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[Madman Starryteller]

Sigh. I am going to have to give my bicycle away. 'Tis a sad day, but too many accidents involving idiotic motorists and idiotic pedestrians has convinced me that the humble bicycle has no future.

In no order, these accidents involved:

1. Stupid motorist parking and opening her car door, just in time to slam into cycling me and send me sprawling onto the road. (Spoiler: I was OK, no one ran me over)

2. Cycling downhill and thinking "Woohoo!", only for idiot young-thug motorists deciding to run me off the road in their car and moon me

3. Way too many close calls, including one where some lady pulled out of a side-street way too late for me to stop, so the best I could do was turn the bike sideways 90 degrees ... so I would slam into her car side-on (with my shoulder), rather than with my front wheel (which would make me flip over her bonnet). At least she realized it was her fault. But I definitely could've been killed. Glad I was wearing a helmet, at least.

4. ... and at least two freakin' pedestrians stepping into the bike lane and standing there like two little idiots, looking around like they were on holiday, while I was bearing down on them with my bike and ringing my little tingly bell to say "Look out!" ... and they then turning around and giving me the finger. (Next time I should run them over, I just don't care anymore).

Conclusion? Stupid people suck. They suck even harder if they're being stupid in traffic. Ugh.

What awful some of those people were.

It sometimes makes me wonder why some arseholes are the way the are. Do they think they will get an upper hand in life by being jerks? Sadly that may sometimes be the case... But in the grand scheme of things, we humans do better when we cooperate and help each other.

Hope you can fare well without your bicycle, Rath.

 

[Louanne Learning]

How do I resize it?

You did it! Good for you

 

[Set2Stun]

 

[Homer Potvin]

Yo @Set2Stun... since your Jays have clinched already, tell them to take the next few days off when the Sox come to town. Appreciate you, bruh.

 

[Set2Stun]

Yo @Set2Stun... since your Jays have clinched already, tell them to take the next few days off when the Sox come to town. Appreciate you, bruh.

It's kinda wild how the Jays are the only team who has clinched in the AL with only six games to go. This is going to be such a huge series. I'm sorry, but they cannot take the foot of the gas if they want to win the AL.

Don't be greedy, now; y'all have won four World Series since we got our last one when I was a wee lad in 1993.

 

[Homer Potvin]

It's kinda wild how the Jays are the only team who has clinched in the AL with only six games to go. This is going to be such a huge series. I'm sorry, but they cannot take the foot of the gas if they want to win the AL.

Don't be greedy, now; y'all have won four World Series since we got our last one when I was a wee lad in 1993.

There are no dominant teams this year. Not that that really translates much in baseball with the short series. Starting pitchers get you there, bullpens win now. Very different game than even 10 years ago.

And the Sox aren't doing oogatz this year. Theoretically Crochet, Giolito, and Bello could morph into Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz, but I'm not seeing it.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Oohaweeh ... sports talk ...

 

[Kerrin]

Oohaweeh ... sports talk ...

 

[Set2Stun]

Sports are so fun to watch. Very much looking forward to my NHL fantasy team draft in a couple weeks. Makes it even more fun to follow.

And the winter Olympics are just a few months away! I am going to watch so, so, so much sports when the Olympics begin.

 

[Homer Potvin]

NFL coming out of my ears down here. So crazy how much of my routine is pegged to sporting events. It's kind of my chronological compass. My good friend's mother died during the Patriots first Superbowl run, so I'll never forget that was January 2002. My buddy Pete's daughter was born in the middle of the Sox first World Series, so I'll never forget her birthday is the last week of October 2004. My cousin Matt's wedding was during Game 6 of Sox-Rays ALCS, October 20ish 2008. I'll never forget his anniversary.

Circle of life, bruh!

 

[GrahamLewis]

Funny how my Nebraska Cornhusker football team grew into its prime during my adolescence, spent the next 40 or so years doing things easily and well, then slowly morphed into an anachronism recalling the glories of days past. Kind of like me.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Use dogs, if necessary.

Sigh. I'll miss y'all, but I'll be baa-aack.

The guard dogs have been alerted.

 

[Louanne Learning]

The closest vineyard is about a km from me but I can smell grapes in my back yard.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

What awful some of those people were.

It sometimes makes me wonder why some arseholes are the way the are. Do they think they will get an upper hand in life by being jerks? Sadly that may sometimes be the case... But in the grand scheme of things, we humans do better when we cooperate and help each other.

Hope you can fare well without your bicycle, Rath.

Thanks, Madman. I have a car, so I was only trying to use my bicycle to keep fit. But if people are going to be that awful about it, then ...

Oohaweeh ... sports talk ...

Funny, I was thinking of this:

I vote that Weird Al should get his own half-time show on the Superbowl. All in favour?

 

[Louanne Learning]

When my mother was in grade 8 (this would have been around 1945) she was on the baseball team and the bases were loaded and she went up to bat and hit a home run and on that hit, they made 4 runs. She was the hero!

 

[Homer Potvin]

When my mother was in grade 8 (this would have been around 1945) she was on the baseball team and the bases were loaded and she went up to bat and hit a home run and on that hit, they made 4 runs. She was the hero!

That's a "grand slam," Louanne.

 

[Louanne Learning]

That's a "grand slam," Louanne.

Thank you! I think I have heard of that term. And hat-tricks, too!

 

[Set2Stun]

Imagine hitting a grand slam. You'd never forget it.

One moment I will never forget was when I scored the overtime winner in a playoff game on a breakaway. Backhand, forehand, backhand between the legs AND HE SCOOOOOOORES!!

Think I was probably 15 at the time.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I was a classic pencil-neck nerd during my elementary school phys-ed career, always the last one chosen. Imagine my delight the day I was at bat, the outfielders all drawn in, and I hit a long triple, making the fielders scramble after the ball. The next day when our school team went out and played another school, I hit a ball just as far, but tried to stretch it into an inside-the-park home run, and got tagged out at home.

I never got another solid hit, but those two games live large in my happy memory bank.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I got hit in the nuts with a line drive while pitching when I was about 15. I had a cup on and it glanced off my glove, but I can still hear the hollow thwock and the collective gasp of the crowd. And my dad laughing probably.