APE HANGERS AND FAST CHARGING BAGGERS.

[Dave5Cs]

It's called "Satire" Class, Lol It ain't real but it close to it and funny but makes you think of things you may have wanted to do or something you would never have done but dreamed that you have...

[Scott & Heather]

Lol. Been a long time since I've seen a BCO post. Made my day!


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[digesterman]

What is so great using your radiator sprayers on innocent bikers?  Riding a bike you are in the elements and considering they did absolutely nothing to you in your comfortable bus I can only say you are an asshole, no matter how many friends you have on this board.

--Geoff

What part of "bus related fantasy " don't you understand?

[Geoff]

What part of "bus related fantasy " don't you understand?

I don't understand the attitude that bikers are to be picked on, even if is disguised as a joke.  I have put a lot more miles on 6 Harleys than I have in my bus conversion and know what it is like to be on the road fighting the elements. I didn't like the humor and don't understand why I am now the bad guy in this thread.

--Geoff

[luvrbus]

I have owned Harley's all my life lol but I was a fair weather rider I never braved the elements and always had a windshield, Geoff you are not the bad guy people just see Don's post  different than you.
Living where I have to contend with the RiverRun bikers for week every year makes you wonder how they are still alive,one threw a 1/2 empty beer can away at 55 mph and it hit and busted my truck windshield he is one lucky sob 2 wheeler can be a PITA also       

[Lin]

Geoff, I do not think it is matter of being a bad guy or not.  You may remember a TV show called "Americas Funniest Home Videos".  It was mostly made of of amateur videos of people getting hurt.  However, the audience generally found it to be hilarious.  This is nothing new.  Historically, you could say that even The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin and many, many movies and sitcoms have depended to some degree on the same tendency for people to laugh at someone else apparent misfortune.  A stranger slipping on a banana peel is seen as funny; you or your mother slipping on a banana peel is not!  I suppose the difference may be to how much you perceive the victim to be human and deserving of empathy (I think that almost all of us could agree that Stalin slipping on a banana peel is funny, but Obama may or may not be depending on your views).  

So, regardless of the fact that the narrator of this story's attack on the bikers could be charged with ADW, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, since it never really happened each reader can see it colored by his own experience (please note that the use of any object in a way that could potentially cause serious harm is ADW).  In this case, some who empathize with motorcyclists will not find it funny, and those who sometimes consider them a nuisance may find it amusing, but generally only within the confines of the suspended reality of fiction.  With just a couple of more words added to the story, the narrator and kid could be drunks on their way to a mandated AA meeting-- now that's funny!

I would think that BCO's true enjoyment of his post is seeing the reactions.

[Jon]

I don't understand the attitude that bikers are to be picked on, even if is disguised as a joke.  I have put a lot more miles on 6 Harleys than I have in my bus conversion and know what it is like to be on the road fighting the elements. I didn't like the humor and don't understand why I am now the bad guy in this thread.

--Geoff

If what you said above was your original post you likely would have gotten support from other riders who may feel the same way.

How would you like it however if Okie called riders assholes?  I suspect you don't get it.

[Geoff]

If what you said above was your original post you likely would have gotten support from other riders who may feel the same way.

How would you like it however if Okie called riders assholes?  I suspect you don't get it.

I KNOW you don't "get it".  Bikers (and a lot of RUBs-- Rich Urban Bikers) aka Hoggers, have a good income and don't need to be looked upon as trash on the road.  Here we are defending the indefensible, and trying to turn it around so that I am the asshole.

Where is Boxcar at to defend himself or admit he doesn't like motorcycle riders?  Or does he get the Hillary excuse?

--Geoff

[eagle19952]

I KNOW you don't "get it".  Bikers (and a lot of RUBs-- Rich Urban Bikers) aka Hoggers, have a good income and don't need to be looked upon as trash on the road.  Here we are defending the indefensible, and trying to turn it around so that I am the asshole.

Where is Boxcar at to defend himself or admit he doesn't like motorcycle riders?  Or does he get the Hillary excuse?

--Geoff

Someone with okies intelligence and past controversial postings is easily aware of what and who and how his posts provoke.

PS. oh...and when was the first time he gave anyone the benefit of the doubt ?

[bronson]

I'm on your side Geoff. Nowhere have I seen Okie say this was fictional, just a bunch of people coming to cover for him. Seems that he appears every now and then to stir the pot and get his jollies.

[Van]

I'm still waiting to hear the one about the Harley rider/Hoover vacuum cleaner comparison joke just to put this thread over the top. Some bikers  just Need a good hosing now and then SMH  Good one Don, hook line and stinker 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHAxlFr00s

[Jon]

I'm on your side Geoff. Nowhere have I seen Okie say this was fictional, just a bunch of people coming to cover for him. Seems that he appears every now and then to stir the pot and get his jollies.

This is cut and pasted from his story at the beginning of this thread.................

"Sorry, I digress, back to my bus related fantasy."

To me I interpret that to mean what he wrote was fictional.

[Road Dawg]

Man-man.

[boxcarOkie]

"Sorry, I digress, back to my bus related fantasy."  To me I interpret that to mean what he wrote was fictional."

My-my, we certainly have been busy over the weekend, choosing sides and all that.  I have to admit, I am impressed.  Thanks for all the responses, makes for some interesting reading.  (All of ''em but a couple of 'em that is.)

The majority of readers (those folks who actually had their homework turned in on time I suspect) got it right on the first go around.

"Sorry, I digress, back to my bus related fantasy."

It was right there, f-a-n-t-a-s-y and it was evidently passed over.  Most of the folks who read it, spotted it right off, even Donald. Isn't it amazing how people will read something on the Internet and automatically assume it is "real." 

That always cracks me up.

For the record, I have owned Honda Gold-wings, 1 BMW, a Norton, BSA, XLCH Sportster, 2 Super-glides, Shovel-heads, 61 model FLH Pan-head.  At one time in my life, I was a genuine Scooter Rat and did not own a T-shirt that did not read Harley.

It is not necessary for me to "defend" anything, nothing in the post was inflammatory or personal.  It is being morphed into something it is not, that I have no control over whatsoever. It is what it is. 

If the name calling persists I will have to refer a few of you to my Attorney, Matt Plumlee, who is currently Fly Fishing somewhere in Montana. Any-who, I sincerely hope this clears the air on this evidently "Hot Button Topic" on a bus board.

(Yawn)

As much as I would like to spend more time on this, it is imperative I get back to feeding my fertile imagination ... Chronicling my late night thoughts and putting them down on the page.

Working on a good one right now, as a matter of fact.

"A story of a bus guy from Arizona who goes on a Disney Cruise to Costa Rica, and wakes up with a giant sized Rodent in his stateroom, wearing shorts and a bow tie.  And then has to be hospitalized in Cuba on the third day out after suffering a mental melt down when he could not unfold his deck chair."

Watch those right handers

BCO

[Oonrahnjay]

...
For the record, I have owned Honda Gold-wings, 1 BMW, a Norton, BSA ...

     Oh gee, Oke, I didn't know that you had a troubled childhood. I worked Norton at the factory in England for about 5 years in the 70s. You have my eternal apologies.

We return you now to our regularly scheduled fantasies ...