Clever members......

[ringo]

SR... I knew that one was there for the taking!

 

[suburbanreuben]

SR... I knew that one was there for the taking!

Take me anywhere it's jolly and gay.
Enough of these misery guts...

 

[incorrigible]

I assume you are referencing particular threads rojo and I am sure baiting does happen but I also think some people are simply misunderstood. I have seem a few threads where the o.p. is clearly having a mess around nut veryfew people get it.

I'm glad you understand, lewis1641.

I can’t help but think this thread is referring to me and my “Old Rusty Bike” ruse.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... sc&start=0

Have you ever done something you thought was funny at the time, and then regretted it later after you realized that you had caused someone a lot of anger? Only problem is that I can’t undo it once it’s done, so the best I could do was to apologize after I realized that I had angered at least one person, and take note not to be quite so sarcastic in the future.

It was not my intent to cause anger. Just the opposite, in fact; I was only looking to have some fun and maybe provide a few laughs. Most people “got it” and, by their posts, I could tell they were having a laugh as well.

I get a lot of enjoyment from RB, and I’m grateful that I am able to learn so much from it, and I’d hate to think that I may have alienated (no pun intended) myself from this crowd by posting that ruse. It seems that sometimes in life if you do wrong once, then you’re labeled forever, and I hope that’s not the case here.

It reminds me of the story of my friend Sam (if you’re reading this and your name just happens to be Sam, I promise you it’s purely coincidence and has nothing to do with you).

Sam was a wealthy man and had done well for himself. While I was visiting him one day, he invited me out to his balcony overlooking the harbor and he said “Do you see all those boats in the harbor? How many boats do you see?”, but before I could answer, he said “I’ll tell you, a hundred! And did you know that I built 95 of those boats? But…, do they call me Sam the Boat Builder? No!”

Then he pointed to the hillside overlooking the harbor and he said ”Do you see all those houses out there? Do you know how many houses there are out there?”, but before I could answer, he said “I’ll tell you, 200! And of those 200 houses, I built 175 of those houses! 175! BUT…, do they call me Sam the House Builder? NO!”

Then he pointed to one of the buildings and he said “Do you see that building over there?”, but before I could answer, he said “It’s the Library. It has 400 books, and of those 400, I wrote 350 of those books, BUT…, do they call me Sam the Book Writer? NO!”

Then he sighed and said “I screw just ONE goat……..”
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So, long story short, over the past couple of years I've made a few friends on this website, bought and sold a few really cool bikes, and gotten a lot of enjoyment out of RB,..........BUT, because of my “Old Rusty Bike” transgression identified above, I’ll understand completely if any of you RBers want to refer to me as the Goat F***er.

Oh well, I guess it could be worse...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFf0ysgNiM

 

[greenstiles]

LOL above clip..

and ringo..

 

[rojo]

Interesting points and views

Hadn't seen your thread incorrigible

 

[hamster]

 

[lewis1641]

@ incorrigible the goat shagger. Time for a new user name!

 

[highlandsflyer]

We a disparate lot rich and poor challenged and unchallenged the only thing we have in common is a liking for old bikes, but even with that there is snobbery involved so we are very dissimilar, but our challenge if we desire communication is to communicate, but a pity some it seems it is sport to them to do their best to wind others up. Whether this is an ego polishing exercise or what I don't know, but there are many on here who are worthy of communication and a few who are not. There is of course those who are in between, the enigmas who I personally withhold judgement on until I know better, but the bad eggs I have no wish at all to meet and with some it is highly unlikely given their location.

As to my past, I am constantly aware my past is not good, so I use my past to try to be better as it is I try to learn by my mistakes as my interest is being the best I can be to myself and others, others that are worthy of civil communication that is.

Stop being so up yourself.

You are no more than anyone else, and no one is worse or better than you.

Stop using this forum as your blog of misery and stop pretending you are being oppressed here.

Jeez.

highlandsflyer, sometimes I really don't get you at all - you're often the first to whinge about people supposedly going ad hominem, but overnight you seem to have gone out of your way to repeatedly have a pop at silverclaws.

I get some people probably don't like him, maybe find him tedious, and dislike the types of things he posts - but then one man's tedious is another's empathy.

If you were shooting for moral high-ground, you failed spectactularly, and maybe should take a moment to consider if you're not also behaving in a similar fashion to what you want to seemingly protest about.

Whether people court negative responses, or otherwise, one thing is constant - redundant discussion fails on lack of interest. Seeing those that purport to be strong, in control, and seemingly psychologically balanced, foisting their "zero-defect" perspective on the discussions of others, is merely a baby-step away from clique-ism, elitism and bullying.

And that's not me being over-dramatic. If you thought what certain members were saying is either (or all of) baiting, neediness, pointless waffle, purely argumentative, all the dissenters need do for it to die, being to ignore it - yet many choose not to, but go the other way with the finger pointing and thinly veiled derision. Here's a question - who's that really for?

Bite me.

 

[john]

This didn't need a bump.

Locked.