Almost got beat up on uni

I dont know how many times I have gotten the "why dont you cut a bike in
half?" that is so retarded, as anyone with half a brain stem can tell
from looking at a uni and a bike, that that wouldnt work. or, "doesnt
that hurt your nuts?" and obviously not, because if it did, I would sa
ow or something after dropping off of picnic tables!! or how about the,
"can you actually RIDE that thing!?" and to them I say, "No, I cant. I
carry it around because it matches my shoes. HERE'S YOUR SIGN!!!" I
think this is mainly due to the population increase, and the total IQ of
the nation staying constant.

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doofe said:

* I think this is mainly due to the population increase, and the total
IQ of the nation staying constant. *

hahahahaha

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Those dudes would have called you stupid no matter what you said anyway.
They don't really care about how much it cost, they just want to
belittle you to make themselves feel better.

The other night I was riding my Coker around the neighborhood and some
kids in a minivan slowed down and threw a soda bottle at me (they
missed, btw). I wished they would have stopped, because I knew I could
make them feel like dirt or scare the bejeezus out of them since I'm
twice their age and 4 times as smart, but they just kept driving. The
hard part was just letting it go, but really the only way to be the
better, smarter person was to let it go and try not to let it bother me
too much.

They'll get what's comming to them, you can be sure. It's just a matter
of time.

😠 -> 🙁 -> 🙄 -> 😄 -> 😎

Andy

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Everyonce and a while the frat boys sing the circus theme when I ride
by... that's why I try to make as much of my riding off-road as
possible. People stop making fun of you when they can't believe that,
yes, you did just ride over that 😉

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quark soup said:

*but really the only way to be the better, smarter person was to let
it go and try not to let it bother me too much.*

Actually, the way to be the smarter person would be to let it go and not
let it bother you too much, but then call up your contact in the motor
vehicles department anyway, get an address for that van, then visit in
the dark of night with a bottle of Karo brand pure corn syrup roughly
the size and volume of the bottle they threw at you.

Not that anything I say should be construed as advice. I'm not a real
nurse, I just play one on the internet. 😄

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You should ride with several other unicyclists. Then you can taunt the
bikers!!
Or at least not get beat up when the bikers taunt you.

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I got into a fight with two neds in Glasgow's kelvingrove park while I
was out uni-ing at about 6pm on a friday night. I was having a wicked
time when two neds started the "is that hard?" I was like "No its easy
as [censored] what do you think" Then the other one says "[censored] you ya speccy
[censored]" (I wear glasses) so I said "[censored] you ya ned [censored]". Then he was
all "moan then" So I rode towards him, grabbed his arms and kept cycling
with him walking backwards, I told him not to be so silly (I'm 25, they
were about 17-18 and I was much bigger than them) and let go of his arms
and rode off. He then chased me and TRIED to kick me off, so I just
jumped straight off and faced him, he was all ready for fighting, fists
up by his face and that. I kept smiling at him, he punched me in the
head so I grabbed him and took him to the floor, as I was trying to get
hold of his arms his mate kicked me in the head so I jumped up, grabbed
the ned off the floor, threw him into a nearby fence and turned to get
the other one. Then he put his arms up and said "Whoa easy!" I picked
my glasses up off the floor, got on my uni, went over to the ned on the
floor, said "You'll not do that again will you?" and then rode over his
foot and went home.

There was quite a few folk around who saw it all and they were all on my
side, telling the neds to [censored] and that they had asked for it. Even
an old drunk tramp gave me the thumbs up!

I have seen them since and they look away as soon as they see me. Ha.

Probably not the best way to handle neds, I'll not do it again, unless
they really wind me up!

Thomas.

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Thats probably what I would have done. But one question, whats a "ned"?

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Boy these toms are a rough bunch. I'd advise everyone stay on the good
side of anyone named tom.

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iunicycle said:

*Boy these toms are a rough bunch. I'd advise everyone stay on the
good side of anyone named tom. *

Yeah, especially Toms that wear glasses.... 😎

Don't make me come over there, Ned.

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A ned's a scally isn't it? This is recent conversation I had with a
little scroat not so long ago
Scroat: Go on then
Me: What?
Scroat: Ride it
Me: No
Scroat after a couple seconds thought and deciding that reverse
psychology worked on anyone over the age of 12: You can't can you?
Me: No
Scroat: Yes you can yes you can ride it!
Me: No

One that did make me laugh was these boy racers ragging their escort
down my street and upon seeing my trying desperately to slow down and
one guy stuck his head out of the window and all I heard was BRRRUUUU-
you've lost a wheel- UMMMMM as they shot past.

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tomblackwood said:

*Don't make me come over there, Ned. *

Ha! For your information, my car doesn't even have a fuel pump! So just
stay away from here with your Karo, at least 'til I whip up a batch of
Mrs. Butterworth's.
Oh, I found a picture of you in the act:
<http://tinyurl.com/yt5yn>

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doofe said:

*HERE'S YOUR SIGN!!!" *

Jeff Foxworthy is awesome.

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I ve had two bad encounters while unicycling.

The first one was when me and my friend were riding down a neighoburhood
street when a bunch of friends in a car saw us unicycling. They sped up
in their new acura and turned suddenly when they were about to hit us.
Then they started yelling a bunch of [censored] out the window. My friend was
really [censored] so we gave them the finger and kept riding. On our way
back at night we saw the car in a driveway of the house so we went and
spat on their front door handles.

The second was when we were riding at a public beach at night. A gang of
huge black guys came up to us and took our unis. I figured it would be
wise not to mouth off to them. They made us empty our pockets and shoes
for money but saw that we had nothing. Then they saw that there was a
security officer walking along in the distance so they just said a bunch
of stuff i couldnt understand ,gave us props and left.

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man, its so nice riding in a group with all your freinds. everybody has
eachothers backs. and where i live its like heaven barley anybody makes
in fun of you. and the great part is that unicycling is GROWING here,
like really fast. some kid saw me riding my uni off-road and i saw him
the next day trying to ride it. but the weird thing is that it only took
him 1 day to learn how to ride. there is a local pool for local
residents in our neighborhood, and me and my freind unicycle to there
along with his little brothers who also unicycle. and when we show up
everyone thinks its soo cool and they have to get one. it grows at
least 1-2 people a week, now that is growth of this sport. and half of
them are doing trials or muni. we have about 11 riders just in the
neighborhood and a couple are waiting on their unis. I told everyone
that you can only buy them from unicycle.com so thats where everybody
has gotten theirs. im thinking i could e-mail unicyle.com and ask them
if I can get a rebate off my next purchase for helping out unicycle.com.
i mean thats alot of orders i helped out with. well sry for my long
post but I had to share my excitement!

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*man, its so nice riding in a group with all your freinds. everybody
has eachothers backs. and where i live its like heaven, barely anybody
makes in fun of you. and the great part is that unicycling is GROWING
here, like really fast. some kid saw me riding my uni off-road and i
saw him the next day trying to ride on at the local park (were freinds
now). but the weird thing is that it only took him 1 day to learn how
to ride, and his big brother bought one and only took him a week to
learn, and then the youngest brother (which is about 9) and learned in
3 days. there is a local pool for local residents in our neighborhood,
and me and my freind unicycle to there along with his little brothers
who also unicycle, and when we show up everyone thinks its soo cool
and they have to get one. it grows at least 1-2 people a week, now
that is growth! and half of them are doing trials or muni. we have
about 11 riders just in the neighborhood and a couple are waiting on
their unis. I told everyone that you can only buy them from
unicycle.com so thats where everybody has gotten theirs. im thinking i
could e-mail unicyle.com and ask them if I can get a rebate off my
next purchase for helping out unicycle.com. i mean thats alot of
orders i helped out with. well sry for my long post but I had to
share my excitement! *

nobody in my area seems interested, how can i get them to start? did you
do anything special, aside from letting them watch you ride?

-grant

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no, not really. the only problem is im sure they think its a fad, it
will just die out, but i really hope not. just tell them its alot of
fun, just throw alot of positive comments at them.

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no, not really. the only problem is im sure they think its a fad, it
will just die out, but i really hope not. just tell them its alot of
fun, just throw alot of positive comments at them.

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doofe said:

*"HERE'S YOUR SIGN!!!"*

Rayden said:

*Jeff Foxworthy is awesome. *

I said that the other day when a couple of my friends were around and
they just gave me stupid looks like they didn't know what I was talking
about.

Man some of you guys have had some pretty crazy experiences. The worst
I've had is a couple guys in a minivan yell "queer!" as they drove by.

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