Silly commuting racing

DonDaddyD

Who wrote the correct dictionary, should I use a s or a z when spelling beers/beerz!??

What the hell happened to SCR!!!

F*cking pedants will you not stop until you destroy everything!!!!!

:evil:

Greg T

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

Clever Pun

nothing this morning yet managed an average of 18.2... which was nice

Last night I led a roadie and a hybrid up beckenham hill (I'm on a fixed) I gurned my way up there thinking I'll have dropped them both and thought of the tale of glory and destruction, I have a quick look and the roadie is right on my tail... bugger.... he'd drafted me for ages coming to that. I'd given him my wheel in fairness as it was windy and he looked like he might die

itboffin

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

You're touching yourself now aren't you you dirty old man :P

Greg T

itboffin wrote:

You're touching yourself now aren't you you dirty old man :P

Visualise what you please.

I know I do. hmmmmmmm

itboffin

Greg T wrote:

itboffin wrote:

You're touching yourself now aren't you you dirty old man :P

Visualise what you please.

I know I do. hmmmmmmm

Too late i'm already naked...

Must get some blinds for my office :roll:

DonDaddyD

OH.MY.GOD!!!

Someone get Biondino to throw holy water on these two.

And tell him LiTs started it... Oh, there goes my imagination....

jimjamyaharr

im frightend

itboffin

jimjamyaharr wrote:

im frightend

Whooohahahaha :twisted:

jimjamyaharr

please dont make that noise you scary naked man hahaha

itboffin

jimjamyaharr wrote:

please dont make that noise you scary naked man hahaha

You should see the look on the rest of the teams faces :shock:

anywooo

On this mornings commute I really punished myself now i'm sitting in the office with that weird painful but pleasurable sore legs.

does anyone else enjoy that feeling?

Bassjunkieuk

itboffin wrote:

jimjamyaharr wrote:

please dont make that noise you scary naked man hahaha

You should see the look on the rest of the teams faces :shock:

anywooo

On this mornings commute I really punished myself now i'm sitting in the office with that weird painful but pleasurable sore legs.

does anyone else enjoy that feeling?

I see that as a sign whatever exercise I'm doing is working. I was utterly disappointed that my arms felt so "normal" yesterday after my enthusiastic white water rafting session on Tuesday. Seems I could have given it a LOT more :twisted:

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

He likes a nice bit of assonance, this one.

Kieran_Burns

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

He likes a nice bit of assonance, this one.

Did anyone just hear an explosion?

il_principe

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

He likes a nice bit of assonance, this one.

Look here fellas - a cunning linguist.

Gazzaputt

Please stand up if it was you who tried to out sprint me down Moorgate tonight about 5.40

You were on some kind of hybrid I was on a white Focus.

Must be someone here as you defo saw me as an excellent scalp.

fossyant

Has a tussle with a guy on a hybrid this morning - me on the 74" fixed....

Heading into Manchester, a good 6 miles out, A34..... Spotted him as I got onto the road, and he jumped a set of lights..oh.... so it starts... passed this bloke, pulled up at lights, he'd jump.... and off we go... Last set on dual carriageway, and he's off again - pre jumps, I've got to clip in and power up.... then a 'fixie' (ps mine is a proper fixed road bike - not a trendy thing) jumps from a side road...... nearly ran into him...... he then sits on my wheel for 200 yards - van cuts me off, so I slam on - thinking fixie up my ass (two brakes and leg power on mine)....anyway he shoots right past van and carries on straight..........I turn left.... I'd now put some distance into the hybrid rider, and stopped at another set of lights - spotted a mate crossing the junction - quick chat (over 100 yards) as we were waiting for the ped crossing... zoom...... off the hybrid goes again.... FFS, another 3 jumps and I get within 50 yards of him and he right turns...git....

Total idiot - not seen one this bad in Manc land - looked respectable, but jumped virtually every set of lights.....

blu3cat

no action for me, although was pootling behind a with panniers on Colliers Wood High street (about 100 m to my turning off) and we were both whizzed past by a vintage Raleigh FG/SS conversion who then stopped at a Red light. Meanwhile the panniered up slow coach decided to use his feet to manouvre his bike between the car that has stopped at said red light and the FG/SSer and red light jump (not enough room to cycle through).

Genius :roll:

cjcp

Lots of roadies tonight, but not a great deal of action due to traffic lights and traffic.

Came across two different kinds of riders tonight though during the ride around Richmond Park.

Firstly, a chap who was happy to sit behind me and and then overtook without acknowledging the tow. :?

Then, half way around the next lap, a chap from Twickenham CC asks if he can sit in behind me from Roehampton up to Richmond Hill. Thereafter, we have a very pleasant chat from Richmond Gate to Ham Gate. Says thanks for the tow. Very polite.

jimmypippa

saw a trevrep on a CX bike on my way in...

far above me in the food chain, and "cruising"

A proper scalp, which is rare.

20mph average including stops. Slight tailwind, I think.

greg66_tri_v2.0

lost_in_thought wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

As Noah Webster said:

"In the singularity of spelling certain words, I am authorized by Sidney, Clarendon, Middleton, Blackstone, Ash and other eminent writers, whose authority being supported by good principles and conveniences deemed superior to that of Johnson, whose pedantry has corrupted the purity of our language, and whose principles would in time destroy all agreement between the spelling and pronunciation of words."

Let's get our facts straight here... Johnson was the Brit, Webster was the yank. Webster criticised Johnson's dictionary upon its export to the US, decades after it was first published. And he would, they were feeling pretty independent at the time! Also, Webster updated the dictionary some 80 years after its publication... you'd expect it to have changed a little. So, Webster calling Johnson a pedant for spelling 'old' 'olde' decades earlier is a little rich.

The definitive dictionary, the Oxford (yes, that's Oxford, you light blues) English Dictionary, which was first published 150 years later, followed the same format as Johnson's and kept about 1800 of his definitions. Spellings were updated, they would be, but he can't have been that far off the mark.

Yes, you're right, I have not a great deal to do today!

Tabs had more important things to do than make lists.

Such as state laws of motion (that would put men on the moon) and split the atom.

Lists schmists.

One of the best things about the the OED (which is, I admit, an export that simply crushes all pretenders who dare stand before it) is the cardinal rule it imposed on contributors: never define something by what it doesn't mean; define it by what it does mean. An exemplary discipline.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Il Principe wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

we're more liberal with our sibiliants over this side of the pond.

Well I know I certainly am.

I love it when she talks dirty

He likes a nice bit of assonance, this one.

Look here fellas - a cunning linguist.

Everyone loves a girl who's a cunning linguist.

FACT! :shock:

lost_in_thought

Oh and you Tabs are just jealous.

jimjamyaharr

morning boys and girls, i got compleatly soaked on the way in today luckly i rememberd to bring a spare pair of socks so im a happy chappy! saw no other cyclists tho

has anyone had a car perposefully try and splash you befor?
Happend to me this morning, cant say i saw the funny side of it!
But then it was only 8am and im not a morning person

Bassjunkieuk

No scalps to report this morning but I did beat the weather! Managed to arrive at work as I just felt the first few drops of rain hitting my arms and was sitting at my desk watching it p!$$ down shortly after :-D Still wet from the sweat but then you can't win all the time

Spotted a couple of numptie drivers on the way in this morning, including a RLJ Merc and a stupid bint in Focus who seem's to think lane discipline is purely optional and just seemed to push her way into queuing traffic.

I did however encounter a nice courteous WVM as I was headed up a gentle hill. I could hear him behind me but we had a traffic island up ahead forming a nasty pinch point. I was making a good speed up the hill and instead of doing a silly overtake he hung back and waited until we'd passed the traffic island and parked cars before coming round. As we went through the traffic island I gave him a thumbs up and looked across to acknowledge him as he passed and got a cheery smile and thumbs up back

MartinGT

I did however encounter a nice courteous WVM as I was headed up a gentle hill. I could hear him behind me but we had a traffic island up ahead forming a nasty pinch point. I was making a good speed up the hill and instead of doing a silly overtake he hung back and waited until we'd passed the traffic island and parked cars before coming round. As we went through the traffic island I gave him a thumbs up and looked across to acknowledge him as he passed and got a cheery smile and thumbs up back Laughing

You see, thats nice, why cant everyone be like that?

roger_merriman

MartinGT wrote:

I did however encounter a nice courteous WVM as I was headed up a gentle hill. I could hear him behind me but we had a traffic island up ahead forming a nasty pinch point. I was making a good speed up the hill and instead of doing a silly overtake he hung back and waited until we'd passed the traffic island and parked cars before coming round. As we went through the traffic island I gave him a thumbs up and looked across to acknowledge him as he passed and got a cheery smile and thumbs up back Laughing

You see, thats nice, why cant everyone be like that?

everyone seem nice yesturday when i was pottering around SW london, was a very nice day.

blu3cat

no action at all this morning, but did giggle at a bunch of 4 very well heeled older ladies in a hatchback call a RLjer a tw*t as he went through.

Bassjunkieuk

roger merriman wrote:

MartinGT wrote:

I did however encounter a nice courteous WVM as I was headed up a gentle hill. I could hear him behind me but we had a traffic island up ahead forming a nasty pinch point. I was making a good speed up the hill and instead of doing a silly overtake he hung back and waited until we'd passed the traffic island and parked cars before coming round. As we went through the traffic island I gave him a thumbs up and looked across to acknowledge him as he passed and got a cheery smile and thumbs up back Laughing

You see, thats nice, why cant everyone be like that?

everyone seem nice yesturday when i was pottering around SW london, was a very nice day.

Indeed they do exist, I mean I past hundreds of other cars today that didn't try to shorten my life, the only reason I mentioned those above is because they stood out as either rather poor driving or very courteous.

benno68

blu3cat wrote:

no action at all this morning, but did giggle at a bunch of 4 very well heeled older ladies in a hatchback call a RLjer a tw*t as he went through.

Classy ladies - love it! I agree with their viewpoint.