http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Let's Buy One For CCE en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:20:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258334 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:49:04 +0000 I were right about that saddle 258334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of the many joys of CCE is its poetic aspect. Just as you can't see things in the dark if you look straight at them, sometimes you need to write your way around the outside of a subject in order to illuminate it.</p> <p>If this wasn't true we could just have one thread with one post reading 'We like bicycling'.</p> <p>I exhort all and sundry to carry on as unusual. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258330 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:17:06 +0000 Roibeard 258330@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Given I've been known to engage in many eccentric meanderings and thread drift, I think we can carry on...</p> <p>But perhaps I can only speak for myself!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258329 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:49:06 +0000 chdot 258329@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"In my opinion(s) you can carry on as per usual..."</p> <p>I'm sure you didn't just mean gembo(?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258322 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:00:37 +0000 Roibeard 258322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I'm overtly conservative, and have actively voted Conservative, but I think I'm actually only conservative in my theology and morality - my politics may be more Green!</p> <p>I'm probably just confused, but never offended by CCE.</p> <p>In my opinion(s) you can carry on as per usual...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258316 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:15:51 +0000 gembo 258316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is also maybe an unwritten rule that we are largely a white liberal intelligentsia and that being overtly Tory on here requires a thick skin?</p> <p>Well,that is just like my opinion, man and sorry if I have caused offense. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258303 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:26:10 +0000 NiallA 258303@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is kinda cool... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258285 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:31:31 +0000 chdot 258285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Excuse me"</p> <p>Certainly (I sense some defensiveness there).</p> <p>"these two rules are enough for us" seems so (I am glad to say).</p> <p>"Life is much more interesting if you don't always understand what is going on..." (As the Chinese saying goes.)</p> <p>I think we have 'lost' the odd person who couldn't cope with things that weren't cycling/Edinburgh and/or thread 'drift', but -</p> <p>OFFICIAL NOTE: 'complaining' about thread drifts/flights of fancy is NOT the same as wishing they didn't happen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258271 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:16:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 258271@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Actually the problem doesn't usually start with the person starting the thread!</em></p> <p>Problem?</p> <p>I think my dad must have seen @Dougal's cartoon some time in the mid-nineties. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258242 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:49:32 +0000 HankChief 258242@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wouldn't want it any other way. Life is much more interesting if you don't always understand what is going on... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258238 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:23:34 +0000 gembo 258238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excuse me, the rules are 2. No swearing and 1.No personal insults. </p> <p>One reason this forum has survived the early helmet debate wars and gone on so long is that these two rules are enough for us. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258235 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:14:09 +0000 chdot 258235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"especially if it is started by certain forumites"</p> <p>Who could you possibly mean...</p> <p>(Actually the problem doesn't usually start with the person starting the thread!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258233 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:04:40 +0000 gembo 258233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In the great McKenzie Crook comedy show detectorists he bags up ring pulls (tiger 1974) and sells them on eBay.</p> <p>Flavia are worthless if you have no Flavian coffee machine. OTOH they are worth 10p plus postage on ebay </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258231 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:02:37 +0000 HankChief 258231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I often have no idea what a thread is about especially if it is started by certain forumites ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258230 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:50:27 +0000 Arellcat 258230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>YouTube is blocked at my work. Until I got home, I had no idea whatsoever what this thread was about. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258228 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:45:13 +0000 chdot 258228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't think it would be THAT expensive!</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/EBS-InkJet-250-Ink-Jet-Printer/dp/B01MR46AZ0" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/EBS-InkJet-250-Ink-Jet-Printer/dp/B01MR46AZ0</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258225 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:34:55 +0000 gembo 258225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, I will give you 10 flavia for that. Flavia is a currency that gets you one coffee for one Flavian in the world of Flavian coffee machines. We are moving desks in the restack and I have been given ten Flavia </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258203 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:43:53 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 258203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258201 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:39:49 +0000 Cyclingmollie 258201@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd want it bundled with the Banksy fun pack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258166 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:44:33 +0000 dougal 258166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7d/05/14/7d0514b4b821c156d0097799501fcf5a.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258160 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:12:57 +0000 Frenchy 258160@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm fairly sure that "pronk stot sika muntjac" is a perfectly valid sentence where I'm from. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18054#post-258156 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:50:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 258156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let's have a whip round and buy one for the forum?</p> <p>Imagine all the infrastructure we could label....</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va3A7QcBlLE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va3A7QcBlLE</a> </p>