This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Translation: Women are not only slower and weaker when just using their bodies, but are even slower and weaker when aided by mechanical devices such as bicycles. Which makes it O.K. for me to order them to perform menial internet-related tasks for me.

One too many times back to the well.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

In my experience, women get a lot more from mechanical devices than do men.

Is a blow-up doll a mechanical device?

I do not think this question has anything to do with your experience. I am just wondering.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I think he was asking Atticus to google it for him.

And PLF, I think that you are missing the point of Sidd's posts. He is attempting humor by acting all over-the-top sexist. It's called hyperbole. (He doesn't really mean it).

Honest, it was a serious question, since Atticus brought it up. I have no idea -- it's really hard for me to understand why people like to watch bike races.

And I saw the very end of the Tour de France this year. It was 30 minutes of stand in oppressive crowd, inhale smog from motorcade, snap your neck from left to right repeatedly to watch the colors whiz by, repeat.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

One too many times back to the well.

Yep. Jon Gosselin would be ashamed.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Is a blow-up doll a mechanical device?

I do not think this question has anything to do with your experience. I am just wondering.

Just because Hank was funny once today, doesn't mean you need to keep encouraging him.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Honest, it was a serious question, since Atticus brought it up. I have no idea -- it's really hard for me to understand why people like to watch bike races.

And I saw the very end of the Tour de France this year. It was 30 minutes of stand in oppressive crowd, inhale smog from motorcade, snap your neck from left to right repeatedly to watch the colors whiz by, repeat.

Hopping off your post:

Do they have long tour-like bike races where drafting is not allowed? Or where there are no teams? This is probably a question for PLF.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

In my experience, women get a lot more from mechanical devices than do men.

How much experience do you have as a woman?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

One too many times back to the well.

I take back what I said to Hank about you. Except for the liver hurting less part.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

How much experience do you have as a woman?

So I was re-watching some Weeds episodes last night, helping a few friends get caught up, and we saw the one where Nancy visits Guillermo in prison and starts telling him that she's heard that in prison, the guy who is usually the woman will sometimes get breasts tattooed on his back so the guy who is the man can look at them and think he's fucking a real woman, sort of.

Is this true?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Hopping off your post:

Do they have long tour-like bike races where drafting is not allowed? Or where there are no teams? This is probably a question for PLF.

I don't see how you could do that. I mean the no drafting part. In triathlons, people are all starting at different times, not in a big mass group. Same with TTs. Those are the only no-drafting races I am aware of. I don't know how you could enforce a "no drafting" rule if you even had only fifty riders starting at once.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

So I was re-watching some Weeds episodes last night, helping a few friends get caught up, and we saw the one where Nancy visits Guillermo in prison and starts telling him that she's heard that in prison, the guy who is usually the woman will sometimes get breasts tattooed on his back so the guy who is the man can look at them and think he's fucking a real woman, sort of.

Is this true?

If you're offering to get tatooed for me, no thanks, already taken.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I don't see how you could do that. I mean the no drafting part. In triathlons, people are all starting at different times, not in a big mass group. Same with TTs. Those are the only no-drafting races I am aware of. I don't know how you could enforce a "no drafting" rule if you even had only fifty riders starting at once.

I see your point.

But it is what makes bike races boring to watch. I hate seeing the guy who sprints out solo get caught by the peloton a few minutes later. No reward for taking the risk. As far as I'm concerned, those risks should be encouraged, not discouraged, at least from a fan standpoint (b/c it's fun to watch when it happens).

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I'm sorry. I blame my lady-brain and my tits.

Don't you mean TITS!?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I see your point.

But it is what makes bike races boring to watch. I hate seeing the guy who sprints out solo get caught by the peloton a few minutes later. No reward for taking the risk. As far as I'm concerned, those risks should be encouraged, not discouraged, at least from a fan standpoint (b/c it's fun to watch when it happens).

Well, the dynamics of the breakaway are far different in the big stage races (the tours) then they are in crits or even the one day classics. And generally, the only ways to effectively break away are if 1) the peloton does not care about you, or 2) the peloton makes a mistake. But in a race like the Tour, how could you maintain a no drafting rule? The race starts out and everybody sprints for the first mile or so, and then each rider has to drop back ten feet from the rider in front of him?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Well, the dynamics of the breakaway are far different in the big stage races (the tours) then they are in crits or even the one day classics. And generally, the only ways to effectively break away are if 1) the peloton does not care about you, or 2) the peloton makes a mistake. But in a race like the Tour, how could you maintain a no drafting rule? The race starts out and everybody sprints for the first mile or so, and then each rider has to drop back ten feet from the rider in front of him?

Thanks for confirming that there is something more boring than just watching bike racing.