Ouch !

Man, that wedding tackle is gonna be so SORE....

Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

Ouch indeed! Is that real or posed? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen..

Regards, Richard.

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Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

He finds out the hard way just how sensitive his new disc brakes are!
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Richard Sherratt <[email hidden]> wrote:
: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:49:16 +1100, Man without pigs <[email hidden]> wrote:

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:>Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

: Ouch indeed! Is that real or posed? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen..

How can you laugh knowing you are also confessing complete absence of empathy - to the whole world.
Poor bike rider... and pity you.

Lynzz

Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

Is it just an unhappy coincidence (staged? photoshop'd?) that poor crashin' bike person (ouch!,
redux) has done his (apparently) poor crashin' bike person thing diagonally across the road from a
concert hall where the final thingy-bit of Wagner's Ring Cycle" ("Der Ring des Nibelungen"😉. the
"Götterdämmerung" ("Twilight of the Gods"😉 is on?

Looks more like "Twilight of the Schnoz"...

Or, as Paul_MCMLIX said, "Man, that wedding tackle is gonna be so SORE..." so maybe "Twilight of the
Cods" amatory-ink.co.ukmalegenitals.htmOpen ↗

<gets up on high horse> well, at least he (apparently) was wearing a bicycle helmet </high horse>

p

Lindsay Rowlands said:

Richard Sherratt <[email hidden]> wrote:
: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:49:16 +1100, Man without pigs <[email hidden]> wrote:

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:>
:>Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

: Ouch indeed! Is that real or posed? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen..

How can you laugh knowing you are also confessing complete absence of empathy - to the whole world.
Poor bike rider... and pity you.

I think it's the sight of that po-faced guy posing for the camera and missing all the action
happening behind him. It's still funny :-)

Regards, Richard.

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Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

The photo looks like Germany to me.

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Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

The photo looks like Germany to me.

Especially with that pretentious car ad. I'm wondering whether the wide angle of the shot was to
fit that in.

Jeff

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Richard Sherratt <[email hidden]> wrote:
: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:49:16 +1100, Man without pigs <[email hidden]> wrote:

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:>Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

: Ouch indeed! Is that real or posed? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen..

How can you laugh knowing you are also confessing complete absence of empathy - to the whole
world. Poor bike rider... and pity you.

Lynzz

I hope you never watch funniest home videos. I actually dont because of the reason you suggest.
Although it might look funny some of those people look like they get really hurt. I have to admit
though I have laughed when I have come unstuck similar to that but not really badly hurt.

Pete

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And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

The photo looks like Germany to me.

The umlaut on the A in the car ad and the nl suffix on the web address suggests the Netherlands (a.k.a. Holland) to me.

German bike paths are also usually a different colored concrete as well.

Oh gawd:eek:
Just managed to get the link to work. Oh the injustice, lets just pray he didn't have bar extensions either....

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Quoted message said:

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> And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

The photo looks like Germany to me.

The umlaut on the A in the car ad and the nl suffix on the web address suggests the Netherlands
(a.k.a. Holland) to me.

It's definitely Germany. The umlaut on the A in the car ad proves that. Also the "Der [Neue] Lexus"
below it. The Dutch use either "De" or "Het".

Jeff

Richard Sherratt said:

Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

Ouch indeed! Is that real or posed? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen..

Regards, Richard.

I reckon it could be posed. I think the backpack (or at least it's contents) should rise higher up
his back with the forward momentum.

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It's definitely Germany. The umlaut on the A in the car ad proves that.

Also

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the "Der [Neue] Lexus" below it. The Dutch use either "De" or "Het".

Close but no cigar. It's Vienna. The building is the Staatsoper (Opera House). If you look closely,
the buses have Vienna sightseeing on them, with a silhouette of the Prater ferris wheel.

They must be renovating the Opera House, judging by the scaffolding and advertising hoardings that
weren't there when I visited in 2000.

Appropriate the photo is in a German speaking country, as it's schadenfreude in action.

For DRS: The truth is, we top-posters (which is an anagram of "we actually rule the world"😉 are
united in a secret Illuminatii Black-Helicopters Queen-Elizardbeast Merovingian Roswell-cover-up
Saudi Rosicrucian Electronic-Voice-Phenomena conspiracy to annoy you. Sorry, now that I've told you,
I have to kill you. Umm, oops - don't have a clue who you are. D'oh! Unfortunately, since I've let
our the secret of the top-posters cabal, I am not long for this lif... sorry, someones knocking at
the door. It's been nice posti... <dies horrible death>

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And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...

The photo looks like Germany to me.

See below. Controversy Rages, The Jury is Still Out, and I'm emailing the guy to settle this.

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A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

See what I wro... hurp, smrff, gack..! [cf: horrible death]
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Jeff Jones said:

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Fred Nieman <[email hidden]> wrote

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Man without pigs wrote:

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The photo looks like Germany to me.

Especially with that pretentious car ad. I'm wondering whether the wide angle of the shot was to
fit that in.

Jeff

I'm guessing that pretentious car ads in .au, .nl, or wherever they are would be so pretentious as
to stay in the language they were in, that is the country the car was from. Especially in Holland,
where folks would get most of the gist of "copy" in German.

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Shabby said:

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Quoted message said:

> And Holland is supposed to be so bicycle-friendly...
The photo looks like Germany to me.

The umlaut on the A in the car ad and the nl suffix on the web address suggests the Netherlands
(a.k.a. Holland) to me.

I agree. But, Dutch, Holland, Netherlands, Nederland... so many names for such a li'l country...

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German bike paths are also usually a different colored concrete as well.

Didn't know that - thx. Kind of like the Bus (aka defacto Bike ,but also Lanes of Death) Lanes in
metro Sydney

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Keep, umm, un-carborundum-papering them, umm,illigitimuses. Shab.

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cfsmtb said:

Oh gawd:eek: Just managed to get the link to work. Oh the injustice, lets just pray he didn't have
bar extensions either....

My mum <[email hidden]> sent me an email a little while ago about how bar-ends (on flat-bar
bikes) can be dangerous for ones liver... Oh, the humanity. etc...

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Jeff Jones wrote: ...

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The umlaut on the A in the car ad and the nl suffix on the web address suggests the Netherlands
(a.k.a. Holland) to me.

It's definitely Germany. The umlaut on the A in the car ad proves that. Also the "Der [Neue]
Lexus" below it. The Dutch use either "De" or "Het".

Jeff

As I blunt-crayoned in clumsy block-capitals before, it might be that the ad in German is what they
put up in .nl ...

ps: some feedback/flame-age/etc about the Richard Wagner/Opera comments would be nice, ngroup..

p

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It's definitely Germany. The umlaut on the A in the car ad proves that.

Also

Quoted message said:

the "Der [Neue] Lexus" below it. The Dutch use either "De" or "Het".

Close but no cigar. It's Vienna. The building is the Staatsoper (Opera House). If you look
closely, the buses have Vienna sightseeing on them, with a silhouette of the Prater ferris wheel.

They must be renovating the Opera House, judging by the scaffolding and advertising hoardings that
weren't there when I visited in 2000.

Appropriate the photo is in a German speaking country, as it's schadenfreude in action.

Spoil my fun, why don't ya... (which is also schadenfreude in action, I guess.) But of course,
laughter means: being Schadenfreude but with a good conscience. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The
Gay Science (1882). Book
III)

p

ps: Immer wieder Osterreich!

pps: can we get somewhere near back on topic if I ask whether there's a cartridge I can retro-fit my
old MTB 1 1/8 inch headset with (a road one would be fine)?

Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

Forgot to mention: what is this Ouch! face-plant person doing riding a full-suspension bike around
city, anyway?

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"Jeff Jones" <jeff@cyclingnews-punt-com> wrote in message
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It's definitely Germany. The umlaut on the A in the car ad proves that.

Also

Quoted message said:

the "Der [Neue] Lexus" below it. The Dutch use either "De" or "Het".

Close but no cigar. It's Vienna. The building is the Staatsoper (Opera House). If you look
closely, the buses have Vienna sightseeing on them, with a silhouette of the Prater ferris wheel.

They must be renovating the Opera House, judging by the scaffolding and advertising hoardings that
weren't there when I visited in 2000.

Appropriate the photo is in a German speaking country, as it's

schadenfreude

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in action.

Ahh good one. I know the difference between the Netherlands and Germany, and even the Netherlands
and Belgium, but I'm a bit flaky on the German / Austrian differences. I've got to work on my
schadenfreude appreciation too.

cheers, Jeff

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Man without pigs said:

Photo of bike mishap - a Kodak moment. home.tiscali.nl/~scholtr

Forgot to mention: what is this Ouch! face-plant person doing riding a full-suspension bike around
city, anyway?

And just how long would he have that bike before it got stolen? Holland's bike thieves are renkowned
for their efficiency at separating bikes from their owners. They say you don't buy a bike in
Holland, you just rent it for a while...
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