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  • DavidTQ
    DavidTQ Posts: 943
    So whats the difference between a messenger and a fakenger?
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Phil S</i>

    Just curious to know why some of these 'speed demons' never show their face at Crystal Palace on a Tuesday night?
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    because they share a different aesthetic of cycling?
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  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    fakenger n. a person who imitates the fashion of, or uses equipment similar to, a bike messenger. Subjects: English, Transportation,

    Derogatory, Slang

    Editorial Note: Synonyms are "posenger" and "pretendenger." Etymological Note: fake + messenger

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  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Just curious to know why some of these 'speed demons' never show their face at Crystal Palace on a Tuesday night?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

    I think some of them do race a bit. There is at least one member of Dulwich Paragon who is a messenger.

    I suppose another issue is that if you are riding your bike all day would you really want to race in the evening as well? I'm not sure I could be bothered.
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  • DavidTQ
    DavidTQ Posts: 943
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Origamist</i>

    fakenger n. a person who imitates the fashion of, or uses equipment similar to, a bike messenger. Subjects: English, Transportation,

    Derogatory, Slang

    Editorial Note: Synonyms are "posenger" and "pretendenger." Etymological Note: fake + messenger

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    People try to "look" like a messenger??? Ah well I guess big cities attract all sorts. Do you get people dressing up to pretend to be posties as well?

    Id guess its a bit like the way I snigger when I see a rally decalled road going Subaru, or their poorer cousins the neds with shopping lists and "sponsor" stickers.
  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">People try to "look" like a messenger??? Ah well I guess big cities attract all sorts. Do you get people dressing up to pretend to be posties as well?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

    Yeah, this is simulacra city.

    When I go to the English Riviera I dress up like an old person just to feel part of the retirement scene...

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  • overdrive
    overdrive Posts: 11
    @jos
    F**k me Jos write a novel why dont you.You being called a "baby" is quite apt for a 6foot5 Dutchman who still uses stabilizers.By the way what's a"****"????
  • DavidTQ
    DavidTQ Posts: 943
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Origamist</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">People try to "look" like a messenger??? Ah well I guess big cities attract all sorts. Do you get people dressing up to pretend to be posties as well?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

    Yeah, this is simulacra city.

    When I go to the English Riviera I dress up like an old person just to feel part of the retirement scene...

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    Ah but do you do it properly and grey your hair and wrinkle your face? or can people tell you are a fake oap? what would the term be "faux-a-pee"
  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by overdrive</i>

    @jos
    F**k me Jos write a novel why dont you.You being called a "baby" is quite apt for a 6foot5 Dutchman who still uses stabilizers.By the way what's a"****"????
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    Is Jos still sporting the facial hair?

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  • overdrive
    overdrive Posts: 11
    He is the bearded dynamo from Dutchland.
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    simulacra city?

    was is this - baudrillardplus.co.uk/forum?
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  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by peejay78</i>

    simulacra city?

    was is this - baudrillardplus.co.uk/forum?
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    summer: http://tinyurl.com/2hsagv
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    That's rich coming from someone who invoked the "Flƒneur" in a recent post...

    Maybe we have mistakenly stumbled into: Baudelaire/Baudrillard.pretentiouslosers+.ac.uk



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  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    that made me titter, that did. you even whacked on the circumflex.

    i'll sign up for that forum. only if it's a third order sign though, can't be doing without a basic abstraction of reality.

    maybe messengers don't really exist, but having fakengers convinves them and everyone else that they do, thus saving the messenger principle?
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  • Pickles
    Pickles Posts: 87
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by DavidTQ</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Origamist</i>

    fakenger n. a person who imitates the fashion of, or uses equipment similar to, a bike messenger. Subjects: English, Transportation,

    Derogatory, Slang

    Editorial Note: Synonyms are "posenger" and "pretendenger." Etymological Note: fake + messenger

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    People try to "look" like a messenger??? Ah well I guess big cities attract all sorts. Do you get people dressing up to pretend to be posties as well?

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    Not really, I think its just been coined by messengers that seem to think they are "uber" cool & the only ones allowed to ride fixed in town....

    I mean ffs what sort of muppet would think its trendy being a 'kin paperboy past the age of 14!
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    me?

    better than being an accountant, lawyer, media whore, city banker, estate agent, taxi driver or anyone of countless other morally questionable and specious jobs.
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  • firsthippy
    firsthippy Posts: 639
    Hmm.. paid to ride a bike all day?

    'ken oath I think it's cool!!

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  • DavidTQ
    DavidTQ Posts: 943
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by firsthippy</i>

    Hmm.. paid to ride a bike all day?

    'ken oath I think it's cool!!
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    As much as I do enjoy my bike riding 1.5 hours a day is plenty for me really.

    I like a nice dry office and the ability to pretend to work for hours on end.
  • Pickles
    Pickles Posts: 87
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by peejay78</i>

    me?

    better than being an accountant, lawyer, media whore, city banker, estate agent, taxi driver or anyone of countless other morally questionable and specious jobs.
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    Its just as morally questionable AFAIK.....who do you think moves a lot of the legal/media/city docs around that help these people work....

    Not that I've got anything against the above types....but then again I'm not a courier sticking it to "da man"
  • overdrive
    overdrive Posts: 11
    A morally bankrupt paperboy!!I actually like that.Keep em comin'.
  • Pickles
    Pickles Posts: 87
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by overdrive</i>

    A morally bankrupt paperboy!!I actually like that.Keep em comin'.
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    [:D]

    Well if the dodgy cycling cap fits....[;)]
  • domtyler
    domtyler Posts: 2,648
    I worked as a courier one summer holidays when I was at Uni about ten years ago for some ****ty bunch of w@nkers at the end of Kings Road, can't remember what they were called. I still have their bag and radio in my mums loft which I kept to spite the bunch of total ********s. I was on a mountain bike with knobblies as I remember and it was seriously exhausting. I quit when I had knocked off one day and was almost at home when I got a call saying to get back to the office urgently, I rode all the way back and then he told me to go home. Never went back, and that was the end of my career as a Cycle Courier.

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