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Cycling + => Free For All => Across The Road => Topic started by: Pale Rider on November 22, 2023

Title: Son of Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 22, 2023
Archive of this page: https://archive.ph/57jAr

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Quote from: André Gide
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
Gender again. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-620#post-82319)

Waiting to see if classic33 (or anybody) actually watches that video (https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch/is-sex-bimodal) from Paradox Institute he linked to. They've also done a lot on DSDs, (https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/watch) and helpfully provide transcripts. If you're up for a bit more reading, try Quackometer. (https://www.quackometer.net/blog/2022/07/the-muddling-of-the-american-mind-part-i.html)


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AndyRM: The only people I've ever encountered who have a problem with the term "cisgender" is uh, people who are cisgender. Not a term I care for, or use, but it's funny watching people like you get their panties in a bunch about it. Along with everything else which doesn't fit your Hetty Spaghetti view of the world.
AuroraSaab: It makes women a subset of their own sex. They aren't. Quite rightly, nobody would accept the idea of cisblack and transblack people.
Newfhouse: Tall women and short women are two subsets of women. Sometimes it is useful to be descriptive and sometimes it doesn’t matter.
Monkers: Oh is this another of your immutable binaries? There are black people and non-black people? Or is it that black people are a subset of the human species where whites are dominant because you say so. Another fail.

Why monkers acts so monkers:
- As monkers specialises in the antifactual, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-621#post-82331) logical fallacies (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman) are on brand.
- The targets spend time rebutting; no matter how well they do it, this still gives strawmen and other shambolic constructs more time on the floor. With TRAs (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/320926/i-think-i-understand-the-trans-movement-now?sort=new) it's always a race to the bottom. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3326391-Why-do-TRAs-keep-using-black-women-when-defending-TWAW)
- If someone is attacked enough, enough people will begin to believe they deserve it, ipso facto.

The best way to deal with the gawdawful, aggressively wrong monkers (and 'tools) of the world is to make as much fun of them as humanly possible. Here's a fine example of poking someone else who deserves it – in this case a museum curator: (https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1727072407532581217)

(https://i.imgur.com/dNkOwWU.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/tHphBrJ.jpg)

As humour won't work on those whose sense of humour has been circumscribed by ideological considerations, the next best approach is exactly Aurora's: patiently explaining (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-619#post-82297) as if you would to a moderately intelligent child.

Were I to speculate on the state of AndyRM's panties, I'd guess permanent twist.

As for newfhouse, once more into the Venn:

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/men-venn.jpg)
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 23, 2023
Gender again. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-623#post-82376)

More monkers? Very well. First, old business: (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-618#post-82269)
Quote from: Ian H
Quote from: icowden
Lady: a polite or formal way of referring to a woman.

Mostly condescending rather than polite.

Such gallantry.


That's it. That's the extent of my commentary on that.

Quote from: monkers the distinguished historian
Dead people tend not to mind what people say about them.

How nice to be prescient in my choice of meme yesterday.

Quote from: monkers
Why is it that you never bother to read, but start bashing the keyboard like a drunken crazed chimp?

(https://i.imgur.com/WflckcE.jpg)

Quote from: monkers +
And so the craziness of the bigots here goes on ... ad nauseum. (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/149069/how-to-rebutt-word-vomit/2dd20c35-cdc1-4d23-8c49-73c1c44ee9b7)

Monkers has yet to realise that 'bigot' is going the way of 'transphobe' in this debate: the more you use it,* particularly against people who clearly don't deserve it, the less it means anything intelligible.

* ad nauseam, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg17306#msg17306) if you will. At the risk of triggering Ian. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/but-where-are-you-really-from.414/page-31#post-46290)

Quote from: monkers to Unkraut
If you tell me you have a faith, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-625#post-82423) I'll respect it, up until the point that you say that your faith means that you can impose your beliefs such as the eradication of the rights of others - then I'll likely be annoyed and possibly rude (which is a legitimate way of challenging absolutists since resolution by discussion is pretty impossible).

Hallelujah! Transgenderism very nearly being a religion, (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4833317-transgenderism-as-a-religion) monkers finally gets it.


The counterclaim/projection is that we're a cult. I've posted some good links about all this, wherever they are. Google has thrown up* this one, (https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/01/20547/) which is tainted by the source, naturally.

* Not literally, though you definitely get the idea the search engine gods don't like disgorging gender critical links

Note that Unkraut is no threat to monkers; hence a long post with no coproprojectiles. This is not to say there's nothing objectionable, e.g.,

Quote from: monkers
The Israel/Palestine could not illustrate the point more - people on both sides of the argument are vocal in wishing the eradication of the other, and the signs are they are intent on it, precisely because of their absolutism and refusal to accommodate the other.

Testerical analogising of the very real eradication that happens in actual wars aside, TRAs are the ones who tend to violence, when not in deed, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8230.msg18260#msg18260) in imagery, to get their points across. Those still convinced the "extremists" are equally extreme are committed to a weird kind of fairness.

Accommodation (AuroraSaab is forever suggesting third spaces, but never mind) has meant one side budging up whilst the other takes more and more territory that doesn't belong to them. To anyone not steeped in gallantry misogyny, it's not difficult to ascertain who the bullies are.

Quote from: monkers
If a trans child states their pronouns are she/her then the there is a duty on the teacher to conform. They are not losing their faith as a result; there is no need to vent their objection due to their faith, it is unnecessary yet damaging.

See Hilary Cass on the dangers of socially transitioning children.

Quote from: monkers
Vygotsky made some useful points about the role of language in thinking

Once you're done with your homework, remember:

(https://i.imgur.com/Vuioa1P.png)

Quote from: enough monkers for now. Newfhouse:
WTAF? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-624#post-82396)

Newfhouse's first WTAF on this thread and he saves it for icowden. Was it a worthy F to give?
Quote from: icowden
But we should also not be trying to impress modern moral viewpoints on history. It's a bit like saying everyone in the 18th century was racist if they had a slave.

Can I just say that I'd love to have a slave. It would be a bit awkward if they were black. Any other colour peeps are welcome to apply for the position. Unpaid, obviously. Perhaps think of it as an internship.

Bobzmyunkle handled this well enough (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-625#post-82433) (I may consider deputising him), including his reply (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-626#post-82438) to newfhouse, whose willingness to cede the rights of women to men is insult enough.

Quote from: newfhouse
Who* have I insulted?


* Like I know if who or whom is correct here. My actual stance can be summed up with another video:

Spoiler

My slave can diagram sentences if need be.
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Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 26, 2023
F*ck the Tories: a Thread Dedicated to Suella Braverman (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-47#post-82581)
Quote from: newfhouse
Quote from: monkers+
There are practical ways to accommodate ["trans kids" in wrong sex changing rooms] without recourse to bigotry. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3654123-Im-not-sure-Im-not-a-bigot?page=5&reply=89024215)*

That sentence really ought to be the start and end of this thread.

Let's all prove we're not bigots. You first. Bear in mind that hugging a trans person is not a get-out-of-bigotry-free card.

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Link not in the original quote, in case you haven't figured that out. These days I usually add a + to the attribution when I do this. (CycleChat throws in links all the time, and gets paid to do so. I work for free.)

It's a Mumsnet thread where Robin Moira White (https://archive.ph/ws8ry#selection-3237.0-3239.18) made an appearance. ← That's a link to an archived page of an earlier post here where I wonder aloud if monkers has ever been seen in the same room as Robin (or multitool for that matter). Don't try to click on the video there, go here (https://youtu.be/X6U4B9QUG2I?si=H8FrM9kuQ8v_ckax) if you want to watch it. Or here (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg16958#msg16958) and scroll down where it's embedded, to avoid YouTube ads. Anyway, I've linked it to show I'm on the case when it comes to monkers.

Quote from: monkers
do kindly remember (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-49#post-82646) my background

The thing to remember about monkers is, though monkers can seem to talk a good game at times, monkers comes from a place of utter fallibility.
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Quote from: Bromptonaut
When my OH announced to her then academic research Chemistry colleagues she was going to train as a Secondary School teacher the response of one of them, an American, was "Ahh Liz, the walking gonads".

Quote from: monkers
As you certainly know, most of the girls hit puberty before [year 9], but many of the boys you knew at the end of year 8 are suddenly hairy, with lower voices and reeking of testosterone.

My bold. Nice to see two of our resident realityphobes acknowledging, if only indirectly, that it might not be a good idea to give boys greater access to girls in states of undress. Yes, even the ones with trans immunity.

In future it would be helpful to lump all the nonsense into the gender thread, to avoid me having to search it out.

Starmer's Vision Quest (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-275#post-82630)
Quote from: multitool
Rosie Duffield is this century's Kate Hoey

What did I just say.

Where were we? Oh right, F*ck the Tories: (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-46#post-82573)
Quote from: monkers+
all part of your intention to whip up moral panic. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4792038-you-dont-care-about-children-moral-panic?reply=125686605)


I was careful not to pull a classic33, thinking it best to actually that before posting it. Well, the first few minutes at least (some made it further (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4792038-you-dont-care-about-children-moral-panic?page=2&reply=125704710)), which so reeked of hypocrisy that I was confident I'd chosen a good one to represent the other side.

From a thread about another fucked Tory... (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4949023-conservative-candidate-resigns-after-trans-comments?reply=130944775)
Quote from: Froodwithatowel
once you have agreed that some male people should be able to use women's spaces, you have made your peace with the fact that many vulnerable women must accept having no access at all to the women's space or any space, so that males can have more comfort, choice and understanding of their complex situation.

It is a sex based, binary decision rooted in male supremacism. You believe that male people's needs and complexities matter - and that women's don't. And that it's ok to take everything from some women so that some men can have more.

It's morally indefensible.
Title: Steph & nonsense
Post by: Pale Rider on November 27, 2023
Across the other road to YACF:


It's open season on trans people (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=114876.msg2857904#msg2857904)
Quote from: fd3
New shoes prompted a shop at stonewall for new laces.  Went with a mix of rainbow, trans and non binary.  New shoes are rainbow right, trans flag left (because I use power grips on my right pedal and they would foul the whiter laces).
#1 son (14) asked about them, so I talked about his godmothers and showing support and explained a bit about the "T" in LGBTQ+. He said something along the lines of "I support them and all if that's what they want to do, but I don't really get it", which is the right default point to start from.

Support without knowing what you're supporting as a default is kind of why we're in the mess we're in. I'd say put a sock in it (https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/rapha-lgbtq-socks-all-in) if that would help.

Quote from: Steph
That is brilliant!

Hold on, we're not done with #1 son: (https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/2454-A-The-Corrosive-Impact-of-TI-ppi-110-WEB.pdf)
Quote from: Joanna Williams @Civitas
In less than two decades ‘transgender’ has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying a powerful political ideology driving significant social change. At the level of the individual, this shift has occurred through the separation of gender from sex, before bringing biology back in via a brain-based sense of ‘gender-identity’. This return to biology allows for the formation of a distinct identity group, one that can stake a claim to being persecuted, and depends upon continual validation and confirmation from an external audience. All critical discussion is a threat to this public validation and it is often effectively curtailed.

That transgenderism has moved from niche to mainstream tells us more about the rest of society than it does about transgender individuals. People in positions of power within the realms of media, education, academia, police, social work, medicine, law, and local and national government have been prepared to coalesce behind the demands of a tiny transgender community. Previously authoritative institutions now lack confidence in their own ability to lead and look to the transgender community as a victimised group that can act as a source of moral authority. However, this, in turn, erodes sex-based rights and undermines child protection.

The expansion of transgender rights has gone hand in hand with an expansion of state and institutional (both public and private) regulation of speech and behaviour. This highlights a significant difference between today’s transgender activists and the gay rights movement of a previous era. Whereas the gay rights movement was about demanding more freedom from the state for people to determine their sex lives unconstrained by the law, the transgender movement demands the opposite: it calls for recognition and protection from the state in the form of intervention to regulate the behaviour of those outside of the identity group.

Those of us without the special shoelaces?

Quote from: Steph
I differentiate much the same way, but with an extra twist in that I speak of intellectual understanding as separate from 'empathy', in a loose sense.

I'm a little lost here. Are we still on shoelaces, in a loose sense?

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I am female. Always understood that, always knew it. I can't define what that means, because identity is a personal internal feeling for everyone, in their own individual experience of it.

If #1 son were to meet Steph in person – maybe he has already – I'm confident he'd know Steph is male, no matter how much the grownups are attempting to make him distrust his senses.

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I intellectually understand non-binary ID, but as I am not of that type, I don't grok it. I have no experiential link.

Steph's in good company. Nobody has a non-binary experiential link.

Quote from: still Steph
I don't get men either,

I think he knows himself quite well. He is, after all, his favourite subject.

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even though I had to learn how to play one, often through severely violent 'lessons'. Just like non-binary folk; I watch things like male dominance contests, and just go "Why? What's the point?"

That said, I wish them as groups no harm. Equality/equity etc. "I don't really get it but..."

He doesn't get women, that's for sure.

Some of us non-women go the extra mile and see the bigger picture, whereas trans rights/men's rights (#KeepItUp indeed) activists are trapped in a bubble of narcissistic rage

Quote from: classic33
Why not just say (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-49#post-82691) why you don't like trans women and to a lesser extent, trans men?

and bewilderment. They cannot process anything outside their own frame of reference or the "progressive" narrative. And with that we're back at CycleChat.

Starmer's vision quest (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-275#post-82656)
Quote from: theclaud
Any chance we could refrain from feeding CXRAndy's obsession with The Transes in at least one thread?

Better have a word with yourself. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-275#post-82624)


More where that came from (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTZabDD-XM)

Quote from: AndyRM
It's bordering on the obsessive to be honest.

"Why do you lot think so much about other people's genitals?!"

At the risk of making it sound as if CXRAndy has a STD, he has barely scratched the surface of all the issues gender ideology presents. Being confronted with their own limited knowledge and awareness doubtless makes people like AndyRM and classic33 uncomfortable.

If you're obsessed about the truth and called out for it, take the compliment.

Gender again. S'alright.
 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-629#post-82768)
Quote from: monkers to AuroraSaab
Oh do stop inventing more stuff...

You try hard to make much out of nothing.

I have a sex identity, a gender identity, and yet another for sexuality. I'm a female, a gay woman. You haven't figured out who you are; that's not everyone else's problem.

As monkers is just as unreliable a narrator as Steph, there's no way of knowing what monkers means by 'female', 'gay', or 'woman'.*

Quote from: a reddit{shudder}or
being a lesbian that doesn't have genitalia preference (https://archive.ph/P6yDX#selection-9735.0-9735.465)
If they want to say we aren’t lesbians or invalidate trans identities then they need their own term, because I’m tired of them being in our community and making it unsafe. They can’t have lesbian because lesbianism has always included trans women regardless of genitalia. We fought for this community, we died for it, we own lesbian as much as cis women do. I refuse to cede it to anyone consumed by hate. They can have their own little community of hateful people.

Just throwing this in here for fun. I'd be willing to bet monkers cut monkers's teeth in the testosterone everglades of reddit {shudder}.

* Correction. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-629#post-82794) Well that clears that up.

Quote from: monkers
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Thanks (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-627#post-82680) for the heads up on Prof Jenny Gamble.

You're welcome.

Quote from: monkers+
Jenny Gamble ... Gender identity is important. Stereotypes are important (https://archive.ph/5CS4N#selection-2399.1-2399.322)

FTFY.

Anyone just stumbling into all this might start by separating the TQ+ from the LGB (perhaps this could be done using shoelaces) and examining the issues of the separate cohorts. That seems to help most people 'get it.'

Quote from: monkers
Quote from: AuroraSaab
How can (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-631#post-82843) [gender identity] be innate in some nationalities but not in others? You're either born with a gender identity (that may or may not match your sex, you've claimed), or you're not. Spoiler alert: you're not, nobody is.

Spoiler alert; you don't know what you are talking about because you are a self-centred bigot who doesn't give a flying fark about the harm they cause to others.

The sheer repetition of the characterisation of Aurora as heartless monster will be enough to make it stick for some, despite its absurdity. This is straight out of the TRA playbook.

F*ck the Tories: a Thread Dedicated to Suella Braverman (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-49#post-82729)
Quote from: monkers
We are all entitled to our own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
 
A favourite of both sides for the benefit of our scrutiny. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-50#post-82744) If you've been following monkers and AS, you'll have long since made up your mind about them.


I was going to call the following standalone piece 'The 9 Circles of Hell (And So It Goes (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-629#post-82791))', but it looks more like a maze. Better yet:
Title: The Descent
Post by: Pale Rider on November 27, 2023
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Women attacked by blind cannibals in the bowels of the earth.
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Title: Post of the day
Post by: Pale Rider on November 28, 2023
Having only so many hours in the day to devote to being triggered by the gang at CycleChat's thunderdome, I ended up specialising in matters gender related. Where has multitool gone? I began wondering. It's been weeks (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-614#post-81750) since he handed off to monkers. Turns out he's here, talking to himself*:

Cardiff electric bike incident (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/cardiff-electric-bike-incident.495/page-48#post-82851)
Quote from: 'tool
Update: Nearly rid of him... yadda yadda...shouting through people's letter boxes... yadda yadda yadda...resident forum vermin like Rusty and Fozy...

Scrolled up and spotted this:
Quote from: fozy tornip
The creatures outside looked from bronco to tool, from tool to bronco, and from bronco to tool again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Wasn't bothered enough to trace the beginning of this particular thread arc much beyond
Quote from: fozy
I hunt alone. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/cardiff-electric-bike-incident.495/page-47#post-72581)*

* I can so relate!
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 30, 2023
Well that couldn't last. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-642#post-83098)
Quote from: multitool
Quote from: icowden
But, I also don't think that the conversation should be suppressed or that concerns should be swept under the carpet.

The conversation isn't being suppressed, except when it is, which all non-ridiculous people like me agree is necessary. This isn't damaging to free speech (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-642#post-83111) at all when when you think about it, as your "concerns" are clearly in air quotes and not deserving of airing in the grand scheme of things.

He didn't say that. What he said was
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The conversation isn't being suppressed. What is being suppressed are ridiculous arguments that are highly damaging to a minority group, and those "concerns" are hypothetical in the grand scheme of things.


@3.12 biology... (https://youtu.be/vamIr3gLb4A?si=5nfAQL3aKL9-e_r0&t=180) (if only we could FF through the Buffalo Wild Wings bit)

Perhaps later I'll get into Bromptonaut's irony meter, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-637#post-82969) monkers's sock puppets (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-637#post-82987) (if there's one thing monkers is probably an expert on, it's sock puppets), and icowden as he works (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-636#post-82956) on his redemption, but right now there are other fish to fry.

on edit: Fried. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8230.msg18347#msg18347)
Title: Done
Post by: Pale Rider on December 02, 2023
The NACA Music, Art & General Creativity Thread (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-naca-music-art-general-creativity-thread.328/page-32#post-83284)
Nice to put a face (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-naca-music-art-general-creativity-thread.328/page-30#post-80543) to the name, AndyRM.

(https://i.imgur.com/um1Nofq.jpg)

I'd like to say this collage, 'Et tu, radicchio?' (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-naca-music-art-general-creativity-thread.328/page-31#post-80821),* is a work in progress, as it would be great to include a lot more NACAns in a way that is artistically pleasing, but there comes a point when you have to step back and say: "Yeah, it's done."

*The title in the auction catalogue, 'Smell my radiccio', is a printing error.
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on December 04, 2023
The gunpowder plot
Quote from: monkers to AuroraSaab, 23 April
If brains were actually gunpowder (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-230#post-59074) you'd even fail to manage to blow your own hat off.
Quote from: monkers to CXRAndy, today
If brains were gunpowder, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-660#post-83633) you'd not manage to blow your hat off.

I've fact-checked this, and if brains were gunpowder you couldn't blow your nose. It's only if brains were dynamite that hats are involved. It's mistakes like this that can fatally undermine credibility.

Quote from: monkers
Do you mean "Why did the war start?" (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-634#post-82912)

CXRAndy: Yeah.

Poster 1: The war started because of the vile Hun and his villainous empire-building.

Poster 2: The British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika. I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved of blame on the imperialistic front.

Poster 1: Oh, no, sir, absolutely not. [aside, to CXRAndy] Mad as a bicycle!

CXRAndy: I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.

Poster 2: I think you mean it started when the Archduke of Austro-Hungary got shot.

CXRAndy: Nah, there was definitely an ostrich involved

I actually didn't know monkers was cribbing Blackadder until I googled one of the phrases, thinking the quality of humour out of character but prepared to award a Post Of The Day. How embarrassing for me.

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AuroraSaab to monkers: I'm not inclined to answer the every whim of someone like you. Nobody owes you anything, I'm afraid, especially when it's someone as relentlessly rude to other posters as you are.

Bromptonaut: That's nonsense. Monkers speaks her mind and if people want to clutch their pearls

Hold that thought.
(https://i.imgur.com/yENa4Rt.jpg)
This will all make sense shortly

Quote from: monkers to AS
I've had enough of you insulting my family. When I said 'fark off' that wasn't a heat of the moment thing. I think your heart is cold - just like a fascist.

(https://i.imgur.com/9UgvTVA.jpg)

Anything else, Google?

(https://i.imgur.com/lmPUw0R.jpg)

That gives me an idea…

(https://i.imgur.com/q8L3P80.jpg)

Yeah, I got the clutching part wrong - too literal. And I appear to have some razor burn.

Pray continue:
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and petticoats then it might seem over direct. Somebody here, @CXRAndy, is just in it to play games. If we were moderated they'd have been seen off months ago.

CXRAndy: The arguments go round and round and round. I told you I would take the piss, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-172#post-56334) because it's comical arguing

CXRAndy doubles down (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-660#post-83638) on what AndyRM amusingly calls "not even a well animated gif". Bobzmyunkle then throws Bromptonaut's words back at him. I guess you had to be there. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-661#post-83648)

Quote from: me
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Quote from: monkers
I suffer (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-661#post-83765) from rather chronic tinnitus, have done for about 40 years, it can be quite debilitating.

Must be all the explosions.

I have a lot of sympathy for people with actual tinnitus. What monkers has sounds like the rhetorical variety.

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Note to Aurora. I know that you willfully will not understand, so please spare the screen ink, I'm no longer interested in anything you have to say.

Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on December 07, 2023
Starmer's vision quest (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-280#post-83743)
Quote from: AndyRM
Quote from: multitool
Are your on stage attempts at comedy are better that what you post here?

You're the expert in everything, apparently, so I'll let you be the judge when I post the video.

Still waiting, Andy! As long as you don't go on about

Gender again. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-660#post-83615)
Quote from: Andy to Andy
I'm non binary

that particular aspect of your personality in an unamusing way, I promise not to heckle; it takes guts to take the stage.

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I know you don't understand what that means or how it works, and you've made it abundantly clear that you don't want to engage in any sort of meaningful discussion about anything which challenges your views so I'll not bother explaining.

No please, do.

Non-binary: What do you understand it to mean? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/#post-5229)
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I'm not a guy, despite how I look. There are days when I feel like one, but there are also days when I feel very feminine, so I dress and behave according to how I feel.
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my (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/page-6#post-5456) most aggressive gig happened when I was in a feminine frame of mind, broke my drums that night.


Listen, I'm happy for him (apparently I'm no longer addressing Andy directly) to call himself whatever he likes, as long as

Quote from: AndyRM
I have "male parts", I'm 6"1', have a beard and I'm covered in tattoos and scars. And a penis.

he's not waltzing into women's spaces (he isn't (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/page-6#post-5439)) or expecting anybody to tailor their vocabulary to suit his conception of himself. We're all 'non binary' or none of us are.

. . .

Speaking of the imaginary, were I a Dr Who fan I probably would've enjoyed the recent storyline, despite the reported ham-handedness, (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4952315-did-anyone-watch-doctor-who?page=7&reply=131272442) if only it hadn't already jumped the shark into the non-fiction we're now living.
Title: Party like it's 9999
Post by: Pale Rider on December 09, 2023
Archive of this page: https://archive.ph/oBOYF

. . .

All the zer0s are belong to AndyRM.

10,000 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-667#post-83952)
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I don't think anyone claims to be trans lightly, and I don't believe they're guided down that path without the circumstances being fully acknowledged or explored.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bryson.jpg)
The most famous bulge in Scotland (https://youtu.be/VR6ECKmN-lY?si=rlOpb7T7zURyd1bM)

As long as we're celebrating (we are celebrating, right?):

Scotland cockblocked (https://archive.is/PuTfH)
Quote from: Susan Dalgety
the real winners of yesterday’s historic ruling were not the UK Government, but the women of Scotland who would not wheesht, no matter how often they were told to shut up.

(https://i.imgur.com/rCZMnd7.jpg)
Cookiemonster is concerned:
Quote from: cookiemonster
What concerns me (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-668#post-84083) more about this ruling is that a Government of another country, not voted by anyone in Scotland, run by a party that no-one in Scotland has voted for since the 1950s, can block laws put through, debated and passed by a democratically elected Scottish Parliament.

Colonialism in its purest form.

Irony in its purest form.

Quote from: newfhouse
What is it about the manufactured panic (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-669#post-84094) that appeals to the sort of men that pretend to be saviours?


TRAs will eat your brainz if you let them. Or to put it another way, when did it become a source of pride to be apathetic about issues that affect women and girls?

Someone's manufacturing (https://archive.ph/udOBr#selection-1281.51-1281.63) something, it's true.
Quote from: multitool to CXRAndy, 28 August
You're up early, Andy. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-536#post-73527)
What happened?
Shît the bed?
Quote from: multitool to CXRAndy, today
You're up early. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-669#post-84086)
Shît the bed?

Thanks for all your hard work growing the thread. Every little helps.


"We are women with vaginas we gave birth to all you fools"
Title: Fantasy Island
Post by: Pale Rider on December 10, 2023
My precious (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-675#post-84264)
Quote from: monkers+
The truth is that [lesbians (https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=VmiClpilF4NU5jxM&t=10&v=TMIvcYNo2Zo&feature=youtu.be)] are in the main trans positive, encourage trans women to say they are women, and really aren't so precious about the word 'lesbian' that we feel that we have ownership - it already means any inhabitant of the island of Lesbos.

It's a very inclusive island, see. Nobody gets voted off.  (https://twitter.com/brocflower/status/1733947163980218643)

(https://i.imgur.com/yMQtYGt.jpg)
He'd want you to click this (https://twitter.com/sarah_owl3/status/1734157605474299979)

Quote from: still monkers
only (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-672#post-84150) 6% of lesbians have negative feelings about trans people - which seems like a good fit with my experience of the past 50 years.

My guess is that monkers' experience of lesbianism is writing Wonder Woman fanfiction.*

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you (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-678#post-84319) are looking for fresh avenues of personal attack

There's nothing wrong with Wonder Woman (https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/?p=8929) fanfiction.

Being able to complain to AuroraSaab about personal attacks with a straight face is a real talent.

Quote from: Bromptonaut
you're (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-664#post-83856) usually onto any post in this thread like a rat up a drainpipe.


Quote from: multitool
The ugly truth (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-672#post-84178) about you, and people of your mentality, is that if you'd have been around in 1930s Germany you would have been out last night smashing windows of jewish-owned businesses because you lapped up the hate-mongering propaganda about that minority group too.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/smallhit.gif)

Trans rights activists seek to make the discussion so ugly as to repel most from taking part. These people don't win unless you're cowed into silence or agreement. They aren't interested in healthy debate. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-233#post-59425)

Compare this thread to the earlier one (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/) referenced upthread and see if you can spot the difference.

Spoiler
No monkers/tool (or Nazis). This (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/page-3#post-5296) is about as bad as it got, and to be fair, "something out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show" says more about Deleted member 28's lack of taste than anything.

(https://i.imgur.com/G8rEhr2.jpg)
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Quote from: classic33
Now if only (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-677#post-84302) you could accept a trans woman or trans man for what they are. Not what you feel they should be like.

Take heart. Auntie is on your side.


* Thelma Does Themyscira. That one's on the house.

If I’m wrong, which is theoretically possible, I hereby consent to being waterboarded by Stonewall (https://www.jamesesses.com/p/lgb-before-the-t?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2) as my fingernails are pulled out to just the right length by a PinkNews intern. Seems proportionate.
Title: Intermission
Post by: Pale Rider on December 13, 2023
Twitter under Musk dot dot dot dot (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/twitter-under-musk.234/page-48#post-84489)
Quote from: CXRAndy
Quote from: albion
Alternate facts is not free speech. It is fraud.

if you don't do your own research who is to blame
dot dot dot dot?
Fab Foodie continues to be afflicted by Trailing Off Ellipses Disease, thought to be incurable.

The next General Election.... (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-next-general-election.580/)
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(Please don't disappear and make me look for another video. With very few views and only three months old, I have my concerns.)
Title: Peaking
Post by: Pale Rider on December 13, 2023
Why can’t people accept that some trans women are just conmen? (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/519380/why-cant-people-accept-that-some-trans-women-are-just-conmen/b92f26cc-9771-43c9-9f87-e572cee7e617#comment-b92f26cc-9771-43c9-9f87-e572cee7e617)
Quote from: sylviasmushrooms
I’m going to slightly go against the grain here and point out that most of us didn’t peak in a day. If you comb back years and years to my very first post on Ovarit, I got it off my chest that I had some doubt about the whole trans thing while still having this idea in my head that “true trans” was a thing, and that there were appropriate diagnostic criteria that validated the identities of some trans ID people.

I’ve read many pieces by Suzanne Moore. I think the headline is a savvy way to invite the reader (who is on yahoo.com and probably not deep down the rabbit hole) to consider the absurdity of “real” vs “conman” when there is no meaningful difference between the two. It’s tempting to want to peak people with a lot of strong-arms and shock and outrage when you’ve seen the end of the path, but peaking is very uncomfortable and most people resist it at first because they’re worried that it makes them hateful (and PLENTY of handmaids and TRAs are eager to affirm this.) I’m extremely TERFy these days and when my husband asked me the other day, earnestly, if I think there is “room in the world for trans people” (vetting me for genocidal thoughts, I suppose), I shrugged and said, “sure, as much as there is for Christians, I guess, but I don’t want to be in either of their prayer or pronoun circles.” A couple of years ago that question would have cowed me into submission just to avoid falling into a trap.

Now I’ve had enough exposure to it that I know how to discuss it without sounding like I’m afraid of the Mad Tranner pumping gas under my bedroom door so he can come in, twirling his mustache, to assault me in the dead of night (which is, unfortunately, how it would sound to a normie who thinks that TIMs are just mixed-up supergays who live a life of outward ridicule and inner torture, and not mostly narcissistic angry men bent on controlling their opposition through fear.)

We know. Suzanne Moore knows. Bringing the water to a boil is a subtle skill and judging by the comments she’s doing a great job.
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 13, 2023
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Good job this is a single-figure-posters bike forum (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-682#post-84539)

(https://i.imgur.com/9idVuV4.jpg)

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where all these fibs go unnoticed.

(https://i.imgur.com/2fQCVa3.jpg)

Quote from: AuroraSaab to monkers
K Stock, actual woman, actual lesbian, does seem to rile you more than most.

(https://i.imgur.com/J6P8DL2.jpg)

I'm using a dodgy free streaming platform for these screenshots. It keeps kicking me out,

(https://i.imgur.com/GvpwSmf.jpg)

possibly because I keep pausing rather than watching the film in one smooth go, delicious torture though that would be. I've taken to clicking all over the place, trusting in fate to land on something I can use.

(https://i.imgur.com/gJ9bBXk.jpg)

Wonder what her gender identity is.

Quote from: monkers
I also am an actual woman and actual lesbian

(https://i.imgur.com/5EqkpZK.jpg)

Quote from: monkers to CXRAndy
Silliness that's all you've got isn't it.

(https://i.imgur.com/6fYjPPJ.jpg)

Quote from: CXRAndy to monkers
I'm beginning to doubts of your identity and orientation

(https://i.imgur.com/WQBKjtp.jpg)

Quote from: monkers to CXRAndy & AS
Now you both are undone, exposed and pathetic

(https://i.imgur.com/VvAx0Fw.jpg)

Quote from: monkers
You are exposed as a pair of frauds.

(https://i.imgur.com/gsAkCA2.jpg)

Quote from: monkers
incidentally I've found out that Stock was removed from Medium for breaching their community standards.

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Quote from: monkers
moral panic

(https://i.imgur.com/JeJSPia.jpg)

Quote from: AuroraSaab
You're on ignore, Classic

(https://i.imgur.com/QfRaosT.jpg)

Quote from: classic33 to AS
As for blatant lie telling you're ahead of anyone else on this thread, in that respect. Youve tried deception, misrepresentation and simply outright lying.

(https://i.imgur.com/JeJSPia.jpg)

Quote from: classic33
[Is careful to use 'she' when referring to Barbie Khardashian (https://archive.is/CGXVp)]
COMMUNITY NOTE: classic33 is an idiot. Fortunately this is not incurable.

(https://i.imgur.com/jYJTi1r.jpg)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 14, 2023
The sequel. I'm tempted to pay for the film so I can do this properly.

(https://i.imgur.com/JeJSPia.jpg)

No not really, amusing as it would be to use as a template for all posts on the run up to Christmas.

(https://i.imgur.com/nHF0oAc.jpg)

And it's far from over. I'm liveblogging this, on the edge of my seat:

Quote from: monkers
I am unwell at the moment. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-683#post-84586) My niece is here to be with me. I've had enough of you idiots. Further replies are from her in my name.
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
Quote from: newfhouse
This is silly. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-683#post-84591)

Not as silly as this. Which is both silly and sinister. And definitely not posted by @monkers obviously.

Quote from: 'niece' of monkers
Mr Cowden.

You have had sight of the original document received by my aunt. You have had sight of an image of a very similar document posted by AS, different only in the references to the dates. You have seen a reference made by JK Rowling on her Twitter account. Do you dispute these as material facts?

I understand that your professional work is along the lines of a patient data manager for the NHS? If this is so, then I should not be in the position of having to remind you that sovereign law prevents the publication of private data by those with a professional capacity. Also that doxxing is very bad form.

Please can you kindly explain the reason for your contributions that could be argued as incitement to commit an offence? I feel quite certain that your ultimate employer, the NHS, would be concerned to see you acting in this manner.

(https://i.imgur.com/WfYHk5O.jpg)

Threats are part of the TRA toolkit. Normally this is the first step in getting a thread locked or deleted. Be interesting to see if it goes any further in an unmoderated space which nevertheless has an owner.

(https://i.imgur.com/u4AVxUt.jpg)

Quote from: still with the 'niece'
For any those who care for monkers here, I am letting you know that I am now very concerned for her health. I'm taking her to hospital.
Quote from: CXRAndy
My my all melting now

(https://i.imgur.com/9idVuV4.jpg)

Quote from: AndyRM to t'other Andy
Prick.

(https://i.imgur.com/fjQbKQ2.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/wDAwpgR.jpg)

Quote from: ‘niece'
[Long, detailed post (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-684#post-84603), followed by one which involved some digging]

First class multitasking, what with getting auntie to A&E.

(https://i.imgur.com/S2rAfUI.jpg)

Quote from: CXRAndy
This is getting really confusing,
Are we speaking to ghostly relatives whilst emergency Medical attention is being administered or was it a falsey alarm
Quote from: icowden
My impression is that we have been speaking to @monkers niece and that @monkers is unwell. I don't think we need this discussion to continue for the time being. Discussion should be fun and stimulating and this is just getting concerning.

(https://i.imgur.com/uOLY8VO.jpg)

Quote from: icowden
remember that this is only a discussion forum for bored cycling people.

(https://i.imgur.com/jcanuMK.jpg)
Here for the yuks (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8062.msg18150#msg18150)

Quote from: newfhouse
Quote from: 'niece'
I will update you with regards to Monica.

Please give her my best wishes for a swift recovery.

(https://i.imgur.com/rdNm1nI.jpg)

Quote from: 'niece'
Thank you also to @AndyRM [aka little drummer boy (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/non-binary-what-do-you-understand-it-to-mean.86/page-6#post-5456) - Ed.] who I know has been in contact with Monica privately beforehand concerning her health.

(https://i.imgur.com/LoR0MPi.jpg)

The touching credulousness of some is not surprising, given the other things they believe.

I get it now. This is all as real as professional wrestling.


(https://i.imgur.com/DWCQ7S3.jpg)

Sunk cost fallacy innit.

Anyway, today’s great excitement was over not terribly long after it began.


Back to the grind (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-685#post-84620) of AS replying to classic33, off ignore as and when.

(https://i.imgur.com/WVb2kQW.jpg)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 15, 2023
A new chapter (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-686#post-84655)

(https://i.imgur.com/6U4M3PF.jpg)

Quote from: N
Monica clearly unwell.
I beg your forgiveness for an indulgence...

Will monkers perish from this earth,

(https://i.imgur.com/YdmBl7Y.jpg)

Aunty's cherished CycleChat account to be passed down like a family heirloom? Stay tuned.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZP0YQKg.jpg)

Only one thing is certain: it would take a real meanie to kick a gal when she's down.

(https://i.imgur.com/qcKu795.jpg)

I'm reminded of a series that was popular (https://www.vulture.com/2013/06/ranking-all-185-choose-your-own-adventure-books.html) back when I worked in bookshops.

(https://i.imgur.com/GcAwlw6.jpg)

That'd be the one on the left. Choose your own spoiler:

spoiler #1
Killing off poorly Monica would be bold! And what wordsmith wouldn't relish the challenge of a new beginning, with the luxury of a backstory to build on?
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spoiler #2
It makes more sense to keep M around: double the characters to do battle against the forces of evil. Plus people might want to go to the funeral (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=98828.msg2842732#msg2842732) [call that foreshadowing], which could get awkward.
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spoiler #3
Quote from: N
confluence

Is it possible moNkers belongs to the same book club as another prolific writer (https://archive.ph/3rMVA) and cycling forum user? Truth and fiction (https://archive.ph/JkJeC#selection-903.0-903.168) are equally strange.
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Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 16, 2023
The story continues (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-686#post-84686)
Trigger warning

Quote from: monkers (N)
I've been with Monica today. It's likely that she'll be home tomorrow afternoon. I think she'll be in a fit state to chat after a couple more days of rest.

Grand! Meanwhile N has been keeping an eye on Aunty's thread as a good niece should. Either that or every time I checked and saw 'monkers' online, at least one unecumbered frail finger was operational.

(https://i.imgur.com/ligddnj.jpg)
Just enough life force to activate the touchscreen and eke out likes

Quote from: N
This is my little story. It deserves no reply.

(https://i.imgur.com/Zq9g594.jpg)

It took a day and a half for that bait to be snapped up.

Quote from: icowden
Thank you for sharing your story. It takes some courage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunning_and_Brave) [my link - Ed.] even to share it with a bunch of anonymous cyclists in a tiny offshoot forum.

To celebrate I've decided to put myself through the horror of actually watching the whole movie after all (which to be blushingly honest I've done on more than a few occasions these past 20 years) – perhaps a little every day there's action.

(https://i.imgur.com/zIARgG8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9A6rR4J.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/bxDokW5.jpg)

The filmmaker couldn't have known how distressing (https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1349556792565456898) this opening scene might be to the next generation.
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 17, 2023
Quote from: monkerself
OK you lot. I'm back. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-686#post-84732)

It almost feels like you never left.

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I see the thread took some unexpected turns.

We'll come back to that. First, a link to the scathing and funny Jezebel review of Love Actually (https://jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388) posted 10 years ago. In the same spirit as that was written, fuck you, (https://jezebel.com/ap-stylebook-recommends-we-stop-saying-terf-1850541523) Jezebel. And not because I used to love airports.


Quote from: new Editor-in-Chief of Jezebel
…an overall immunity to bullshit... (https://jezebel.com/hey-were-back-1851088809)

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Next a technical note. Knock wood,


(Trust me, this was the perfect video placement, but the campaign by YouTube to wreak havoc in my posts continues unabated)

switching to a different browser on a less ancient computer has improved my viewing experience for some reason. (No, I didn’t buy a new computer just for this. Probably.) I can now pause on the dodgy streaming platform (https://www.lookmovie2.to/movies/view/love-actually-2003) all I like without getting kicked out! [This does not constitute an admission of guilt, officer.]

Now then:
Quote from: monkers
unexpected turns.

Tired of the same old same old. I get it.

Quote
Being as N has told you perhaps more than I would have done about us, I'll just say after some tests, I have one condition diagnostic opinion now mostly confirmed.

That would be mythomania.

Quote
I have two other conditions suspected which require more appointments with more specialists.

Autogynephilia and a particularly challenging case of Munchausen by proxy?

Quote
Back into hospital in another two weeks. Happy days.


Quote
Unusual of N to talk about herself like that, I don't know what came over her. I'm under orders to rest, so laters. xx

xy.

(https://i.imgur.com/UXYZ6eB.jpg)


(Yes, I know. (https://youtu.be/XbwzJ3dLEkA?si=g4yf9wkQ0uOtV6sQ))

Until we meet again,

(https://i.imgur.com/qz8Hxaj.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/vypSfJn.jpg)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 18, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/QFsWCMR.jpg)

Quote from: BBC
Curtis (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67679884) has also called himself "unobservant" for including fat-shaming jokes that "aren't any longer funny", and said he had "let himself down" by cutting an LGBT storyline in the final edit.

It was a L storyline, but these days lesbian (https://lcommunity.co.uk/what-is-a-woman/) seems to be the hardest word. At least the gender nonconforming Ken dolls made the cut. I'll be sure to get a screenshot.

Thanks to CXRAndy, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-686#post-84740) today was mostly about pronouns: reason #n+1 why the T doesn't have any business being with the LGB.

Quote from: the other Andy
If someone asks you to use a specific pronoun, just do it.

Authoritarian says what?

(https://i.imgur.com/nTICiBY.jpg)

Quote from: AndyRM
it's really not that difficult

If you've trained yourself to distrust your brain and sensory organs on demand, and you don't appear to have thought about this 'simple politeness' (https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/) in any depth at all, perhaps not.

(https://i.imgur.com/3Z1bBXs.jpg)

Quote from: AndyRM
Preferred pronouns aren't a right, but using them isn't difficult

So I've heard.

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or somehow impinging on anyone's. But, for me, if someone has asked you to use a specific pronoun, and you don't? That's not cool.

You know what's not cool? Asking people to play make-believe past the age of 5, or whenever it is kids are usually told the truth about Santa.


One more please! You'll see why.


As it happens I was missexed just yesterday on a ride as I approached a small group of pedestrians on a narrow lane: "There's a woman coming," one of them said. Happens sometimes when my hair gets long (seriously, I can tell a male from a female cyclist from a fair distance in either direction, no matter the hairstyle). God knows they always correct themselves when proximity forces a reappraisal. Once upon a time in a military club I was even asked to dance after a tap on the shoulder from behind by somebody wholly unprepared for the face that greeted him. Wonder how long it took him to live that one down…

Yes, I realise I’m not dysphoric and therefore don’t find this stuff insanely triggering. There’s still no excuse to rearrange society around your illness.

Quote from: Bromptonaut
Pronouns on badges, email signatures etc even where everybody uses their 'normal'/birth pronouns is to normalise the practice. We're encouraged, but not instructed, to do it where I work

(https://i.imgur.com/oG1uKRg.jpg)

Quote from: icowden
But don't make a point of insisting that everyone puts their pronouns on their badge when for 99% (or even 100%) it's completely pointless.

(https://i.imgur.com/NCKXap6.jpg)

Sorry, don’t know how that slide got in.

(https://i.imgur.com/SfnH9rV.jpg)

Quote from: newfhouse
Quote from: Bromptonaut
encouraged
Quote from: icowden
insisting

These words have different meanings.

Has newfhouse ever been in the world of work?

Quote from: Bromptonaut
It's not difficult and, as of now, nobody has to.

(https://i.imgur.com/dnHwvo6.jpg)

The more one is told it's not difficult, the more one is persuaded it is. Depending on the level of encouragement it may be easier to give in than to stand your perfectly solid ground.

"As of now" isn't sinister at all, and is just the sort of thing to get us refuseniks (https://youtu.be/EoF5lzIBpgA) on board.

Quote from: monkers
Maybe we should stop wasting time shaking hands when we meet others, but start displaying our genitals instead, or sniff them like farm animals?

Almost forgot about monkers+N, who was doubtless invigorated by the social intercourse.

(https://i.imgur.com/Ve7a9iD.jpg) (https://youtu.be/YvC9mRo1e1w)

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Title: Triggering Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 19, 2023
Archive of this page: https://archive.ph/MofuM

. . .

It wasn't my intent to do twelve days of Love Actually, but we're over halfway there, and the momentum seems unstoppable.

(https://i.imgur.com/mzSwy8N.jpg)

F*ck the Tories: a Thread Dedicated to Suella Braverman (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/f-ck-the-tories-a-thread-dedicated-to-suella-braverman.253/page-52#post-84459)
Quote from: Ian H
Quote from: CXRAndy
:biggrin: Eat shoots leaves

Take a book on punctuation and grammar, misquote it - in fact, misquote the title - then add a vacuous grinning smiley.

Aspire to the stately thumbs up.

Starmer's vision quest (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-291#post-84876)
Quote from: multitool
(cue drivel about Labour being indistinguishable from Tories)

(https://i.imgur.com/RYLvlKT.jpg)

Quote from: winjim
Starmer's got this quote printed out and blu-tacked onto his office filing cabinet but has completely misinterpreted it.

(https://i.imgur.com/LipD65s.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/wBTEXgK.jpg)

Yo winjim
(https://i.imgur.com/vDcGGxp.jpg)

Remember this, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/is-this-and-the-old-naca.283/page-11#post-29743) from [checks watch (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg15728#msg15728)] July '22?
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Of course we all know that there are people from the main CC forum poking their heads round the door every now and then, but somebody's really elevated lurking to an art form. I'm impressed, if a little uncomfortable. I feel like there's a mirror being held up to my own absurdity.

Is this going to descend into some ridiculous game where we have two forums each lurking and commenting about each other? I'm not sure that would work. I feel like the play is going to have to move into a new act now that everybody has been made aware of everybody else's presence.

Pity it didn't occur to anybody to, y'know, post here. Connect.

(https://i.imgur.com/Kh34Thd.jpg)

Chat about forums and trolls and such.
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Quote from: multitool
Quote from: winjim
Yes, you'd know about trolling.

I don't think you remember what you post. Or, alternatively, are not able to maintain a thread of conversation.

Either way, it's getting tedious. Given that you never say anything that I find remotely thought-provoking, interesting or funny, and you manage to fail to do this with a smug air, I'm going to spare you from my trolling by popping you on ignore.


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Quote from: multitool
You certainly seem to be making about just you.

Thanks for the segue. (https://archive.is/a7mRr#selection-631.44-631.55)

(https://i.imgur.com/5cOE3bw.jpg)

Gender Actually (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-687#post-84784)
Quote from: multitool to AuroraSaab
There is an inconsistency here.

MRA/TRA (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3230333-Our-problem-is-MRAs-not-trans-people)tool complaining about inconsistency hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Granted, most of his output is the same:

(https://i.imgur.com/AX7AMPr.jpg)

Quote from: monkers
Quote from: icowden
If difference is good then why so much emphasis on fitting in and being the same?

It's not about being the same. It's about respecting the difference. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-689#post-84849)

Hahahaha— I'll stop with that now. You ever get the feeling monkers is making it up as monkers goes along, and not in a good way?

(https://i.imgur.com/5szp3bI.jpg)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 20, 2023
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Leaving Normal (http://[url=https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-689#post-84922)*
Quote from: monkers
What is the difference between a straight man and a gay man?
About three pints.

About three hours later - 'tell anyone and I'll kill yer.'
'It's only a one off' (that is until the next time).

The number of pints in the joke varies; (https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2050963/eight-pints) monkers has opted for a bloke who can't hold his liquor. Whether or not you believe sexual orientation is innate,

(https://i.imgur.com/MYgBBhp.jpg)

the desire to drive a stake through the heart of heteronormativity leads to some daft places. The takeaway here is there's no telling who monkers would jump after three pints. (https://alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-facts/interactive-tools/unit-calculator)

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Enlarged to show fine detail

Here's a better question: do you want to live in a country where you can be arrested for stating what any reasonable person would call harmless facts? Choose your source:

News source A (https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/19/louise-distras-arrested-vile-remarks-made-gb-news-19999460/): "News... but not as you know it"
News source B (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12881587/British-female-singer-36-arrested-police-quizzed-comments-GB-News-trans-rights-extremists-weeks-cancelled-music-industry-gender-critical-views.html): I've thrown in this archive link (https://archive.is/xStPj) for those who don't want to give them clicks

(https://i.imgur.com/io1L1Lk.jpg)

Hint: only one of them is being vile.

Quote from: monkers
RIP Brianna Ghey

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Quote from: Beebo
transgender hate crime is unlikely to be curtailed whilst Kemmi Badenoch is the equalities minister.

Brianna wasn't killed for being trans, much as activists wish to have it framed this way.

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Quote from: AndyRM
Badenoch is a total melt.

(https://i.imgur.com/8yX8YWr.jpg)

Stop melting. (http://tinyurl.com/56btxt8h)


*Unfortunately there don't appear to be anything but schmaltz (https://archive.ph/SutO9#selection-1007.0-1011.20)y trailers to the movie, (https://youtu.be/FrHQORFI5ks?si=-GM8p8m37-LbEEUB&t=26) which features "a brassy waitress and former stripper who used to use the stage name Pillow Talk.”


Heteronormative
Title: Gaslighting actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 21, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/EHHHvQ8.jpg)

Spoiler
(https://i.imgur.com/SFUgzi9.jpg)

Click again, this is doubletopsecret
Monkers and Niece are one and the same – hence moNkers. You may have noticed a few hints along the way, constant reader.

Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Perhaps it would be useful if you registered under a new poster name then. Otherwise we might think it's just Monkers posting all the time.

It had been made clear. You might also detect some change of style…

Hahahah—sorry, I promised to stop doing that. Only a self-conscious writer would respond as moNkers did. It’s virtually the same style, just a bit stiffer. This is like a character in a film saying someone is handsome

(https://i.imgur.com/EnJcNHW.jpg)

to implant it in the audience's mind, a little boost. It's amusing in Love Actually because, although Billy Bob cleans up well enough, it's safe to say Hugh is the looker {YMMV, obvs}.

(https://i.imgur.com/AUHQfXH.jpg)
Speaking of aunts

This reasonably clever if woefully executed subterfuge enables moNkers to attack in different modes.

I can't know this for certain, because I'm not actually omniscient.

(https://i.imgur.com/xoJkYMh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qUQmLX1.jpg)

It's obvious to the point of laughable; even moNkners seems to be toying with us, as you'll see further down.
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Today (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-690#post-84978) gave us another example of moNkers' preferred MO of getting bogged down in superfluous words. Always remember that it boils down to LET MEN IN WOMEN'S SPACES, BIGOT.

We also had
Quote from: moNkers to AuroraSaab
I feel sure it must make sense to you, but I am unable to follow.

The usual belittling of someone who is almost boringly lucid.

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When one is calling for change(s) the burden of responsibility becomes your own to prove harms.

The pretence that 'it has ever been thus’.

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Quote from: icowden to moNkers
I agree.
Yep. I agree
Seems entirely fair
Again, seems fair comment
Again quite reasonable.

Earnest engagement; normally to be commended, sadly counterproductive when dealing with people like this. (https://youtu.be/zRm9i_YzTvI?si=amNdWh9NwrIH9oYD) Basically you're just encouraging them. And wrong on multiple counts to boot.

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By the way, glad you are feeling a bit better now.

(https://i.imgur.com/2noH5Ze.jpg)

Seriously.
Is icowden playing along with the Nonsense to address the points as he sees fit? I reckon you can take most people on NACA at face value. This is a case for Poe's lawyers.

The draft schools guidance, btw (if I got into all the ways these people are wrong we'd be here all day) was excellent. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4966230-finally-gender-questioning-children-draft-schools-and-colleges-guidance) But I would say that.
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Quote from: XCRAndy
The way (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-692#post-85030) niece of monkers posts in a similar way, one could easily believe they're one and the same. Personality disorder?

Aw, he spoiled my spoilers.

(https://i.imgur.com/EJ4W1OI.jpg)

Quote from: moNkers
As a growing child I had a love of writing.

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My aunt and I would sit for hours and write alternate lines to a story.

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I guess you could say this was formative.

(https://i.imgur.com/NFrONi6.jpg)

When you don't have facts on your side, all that's left is fiction. (https://youtu.be/gra28YTFSas?si=0hkfyw93uL52MjZm&t=41)

(https://i.imgur.com/xlrJzhZ.jpg)

Now excuse me while I scarper. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4967923-everyone-scarper-the-rozzers-are-coming)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 22, 2023
I don’t recommend a few hundred stops and restarts to capture dialogue as a way to watch a movie.

(https://i.imgur.com/QQhUt03.jpg)

Oh look, a bikeshot.

Ten trolls a-leaping (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-690#post-84998)
Quote from: AndyRM
Personally, I don't think anyone is actually trying to shut down the debate. I could be misinterpreting angles/posts, but obvious trollery aside I think it's fairly open and reasonable.

Ignore my seasonal subhead, by my count there are only two; what a coincidence they've both spent a lot of time on this topic.

The debate cannot be shut down except by an otherwise hands-off admin


because of the nature of the forum, though the usual suspects have thrown tantrums that some of this stuff is up for debate at all.

Quote from: spen666
After 10,000+ posts has this thread actually persuaded any one to change their very entrenched views?

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Quote from: Rusty Nails
Very entrenched views are unlikely to be changed as a result of an internet forum discussion. It will be a success if it makes people with less entrenched views accept there may be a different angle to the topic.

Here’s a thought experiment: are people with an entrenched view that the Earth is round obliged to accept the "different angle” of flat-Earthers?

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Quote from: spen666
The thread simply reads, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-693#post-85053) like all long threads, people with entrenched view dogmatically repeated those views and opposing anyone who does not agree

Look up the word 'dogmatic' and get back to me.

Quote from: AndyRM
my opinions have probably changed the most about sport.

What a sport.

Quote from: Ian H
Quote from:  dutchguylivingintheuk
Creative spin, no i did not say or wanted to say that. i say actually what i write.

I'm afraid (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-693#post-85098) your 'creative' use of language makes it difficult to discern your exact meaning.

(https://i.imgur.com/klMVdlI.jpg)

Shades of moNkers near the top of yesterday's post. There’s also this, even if I had to go back almost 10,000 posts to grab it:
Quote from: Ian H to AuroraSaab
Would you mind (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-45#post-49544) not putting words into my mouth, please.

(https://i.imgur.com/mWL72gV.jpg)

I’d say this failure to communicate is Ian H just being ornery, but he does often seem genuinely unable to – how did someone put it? – appreciate different angles.

(https://i.imgur.com/UzCwRrm.jpg)

At the risk of putting words into dutchguy’s mouth, the distasteful yet not unfounded observation here is that the T love their victims (juking the stats (https://archive.ph/Au0Bx#selection-647.0-651.38) up, for fans of The Wire). Fortunately the news is a lot better (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4824484-data-on-violence-against-trans-people-women) than they will ever admit.

Quote from: newfhouse
Surprised (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-694#post-85125) to see an Israeli flag attached to a tweet like this.

(https://i.imgur.com/fyT12Tj.jpg)

Much as NACAns love to tear into politicians who say asinine things,

(https://i.imgur.com/yRMMn2y.jpg)

they're giving this one a pass. Wonder why. Oh I know. She's on the right side of history. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4966445-labour-mp-nadia-whittome?page=2&reply=131567168)
Title: Gender Actually
Post by: Pale Rider on December 23, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/3TbTCOS.jpg)

You may have the sneaking suspicion that I'm fond of this movie after all. I've almost certainly watched it more often than Emma.


The genius of it is there's something for everyone to hate – and love, actually. (Sorry.) I'm not ashamed to admit that I’m liable to leak at the end,

(https://i.imgur.com/9NUDv3a.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/77dbvJD.jpg)

doubtless primed for the jerking of tears thanks to the waterworks of the now unfortunately named Karen.

(https://i.imgur.com/nmeiLV2.jpg)

I’d never paid much attention to all the fat references and jokes before,

(https://i.imgur.com/WwE9gW2.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/3vudMs7.jpg)

but did this time.

(https://i.imgur.com/F0kI6Gi.jpg)

There was a payoff I’d always missed:

(https://i.imgur.com/eqe8xMv.jpg)

Fat isn’t the only kind of weight. So well done there LA.

Even the three stories that always annoyed me have their redeeming qualities:

Sam/Daniel. Christ I hate that kid. For absolutely no good reason. He’s terribly young and terribly sure this is true love forever, which is so preposterous it rings true: feelings aren’t small just because you are. Plus of course that run through security – the saddest part of the movie wasn't Karen and the devil’s necklace,

(https://i.imgur.com/kF9GtCy.jpg)

but the reminder of over 20 years of security theatre.

(https://i.imgur.com/pz5vD0E.jpg)
on edit: deleted actually (grrrrr) – don't click

Mark Rick (https://youtu.be/PhE0qdJT-Ek?si=623Kw6mxlBOS8tsm&t=16) (as he'll forever be to me. And Egg. (https://youtu.be/4BxGii3Wyck?si=A_gobaKVxYbt8VyG&t=207)) For all the stalkerish criticisms, he does finally realise enough is enough.

(https://i.imgur.com/rag6Ib3.jpg)

It was an affirming moment, and I for one felt he was ready to move on.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/really-great.jpg)

Colin(!). I’ve decided there’s room for an extra cartoonish fantasy sequence. And was that a mad woman


I recognised this time around? It was indeed.

(https://i.imgur.com/UlBA4iM.jpg)

To top it off, I couldn't help but imagine a trans woman popping up in the shadows,

(https://i.imgur.com/WmrqbBo.jpg)

and how that might play out.

(https://i.imgur.com/h7LvaGI.jpg)

Judging by the scenes of the non-real people at the airport at the end, I don’t rate the chances of long term happiness for any of them except Billy and Colin, who doubtless will die with smiles on their faces, and the PM, as long as he doesn’t take any unchaperoned trips to Hollywood.

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Title: Credits
Post by: Pale Rider on December 23, 2023
Quote from: newfhouse, Ian H, Rusty Nails, icowden to some extent, {your name here}
(https://i.imgur.com/Y1x8oVo.jpg)

I'd add winjim, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-117#post-52277) but avoidance of the thread isn’t dishonourable.

(https://i.imgur.com/k3BHSgZ.jpg)

It’s probably just as well, unfortunately. He’s otherwise worth reading.
Quote from: Bromtonaut
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Quote from: classic33
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Quote from: multitool
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Quote from: AuroraSaab
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Quote from: AndyRM
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Quote from: bonus AndyRM
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Quote from: NACF lurkers
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If you've been counting, it has only been eleven days. There's one more…

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Title: The Story of O
Post by: Pale Rider on December 24, 2023
Told to me and now to you.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ohbaby.jpg)

Dear reader, having met Aunty M, then N, it's time to introduce myself: I'm O. Like a mouth open in surprise, as N put it once. We met in Strasbourg at a Xmas do exactly a year ago today on either side of a glory hole framed by festive tinsel. Strasbourg parties hard.

Although introductions are usually brief and to the point in these situations, I couldn't help but have fun with it, and decided to play Santa to the extent one could. "Ho Ho Ho, have you been a good girl or boy?" I asked when it was my turn, up for either as is my nature after three pints.

"Oh, I've been a verrrry naughty girl," said a deep but saucy voice that turned out to be N's. We needn't dwell on what exactly transpired next; suffice it to say there was a surfeit of naughtiness. We then used the hole to share a cigarette until a queue built up, and exchanged phone numbers.

I had a call the very next day. "Help me find a present for my aunt," pleaded N. "As my secret Santa, you're obliged." How could I resist?

We met under the massive Christmas tree (here's a link (https://noel.strasbourg.eu/en/the-great-christmas-tree) to add verisimilitude to my story), both of us having agreed to wear something distinctive so we could recognise each other without reference to genitalia. I chose a bowler; N, a scarf knitted by Aunty M that I was promised would stand out a kilometre.

Unfortunately there were a lot of striking scarves out that day. I was on my fourth approach and apology when there came a tap on my shoulder, whereupon I turned around and immediately earned my nickname.

"It's catastrophic, isn't it?" laughed N as my mouth contemplated closing, then held on for a bit.

I have no experience fabricating knitwear, but would wager that having been handed a pair of needles after another three pints I could manufacture an object roughly scarf-shaped and less an affront to even the colour blind than the monstrosity wrapped around N's neck. It looked to have been started in the monkey cage (https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g187075-d3423301-r403185690-Parc_de_l_Orangerie-Strasbourg_Bas_Rhin_Grand_Est.html) of the Zoo de l'Orangerie (sadly closed that summer (https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/zoo-de-lorangerie-is-closing-its-doors-for-now.484855/)), then handed to the wallaby for finishing touches. [Wallabies have short, useless arms. - Ed.]

N then promptly plucked my bowler from my head, where it remained for the rest of our expedition.

My new friend was completely hopeless at shopping, pointing at everything that might conceivably tickle the fancy of a woman of taste and discernment. With my help we finally purchased a fine antique folio of  'Air on the G String' for Aunty's piano, tuned to concert pitch; (https://archive.ph/uWkNZ#selection-1351.176-1351.205) a handsomely presented recording of Joni Mitchell's Blue for her magnificent hi-fi system; elegant new bar tape for her Emonda; and finally a Calvin and Hobbes collection "because she does so like a chuckle."

We paused outside the Maison Rouge, both of us I think contemplating another unforgettable experience; a matching smile told me we were both content to have a unique origin story of our friendship and leave it at that.

N then suggested we buy each other a gag gift, scarpering with a "Meet you under the tree in an hour!"

I hadn't a clue what would appeal, and window shopped frantically before coming across what I hoped would be the perfect item as the clock ticked the final minutes, hiding it under my coat as there had been no time for the niceties. N had also skipped wrapping, judging by the hand she held behind her back as we met at the Grand sapin.

"On the count of three," said N.

"Un… deux…

Trois!"

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/trans.jpg)

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dominatrix.jpg)

Oh how we laughed.
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Title: Yippee
Post by: Pale Rider on December 24, 2023
That’s a wrap on twelve days of Love (and gender) Actually.

(https://i.imgur.com/PjtJB0z.jpg)

Next year I should do Die Hard.

Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on December 29, 2023
War with Russia (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/war-with-russia.71/page-146#post-85237)
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
Quote from: RecordAceFromNew
Don't know why you bothered to tag me. It is easier to play the person than the ball, isn't it? Bravo @bobzmyunkle!

Unfortunately the length and tone of superiority of your posts mean I am much less likely to be bothered to read them in full.

Diagnosis: too much Twitter and an unexpected inferiority complex.

Starmer's vision quest (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/starmers-vision-quest.32/page-298#post-85253)
Quote from: multitool
My point? That taking part of a statement, decontextualising it, then misconstruing its intended purpose in order to ridicule it, is bad faith bullshìt. But its bad faith bullshít in which a small number of contributors wish to engage.

That actually sounds fair, until you remember this is someone who puts the bad in bad faith, the shit in bullshit, and the screw you in misconstruing.

Diagnosis: high functioning negative value user.

moNkers again. Sorry! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-696#post-85299)
Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: CXRAndy
More Tavistock travesty
70 children under the age of five were sent their for treatment
Which sick parents would do that to their own children, let alone anyone else's child ?

N here Andy...

Diagnosis: the third favourite use for a sock. (Actually an insult to sock puppets, given the lack of initiative in opening another account.)

Israel / Palestine (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/israel-palestine.556/page-126#post-85375)
Quote from: dutchguylivingintheuk
Quote from: AndyRM
Calling people "hatebeards" or claud's approach... Hmm... Hard to know who's making better life choices...

quoting others to say you agree with them! Wow what an life choice, what an hero!

I can at least say my words are my either my own creation or my own chosing, that you don't agree with them is your problem

Being an inveterate quoter, I'm going to recuse myself from offering a diagnosis here and simply share the information that my wife is not overly fond of beards either. Is this going to be a problem now?
Title: Triggering™
Post by: Pale Rider on December 31, 2023
War with Russia (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/war-with-russia.71/page-147#post-85400)
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
Quote from: RecordAceFromNew
You sure you aren't just a sore loser who took the wrong side of the argument?

Right and wrong? Black and white?
Good and evil?

Cosplaying binarybob.

Israel / Palestine (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/israel-palestine.556/page-127#post-85392)
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
Quote from: dutchguylivingintheuk
i'm not going to bother

That might be a popular option.

Right and wrong.

(https://i.imgur.com/OqcIPOh.jpg)

(I've got a lot of screenshots from Love Actually left over.)

Culture war again. Sorry! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-699#post-85450)
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
Park Run isn't about to start checking people's privates/birth sex or anything of that ilk. That wasn't the aim of the think tank paper (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-697#post-85385) though, was it. Their aim was to stir up the culture war. And to keep any (https://i.imgur.com/04zpVPX.png) [my formatting - Ed.] that might be introduced to the subject well suppressed.

Before trans, nuance™ didn't exist.

Paging a culture warrior at Mumsnet:
Quote from: Froodwithatowel
I want everyone asked, (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4972502-sharron-davies-in-the-times?reply=131786988) clearly, "Yes, it may be emotionally very desirable for this male person to have the experience of participating in a women's event as if they were seen as a woman. What does it say about society (and you personally) when women's resources and categories are seen as something appropriate to commandeer, for the reason of providing desired emotional experiences for men? Are women and their resources just a theme park for men to use?"

Fgs can we just admit to the male supremacy underpinning all this? That the worst issue is that men may be sad (and everyone look bad for upsetting them) if women's equality isn't undermined for them on demand and their self expression indulged without boundaries? That men's emotional experiences are the seen most primary concern for 'nice' and 'fair' people?

It's not a "women's event", you say?

Quote from: Bromptonaut
To be scrupulously fair (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-700#post-85463)

That'll be a nice change

Quote
Parkrun's website (https://www.parkrun.org.uk/) quotes the best male and female times - about 90 seconds difference. Whether we need to check what the female has in her pants is a different question...

This wouldn't even come up as a joke if men hadn't decided women's boundaries no longer deserved honouring.

(https://i.imgur.com/5VHewj6.jpg)

Quote from: moNkers
N again (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-700#post-85460)

<Snigger>

Quote from: N
So lovely to see so many people here and in other places arguing over my life.

Narcissist says what?

Quote from: the silence
If only trans women were permitted to speak.

(https://i.imgur.com/isyg8bq.jpg) (https://youtu.be/qw0r0Y9SoZg)

Quote from: moNkers to AuroraSaab
Park Run is a charity with charitable objectives. Their vision is a healthy and happy planet; perhaps your own is not.

Straw planet for moNkers' race of straw men.

Quote from: classic33 to AS
...shut yer trap... (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-700#post-85466)

It's hard to bear the classic33 of NACA; if only he'd remained on the mothership. (http://tinyurl.com/2nr6u2pu)
Title: Merrily sweary
Post by: Pale Rider on January 02, 2024
Seriously, though, folks... (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/seriously-though-folks.584/)
Quote
theclaud: Happy Christmas.
Unkraut: Shouldn't it have been merry Christmas?
HMS_Dave: Well i had a HAPPY Christmas, so up yours…

A Happy Christmas doesn't come naturally to me because I grew up in the merry US without a queen, unless you count Uncle Paul, our unofficial relationship (my real uncles weren't nearly so engaging) cemented by many hours spent camped out in front of the telly teevee:


A happy new queer for some

According to Grammarist, (https://grammarist.com/spelling/merry-christmas-vs-happy-christmas/) who also have a thing or two to say about variable capitalisation:
Quote
Merry Christmas began as a saying in the 1500s. It was recorded in a letter as a wish that God would send the recipient a “mery Christmas”. It was solidified as a capitalized greeting by Charles Dickens in his great work A Christmas Carol.

Queen Elizabeth II, for whatever reason, did not use Dickens’ phrase. Instead, she used the phrase Happy Christmas in her broadcasts to her subjects. After her use, the term gained popularity and is still the most common form in Great Britain and Ireland.

It has been famously observed (https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/74737/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-two-nations-divided-by-a-common-language)* that we are two nations divided by a common language.

Quote from: Adam4868
Merry Christmas all !
Nice to see my daughter has her mother's wit with her choice of presents

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/swearing-book.jpg)

I didn't grow up with cunts, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/ya-boo-sucks.525/page-3#post-70020) aka daffodils (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/swearing-and-or-offensive-language.296/page-6#post-31658) on NACA.

Quote from: theclaud
Happy New Year to everyone (except Dutchie and that other twat).

Twat was in common usage though. Apparently. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=2264.msg13473#msg13473)

The holidays certainly bring out a special something in my adopted family.
Quote from: Twatter via matticus
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/DzjdSDh.gif) (https://twitter.com/rigby113/status/1609484855527575552)



*Quote Investigator (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/03/common/) is beyond exhaustive in its coverage of this pressing issue. I'd always thought it was Churchill who came up with it, little realising Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were also in the running.

Quote from: GB Shaw, probably
I often quote myself. (https://youtu.be/5s3PB44paCI) It adds spice to my conversation.
Title: SPECIAL BULLETIN
Post by: Pale Rider on February 09, 2024
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/knackered.jpg)

Disinformation! NACA (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg17765#msg17765) is alive and... not well, the poison served by multitool further curdling debate. Anyway that's not the bulletin. This is:

Women's Rights (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/womens-rights.591/) – a new thread!
Quote from: AndyRM
Where are we?

What are we missing?

Who should we include?

Discuss.

Our man AndyRM (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8673.msg18567#msg18567) doesn't dilly-dally. Posted the very same minute (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-727#post-87410) in ye olde thread, now a tourist attraction:
Quote from: Andy-n-me
Discuss women's rights then.
Any rights men give them, obvs.
F*ck it, I'm starting a thread.
You go girl (wait for it...)
Full disclosure before I do so, I'm non-binary,
TMI
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on March 08, 2024
Though I'm retired


from active coronor duty at NACA, the lure of chum in the water still draws me in from time to time...

Not sophistiqué, but it works:
#11,660 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-778#post-90041)
Quote from: CXRAndy
Quote from: multitool
The point being is that the hard-right are trying to get people to make an association between trans women and sex offenders.
It's the drip-drip effect.

It only works on stupid people which is why AndyCXRSE has bought into it

The point being is that the hard-left are trying to get people to make an association between trans women and real women. They deny biological facts
It's the drip-drip effect

It only works on stupid people.

FTFY

Meanwhile AuroraSaab keeps (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-775#post-89881) on keepin' on. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-777#post-89994)


Don't click – especially triggering (https://blog.ninapaley.com/2017/03/23/the-banality-of-stupid/)
Why you should never try to predict anything, especially (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/) the future. Then again, she did say 5-8 years, and we're not quite at the far side of that yet.
Title: Retired, you say?
Post by: Pale Rider on March 12, 2024
Smothering Sunday (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-780#post-90159)
Quote from: multitool
Quote from: icowden
To be fair, JK Rowling has issued an inclusive tweet for mothers day, which seems to have upset people. You just can't win!:-
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1766799493771469286?s=20

It's not inclusive. It's mocking.

That's not just rich; it's

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/richierich.jpg)

letstalkaboutit (https://twitter.com/steelmanright/status/1766800642973012391)
Title: Apotheosis
Post by: Pogo on March 19, 2024
Quote from: HMS_Dave
We swim these murky waters for the fun (https://archive.ph/OTdek#selection-2133.36-2133.39) of it.

You rang? (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8876.0)


Has Adam gone? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/has-adam-gone.593/page-5#post-87827)
Quote from: Rusty Nails to multitool
closing one's eyes and ears does not make a bad smell go away

Tell me about it.↓

#11,948 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-797#post-90767)
Quote from: AuroraSaab to Multitool
There's quite a few people who no longer post. They've abandoned the whole Naca forum in the last year, not just this thread. There are others who didn't post much but who used to read and like posts. They aren't around anymore either.

Perhaps you should should refect on whether it's you who has made this whole forum a less pleasant place to be for so many of us

Ya think?

His reply (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-797#post-90774) is pricelessly bonkers. He really does seem to believe he can re-engineer reality through simple repetition of things he wants to be true. The problem is, Nacans enabled him and the damage is done.

Quote from: multitool
LOL (https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/laughing.gif)

Operation Lie upOn Lie appears to have been a success.

↑ Idiot Wind (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8969.0)s work by howling endlessly to shut us up. They can't shut us all up.*

Quote from: HMS_Pillock
[Proxy (https://archive.ph/lmurF#selection-3783.40-3783.70) for the women in his life, whose supposed opinion carries more weight than that of the woman in the conversation. Remind you of anyone? (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg17290#msg17290)]

When people tell you who they are,

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HMSpillock.gif)

listen.

Quote from: same dude
Over and out
Quote from: the husk of Dave, 3 posts later
I'm out. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-799#post-90806)

Sometimes they do our job for us.† Gotta love how someone who can't deal with an adult conversation without throwing in a "get stuffed"


gets this turned around to be the fault of one of the few grown ups in the room.

Quote from: icowden
So we shouldn't have any discussion (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-800#post-90825) in case trans people get victimised. Should we also shut down public discussions? Which discussions is it OK to have?

Standout post, much as it makes me grind my teeth to have him go on to "both sides" this yet again. Bothsidesism is the 'reasonable' man's default, and technically true even if only 1% (picking a generous number from the air) of the "fault" lies on our side. Graham Linehan and Kellie-Jay Keen are of course the villains. If you'd like to read an intelligent discussion about Linehan, head to the usual place. (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5030082-ron-jonson-and-adam-buxton?page=2&reply=133823278) As for KJK, the crime there is obvious: the truth hurts men, who have the loudest voices and the lowest pain threshold.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/woman.jpg)

*Shades of YACF, who have shrunk into their current selves and are clueless as to why.
Crickets, btw, to this. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-800#post-90835)
†Yes, Dave went ahead and deleted his account, selflessly giving his body up for ammunition. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-799#post-90812)
‡Over and out. /self-skewering joke with a little help from typography

#12,007 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-801#post-90862)
Quote from: AndyRM to CXRAndy
...There's a middle ground out there I believe, but getting there is the challenge. Slogans like "Punch a TERF" aren't meant to be taken any more literally than "Eat the rich" but have been hijacked to make trans activists look like violent nutters.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/iCow.gif)

Point me to the violent "TERF" coven. Please. (https://archive.ph/y163g#selection-4099.27-4099.49) As for equating the fantasy of eating the rich {or even the middle class (https://youtu.be/080h9quphL0)}


with the reality (https://debbiehayton.com/2018/12/10/plea-to-trans-lobby/) of women punched and physically intimidated by trans activists (lots more examples since that old letter to the editor), that tells you all you need to know about this Andy's window on the world.

Behold the endorsement of the reasonable man.
Title: Apotheosis+
Post by: Pale Rider on March 21, 2024
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/echo2.jpg)

Quote from: BoldonLad
The place (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/has-adam-gone.593/page-6#post-90951) was always something of an echo chamber, but, even the variation (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/has-adam-gone.593/page-7#post-90983) of echo has diminished.

A little less conversation


#12,008 (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-801#post-90865)
Quote from: CXRAndy
I did say I would take the piss long while back, because that's how I see the situation, it's comedic.

This list isn't exhaustive, though it may appear so. Needless to say there's guesswork involved.

You see you've got your CXRAndys, of which there are a fair number, or would be if they ever start paying attention. Most don't because it doesn't affect them, which is the main reason men don't worry about mundane things such as who's in their toilet or changing room or prison cell or wherever.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fitness.jpg)
Tragicomic, actually.

Then you've got your AndyRMs, who pay attention only insofar as they've latched onto the movement to help them explain some 'queer' (https://twitter.com/midwesthomo77/status/1770708320464085408) and/or 'creative' (https://youtu.be/FNptHqAlgwM?si=SxoyWKpU-Khb_ldq) aspect of themselves.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/andyRMflag.jpg)
bonus material!
Notes from a comedy workshop: (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-naca-music-art-general-creativity-thread.328/page-30#post-80332)
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/andyfunny.jpg)
[close]

Your Winjims, who left the thread of our discontent in multiple huffs quite awhile ago because a person they care deeply about is trans, or they're trans themselves, but newstyle Most Oppressed Ever rather than oldstyle like Debbie Hayton.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/winjim-f-off.gif)

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/winjimwatch.jpg)
"It's fuck off o'clock already?"

Your OPs who largely take a Butlerian view of gender or sex or whatever and run harrumphing away from the far more humane and sensible (and intelligible) JK Rowlings (if only she were plural).


Your Reasonable Men like icowden.

(https://i.imgur.com/8NBz7Bj.jpg)
"Give me a sock and I'll find the truth, or maybe I'll find other socks"

Your also decent blokes like Rusty Nails, who doesn't want to stir up trouble because he's a Reasonable Man too, damnit, but is rather tired of the whole thing and in the end just wants a comfortable life.


(That's not a video of a dog fetching slippers. I had one job, damnit.)

Your occupationally Stonewalled, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-688#post-84788) like the fragrant Bromptonaut.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/avoid.jpg)

Your olde worlde misogynists, like Ian.


Your handmaidens, (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3407786-Being-a-trans-ally-a-guide-for-handmaidens) or at the very least informationally (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-198#post-57593) challenged (https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/07/08/mumsnet-trans-kids-school-outing/) (two links!) users like Julia, who is well within her rights to choose the wrong side; it's a free country.


It's funny 'cause Atwood. (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/66011/is-margaret-atwood-a-coward-unherd)

Your WTFs? like classic3345. (https://youtu.be/BXOwNOf2QXY) I apologise for the image you are about to see, but that doesn't stop it from being LOL either.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/retarded.jpg)

Your psychopaths like multitool,


opportunists moving heaven and earth to bend reality around the new protected class of women; expounders of flawed premises building on themselves to produce the essence of pure wrong. (What do you want to bet he steals that line. (https://archive.ph/yc5We#selection-1929.320-1929.396))
Spoiler
For avoidance of doubt <sigh> I grabbed it from him. The accidental display of self-knowledge was irresistible.
[close]


Privately amused by a validated news source he's just parsed (https://archive.ph/EdZvv#selection-1807.52-1807.126) on Twitter.

And finally your moN (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-684#post-84597)kerses.


You're welcome.
[close]

Quote from: winjim
You've won, well done, we concede. You can stop now.


I do hope you'll stop back for the final episodes of Captain's Blog, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8876.msg19031#msg19031) which are still in post-production.
Title: Freedom
Post by: Pale Rider on April 10, 2024

remains elusive thanks to autocomplete, as NACA's URL is in silicon muscle memory. All it takes is an 'n'...

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/newtab.gif)

So no one told you you'd be settling in to stay
[clapclapclapclapclap]
This board's a joke, it's broke, let's call it DOA. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8328.0)
It's like it's always stuck in granny gear,
What a shame we can't reclaim this wasted year!

Still – I'll be there for you, no matter how much you bore.
I'll be there for you, though you have me on ignore.
I'll be there for you, 'cause you're there for me too.


(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/friends450.gif)

The one where Aurora loses her temper (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-836#post-92393)
Quote from: AuroraSaab
The fact is you know feck all about the topic. All you can do is cry some variation of Nazi Toilets! because your main interest in this topic is that it allows you to be misogynistic whilst pretending to be progressive.

And just like we've seen today with Wes Streeting for Labour and even Stonewall, once you see how the wind has changed you'll eventually do a reverse ferret

We interrupt this post for a reverse clown ferret - Ed.
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/clowngender.jpg)

and say you were never in favour of puberty blockers, and no of course lesbians can't have penises, and of course women should be able to meet without being intimidated.

And you'll do it all whilst still imagining that you are intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us on here.

That's addressed to multitool, whose basement I imagine plastered with pin-ups of a certain blonde bombshell. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-835#post-92383)

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kjkhit.jpg)
PHOTOSHOP FAIL

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/blondehit.jpg)
Not much better

Quote from: multitool
Actually (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-836#post-92395) I don't post on the "trans activist" side. I don't really know what it is because as I said I'm not at all invested in it.

He's not at all invested in it. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg17337#msg17337)

Quote from: reply to Aurora, first draft
[DO BETTER - Ed.] (https://archive.ph/Ub6mu#selection-2079.1-2079.10)

You know what they say: you catch more flies with honey. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-836#post-92396)

The one where she's funny (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-836#post-92402)
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Quote from: multitool
Quote from: Aurora
I reckon most people on here will find your claim of bullying a bit ironic

Does the "most people on here" include all the people who were here but left because of you, directly naming you?

It includes the farmers whose crops I blighted and the cows whose milk I turned sour.

This doesn't happen often. Savour it.


on edit: (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-843#post-92516)
AS losing her temper is unusual enough to be material for a joke, so for icowden to then say
Quote
I have also seen her attacked multiple times and people really being quite rude. In the interests of balance she has also been quite rude back.

is wildly off balance. 'Reasonable man' strikes again.
Title: Grave news
Post by: Pale Rider on April 12, 2024

The one with the 'niece' (We just did Friends)
Six Feet Under (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-839#post-92450)
Quote from: moNkers
N here. Monkers is resting.

In peace? Don't rush her,* there's life in the old girl yet.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/monkerstombstone.jpg) (https://youtu.be/mz5Mn1Biqeg)

Quote from: moNkers
I am being urged (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-842#post-92496) by N to be open about the state of my health and to do so in order to help others.

I can see the first entry in the book of remembrance now: "She lived to help others."

The urgent voices in moNkers's head continue:
Quote
A few years ago I was sent a letter by my GP.

"Your 'lady parts' are fine. Please stop asking me to examine them without a chaperone present."

Quote
I forget the fine detail, but essentially I was invited to put a stool sample in a tube with a blue cap and send it off to a private company for testing. Well I didn't.

Translation: "If those coprophiliacs want mine they're going to have to pay for it."

Quote
Later I complained to my GP about problems.

"Why aren't you returning my calls?"

Quote
She said she would refer me for 'cameras up' and 'cameras down'.


Quote
Long story short, Covid came along and it never happened.

My bold. The best lies contain an element of truth.

Quote
The problems worsened. Eventually, and after many tries I got a GP appointment, this time with a different GP.


Quote
Again I was referred for camera work and there was blood work. Bowel cancer was confirmed. I've had surgery, and I'm in a better place.


Quote
The blood work has revealed another problem. I have leukaemia. I've been waiting for a consultation for a while, but at the hospital they wanted to deal with the bowel cancer before investigating the leukaemia.

Funny this hasn't been mentioned on bonkers's [genuine typo] old haunt (https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-retirement-thread.216598/page-3979#post-6203333) the main site, which seems the ideal venue. Perhaps moNkers feels particularly close to NACAns.

Quote
As a result I suffer from pretty acute fatigue some days and a growing weariness of idiots bleating on, telling lies and as N puts it, 'being deeply unpleasant as people'.

At the risk of being deeply unrepentant, is anybody really falling for this? I note multitool hasn't added his reaction to the roll call at the bottom of the post. Could it be that, like me, he doesn't think sufficient groundwork (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8369.msg18421#msg18421) has been laid?

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Anyway, if you have an invitation to poop in a tube, put it in an envelope and send if off - just do it.

I was looking for a pneumatic tube clip from Brazil, but this will do:


If perchance I'm terribly terribly wrong,

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bluetop.jpg)

I can only hope that come the day, Shaun briefly turns everybody into moNkers like he did (https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/how-the-hell-did-vernons-avatar-get-everywhere.198365/) when Vernon died (yeah, that Vernon (https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/is-your-avatar-you.182919/page-9#post-3774697)), followed by the group effort of an exquisite corpse (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Exquisite_corpse) to celebrate the life and times of someone so... creative.


*Confidence has hit a new low (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-849#post-92644) on that.

Great video pick. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-850#post-92671)

Repeating "cult" as often as humanly possible may backfire with readers when they increasingly associate that word with your name. Just a thought.
Title: more grave news
Post by: Pale Rider on April 12, 2024

The Big Reveal
If I haven't said it explicitly before, I will now: moNkers is Steph, active on YACF. [See small print below.] Yes, I am a believer in cross-pollination.

- Both are very prolific.
- Steph is a writer of bad fiction.
- MoNkers is a character created by Steph on the main CycleChat site back in 2020, mostly active on a thread for the musings of the retired. My theory is that this was a writing exercise/daydream for Steph, until conversations on a certain topic really started taking off, whereupon he redirected his energies.
- Steph and moNkers have the same personality and MO. Both are verbose, lightning-quick to fling insult, and a briar patch for the unwary. Both are experts in their own mind.

I think he’s losing it a bit more than usual lately because his niece story isn’t proving to be a bestseller except to those who've already bought it. Also, more people keep waking up (out in the world. Not so much on NACA.)


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"N here (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-841#post-92490)

When all else fails to disprove the truth, attempt to discredit the poster.

If you've been following along, you'll know that this is moNkers & multitool's entire output, or near enough.

I certainly don't mind fictional constructs, but when used as seen over the course of the thread, it's not really on, is it.

THE SMALL PRINT, though this may depend on your browser/platform: As with my theory about Idiot Wind, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8969.0) I have no proof.
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If you've read that, better read this too
Later I would see convincing evidence that Steph isn't moNkers. Oh well.
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Title: Spartacus ego sum
Post by: Pale Rider on April 17, 2024

Quote from: bloke on a mount
Judge not, lest ye (https://daily.jstor.org/nderstanding-a-misunderstood-bible-verse/) be judged.

That's what I'm (https://youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c) here for, folks.

The gender thread played a big part in the trashing of this little forum - Sorry! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-838#post-92445)
Quote from: moNkers
Collectively, people with critical thinking skills are wasting their lives by continuing 'discussion' with gender critical people.

#NoDebate clinging on for dear life.

Anyone with eyes


Ablest! See also Pan's Labyrinth. (https://youtu.be/6OfZD5xB6TA)

can see that NACA'S GCers doggedly address points, whilst Trans Rights Activists (though they may eschew (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-842#post-92510) the label) invariably piss on anyone who disagrees with them ~ at most throwing them an occasional, insignificant bone in an attempt to appear reasonable. They see facts as a personal attack {it's anybody's guess why}, and are constitutionally unable to debate from first principles.

Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: CXRAndy
Amazing (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-856#post-92783) what testosterone and anabolic steroids do.

Amazing what happens to a formerly male body when you take the testosterone away too. Add oestrogen and it is no longer the same shape.

Boldly slipped past internal censoring. And here I thought TRAs never claimed people actually change sex.

Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: icowden
do you acknowledge that transwomen have an inherent unfair advantage against biological women? And if not, why are transmen doing so badly at sport?

It's not a yes or no question. It's obviously a complex question, not a simple one.

The shtick is to make the simple appear complex and keep us arguing endlessly.

Quote from: moNkers
I actually disagree with Monkers (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-841#post-92489)

Is a narcissist disagreeing with narcissistself a sign of growth?

Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: AuroraSaab
[It must be something she said] (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-846#post-92589)

There isn't any need for me to say any more. The record shows.


Quote from: icowden, aka The Reasonable Man
Can't we all (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-842#post-92513) just try being a bit nicer to each other instead?

A long-running joke, started by multitool, is that AuroraSaab is responsible for people leaving the forum, or at least the thread. I must shoulder some of the blame here. Doubtless these people are glued 24/7 to my feed, which has included 'fun' (tongs added for the tender-hearted) posts about mudsticks (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg15640#msg15640), winjim, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=5316.0) and 'Father' Xmas (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8673.msg18556#msg18556) xirself, and have become very shy.

Quote from: Ian H
I'm merely quoting (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-844#post-92543) some ancient Greek bloke.

Ánthrōpos métron.

Quote from: multitool
Oh woe. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-861#post-92889) Won't somebody think of the children!!

Yes. (https://kathleenlowrey.substack.com/p/when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tras)

Quote from: moNkers, colour therapy
Quote from: CXRAndy
[It must be something (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-843#post-92530) he said] (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-860#post-92866)

If the definition of 'trendy fashion cult' is any group of people that have been increasing in number saying the same thing, then look no further than your own cultish (*checks own spelling) behaviour.
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There are those of you pushing for trans erasure while in denial of their fascism.

Hold that thought...
Title: Meinsplaining
Post by: Pale Rider on April 30, 2024
Archive of this page: https://archive.ph/ZmsSt

. . .

Thanks to multitool (hereby christened Mein Tool) and moNkers, the NACA word cloud is raining Nazis.


Thanks (https://archive.ph/Nn5V7#selection-4663.1-4663.52) for (https://archive.ph/ejhuk#selection-3331.78-3331.85) being (https://archive.ph/ejhuk#selection-3555.13-3555.20) my (https://archive.ph/ejhuk#selection-3601.1-3601.7) muse. (https://archive.ph/ejhuk#selection-4061.129-4061.133)


One more makes it a trilogy.


Membership hath its privileges
We offer an attractive signing bonus:
- No need to answer security questions before every post.
- Can mark topics read
- Can post in most boards


Unfortunately, membership is not an option for [checks clipboard] Mein Tool (https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1784586797525184794) and monkers. 'N', on the other hand, is welcome to join provided photographic evidence is forwarded of N in the same place, time, and plane of existence as moNkers.

The terrible two do have the same ability as any other guest to post on this board.

This invite obvs. to be filed under As If.

I wasn't kidding about the cutting room floor:
Quote from: Mein Tool
If anyone is member material, it is me, by definition.
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This 'administrator' can't even hold down a forum membership himself.
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[Smiley genocide] don't you remember? Have you all got Covid brain?
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He's not even a real vegetarian – he eats eggs. (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/egg-transgender)
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He's just hungry for scraps of conversation with other than his tumbleweeds.

And of course,
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I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member anyway.


Quote from: winjim

Winjim once said I was more interesting on my own than the entire NACA board. Or words to that effect. If I ever find the quote again I'll be sure to take another bow, assuming I got it right. (I could've sworn he used the word 'perspicacious'.)(On edit: Found it. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/this-forum-and-the-current-state-of-affairs.294/page-21#post-37876) "Perspicacity". I'm still here, WJ. Having passed the test for taste, and gotten extra credit for discernment, you're welcome.)
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Quote from: Bunker Magazine
The first is the best, but they're all worth [checks sums] 7.24 of your time.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/memestone.jpg)
The ultimate bunkerful of parodies (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=2247.0)

Quote from: Judith Butler
I bow to the master. (https://archive.ph/V1jwB#selection-1167.384-1167.483)
Taking too bloody long to load?
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/economist.gif)

The Economist, (https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/04/25/whos-afraid-of-judith-butler-the-godmother-of-queer-theory) Who’s afraid of Judith Butler, the “godmother of queer theory”?
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(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/respect.png)

Quote from: theclaud
Best. Thread. Ever.

Aw shucks.

Oh, she meant this one:
Ignore this (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/ignore-this.616/)

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/iansglasses.jpg)

The bar is low
The glasses many
Let me know
When drops the penny

And so it goes
on and on and on and on
Quote from: farfromtheland
As a teacher (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-880#post-93793) I was asked by smirking seven year olds, 'Are you a girl or a boy, Miss?', to which I replied, 'Neither.' but the real question is how to make this small ask irrelevant.

Sounds like a missed opportunity (geddit?) to say girls can be however they want to be.

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It is unfair to demand feminists embrace declared faith in inner gender difference but not expect trans-people to embrace that some people validly don't take it as axiomatic truth. As long as we are respectful it can be left undecided.

With respect – FFTL really is trying to elevate the saggier (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-879#post-93759) parts of the discussion – make up your mind...

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misgendering is not helpful or necessary

Are feelings more important than facts, and if so, whose feelings (https://twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1790481109211328690) trump whose? There is no stable middle ground in TWAW.

Once more, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=7909.0) and nothing personal: who are you that I should have to lie. Even in these days of our own individual truths, honesty remains the best policy.

Quote from: Mein Tool
If and when (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-881#post-93816) [AuroraSaab] wants to talk about real issues that matter to women (rather than a confected threarlt whipped up by weirdo cultists and co-opted by populist politicians) I'll be here.

Mini-Me
Quote from: AndyRM
[Doubles down on the other c-word, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-881#post-93830) because DARVO (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-717#post-87085) is their bread and butter]
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Translation: "If you want to do feminism right, ask someone with balls."

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/behold.jpg)

Quote from: Rusty Nails
I am so used to reading posts that are based on demonising people...

If you're going to point fingers, at least point them in the right direction.

Quote from: Mein Tool
Schools (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-877#post-93659) frequently know better than some parents.

Translation: most parents aren't having it, so we need an arm of the state to push this ideology.

Quote from: Mini-Me
Somehow (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-881#post-93845) the kind of pish that Andy goes wild for cropped up on my social media earlier...

If Mini-Me is getting fed these sorts of low grade memes (a quick search shows the source was satire, though not very good satire), it says something about his browsing habits. Whatever else you may think of the things CXRAndy shares, they seldom plumb these depths.

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Copy of tweet: (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/naca-political-jokes-page.38/page-55#post-94305) "put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling"

Angry old man/get off my lawn gets a genderist reboot. The tweet author (I did my due diligence and visited his timeline) raised a few smiles here; pity he's on the wrong side of reality.

It's been a joy to watch JK fully unfurl. (https://twitter.com/CrunchAlias/status/1789973878988583075)

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All I'm getting (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-887#post-94043) from these recent interactions is that I can carry on being non binary and living by my own tenets, which involve not being a prick about others choices.

Join the temple.

Ave Satanus.

The devil is in the details, one small one being that YOU'RE NOT AFFECTED, ya big galoot.* Easy to nobly accept "others choices" then, isn't it.

*Exactly the right word. - Ed.

Quote from: AuroraSaab
However (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-881#post-93833) anybody spins the gender identity thing it always comes down to sexist stereotypes in the end.

At the risk of cultural appropriation, true dat.

Quote from: field trip to Ovarit
They make boxes, (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/555193/how-is-it-that-they-don-t-know-basic-pop-culture/a1fd479a-c820-4fbe-a49d-408cfc42a268#comment-a1fd479a-c820-4fbe-a49d-408cfc42a268) then split those boxes into more and more boxes, and then they decide which box they like best (and decide they belong into the opressedest and queerest little box). They really don't realise how insanely rigid and conservative they are. It's genuinely sad, until I read about them claiming a woman with short hair and casual clothes is "appropriating NB culture" (that was cringey to type) then all my sympathy for them goes down the drain.

See also. (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/542250/lady-gaga-calls-anti-mulvaney-posts-hatred-that-is-violence/1e74bd4b-9095-4ac3-ad19-397b74dbdd5c#comment-1e74bd4b-9095-4ac3-ad19-397b74dbdd5c)

Here there be feminists.

Quote from: Mein Tool to an imagined burn victim
What a life. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/local-elections-may-2024.620/page-8#post-93900) Spending your day following the Tool round trying to dry hump his leg.

Unironically shifting into 3rd person is a cry for help. He clearly loves being a big dick in a small pond, his leg constantly tingling with anticipation. If it wasn't for forums, he'd find a hole outside to stick it in as bait for lonely badgers.

Quote from: PedallingNowhereSlowly
Quote from: Mein Tool
...members of his cult...

The last I checked, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/bye-bye-nhs.611/page-5#post-94120) I was not a member of any cult.

Haven't you heard? It's cults all the way down.

Quote from: moNkers to a woman
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Despite hundreds of posts you've yet to coherently explain why we should treat some men differently to other men, other than they say so.

Trans women with [an official piece of paper] are women. You are not a woman (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-886#post-94032) since you deny your gender identity.

Another gem from Operation Let Them Speak: man wins best womaning contest.


(Not the clip you were expecting?)

Quote from: Mein Tool
Quote from: AS
I have no gender identity. It's a metaphysical belief to which I don't subscribe...

I bet you've, at some point, worn a skirt, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-886#post-94037) and I don't think it was your ovaries, tit's and fanny that compelled you to do it. It was your mind. It's not a physical event, it is a mental one based on identity.

You don't have to have a dick to talk like one, but it helps. Still, we must stop all the clocks, because he has a point. It doesn't legitimise the demand to elevate gender identity over sex, but absolute denial of said identity has always been where AS is weakest.

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["Right-wing" (https://tinyurl.com/4zceu8ez) ad nauseam]

There's a word for thinking if you're not buying everything the left wing (https://twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1790352186653684170) is selling, there's only one other thing you can be; that there are only two states of being. I can't think what it is.

Quote from: moNkers to AuroraSaab
Oh my word, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-887#post-94073) you really are an actual idiot fruitloops.

This long-running match hasn't exactly been Borg vs McEnroe (a very dated reference I'm never relinquishing); more like the Ice Woman* vs a couple of hotheads who think they're pros because they watched a game on TV, got knocked out cold by the first ace (imagine the ball bopping into one head then rebounding off the other), and dreaming they've been winning ever since.*


*I'm aware Mac (https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2016-10-20/a_point_in_time_mcenroe_and_the_puff_of_chalk.html#) was actually correct, unlike the stooges in question.

Quote from: Mein Tool
Belief (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-884#post-93973) is not the same as knowledge or fact.

Meinsplainin'.

A woman (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-887#post-94063) saying nein drives a certain type of man bonkers. They can't handle it without a great deal of spittle flying.
Title: The one-body problem
Post by: Pale Rider on May 17, 2024
If you're looking for 'Meinsplaining' – and who isn't, in these times of uncertainty? – it's one post up. You've reached the multiple personalities helpline (it takes many to know many).

Quote from: moNkers
N tells me (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-891#post-94456) by text that she may pop in here later to put straight the situation regarding statutory and non-statutory guidelines. I'm looking forward to seeing her

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/equalsman.gif) (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5065153-if-transwomen-are-women-and-women-are-cis-women-are-transwomen-cis-women?page=5&reply=134944135)
MONKERS = MAN
N = SAME (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8369.msg19146#msg19146) MAN

HTH

(I'm thinking dual SIM phone, if he/he (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-893#post-94564) wants to get elaborate about it.)

Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: AuroraSaab
[Doesn’t really matter]

N here. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-892#post-94524)

Will you kindly clarify, who is the poster you intended this for?

Stop, please. My sides.
Title: The one-body problem
Post by: Pale Rider on May 20, 2024
Let us first celebrate the life of Hieronymus Fabricius

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fab.jpg)
"Fab"

aka the father of embryology, 20 May 1533 - 21 May 1619 and thus very nearly a birthday-perisher. (https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/281410/is-there-a-word-that-describes-a-person-who-dies-on-his-her-birthdate) I have no proof, but believe he has been reincarnated as Buck Angel.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/buck.jpg)
Hieronymus would've loved tats like that

Say what you will about his lack of shoulders, the man expanded human knowledge.

Quote from: Mein Tool
Quote from: AuroraSaab
N and M seem identical... Why don't you start separate accounts?

What has that to do with anything (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-893#post-94540) and why is it any business of yours how somebody operates their account?

P here, Pale Rider’s aide-de-camp. He’s taking much needed respite in an undisclosed location. The operation of NACA accounts falls within his remit as a freelance explainer of things.

Quote from: icowden
I have to say (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-893#post-94567) that N's writing style is different and I have no issue with Monkers and N being two different people. She has explained this in detail and given us some of N's background.

I’ve checked recorded history, and nobody has ever been so naïve. In the event icowden actually thinks moNkers is engaging in good faith, we should book a RealityCheck™ appointment at his earliest convenience.

Quote from: icowden to monkers. I mean N.
Thank you (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-898#post-94685) for sharing your story.

They (I use the pronoun advisedly) barely even qualify as multiple personalities. M/N is a single personality.


Mein Tool, being an any-means-to-an-end kind of guy, naturally doesn't have a problem with whatever subterfuge is required.

Icowden, consider this an intervention: you may think you're being polite and advancing the discussion, but privately this pair of locusts must be laughing at you even as they thank you for enabling them. I respect you enough to laugh out loud.

on edit:
R here, P's long-in-the-tooth intern (not everyone gets the breaks P had in life. I have a degree in meeja studies and audited an Open University course on heteronormativity heteronyms. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(literature)) Look where that got me.) My instructions are to point you to the videos at the top of this page ↑↑↑ which all of us had a hand in producing. My job was to give Hitler Marilyn Monroe's hair.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/monroe-hair.jpg)

Quote from: moNkers
Alas (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-898#post-94687) the weekend is over. N is briefly in London, and then on her way back home to Europe later today. She is not back here until the 7th, and then the three of us are straight off on holiday.

P here again. No offence to R, but I'll handle this. Our post went up before the latest reply. There's a nice symmetry. Who knows, their holiday could be at the same place as Pale Rider's respite.


Fancy meeting you here

A deeper dive might ascertain the identity of this mysterious third party, but let's leave them their privacy.

Quote from: moNkers
Most people don't even know their own sex

Quote from: sane person
Really? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-895#post-94609)

Yup. What are your chromosomes? I presume mine are XX, but not having had them tested, I can't say for sure.

Even our chromosomes like their privacy.

You wonder how some folks even breathe (https://youtu.be/eBLViMLws10?si=MyMcjXxmOX487_PO&t=95) if they don't know for sure the exact composition of the air.
Title: Duty Calls
Post by: aide-de-camp on September 27, 2024
Quote from: moNkers
When I said 'fark off' (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-235#post-59479) that wasn't a heat of the moment thing. I think your heart is cold - just like a fascist.

An oldie (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3893.msg17147#msg17147) but a goodie.

Gender again. Sorry! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1047#post-103008)
It's been a few months. Big news!
Quote from: Rohan Man
I choose to be defined by my clothing.

Considering how Bromptonaut defines women, that's hardly news. This, on the other hand, qualifies:
Quote from: Mein Tool
Bye everyone! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/over-and-out.642/) Signing out for good as I've spent much longer here than I intended, and I have other things I need to be doing.

So many wells to poison, so little time.

Did he see the writing on the wall for gender ideology? Run out of precious bodily fluids for Starmer? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/over-and-out.642/#post-100104)*
Quote from: AndyRM
Fare thee well. Haven't always seen eye to eye, but (most of) your input will be a loss to the forum.
*"semen for Starmer" is catchier but yuckier

Always sad when people choose the dick side. (https://www.inverse.com/article/33593-darth-vader-penis-star-wars-sex-padme-obiwan-kenobi)

Speaking of Andys, CXRAndy has turned into a deleted member. More ghosts every time I stop back.

bobzmyunkle's succinctness leapt out at me:
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Jesus wept. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1048#post-103031)
In the old days it was simple. Sex is binary, gender is a social construct. Fill your boots however you feel gender wise. Now, after 15,000,000 pages of obfuscatory drivel from @monkers and her imaginary friends, @Ian H realises that gender isn't a binary relationship with sex.

moNkers's sockpuppetry (http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com) induced the usual credulity:
Quote from: Mini-Me
Quote from: Bromptonaut
FFS why (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1050#post-103094) would @monkers do that. Why can't we just take people at face value?

This. 100% this. Why would anyone bother with an alter on this little slice of the internet?

To borrow a phrase beloved of Mumsnet: Oh my sweet summer child. Trans Rights Privileges Activists operate on a whole different level of trolldom. moNkers is on a mission to eradicate fact, wherever it exists, with bad fiction.

As we go to press, N's latest disgorgement "Received by email this morning" (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1051#post-103128) for added verisimilitude is being ignored.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/monkers-account1.png)

Quote from: moNkers to AuroraSaab
Listen dickhead (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1048#post-103070)
I suppose the litany of insults spewed at Aurora is nearly invisible to the regulars at this point. To anyone still noticing, it looks desperately unhinged.

How do you create a fauxgina?
Quote from: moNkers
[video of 'gender surgeon' (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1051#post-103186)]
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/lovey.jpg) (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4893510-naked-older-man-on-bike?page=3&reply=129114855)
Inverted penis has its glans fans.

Quote from: moNkers to AuroraSaab
Maybe you didn't hear (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1052#post-103202) him say that the vagina of a trans woman [sic] is sensate end to end, and that our's are not.

Man wins best womaning contest, this time using the only metric that matters:


Might want to take that claim with a generous helping of salt; in any event, note that "sensate" ain't always a good thing.

"Sensate end to end" caused my wife, who outrageously has accused me of finding NACA cozy as an old chair, particular amusement.

Quote from: moNkers
who are you, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1055#post-103305) other than a woman with a fetishistic obsession with other people's genitals?

Says the person who just posted a video about genitals.

Quote
Aurora thinks she's winning just because she has ground everybody down. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1051#post-103110)

Says the one who grinds. It must be incredibly frustrating it's not working here.

Quote
You make every conversation so very farking tedious and manipulative. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1053#post-103277)

It's as if moNkers is talking to moNkerself. Wait a minute...

Spoiler
Faithful readers will be aware of my fond wish that AuroraSaab is actually moNkers, a master sockpuppeteer running rings around all of us. Today I unveil my darkest fear that all of them are actually me, which would explain the trance-like state my wife continually has to shake me out of.
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Stop press!

Quote from: moNkers
N here (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1055#post-103324)

Sorry I've filled the forum pages too much this evening; and so to bed.

That ought to silence the naysayers! A reminder (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8062.msg18056#msg18056) that some people on little slices of the internet (https://archive.ph/3rMVA) write entire books. They may be self-published, but they're still books.
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Namecheck
Quote from: AuroraSaab
Hi Sam! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1051#post-103113) Hope the holiday is going ok. I'm not in touch with Sam but I could help him out with his forum game of Guess Who if I wasn't opposed to doxing.

I'll pass your greetings along. We don't think our identikit skills qualify as doxing, but promise if you get in touch we won't use information in a way which makes you uncomfortable.

You're never going to get in touch, are you.

Quote from: AuroraSaab
I just won't be joining in with the pretending. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1051#post-103115)

Words to live by.

Quote from: JanefromLondon1 @ Mumsnet
you can't reason with crazy (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5175172-why-do-all-trans-discussions-end-in-a-bun-fight?page=1&reply=138613546)

Also words to live by.


Quote from: moNkers
Oh fark off. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1057#post-103368) I'm generally very kind to everyone and known for it.

Title: Shut up or else
Post by: Readit & Weep on September 30, 2024
Reginald Weep here, posting in an unofficial capacity. In my spare time when I'm not clubbing foxes (I jest, unlike Jolyon Maugham, whom I once saw bite the head off a chicken on a retreat), I enjoy visiting forums. Have been following the exploits of the shrinking population of 'NACA' for some time now. This exchange yesterday is remarkable. Abridged.

https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1057#post-103379
Quote from: moNkers
What can be alleged in respect of your actions is, in simplest terms, cyberbullying, and falls under the legal definition of harassment. From your own words, it is clear that you consider the harassment of trans women to be acceptable on the basis that you feel that you are entitled to do so as a cisgender woman. You couldn't be more wrong. This is clearly criminal intent and criminal behaviour.

Cyber bullies are easily spotted, when a victim complains about their behaviour, typically they reply with a meme, say a woman spraying her keyboard with tea because she is laughing so hard, or just replying 'Lol', indicating that they are admitting enjoying causing distress. It is an admission of guilt.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/What-is-Lmao2.jpg)
Co-conspirator

Quote from: moNkers
Cyberbullying on social media is at contagion level. Cyber bullies tend to think that either the state does not have the means to identify (invariably it does), however a consideration is interstate bullying. In the UK it is much more difficult to seek remedy against a bully in say the USA because international law to tackle the problem is not established. However you are from what you seem to say resident in the UK bullying on what I think is a UK based website. There are obligations on the site owner to protect people from bullying on the site. I believe the site owner is aware since they ask posters to hide behind avatars.

Will the police take action against you? I will say it is unlikely. First there needs to be a complaint made to UK police, and secondly because of the lack of resources (including court time) means that their interest will only be piqued by a higher level of harm. However a person taking their own life or self-harming following on-line interactions with you and citing your avatar would lead to an investigation into your behaviour with possible consequences.

The ability to hide from the authorities does not make the behaviour less criminal.

(https://i.imgur.com/hzW7qfx.gif)

Quote from: AuroraSaab
The point of your huge post is to try to stop people commenting on this thread. I doubt it is only meant for my ears.

It's the next step on from when you used to post 'My lawyer cousin is watching this thread'. In my opinion it's threatening both the site owner and posters. It's an attempt to intimidate because all else has failed.
Quote from: moNkers
The stark reality (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1058#post-103393) is that you have realised that your own behaviour is indeed criminal.
Quote from: AuroraSaab
I'm not intimidated. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1058#post-103394) Hope that helps. The more you post the dafter you look. In my opinion, of course.
Quote from: moNkers
you do not merely (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1058#post-103401) attempt behaviour which could be found to be criminal in law, you succeed.

I must have missed the "lawyer cousin", and my aide is unable to locate it in a seach. There was this, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-683#post-84589) however, from last December. If memory serves, it was N's first post. Pale Rider covered it at the time (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8369.msg18421#msg18421) during the most enjoyable Gender Actually thread arc.

Quote from: moNkers to icowden
Please can you kindly (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-683#post-84589) explain the reason for your contributions that could be argued as incitement to commit an offence? I feel quite certain that your ultimate employer, the NHS, would be concerned to see you acting in this manner.

For the record, I am willing to take on AuroraSaab as a client, pro bono, should she require legal representation in this matter.


Another satisfied client
Title: Notice is given
Post by: Readit & Weep on October 15, 2024
Quote from: Richard Feynman & Bob Dylan
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. When something's not right, it's wrong. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=8369.msg19151#msg19151)

Reginald Weep here again. Material has been vouchsafed to me which persuasively identifies moNkers in the non-forum, i.e. 'real' world. Whilst it is largely in the public domain, it was gathered by a source who does not wish to dox. As an officer of the court, nor do I. However, I can confirm that the subject is in the male sex category; hence very much not a lesbian as claimed. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-764#post-89266)

(http://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/acf/pics/fishbike.jpg)

In other news, Pale Rider has texted me from Malaga (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5187036-5187036-malaga-airport-at-35) airport (https://www.malagaguru.com/blogs/why-does-malaga-airport-have-the-code-agp/) [two links]. Coming or going I know not, though Oklahoma! (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5185659-oklahoma) was mentioned. He just wanted to tell me to keep up the good work.
Title: They Walk Among Us
Post by: Éminence grise on October 28, 2024
I wouldn't call it a renaissance, but CycleChat's cast-off forum does seem to be waking up.


A little.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/alittle.jpg)

I credit Mein Tool for doing the decent thing and fucking off. Unfortunately the equally malign moNkers remains in residence.

Spen666, in the running for bête noire, has certainly perked up. He's on the pedant end of the spectrum. Has his uses.

The gender thread, last bump (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/gender-again-sorry.273/page-1058#post-103617)ed by parkrun [glow]expert[/glow] (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=9604.msg19665#msg19665) (alas I don't have the code for that turned on) AndyRM, has drifted down into the second page.

Cookiemonster posted this (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/they-walk-among-us.662/) the other day:
Quote from: They Walk Among Us

Too much paranoia and stupidity.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Sorry for getting biblical on your ass. Of course I'm going to judge. Cookiemonster, thou art part of the problem, and haven't learned a blessed thing since Brexit.

Israel / Palestine (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/israel-palestine.556/page-245#post-104312)
Quote from: C R
Quote from: winjim
I'm glad I'm not American right now. I don't think I could bring myself to vote for either main candidate. How could I bring myself to vote for someone who's doing... that? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/israel-palestine.556/page-244#post-104309)

Don't blame the electorate for being stupid, blame the candidates for not being better.

PZ Myers discusses this dilemma in his blog
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/my-political-dilemma/

A bit of advice for anyone who rates the intellect of Pee Zed Myers:

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/stupidbutton.jpg)

Don't be.
Title: Sure Jan
Post by: Mike Brady on November 01, 2024
Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/oh-no-brexit-not-going-quite-as-well-as-hoped.34/page-355#post-104565)
Quote from: lazybloke
Funny, i remember some gammons saying...

You had me at gammons. Let's see if I can rustle up a button for you, too.

(https://i.imgur.com/P3eLV0q.jpg)
Also known to cause a red face*

NACA Political Jokes Page (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/naca-political-jokes-page.38/page-74#post-104443)
Quote from: AndyRM
[View attachment 6836] (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/attachments/fb_img_1730278960625-jpg.6836/)

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ivory tower
(https://i.imgur.com/odue8R2.jpg)
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Riot! (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/riot.644/page-35#post-104525)
Quote from: AndyRM
It must be lonely up in your ivory tower. I can't imagine watching us idiots grubbing around on this forum provides a distraction for more than a few minutes.

Don't sell yourselves short. It's like an ant farm.

Quote from: matticus
Would you say (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/riot.644/page-35#post-104560) you find much of this forum... confusing?


Boom! Rachael Reeves.... (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/boom-rachael-reeves.666/page-4#post-104569)
Quote from: fozy tornip
Jeez; this new intake is a bit of a disappointment.

Welcome to my world.

Quote from: tarric
Sorry (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/boom-rachael-reeves.666/page-4#post-104576) I don't know you from Adam and satire doesn't come across well in a forum, Maybe try a simile to convey.


A Fine That Will Teach the Offender a Lesson (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/a-fine-that-will-teach-the-offender-a-lesson.667/#post-104487)
Quote from: Psamathe
All sources should be subject to “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.

Word.

Quote from: matticus
Blimey, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/a-fine-that-will-teach-the-offender-a-lesson.667/#post-104532) this is like having royalty post on Cyclechat! :notworthy:

Psamathe is not my idea of a good time, (https://archive.ph/Mcu4l#selection-9399.75-9401.9) but nothing objectionable so far. We'll see.

Alternative Bombings (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/alternative-bombings.660/page-2#post-104322)
Quote from: moNkers
You've no idea how much this enthused my partner sitting here, there being a loud whooosh as something about the 8080 having 22 card slots or something or other was going over my head. She's smart but I still have to maintain her bike.


Mostly because I have trouble believing anything he says unless it's independently verified.

(https://i.imgur.com/GHnLrPw.jpg)

*Since posting, a larger sampling of lazybloke's oeuvre compels me to want to delete this entry. Unfortunately my hand is tied.
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 09, 2024
Quote from: ad campaign
Kamala is for they/them. (https://youtu.be/VVU7pYq3WHw)
Trump is for you. (https://youtu.be/lhnHt1NB0M0)

Admit it: that tagline was a work of genius.

(https://i.imgur.com/enRjXL7.jpg)

USA Midterms... (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/usa-midterms.404/page-146#post-104811)
They couldn't have started a new thread for the election?
Quote from: winjim
Let's not pretend that the USA is this shining beacon of democracy somehow tainted by one man. It's a ruthless Imperial power which we have allowed to become too strong and influential because it suited us well in the latter half of the 20th century. The current state of affairs should come as a surprise to nobody.

Nothing left to do but dance the night away. (https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1854629659415076903)

(https://i.imgur.com/Ve1H02b.jpg)
"Even my teen kids were like -um, no" (https://x.com/Kelly4Humanity/status/1854757818777141316)

Quote from: spen666
democracy (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/usa-midterms.404/page-145#post-104786) means learning to accept that others may have different views to yours

Don't keep us waiting...

Quote from: wafter
presumably (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/usa-midterms.404/page-145#post-104801) you have no issue with the outcome of the 1933 German "democratic" election that brought Hitler to power...?


That never gets old.

Quote from: AndyRM
Trump is a freak. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/usa-midterms.404/page-145#post-104808)

Well, we live in freaky times, where women can have penises.

4B, or not 4B, that is the question (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/4b-or-not-4b-that-is-the-question.671/#post-104896)
Quote from: moNkers
Quote from: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/4b-movement-trump-women
‘No man will touch me until I have my rights back’: why is the 4B movement going viral after Trump’s win?

How many men are going to start calling for a rerun of the election? If 4B are embraced by women, how long is it going to take?

It's doubtful this movement has legs.

The twerking video I linked to above (heaven forbid you miss it (https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1854629659415076903)) was the Harris campaign trying a little too hard to attract men.

From the history rhymes department: (https://www.michaeljkramer.net/you-say-yes-i-say-no/)

(https://i.imgur.com/sJstsw8.jpg)

Quote from: moNkers
Aren't women right to be concerned about their reproductive rights as women, especially with Trump in the Whitehouse? Trump voters have effectively decided that women should not have the rights pertaining to their own bodies, and some of those voters are in fact women.

~Your friendly reminder that moNkers is a heterosexual man cosplaying being a lesbian. Any concern he shows for women's rights is cover for his preoccupation with men's rights.~

As regards the women-who-don't-have-penises vote: (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5204848-this-is-why-so-many-women-voted-trump?page=17&reply=139673856)
Quote from: MalagaNights @ Mumsnet
The republicans provided a bigger tent for women: more varied viewpoints on abortion and trans can be expressed and tolerated

But the Dems viewed women as a monolithic vote on unrestricted abortion and TWAW. Any dissent is fascism.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/hitjack275.jpg)

Meanwhile, back at the mothership:
He’s back! Trump is back!! What the… (https://archive.ph/xPv8e)
Quote from: fritz katzenjammer
What is wrong with Americans, could someone please explain this to me because I’m at a loss.
Quote from: mjr
How does this relate to cycle commuting?

Genuine LOL.

(https://i.imgur.com/c42TiJT.jpg) clicky (https://archive.md/5NqRr)

PS. It's almost as if I never left.
Title: Triggering
Post by: Pale Rider on November 25, 2024
Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough? (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/climate-crisis-are-we-doing-enough.17/page-129#post-105319)
Quote from: moNkers
Personally I don't measure my success by comparison with what wealthy people have, I measure it with what little homeless people have, and I try to do my bit to help them. Apparently I'm just sadly woke and delusional.


Quote from: qigong chimp
Quote from: icowden
... it's a no brainer to fly. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/climate-crisis-are-we-doing-enough.17/page-129#post-105342)

Word.

Whoosh.

[Oh, I'm sure he registered the insult. - Ed.]

Quote from: moNkers
The burning question is, (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/climate-crisis-are-we-doing-enough.17/page-127#post-105278) will Spen care? [about human testicles becoming chock full of micro plastics]
Quote from: bobzmyunkle
I think he only has opinions on things that directly affect him. (I have of course assumed he identifies as he/him. Forgive me if I've assumed wrongly).
Quote from: moNkers
I would assume the same, but whenever a person tells me that they identify differently, I just accommodate them, it costs me nothing.

https://thecritic.co.uk/she-her-or-else/
https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2022/04/26/grammar-and-grievance/
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/when-asked-what-are-your-pronouns

Poor woke accounting aside, I've forgotten why spen666 continues to be so triggering. (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/climate-crisis-are-we-doing-enough.17/page-125#post-105191)


S'pose someone has to be.

Ārseholes (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/Ārseholes.678/)
Quote from: glasgowcyclist
I posted a thread on the other place regarding that charity ride by two Scots from Glasgow to Bethlehem, raising money for Medical Aid for Palestine...
It’s been locked and no explanation given. Cowardly fückers.

Can't help but feel a little sorry for those who can't swear without diacritical action.

Quote from: BoldonLad
Not a healthy situation (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/Ārseholes.678/#post-105404) when a word or phrase can be used to close down healthy discussion.


Religious affairs (https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/religious-affairs.672/page-6#post-105441)
Quote from: qigong chimp
what possible purpose would indulging you serve?

Would make a good sig for someone on NACA.