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The Conference Bike
gomaze writes "If you are like me, you don't look forward to conference meetings. Until now. We are going to be getting a Conference Bike. They even have a movie on how you can find love with the bike, very interesting. Great way for everyone to get out of the office and still get work done."
You work at one of those .COM's don't you. I suspect well see that bike on e-Bay soon enough.
heh.
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This thing needs a kegholder.
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Great, now your shortsighted supervisor can not only run the company into the ground, but he can also crash the bike (which he will inevetably be steering) while you furiously peddle away.
Great. Just great.
Mod me Flamebait all you want, but that's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
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There is a sudden rise in work-related injuries.
I can't wait to see the first accident with that bike. CNN is reporting that "the Microsoft Board of Directors have been ran over by a semi during a meeting on how to destroy Linux. Police are searching for the hit and run driver. According to witnesses, the culprit was a penguin.
Am I the only one who noticed the utter lack of brakes on this thing?! Imagine when not just one person, not just two on a duo-bike, but 7 people crash at once! This should be the Carnage Bike, not Conference Bike !
that they made a CONFERENCE bike instead of a COMMITTEE bike. The committee bike would never have gone anywhere, except, maybe in a circle or spun in place.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
*clicks link*
Holy shit.. its the monkees on a weird bike.
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
Great, now we'll have all the "put the pedal to the metal" analogies in conferences.
Isn't it just like the corprate world to make you feel like a hamster by pedaling and not being able to go anywhere?
Corporate life -- no matter how hard you pedal, there will be a freeloading jackass getting somewhere due to YOUR efforts.
Does it have any room for TPS reports?
First guy to pull out a powerpoint presentation gets thrown off and left behind.
A meeting without coffee, donuts, nor other swag, nothing to motivate/bribe me into attending...and it's also exercise...possibly outdoors? Where do I sign up?
When will cities be redesigned to accomodate this land vessel?
If I ever see one, I'll make sure to walk in it's exact path and go very slowly. If they hit me I'll sue. If they don't hit me, they'll be really annoyed.
I can't imagine that you would be able to take it anywhere without being a menace.
If this contraption is supposed to convey the "meeting experience", shouldn't all the riders have their own steering wheel attached to their wheel, so it would end up spinning around in aimless circles with no obvious goal? At least that would bring it closer to how our meetings seem to end up...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
"There are now 40 conferencebikes in the world"
Well, even Segway does better. Using a Segway made you look like an alien on wheels. Using this make you look a pack of dangerous fools.
"this thing will change your life"... already heard that before.
Besides this, do they care of people using PDAs or lynx ?
They're also not allowed in if they're not wearing perfume and willing to pose for a picture that looks like the makings of a mechanical orgy.
Oh wait. Did I say conference?
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Yeah, I'm thinking the SUV's of bicycles.
I'm waiting for seven fat fuckers going down one of those badass hills in SF to find out that the brakes simply can't cope.
I dream in binary.
I'm sure it will be a real ice breaker at the next company meeting when the two people riding backwards puke on their coworkers!
From the link: ...lights up smiling...It lowers inhibitions...it's a party on wheels...
Buy a 12 pack and drive around. Same effect.
But I decided against posting it here because it was so stupid. I guess others have no such compunctions...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I don't know if it has breaks, but do you have a spell checker?
I'm waiting for seven fat fuckers going down one of those badass hills in SF to find out that the brakes simply can't cope.
That sounds remarkably like a dotcom I worked for...
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Yeah man! Get in there and trick six fat asses into shooting a fast hill and blowing through the intersection at the bottom. The good thing is you'll have enough momentum to fuck up a car, and you'll be really obvious so the cars should avoid you. The bad thing is you'll have no control whatsoever, and the terrified screams of your passengers can be distracting.
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