BMW 650 Funduro

Geez Conehead, why didn't you say? Pity it's all big fat bastards
in here.

-----sharks

 

Well, yeah she's well and truly unable to move, so I'll be able to
chat up a nurse and see if I can still ..... root.

 

Half an hour?.... be buggered!!

It's much better for a woman. She can sell you a **** but she gets to keep
the box it came in!

 

[whistles tunelessly whilst surreptitiously nodding towards the
unsuspecting JL]

 

It has with the girls

Gary (lucky us)

 

Too right! He can shove that up his bum!

GB

 

Yes I agree, kettle.

 

...and we wear equally silly-looking clothes!

 

All other things being equal, I'm happy to acknowledge that size and
strength of the rider is going to an influencing factor, but not as
much as skill/ balance/ coordination and the like.

cheers,

Bill_h

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:53:13 +1000

Really? So who gets to define the "joke" then?

IS anything that one person thinks is funny, no matter how many others
think it is bullying or offensive or stupid, it's a "joke" and so is
utterly OK and can never be wrong?

Zebee

 

Yes.
Provided it makes one person laugh it is funny by definition.
It can also be wrong and all of those other things (and even "un-funny") to
other people.
That's the problem with subjective measures.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:26:24 +1000

But as long as one person says it is funny, it can't ever be wrong?
That the behaviour they reckon is funny is OK just because it is funny?

Oh dear, I'm not a bloke after all it seems. I think you have to be a
bloke to think like that.

Just utterly beyond me how anyone can honestly hold that opinion.

Zebee

 

~
Oddly ignoring the fact that I said "It can also be wrong ..." 4 lines
above.
~

I'm OK with others having opinions that differ from my own, if that's what
you mean. I'm not OK with others telling me that that their opinions are
more important or valid than mine, no.
~

Well it's fairly simple; I'm not telling OTHERS what they should do (or
think).
If person A finds it funny, B finds it wrong and C finds it offensive then
it's funny, wrong and offensive all at the same time.
They're subjective measures so they depend on the subject's own opinion.
I can't imagine that my being a "bloke" has anything to do with it but if
that's how you see it then that's the way it is for you.

 

;-)

 

I think that was the original intention...

Cheers

 

Hi Zebee - Is there a correct angle to hit a wall ?
RexT.
<runs and hides>

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:08:38 +1000

I was meaning GS rather than you. Because that was his premise, as long
as someone thought it was a joke, it was never wrong.

Few are It's when the other opinions affect us or those we care
about it's a problem.

Unless you want to suppress them, calling them "politically correct" is
one way to do that.

Again, I was thinking about GS rather than you.

THe idea that as long as it's a "joke" it's OK, and that mental hurt is
not valid, is, in my opinion, about power. And a particularly male
version of power at that.

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:02:44 GMT

Of course. The one that means the wall crumbles and you walk away
intact. Haven't you seen any movies?

Zebee

 

Hey Conehead

Suzie told the staff nurse I can fix pc's and I'm going to her
apartment tonight to fit a new psu. She told Suzie she will be in a
better position to talk to me about whether we can have sex, while we
are in the privacy and comfort of her flat. She (the staff nurse)
didn't want to embarrass me by discussing that subject in public at
the hospital. She says she's helped other people in our situation.
She's a VERY nice woman and Suzie says she'll appreciate my help
fixing her computer up.

 

Looking on the bright side, BMW riding is possibly a bit cheaper than
golfing.

regards,
CrazyCam (who has, in his murky past, done both, but recovered.)