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Fly your Freak Flag High, eh?
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Hmmm...my neighbor had a pet possum and used to take it for bicycle rides. He built a platform with handle for the possum to hang on to. I'll put a picture up tonight if I can find it on the home computer.
Before hitting "Enter" or "Send" ask yourself: Is this true? Is this kind? Is this NECESSARY?
I once had a Colnago/Campy bike built in Italy...then life caught up with me!
Now I ride a Schwinn Beach cruiser to work!
RIP: My friend Charles V. Beasley. We laughed until we cried over Opus and "Bloom County" in the '80s. Always remember "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?"
That might be true, actually. But do we care? I'd rather be weird than conventional. I am weird in other areas as well, I stopped trying to fit in long time ago. Like, I don't watch TV, I hate advertising, fashion and mainstream, I don't like sports, I have my own opinions, I'm an atheist too and probably a socialist as well, so yeah by any modern western society standards I am weird. I'm attracted to unusual people as well, normal people bore me to death.
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I've been tempted to wave down a car and ask for a tow, just to see what the reaction is.
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.
now that is a bike tour waiting to happen...LOL!!No problem. All pick has to do is ride from California to Rhode Island.
car very lite dude
back on 2 wheels - future Big Dummy pilot!!
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"Think Outside the Cage"
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Look who's back! LCF wasn't the same without you.
Bet you missed us.
I think the same about mainstream I hardly ever turn my TV on I find it so boring
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Glad here your a winter cyclist.. I hear ya been there done that. Those plies of snow on my side routes can turn my 30 minute bike commute into an hour or more at 3am before most of the plows are out.
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To answer Roody's question Yes I'm weird and have been for my whole entire life. If I could do it over I would have better bikes. I'm proud of being car free.
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I absolutely think I'm weird. I think I'm going to be crazy to go out on busy roads when I get my bike and ride to work and back every day I work, ride down to a bike trail and ride on days I don't work, and ride to stores when I need to. I'm absolutely insane.
But then again, we're all mad here...
Please? I wish I'd had a camera (video would have been even better) the day I saw it. David58 lives in that town where I saw it.
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No. I think people who insist on staying addicted to cars are weird. And can't think for themselves.
Same here. Atheist, childfree, carfree, I think fashion is stupid, I don't wear makeup, I don't own a lot of clothes or shoes, I'm 35 and still play video games, I don't watch much TV either. Now that they have TV shows online, I watch them online without commercials. Or at least without a lot of commercials. I also have an odd sense of humour that a lot of people don't get. I'm also just completely goofy at times.
I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can think of for now.
I also stopped trying to fit in a long time ago. I never really fit in with any groups of people. I guess they all thought I was weird (HA!).
I used to think I was weird.
But like anything else in life, the novelty wore off.
Now I just think I'm boringly eccentric.
"I'm taken between Aardvark and Abacus" ~ me, these days.
"I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs."
~ H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance
I always thought you were an interesting person, at least online, and I'm glad you're posting here again more often.
"Think Outside the Cage"
+1. Atheist, lesbian, no kids, no makeup, standard clothing is tshirt and jeans (when I'm not in scrubs - how awesome is it to be able to wear pajamas to work?!)
I also work graveyard shift and actually prefer it, which makes people look at me weird. I have actually been scolded by patients as I'm putting in an IV because "it's not right for a young lady to be up so late." o_O
Other than cycling, my hobbies include knitting - except for my summer cycling socks, all of my socks are handknit, I enjoy cartoons, IMO some of the best quality entertainment has been coming out of "children's" TV in recent years. I make jewelry, paint, kitbash Transformers, um, lots of stuff.
The thing that most people seem to find weird is that I'm not looking for anyone. I love being alone - every time I've tried to have a relationship (with either men or women) it just gets to be too much and I end up breaking it off because I was happier by myself.
Same here. I'm 35, single, never married, and not looking for anyone at the moment. I have trouble finding someone who is either not commitment-phobic, or isn't crazy. As far as I've experienced, relationships are more hassle than they're worth.
Autumn, kooka, et al.: I'm pretty sure that you are weird, but I'm also absolutely certain that it's a good thing, because the "normal" culture into which you have difficulty fitting is utterly and destructively insane.
Your (our) weirdness contains the seeds of hope for a decent and sustainable future. You're right, the rest of the world is wrong. Don't ever let them tell you otherwise.
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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It just gets exhausting after a while when everyone around you has the attitude "What's wrong with you? Why don't you want to get married/have kids/buy a car/get a driver's license?"
I keep hoping that one day I will see -50C so that I can say I rode through that too.
I've been spending too much time slumming in P&R.I always thought you were an interesting person, at least online, and I'm glad you're posting here again more often.
"I'm taken between Aardvark and Abacus" ~ me, these days.
"I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs."
~ H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance
Yeah, I know. I've been dealing with it for, well, lets just say a few decades longer than you have so far. Of course, I didn't get the "have kids" lectures as much as women do.It just gets exhausting after a while when everyone around you has the attitude "What's wrong with you? Why don't you want to get married/have kids/buy a car/get a driver's license?"
It helps to find like-minded "weirdo" support groups. When I was your age, it was a bit easier in some ways, since we had such a lively counterculture in so many places. OTOH, the Internet provides opportunities for "virtual" communities that we never could have dreamed of.
The fact that younger people like you, with commitment to alternative visions and the courage to live them in daily life, can still make it in our overwhelmingly conformist modern world gives me hope.
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