http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: #POP28 in the Evening News en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:27:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61291 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:48:43 +0000 LaidBack 61291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Budget and fudge it". ! </p> <p>This is an XTR example of top level cycle poetry in the best garage tradition. </p> <p>If it goes viral there'll be fun... and trouble! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61284 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:16:07 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 61284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly me rapping would be more Vanilla Ice than Eminem... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61283 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:14:46 +0000 Tom 61283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That was great Anth. I'd love to see it done as a rap. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61277 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:58:46 +0000 Dave 61277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"This is an old trick. I remember it was a popular technique with trolls on USENET back in the day."</em></p> <p>I like to think of myself as relatively handy in internet arguments, but I was baffled by the whole way that EEN comment section went. </p> <p>The guy with all the IDs just copy-pasting in random blabber, it made him look retarded (even trying to read his posts with my motoring hat on). He didn't just shoot himself in the foot, he blew off his entire leg and died of blood loss. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61261 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:53:48 +0000 crowriver 61261@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anth the Rhymer!</p> <p>I like it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61257 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:42:10 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 61257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:)</p> <p>I was just pleased at rhyming 'hypothecated'.</p> <p>Used to do this kind of thing all the time - trying to wind myself up into taking the plunge and going to a poetry slam. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61255 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:34:58 +0000 Roibeard 61255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Winter morns dawn crisp and there's a hint of a lisp<br /> from your front tyre<br /> as you pass through frozen leaf litter</em></p> <p>Beautifully evocative, Anth...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61224 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:08:58 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 61224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And now in poetry...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKyXFVvDho&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKyXFVvDho&amp;feature=youtu.be</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61195 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:20:28 +0000 Uberuce 61195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Your ID alter ego didn't say anything stupid or offensive* since it was all quotes pulled from here - and not even edited like he/they did to chdot's today. </p> <p>*excluding the people who find the idea of cyclists as having any right to the road offensive</p> <p>PM me if you'd like the screenshot, though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61136 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:45:21 +0000 LaidBack 61136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>uber</strong> <em> I didn't think to warn you of the ID theft, sorry. Just assumed the mods would take off and nuke the site from orbit.</em></p> <p>We seem to have got action. Thankfully I never even got time to see what was being posted... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61114 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:09:22 +0000 crowriver 61114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The EEN comments moderator seems to be busy removing the 'clone' comments from commenters with multiple and variable identities. Clearly some public spirited reader must have flagged up these comments as unsuitable due to their contravening the T&amp;Cs of web site use. Probably something to do with copyright infringement, at a guess. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61108 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:47:09 +0000 crowriver 61108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I've encountered that before from 10cc/Incandescent (and various other usernames). He'll now start trawling the internet for snippets about whoever he is attacking and cross posting them onto the EEN site in an attempt to intimidate the object of his upset. (in direct contravention of the site rules).</em></p> <p>This is an old trick. I remember it was a popular technique with trolls on USENET back in the day. There are some folk, once they get a bee in their bonnet, they don't give up until they feel they have 'won'...</p> <p>It can be fun bursting their bubble, but usually not worth the bother. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61107 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:46:13 +0000 Uberuce 61107@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Laidback. Durr. I didn't think to warn you of the ID theft, sorry. Just assumed the mods would take off and nuke the site from orbit.</p> <p>I presume it was the same person, called Pat R-something last I looked, who just pulled a quote from chdot here and edited it so it looked like he was advocating RLJing and pavement cycling.</p> <p>I think the nanotech devices you implanted in his brain are faulty. Send the pandas round to have a look, could you? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61097 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:30:02 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 61097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Do you mean 'some motorcyclists', or 'all motorcyclists', Anth? I must not be encountering the same ones. My experience is that most bikers are quite well behaved, even though many seem to take filtering to the same level as many cyclists.</em>"</p> <p>I meant that the commenter on EEN was suggesting that all cyclistsare asking for it and aren't properly trained and should be looking at motorcyclists as how they actually should act, suggesting that having passed a test and having a motorbike certified as safe for the road meant that there was never a bad motorcyclist ever.</p> <p>Needed the context of the 'discussion'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61095 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:23:28 +0000 mgj 61095@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>"Do you mean 'some motorcyclists', or 'all motorcyclists', Anth? I must not be encountering the same ones. My experience is that most bikers are quite well behaved, even though many seem to take filtering to the same level as many cyclists."</blockquote></p> <p>I failed my Part 2 25 years ago because I <strong>didn't </strong>filter past a queue of traffic. "Excessively cautious". Never sat it again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61074 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:53:24 +0000 LaidBack 61074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks to wp for the heads up on the LB identity being used. </p> <p>When you get people so willingly changing IDs then they devalue anything they were saying - assuming it was of any value in the first place. I reckon forumers are able to judge genuine posts from rogue ones. In the end even the CCE forum is a tiny sample of opinions although done in a measured way.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61053 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:48:42 +0000 Dave 61053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclists are more likely to hold a full driving licence than the general public are, so it's hard to see how a lack of training is really responsible for widespread behaviour? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61037 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:48:13 +0000 recombodna 61037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It looks like Wingpig's ( that right?) Holding up a large iPad....... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-61022 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:30:35 +0000 recombodna 61022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeepers! Some comments eh? All can say is I'm glad I have a full motorcycle license and car license with no points. That should give me the relevant training to cycle on the roads. The rest of you get it sorted eh?</p> <p>Anyway I'm glad made it to the shoot. My girls had a great time hanging out in the flower beds with the other kids and I managed to look like a total thug in the photo. No Helmet how dare I ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=3#post-60984 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:39:33 +0000 Uberuce 60984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He's gone to pandapanda now, although like him I screenshotted the EEN site when it was posted as laidback.</p> <p>Pandas are large quadrupeds, until fairly recently thought to be related most closely to racoons, although genetic evidence indicates they are within the bear family, albiet at some remove from the other ursidae. I don't think they have anything to do with Laidback's mind control schemes. But I better get thrown out of Edinburgh Zoo for shouting awkward questions at at Tian Tian and Yang Guang. Just to be sure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60980 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:15:11 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 60980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think we're watching a nervous breakdown...</p> <p>(of all the people to become as well...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60979 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:11:40 +0000 Uberuce 60979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seems that everyone's become Laidback over there. The only rational explanation is that he's been implanting nanotechnological devices into our bloodstreams via PY coffee, and activated them at Zazou, with the bonding process in our neurons only just completing tonight. Incredibly slick, how he engineered that terribly convenient excuse of 'being on a 'barge'' so the coffee was served in cafetieres - devices with wire mesh in them the perfect shape to transmit detailed radio instructions at the low power the '47 nanotech needs. Wake up sheeple! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60974 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:45:24 +0000 gembo 60974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Deep cover like in the movie The Departed? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60972 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:45:05 +0000 Smudge 60972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting, 10cc just magically changed to "Sun Tzu".<br /> Will the excitement never begin... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60970 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:43:04 +0000 chdot 60970@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tempting fate -</p> <p>"commenters from there are now reading and posting on here?"</p> <p>Don't think so. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60968 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:40:56 +0000 gembo 60968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Feels like the script of the departed (which was remake of hong kong movie was it Infernal Affairs?</p> <p>We have started reading and maybe now posting on the EEN website and the commenters from there are now reading and posting on here? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60967 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:39:09 +0000 Smudge 60967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@winpig, I've encountered that before from 10cc/Incandescent (and various other usernames). He'll now start trawling the internet for snippets about whoever he is attacking and cross posting them onto the EEN site in an attempt to intimidate the object of his upset. (in direct contravention of the site rules).</p> <p>Last time I noticed him doing it I pointed it out to the moderators and they pulled his posts but it clearly hasn't changed his attitude. (ie rules are for other people in his eyes). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60966 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:38:30 +0000 chdot 60966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"obviously no one except us <strike>is actually</strike> can read<strike>ing</strike>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60965 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:35:59 +0000 SRD 60965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>obviously no one except us is actually reading the comments anymore...which should tell us something... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5679&page=2#post-60964 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:35:21 +0000 chdot 60964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"well, maybe they'll figure out that we were all merely obeying the instructions of the EEN photographer!"</p> <p>Herding cats. </p>