RantMachine

Have you seen some of these fools on here thinking I will make this place great again

I agree. I'm only saying that gender neutral pronouns do have a place alongside their male and female counterparts. But not to describe transgender people, unless they wish to use them. In that case we agree My only issue is with idiots like Oxford Uni that try too hard to protect people who don't necessarily want people trying to protect them and making everyone else a bit angrier.

If they are now a women then yea, it's "pint please darlin'". If they are now a male it is "mate". Not difficult. Personally, I would not wish to be referred to as any gender neutral pronoun. However they do have their place. Hermaphrodites for example. They are neither male or female (biologically speaking) yet when they are born, male or female must be put on their birth certificate. There is currently no option for "neither" or "both". Yeah but telling people to use the neutral term for EVERYONE just to be safe is beyond offensive and idiotic. Just try to imagine applying the same logic to anything else Hey Joe, pass me a spanner! No, not the philips head spanner. The other spanner! No, not the hitting nails into the wall spanner. The spanner spanner! NOOOO not the sharp spanner for cutting wires! THE SPANNER SPANNER

A fair point, although it was being said with the outright intent of being offensive towards her, so them there waters are a tad murky. Different kettle of fish to saying "you must now replace all pronouns with these". I'm quite happy being a "he", personally. I don't really want people calling me a "xe" out of fear that they might offend someone else. Or out of fear that they might be persecuted for not being considerate of others when really they don't actually care about the social undertones. In fact, I'd be inclined to go so far as to say that I'd find it offensive... Uh oh. http://takethesquare.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/TTS1.jpg

Maybe we should just update the birth certificates used these days to that they have a pronoun field, then everyone can be a super special snowflake and have their very own unique set This really is just ridiculous stuff... I mean it's one thing to encourage people to be tolerant but it's another thing altogether to force people into change, especially ridiculous stuff like this. This sort of nonsense is the sort of thing that pushes otherwise calm and reasonable people with more reserved social views into the open arms of the crazies, and BOOM Donald Trump elected. Want to be a he? Fine. She? Fine. Weren't born that way? Don't care, go nuts. But when we start getting into the business of catering to every single minority group of nutbags and giving them all special treatment... jeez

Yeah and them

not many posting days left tho if royal mail go on a 5 day strike like they are threatening to Oh for flying fucks sakes Bunch of tossers holding the country to ransom...

Saw this article while I was eating breakfast today: http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/oxford-university-students-gender-neutral-pronouns-peter-tatchell-student-union-ze-xe-a7470196.html I FIND THIS DEEPLY OFFENSIVE. Did nobody think about all the poor people who identify as alien villains in black and white movies? They'll have to start coming up with a whole new set of pronouns now the best sci-fi sounding ones have been taken

eBay. Those bikes are rather popular in the US, if ebay.co.uk is no use you might be able to score one on eBay.com at a low enough price to offset the shipping cost. Also look on breakers websites. If you want new, I can see a Hagon for ~£300 and a Hyperpro for ~£370.

Blimey Our definition of "not the largest budget" differs somewhat

Yeah I'm with Sleepy on this. If you REALLY don't have the willpower to wait until Christmas day, at least keep it hush until everyone else has had a fair chance to open theirs!

Nah, Cambridge boy through and through. Just found that through a bit of searching online, linked on a forum somewhere. I'm not sure just how much noise is normal for a CG, and I figure I'm better off not knowing I keep it serviced and I check the valves every now and then, that should be good enough

Nah I meant that I'm pretty sure the people who are still taking part are buying horrific stuff. One of them, at least. *glares*

Ooh! Ooh! I can do the Spanner thing for once, too! http://die-kleinkraftrad-ig.de/wissensdatenbank/reparaturanleitungcg125.pdf This is the one I use when I have to do stuff on my CG If it's anything like mine, it'll be bloody noisy no matter what you do with it

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's happening anyway

Wait, so... somebody isn't getting a present now, because of you? BEEFY RUINED CHRISTMAS

I've got one of those. Well, not a big fancy brand name one. Wanted some decent back armour, but also wanted some extra back support for longer rides because my back was being a shit at the time. Does both jobs well! Tis not a lid is . Surely that should be a condom, what with the raw animal attraction of us bikers?

Let the travesty begin

Not the vario panniers! Those things crumple like a house of cards if you drop the bike with them expanded

that's exactly it, everything is coming down to how much money ya got, I much prefer reading about something that's been restored or knocked up in someones shed at least ya know its been put together with blood sweat and prob tears Or even just a review that looks at bikes which cost under six grand without either describing them as a learner bike or a winter hack

I used to read Ride, but it's been getting progressively less worthwhile, to the point that it isn't worth reading unless you have enough disposable income to buy a second home because they only ever seem to review the most expensive of everything. And I used to buy MCN until I stupidly entered one of their competitions and now they cold call me all the damn time despite repeatedly telling them to stop, so I'm not buying their rag any more either Adventure Bike Rider occasionally has a good article or two about bikes that are actually capable of riding on dirt and gear that has a two digit price tag, so I buy that from time to time.

The headphone jack thing really is a textbook example of Apple being retarded dicks just for the sake of it.

I like that not exploding is now officially a desirable feature to look for when buying a phone

Must... resist... urge to post Pimp My Ride meme...

Yeah the screen on my Samsung (still the original one) was still going strong looooong after the thing became too obsolete to cope with the Facebook app or most modern websites Compared to my iPhone, which on its third screen and gets confused and thinks I'm touching the screen in places that I'm not if it gets even the slightest bit damp or dirty