Random Thoughts Thread

[Ibrahim]

heh, the Dutch are just like people in Fort Collins: they steal bikes, and buy them from stoners when theirs are stolen....

[Moros]

heh, the Dutch are just like people in Fort Collins: they steal bikes, and buy them from stoners when theirs are stolen....

It's quite the same over here. It's like bikes are a bit of general property. You take one use it drop it, someone else takes it drops it. If yours is taken you take someone else and so on. It's almost communism on small scale.

[rajpoot]

It's quite the same over here. It's like bikes are a bit of general property. You take one use it drop it, someone else takes it drops it. If yours is taken you take someone else and so on. It's almost communism on small scale.

I sense an untapped market for bicycle locks and chains.
Now if I can only find the capital to setup, I'll be a millionaire in no time.

[Fragony]

I sense an untapped market for bicycle locks and chains.
Now if I can only find the capital to setup, I'll be a millionaire in no time.

The lock is more expensive than the bike ;) An expensive lock might prevent theft but your bike will be vandalised. As Moros rightly says, bycicles are regarded as common property. Nobody will get overly angry if it gets snatched. Rules of chivalry is that you only steal the ones that are already falling apart, it's not seen as a crime. Grand Theft Bycicle ;)

[HopAlongBunny]

Open a "hardware" store and sell bolt-cutters as well. You'll be a one stop shop :)

[Lemur]

I just wrote 24 headlines for the same dang article, and still they aren't happy. Here's the thing: Good writing of any sort depends on specifics.

If I write, "Lemur Bad," there's no impact, no resonance, nothing. "Bad" lacks the specifics.

If I write, "Lemur Known Goat Molester," suddenly you have an image to work with, and the whole thing makes sense.

Anyway. These idiots want a headline that says everything, hence their inability to settle on a single message. I keep pushing back at them, but this is going to be a long day.

[Fragony]

We are going to see if we can play Fur Elize using airguns on plasticbottles, it's possible depending on how much water is in them.

[Moros]

If nicotine gum is for smoking addicts who want to quit, are menthol cigarettes made for people who want to stop chewing gum?