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[John]

dont hate the game hate the player - word life yo!

[Biff]

They should get on (to a point) because its voluntary membership. ..

And it becomes obvious that you can either stick round on a forum with the likes of the originators, or just shrug ya shoulders and admit what was once a great bunch of apples with the odd rough post is no longer playing by what should have been so pretty basic and common sense rules.

Amen brother.

Twas a good time indeed.

I'm 100% behind (so far) any course of action the mods deem necessary to help clear any shite up from here.

And don't get me on to the furkin inane posting.

"It wasn't me". Thanks for that.
"I agree". Like I care?

Here's an idea - Charge per post. Every time you post, you pay.

:eyepoke:

And dump the freakin green bling thing. It causes more shit than it's worth.

[SPORK]

I'm the one you're after, yes me. I post to wind people up. Never well respected, elder members though. I suppose I do it to keep the status quo and scare away the newbies that I don't like.

When are the boxes of rotten tomatoes getting here?

1) And don't get me on to the furkin inane posting.

"It wasn't me". Thanks for that.


2) And dump the freakin green bling thing. It causes more shit than it's worth.

1) I trust you saw my flaming of a certain member with the most posts (not naming names here..), then?

2) Yeah, I got tons of rep for it too. I'm officially a bastard.

REFERENCE:


http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...824#post459824

and

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...479#post460479

[SixPackBack]

R18 the site......to many snivelling prepubescent children dribbling shit

[WINJA]

shouldnt this thread be in poimtless drivel

[SPORK]

Good one SPB, you really showed who's the alpha male there! I bet you get such a hardon trying to make fun of other poeple on the internet. Well I suppose for you the internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS!

[El Dopa]

My "thing" is communication.....communication carries a burden of responsibility.....We have created something that broaches physical and virtual communication barriers, and as such we are leading the human conciousness in integrating communication media.....that means YOU. You do something that diverges from the historical flow of human experience.....go out of your way to poison such a fantastic blooming of human communication conciousness, one with extreme emotional and mental impact that exceeds anything that we have done before as a race? This opportunity will pass....freedom of human expression....defies comprehension for out grandparents generation. I don't care if you are 15 or 50, your Grandparents did not have the scope available to them to say what they thought, to add to the collective conciousness.

I get what you're trying to say, but I think your attempt was probably doomed before you started typing. Human nature won't change.

People have said the same thing, and made the same sort of appeals, back at every quantum leap of communication technology. The telephone, the printing press, the written word itself for all I know.

For every leap forward there will be those who exploit it to its full potential, producing art, communication, shifts in the way we do business, or whatever. They make up about 1% of the user population.

The other 99% will be those individuals sadly lacking in any vision whatsover, who use it to write whatever the generational equivalent is of 'Og is Gay' on the toilet walls.

As you have pointed out, the internet itself is the greatest learning and communication tool of all time. And what makes up the majority of the content? Porn.

Plus ca change.....

[Steam]

It's a bikers site not croquet club.

Croquet is actually quite a savage game. You have to smash the balls of the other players, the harder the better. Nasty! I have played it once and it's fairly cool.
umm... maybe 'cool' isn't the word I was looking for. Interesting and fun, rather.

[V4ME]

Thanks Jim - I get what you're saying - I'm fairly a fairly new member and I'm enjoying the diversity - and there is so much to read that you cannot possibly read it all. But thats what makes it a great site. The headings and structure allow you to find what you like and go for it.

To find this all in one place is good and although I'm new I can already identify some of the characters and am looking forward to meeting them in the flesh.

If it was better than this and declining as some have put it - then it must have been really really good.

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

Well said Jim. I have noticed one has to be brave sometimes when posting threads - someone is always gonna nitpick. I may have found a way around this - "Don't take this post too seriously - I take it as light hearted humour" - didn't get one negative judgemental reply. I thought if I was to post a thread that would please all people - I would run out of space and it would be god-damned boring.

A little more respect at times would not go amiss.

However, I have been shocked at some of the venom in some threads. I too, take time out from the KB site cos it can be depressing at times.

However, I do enjoy the site as well and have met some wonderful people - and stayed with them!!

[V4ME]

Gee BMW - I could not have said it better myself. Time out is a good thing - at times!

[Guitana]

No matter what happens we still love you JIM2!!!!!

[kro]

ennui

Dude, I love the write up, you are on the money. Along thr same lines, I get slutted off at people who use the irl acronym on message boards....... it's like, this is real life numbnuts, you communicate here the same as you have to face to face, so why is this not real life?.

Btw, congrats for getting ennui into a post. I thought that word was limited to songs like "Rattlesnake" by Live. Most excellent.

[peasea]

Ever noticed how some relatives bore you to tears at family get togethers? How Christmas always seems to pack 96 hours of torture into 2 days?

Kiwibiker is unique, but is wavering on the edge of a precipice.

My "thing" is communication. Riding a bike lets me commune with the environment in a way that city bound folk don't understand, and that country folk can grasp but refuse to acknowledge as an acceptable pass time (generally) because we as a collective group, on or off-road, have the potential to sidestep generally acceptable behaviour (legal limits) at will. As a syntagm of the transport paradigm we can avoid rules, flout laws, and enjoy activities that hurts us, sometimes fatally. But we "get " how that can happen, and to a certain extent celebrate the vitality of our existence.

But communication carries a burden of responsibility. Kiwibiker is not a normal forum based Internet syntagm. It is a paradigm in its own right. We have created something that broaches physical and virtual communication barriers, and as such we are leading the human conciousness in integrating communication media.

We are a specialist group. We have an interest in that improbable transport medium, the two-wheeled conveyance, that doesn't fall over unless we fall off, or forget to put a foot down.

That means YOU. You do something that diverges from the historical flow of human experience. Not only do you use a means of transport that has a tenuous grasp on the physical world, you use an electronic medium that has only become a valid vehicle of discourse in human experience in only the last 3 generations of human beings.

So why do so many of you forget that there is a person on the other end of your sometimes outrageous, almost violent accusatory posts and private messages, go out of your way to poison such a fantastic blooming of human communication conciousness, one with extreme emotional and mental impact that exceeds anything that we have done before as a race? This opportunity will pass.

This freedom of human expression, even limited to a subject that can be defined as a suck, bang, blow motive power, strung together between two wheels, defies comprehension for out grandparents generation. I don't care if you are 15 or 50, your Grandparents did not have the scope available to them to say what they thought, to add to the collective conciousness.

All the people you meet on here are real. You could go for a ride with them tomorrow. I guarantee you would find something about them to like.

Because they are more you than not.

Stop being rude to your siblings. We get Christmas every day, and we should not let boredom, ennui, and familiarity lessen our experience of our fellow beings human.

We need to communicate more and if the 'net gets that job done then so be it.

I think I'm lucky in that my grandfather told me tales of being gassed in the trenches in WWI, my father told me tales of the Russian convoys to Mermansk in WWII and also how he played his part at Normandy. This site is what they fought for; freedom of speech. We do, indeed, get Christmas every day in NZ. Whatever the pen-pushers do, you can still go out and earn a living, eat great food and go wherever the hell you want in NZ. Motorcycling is part of that and the people that are associated with the sport are all interesting characters. They all (like Paula and I) have a story to tell; that story only has an end when the storyteller moves to a higher plain.

The stories, however, will remain.

[zooter]

Well I developed a bad case of can't be f'd with bike chat for awhile there with my accident and come back to find a lot of old regulars having a lot less to say. I must have missed all the fireworks, seems fairly banal but civil of late.