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Kirst wrote:Maybe he said "like a pig?" - he was trying to sell you one. Or offer you a Percy Pig from his tweedy pockets.

Or, over on the Geography Teachers Club (GTC) forum here theres a thread started by a long standing member about how whilst cycling home from a long day at "the chalk face"(don't you just love that turn of phrase) was bid a cherrie hello by a passing cyclist and when he offered him a sweety the chap just cycled off looking a little disgruntled

And it's not even 1 April

reohn2 wrote:

Kirst wrote:Maybe he said "like a pig?" - he was trying to sell you one. Or offer you a Percy Pig from his tweedy pockets.

Or, over on the Geography Teachers Club (GTC) forum here theres a thread started by a long standing member about how whilst cycling home from a long day at "the chalk face"(don't you just love that turn of phrase) was bid a cherrie hello by a passing cyclist and when he offered him a sweety the chap just cycled off looking a little disgruntled

Do they still open some schools on a saturday morning?

mark_w wrote:

reohn2 wrote:

Kirst wrote:Maybe he said "like a pig?" - he was trying to sell you one. Or offer you a Percy Pig from his tweedy pockets.

Or, over on the Geography Teachers Club (GTC) forum here theres a thread started by a long standing member about how whilst cycling home from a long day at "the chalk face"(don't you just love that turn of phrase) was bid a cherrie hello by a passing cyclist and when he offered him a sweety the chap just cycled off looking a little disgruntled

Do they still open some schools on a saturday morning?

Theyyyy could do?

Sounds like a complete [rude word removed]. I dont wear lycra mostly because at my age I dont think it would do my body image any good but insulting someone who does is stupid and shitty. As a non wearing lycra cyclist though I have noticed one thing about those that do however. They NEVER NOD A GREETING AS I PASS . Even though I'm nodding like a donkey at them. I have noticed some do when I wear a cycling cap but in my cheesecutter - never. How come? Is this cycling snobbery?

ukdodger wrote:Sounds like a complete <i>[rude word removed]</i>. I dont wear lycra mostly because at my age I dont think it would do my body image any good but insulting someone who does is stupid and shitty. As a non wearing lycra cyclist though I have noticed one thing about those that do however. They NEVER NOD A GREETING AS I PASS . Even though I'm nodding like a donkey at them. I have noticed some do when I wear a cycling cap but in my cheesecutter - never. How come? Is this cycling snobbery?

I'm afraid there is an elemant of cycling snobbery about,it tends generally to be the newcomers to cycling I find,but worry not I wear Lycra for 99% of my cycling and I always either nod or say "aye aye" in a jaunty nautical sort of way,though I never say "hello sailor" as it wouldn't seem appropriate .

reohn2 wrote:

ukdodger wrote:Sounds like a complete <i>[rude word removed]</i>. I dont wear lycra mostly because at my age I dont think it would do my body image any good but insulting someone who does is stupid and shitty. As a non wearing lycra cyclist though I have noticed one thing about those that do however. They NEVER NOD A GREETING AS I PASS . Even though I'm nodding like a donkey at them. I have noticed some do when I wear a cycling cap but in my cheesecutter - never. How come? Is this cycling snobbery?

I'm afraid there is an elemant of cycling snobbery about,it tends generally to be the newcomers to cycling I find,but worry not I wear Lycra for 99% of my cycling and I always either nod or say "aye aye" in a jaunty nautical sort of way,though I never say "hello sailor" as it wouldn't seem appropriate .

mark_w wrote:I said 'Afternoon' and smiled - and under his breath I'm 99% sure I heard him call me a 'Lycra Pig' as he passed me.

Simple explanation Mark, and one I think you'll find quite agreeable - the first word you heard was indeed 'lycra', but the second wasn't a word so much as a noise. A noise similar to the soft, wistful, repressed, longing noise I often make when I see Girls Aloud, or a pint of Newcastle Brown Ale. To put it more plainly, I think this gentleman was simply struggling to contain his longing for the lycra-clad male. You should be flattered.

cjchambers wrote:

mark_w wrote:I said 'Afternoon' and smiled - and under his breath I'm 99% sure I heard him call me a 'Lycra Pig' as he passed me.

Simple explanation Mark, and one I think you'll find quite agreeable - the first word you heard was indeed 'lycra', but the second wasn't a word so much as a noise. A noise similar to the soft, wistful, repressed, longing noise I often make when I see Girls Aloud, or a pint of Newcastle Brown Ale. To put it more plainly, I think this gentleman was simply struggling to contain his longing for the lycra-clad male. You should be flattered.

Yes I tend to agree perhaps he hasn't plucked up the courage to "come out" yet,literaly,and has to be content with wearing a full set of Assos white or even black Lycra in his bedroom,the frustration must be unbearable! probably shaves his legs an all
Poor chap, one day he may throw caution to the wind, cast aside his tweeds and let his real self be known!(geogrphy will never be the same again)

just one last point,who are Girls aloud?

PS I used to be all too familier with Newky Brown however.

reohn2 wrote:just one last point,who are Girls aloud?

Where have you been? Surely everybody lusts after, I mean recognises, Girls Aloud?

rbrian wrote:

reohn2 wrote:just one last point,who are Girls aloud?

Where have you been? Surely everybody lusts after, I mean recognises, Girls Aloud?

It shouldn't be aloud !

rbrian wrote:

reohn2 wrote:just one last point,who are Girls aloud?

Where have you been? Surely everybody lusts after, I mean recognises, Girls Aloud?

No,
Not everybody.

Debbie Harry, OTOH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yodGTZRzAo&feature

Mick F wrote:

rbrian wrote:

reohn2 wrote:just one last point,who are Girls aloud?

Where have you been? Surely everybody lusts after, I mean recognises, Girls Aloud?

No,
Not everybody.

Debbie Harry, OTOH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yodGTZRzAo&feature

Now there speaks a man with taste!
MAN she's singing it in french!

ukdodger wrote:Sounds like a complete <i>[rude word removed]</i>. I dont wear lycra mostly because at my age I dont think it would do my body image any good but insulting someone who does is stupid and shitty. As a non wearing lycra cyclist though I have noticed one thing about those that do however. They NEVER NOD A GREETING AS I PASS . Even though I'm nodding like a donkey at them. I have noticed some do when I wear a cycling cap but in my cheesecutter - never. How come? Is this cycling snobbery?

Come to Staffordshire- I always said hi to everyone before I wore Lycra, and I still do- and so does almost everyone else around here!

I was insulted by a cyclist back in February who appeared to fit the old CTC image . Man with beard in his fifties on an old seventies looking tourer. We were passing on the shared use cycle path somewhere near Worthing, he with the Ped footpath on his left, I had the grass green on my left. I was expecting to exchange a cheery hello, but instead, as I approached him hard to the left, he came right down the middle of <4ft lane. He seemed to be waving an arm irritatedly to indicate for me to move over to my right onto the ped path . I didn't and had to basically stop as he clearly muttered rudely in queen's English "out the way, bloody idiot!". I could only remonstrate that "in this country we pass to the left." Of course I have no way of knowing whether he was CTC or not and probably he wasn't, but it was the attitude that I (to him) had obviously approached to pass incorrectly. Mad or what?