http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: If it's dark, and no-one can see me... en Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13847#post-170923 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:36:01 +0000 Uberuce 170923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You know that phenomenon where, as your brain is Photoshopping the bejeebles out of 95% of what you're seeing, you see human faces or predatory animals that turn out to be random patterns in/of inanimate objects? </p> <p>Ever since my family took possession of a miniature Schnauzer that is a bona fide(bona Fido? *dragged off by Pun Police*) turding ninja, I've noticed that my brain often constructs that image, a little salt'n'pepper dog hunching over and looking furtive, from anything suitably monochrome.</p> <p>I wonder if these people suffer from this. I say suffer, but it takes a fraction of a second to re-examine the monochrome thing and see it isn't a monocrimping dug. Anyway, it's a thing my subconscious has apparently become softwired to look out for. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13847#post-170866 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:32:42 +0000 paddyirish 170866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@daveC,</p> <p>likewise- good to meet you.</p> <p>If they glow in the dark, all they'd need would be helmets and they'd be bona fide "users" of the path... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13847#post-170858 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:25:32 +0000 DaveC 170858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Passd two silly ladies walking along NEPN this morning as their 3 dogs just wandered around in the way of everyone. Can we get cowcatchers for bikes?</p> <p>@PaddyIrish, do they glow in the dark? as that stretch is radioactive these days. Nice to meet you lastnight btw. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13847#post-170846 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:00:33 +0000 threefromleith 170846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>NEPN dog-walkers like to walk a good distance ahead of their dogs, and deliberately never once look round to check what it's doing. They then claim they didn't see it doing anything when you alert them to what it just laid! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13847#post-170752 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:39:09 +0000 paddyirish 170752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...can I pretend that I haven't seen my dog poo on the path?</p> <p>So ask a lot of dog-owners in Fife...</p> <p>I have been having to do a lot of Ninja turd-dodging on the Coast path from St Davids to Inverkeithing - at least a dozen in less than half a mile. Never seems to be a problem in summer as they don't seem to appear in daylight.</p> <p>Anyone else noticed the same problem in their area? </p>