So I survived my 1st interrogation

[javadude]

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Edited December 29, 2012 by javadude

[flat29]

tell us what bike it was

[flat29]

and wtf, you survived jack s!*t

[LeTurbo]

Oh dear! These subjects are only supposed to be raised on Fridays. Friday is the day! Hubbers await Friday with baited breath, sharpening their claws and practising their wicked-wolf drools.

 

I can see where the OP is coming from. There are tjops who can be aggressive and pushy (no names, no pack-drill), but that's life.

 

Unfortunately, we also can't get away from the reality of the situation. The Table Mountain muggings, for example, aren't rich kids from Constantia. Not that I know of. It's easier for them to rob their parents, and I'm sure they do that with skill.

 

A good friend has actually recovered several bikes and restored them to their rightful owners by exactly this method. So what we win on the swings, we lose on the roundabouts. Maybe one day you'll be grateful that someone somewhere thinks, "I'm not sure about this situation, lemme check it out."

 

Yes, I'm sure there's some old prejudices involved. But then, at the "Museum of Prejudice" (I think it's in the States somewhere) there are two doors in. One says, "I have prejudice" and opens. The other says, "I have no prejudice" and doesn't. Because we all do, in some measure: colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, politics, age, ugly vs beautiful ...

[Smiles]

Did i touch a nerve?

Hahahaha, let me guess you have a real chip on your shoulder. I have actually grown up in the new South Africa and have friends across the board, and you'll find me with my arms around my friends of all colours. what i do get pissed off with is people skirting around the race topic - just call the guy a racist or keep it to yourself.

[Stretch]

OP has some point - it was just portrayed more aggressively than he perhaps meant. but i agree we dont need topics like this.

[Christopher Brunsdon]

So I decided to buy a cheapie to do some training rides on, and just pop down to the shop with..... ....

 

I think too many are too quick to judge without thinking for one moment.

 

I had a reality check a few years back when I saw a black guy race like a bat out of hell past me one day as I was walking to the local Spar to get some lunch. I was still thinking should I phone the cops, should I post on The Hub, etc

 

The guy was suspiciously fast, he was cycling a MTB, and it had a half bike attached to it. It screamed a crime has just happened.

 

On my return from the Spar, the same fella cam cruising past me with a kid on the half-bike. It dawned on me that he was racing to get his employers son at the primary school down the road and was racing against the clock.

 

Since that day I've changed my attitude.

[HappyMartin]

So what are you guys saying exactly? No racists left in South Africa? They all went to Australia?

 

Relax guys. Racism is never pleasant. White people get it as well and we don't like it either. Yelling at each other wont fix it

[LOSMEICHERIE]

Black Whites Coloured Chineese Indians ... etc are my friends.This racial topics bores me, can we stop it please.

 

I am a blackman and i love South Africa.

 

Akneethling when you say this guys were what did they do? did you get racial comments?

[Mojoman]

So what are you guys saying exactly? No racists left in South Africa? They all went to Australia?

 

Relax guys. Racism is never pleasant. White people get it as well and we don't like it either. Yelling at each other wont fix it

For sure, a couple of weeks back I was in the field next to where I live playing ball with the dogs when some black guys called me over to the fence. I went to go and see what they wanted, turns out they were staying at a self catering venue across the road from me (and had been dropped off by taxi and had no transport) and wanted to go to the local game reserve for a game drive and seeing how I 'owned' this big property and was a white farmer (was said in jest but we white 'farming' folk get the gist of the comment) could I take them in my car! I told them I dont own the property, only rent here, and that not all white folk were rich! A little different from the original post but it just shows how assumptions because of colour can be wrong and racism is alive and well, it takes many different forms and shapes but you should realise thats just how it is all over the world and will always be so. We are different colours, have different cultures and should accept we are different instead of this rainbow nation crap that (in my opinion) just causes more trouble as it tries to force us all into one mould.

[Ryanpmb]

Where is Akneethling? He posts this rubbish and then disappears... Maybe he's out shopping for cycling kit.

[Vetseun]

Black Whites Coloured Chineese Indians ... etc are my friends.This racial topics bores me, can we stop it please.

 

I am a blackman and i love South Africa.

 

Akneethling when you say this guys were what did they do? did you get racial comments?

Thanks Bud, I really wish Mr Neetling would find a political blog to sprout this crap that is in my opinion an effort to stir up a storm.

We live in a multi cultured society. The other day I cut in front of a black dude in my car. At the next traffic light he rolled his window down and shouted at me that I should look how I drive. Told me Im a F#cking pinky. I found it extremely amuzing. Sometimes we just need to relax.

[Vetseun]

Where is Akneethling? He posts this rubbish and then disappears... Maybe he's out shopping for cycling kit.

He sprouted a bunch of crap and then dissapeared.

[King_Crispy]

He's gone to Cash Converters to buy a set of flat pedals. That way his stolen/recovered/cheapie is under the radar. He has also resolved to shave his legs in an effort to look more the part.

And he's watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so he can learn the moves and bliksem the racist souties when they ask him next time about his bike

[Wyatt Earp]

So what are you guys saying exactly? No racists left in South Africa? They all went to Australia?

 

Relax guys. Racism is never pleasant. White people get it as well and we don't like it either. Yelling at each other wont fix it

 

Describe RACISM.

[Guest Omega Man]

F#cking pinky.

Hahaha. That's funny.

 

@ Everyone. If you spot a dodgy looking oke on a white Morewood Makulu with a white marzo fork and hope brakes in the Retreat/Steenberg/Lakeside/Tokai area please feel free to stop the person. I don't care what colour they are.

 

You can them bring him to my house and watch me feed him through the mulcher and spread out in my garden. (I'm joking of course. I don't want to get hair in my mulcher)

Edited December 30, 2012 by Omega Man