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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Pigeon, either post on your lunch hour or take a blackberry with you to the loo :)
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Dammit....

    Can't we all just get back to how lovely LiT is :roll:
  • cjw
    cjw Posts: 1,889
    'Kin hell 5 pages on LIT.

    :lol:
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Have a look at the fixie thread and the SCR thread, she bosses them too :)
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,584
    pigeon42 wrote:
    I'm less worried about my bike's weight and more worried about my own. And it's cheaper to lower my weight than it is my bike's.

    LiT - a girl after my own heart! This has been my counter-attack to Daniel B's "oooh I need a shiny expensive new bike because it's lighter and then I'll be really fast and it's really pretty" statements (frequent)

    Aha, but if I say it reguarly enough, and lay some substantial foundations, then when a lovely new shiny addition appears in the dining room, you won't be as surprised as you would have been otherwise :D

    And then we can appreciate its beauty together :wink:

    It is clearly a selfless act on my part, and I think I should be commended.

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  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    Daniel B >

    Have you tried the "Can I buy xxx bike at £obscene amount " and then negotiated down to the one you really wanted?


    If you have how did you get it to work? Never does for me... :x
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  • m0scs
    m0scs Posts: 196
    sc999cs wrote:
    Daniel B >

    Have you tried the "Can I buy xxx bike at £obscene amount " and then negotiated down to the one you really wanted?


    If you have how did you get it to work? Never does for me... :x

    I find that my wife takes so little interest, just by simply buying a new bike the same colour as the old one is enough to alley any suspicion.

    It somewhat narrows your choice, but im now looking for a high spec silver road bike!

    Any suggestions? (MUST be silver)
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    m0scs wrote:
    sc999cs wrote:
    Daniel B >

    Have you tried the "Can I buy xxx bike at £obscene amount " and then negotiated down to the one you really wanted?


    If you have how did you get it to work? Never does for me... :x

    I find that my wife takes so little interest, just by simply buying a new bike the same colour as the old one is enough to alley any suspicion.

    It somewhat narrows your choice, but im now looking for a high spec silver road bike!

    Any suggestions? (MUST be silver)

    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    sc999cs wrote:
    Daniel B >

    Have you tried the "Can I buy xxx bike at £obscene amount " and then negotiated down to the one you really wanted?

    Just buy her something first. Works for my husband. Only problem for him is that my bike's better than his!
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,584
    sc999cs wrote:
    Daniel B >

    Have you tried the "Can I buy xxx bike at £obscene amount " and then negotiated down to the one you really wanted?

    If you have how did you get it to work? Never does for me... :x

    I tend to say I have thought something through (and I do) and have done oodles of research, and have decided I want to buy X, and then buy it, again after plenty of research - hence my Felt.

    However when I bought the Felt, I thought I really want to be going out with my gf, so I bought her a nice Trek, and then rang her to confess to the purchase, luckily she loved it (I knew she would, honest) when she clapped eyes on it and it is the perfect size.

    My usual rationale is, 'yes but the thing is' and then leading down to the great buy or bargain, or huge amount of cost saving involved, and just how much I need to have it.

    Bloody hell, I'm giving away my secrets here :?

    Dan
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  • pigeon42
    pigeon42 Posts: 98
    Nah, not secrets - I'm onto you already! :P
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    I can see I've been wasting time over in Cake Stop. Well, I've learned my lesson.
    If your man is going to bag LiT he's going to have the MTFU on the banter stakes and fess up his gearing (his "special edition" Langster isn't going to cut it with her, Her GI scores bigger than my IQ and I'm a fecking genius).

    Where did he go? He popped up - blurted "I fancy you" then disappeared......

    No Langster for me Greg. Pompino or Touche, depending on mood, and 46x18 for pretty much everything. I do live in the Cotswolds though so do I get some 'hill credit'??
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    ps. what does MTFU stand for?
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    MTFU = Man the Fuck Up.

    A standard thread term requiring more effort and less whingeing.

    46 18....... and Hills........

    Are you Heidi?
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Greg T wrote:
    MTFU = Man the Fuck Up.

    A standard thread term requiring more effort and less whingeing.

    46 18....... and Hills........

    Are you Heidi?

    Right, I'm on it :)

    Heidi was my mother. I inherited her thighs and unnervingly smooth skin :shock:
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    I am Goat Peter.

    Come to me - My Son!
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  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    don_don wrote:
    I inherited her thighs and unnervingly smooth skin Shocked
    Greg T wrote:
    I am Goat Peter.

    Come to me - My Son!

    Both of you worry me!
    "Impressive break"

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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Father!

    So that explains the goatie beard and soft underbelly, at long last :D
  • Totalnewbie
    Totalnewbie Posts: 932
    edited October 2008
    Er, yes. Ok. Anyway...

    Ignore me, I thought I was in SCR. Am dazed and confused...

    *wanders off to repost*
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    This is supposed to be about me and LiT for God's sake, not bragging about our conquests :roll:

    If I'm supposed to MTFU to win her affections, does that mean that some poetry is out of the question? I was working on something sensitive and meaningful..
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    don_don wrote:
    , does that mean that some poetry is out of the question? I was working on something sensitive and meaningful..

    Yes.

    This is the way forward, listen I'll start you off.


    There once was a woman called Lits......
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  • FCE2007
    FCE2007 Posts: 925
    edited October 2008
    Half a dozen pints and a chip supper.
    Well, it works ooooop North :oops:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Greg T wrote:
    don_don wrote:
    There once was a woman called Lits......

    Who kept buying cycling bits
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  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    don_don wrote:
    There once was a woman called Lits......

    Who kept buying cycling bits

    She lengthened her inches
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

    ...I can taste blood"
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    And sang to the finches...

    Nothing rhymes with "inches" dammit

    :oops:
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    There was a young lady called Lits
    Renowned for her pedalling tricks
    Pushing a massive gear
    The sight of her struck fear
    And gave a poor hipster the sh1ts
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    "Its don_don who, in my heart, sits" tra la la

    Is that the sort of thing you were thinking Greg?
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    jashburnham wrote:
    There was a young lady called Lits
    Renowned for her pedalling tricks
    Pushing a massive gear
    The sight of her struck fear
    And gave a poor hipster the sh1ts

    Brilliant :-)
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    This is more what I had in mind, seeing as our love affair is purely in the 'ether' for the moment:

    "Pixels rustle like autumn leaves in a cooling breeze.

    Waves of zeros and ones, pounding like the ocean on the beaches of my heart.

    Oh, what profound thought to be lost in,

    That I yearn for a byte"

    Comments and suggestions, from those who know her, welcome..
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    My suggestion is that instead of asking us for reassurance you MTFU and court the lady properly - by PM :)
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