Posts by Casey Allen

Who even is LongSinceDark, and why on earth am I getting banned under the false assumption that I’m that person? Also, since I’ve got one more grievance to air, why is my ROFL emoticon being broken?

rustydrifter10 said:Yeah, LongSinceDark. There’s really no point in pretending we’re actually surprised here.

Who??? I barely even flirted with the moderator and I get banned—you people are honestly losing it. 🤣

You have been banned for the following reason:
impersonating a banned user

Seriously, what are we even talking about here? What kind of clone?

Honestly, I’m just swallowing them whole, chewing through the lot of them.

darkcanyon10 said:Saying someone "learned" doesn't explain anything. Why? Because you don't just "learn" once and you're done while you're still breathing. You learn as long as you're alive. It's a process.

I get what hypocrisy means. I just confused duality with being two-faced.

Ever heard of duality?

Are you still sitting there trying to learn that 1+1=2? Do you really need a lifetime for that? Sure, learning is a lifelong journey, but mastering specific, basic facts doesn't have to be.

I get it.

I honestly just peel a banana however it feels right in the moment, depending on how the skin looks or what kind I've got in my hand.

Personally, I’ve always leaned toward the variation. I’m guessing most people would jump straight to the ballad because it’s just catchier—it has those repetitive melodic hooks that stick in your head, and honestly, the whole structure felt a lot more straightforward to follow.

Rebecca Reed3 said:I’ve always wondered if I’m the only one who gets a little obsessive about this, but do you guys actually organize the cash in your wallets by denomination, maybe even face-up, or am I just losing my mind?

I’m always down for a phone call, honestly. But if we're talking about meeting up in person? Well, that’s a different story. I’ll definitely try my best to make a face-to-face happen whenever my schedule actually allows for it, but you know how life goes.

Honestly, I don't even bother. If they show up already opened, I won't even touch them—I just can't bring myself to deal with the hassle. As far as I'm concerned, my only real requirement is that they don't stick out past the edge of my wallet.



How much does this set you off? 🤣

darkcanyon10 said:What do you mean "learned"? Learned what? That people are selfish and liars? Yeah, they are.
But it’s not just the bad stuff. Is that really all there is? If society is nothing but hypocrisy, why are you only seeing the ugly side? Where's the other half?

Using the word "learned" is kind of redundant here. It’s common knowledge that people act this way; very few people actually grasp just how frequently and overwhelmingly it happens.
There isn't some "other half" to find. Do you even know what hypocrisy means? It implies there's one side that's real and another side that's a complete facade.

silentraven6 said:Have you actually tried looking at things from someone else's perspective for once?

I've done both.

Joseph Bailey41 said:Listen to that and tell me... is that this feeling?

Not really, aside from a couple of lines.

Jeffrey Fisher5 said:Casey Allen, allow me to offer a perspective gleaned from my own many years on this earth: no one is truly useless—not even a common earthworm—and we are often the ones who pack our own bags with emptiness and apathy.
That sense of things being "wrong" or inverted—it visits every human soul, particularly in an era defined by such dizzying shifts in people, the world, and our surroundings.

Become an observer!
Observe, and learn.

No single individual—not even those who fancy themselves capable of altering the life paths of others, or even the masses—can do so without incurring a cost to themselves.
Just look at those who believe they are equals to the great forces above us (whatever names we give them); they are rarely happy, let alone satisfied. There is always a deficit, a constant craving for more material wealth or a greater sense of power.
Or perhaps, they simply crave being the center of it all—ideally, under the global spotlight.

I’m practically a virtuoso at observing things, as ridiculous as that might sound. Part of the trouble is that I’ve watched far too much; I’ve gotten way too familiar with people, their hidden motives, and their true nature. I see how selfish everyone is and how often they lie, and it all stands in such sharp contrast to what we're taught in school or by society. It feels like the whole social fabric is built on hypocrisy. And once you've seen it, you can't just unsee it or pretend you haven't learned the truth.

Ryan Thomas4 said:I knew it. I want the internet generation.
Oy vey.

Nah, you missed the mark completely. The "internet generation" already hit their stride way back in the early 2000s. Back then, we were already transitioning into mainstream ISDN or maybe even seeing the first bits of DSL—I can't recall the exact timeline, but I just know I spent years grinding away at StarCraft and Quake on a 56k modem while we all used to mess around and joke about wanting the internet. 😁

briskowl5 said:Since you fancy yourself such a big-shot science buff, especially when it comes to physics, I’m sure you’ve at least heard of a Gaussian curve. It might be news to you, but neither you nor your WHO crowd actually fall anywhere near the bell curve's center.

Trust me, I know all too well just how lonely it gets out here on the far right edge of that curve, a fact I seem to confirm almost every single time I try to have a conversation with anyone.

quietskipper17 said:you don't know shit.

Why don't you go out and actually log some miles so you have something real to brag about for once. 🙂

I don't see any reason to hold back here since I'm staying strictly on topic and just sharing what I've learned from actual experience. Look, I get it—rigid forks have their perks and a following, and I’ve even laid out some of those advantages myself. But it feels like people are reading my posts just looking for a reason to jump on the new guy instead of actually processing the argument. I'm not trying to join your little club, and frankly, I have zero interest in playing these weird initiation games you all seem to enjoy.

Of course I'm going to speak with a certain level of authority; when you actually know what you're talking about, you tend to carry yourself that way.

briskowl5 said:This whole thing feels just as far-fetched as everything else we've discussed here. Honestly, the WHO might eventually see someone develop issues from riding a bike if they replaced their front wheel with a literal jackhammer plate for gravel trails and rode it daily for years. Personally, I think you're more likely to end up with hemorrhoids from all the crap being posted on this forum.

Hand-arm vibration syndrome is a widespread occupational condition impacting laborers across various sectors that rely on heavy-duty vibrating machinery.

Everything seems far-fetched when you aren't properly informed; to borrow a sentiment from Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I actually deal with symptoms of WHO-defined vibration syndrome in both hands because I’ve spent an absurd amount of time on a bike since I was five or six years old. After thirty years of daily riding, I can confidently attribute my condition to the fact that for the first two decades of my life, I was riding bikes with zero suspension or incredibly cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel setups. The risks are legitimate, and I’m backing my advice with three decades of actual experience. Obviously, nobody develops this syndrome overnight, but over the course of a lifetime, it absolutely happens. I was young and naive once too, thinking fork quality didn't matter, but now both my hands go numb and my grip weakens whenever the weather shifts—it's not debilitating yet, but it’s definitely irritating, and I could have avoided it if I’d known better.

Matthew Jackson2 said:Look, maybe just take a breath and come back down to earth for a second.

I wasn't the one cranking up the tension here; it was you guys attacking my intelligence with arguments that had absolutely nothing to do with what I actually wrote—basically just putting words in my mouth. It felt like I’d accidentally wandered into some elitist club for people who think they know everything. Honestly, maybe I did, I don't know. 🤣

Matthew Jackson2 said:Just some nonsense regarding brakes that somehow turned into a permanent fixture on this forum.

Fine.

Matthew Jackson2 said:I’ve gone through all the posts in the comprehension thread.

It’s pretty obvious you haven’t, considering you were rambling on about cheap springs, bringing up people who can't even afford a $333 jawline, and all that other nonsense I either skipped over or completely forgot. All this posturing about how you're just trying to "give advice to everyone" doesn't fly with me when you weren't actually doing that—you were just trying to contradict me by veering off-topic.

Matthew Booth74 said:The discs speed up anyway once you brake with them.

Could you actually explain what you mean by that?

quietskipper17 said:Let me know what Pernar and Cetinski have to say when you send them 👍

Well, look who it is. Where have you been, Mr. Ten Years of Uninterrupted Experience Staring at a Garmin? I actually missed you. 🤣