The Last Laugh (I hope)

David Martin wrote on 08/12/2006 14:50 +0100:
wrote:
al Mossah wrote:

Be smug. Be holier than thou. Be really annoying! Enjoy it. You've
earned it.
Exactly how those of us with enough sense to use a car feel on the
other 364 days of the year when we're sitting in warm, dry comfort
listening to the radio, while you slog up a hill in the rain freezing
your arse off.

Umm.. if it is rain, it ain't freezing. Laws of physics still apply on
this planet.

Last time I got my car services I looked at the bill and realised I
could have bought a really nice bike for that..


Last time someone expressed incredulity that I had taken a 3.5hr bike
and train journey that they had done in two hours in the car, I pointed
out that I had had wasted half an hour and had a productive 3 hours
working on the train while they had wasted their two hours driving the car.


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Tony

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Yebbut us commuters get pretty girls feeling up our legs down t'pub.

Dammit, clearly I'm going to the wrong pubs! It's never happened to me
yet...

wrote:
Exactly how those of us with enough sense to use a car feel on the
other 364 days of the year when we're sitting in warm, dry comfort
listening to the radio, while you slog up a hill in the rain freezing
your arse off.

If it's a slog up a hill, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG GEAR. I mean, even a
sickly so-and-so like me can ride up the 1 in 4 hill in good weather
if I pick the bottom gear and 1-in-4s are almost always avoidable.
Stop being so proud and change down a gear.
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wrote:
al Mossah wrote:

Be smug. Be holier than thou. Be really annoying! Enjoy it.
You've earned it.

Exactly how those of us with enough sense to use a car feel on the
other 364 days of the year when we're sitting in warm, dry comfort
listening to the radio, while you slog up a hill in the rain freezing
your arse off.


Dancing up a hill, snug in my togs, smelling the rain, watching the cagers
get madder and fatter and sadder, feeling the blood flow and my lungs open
up, leaving the stress of the office behind and working up a nice appetite
for tea.

Love life don't hide from it.


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Danny Colyer said the following on 08/12/2006 16:01:

Eh? Freezing while slogging up a hill? Surely those are two mutually
exclusive conditions?

No hills on my commute to get me warmed up :-( (Well, there is a gentle
rise that some people consider a hill, but it really isn't!)

Anyway, I *love* freezing mornings. I love wheeling my bike out of the
house, getting on and riding past all the poor motorists who have to
scrape the ice off their cars before they can go anywhere :-)

That neatly sums up my feelings! A cold, crisp morning is wonderful for
cycling. On the rare occasion when I do need to use my car for my 2.5
mile trip to work in winter, it takes longer to scrape ice than to drive!

As for wet and windy, either/or is fine. Both together are fine so long
as the rain isn't horizontal into my face :-(

I keep getting comments like "Did you get a bit wet then?" on rainy
mornings. "Nope, that's why I have waterproofs" is the bleedin' obvious
answer!

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Brian wrote:
Yebbut us commuters get pretty girls feeling up our legs down t'pub.


Dammit, clearly I'm going to the wrong pubs! It's never happened to me
yet...

You are. The rest of us have to beat them off with sticks.

Mark Thompson wrote on 08/12/2006 15:39 +0100:

Yebbut us commuters get pretty girls feeling up our legs down t'pub.

That's only because you're discussing leg hair removal methods with them ;-)

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Tony

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wildly inaccurate..."
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wrote:

al Mossah wrote:

Be smug. Be holier than thou. Be really annoying! Enjoy it. You've
earned it.

Exactly how those of us with enough sense to use a car feel on the
other 364 days of the year when we're sitting in warm, dry comfort
listening to the radio, while you slog up a hill in the rain freezing
your arse off.

:-)

Steve.

why if it's possible why not bike? while i'm despertly unimpressed with
the rail network, i love to be able to ride to work like my SO can.

roger

wrote:

al Mossah wrote:

Be smug. Be holier than thou. Be really annoying! Enjoy it. You've
earned it.

Exactly how those of us with enough sense to use a car feel on the
other 364 days of the year when we're sitting in warm, dry comfort
listening to the radio, while you slog up a hill in the rain freezing
your arse off.

:-)

Steve.

Oh, aye - all those car drivers that I glide past in the mornings and
evenings look very smug - it is "smug" when your veins are standing out
in your forehead, your eyes are nearly popping out and you look like
you're snarling, isn't it?

Mined ewe, I'm not sure they can hear the radio as they all seem to be
nearly permanently shouting at each other. Car drivers seem to be such
a friendly lot in the mornings...

Adam.