now rather tawdry tailor that once was Thomas Pink, but shirts in the colour pink.

I think all chaps should wear them. Some of my American colleagues think it indicates something about a chap's sexuality. Idiots. Wouldn't matter if it did, but still...

crashing motorbikes... perfectly normal IMO

Commuting on a mountain bike in lycra.

Washing up liquid: I've never lived in a house where it didn't live on the worktop behind the skink

Does the skink just sit there all day?

Marmite, and riding a bmx at 38..

me 8)

Writing with, and owning, multiple fountain pens. What was once normal is now a curiosity to almost everyone I work with.

*waits for hora's contribution*

Some of my American colleagues think it indicates something about a chap's sexuality. Idiots.

Awwww, gotta love the septics and their views on style 😉

Giving someone a lift on your bike seat while you stand up is called a 'Croggy'. Apparently its not Lancashire but in Lincolnshire thats what it was referred to as!

I have a pink micro-gingham shirt on today.

I have a pink micro-gingham shirt on today

Don't go to America whatever you do!! 😯

Cycling to work

Cycling to work, shops, errands etc That raises a few eyebrows.

Not watching TV every hour god sends

Not being the slightest bit interested in football. Some people just can't compute that.

I have a pink micro-gingham shirt on today

Is it STW pink shirt tuesday?

Pink/white stripe here.

Riding my bike in jeans, t-shirt and no helmet...

I think all chaps should wear them. Some of my American colleagues think it indicates something about a chap's sexuality. Idiots. Wouldn't matter if it did, but still...

I think pink is almost more of a mans colour than a woman's these days.

Getting up early on a Sunday morning to do four hours on a bike.

Trolling middle aged men in the late hours of the evening

MidlandTrailquestsGraham - Member

Commuting on a [b]ss[/b] mountain bike in lycra.

There fixed it for you 😉

Riding a bike at 43yrs for fun. And doing it in the dark in winter!

Writing with, and owning, multiple fountain pens. What was once normal is now a curiosity to almost everyone I work with.

But that's actually one of things you[i] like [/i]about writing with and owning Multiple fountain pens though surely 😉

[s]Trolling[/s] trawling for middle aged men in the late hours of the evening

FTFY 😉

Internet Foruma I mean WTF is that all about
EDIT: Bad spelling /typos and not correcting them

Turning down a promotion at work...not for all the tea in China....

Light Pink shirt here too.. ohhh ek, though mines a block colour sans stripes or checks.

Odd things:
Black Tea.
Cutting the hard skin off your finger tips near the nail.
Ironing (I do all ours, MrsBouy thinks it's wrong)
Washing up, why have a dishwasher when you end up washing up (I use the DW, MrsBouy washes up)

I think being awesome to one another is normal.

I think pink is almost more of a [s]mans[/s] [b]sales monkey's[/b] colour than a woman's these days.

Not owning a TV.

Listening to new music instead of old stuff.

You'll never catch me in a pink shirt. Not that I think it's gay, I just hate the colour. Worn by modern day yuppies.

I don't think ANY man should wear skin tight lycra. Its stuff that belongs in the past. Sorry.

*is disappointed*

I don't think ANY man should wear skin tight lycra.

You prefer riding like this? You're more kinky than I thought....

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This needs to happen! 🙂

I think heated wing mirrors are normal. Apparently some poor peasants don't have them. Oh, the inhumanity!

Men just look soo good don't they in lycra

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STW pink shirt Tuesday

Folowed by red faces at the coffee machine and diciplinary hearings when you ask anyone in a pink shirt on a tuesday "do you?"

thisisnotaspoon - Member
STW pink shirt Tuesday
Folowed by red faces at the coffee machine and diciplinary hearings when you ask anyone in a pink shirt on a tuesday "do you?"

Let's make it happen! All those awkward faces of, "I wonder if he's doing STW Pink Shirt Tuesday as well? Hmmmmm" will be worth it!

he looks alright. its funny the lycra bashing thing. you have seen what mountain bikers look like right?

are baggy shorts and camelbacks cooler than lycra? errrr.... not really.

at least lycra is functional. dressing like a cut off motocross rider is pretty damn ridiculous.

Wiping from back to front

are baggy shorts and camelbacks cooler than lycra?

Infinitely. Even if baggy shorts are uncool, they're still far, far cooler than lycra.

[i]Even if baggy shorts are uncool, they're still far, far cooler than lycra. [/i]

a cool cyclist shredding the gnar;

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Getting up before 5am 6 days a week to either cycle, swim, run or a combination of the above!

Cheers, Rich

Actually, on second thoughts I don't think I am normal 😆

a cool cyclist shredding the gna

Fashion-wise thats bang on 😆

yeh damn cool that!

+1 for wiping back to front 😀
Wearing mtb helmet, with full lycra and camel pack on a road bike 🙄
Doing stuff in the rain when everyone is indoors moaning.
Only having a 20 inch tv
Chocolate biscuits in the morning with a brew 😀

And still many magnitudes of cool cooler than the chap in the white lycra up there^^^^^^

Walking everywhere you practically can. Instead of taking the car just to nip down the shop or something.

It takes half an hour to get to the post office if I walk. Taking the car after work it'll take minimum 15 mins and that's assuming I can find a parking space... And I'd be sat in queuing traffic for most of that.

Not as in the sadly now rather tawdry tailor that once was Thomas Pink, but shirts in the colour pink.

No connection with the original tailor, the shirt business was founded in the mid 1980s by three Irish brothers - just smart marketing - no significant history whatsoever, probably explains their inability to make a decent shirt.

Regularly falling off my bike/crashing at 54 years of age

Walking, definitely. I'm constantly amazed at how many colleagues get a taxi from the office to the station or other places in Leeds city centre.

Also not expecting to be able to park right outside everywhere and being prepared to walk the last bit. A couple of years ago there was a bit of fuss kicked up at work because they wouldn't subsidise parking in the ncp next door for junior staff (senior staff get a pass as part of their package). When I was junior I got the bus or parked outside the city centre and walked in, and for the first year of being entitled to parking I didn't even have a car! But apparently it was unacceptable. Admittedly the car park is stupidly expensive, but no-one's making them park there.

a intense hatred of anything football.

Pink Bengal stripe here.

Wearing shorts from April to September irrelevant of the weather.

Wearing shorts [s]from April to September[/s] all year round irrelevant of the weather

a intense hatred of anything football.

You mean that's not normal?

Pot Noodle sandwiches

Wearing shorts from April to September irrelevant of the weather.

Car parts in the dishwasher.
Having a tool for that, whatever "that" is.
Having an electronics lab in the spare room, rather than a spare bed.

Drinking Carnation milk straight out of the tin.

Pink shirts.

to me they indicate your probably southern and probably somewhat above working class. Nothing to do with sexuality.

tea without milk.

you wouldn't believe the commotion at work when people found out.

Walking to the supermarket and carryi ng stuff home in a rucksack.
Going on holiday and completely knackering myself riding a bike every day rather than lying on a beach with a crappy novel.
Fixing bikes in the kitchen
Not wanting to host 'pampered chef' home selling type parties

[i]tea without milk.[/i]

now *that* is weird.

Being vegetarian.

Loving football AND cycling.

Not having any children.

A preference for ale over lager.

etc

I'm deffo up for TisPSSTWday*

*Tuesday is Pink Shirt STW Day

Next week I have a cracker, needs washing mind but still.. I can do that, wash I mean.

carrying my new mtb up the stairs to my office, instead of leaving it outside. They wonder why i don't lock it up with the BSOs, and why i'd need such an expensive lock. Silly finns.

This thread has to be brought down a peg or 2, far too much talk of Lycra and pink.

Smelling ones own farts and eating ones bogies, pretty normal I'd say.

Ooh and chewing toenails, nearly forgot that one. It really drives the wife mad.

Over and out!

Pot Noodle sandwiches

Ooh. I like the cut of your jib. I shall try that and report back.

Having a tool for that, whatever "that" is.

Substitute 'tool' for cable. Should you ever need to connect a Psion 5 to a 1967 Corvette or plug an MRI machine into a ZX Spectrum, I've probably got the correct cable somewhere, or sufficient 'ends' to make one up.

to me they indicate your probably southern and probably somewhat above working class. Nothing to do with sexuality.

Surely if that's what it indicates then it's everything to do with sexuality? (-:

Pink shirt here too.

Apparently the way I wash up isnt up to scratch (hot water+detergent in a big bowl, scrub and rinse??) and things that get used every day like coffee, olive oil, salt and pepper need to go in the cupboard rather than be left on the work top? Or maybe its just my other flat mate who's weird.

Not wanting the AC on in the office at 26 degrees heat all bloody summer, or in fact at any time.

Riding to work in any weather or even worse running to work

wearing short all year regardless of the weather as above

[i]Ooh and chewing toenails[/i]

your own or other peoples?

sleeping in the woods with my mates, my bike, a pot noodle & a hip flask of whiskey at weekends or bivvying.

Wearing mtb helmet, with full lycra and camel pack on a road bike

There's a wiggle advert in the back of Cycling Weekly that made me think of STW last week. Anyone else seen it? Guy in baggies and T looking epicaly sweaty whilst guy in mathcing kit breezes past.

There's a wiggle advert in the back of Cycling Weekly that made me think of STW last week. Anyone else seen it? Guy in baggies and T looking epicaly sweaty whilst guy in mathcing kit breezes past

In Cyclesport too defo an attempt to drive an even bigger wedgie between cool and collected roadies and dirrrty MTBr's 😀

cycling to work in the snow
could any commute to work be MORE exciting?

Cutting my own hair
Not living in the city
Not having SKY TV anymore! This caused huge consternation at the weekend when watching the footie at my mates house, you'd think I'd admitted to fellating Terry Wogan or something. Which I hadn't - for the sake of clarity.
Chatting on internet forums - plural
Being able to drive a rear wheel drive car in the snow (edit)
Having more than 10 bikes in the household.

Fellating Terry Wogan, some people find it all a bit odd. 😕

I expect it tastes of Bailey's.

Irish cream!

[i]*collapses into giggles*[/i]