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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Darwinism? Reply with quote

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A teenager has died after an off-road bike with three people aboard crashed into a car.

Chris Mason, 18, was killed and his two friends seriously injured in the crash in Denton yesterday.

Police say it is unclear which of the three was driving when the collision took place just before 11.30am on busy Manchester Road. They are also probing the ownership of the bike.

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PostPosted: 20:13 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Meh for a moment there I thought I might have gotten me XT back.
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PostPosted: 20:32 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

One thing I've never understood about true darwinism and natural selection is that as humans we seek risk taking to make us feel good. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense.
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PostPosted: 20:55 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alexio wrote:
One thing I've never understood about true darwinism and natural selection is that as humans we seek risk taking to make us feel good. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense.



Risk taking exists solely to impress others especially women into hopping into the sack with us. I.e. there is a need to stand out from the crowd, there is a futurama episode which says don't make out with robots which explains this.

War, invention, athelecism, riding a bike quickly, risk taking is ALL interlinked with attracting poon.

Thats why it makes evolutionary sense.


It did when I got to Korea as Korean girlies were very friendly after hearing about my journey Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 22:37 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah! Denton. About 10 minutes away from here Laughing

My mate thinks the dead one went to my college, I don't recognise him though.
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PostPosted: 22:50 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alexio wrote:
From an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense.

The men that took the biggest risks and managed to stay living and able (death isn't great for making babies) could provide the best food and security for their off-spring.
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PostPosted: 23:02 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

G wrote:
Alexio wrote:
From an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense.

The men that took the biggest risks and managed to stay living and able (death isn't great for making babies) could provide the best food and security for their off-spring.


True. I suppose what I'm saying is that with the invention of motorbikes and all it no longer makes evolutionary sense at all Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:04 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alexio wrote:

True. I suppose what I'm saying is that with the invention of motorbikes and all it no longer makes evolutionary sense at all Laughing


Men who ride motorcycles make women moist and wanton. Well known fact. Wink

Therefore there is a reproductive advantage to riding motorcycles.

EDIT: Even withing motorcycling. Risk = reward. You don't get topless visor wipers at the start of IAM assessment rides.
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PostPosted: 23:09 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Therefore there is a reproductive advantage to riding motorcycles


Discounting all of those infertility rumours about the vibrations and radiation? Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 02 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alexio wrote:
True. I suppose what I'm saying is that with the invention of motorbikes and all it no longer makes evolutionary sense at all Laughing

Evolution has evolved; society it's self has always evolved quicker than our physiology, however that pace is quickening exponentially.
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PostPosted: 10:13 - 03 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alexio wrote:
True. I suppose what I'm saying is that with the invention of motorbikes and all it no longer makes evolutionary sense at all Laughing


Physical evolution takes milleniums. Bikes have been around for a fraction of that time, so not really a chance to have an impact.

Risk taking makes the weak more obvious (and / or dead) and so the strong survive to breed. Nothing like totally effective so it will take many generations for the weak blood lines / poor genetic mutations to die out.

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PostPosted: 12:04 - 04 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
EDIT: Even withing motorcycling. Risk = reward. You don't get topless visor wipers at the start of IAM assessment rides.


You'd get a lot more IAM signups if you did though.
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 04 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Shaggy D.A. wrote:

You'd get a lot more IAM signups if you did though.

Depends, maybe not if it's offered by your average lady IAM attendee . Shocked!
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PostPosted: 23:28 - 07 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am intrigued at the suggestion women are turned on by bikers.
Can you name times and places, as a lady biker I do not on the whole find male bikers a turn-on.
Can someone explain the topless visor wiper reference to me?
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PostPosted: 00:51 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

manuka wrote:
as a lady biker


You're allowed to ride bikes and have internet access? Who's chained to the sink?

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PostPosted: 02:40 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Women say they are not impressed by bikes, but they are really.

I think theres a "Hmmm he looks brave and strong so he will be able to look after me and my kids, and my kids will inherit that trait and be big and strong and thus have bavies too" thing going on.

One of the reasons why some women like men who beat them up, I think? Part from that I can phathom <(spelling) a reason.

Also the main demographic of women who are impressed by motorbikes are 16 year olds, why you would want to impresses any other women I dont konw Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 12:33 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aye, but in a girls world first impressions count. Bikers come across as either
a) Young, obnoxious and show-offs
b) lazy, unkempt and opinionated.
Granted, scratch the surface and most bikers are intelligent teddy-bears as you can tell from some of the forum posts. However guys, this is not how you come across, addled with booze and drugs at some of the motorbike rallies I have been to.
p/s you may try to chain me to the kitchen sink, but I have bolt-croppers.
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PostPosted: 12:46 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my experience what girls say they like and what they ACTUALLY like is regularly rather different.
Ask a girl what she likes in a bloke and you’ll regularly see all sorts of ‘nice’ attributes described, but the reality is the ones they are ACTUALLY attracted tend to be a lot more arseholish. The fact they can’t seem to admit this to themselves perhaps explains why so often many women end up in bad relationships again and again.

Plenty of women have told me they do like bikers/biking, but this tends to be ones that don’t really know much about it, don’t know about the ones that are already bikers or more involved in the ‘community’.

I think judging ‘bikers’ in general by those you find intoxicated at bike rallies is a tad narrow view.
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PostPosted: 13:04 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I admit It is a narrow view of bikers, and part of the reason I have joined this forum is to try and see a different side to the biking community from that which I have seen before.
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PostPosted: 13:06 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

G wrote:
In my experience what girls say they like and what they ACTUALLY like is regularly rather different.


Probably largely true for people in general.

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PostPosted: 16:57 - 08 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

manuka wrote:
p/s you may try to chain me to the kitchen sink, but I have bolt-croppers.


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PostPosted: 14:04 - 24 Feb 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

manuka wrote:
p/s you may try to chain me to the kitchen sink, but I have bolt-croppers.


I'd just put them out of your reach.






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PostPosted: 22:40 - 10 Mar 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

ms51ves3 wrote:
My mate thinks the dead one went to my college, I don't recognise him though.


you wouldn't...

... he didn't have the imprint of a ford badge on his forehead at college
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 10 Mar 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^^ i dont know is thats wrong or funny Embarassed
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PostPosted: 07:48 - 11 Mar 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

sPiTfYa wrote:
^^^ i dont know is thats wrong or funny Embarassed


Neither....
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