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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Ove Interest?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:33:07 -0500
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On 2/26/2025 6:08 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:01:47 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/26/2025 4:56 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, up until this post, you've been behaving yourself and I've
>>> not had any reason to slap you around.
>>
>> You can't slap anyone around on the internet. You can be an obnoxious
>> troll, but it takes a "special" psychology to think that's the same
>> thing, or that anyone is impressed by it.
>>
>>> To be bragworthy,
>>> something has to be notable and/or involve a little risk.
>>
>> :-)  Like riding on an ordinary road where there may be (gosh!) cars?
>> Like riding a flat Florida bike path _without_ carrying a loaded and
>> chambered gun?  But even that's beyond you!
> 
> That's from the guy whose only achievement is riding a bicycle and
> standing in front of a classroom.
> 
>> Despite your failing to meet your own standard on that point, your
>> description of "bragworthy" seems to be tied up with your primitive
>> concept of manliness: guts and muscle.
>>
>> And I think that's the root of your bitching misery. Since you have no
>> respect for achievements not related to guts and muscle, you're having a
>> really, really hard time dealing with your self-described increasing
>> feebleness. You're down to bragging about 50 mile rides on dead flat
>> bike paths (something almost any of us can do without thinking) and
>> putting together a spreadsheet.
> 
> Talk is cheap, and you do it lot.
> 
>> (Wow!!) Oh, and posting ancient pictures
>> about leg muscles you used to have. That was classic.  :-)
> 
> Ah well, you claimed I was overweight and I was happy to fix that
> misconception for you. Here's another takes a few years later.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_soloman/53147607323/
> 
> You brag about your education and think it's an accomplishment.
> Avctually, it's only a tool. Bragging about education is like saying,
> "Look at me, I bought a hammer and a skill saw."
> 
> As for your claims to have been recruited for commitees and groups,
> knowing you, it's more likely that you grovelled and begged to have a
> seat on them. Many people, me, for instance, would grovel and beg not
> to have sit in on those group thinking sessions.
> 
>>> As for me, I've suggested that you browse through my small collection
>>> of photos about things I've done.
>>
>> Oh wow! Photos! Boy, I bet the rest of us wish we had actual _photos_ of
>> ourselves and the places we've been!
> 
> I'm sure you have pictures, but you're afraid to let anyone see them.
> It's no wonder since you've never done anything that would make an
> interesting picture.  A while back you posted a picture from your
> flicker account. A couple of frames ahead, there was a picture of your
> fat little, double chinned face on a bike with a helmet on. No wonder
> the pictures I post of myself bother you. You are a toad.
> 
>> (Someone please explain to Mr. Tricycle about sarcasm. He might not get
>> it.)
>>
>> You're a weakening old dude who has trouble standing up, who has close
>> to zero social network (for obvious reasons!) and who compensates by
>> snarking on the internet and claiming he's too manly to need friends.
> 
> Huh? Actually, I've got lots of friends and all my friends are real,
> not imaginary like your "fred." TRuth is that there are more people
> who want to be my friend than I want. People from two churches that we
> no longer go to, people from my condo who want me to come to their
> parties (I used to entertain them with music). People who ask to
> bicycle with me...  Mostly, I just want them to leave me alone, but my
> wife makes me promise not to be rude.
> 
> 
>> In the future, Mr. Tricycle Rider, please try to remember this: When I
>> ignore you, I'm using the same mental process I use when ignoring a
>> yapping Yorkshire Terrier.
> 
> You're not ignoring me, you're just hiding from me. You want me to
> think that you've not taken to heart what I've been saying about you,
> but your posts shows that it has. You've been doing a pretty good job
> of keeping your narisissim under control, so bully bully for you.

Yap on. The Yorkie next door is finally gone. I'll give you no more 
attention than I gave to that fuzzy white yapper.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski