Calling a bike a 'steed'?

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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    mfin wrote:
    People who buy new wheels then say they 'roll really well', of course they do, they're f**cking wheels.

    Then there are the people who need say nothing, who have deliberated over the aero benefits of various 50mm wheels (always clinchers), then proudly post a picture of their bike which shows they are plainly sat right up like Mary 'effing' Poppins and thus permanently acting as an extremely effective air-brake.

    seriously funny line! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    fatsmoker wrote:
    Like you can be reasonably sure that someone who calls the barman 'stout yeoman' would also use 'open the batting' instead of greet. :)

    In all seriousness, I didn't spot the irony of this. Anyone ever called their saddle a perch? Or felt like throwing something at people who do?
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  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Not bike related but when did side ORDERS on a restaurant menu become "sides"??? Wtf???
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    mfin wrote:
    People who buy new wheels then say they 'roll really well', of course they do, they're f**cking wheels.

    Then there are the people who need say nothing, who have deliberated over the aero benefits of various 50mm wheels (always clinchers), then proudly post a picture of their bike which shows they are plainly sat right up like Mary 'effing' Poppins and thus permanently acting as an extremely effective air-brake.

    Not necessarily so.

    a.aaa-A-triangular-bicycle-wheel.jpg
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Ballysmate wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    People who buy new wheels then say they 'roll really well', of course they do, they're f**cking wheels.

    Then there are the people who need say nothing, who have deliberated over the aero benefits of various 50mm wheels (always clinchers), then proudly post a picture of their bike which shows they are plainly sat right up like Mary 'effing' Poppins and thus permanently acting as an extremely effective air-brake.

    Not necessarily so.

    a.aaa-A-triangular-bicycle-wheel.jpg

    What crap wheels those are - you'd never get the spoke tensions even.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    metronome wrote:
    Rig. Simply awfully.

    Worst word of the moment… Selfie.

    It just got worse...Otherie - when you take a picture of someone else :shock:
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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Wise words from the guys who use zillions of different words to describe ladies chest anatomy...
  • bondurant
    bondurant Posts: 858
    I think most of them would beat 'ladies' chest anatomy'...
  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    When people say Ladies Chest Anatomy instead of Super Hooters ( .Y. )
    tick - tick - tick
  • Miklosh
    Miklosh Posts: 54
    Using the term 'cockpit' for your stem and bars gets right up my nose it's a pushbike not an aeroplane!
    Don't get me started on 'colourway'.
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  • Kerguelen
    Kerguelen Posts: 248
    Pross wrote:
    Thought it was just me! Can I add in 'I'm a Cat 4 racer and I train on my local Cat 3 climb' - no, you're a ******* 4th cat and you train on some small tump that cyclists have ridden for decades without ending to categorise it :evil:

    Anyway, what rubber should I put on my new steed's hoops?

    So, have you decided what rubber your new hoops are to be shod in...?

    [runs away and hides]
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Miklosh wrote:
    Using the term 'cockpit' for your stem and bars gets right up my nose it's a pushbike not an aeroplane!

    Good spot, and anyone using the term is very likely the first syllable of it.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    edited May 2014
    'Stealth bike' it's not a ******* 'Stealth bike' it's a 'matt ******* black' one.

    (As a side note, I wonder why they wasted all that money developing the stealth fighter when they could have just painted Jimbo from 'Jimbo and the Jet Set' matt black?)

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  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Graham. wrote:
    Calling your water bottle a "Bidet" (or whatever).
    Pretentious tosspots the lot of you!

    They do hold a lot of liquid though :wink:

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    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

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  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'
  • schlepcycling
    schlepcycling Posts: 1,614
    OK, If we're moving off all things 'steed' then how about 'I'm good' when you ask people how they are.....no, you might we 'ok' or 'well'.....I'll decide how f**king 'good' you are.
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  • feltkuota
    feltkuota Posts: 333
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'


    Shouldn't that : be May I have..? but I take your point.
  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    feltkuota wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'


    Shouldn't that : be May I have..? but I take your point.

    Correct! But I prefer "I would like", which is more direct and to the point.
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    drlodge wrote:
    feltkuota wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'


    Shouldn't that : be May I have..? but I take your point.

    Correct! But I prefer "I would like", which is more direct and to the point.

    Surely it should be "Ere, gissa..."
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  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    southdownswolf wrote:
    drlodge wrote:
    feltkuota wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'


    Shouldn't that : be May I have..? but I take your point.

    Correct! But I prefer "I would like", which is more direct and to the point.

    Surely it should be "Ere, gissa..."

    Yeh, sick innit
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    of course, I should have added "....m8" at the end
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  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    "That'll learn ya" - Spoken by many an educated chav.
    “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    People who talk about 'panache' as if it isn't completely subjective. Such people are of course mainly f**ktits (which is an completely objective thing to say) ...I might expand this simply to any people who regularly talk about or overuse the word 'panache'.
  • robklancs
    robklancs Posts: 498
    Slamming the stem

    Putting the power down

    Referring to your bike as a "stallion" ( heard this more than once)

    Hitting the anchors (brakes)

    All should be removed from the world of cycling.
  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    "I literally flew up that hill"

    "Nope, no you didn't. Figuratively speaking you flew up the hill - you're literally a moron."
    tick - tick - tick
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    robklancs wrote:
    Hitting the anchors (brakes)

    All should be removed from the world of cycling.

    See also "stoppers"
    and then metronome wrote:
    "I literally flew up that hill"

    "Nope, no you didn't. Figuratively speaking you flew up the hill - you're literally a moron."

    My personal favourite for bring out the pedant in me is "I'm against xyz in principle, but in this particular case . . ."

    Doesn't this imply that you're OK with the principle, but there's only one place you'd apply it?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    metronome wrote:
    "I literally flew up that hill"

    "Nope, no you didn't. Figuratively speaking you flew up the hill - you're literally a moron."

    Thanks for that - a favourite of mine too though I prefer it when they sort of get it right.

    "I literally had to run to catch the train"

    Oh, did you? Thanks for that clarification. For a moment I thought you had had to figuratively run to catch the train........

    'Moron' is a bit harsh though; I would go with "You are literally someone who has no idea what you are actually saying!"
    Faster than a tent.......
  • clickrumble
    clickrumble Posts: 304
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'

    OMG I so hate that!
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Clickrumble wrote:
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    OK I'm in. :wink:

    People who order food or drink with the line 'Can I get...' instead of 'Can I have..'

    OMG I so hate that!

    People who put 'so' or 'like' into the middle of a sentence :P
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    "LOL" it makes me cringe!
    “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”

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