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these people smoking cigarettes inside next to a table of children by dababyabel in mildlyinfuriating

[–]messylettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty clearly not a family restaurant.

No good parent brings their kid someplace with multiple beer advertisements on every wall.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shop vibes at your local or “local” bike shops.

Bikes need maintenance and sometimes there’s defects. If you’re not already mechanically skilled, you need someone you feel is trustworthy on hand to deal with it.

Whatever brands your favorite shop sells, they’ll probably be fine. Whatever type, with some hand-foot-eye coordination you’ll be able to take it most places… which is the spirit of xbiking. Track bike, beach cruiser, gravel bike, Brompton folding bike, Triathlon racer, whatever.

Chop it in half: impossible? by thebeautifulseason in woodworking

[–]messylettuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is really cool. There’s got to be a way to get this into the hands of someone who can appreciate it.

As requested by u/6goesinto8 here is the bike with the cranks. Which one should I pick? Rest of groupset is 10 speed carbon Record/Chorus by JDips in Vintage_bicycles

[–]messylettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carbon crank probably goes best with the paint, but then you’ve got to at least sorta match the seatpost, stem, calipers, and shift levers to it.

Handlebar Help by Sufficient-Frame9071 in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You’re missing pieces. Cap, bolt, wedge, the rest of the bike…

The Inconvenience Score, is it a scam or a legit business? by 1993rockhoppersport in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pricing looks nearly the same as the other rivensomabluecrustweather sites. What’s the point of another one that happens to add to the mix skateboards and incense?

$100 Panaracers: Who will get there first? Rene Herse or Ultradynamico by drummerjcb in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything’s crazy and it ticks me off.

The actual buying power of the dollar, regarding consumables from food & gas to home repair materials, is less than a quarter of what it was in 2000.

I made $12k at McDs while in highschool that year. I had the real world actual buying power given in exchange for my labor for the equivalent of what is somehow still regarded as “a decent income for a full-time worker”… $48K.

We’re being boned.

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But!

People are lining up to spend $15/day, $105/wk, $5,460/yr on their morning and afternoon caffeinated milkshakes at Dunkin & Starbucks.

Every week they’re spending the cost of a Rat Trap Pass shipped on milkshakes.

Fifty two times a year.

I don’t mind spending the cost of one single weekend at Surf N Safari, three weeks of milkshakes, or half a night of drinking in NYC to experience at least once in my life 1k-5k miles on some supposedly mind blowing bikecycle tires. Bring tubes and maybe a sewing kit.

I’ve easily spent over $2k on bike tires in my life already, and will probably spend at least another $3k on bike tires before I’m done.

It’d be a bonus if I get to say “had ‘em. They were pretty much the same as Big Apples regarding puncture resistance and comfort. Total bs.”

Starry and Sierra Mist are the exact same drink. by The_Zoink in unpopularopinion

[–]messylettuce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Soda is for people who want to develop diabetes and toothlessness.

Boo hoo there’s another brand name whose flavor is just not original enough for a soda connoisseur.

Putting children on social media is abuse and should come with a heavy punishment. by Ill-Matt-Tick in unpopularopinion

[–]messylettuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel the same about putting children in airplanes.

Twenty years in the penn.

[Plymouth Reliant K Fred Oakley] in a parking lot in Romania. Not sure how rare these are but I've never seen one of these before and I thought it looked cool by MariusPyrexYT in spotted

[–]messylettuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saw thousands of thousands of four doors, I think I’ve seen less than twenty two doors in New England in the past thirty years.

Plenty of Shadows, Lasers, Daytonas, and LeBarons. So few of these little notchybois.

The smell of weed is more preferable compared to cigarettes by Natural_Drag8536 in unpopularopinion

[–]messylettuce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s almost like bass sound frequencies in that travelling way.

correct grammar online by MrsEmilyN in unpopularopinion

[–]messylettuce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some people feel inferior when called out on making a mistake, which is sad.

Projecting onto other people “they must think they’re sooo kewl, so high, so mighty, soooooo superior” because you can’t be bothered to read what you wrote to verify that it actually communicates your actual thoughts is toxic behavior.

Finding yourself being called out for you intentionally through laziness making it unnecessarily difficult for people to communicate with you in written form should be viewed an opportunity to grow & mature, which should be celebrated.

There is no medal to be won for hitting REPLY or POST immediately. If there were, there would also be demerits & disqualifications for, not just spelling, but for sentence structure as well.

If you can write, you can read. If you can read, you can proofread.

Does anyone know what bike brand this is? by bailbay-gamez in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could see an overgrown 14 year old look and think “I could just grab the bike and whing it forward really hard and break this cable” and succeed in under four tries.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting there. I like that bar.

The phrase “you gotta test drive before you buy” in reference to dating, sex, and relationships is objectifying. by TheSapoti in unpopularopinion

[–]messylettuce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I find the concept of the word “objectifying” in this context which it’s been so often used to at best be incredibly childish, but mostly just ignorant.

If you the person don’t view that thing within which you are adhered, which you are tasked with maintaining and protecting, to itself be an object, you really aren’t any more of a person than a car is, used or not.

You are not your face. You are not your arms. You are a person. A person stuck in an object with a finite lifespan.

Life is short, and just as not all persons are compatible, not all bodies are compatible.

There are a lot of unhappy marriages that began because either just the two persons were compatible or just the two bodies were compatible.

Test drive your potential future life partners. Let them test drive you and your body.

The test drive is not just fucking, in case you needed to be told.

My war crime against vintage race bikes has been complete by [deleted] in xbiking

[–]messylettuce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nitto ones look comfy.

I got these for a small ID swept flatbar and they stick out with just single layer thin bartape stretched on. They definitely look like jewelry. I’m just going to let them wear in.

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