View Full Version : You have to give it to him...
Plain Peter P.
08-01-2008, 10:57 AM
There is only one thing I hate about motorcycling is...
The high percentage of uneducated assholes...just like you!
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Alex
...this guy is good with words.
(In my mail this morning.)
Uh oh... That "click!" was a landmine that you just stepped upon...
Yikes!
John.
Paddy
08-05-2008, 09:44 AM
What am I missing here? Please clarify...
KZDon
08-05-2008, 10:01 AM
What am I missing here? Please clarify...
Caution - this may be something best left alone
I'm thinkin' someone forgot to use their smiley face...
Uwe W.
08-05-2008, 03:03 PM
All that's missing is the Ennio Morricone soundtrack and the ultra-close-ups of sweating faces against a backdrop of blowing tumbleweeds.
Not wanting this situation to devolve any further, I'm going to attempt a quick intervention:
Typically, when there is a difference of opinion that leads to slander and abuse in a public forum, it's between two people of such low intelligence that no amount of reasoning will help to resolve their issues.
Thankfully this isn't the case here. Both Peter and Alex (Touring) are intelligent and mature men, and this recent spat is the result of a misunderstanding not uncommon to email and internet based exchanges.
Alex, I can fully understand why you felt slighted, and for that reason I want to assure you that Peter's intent was not to be malicious with his comments. Those of us that know him well will tell you that he is both highly intelligent and extremely articulate, and that his sensitivity when it comes to the human condition precludes him from being an asshole. He does however have a unique way of expressing himself, which I think you'll come to appreciate as most of us do once you get to know the man a little better.
From my perspective, when I read Peter's Yaris comment I had a good laugh, and suspected it might have been based on a run-in with a tourist driven Toyota this past summer while he was cycling through Europe. The Tilley reference was a gem.
Of course you wouldn't have been aware of this. Nor would you know that Peter's comments weren't personal; he was simply letting one rip for the sake of injecting some spirit into the debate.
My hope is that both of you will be able to move past this incident with a new understanding of the other person. And since you are valued contributers to the forum, I would hate to see any lingering animosity between you.
What do you say gentlemen?
Ivor biggin
08-05-2008, 03:36 PM
Nor would you know that Peter's comments weren't personal; he was simply letting one rip for the sake of injecting some spirit into the debate.
Relax Alex, Peter really is a nice guy. Hell, I remember him suggesting that I die in a plane crash the next time I visit my daughters and their families in Alberta.
I.B.
"The Tilley reference was a gem."
In best Homer voice: "Don't mention my Tilley, don't mention my Tilley, don't mention my Tilley... D'oh!"
Of course I can viewed wearing same in those photos that I added here last week some time... I have NEVER worn it while driving, though. That would be inexcusable.
John.
Touring
08-05-2008, 07:51 PM
There is only one thing I hate about motorcycling is...
The high percentage of uneducated assholes...just like you!
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Alex
...this guy is good with words.
(In my mail this morning.)
A tit for tat...after your dumb reply on a thread, what do you expect...words of kindness? Duhhhh, not too swift are you?
Touring
08-05-2008, 08:00 PM
What am I missing here? Please clarify...
Very simple, Paddy.
Someone started a thread asking if they could ride 365 days a year and get rid of their truck.
They had never owned a motorcycle before and with today's high price of gas, one could easily conclude that they wanted cheap transportation...you know, never owned a bike before...want to get rid of the truck.
Ride 365 days? (http://www.passionperformance.ca/community/forum/showthread.php?t=254)
Any way, based on the reply I got from one particular individual, its nice to know that freedom of speech and opinion truly exists in North America. Pardon the sarcasm. :rolleyes:
Usually when someone sends me a PM, it doesn't end up on a forum, but then, I'm not Plain Peter P.
RickO
08-06-2008, 06:49 AM
Usually when someone sends me a PM, it doesn't end up on a forum...
Back in high school, our English teacher gave us a short writing assignment. A classmate thought it would be funny to hand in a page of porn.
When it came time to get our marked assignments back, our teacher read my classmate's assignment out loud to the entire class and identified the writer.
His advice to my red-faced classmate was "Don't write anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the paper with your name under it."
Flash forward forty years...
Electronic media make it possible for the whole world to view your angry blog entry about your boss or those embarrassing office party images on Facebook. There is no such thing as a private email or instant message.
Have I said things here and elsewhere that I regret? Of course.
Do I have a right to get righteously indignant when someone publicizes those things? Of course not.
KZDon
08-06-2008, 09:08 AM
Alex, oh Alex. Whether he's ribbing you or not, I'd recommend you don't get into it with Peter. You're fighting way above your weight class, and he carries a mighty pen.
Sorry about the mixed metaphors everyone.
Touring
08-06-2008, 05:16 PM
Alex, oh Alex. Whether he's ribbing you or not, I'd recommend you don't get into it with Peter.
Life is too short. I just ignore members like that and continue to contribute in the way of tech or touring stuff.
Not to worry. Next June, I'll be laughing again...for the fifteenth time in a row. :D
Swervin
08-06-2008, 06:43 PM
P.P.P.
Now your talking my language.
Lets go out and smash the hell out of something.
Get drunk, naked with our manhood hanging out, go to the neighbouring village to rape, pillage and plunder.
Let smash everything to hell, aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:mad:
Nice to hear from you again.
P.S. I hear you smashing your head on the use of my too - to usage.:p
Swerving
Plain Peter P.
08-06-2008, 08:34 PM
far too often a total pain in the arse, and will mouth off outrageously, only to find that he has to apologise and choke on his shame to get people used to the idea of talking to him again...
Probably because he is halfway into his eighth decade of life, and concurrent senility, he imagines that this happenstantial fact allows him privileged status among his better-mannered juniors. They, good-naturedly allowing him to stick around for his antique value, clearly occupy the high ground.
He deserves to have to drive a feckin Yaris wearing a Tilley hat and a cell phone. He will apologise more abjectly later. Right now his dogs are insisting that he use the last of the afternoon walking the couple of miles to the old Schoolhouse. The wisdom of dogs often outweighs the ignorance of old men.
will mouth off outrageously, only to find that he has to apologise[/QUOTE}
Well, yeah, there is that, but your "feckin' Yaris" rant will surely go down in the history of this site as one of the most hilarious anti-screeds ever to grace these pages. Too bad Touring didn't get a warning or he might have loved it for what it really was.
[QUOTE]The wisdom of dogs often outweighs the ignorance of old men.
You've been talking with my wife, haven't you?
Plain Peter P.
08-09-2008, 08:06 AM
why do we hear from you so seldom?
How dey hangin', man? How's the Triumph running? I thought we had it all worked out that you write in your own special style, to hell with grammar and spelling...
This forum is just a bit poorer when you're not here.
Swervin
08-10-2008, 10:21 AM
why do we hear from you so seldom?
How dey hangin', man? How's the Triumph running? I thought we had it all worked out that you write in your own special style, to hell with grammar and spelling...
This forum is just a bit poorer when you're not here.
She is hangin out short and skinny.
Not much riding so far this year, sort of got in a funk, have to get my big boned ass out for more rides.
Bought a new house in November, put a large garden in, for me anyways, 20 feet by 70 feet.
I bought seeds from India for hot peppers. Bhin Jolokia and Naga Morich, suppose to be 1.5 million scoville units on the heat scale. Hopefully they turn out.
If they do, I am scheduled for ass surgery at the end of August to insert a lead line colon and steel cutains for ass flaps. If I cannot get in for surgery I will be buying shares in the Dickie Dee company, they will be running out of snow cones because I will be stuffing them in my ass to cool it off :D
The beginning of this thread sounds as if someone pissed you off, I love controversy, politically correct be damned, say what you think and if a person does not like it, they can go and pound salt up their ass.:eek:
Bye for now
Life is too short. I just ignore members like that and continue to contribute in the way of tech or touring stuff.
Not to worry. Next June, I'll be laughing again...for the fifteenth time in a row. :D
OK, now what am I missing? What has happened 15 Junes in a row, and why does it make you laugh?
If they do, I am scheduled for ass surgery at the end of August to insert a lead line colon and steel cutains for ass flaps. If I cannot get in for surgery I will be buying shares in the Dickie Dee company, they will be running out of snow cones because I will be stuffing them in my ass to cool it off :D
The beginning of this thread sounds as if someone pissed you off, I love controversy, politically correct be damned, say what you think and if a person does not like it, they can go and pound salt up their ass.:eek:
Bye for now
And that, ladies and germs, is the best irreverent post I have seen lately (even in my admittedly infrequent attendance) and is what keeps me coming back to this forum even when my infantile attention span seems to be preoccupied with other "things" (lately of which there are many).
That post will have me chuckling away as I drift off to sleep tonight and will, hopefully, chase out thoughts of the coming of yet another week of on-the-job drudgery. That was a good one for sure.
I bid you all a goodnight.
R
Plain Peter P.
08-11-2008, 07:21 AM
Explanation of Swervin's wierdnesses: both Smiley and the Swerve concoct and consume a substance they call salsa which you and I couldn't eat. It calls for a hotness of capiscum very high on the octane scale. Caribbean Scotch Bonnets are kidstuff for these guys. (I chomped on one of these once and then thought for a panicky minute about taking my mouth to the local Emergency Department.)
It has something to do with clinical masochism. Christian flagellants used to whip themselves to lessen their burden of sin. Someone who goes on a week of moose hunting in the rain and lives on garlic meanwhile would understand this. I actually don't...
Hayabusa
08-14-2008, 06:57 AM
Swervin, you're on some other forums under the same name/avatar aren't you?
Hello Peter. I'm doing fine, busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Moving my mother-in-law from the house at the lake back into town, running kids around, trying to keep this place respectable, and work thrown in for good measure. And even a ride now and then too. I've probably ridden more frequently this year than last. Maybe not far, but trying to get out more.
Hot salsa eh? I like it hot but not "crazy" hot. Yep the garlic takes a kicking every moose season, and that'll be here before we know it.
You buy one of the big scoots yet?
Swervin
08-15-2008, 10:53 AM
Swervin, you're on some other forums under the same name/avatar aren't you?
I am on a few other forums but not the same avatar anymore.
Sports Touring Net (don't really post there to often)
and a couple of other Triump Forums
Why you ask :cool:
Hayabusa
08-18-2008, 05:06 AM
...Sports Touring Net (don't really post there to often)...
That's where I know the handle from!
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