biker stereotypes

[scumdog]

My mother was telling someone that I rode a bike and the person said "oh, does she have a Harley?" My darling mother replied "get real, she rides a REAL bike, not a piece of crap!"

I don't worry about being thought of as scum - I'm a journalist and we usually rate below used car salesmen on the list of respected professions so I suppose a biker journo must be the lowest of the low!

Ooooh! that first comment cut to the quick -or it should but being a H-D rider I'm too thick to know that it should.

And does your second comment mean that my job ranks higher than a biker journo?

[scumdog]

Where the hell did the word stereotype come from anyway - and what did they use before stereo's were invented?? Radiogramtype? LaGloriatype? monotype?

Nah, they were Murphy-Richardograms! hyuk-hyuk

[Waylander]

Who gives, anyone who stereotypes isn't worth listening to. And that includes me, so don't listen to me. There are only a handful of people in this world whose opinion matters to me, those who know me. Those that don't know me are best advised not to judge or stereotype me.

When in doubt refer to the last line in InLineFour's sig?

[inlinefour]

When in doubt refer to the last line in InLineFour's sig?

and I've learnt over the years also very true...

[onearmedbandit]

Too true...

[GN1NiteStnd]

Yeah I used to work at a supermarket and some of the customers used to give me this worried look and pull their small children aside when I walked past. It neva really worried me, in fact it made me laugh. I mean Im a 160cm tall female, without the gear no one had ever been intimidated by me before.
Its like they couldnt look past the stereotype.

[Wolf]

I just agree and tell them I've dies three times already

But he got better and the scars are all gone, too...

[SARGE]

Yeah I used to work at a supermarket and some of the customers used to give me this worried look and pull their small children aside when I walked past. It neva really worried me, in fact it made me laugh. I mean Im a 160cm tall female, without the gear no one had ever been intimidated by me before.
Its like they couldnt look past the stereotype.

im just the opposite .. im a 6 foot, 110 kg one eyed, tatooed, bearded malcontent..but i am always friendly ( not in traffic though) and smile 99% of the time.. people still tend to pull the kids aside for some reason...

[Beemer]

And does your second comment mean that my job ranks higher than a biker journo?

If you are a used car salesman, yep! I think journalists are usually almost at the bottom of the list of respected professions, which really annoys me because it's not like we have tabloid horrors in NZ like they do overseas. Most news here is pretty straight, not sensationalised.

The funny thing is, in a previous life I was a nurse - so I've been highly respected and now how the mighty have fallen! (Much more fun being a journo though, got free tickets to see Crusty Demons for a start, beats a box of chocolates any day!)

[idb]

Who gives, anyone who stereotypes isn't worth listening to.

That's one hell of a stereotype OAB.
There might be a lot of stereotypers that are very interesting and worthy of an audience.

In fact I reckon that all stereotypers are .....oops

[Wolf]

I think rugby is more likely to injure people than riding.

Back in my "can't stay on the fucking bike" days I used to sit in the waiting room at A&E while later arrivals off the rugby field were taken straight through - and fair enough, too... I at least limped in there under my own steam while these guys were being carried in by two of their mates and they looked like a collision between a truck and an abattoir.

All I can say is, I'm glad I only hit the road - it seems, on observation, to be a safer option than playing rugby...




A journalist, oh my! tsk tsk

[bkrwench]

Not only do i put up with being called sir and stereotyped as a biker, with all that implies ie:hoon, lout etc etc

i also cop the oh my your a chick!!!

are you mad?

i reckon they are just envious of our freedom

the others are just arseholes & who cares