Nodding code?

it was /unpredicably funny/, wasn't it?

 

I'd forgotten that, probably trying to blank out the memory of the awful
coffee.

 

yes, this is my point. Biking attracts wankers.

I believe that's the case for myself also.

 

darsy bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

I'm pretty much in agreement with what you said in the last sentence,
but over here, the nods, V's or leg waggles are considered as a 'Hi' to
other two wheelers. If I stop at traffic lights, invariably there will
be other bikers that will be there and we'll exchange pleasantries.
Even if it's just a 'bonjour'.

Even the occasional cage driver gets one of these symbols, when they
make way for a two-wheeler, as a "thank you" gesture.

One thing the French do have over the Brits, is that they are more
social in the respect that there is more of an "acknowledgement" [1]
culture than in the UK. I never worked in an environment in the UK,
whereby I shook hands with all my colleagues and gave kisses to the
women. Here, it's considered impolite if you don't do that (or it shows
that you're pissed off with someone and are making a statement).

For me, it makes the working day better, when little things like this
happen. I can't explain why.

[1] for want of a better word.
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Rossi has sideburns like mine. Does that mean he's interested in me?

 

that's a completely fair point.

But it's still like asking a random car driver with the F1 GP is on.

 

Porl bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

<fx: sniff and wipes tear away from eye>

You are sooo nice Porl...

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That's me fucked.

 

AndrewR bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Heh, I'll do that occasionally. I also sing to myself on the odd long
journey.

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^^^^^
I think you'll find it really, really doesn't. The debate as to what
makes a "biker" has never been fully resolved, but I think pretty much
everyone involved in the debate would agree that you don't become a
"biker" when you buy a bike - you become a "bike owner", or perhaps
"motorcyclist".

except, I'm saying the opposite - I think most people buying their
first bikes nowadays *are* specifically wanting to buy into some sort
of "biker lifestyle". It's a fashion thing now, and it won't - like
all fashions - last for ever, but IMO, that's how it is at the moment.

Sure. But I don't feel the need to smile at people I don't know.

 

darsy bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

That's a tad cynical, isn't it?

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I agree that ownership of bike doesn't imply interest in bike racing[1], but
don't you find it strange that owning a bike makes people talk to you?

I mean we're _English_[2] FFS. We don't do talking to strangers.

When was the last time a stranger started a conversation with you when you
weren't on your bike, for example?

Any social anthropologists looking for a PhD subject?


[1] As I own a bike, but am not interested in bike racing.
[2] Win ukp20 in our "Spot the bait" contest!


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

in a corollary to the abuse handed out to people making "I saw a bike
accident, I wonder if he was OK" posts, I'm happy to admit that I
don't give a shit about people I don't know.

 

No, that is a commonality. It's not a "culture"; not in the way it
was, and is in other places.

 

In Germany and Japan, it's customary to show your appreciation by
spitting pieces of food and emitting long, loud, watery farts.

 

I don't see your point(s) here. You've met on USENET *before* you've
met in the flesh. You're pretty likely to know who you're going to get
on with and who you'd avoid because they've been funny/wankerous in
here previously.

 

I didn't have a point - I was asking a question. Perhaps, after all,
your "social misfit"ness exhibits itself in an inability to understand
English.

 

<*nods*>

 

we had coffee?

 

not strange, irritating usually. Especially when some toothless old
gimmer wanders up and starts spouting about the Arial Wankpiece he had
back in the 60s.

Err, I talk to strangers all the time - down the pub, for instance.

I also had a - fairly predictable, I'll admit - conversation with a
(quite cute) girl on the train this-morning about the unusually crap
train service we've been getting over the past week or so.

It /is/ possible to strike up a conversation with people you haven't
been formally introduced to, you know. Or maybe that's only in the
South East and Northern Ireland.