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Live blog: Luke Rowe leaves Twitter after accusation of making white supremacist sign; Caleb Ewan wins Giro stage in Fausto Coppi's home town; Olympic triathlete Stuart Hayes hit by deer in Richmond Park; Lord Sugar gets a new e-bike + more

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22 May 2019, 15:36
Giro d'Italia Stage 11: Caleb Ewan wins in Fausto Coppi's home town

Caleb Ewan of Lotto-Soudal has won Stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia in Novi Ligure today, the last but one sprint stage of this year’s edition, with the race heading into the Alps tomorrow. It’s the Australian’s second stage win of this year’s race. Valerio Conti of UAE Team Emirates retains the overall lead.

As yesterday the break – today comprising three home riders, each representing one of the Italian UCI Professional Continental teams with wild card invitations to the race – was swept up early, with the catch made with 25 kilometres remaining of the 221-kilometre stage from Carpi.

For the second day running, it was a pan-flat stage, today running from west to east along the Po Valley, with the final 40 or so kilometres taking in roads raced in the early part of Milan-San Remo as the peloton heads towards the Passo del Turchino and, beyond it, the Ligurian Coast.

That race was won three times by Fausto Coppi, whose home town of Novi Ligure provided the stage finish today and il Campionissimo will also be remembered tomorrow by a stage that starts and finishes in the same two towns – Cuneo and Pinerolo – as the stage he won by almost 12 minutes after a solo break on his way to winning the 1949 Giro.

Result and reaction to follow.

22 May 2019, 15:12
Weird flex but ok, Mario...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nuova grafica ...vi piace ?

A post shared by Mario Cipollini (@mario_cipollini) on

Sram Red AXS, Campag Bora wheels, in the small ring?? We were initially surprised and puzzled to see Sram's 12 speed groupset on a Campagnolo wheelset, but it appears there is already an XDR freehub for Campag and Fulcrum wheels following a quick interweb search. 

22 May 2019, 14:37
Giro latest - sprinters are lining up

There's around 35km to go, and a three man breakaway is about a minute ahead. One of those, Marco Frapporti, has already completed over 800km just in breakaways so far over the opening 11 stages. 

22 May 2019, 14:11
The next time someone tells you cycle lanes are a waste of money...

Show them this. 

22 May 2019, 12:23
If cyclists were tortoises and drivers were hares...
22 May 2019, 10:17
Everybody loves a sequel…

 … Especially Thomas de Gendt at the Giro. Belt 'n' braces though with that and his SRM PC8

22 May 2019, 10:05
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It's not quite RIP for rim brake bikes...

...but their days might be numbered. We've had a look at the market to see what your choices are if you don't want disc brake and prefer rim brakes, and well there are still lots of options but fewer than you might imagine. 

See the article here.

22 May 2019, 08:14
Luke Rowe leaves Twitter after being called a white supremacist...
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Ever since Team Sky began winning bike races, their riders have come in for a lot of abuse on Twitter. It seems enough is enough for Welshman Luke Rowe who has waved goodbye to the trolls after being accused of being a white supremacist.

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Rowe was pictured with on the Team Ineos camper van with his teammates. The gesture that he's making with his left hand is a classic schoolboy prank where anyone caught looking at it got a punch on the arm. This prank, known as the circle game, has been around since the 80s and featured on Malcolm in the Middle.

The 'OK' gesture as it's commonly known hit headlines after users of forum 4chan started using it on social media. "The Boston Globe reported that users on 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board were instructed in February 2017 to 'flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy,' as part of a campaign dubbed 'Operation O-KKK'".

So, is Luke Rowe a white supremacist? No.

22 May 2019, 07:58
Deery me... Olympian Stuart Hayes hit by deer in Richmond Park

Being taken out by a deer while cycling is the stuff of nightmares, and last night the latest victim was former pro triathlete and coach Stuart Hayes. Two hours ago he updated his Twitter followers saying he's waiting for a CT scan, but hopefully he will make a speedy recovery. 

Hayes competed in the London 2012 Olympics, where he played a domestique roll on the swim and bike legs to pave the way for Alistair Brownlee to take the gold medal. He is now a coach at Team Dillon coaching with his wife Michelle Dillon, also a former pro.  

22 May 2019, 07:41
Lord Sugar is all fired up to be riding his new Corratec e-bike

After flirting with high-end Pinarellos (before moaning about being stuck in traffic after taking delivery of his last one because of Cycling Superhighways, apparently) it seems Lord Sugar has embraced the motor on his new ride. 

22 May 2019, 07:27
Wearing the Maglia Rosa < getting to sign your own Panini sticker

There's a Panini sticker book for the Giro this year, and it looks like signing them is becoming part and parcel of the post-stage press conferences. 

Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.  

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mattsccm | 4 years ago
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I reckon that Rowe was either flicking a bogey or about to do rabbit ears on his mate in front.

The dimwit above having a go at him is just a self interested attention seeker. "he"  can't even express himself without swearing in public , an indication of low intellect and is obviously one of those people who feel that being nasty is being clever. Reminds me of the 7 year olds I teach. 

use of any thing by anyone is totally irrelevant if it if its not being used by another person for that same purpose. 

I guess that everytime I signal a score of zero with a clenched fist I am also a supporter of Malcolm X. 

Click bait as expected of RoadCC and idiots respond.:)

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burtthebike | 4 years ago
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I think it's time that us cyclists appropriated a sign or two.  Has the raised fist been taken yet?

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Rick_Rude replied to burtthebike | 4 years ago
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burtthebike wrote:

I think it's time that us cyclists appropriated a sign or two.  Has the raised fist been taken yet?

The only thing left for cyclists to appropriate is the exhaust noise.

Fight the horsepower!

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brooksby replied to burtthebike | 4 years ago
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burtthebike wrote:

I think it's time that us cyclists appropriated a sign or two.  Has the raised fist been taken yet?

Black Panthers / black power, I think...

What about the raised middle finger? 

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Rick_Rude | 4 years ago
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And don't forget the thumbs up nazis. Yes, you thought thumbs up was innocent, but no more, you nazi filth.

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Rick_Rude | 4 years ago
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Look at this damn nazi...

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Judge dreadful | 4 years ago
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Luke Rowe tries to hoop people, gets accused of being a white supremacist. No he isn’t, childish, and about 10 years behind the times, maybe. 

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brooksby | 4 years ago
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I did some googling on that hand gesture thing, and there are so many differing opinions it's just insane.

Some articles claim it was already in use as alt-right code *before* the 4chan post saying hey let's make up a story so the msm look stupid (as a smokescreen).

Others reckon the 4chan thing is genuine and was the start of it, but that the alt-right never seriously use the symbol and have left it out there just to screw with people.

And others say the 4chan thing is genuine, that it started it and that the alt-right do genuinely use it as a secret handshake.

 The whole thing kinda pi$$es me off, honestly.

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Organon | 4 years ago
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Who the **** reads 4chan?

 

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hawkinspeter replied to Organon | 4 years ago
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Organon wrote:

Who the **** reads 4chan?

Not me though that's more of a political protest against their choice of space cargo:

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-b-baby-squirrels-rocket-launch/

 

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ktache | 4 years ago
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Fluffy, I have ridden over Hungerford common, it is on the NCN4 (and as I discovered yesterday EuroVelo2) I was both charmed and suprised to see roaming cattle.  It was a lovely bit of the world.  Damn those speeding motorists.

I'm guessing that the New Forest people will have to do the same thing with their ponies, after they sort out their problems with those pesky cyclists.

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Mungecrundle | 4 years ago
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The "OK" hand gesture is used in scuba diving where the thumbs up signal means something entirely different and potentially dangerous if you have a misunderstanding.

Answer is not to let the facists appropriate our signs and symbols. I hated it when the BNP appropriated the Union Jack and there was a time when displaying our own national flag was almost considered an act of racism. Fortunately the 2012 Olympics finally put paid to that stupidity and it was cool to wear the flag again. 

This "OK" thing is the fault of the stupid MSM. Maybe there should be a show of strength by high profile sports people and celebrities to reclaim it, rather than letting the wannabe nazis have it.

White supremacists can have this sign from me.

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PRSboy | 4 years ago
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Deer should have number plates, insurance and wear hi-viz.

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to PRSboy | 4 years ago
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PRSboy wrote:

Deer should have number plates, insurance and wear hi-viz.

 

Are you a 'civic leader'?

 

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/cows-could-fitted-lights-hi-613...

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Biscuitfrisky | 4 years ago
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"Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing"

 

that makes no sense, he is the oppersite to what you describe because he doesn't realise that symbol has been appropriated in the way it has.

As a membase beginer (basically the begining of meme-times) even i didn't know the symbol had been appropriated like that, and your right, don't go to 8Chan/4Chan and shame on the media being tards and not doing any actual fact based investiagtion on claims like this with out evidence.

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ktache | 4 years ago
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Anyone remember Fox news accusing the Obamas of performing a "terrorist fist bump"?

 

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ktache | 4 years ago
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From a quick check, rkemb, I understand that is the case, no wonder the nasty fascists use it to acknowledge each other.

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brooksby | 4 years ago
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Luke Rowe leaves Twitter after being called a white supremacist...

Am I naive, in that I would use that as either "OK" or "Be seeing you!" (depending on the company)?  I wouldn't have known for a second that it was a white power symbol...

(And, my kids do the hitting-each-other-on-the-arm thing too, but I'd never heard of that before either).

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rkemb replied to brooksby | 4 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

I wouldn't have known for a second that it was a white power symbol...

It's also American Sign Language for "arsehole".

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zanf replied to brooksby | 4 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Am I naive, in that I would use that as either "OK" or "Be seeing you!" (depending on the company)?  I wouldn't have known for a second that it was a white power symbol...

Thats what it is/was (meaning 'ok') but....

The shitposting, basement dwelling, unwashed, incel edgelords that reside on some of the festering arsehole places of the internet (4chan, 8chan.... really, dont go there) thought it would be funny to appropriate certain symbols and then post everywhere that it is a symbol of white supremacy / far right movements.

The press then picked up on it and instead of saying "oh look, the worst people in society are trying to bait us into something", they instead run with it and next thing you know, all these various previously innocuous things are associated with the far right.

Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing. Shit hits fan.

For those that say that its still an innocuous thing, just remember that the swastika and the sauwastika were (and still are) Indian symbols of good luck but were appropriated and now mean something else.

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to zanf | 4 years ago
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zanf wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Am I naive, in that I would use that as either "OK" or "Be seeing you!" (depending on the company)?  I wouldn't have known for a second that it was a white power symbol...

Thats what it is/was (meaning 'ok') but....

The shitposting, basement dwelling, unwashed, incel edgelords that reside on some of the festering arsehole places of the internet (4chan, 8chan.... really, dont go there) thought it would be funny to appropriate certain symbols and then post everywhere that it is a symbol of white supremacy / far right movements.

The press then picked up on it and instead of saying "oh look, the worst people in society are trying to bait us into something", they instead run with it and next thing you know, all these various previously innocuous things are associated with the far right.

Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing. Shit hits fan.

For those that say that its still an innocuous thing, just remember that the swastika and the sauwastika were (and still are) Indian symbols of good luck but were appropriated and now mean something else.

 

Damn, that's irritating behaviour all-round.

Can it not somehow be put about that MAGA is a secret code for expressing support for the Islamification of the west?

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zanf replied to FluffyKittenofTindalos | 4 years ago
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FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

Damn, that's irritating behaviour all-round.

Can it not somehow be put about that MAGA is a secret code for expressing support for the Islamification of the west?

What MAGA should be associated with is... look up Jeffery Epstein, who his friends are, who got him a really good plea deal and who that person works for now and who said he was '...a great guy. The bestest guy' (probably).

If Luke Rowe didnt know what he was doing and what it has come to mean, then he needs to get up to  speed really fucking quickly.

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to zanf | 4 years ago
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zanf wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

Damn, that's irritating behaviour all-round.

Can it not somehow be put about that MAGA is a secret code for expressing support for the Islamification of the west?

What MAGA should be associated with is... look up Jeffery Epstein, who his friends are, who got him a really good plea deal and who that person works for now and who said he was '...a great guy. The bestest guy' (probably).

If Luke Rowe didnt know what he was doing and what it has come to mean, then he needs to get up to  speed really fucking quickly.

 

God, the US system is so corrupt, and it's not just Trump.

 

I'm not sure about "what it has come to mean", though.  Should the alt-right be allowed to just take an existing symbol for themselves?

 

  There's something quite devious about the way the right employ mock-irony and faux-trolling for plausible deniability.  This quasi-appropriation of an existing inoccuous gesture seems entirely typical.  Sow confusion and dischord among those who don't in fact support you, while being able to signal to your own, at the same time as acting innocent.

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srchar replied to zanf | 4 years ago
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zanf wrote:

Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing. Shit hits fan.

For those that say that its still an innocuous thing, just remember that the swastika and the sauwastika were (and still are) Indian symbols of good luck but were appropriated and now mean something else.

Very unfair both on Luke Rowe and on young people.  Given the comments on this article, he's not the only person who had no idea that the OK/zero/Don'tLookGame hand signal had been appropriated by internet-dwelling morons. By simply leaving Twitter and not reacting, I think he's actually shown maturity. How many people who live in the real world actually frequent 4chan (which I've heard of) and 8chan (which I haven't) anyway?  It's going to be awkward next time I go diving...

By the way, you'll see swastikas of various designs throughout South and Southeast Asia, where its appropriation by the Nazis is either ignored or not widely known; it continues to be used with its original meaning, same as Luke Rowe was doing here, without anyone being accused of supporting Hitler.

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burtthebike replied to srchar | 4 years ago
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srchar wrote:

Very unfair both on Luke Rowe and on young people.  Given the comments on this article, he's not the only person who had no idea that the OK/zero/Don'tLookGame hand signal had been appropriated by internet-dwelling morons. By simply leaving Twitter and not reacting, I think he's actually shown maturity. How many people who live in the real world actually frequent 4chan (which I've heard of) and 8chan (which I haven't) anyway?  It's going to be awkward next time I go diving...

All very true, but there has always been a group of people who have to be offended at something, even if it is innocuous to most people.  Unless it is clearly a deliberate attempt to be fascist, racist, or whatever -ist, then relax, take a breath and tell yourself it really doesn't matter compared to the rest of the shit we have to deal with every day.

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Nick W replied to zanf | 4 years ago
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zanf wrote:

Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing. Shit hits fan.

For those that say that its still an innocuous thing, just remember that the swastika and the sauwastika were (and still are) Indian symbols of good luck but were appropriated and now mean something else.

I must also be a donkey brained fuckwith for not knowing some internet dwelling right wingers have appropriated a hand sign that's in common usage and still has other innocuous meaning to the vast majority of the rest of the western world's population.

In fact, the more this donkey brained fuckwith thinks about it, the more I think the biggest donkey brained fuckwits are those people who a) allow rightwing donkey brained fuckwits to appropriate things from them and suck them into being offended b) thinks everyone else who doesn't even know or care about these right wing idiots is a donkey brained fuckwit.

They may have appropriated the sign from you, but they haven't appropriated it from me thanks all the same. Right wing internet dwellers are currently drinking beer and laughing that internet snowflakes have been successfully swayed into being offended by someone using this sign.

and Luke Rowe is probably more interested in riding his bike than learning about right wingers approriating a  wanking gesture.

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Biscuitfrisky replied to Nick W | 4 years ago
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Nick W wrote:

zanf wrote:

Then you have donkey-brained fuckwits like Luke Rowe, who being one of millions of dumb meme consuming children who grew up on the internet, think its really funny to do this in photos without realising exactly what it is he is doing. Shit hits fan.

For those that say that its still an innocuous thing, just remember that the swastika and the sauwastika were (and still are) Indian symbols of good luck but were appropriated and now mean something else.

I must also be a donkey brained fuckwith for not knowing some internet dwelling right wingers have appropriated a hand sign that's in common usage and still has other innocuous meaning to the vast majority of the rest of the western world's population.

In fact, the more this donkey brained fuckwith thinks about it, the more I think the biggest donkey brained fuckwits are those people who a) allow rightwing donkey brained fuckwits to appropriate things from them and suck them into being offended b) thinks everyone else who doesn't even know or care about these right wing idiots is a donkey brained fuckwit.

They may have appropriated the sign from you, but they haven't appropriated it from me thanks all the same. Right wing internet dwellers are currently drinking beer and laughing that internet snowflakes have been successfully swayed into being offended by someone using this sign.

and Luke Rowe is probably more interested in riding his bike than learning about right wingers approriating a  wanking gesture.

 

this guy right  here, gets it.

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alansmurphy | 4 years ago
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My front spokes decapitated a butterfly over the weekend, heart breaking times!

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to alansmurphy | 4 years ago
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alansmurphy wrote:

My front spokes decapitated a butterfly over the weekend, heart breaking times!

 

So the answer to Alexander Pope's question is 'alanmurphy'.  Finally cleared that one up!

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nowasps replied to FluffyKittenofTindalos | 4 years ago
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FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

alansmurphy wrote:

My front spokes decapitated a butterfly over the weekend, heart breaking times!

 

So the answer to Alexander Pope's question is 'alanmurphy'.  Finally cleared that one up!

 

Brilliant.

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