What is the silliest argument that we feed???
05-19-16, 11:07 PM
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And, you cannot argue about chain lube, Dave settled that, chainsaw oil it is!!!
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Watch it guy, you're getting on some pretty thin ice there. (consider the source)
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Just because I'm tired of arguing, doesn't mean you're right.
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05-20-16, 05:29 AM
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What about waving? The silliest and for obvious reasons the most serious.
05-20-16, 07:57 AM
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Earbuds.
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Why don't other cyclists wave at me?
05-20-16, 09:18 AM
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The only silly arguments are those taken personally.
The point of argument isn't to "win" or "lose" it. It's a means to find out what others think, why they think it, and how they came to think what they think. I find them fascinating. Hell ... if you actually listen to what others are saying, you might even actually learn something.
As for the subject matter, Parkinson's Law of Triviality applies: The time spent discussing an issue is inversely proportional to it's importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
The point of argument isn't to "win" or "lose" it. It's a means to find out what others think, why they think it, and how they came to think what they think. I find them fascinating. Hell ... if you actually listen to what others are saying, you might even actually learn something.
As for the subject matter, Parkinson's Law of Triviality applies: The time spent discussing an issue is inversely proportional to it's importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
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05-20-16, 01:48 PM
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My 7-speed cassette gets me around just fine, therefore any more than that is unneeded, and just a ploy to sell more expensive equipment to people who don't know how to shift properly.
05-20-16, 01:56 PM
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05-20-16, 03:12 PM
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Silliest argument? Carbon>Aluminum>triple-butted CrMo Steel! Every C&V enthusiast knows it is the other way around!!!
05-20-16, 04:05 PM
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What is the silliest argument that we feed???
This current one is way up there: ”I was Refused Service at McDonalds” [drive-thru]
Nicely said, @Biker395. I frequently quote other subscribers in my posts to bounce my comments off of theirs.
This current one is way up there: ”I was Refused Service at McDonalds” [drive-thru]
The only silly arguments are those taken personally.
The point of argument isn't to "win" or "lose" it. It's a means to find out what others think, why they think it, and how they came to think what they think. I find them fascinating. Hell ... if you actually listen to what others are saying, you might even actually learn something.
As for the subject matter, Parkinson's Law of Triviality applies: The time spent discussing an issue is inversely proportional to it's importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
The point of argument isn't to "win" or "lose" it. It's a means to find out what others think, why they think it, and how they came to think what they think. I find them fascinating. Hell ... if you actually listen to what others are saying, you might even actually learn something.
As for the subject matter, Parkinson's Law of Triviality applies: The time spent discussing an issue is inversely proportional to it's importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
…My nested quotes are meant to be read in a linear array, as if a conversation with one person speaking (posting) followed by another, then maybe another one or two. FWIW…
Last year I came upon a post that to me embodied the communication style that I like about BF. In response to a long post (not mine), @turbo1889 wrote:
So when I nest quotes, I feel I’m emulating a conversation…”He said," then “You said," then “I said, and now I’m saying…”
Last year I came upon a post that to me embodied the communication style that I like about BF. In response to a long post (not mine), @turbo1889 wrote:
First of all you have no need to apologize for a lengthy post, least of all to me of all people. Part of the reason I like forums as apposed to other forms of written communal internet forms is because I consider it the "long deep conversation format" rather then the quick short snappy sound bite like format like twitter and such.
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05-20-16, 04:52 PM
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THE TRUTH: Beautiful bike riding day today: I didn't wear a helmet and I'm still alive. YES!
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05-20-16, 05:28 PM
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Godwin knows how this thread will end.
THE TRUTH: Beautiful bike riding day today: I didn't wear a helmet and I'm still alive. YES!
THE TRUTH: Beautiful bike riding day today: I didn't wear a helmet and I'm still alive. YES!
You were just lucky, you should have wore a helmet.
05-20-16, 05:30 PM
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Monty Python's argument sketch.
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05-20-16, 07:31 PM
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Only draggy dunces don't agree that ceramic bearings are the way to world peace and energy efficiency.
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I like the "Justifying the cost of my bike" threads. Anything over the most I paid for a bike is just ridiculous! 
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What kind of an idiot would go through a Mickey D's drive-thru on a bicycle? I only do that at Arby's.