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Oh, the irony...

About (reactions to) EvoRidge's comment: How do you people know his comment is disrespectful to the rider and/or family? Are you them, do you know them, do you know how they feel about it all? You sure they're not asking themselves the same question? Do you hammer iron when it's cold too? I'm fully ok as I should with people disagreeing with his comment or its timing, but once you start to suppress someone's opinion because it goes against your own judgement, that has a name... Shame on pb for enabling this kind of mob mentality where a small group of people can literally censor opinions/people they're in disagreement with for the rest of us. And the most ironic is those opinions could very well turn out to be majoritarian... if only they had a chance to be read and agreed with, but since even just a minuscule minority downvoting it can send it to comment section limbo, we may never even notice it, turning it all into a kind of a self-fulfilled "bad-comment" profecy. #freedomofexpressionmyass

Frankly, given the current trend with higher education (specially the US), you'd -almost 100% certain- be better off losing world cups than succeeding at education and getting a job... #studentdebt

A neighbor's father actually did just that and then wondered why they wouldn't work! lol

Or maybe because those are the ones that can get themselves to a position where they can become noticed. Same as with anything actually.

hahaha ok... I don't even know what you're arguing about or why but fine have it your way whichever that is. The only reason I kept replying is out of politeness, though, but guess that's a bad thing around here, giving YOUR attitude so enjoy it pal and have a blast with it. Don't look under the bed though, may be monsters out to get you there as well. bye. dinner's up.

lol all I can say is I wonder why you'd think I'm mad, specially since I really couldn't give the slightest damn about it, but (and maybe as a proof of that) it's all fine by me... What's funny though is you feeling the need to stress how your more expensive bike and glasses are supposedly much nicer than mine (maybe, maybe not; not losing my sleep about it), as that makes it look like you're worrying about it. Still, i feel sorry for your inability to pick nice non-expensive sunglasses, but if you can't see beyond a particular brand, quality wise, not being a competitor, it's fine by me as well. And about my glasses, nothing special about them, but then nothing bad either - they just work as they should (as in they do their job without you even noticing them - you can read about it further above) and that's all you should need. About my bike, funny thing is I actually would've bought a fs by now (the reason why I even created an account)... if only anyone would sell it to me, but apparently pb is more full of attention whoring posers than actual sellers and buyers, otherwise they wouldn't have miss a chance to sell/buy to someone that more than meets their demands (and that the few times you even get an answer, which has only been after insistence), but then, who cares? ultimately, and for the price of a cheap frame, you can pick a fully equipped wc winning class trials mc, which would take me places no bike or work out ever could, so again who's mad?

You know what works for me right now? My current 20€ cycling sunglasses and the 6€ everyday ones... along with my 300€ ht, but whatever... Here's story for you, though: Years ago Gillette came up with their super-duper 4-blade razor, supposedly the best thing since sliced bread (which btw already was nothing but a (major) pure marketing feat), and... it tanked. No one would take it and it just didn't sell. So what do to do? Well, what they've done is spend a whooping 700 (seven hundred) millions in marketing to try to prop up the turd and make it desirable. And it worked! Yes, that's it, you've heard it right: they've created... wait for it... demand! Magically, all those fine people that couldn't care less about it beforehand, suddenly "realized" they just couldn't live without it any longer and it became a major success - a *marketing* success. All this without even changing a thing about it, all just by the wonderful magic of marketing illusion and the hard cash that goes with it. They've tricked all those people into believing it really was something *they* wanted. And all simply because it just had a higher profit margin than its already perfectly capable predecessor. Moral of the story? Marketing does work; marketing DOES create demand. After all, like they say, there's a sucker born everyday... but hey, their money, not mine. As for the Oakley in general, even if I liked them or believed them to be worth the asking price in the first place (which I don't, btw), they just happen to really not work for me at all, so, much to their fanboys chagrin, they're out of the question even before you ask. Nice try, though. Have a nice shiny day.

Well if you want to go poser, I have a Montblanc to go with all of those... but they're all priced to the moon.

No. Again, you're forgetting in many cases "demand" is created (induced) by the supply side; in fact that's been the goal of said side since probably ever and been the way economy operates since at least the 80s, with the so-called "supply-side economy", aka "zombie economy". Price AND demand can both easily be set by marketing - that's what it exists for - and the more you spend on it, the better chances you get to succeed at influencing the later into accepting whatever you choose for the former.