Why I am saying Goodbye to BCF before a proper Hello

[Tamsin]

[smegballs]

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If only I had my AR......

Thanks Obama

[Commuter_Tim]

[Ariel Badger]

Tonight I go to bed in tears. I will miss the OP whoever they were.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

What gets me is the apparent surprise on the OP's part. "What the hell?!? I found this amazeballs bikers' forum and after reading past threads and gaining a sense of what gives at bcf generally, I signed on the dotted line....and WHACK...a slew of sexist bastards scuttled out of the woodwork and bummed the living teats off me."

Yeah. No shit.

Fact is bcf is full of sexist shitbags. I myself am not particularly guilty of sexist shitbaggery. But you take the rough with the smooth. There used to be regular outbreaks of anti-semitism and racism as well. Much of that has - since kradmelder left - abated. You will also not have to look too far to find blatant homophobia.

It's all there. For better or worse - and let's be honest, usually worse - so quite why you failed to notice is a little perplexing. I'm probably a bit more impervious to it than you because I have a knob, am old (so am a partly unreconstructed tosser), and am increasingly apathetic.

BCF is to my mind obviously very anti-PC. Although not quite as much as it might think. It's far more sexist than racist for instance. You might be wondering why sexism - and to a lesser extent, homophobia - are regarded as fair play at BCF in a way that racism is not.

This is because biking is about testosterone, machismo and trying to be all tough and 'ard, like. Griefing slags and giving queers stick fit with the overall mission of bcf biker blokedom quite nicely.

Tiresome as fuck, but with intermittent moments of hilarity - often when such pathetic grandstanding and hubris goes fatally wrong. Stick around, watch loud mouthed idiotic bastards lose limbs and/or die. You might even learn something in the process.
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[Minty]

Well, I personally think this is going to stick in my mind for quite some time. I doubt I will get over to Lanzarote where the weather was all we could have asked for and the hotel was fantastic. The kids had a great time.

Sorry, what were we talking about again?
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My fingers smell of your mum.

[smegballs]

[Rogerborg]

[dydey90]

[sickpup]

Considering the OP's location and career this is either Ollie/Alice in Sunderland/DiscoBiscuits mother or a friend/colleague of his mothers.

The Irony is strong in this one.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[covent.gardens]

There must be more bans, to protect the childr- protect the new members!!!!11

Won't someone think of the ch--ad revenue

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Must be a bit slow on TRC lately, I guess....
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[Eddie Hitler]

Sorry, you are..? .

[Matt B]

[hellkat]

Oi.
Don't bring me into this thread!

I was quietly standing on the sidelines (on my box behind the fence) and watching without posting, because you know it would only get messier than a blocked mooncup if I contributed.


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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

*thinks "flounce" should be replaced with "mooncup" a la oh whatever happened to such-and-such a bcf member not seen for 4 weeks or more? Oh s/he mooncupped*
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[pinkyfloyd]

Mooncups... Wife uses one.. swears by it but feminine she is not. To be fair though if you add up the cost of one of those little weird devices against the cost of the throw away alternatives she's saved us a small fortune.

As for BCF. Its full of idiots. Myself included, but we are a funny piss taking bunch of idiots who would probably never get along with each other at the best of times if it wasn't for our shared love of piss taking and motorcycles. In the years I have been here I have learnt that should you want to actually learn about motorcycles then stay in the motorcycle sections, new rider, workshop, general bike etc. If you want to learn about the warped and twisted side of life then explore further down the home page into the general chat areas.

Its not sexist, it is not just PC. We do not discriminate against one person just because they are female, we discriminate against everyone equally and if you rise to the bait you get eaten alive. If you laugh at us or, as has proven, take the piss back then you become a well respected member of our little family.

Think of the place like a new work place. Your the new person, the apprentice, the butt of the jokes and the outsider. Hang around and laugh at yourself and lighten the fuck up and you'll find everyone moves onto the next poor bastard to join BCF and you can help make them feel "welcome!"
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illuminateTHEmind wrote: I am just more evolved than most of you guys... this allows me to pick of things quickly which would have normally taken the common man years to master
Hockeystorm65:.well there are childish arguments...there are very childish arguments.....there are really stupid childish arguments and now there are......Pinkfloyd arguments!
Teflon-Mike:I think I agree with just about all Pinky has said.

[Jayy]

Who are these people?

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[hellkat]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[hellkat]

And stop insulting people you don't even know.
Hell way to go, luv.

I like pink things (sometimes) and I like Hello Kitty things (sometimes). Its only by chance that I am a scruffy cunt who never wears co-ordinated anything, that you haven't just insulted me with your derisory remarks about the choices of other women who are actually OUT THERE riding bikes while you were still busy doing whatever the fuck you were doing before you took it into your head to get on a bike.

I booted around on bikes aged 23, and then spent the intervening years between then and 38 years old being a good-little-wife-and-mother* - and then I came late back to biking. I made MANY of the same mistakes you are making now.

And now I'm here on BCF, after having been dipped my toe in a fair few other forums of many different types (!) and I quite like it here. Liking BCF and liking every single person on the forum are two quite different things, as I am sure you are very capable of appreciating.

I could have joined several of the verbal forays into bullying new members, its tempting to hunt with the pack, its very very tempting to have a smart mouth and drive someone away just because you can, because the others are.

I could have defended more of the "victims" than I have (and I am often the first to stand up for an underdog when I think they have a valid point of view) when I have seen beyond the noob and understood they are equally as talented and often have more to offer than most of the people bullying them on here.

But mostly I sit tight, keep my own counsel and just get on with riding my bike. In uncoordinated, unsafe and frankly not even waterproof riding gear, on dodgy bikes that have seen better days and occasionally of rather questionable road-worthiness.

If my bike needs fixing, I just wait til my fella finds the time to get round to it, or until I can afford to put it in the shop, cos I have no interest in being a righteous sister of the spanner, and I rarely do ride-outs unless it absolutely suits me to get off my arse. Hardly anybody's idea of a right-on biker chick. But I'm out there (currently on a shit-box black BMW 750 - when it gets a new battery!), getting on with it, getting on with riding and living.

Am I being blinkered, or is it just that I have better things to do with my life than worry what a pack of nerdy twats I dont even know think of me? I know how I see it. Guess which is the correct answer, and you might get a Blankety-Blank chequebook and pen.

I say it again.
Pay your dues.
Then come back and judge.

Chances are, you'll still find plenty of overopinionated wankers in need of a slap round the ears, to bicker with ... but NOBODY is likely to take any notice of you until you have got your arse on a bike and got a few years and a few miles under your belt.



*okay, I wasn't all that good ...
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[hellkat]