Can we Have the Commuting Forum Back Please?

spen666

not sure why the cake stop forum has moved out of cake stop and appears to have colonized Commuting so that we no longer have many posts in Cake Stop and no commuting threads in commuting

STEFANOS4784

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12594597




Go-on spen ya know ya want to 8)

Littigator

Because we rock over here and they don't. Cakes are SOOOOOO last season!

always_tyred

What would you like to talk about Spen?

spen666

Always Tyred wrote:

What would you like to talk about Spen?

In commuting section commuting issues.

i've no issues wuth what people want to talk about.
It just seems odd to me that the cake stop forum has decamped on mass to the commuting szection to continue its threads of a cake stop nature.

always_tyred

spen666 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

What would you like to talk about Spen?

In commuting section commuting issues.

i've no issues wuth what people want to talk about.
It just seems odd to me that the cake stop forum has decamped on mass to the commuting szection to continue its threads of a cake stop nature.

So, you object to things going off topic? Or people making posts of a jovial nature?

For example:

(Sorry, my mouse slipped)

lost_in_thought

I think we have a fair few posts on commuting over here still, the SCR thread is (loosely) about commuting, for example...

I also think it's nice that people can chat and have a laugh on commuting. Also, cake stop is in road. Where would the MTB'ing commuters go to chat?

itboffin

spen666 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

What would you like to talk about Spen?

In commuting section commuting issues.

i've no issues wuth what people want to talk about.
It just seems odd to me that the cake stop forum has decamped on mass to the commuting szection to continue its threads of a cake stop nature.

NO

ride_whenever

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change is happening, fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it....

Littigator

Move along now there's no change here!

gtvlusso

I fear change...

il_principe

Change.

Nope never heard of it.

Oh hang on, there's some in my pocket.

Eat My Dust

Here you go Spen.

I told a driver to "go f*ck himself" last night on the way home. Not very constructive, but he was going down the "get off the road" line, so I thought I'd cut him off mid sentence. He looked mildly shocked!

Big Red S

spen666 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

What would you like to talk about Spen?

In commuting section commuting issues.

i've no issues wuth what people want to talk about.
It just seems odd to me that the cake stop forum has decamped on mass to the commuting szection to continue its threads of a cake stop nature.

The usual response to these is that if enough people wanted more threads on topic X to justify us moderating in that direction, they'd create enough to render the moderating unnecessary.

I've just had a quick sift through the first of page of Commuting General, and there's nothing that sticks out to me as belonging somewhere else. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

AndyManc

tailwindhome

AMERICA BUYS ALL THAT CHANGE BULLSHIT
BARACK Obama swept to victory last night as millions of Americans lapped up all that bullshit about change.




'Change... Yeah... Sure'The Illinois senator made history as the first black American to become President and the 44th man to win the office with a lot of vague platitudes and an army of creepy spin doctors.

He told a crowd of 250,000 supporters in his home city of Chicago: "Remember, change is something that happens in the middle of the night when we're all fast asleep and very often the next morning no-one can tell that anything has actually changed.





"I promised you change you can believe in, I did not promise you change you can actually see."

He added: "You believe in Jesus don't you? Right, but have you ever seen Jesus? Exactly. Just making sure we're all on the same page."

."

From the brilliant Daily [url=Mashhttp://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/america-buys-all-that-change-bullshit-200811051377/]Mashhttp://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/ ... 811051377/[/url]

always_tyred

This thread appears to have gone off topic.

Oh, the irony.

il_principe

Always Tyred wrote:

This thread appears to have gone off topic.

Oh, the irony.

Your favourite rhetorical device eh?!

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

This thread appears to have gone off topic.

Oh, the irony.

Your favourite rhetorical device eh?!

I learned everything I know about rhetorical devices from Alanis Morrisette.

Threrefore, its the only one I know, so it has to be my favourite. I'm assuming that low grade sarcasm doesn't meet the "rhetorical device" threshold?

lost_in_thought

Always Tyred wrote:

I learned everything I know about rhetorical devices from Alanis Morrisette.

il_principe

I've always enjoyed the irony so readily apparent in her seminal track.
To quote Ed Byrne:

"The only ironic thing about that song is it's called ironic and it's written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic."

always_tyred

Another ironic thing about Alanis is that she is one of the few female pop stars that you didn't really want to see naked in a shopping mall.

girv73

The "irony" in that song is what I like to call "ironical", that is, irony for people who don't really know what irony is. Rain on your wedding day, free rides when you've already paid etc. - ironical. Writing a song about irony when you don't know what it is - ironic.

Maybe she's just way more clever than we think and the lyrics are really an elaborate double bluff that will be revealed on the song's 25th anniversary or somesuch.

And now for the topic: I don't see many non-commuting threads here myself, but, speaking as a MTB commuter, I do feel that a "cake stop" forum that's not part of Road might be more attractive.

boybiker

Always Tyred wrote:

Another ironic thing about Alanis is that she is one of the few female pop stars that you didn't really want to see naked in a shopping mall.

Ooohhh a bit harsh maybe ?

the police told me that people didn't want to see me naked while out shopping but that doesn't stop me from stripping off in the frozen food section in my local Tesco

always_tyred

girv73 wrote:

The "irony" in that song is what I like to call "ironical", that is, irony for people who don't really know what irony is. Rain on your wedding day, free rides when you've already paid etc. - ironical. Writing a song about irony when you don't know what it is - ironic.

Maybe she's just way more clever than we think and the lyrics are really an elaborate double bluff that will be revealed on the song's 25th anniversary or somesuch.

And now for the topic: I don't see many non-commuting threads here myself, but, speaking as a MTB commuter, I do feel that a "cake stop" forum that's not part of Road might be more attractive.

Nah. See, I have a reading speed of up to 10 words a minute and I am capable of sifting through the off-topic stuff within 30 minutes of arriving at the forum, so there's no need. This way is so much more convenient.

toshmund

Pretty irrelevent where you post nowadays. Just seems to be the same old "Ooooh someone with no lights/What lights should I get?" and the old classic "Please wave at me!" Whichever sub-category you go into...

Pretty ironic, people do not seem to get she was being ironic about the irony involved already...This could go on.

always_tyred

Toshmund wrote:

Pretty irrelevent where you post nowadays. Just seems to be the same old "Ooooh someone with no lights/What lights should I get?" and the old classic "Please wave at me!" Whichever sub-category you go into...

Pretty ironic, people do not seem to get she was being ironic about the irony involved already...This could go on.

Alarmingly, I don't think she was. I think she was trying to be clever, whilst providing deeply perceptive social commentary.

Look, she's Canadian. Many Canadians (and Americans) regard Monty Python as quaint English slapstick comedy, but are happy to stick with the three stooges when it comes to that sort of comedy.

We are cultures separated by the same language.

spen666

Ok, If I can't have the commuting forum back for commuting threads, can I have my thrwead back for my whinge about the annexation of commuting by cake stop?

lost_in_thought

spen666 wrote:

Ok, If I can't have the commuting forum back for commuting threads, can I have my thrwead back for my whinge about the annexation of commuting by cake stop?

NO....

Is it the invasion of Commuting or the desertion of Cake Stop that gets your goat more?

ansbaradigeidfran

I hereby deny migrating here from Cake Stop, on account of having never been there. Honest, guv!

Greg T

I'll do my bit and start a honest to goodness commuting thread

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=15047286#15047286

We'll see how it goes