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Apropos the sporting analogy, it occurs to me that the expression "level the playing field" is literal, not "slope the playing field downhill so that the worst side has an equal chance". ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Lord Percy wrote: | daemonoid wrote: |
No need - with true 'equity' there are no supporters and everyone is forced to play whether they like it or not. |
Totally agree.
Here's my own tale of woe.
I absolutely detest the the thought of having to do public presentation in any form. I'm quite a confident guy but I have a petrifying irrational fear of such exposure, simple as that. When I tell people about this, I'm always greeted with the same response of 'it isn't that bad', or 'well we all have to do it at some point in our lives', which I think is a load of bollocks and is just a symptom of the 'everyone can be good at everything' mindset that modern (Western?) society is overly preaching.
I don't want to be the king of oration, yet it seems I need to at least show I 'can' do it. But... why?! I'm content with the fact that plenty of people are far better than me, and I'm happy to back down and not even attempt to join that game, which is surely fine - we are a diverse species of strengths and weakness after all. Yet I'm apparently expected to have a go. Why why why?
If you're shit at something, or hell even if you're good at it but simply don't want to, then why should you be obliged to? I swear this is some kind of off-shoot of the 'equality' malarkey we're dealing with here. It's also a reason why shit people end up doing things they're shit at - because the current attitude is that trying is good enough.
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I love oration. Not sure why.
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And where's the option for "geezerbird" ?
Plenty of those around the bike scene, vile hirsute penis-chomping beasts that they are ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 10 years, 40 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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