If you write something “in fun” I strongly recommend the use of emojis. We do not all have the same sense of humour and since some of your earlier comments seem a little forthright I think it’s important to make it clear what tone you are using. Makes for an easier conversation. 
3 Likes
Fun? FUN??? tsss tsss we’ll have none of that here. You’ll be saying bridge isn’t peeping into the devil’s picture book next 
1 Like
True, not having the same sense of humour is a good thing, like not having the same views on everything is a good thing. People either get it or they don’t.
But you can help them not misunderstand or think ill of you. Oddly enough, it’s much nicer being part of a community of friends that have and share differing views but still get on, rather that having to tolerate each other through gritted teeth.
3 Likes
^this.
I use lots of emojis in my posts (possibly to excess, I don’t know) because I want people to understand when I am joking.
My sense of humour does not always translate.
2 Likes
Or are offended? Or whatever other reponses that we wonderfully different human beings can have. Things are not always as either/or as we think. We all interpret differently.
Personally and tbh, I didn’t know exactly what was intended by “obvious phallic undertones”. Maybe a reference to a cliché? A pocket rocket? I’m guessing, I don’t know, it wasn’t obvious to me. I once read the remark that anything longer than it is wide is phallic. I laughed at that, saw a general point. Word usage is in the eye of the beholder; you might think ‘phallic’ when you see a guy on a motorbike, others might not. So your intended meaning risks being lost and your ’in fun’ usage falling flat.
The obvious connotations are either that motorcyclists are all closet gays or they have small penises and use the bike as a substitute. Neither is going to win friends except among those that dislike the group.
1 Like
Not very phallic at all:
Though this (concept) electric bike, the Curtis Hades, may qualify:
I liked this comment about it:
1 Like
Oh I’d so love that 
1 Like
So would I… does it come with stabilizers?
Certainly nobody’s going to nick it
Course they are! Tory, Stella and I would happily take it off your hands.
1 Like
No… but pink… and those tassels… what do they say!
1 Like
well clearly the ladies like it!
Perhaps it would also appeal to a gentleman who is comfortable with his sexuality? 
1 Like
Interesting.
Do you work as a gang, or do you each have your own manor, which the others steer clear of? Do you nick cars as well, or just bikes? Have any of your heists been in the papers? Should Chi expect a crime wave when you get there permanently?
Or who wished to change it?
It’s very Hinge and Bracket.
I thought the world had moved on since I was a gal…
Then it was Pink for girls, Blue for boys… etc etc… what a load of tosh.. 
I’ll accept the bike gladly, no matter what the colour and whether plain or fancy.. who cares
1 Like
Until the 18th/19th century it was pink for boys (because diluted red, and red is powerful) and blue for girls (traditional colour of virgin Mary). And the word pink itself didn’t even mean the colour we call pink 
I’m assuming as I haven’t looked it up that pink was to do with shape (cf pinking shears) rather than colour and that pinks (flower) were so called because of petal ends, and as they are pink coloured the meaning slipped.
2 Likes
The tassels on the seat are the oddest thing.
2 Likes