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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You didn't go for a Boss Hoss? That Rocket must feel tiny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're in Europe and passed your A test you're about ready to start learning how to actually handle a small bike.

Get extra instruction, and start doing Moto Gymkhana. Consider getting a cheap small and light bike like a CBF250 or Duke 125, and learn to really master it.

Your instructor probably shrugged when you said you were getting a TransAlp because he knew there was no point in telling you not to. He's seen umpteen people pass their test and then go out and crash right away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This is a predominantly American Men's thing, as far as I can tell. Many get the biggest bike they can, fail to learn to control it, and then go around chest thumping.

Meanwhile the best rider I know, a professional test rider, spends his weekends teaching Moto Gymkhana on a 125.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Borg became a metaphor for colonialism, I think, with assimilation being an "improvement" for it's victims.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Every world has the equivalent of Trump supporters, I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Good point, at worst it ranks about equally with Galaxy Quest for me ... Sigourney Weaver weights my ranking a lot though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that Generation V feeds directly into this, so having watched that would help (it's really good, though I'm not a fan of tying things together too much)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Very much on-brand that while the federation have lots of fancy comfy chairs, Quark just went to Ikea

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Right after First Contact and The Wrath of Khan, yes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

When coffee fails to appear, the only solution is violence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I saw the other post but didn't know if that was the original!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

TBH I only knew it was on because I walked past a cinema with a poster up. I hadn't heard anything or seen any ads, so went in completely blind on a whim ... the marketing must have been non-existant

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