so someone's fragile dude ego was bruised and he had to try to make someone else seem like more of a man by using ignorant homophobic language... what's impressive?

your ego is *****

Next time, just shove a pump in the guy's spokes. It's a time-honored italian tradition.

I don't know...I think the fact that the guy was trying to keep up but couldn't is pretty funny

I want your sweet "MAYO" all over my face. And I wear a World Championship jersey for the rainbow.

i mean, i'm not saying the other guy wasn't a total asshat, but mayo's reaction was idiotic. whatever... point is, it's all about fragile dude egos

is it at all possible that the 2nd guy wasnt even racing mayo but just continuing on his way?
i think that makes for a much funnier story.
i know i wouldn't be goaded into a race like that.
just a thought.

You must not have read the first post in this thread.

Mayo, instead I woulda said "**** g0bbler" or "meat gazer". Some people seem to get all upset when you say "ef ggot".

i did.
and i know how mayo perceived it to have happened.
i'm just raising the question that maybe it didn't happen exactly like that.
stretching the truth on a bike forum is not the biggest leap for someone who feels the need to race and belittle strangers simply to boost his/her ego .
i'm not saying I believe he is lying, I just thought it would be funny if that was really how it happened and he just took off racing and the other guy was like "whatever."
that said, i really couldn't give less of a **** about it.

Could have been much worse!
What if said hipster rode hard,
Passing the mayo?

Would then names be called?
Would lunchmeat and wonderbread
still repect the spread?

so being a jerk is an acceptable form of empowerment and homophobic language is cool as long as you think your ego has been threatened ... or if you know some tough *****exuals?

You guys rock!

great ... now the hipsters are going to make right wing conservatives cool. i'll be looking forward to the backlash.

is it somehow soothing to everyone's conscience to jump on mayo and make their public stand for the oppressed? as far as i'm concerned he would be much more effectively schooled if people were as friendly and edifying about it as they are towards him in other threads. provoking someone breeds only knee-jerk, polar reactions - as evidenced in mayo's original post. it's funny how some of you turn.

I didn't even realize it was the ****** comment that upset y'all until page two. I didn't even realize. I could see myself saying something like that... maybe not those words but Mayo was trying to hurt the guy's feelings, and apparently that word still hurts a lot of peoples feelings so Mayo did his job.

Good story Man!!!!!

No dude, I'm staying out of the content. I've read his other postings, the ones that tell a story and this one isn't as good IMO.

To answer your question, you say Kerouac when it's bad and Burroughs et al when it's good. Kerouac blew big chunks, it's no accident that he is usually discussed among people that prefer magazines if literature is the topic. "Dude, have you ever read On the Road?" then "It changed my life" or some such gibberish is what you hear afterwards no matter your answer. What you should likely hear: "I haven't either, but if I ever read a book this other guy who didn't read it sez that's what I should go for."

T. Capote said of Kerouac "That's not writing, that's typing". He was speaking more to the fact or claim that Kerouac spewed it out in just 3 weeks (On the Road) but it holds true to the content and form. Hemingway agreed and so do I. I don't think either one would say that of some of the other authors you have there. They may have used the same style (it didn't belong to Kerouac nor did he devise it) but they somehow managed to impart a soul to many of their works that Kerouac never did. They also didn't need a thousand words or more to find one good descriptive analogy. You could gain as much from a road atlas and open mike night at an underage club. I was honestly surprised that I read it cover to cover and started two other works just to make sure I wasn't missing out as so many (late teens early twenties, as was I) had raved about it to me. Usually where there is smoke there is fire, but in the case of Jack Kerouac it's more the sudden burst of fumes you can expect should you urinate on the embers of a campfire.


edit-the word "also" cept i accidently deleted the post, buttafingas

personally, while the use of the term is offensive to me, I find the notion of bike path time trialists almost more grating. bike paths are for riding. as are roads for that matter. when I want a contest, I line up with the other nerds at a thing we like to call a race. that way we're all clear as to the objective. people racing on MUT's are silly, people racing on MUT's and then detailing their "conquest" on boards such as this are begging for ridicule.

i gotta say i'm surprised, and somewhat shocked, that so many people find homophobic language acceptable, especially since we're all -- voluntarily -- members of a population that is sometimes viewed as marginalized (even if it's only a little bit).

In the past Mayo's stories have prompted similar reactions - sometimes people pick something out that's offensive and some just read right through without noticing. This thread echoes older threads and stories Mayo's posted. It's like deja vu, just with the newer crowd.

You know, dudes and their egos.....

Or maybe you're oversensitive to the point of being ineffective.

can a grad student in philosophy "start sh*t" with an art student? i feel like starting sh*t is something that happens between two folks who could actually fight.

at any rate ... sorry if i came off jerky. i just got a little caught up in this one and forgot that its just a web board.

Being called a *** wouldn't hurt my feelings. As long as your comfortable in your own sexuality, people can call all the names they want and it won't make a dent. What does bother me at times is that people think that its funny or hurtful to call someone a ***. Why is being gay so bad? It's the same as saying n**ger. I understand mayo's frustration, I would've done something too, but it's the name calling that's uncalled for. I think it would've hurt the guys ego more if you stuck with him and forced him to carry a civil conversation with you. Your faster and he's slow so he can't get away from you.

Mayo, would you have called the guy a n**ger if he happened to be black? would that have proven a point and made you feel better? I like the fact that you burned him and showed him that he ain't sh*t, but you could've called him something else. I think 'poseur' would've been more effective and cut his ego deeper.

Yeah, I do get your point. I guess I spewed a reply to your comment with the rest of what I had to say together. I just didn't see a correlation between Mayo's post and Kerouac's style of writing at all. To me they are two completely different styles.

haven't we outgrown the need for name calling yet?