Is this the worst forum in the world ?

smidsy

itboffin wrote:

Come over to Commuting, we have a trucker chick called Dave :roll:

And THAT is exactly why we NEVER stray into commuting

itboffin

smidsy wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Come over to Commuting, we have a trucker chick called Dave :roll:

And THAT is exactly why we NEVER stray into commuting

Stay long enough and you're morbid sense of curiosity will get the better of you, once you go commuting its very hard not to keep checking :?

Cycling catnip

Nik Cube

Commuting chat is full of weirdos

The op has had some pretty crap replies to some fairly reasonable questions but hey you should read some hifi forums for nasty attitudes.

To the op keep asking your questions you will get answers after a fashion

Ps cycling and bicycles beat cars into a cocked hat every day of the week

itboffin

smidsy wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Come over to Commuting, we have a trucker chick called Dave :roll:

And THAT is exactly why we NEVER stray into commuting

oops busted @smidsy viewtopic.php?f=40020&t=12904727#p18137107

itboffin

Nik Cube wrote:

Commuting chat is full of weirdos

The op has had some pretty crap replies to some fairly reasonable questions but hey you should read some hifi forums for nasty attitudes.

To the op keep asking your questions you will get answers after a fashion

Ps cycling and bicycles beat cars into a cocked hat every day of the week

Now listen you dont go poking fun at the hi-viz mudguard MEGA bright commuting crowd, have you heard the expression "people in glass houses"

FYI

I think you can be seen from space in your commuting set up

jouxplan

RonB wrote:

jouxplan wrote:

- in one of my vids, I did actually dress up as a Gorilla and do the Cadbury's advert thing :oops:

Could be worse, could be Phil Collins...

...oh...

...hang on!

Pah! You either know I am something of a Phil Collins / Genesis expert, or you are taking the mickey of the man Phil. Not sure which it is

A KIRK

As a newbie it's certainly not the worse forum, and anyway you can always ignore what you don't like.

typekitty

This forum is golden. I'm on a horse forum elsewhere, farrr out - if you ask a question, you're pretty much instantly branded unsuitable for horse-ownership. And they complain about something called mumsnet being awful. :roll:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

jouxplan

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

I thought I was the only one that cared about such things! You are absolutely right: the standard of english and grammar on here tends to be much higher than most forums. Just goes to show what jolly decent people we cyclists tend to be 8)

smoggysteve

typekitty wrote:

I'm on a horse forum elsewhere

Is this a horse riding forum or a culinary one?

Had to ask.

smidsy

itboffin wrote:

smidsy wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Come over to Commuting, we have a trucker chick called Dave :roll:

And THAT is exactly why we NEVER stray into commuting

oops busted @smidsy viewtopic.php?f=40020&t=12904727#p18137107

Errr...nope. That is a thread in Road Beginners :?

bernithebiker

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

Proof that cycling improves your intelligence?! (Or maybe we were more intelligent to start with?! ) , after all you have to be pretty f&^ing stupid to try and drive your car into work in a big town......

lotus49

SmoggySteve wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I'm on a horse forum elsewhere

Is this a horse riding forum or a culinary one?

Had to ask.

Do they have recipes for spaghetti bologneighs .

typekitty

lotus49 wrote:

SmoggySteve wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I'm on a horse forum elsewhere

Is this a horse riding forum or a culinary one?

Had to ask.

Do they have recipes for spaghetti bologneighs .

Best one so far!

meesterbond

jouxplan wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

I thought I was the only one that cared about such things! You are absolutely right: the standard of english and grammar on here tends to be much higher than most forums. Just goes to show what jolly decent people we cyclists tend to be 8)

Full stop after the 'right' and a capital 'E' for English please.

MattC59

meesterbond wrote:

jouxplan wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

I thought I was the only one that cared about such things! You are absolutely right: the standard of english and grammar on here tends to be much higher than most forums. Just goes to show what jolly decent people we cyclists tend to be 8)

Full stop after the 'right' and a capital 'E' for English please.

Although a semi-colon would be better.

jouxplan

MattC59 wrote:

meesterbond wrote:

jouxplan wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

I thought I was the only one that cared about such things! You are absolutely right: the standard of english and grammar on here tends to be much higher than most forums. Just goes to show what jolly decent people we cyclists tend to be 8)

Full stop after the 'right' and a capital 'E' for English please.

Although a semi-colon would be better.

:oops:
Mortified as I am to have inadvertently used a small 'e' for 'English', I think the use of a full stop or semi colon is perhaps debatable. Both are perfectly reasonable suggestions, and indeed are correct. I submit however that a colon is also acceptable in this context; furthermore I would add that a hyphen, blunt an instrument as it is, could also have been used. Not sure what Lynne Truss would say on the matter though. I think she would have gone with the semi colon, I must admit.

meesterbond

jouxplan wrote:

:oops:
Mortified as I am to have inadvertently used a small 'e' for 'English', I think the use of a full stop or semi colon is perhaps debatable. Both are perfectly reasonable suggestions, and indeed are correct. I submit however that a colon is also acceptable in this context; furthermore I would add that a hyphen, blunt an instrument as it is, could also have been used. Not sure what Lynne Truss would say on the matter though. I think she would have gone with the semi colon, I must admit.

You could arguably use a semicolon but a colon should only be used to introduce an idea, a list or a quotation. A comma or full-stop would suffice I'd have thought.

Don't ya just love grammar pedantry!

rolf_f

jouxplan wrote:

Both are perfectly reasonable suggestions, and indeed are correct.

The comma. THE COMMA!!!!! It's like building a Greek portico and using an odd number of columns!

(And a semi-colon would have been better! )

Careca

bernithebiker wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

Proof that cycling improves your intelligence?! (Or maybe we were more intelligent to start with?! ) , after all you have to be pretty f&^ing stupid to try and drive your car into work in a big town......

Or it could be that the recent boom in cycling has been from many in their thirties or forties, and so are able to actually spell, rather than rely on text speak? Or could it be that many cyclists are educated middle class types?

I'm on a KTM forum and almost every post is like trying to work out a puzzle, due to poor spelling and grammar.

I think all forums have pointless piss taking behaviour. Very sad but a fact of life with the internet. With posts you can never tell if someone is taking the piss, or being outright nasty, so I guess tensions will rise behind some keyboards. Just have to hope what happened in my home town doesn't happen here. Some kid, about fourteen/fifteen, took the piss out of some thirtysomething online, and so the guy went round and battered him once he found out where he lived. Kind of funny but also very worrying sign of how some people respond to 'ribbing'. Also, it's very easy to be a total ****, and then just put it off as just a 'ribbing'.

nicklouse

Careca wrote:

bernithebiker wrote:

typekitty wrote:

I like that most people here appreciate use of sentence case and decent grammar. That seems to be the majority, which is rare on forums.

Proof that cycling improves your intelligence?! (Or maybe we were more intelligent to start with?! ) , after all you have to be pretty f&^ing stupid to try and drive your car into work in a big town......

Or it could be that the recent boom in cycling has been from many in their thirties or forties, and so are able to actually spell, rather than rely on text speak? Or could it be that many cyclists are educated middle class types?

I'm on a KTM forum and almost every post is like trying to work out a puzzle, due to poor spelling and grammar.

I think all forums have pointless wee-wee taking behaviour. Very sad but a fact of life with the internet. With posts you can never tell if someone is taking the wee-wee, or being outright nasty, so I guess tensions will rise behind some keyboards. Just have to hope what happened in my home town doesn't happen here. Some kid, about fourteen/fifteen, took the wee-wee out of some thirtysomething online, and so the guy went round and battered him once he found out where he lived. Kind of funny but also very worrying sign of how some people respond to 'ribbing'. Also, it's very easy to be a total ****, and then just put it off as just a 'ribbing'.

Posters on here that can not make an effort to use the English language would soon get the message or banned.

Careca

So it's an elitist site then?

No illiterates allowed

nicklouse

Careca wrote:

So it's an elitist site then?

No illiterates allowed

All are welcome.

Help tends to come to those that help themselves.

and the greater the use of CAPS and !!!!!! the slower the assistance tends to be as people tend to think shouting loudly is the same asking a question and lots of !!!!1! is better than one ?

jane90

meesterbond wrote:

You could arguably use a semicolon but a colon should only be used to introduce an idea, a list or a quotation. A comma or full-stop would suffice I'd have thought.

Don't ya just love grammar pedantry!

Not so fast, meesterbond! The rules of syntax are more pliable in a rhetorical context. Since an online forum can be considered a form of discourse, a grammatical form that would be considered incorrect when writing strict prose might be considered perfectly acceptable here. Sentences without verbs, for example. And starting sentences with a conjunction.

This thread is good illustration of why this isn't the worst forum in the world. Where else would you find horse-riding musicians debating the English language?

There are also lots of socially incompetent members who mistake rudeness for an imagined superiority and this does tend to poison the atmosphere here, but look beyond that and there are far more friendly, knowledgeable and helpful people who make this forum a very valuable resource for newcomers like myself.

navrig

jane90 wrote:

meesterbond wrote:

You could arguably use a semicolon but a colon should only be used to introduce an idea, a list or a quotation. A comma or full-stop would suffice I'd have thought.

Don't ya just love grammar pedantry!

Not so fast, meesterbond! The rules of syntax are more pliable in a rhetorical context. Since an online forum can be considered a form of discourse, a grammatical form that would be considered incorrect when writing strict prose might be considered perfectly acceptable here. Sentences without verbs, for example. And starting sentences with a conjunction.

This thread is good illustration of why this isn't the worst forum in the world. Where else would you find horse-riding musicians debating the English language?

There are also lots of socially incompetent members who mistake rudeness for an imagined superiority and this does tend to poison the atmosphere here, but look beyond that and there are far more friendly, knowledgeable and helpful people who make this forum a very valuable resource for newcomers like myself.

Must have missed that bit although I did see a bit about a drummer.

typekitty

jouxplan wrote:

:oops:
Mortified as I am to have inadvertently used a small 'e' for 'English', I think the use of a full stop or semi colon is perhaps debatable. Both are perfectly reasonable suggestions, and indeed are correct. I submit however that a colon is also acceptable in this context; furthermore I would add that a hyphen, blunt an instrument as it is, could also have been used. Not sure what Lynne Truss would say on the matter though. I think she would have gone with the semi colon, I must admit.

Hyphen or an em-dash?

meesterbond

jane90 wrote:

Not so fast, meesterbond! The rules of syntax are more pliable in a rhetorical context. Since an online forum can be considered a form of discourse, a grammatical form that would be considered incorrect when writing strict prose might be considered perfectly acceptable here. Sentences without verbs, for example. And starting sentences with a conjunction.

*Shudder*

You'll be splitting infinitives next, and then where would be? Downhill Mountain Biking, that's where...

By the way, how do you know when there's a drummer at your front door? The knocking gets faster.

jane90

Steady on. Even I wouldn't go so far as wantonly to split an infinitive.

Funnily enough, I play in a band with three friends (just for a laugh, we don't take it seriously) and our drummer, a graduate of the RCM, has more musical talent in his little finger than the rest of us have put together. Obviously, we still tell as many drummer jokes as possible.

lotus49

There is an Irish take on drummer jokes.

How do you know when the stage is level?

The bodhran player dribbles out of both sides of his mouth.

dmclite-3.0

Get back on topic and stop banging the drum about musicians.......

Anyway, I want a link to the horse forum and no Noobs allowed or I'll unleash Teagar. Word.