After a rather depressing scan of the Axl Rose, Ricky Gervais threads and even Danny Hart and many others in the past, it strikes me that there aren’t many (or any) who are above criticism or fail to meet the high standards set by the keyboard heroes of STW.

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

Most of us liked your mum.
🙂

They seem to love roadies, but hate mountain bikers.

i hate everyone especially other bike riders.

Most of us liked your mum

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.

Isn’t he the one who rides with skill compensators?

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.

Perhaps there are lots of ex Melody Maker/NME staffers on here?

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.

**** 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.

Isn’t there even a problem with the language we use or points regarding what we don’t see.
If we have a differing point of view it’s seen as polarising.
Folks are only judged on the threads that they post on and not on the posts they don’t.

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

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?

No-one mentioned fawning, or for that matter, valid criticism, which is quite different 🙄

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.

or perhaps they just dont like these things?

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

or its just the fact they dont like these things and then you label them superior with no evidence?

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 ???

So they stated an opinion on the subject being discussed then…that is indeed odd

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

Did you think of following your own advice for this thread 😉

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.

I have but I wasn’t really talking about specifics (FWIW I always thought Axl Rose was a **** but a damn good rock star), just the general trend of people reaching a point of fame/popularity and then very rapidly becoming unpopular with no apparent reason or justification.

Bloody wuss…