I for one think it's both appropriate and often entertaining when someone rants here about someone being rude or condescending to them, whether it's friends, family, colleagues or customers. Peoples ignorance, however, is something to be treated gently, not ranted over, but all I've read here were humorous remarks, no rants. Well, except rants against ignorance in people who should know better, like "mechanics" who assemble a bike unsafely.
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07-28-2009, 02:14 PM #1
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Winter riding is much less about badassery and much more about bundle-uppery. - malkin
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07-29-2009, 01:06 AM #2
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RM -- Please continue posting about your good and not-so-good shop experiences. I think a lot of us have been in your place -- male discounting a female's advice/guidance but listening to the exact same advice when a man gives it.
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07-29-2009, 02:49 AM #3
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Rm
RM has taken a TE vacation
People spit the dummy too quickly!
In the meantime there's always the customer's not always right site.Last edited by crazycanuck; 07-29-2009 at 02:51 AM.
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07-29-2009, 05:06 AM #4
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Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Translation, please?
Fall down six times, get up seven.
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07-29-2009, 05:48 AM #5
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Ask mr. google and she sends you to Originally Posted by witeowl
Translation, please?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...Spit+the+Dummy
Australian Term: To indulge in a sudden display of anger or frustration; to lose one’s temper. The phrase is usually used of an adult, and the implication is that the outburst is childish, like a baby spitting out its dummy in a tantrum and refusing to be pacified. (Dummy is a pacifier)
Snork... so it's kinda spitting the dummy to accuse somebody of spitting the dummy...
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07-29-2009, 06:03 AM #6
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So I'm confused as to who is spitting the dummy. RM or other people?
But I have noticed a disturbing tendency lately for any topic that's over 2 pages lately to degenerate into crankiness or to be shut down by a couple cranky people that can't take threads with the lightness they were intended to have. There seems to be an inability to debate or discuss something without crankiness or posturing. And that's pretty sad.
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07-29-2009, 06:47 AM #7
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What a great sentence. I think that's my new favorite sentence. Originally Posted by Catriona
However, I have the same question -- who is spitting the dummy?
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