Originally Posted by
Canadian
You called him "soft" and a "wussy," and made it clear that others like yourself can successfully ride in the winter.
This is known in argument study as an enthymeme. The rhetor's language invites the audience to participate in the logic construction--it is a more powerful argument than outright bragging. This particular style of enthymeme is bragging.
p.s.--I don't ride in the winter. Many of my co-workers do, but for the most part, my body cannot handle the cold (I live in the coldest large city in the world), so I don't even have a winter bike.
It's also known as a clueless busybody spoiling for a cyber-fight by sticking their nose in the middle of something they know nothing about. How long have you been a member here...yet you don't understand the good-natured locker-room ribbing that goes on in here? Take a chill pill, professor. Oh, I forgot, you can't handle cold...just take a pill then.
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