Ignoring negative grumps
09-13-11 | 09:16 PM
#51
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What this thread needs is:
There - I feel better already! Don't you?
C'mon - it's just the Internet; CWAJGA?
DD
There - I feel better already! Don't you?
C'mon - it's just the Internet; CWAJGA?
DD
09-13-11 | 09:16 PM
#52
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From: Rhode Island (an obscure suburb of Connecticut)
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What's going on with Bicycle Bob? I've been gone a couple of years. That was where I did a lot of my shopping.
Recycled Sports down in Seabrook is the only shop I feel comfortable in around here, with all sort of used and vintage bikes crammed into a tight old shop 
Don't mean to hijack this thread but I don't see the OP coming back anyway and when I get back up there to visit I'll buy you guys a beer at the Brewery. Man, they make a mean barley wine.
09-13-11 | 09:16 PM
#53
Fat Guy on a Little Bike
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From: Philadelphia, PA
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Thanks to you. He complained, and you return his complaint with a bigger complaint.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. What do you hope to accomplish by telling him he's being rude?
I don't see it as rude, just, uh, grumpy. Don't you ever want to blow off steam? Let him.
How nice for you. Please slap me around if I ever address anyone that way.
As Miss Manners said, rudeness is not a justified response to rudeness. And as one of the experts here, you should know better. His thread doesn't warrant rudeness. There are firm, gentle ways to tell him his response doesn't fit into local protocol. No need to cut anyone down.
So it's OK to make a mistake in fixing up your bike, but it's not OK to make an etiquette mistake? I don't understand why. We all need instruction with everything, at some point.
And you're the first one to use the word "old."
I think your transgressions are larger than YokeyDokey's.
I see him saying he's glad he didn't take advice he didn't like. He didn't say that no one should have said it, which seems to be the premise of your tirade. He says he made a mistake to ask the advice, which I don't agree with, but that's not blaming the people who offered the advice.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. What do you hope to accomplish by telling him he's being rude?
I don't see it as rude, just, uh, grumpy. Don't you ever want to blow off steam? Let him.
How nice for you. Please slap me around if I ever address anyone that way.
As Miss Manners said, rudeness is not a justified response to rudeness. And as one of the experts here, you should know better. His thread doesn't warrant rudeness. There are firm, gentle ways to tell him his response doesn't fit into local protocol. No need to cut anyone down.
So it's OK to make a mistake in fixing up your bike, but it's not OK to make an etiquette mistake? I don't understand why. We all need instruction with everything, at some point.
And you're the first one to use the word "old."
I think your transgressions are larger than YokeyDokey's.
I see him saying he's glad he didn't take advice he didn't like. He didn't say that no one should have said it, which seems to be the premise of your tirade. He says he made a mistake to ask the advice, which I don't agree with, but that's not blaming the people who offered the advice.
Last edited by KonAaron Snake; 09-13-11 at 09:32 PM.
09-13-11 | 09:18 PM
#54
Hopelessly addicted...
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From: Central Maryland
Bikes: 1949 Hercules Kestrel, 1950 Norman Rapide, 1970 Schwinn Collegiate, 1972 Peugeot UE-8, 1976 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Jack Taylor Tandem, 1984 Davidson Tandem, 2010 Bilenky "BQ" 650B Constructeur Tandem, 2011 Linus Mixte
BTW, I like trolls and flame wars. To me it's some of the best entertainment out there these days given the fact that most of what is passed off as entertainment these days is reality TV. <big sigh>
09-13-11 | 09:47 PM
#56
Vello Kombi, baby
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From: Je suis ici
Bikes: 1973 Eisentraut; 1970s Richard Sachs; 1978 Alfio Bonnano; 1967 Peugeot PX10
How's that for negative grumpiness?
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09-13-11 | 09:51 PM
#57
Fat Guy on a Little Bike
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From: Philadelphia, PA
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Sounds more like the proper response to PBR.
09-13-11 | 10:01 PM
#58
Vello Kombi, baby
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Bikes: 1973 Eisentraut; 1970s Richard Sachs; 1978 Alfio Bonnano; 1967 Peugeot PX10
Well, yes. But it's still grumpy. And negative.
We could, of course, simply exile him to SSFG should he dare buy PBR.
We could, of course, simply exile him to SSFG should he dare buy PBR.
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09-13-11 | 10:10 PM
#59
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From: Woodbury, MN
Ahem. 
09-13-11 | 10:23 PM
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Tell me where and I'll be there. After three beers, I'm ready for more. BTW, I like trolls and flame wars. To me it's some of the best entertainment out there these days given the fact that most of what is passed off as entertainment these days is reality TV. <big sigh>
BTW, I like trolls and flame wars. To me it's some of the best entertainment out there these days given the fact that most of what is passed off as entertainment these days is reality TV. <big sigh>Time to go and watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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