Yet another reason to stick with TE

[East Hill]

Dare I make a suggestion? Probably impossible...

We need to convince TE to sell Girl Scout Cookies.

Call it anti-bonk carbohydrates or something, it sounds better that way.

I haven't seen any in ages--we aren't allowed to solicit at work at all, no Avon or Mary Kay, no cookies, not even any school chocolate bars...

East Hill

[Duck on Wheels]

yeah, that joke would be ok told to me by a friend in private, but posted on a public forum it is pretty bad manners. And to attack you is worse manners.

I agree. That joke wasn't the worst I've ever heard or seen, but it falls into a generally nasty category of sexist jokes where the point is that women have some sort of moral duty to put on fat where men like to see it and avoid it where men don't like to see it, any woman who fails to distribute her fat in this unnatural fashion deserves to be humiliated, and any woman who doesn't think this is funny has no sense of humor. Yukk! And that last step is waaaay out of line!

[chickwhorips]

the point is that women have some sort of moral duty to put on fat where men like to see it and avoid it where men don't like to see it, any woman who fails to distribute her fat in this unnatural fashion deserves to be humiliated,

not sure if this justifies the candy bar i just ate, or makes me feel guilty about eating it.

either way, it was good!

[Duck on Wheels]

On the 'other sites' bike porn are those pictures of naked women sitting on bikes...............

Again, its not that it morally offends me, it just doesn't interest me, same goes for hearing about the sexual exploits of the male members.

Ah, but some of us do like that photo of Lance ....

[Bluetree]

wakes up, rubs eyes

Huh?! Hmmmm.. anyone mention Lance?

[BikeMomma]

This is my version of bike porn... !

Blue -- one of the guys I ride with just bought that bike, say about a month ago. JUST as beautiful in person if not way way more. The frame design is just too cool, and it really does remind you of its namesake.

Bike porn, indeed...
~BikeMomma

[BikeMomma]

i am offended by this considering there are no girl scouts by me that have cookies! where do i complain?

Chick -
PM me your real name & address....I'll send ya a box on me. You Alaskans need to "feed the need," too.
~BikeMomma

[bambu101]

CWR- I have a box of Thin Mints in my desk at work that I would love to send you. Is your address the same as the Christmas card exchange address?
Please PM me, and let me know and I'll send them out.

Wendy

[Duck on Wheels]

wakes up, rubs eyes

Huh?! Hmmmm.. anyone mention Lance?

No. Lance was a drift. The point was nudity vs. porn, where not all nudity is at the expense of dignity. Some nudity-on-a-bike is clearly not porn -- not because it is male nudity, but because the picture obviously is not about a body's sexual availability to the viewer. The Lance picture is about the body one builds as a biker and the relationship between biker and bike.

The "naked-woman-posing-in-the-vicinity-of-a-bike" pictures that women tend to find offensive are (just like naked-woman-on-the-hood-of-a-car or naked-woman-[fill in random excuse for pose here]) merely about making some excuse for getting porn pictures into yet another social context where men can be enticed into buying a product by being made to feel that, as viewers, they are the ones at the receiving end of some "come-and-take-me" expression on a sexually exaggeratedly attractive body.

Sorry the post was so cryptic. I thought about it after, that my point was far from clear. But it was late and I needed to sleep rather than edit.

OK gals. Back to other drifts. We seem to be done with the original topic here. I'm off for another cuppa at the campus cafe. With a cookie this time. Yesterday I got cramps in both calves at spin class. I clearly had not had enough cookies at work before hitting the gym.

[BikeMomma]

OK gals. Back to other drifts. We seem to be done with the original topic here.

Errr....durn it. I think that was my fault...was it? Hmmm....yea, I think it was. Sorry, I DO apologize. I think I'll have a cookie to help me feel better.

If anyone would like to continue talking about pictures of naked women on bikes and the men that post them just to piss us off, please do -- and perhaps I'll join in and actually behave myself. I personally would rather talk about cookies (or naked MEN on bikes.... ). Call me weird.

Yesterday I got cramps in both calves at spin class. I clearly had not had enough cookies at work before hitting the gym.

Well, get it together, Woman!! Here, here's one to get you started. Pure evil.



Sorry, I'm just feisty today...yep, must be friday...
~Bike "trouble on the keyboard" Momma

[caligurl]

i'm sorry... but i HAVE to call for the banning of bikemomma for posting that SINFUL picture! i gained 10 pounds just looking at it (and DROOLING over it!)

[East Hill]

I don't think we would want to ban poor bikeMomma over that biccie photo--we have only ourselves to blame for lusting after that poor cookie (or biscuit--variant British terminology).

You are all making me hungry, and this after having a lovely scone, made by Mr. East Hill, fresh out of the oven...etc.

East Hill

[caligurl]

but.... But... BUTTTTTTT she's a menace to my hips! isn't that against the rules???????????

[jobob]

So, join the Climbing Club !

One thousand feet of climbing = one cookie.
Unless it's real steep, then you get two.

How's that?

[Triskeliongirl]

No. Lance was a drift. The point was nudity vs. porn, where not all nudity is at the expense of dignity. Some nudity-on-a-bike is clearly not porn -- not because it is male nudity, but because the picture obviously is not about a body's sexual availability to the viewer. The Lance picture is about the body one builds as a biker and the relationship between biker and bike. .....

Exactly my point. For example, I have this poster in my office http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/ (a new office gift from my daughter)
and while it depicts a nude women and a bike it is clearly ART. That is different from the crap that is posted at some of the coed sites. And again, I respect free expression, I don't care that some men view that sort of thing, I just choose not to. But, I did have an EEOC officer notice the poster on my wall, and ask me if anyone had told me they were offended by it, and if so I would have to take it down. I asked her how could anyone be offended by art, and these are medical students so they really shouldn't be offended by a tasteful image of the human body.