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April 20, 2018 at 12:25 am #28392
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Ok so this is kind of in jest and a poke at Road CC for including some very tenuous links to ‘cyclists’ in their articles, this is pretty horrible stuff, arrested for hanging out and literally doing nothing to justify what happened.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/17/us/philadelphia-starbucks-911-call/index.html
These noddy hat wearing wankers are no cycling bretheren I want to ever be associated with, they give all cyclists a bad name …
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felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
felixcat
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?
Poe’s Law
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.”
I wonder if anybody noticed that you were being “ironic”? I cannot detect any hint.
hawkinspeter
simonmb wrote:When did irony die?Was it when Trump got elected?
simonmb
felixcat wrote:simonmb wrote:I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.The Soviets had a great deal to do with winning the “Great Patriotic War”, and there are different opinions on the American effect on our language. You might also find other countries don’t think the USA made them more peaceful. The Vietnamese still suffering from Agent Orange chemical warfare, or the Iranians living in Falluja burnt by the evil white phosphorus ( more WMD) did not feel very safe. Credit where it is due. In many of those years many people were living in dread of Mutual Assured Destruction.
When did irony die?
hawkinspeter
felixcat wrote:simonmb wrote:I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.The Soviets had a great deal to do with winning the “Great Patriotic War”, and there are different opinions on the American effect on our language. You might also find other countries don’t think the USA made them more peaceful. The Vietnamese still suffering from Agent Orange chemical warfare, or the Iranians living in Falluja burnt by the evil white phosphorus ( more WMD) did not feel very safe. Credit where it is due. In many of those years many people were living in dread of Mutual Assured Destruction.
Let’s not forget that the U.S. is the only country to use nuclear bombs on civilians.
simonmb
Canyon48 wrote:simonmb wrote:I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.Uhr… none of that is exactly true… But that’s an entirely different topic of discussion.
Uhr. None of it is at all true (even though they’ll claim them). That was my point.
Canyon48
I suspect things are about to
I suspect things are about to get interesting on this thread!
felixcat
simonmb wrote:I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.The Soviets had a great deal to do with winning the “Great Patriotic War”, and there are different opinions on the American effect on our language. You might also find other countries don’t think the USA made them more peaceful. The Vietnamese still suffering from Agent Orange chemical warfare, or the Iraqis living in Falluja burnt by the evil white phosphorus ( more WMD) did not feel very safe. Credit where it is due. In many of those years many people were living in dread of Mutual Assured Destruction.
Canyon48
simonmb wrote:I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.Uhr… none of that is exactly true… But that’s an entirely different topic of discussion.
hawkinspeter
Leviathan wrote:hawkinspeter wrote:…a bloke in Walmart who couldn’t understand the word “battery”.Perhaps if you had aksd for some ‘badderies.’
After a minute or two of describing removable electric power in little cylinders, he eventually realised “oh, badderies!” and showed us where they were. Two nations torn asunder by a common language.
simonmb
I think you’re being a bit
I think you’re being a bit harsh on our American cousins. After all, they won the Second World War for us, invented the internet, improved our outdated English language, and have made the world a much safer place for the past 60 years. Credit where it’s due, credit where it’s due.
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