Originally Posted by
Fear&Trembling
After that screed, I wouldn't be surprised if people started adding you to their ignore list.
You're right, and I suppose I wouldn't blame some. I did start with a bit of a disclaimer...and I feel I have a decent history as a good BF citizen...but you are right, and that was perhaps foolish.
What makes it more foolish is that as The Historian stated, I did loose my temper. And to make it worse, I knew I was loosing my temper, and I chose to go ahead and loose it despite that knowledge. So, ultimately, that makes me look even worse.
Originally Posted by DataJunkie
Contrarians make things interesting on forums. What we do not need is a bunch of folks standing around agreeing with each other all the time.
I agree. (That's actually funny given what you said...
) But I think we have plenty of contrarians on here without ILTBs angry input. Ask 10 people on this forum an opinion about anything, and you'll get a dozen opinions. I have, as this tongue-in-cheek thread was supposed to be making light of, seldom observed the members here nodding craniums in concert with each other.
Originally Posted by M_S
Pretty funny that a satire thread about the most invective-inducing topics on this board got turned into a flame-fest.
Originally Posted by buzzman
I respectfully disagree. Call me crazy but ILTB in either the original form or the current revised provides a refreshingly honest, albeit insensitive at times, perspective on issues from spandex to kickstands and bike lanes. ILTB represents the kind of stalwart cyclist that has been among our ranks since I first started cycling many years ago and I expect there will always be an ILTB or two among us. I appreciate his posts- even when I disagree or find their tone on the sharper side- they often keep me from taking myself too seriously or
thinking that how I do things is the way everyone should do them.
And for those whose tastes differ there is always the ignore list but I'd say you're missing some good stuff- and, if nothing else, entertaining exchanges.
You may be right. But, as stated...I can get a variety of illuminating and valuable perspectives on this board. Some I disagree with, some I roll my eyes at...and some have changed my cycling/commuting practices. In fact, without this board and all the knowledgeable and helpful people here, with all their diversity of opinions, I wouldn't be a successful bike commuter...heck, maybe I wouldn't even be a bike commuter.
In reference to the
emphasis added line above...there are very few things that I do that I think everyone should do. Those things pretty much are limited to visibility (take measures to be very visible in the dark, ninja cyclists!!!!) and riding on the street. Like many though, I have lots of techniques which I feel are best for me, and thusly like to share. ILTB, with his as mentioned persecution complex, seems to believe that every opinion different from his own is both a personal attack, and an earnest effort to forcibly shape others into a form of cyclist that he has built up and mythologized into a mentally fleshed out nemesis and handy straw-man.
To all, my apologies for my angry outburst...I did loose my temper.
This was supposed to be a funny thread...
