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Ianonabike
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Anyone who values truth will have difficulty living a lie, so here goes: my name isn't Ian Onabike.*
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoT5JImB1H8
I'm addicted to cycling forums. After a spell at Cycling Plus (and before that uk.rec.cycling), in 2005 I started Another Cycling Forum. That lasted about three years and remains parked in a nostalgic orbit.
Next came Not Another Cycling Forum, natch. My main project these days is slowly interviewing people. It's fun, interesting, and just my speed.
Until I was serially banned,** mostly due to my inquisitive nature as regards gender ideology — the free speech issue of our time — I also posted on other forums, chiefly CycleChat and YACF.
What makes NCAP (NACA for old-timers) attractive is the lack of moderation. This is rare.
It's obvious what my specialist subject is. I can talk politics at many, many other places if I want to; being 'gender critical' on a cycling forum has been pretty much verboten, making this an itch I needed to scratch, though technically on a cycling adjacent forum. I also had it in mind to give moral support to AuroraSaab after the appalling way she was treated by Multitool and Monkers. Multitool in particular was almost certainly responsible for a number of decent people leaving before he went back to YACF or wherever he usually indulges his social media Tourettes. Nazi! Fascist! daffodil!
I could've carried on, but it's not as much fun hiding in plain sight as you might think. This isn't a flounce, it's suicide by moderator. I must assume they won't be merciful. Dear mods: at least I never called you names.
It's a shame. Despite my avowal that I don't care about Trump, as an American with relatives who voted for him and relatives who despise him, I'd happily offer myself up once more as a sacrificial American. While I still can!
So this is probably adiós. I'll beunder house arrest back home, if anyone wants to chat.
Rocinante was of course Don Quixote's old horse. I feel like him sometimes. It's also a spaceship in one of my favourite sci-fi shows.
View: https://youtu.be/9W06u0n5UcU
*A real Ian: I told you so.
**Mo' meta blues
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoT5JImB1H8
I'm addicted to cycling forums. After a spell at Cycling Plus (and before that uk.rec.cycling), in 2005 I started Another Cycling Forum. That lasted about three years and remains parked in a nostalgic orbit.
Next came Not Another Cycling Forum, natch. My main project these days is slowly interviewing people. It's fun, interesting, and just my speed.
Until I was serially banned,** mostly due to my inquisitive nature as regards gender ideology — the free speech issue of our time — I also posted on other forums, chiefly CycleChat and YACF.
What makes NCAP (NACA for old-timers) attractive is the lack of moderation. This is rare.
It's obvious what my specialist subject is. I can talk politics at many, many other places if I want to; being 'gender critical' on a cycling forum has been pretty much verboten, making this an itch I needed to scratch, though technically on a cycling adjacent forum. I also had it in mind to give moral support to AuroraSaab after the appalling way she was treated by Multitool and Monkers. Multitool in particular was almost certainly responsible for a number of decent people leaving before he went back to YACF or wherever he usually indulges his social media Tourettes. Nazi! Fascist! daffodil!
I could've carried on, but it's not as much fun hiding in plain sight as you might think. This isn't a flounce, it's suicide by moderator. I must assume they won't be merciful. Dear mods: at least I never called you names.
It's a shame. Despite my avowal that I don't care about Trump, as an American with relatives who voted for him and relatives who despise him, I'd happily offer myself up once more as a sacrificial American. While I still can!
So this is probably adiós. I'll be
Rocinante was of course Don Quixote's old horse. I feel like him sometimes. It's also a spaceship in one of my favourite sci-fi shows.
View: https://youtu.be/9W06u0n5UcU
*A real Ian: I told you so.
**Mo' meta blues