http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Are you smug? en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:29:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85732 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:20:22 +0000 ruggtomcat 85732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah there is a reason he can climb so well on the bent... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85695 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:32:34 +0000 Uberuce 85695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Up until Sunday I was smug about my waistline, which I declare pretty tidy for a 34-year old of my BMI, until LaidBack had to change T-shirt on the way back from East Fortune. </p> <p><strong>Ripped</strong>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85689 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:22:20 +0000 kaputnik 85689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Got something to be smug about when you're cruising through a pile of traffic going nowhere... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85668 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:45:24 +0000 gembo 85668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Embrace your inner smugness or if you don't like the fact that we are all smug as a bug in a rug just call it smee.</p> <p>Why not be smee, we get there in good time, we enjoy the exercise if it rains we buy some kit, if it's windy we take a different route, if we are not barred we buy another bike to work bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85662 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:54:26 +0000 crowriver 85662@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes I am. Insufferably so. </p> <p>At least I reckon that's what a fair few drivers think... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85639 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:36:21 +0000 sallyhinch 85639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Smug's one of those words you only apply to other peope: I am happy, you are self-satisfied, they are smug. </p> <p>I do think that the drivers who accuse cyclists of being smug are usually the ones that feel a grain of guilt about the amount of unnecessary driving they do, and project that onto the cyclist who they feel must be disapproving of them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85635 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:32:37 +0000 Min 85635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>All that's required is for a driver (or hack journalist) to feel offended at how satisfied you seem with cycling, which is easy to suppose, and bang! </p> <p></em></p> <p>Yes. I don't know how you would know that it is offensive to be satisfied about something. Unless it is something that other people dissaprove of. Like cycling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85634 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:27:28 +0000 amir 85634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder if those who buy a car as a status symbol want to feel smug. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85633 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:23:12 +0000 Dave 85633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclists are obviously not smug... to us. But look carefully at the definition and you'll see that it's quite subjective. All that's required is for a driver (or hack journalist) to feel offended at how satisfied you seem with cycling, which is easy to suppose, and bang! </p> <p>You're smug. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85631 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:56:53 +0000 tammytroot 85631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have only ever felt smug on a bike once, and that was when a boy racer, blowing his horn, roared past me and the car in front. Car in front was a police car. They pulled him over, and as I pootled past were having a "word".<br /> Most of the time I am happy on my bike. Not smug. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8514#post-85630 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:30:55 +0000 amir 85630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is something that cyclist haters rant about, but are we?</p> <p>Most of the time I feel relaxed and happy, puffed out, frustrated (with bad driving) or scared but not smug really.</p> <p>Does it just reflect guilt on the part of the ranter rather than saying anything about the rantee? A definition of smug "Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent". </p> <p>Who else gets called smug:<br /> - the greens<br /> - David Cameron<br /> - Canada (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-25/is-canada-too-smug-about-its-economic-future" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-25/is-canada-too-smug-about-its-economic-future</a>)</p> <p>According to Google searches, the interest in "smug" is increasing:<br /> <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/8023328861_7a3c0eaa01_n.jpg"> </p>