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Does your other half fail to adapt to this bunch of middle class wannabes sometimes?

My wife once suggested someone needs a good slat in the hoofs.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:11 am
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Coming from a UKC background, she knows the score.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:13 am
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someone needs a good slat in the hoofs.

You should bomb them with owners.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:13 am
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Mrs CFH pointed out that the valves on The Boy's balance bike didn't line up with the valves .

The shame! The shame!


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:14 am
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Hoist with your own petard Captain, for shame indeed especially as lining valves and logos is the true way.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:52 am
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apparently this place will be shut down & everyone associate, back office team and forum member put to death, when she wins the lottery (the death part might have been made up)


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 11:57 am
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Mine has slowly come to quite like it. She'll never come on here but over the years we've picked up some very good advice on a huge range of subjects. Our last holiday was booked as a result of a post here and was awesome for a start.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:06 pm
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Mine cant understand why i prefer so much time with my internet "friends" rather than her.

Shes not into bikes or beer and doesnt like cheese, so i think my reasoning is perfectly valid.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:09 pm
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Mine doesn't really get internet fora, or social media. As long as I'm not online when I should be doing something else she doesn't seem to mind.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:14 pm
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She looked at it once and said it was populated by saddos


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:17 pm
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the valves on The Boy's balance bike didn't line up with the valves

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Posted : 26/10/2016 12:20 pm
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My OH is a very sophisticated and intelligent human,STW would be too alien for her. 😛


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:20 pm
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Mine isn't a keen cyclist but has had good advice (through me) from STW.

I think she appreciates how nice the community is compared to Mumsnet which she reads sometimes where people tend to be nasty buggers to each other.

She's stolen ****OST (There Was A Thread On Single Track) with a vague eye roll when I begin a sentece with that.

She'd far rather I talk on here about bikes rather than boring her.

Being in the [i]UK MTB Golden Era 80s & 90s appreciation group[/i] on Facebook does get ridiculed though.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:28 pm
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I get 'stop looking at your bloody biking forum' when engaged in STW whilst at the in-laws. 😐 I've heard all the father in law's anecdotes before.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:34 pm
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'talking to your sad mates again'

'ask your sad mates'

😀


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:35 pm
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The STW forum is referred to as "The Boys" in Spw3 Towers.

Mrs spw3 asks me "Why don't you just ask The Boys?" on an almost weekly basis.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:42 pm
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'talking to your sad mates again'

'ask your sad mates'

Lol, I get similar - "Whats for dinner?" "Well, why don't ask that bike website your always on, you ask them everything else" 😀

Anyway, what is for dinner? 😐


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:45 pm
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"Ask your friends"....
When she can't be arsed to look something up as it will divert her attention from Midsomer Murders.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:50 pm
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****OS

Enough said 😀


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 12:52 pm
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My other half actually coined the phrase "****OS". I think that days it all.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:14 pm
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And I made the mistake of telling my wife about it Onza.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:15 pm
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Another ****OS adoption here... apparently it's appropriate...


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:24 pm
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No chance, if she walks in and I am on STW I slam the laptop shut. If she asks what I was doing I tell her I was watching porn 😆


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:26 pm
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My wife spends far too much time on the chat forum .
She won't visit the bike forum because 'it's all gobledegook' but loves the assortment of discussions on the chat forum .


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:26 pm
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IFAIK the Mrs hasn't signed up :paranoid: , but she does bear up with references to the STW world very well, bless her.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:37 pm
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My Mrs must stalk the STW pages. She looked over my shoulder one day at a FS photo and pointed out the OP should get their decking treated and cut their grass.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 1:42 pm
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She lurks occasionally to see if theres anything interesting on sadtrack .


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 2:00 pm
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My OH introduced me to it. She was a forum member before I was.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 2:38 pm
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Mr Pea is an occasional visitor to STW 🙂


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 2:52 pm
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MrsBouy occasionally looks at some of the more amusing and funny threads, she also likes the "Photos You Have Taken" one. Bikes she likes but would never ride out with me because in the main I don't want her to come out with me and my mates, or just me on my own come to that. We've talked about a trip bikepacking over the Santiago de Compostella route, but she'll never come it's just a nice thought.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 3:07 pm
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I'm told that I spend "too much time with those internet saddo's" apparently 🙄


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 3:29 pm
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****OS followed by a tut and an eye roll here.
I think she's becoming jealous....I now fib and say I'm reading the guardian. 😉


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 3:32 pm
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Mrs TJ doesn't understand why I would spend time on t'internet talking to folk and doesn't care that I do it. I hardly talk about the forum to her and I'm afraid she doesn't care enough about it to have come to an opinion


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 3:38 pm
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My Mrs is now very used to me meeting up with folk I've chatted to online and disappearing for several hours.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 3:39 pm
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My wife just refers to it as "Mumsnet for bikes"

Surprisingly astute to say she hasn't spent much time looking on here..


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 4:15 pm
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Mine has a(t least one) login...

She's only posted from that one once, not sure how much she [s]knows[/s] [s]lurks[/s] reads...


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 5:14 pm
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Mrs M refers to it as "Singlechap". She does not go anywhere near it but does acknowledge that it has provided some top steers on all sorts of topics


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 5:20 pm
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MrsMC resents it and the time I spend on it. You can see her urine boiling every time I start a sentence with ****OS.

She is more than happy to enjoy the good advice I have had off here over the years though.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:04 pm
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"How is the world of singletrack" is what i get asked regularly


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:09 pm
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Who knew so many of us are actually in relationships.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:16 pm
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It only bothers Mrs Funkmaster if she's talking to me whilst I'm on here. Other than that she likes a couple of the ongoing threads. Argh! My eye and Gifs you could watch all day been her favourites.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:30 pm
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We're both on here which was only slightly annoying when I wanted to post a 'what present for our 5th anniversary' earlier this week but had to actually use my imagination instead.


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:49 pm
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[quote=stevenmenmuir ]Who knew so many of us are actually [s]in relationships.[/s] fantasists


 
Posted : 26/10/2016 6:52 pm