Didn't end well.

[RustyMTB]

Anyway, healing vibes Nick, sucks to be us sometimes.

 

[Zimmerframe]

And either or both Pigin and The Hodge doesn't find the other one attractive.

 

[Zimmerframe]

If he was, my apologies but not how I read it.

Well as @steve_sordy is about the most inoffensive person on the forum (unless naked) I'd take the choice to read it as intended.

 

[Wilko58]

All I'm seeing is two consecutive posts from you Wilko.. Im assuming that you are replying to someone which had me puzzled at first ..but then I realised it must be someone who is ignoring me ..or could it be me ignoring them ..
Guess the moral of the story is that you can't please all of the people all of the time ..as long as you please most of the people most of the time ..
Don't let it bother you so much ..things get misconstrued when they aren't said face to face ..

I've only made two consecutive posts to respond to two seperate responses to me, the post in question is further up and my posts have all quoted the person I was replying too. I wouldn't normally be bothered but I thought the reply was sarcastic and then felt it was having a dig at my name (which he can't have been doing unless he knows it) but it just seemed strange to put he/she/hex/hmx in the post.

 

[Wilko58]

@steve_sordy if I've mis-read your post I apologise.

 

[steve_sordy]

I was trying to help, I didn't see any changes to the first post which, according to the time stamp, I'd seen before the moderator but the title had been changed from Did to Didn't.

You need to be careful what you write on social media as your second sentence was irrelevant, unnecessary, rude and in my case potentially libellous - my first name is unusual for a bloke and using hmx could be construed as a personal attack on me. I'm quite laid back and used to people having fun with my name but using hmx isn't acceptable whether you meant it or not.

I had no idea who the moderator was, or who you are, nor your name (on-line or otherwise). I knew absolutely nothing about you. So there could be no personal attack. Despite your post, I still have no idea what your first name is, although I now know that you are a bloke. So your affront is your affair. You saw offence where none was intended or implied.

As for the "him/her/hex/hmx" I was having some gentle fun with the current obsession with the apparent existence of 100 genders (see BBC). I made up the "hex" and the "hmx", but it seems that at least one of them is a word in current circulation. Every day is a learning day.

 

[steve_sordy]

All I'm seeing is two consecutive posts from you Wilko.. Im assuming that you are replying to someone which had me puzzled at first ..but then I realised it must be someone who is ignoring me ..or could it be me ignoring them ..
Guess the moral of the story is that you can't please all of the people all of the time ..as long as you please most of the people most of the time ..
Don't let it bother you so much ..things get misconstrued when they aren't said face to face ..

For the avoidance of doubt, there is nobody on this site that I am ignoring, and that obviously includes you @Hodge.

 

[Wilko58]

I had no idea who the moderator was, or who you are, nor your name (on-line or otherwise). I knew absolutely nothing about you. So there could be no personal attack. Despite your post, I still have no idea what your first name is, although I now know that you are a bloke. So your affront is your affair. You saw offence where none was intended or implied.

As for the "him/her/hex/hmx" I was having some gentle fun with the current obsession with the apparent existence of 100 genders (see BBC). I made up the "hex" and the "hmx", but it seems that at least one of them is a word in current circulation. Every day is a learning day.

My apologies, with all the abbreviations, acronyms, slang, age group specific terminology, shorthand etc. one can read something and your view can be totally different than others around you and I've been guilty of that today.

 

[Nick790]

I’m fine thanks.

didn’t think I’d create a 3rd world war with a typo on a forum thread.
Can I use a recent head injury as an excuse??

 

[Wilko58]

I’m fine thanks.

didn’t think I’d create a 3rd world war with a typo on a forum thread.
Can I use a recent head injury as an excuse??

All good now!

 

[paul-g]

I’m fine thanks.

didn’t think I’d create a 3rd world war with a typo on a forum thread.
Can I use a recent head injury as an excuse??

 

[Zimmerframe]

face in post.

Did you have to use a special envelope ?

 

[Zimmerframe]

I’m fine thanks.

This thread isn't just about you ! .. ok .. well, maybe it is !

How's the bike ? Your Body ? Other Injuries ? Ear ache ?

 

[Hobo Mikey]

 

[Nick790]

I’m not really a selfie kinda guy, and I’m worried Yewtree might see it.

I don’t normally look that fat, it’s all swelling?

 

[Jimbo Vills]

Proper job there mate ??

GWS ??

 

[Nick790]

That’s gonna be a bad ass scar!!! But let’s get to work thinking up a good bar story to tell the ladies...... yours will only get you the last call left overs!!

Traversing a valley in Ludsdown, could be a Narm’ story??

 

[Zimmerframe]

Bro. Here’s your story!

your brothers in arms were in their team house being over ran on the outskirts of Baghdad. Your team was apart of the QRF and while 5 min out your veh hit an IED. It was only a mobility kill but y’all thermoed the burning vehicles secure comms so you could leave it. Your battle rifle was bent from the IED blast so you had to grab your sniper rifle, the .50 cal. It’s a 40lb rifle with 5 pound mags loaded. You grabbed all you could and ran to the team house to help your brothers. It was 2 miles but you guys ran like never before especially considering the blast y’all got. When you were in the area you climbed the tallest building that would give you the best sniper over watch position while the rest of your team moves together to stack on the perimeter wall. Your roof top position was in a coupla and too small for a proper sniping position with your 50 cal. Mind you this rifle shoots a 650 grain explosive billet and has a recoil that knocks normal sized people off their feet. Because there was no where to set up a proper position you had to deal with the kick of the 50 which meant getting a face full of scope every time you shot. Sure enough as you dialed your elevation for the 160 meters the team house was at you saw a territorist with an S vest moving on your team stacked at the parameter waiting for your guidance. You took one shot at the blasting cap of the vest and he detonated. Your face ate the scope and what was worse is now you still had the ringing head from the IED and nowyou had to see through your blood because the face is so visceral yours shooting eye was immediately filled with blood. The world was red and your head hurt. You have your team the go to enter the compound and guided them to the brothers last stand room. It was guns blazing and you took shot after shot each time basing your face again and again with the scope eventually even braking some bone which sometimes you wake up and find fragments of bone still coming out of that scar.

but in the end it was worth it because all of your brothers came home that day and you guys saved them From imminent death, or worse capture.

if that don’t get you laid man..... I don’t know what to tell you. It is a fractured set of true stories ..... they just don’t really need to know that it wasn’t you.

But is he left handed ?

 

[Zimmerframe]

How about ..

"I'm a fencing contractor .. I broke my post basher though and being so dedicated to my work, I finished the job by using my head ... but not in a thinking way ...."

 

[Wilko58]

I can lend you a bit of titanium shrapnel from a Scud missile as evidence! The Scud hit a school in Riyadh just 500 ft from my bunk!

 

[Nick790]

Thanks chaps, for keeping me entertained.
luckily I can work from home, but the Teams meetings may have to be without the camera this week.
I may start a thread in the general area about face protection, if you wonna give your 2p’s worth?

 

[Zimmerframe]

I may start a thread in the general area about face protection, if you wonna give your 2p’s worth?

@BAMBAMODA recommends these to stay fresh looking for the lady's ..

Every Face Cream Allure Editors Swear By for Bouncy Skin

They’re spiked with hydrators, plus a little extra.

www.allure.com

 

[Zimmerframe]

You should totally try the ‘sit in snow then your face’ line tho man. I would!!! For a chick that is,

Did you just offer to sit on his face ? I think he's got enough problems already without worrying about flossing with your giant hairy arse !

As for the chick thing, I don't think I'd risk that either .. you could get your eyes pecked out.

 

[Nick790]

Good news is, the bike looks fine. ?
Ready to go again next weekend

 

[veryoldfart]

Good news is, the bike looks fine. ?
Ready to go again next weekend

Wow, another lucky soul.

Some years ago my wife and I were almost back home after a ride in the Buttermere valley in the Lakes.

The lane was narrow and there were cars just behind us- she was ahead as I was protecting her from the cars.

Then suddently she was thrown off her mtb ( albeit clipped in !!) and right across the road, stopping just in front of an oncoming car and smacked her head hard on the road.

Why? There was a loop of wire hanging off of a fence and dangling just into the edge of the road. To give the cars space, she had moved over to the edge of the road and the end of her handlebar caught in the loop of wire and so the bike was immediately blocked as the wire did not yield. When you are riding at 10/12+mph and are instantly stopped, there is a lot of kinetic energy to be dispersed.

She was thrown across the road and separated from the bike . The bike was ok, but the helmet was a write-off and we ended up in Carlisle Hospital A & E spending 4 hours getting a neck and head scan.Luckily, she was shaken, scratched, cut etc but not badly damaged.

She still rides with me. Plucky girl, as we are now in our late 60's/ early 70s

 

[Tonybro]

Things like this are a real problem. I just came off the top of Winter Hill today and needed a 1.5 mile climb up a road back to the tracks. Coming down the road into Belmont there is a cycle lane marked on the road - you can't use it! All the trees have grown into the cycle lane and the Council haven't cut them back so I had to go into the road...

I can just imagine all the comments from the car drivers!

 

[steve_sordy]

.......... Coming down the road into Belmont there is a cycle lane marked on the road - you can't use it! All the trees have grown into the cycle lane and the Council haven't cut them back so I had to go into the road.......

So will you be taking a folding saw with you the next few times out then?

 

[Tonybro]

Not likely this serious tree pruning on an industrial scale. The usual tractor with the scythe....