How unrepresentative are we? let me count the ways

[Woofage]

Ceylon with lemon. No milk.

If this combination is not available I will just take whatever tea there is but always black. I used to take tea with milk but the quantity reduced over the years. When we stopped buying milk (Mrs W doesn't use the stuff) I stopped having it in tea. It's probably no surprise as my mother has always drunk black tea.

[pcolbeck]

Tea: milky english breakfast (none of that fancy stuff)

I thought English Breakfast was fancy stuff!

Non-fancy tea: Typhoo, Tetleys, PG Tips, Co-op's own.
Fancy stuff: everything else.

Typhoo, Tetleys etc are English Breakfast Tea.
That is a blend of  Assam, Ceylon and Kenyan. Mostly that's just what British people refer to as "Tea". Abroad and sometimes on brands getting above themselves (Twinings I'm looking at you) that blend is called English Breakfast as tea by itself doesn’t refer to any particular blend.

[The French Tandem]

I'm often struck by how unrepresentative this forum community is, in the sense that there appear quite a few areas  that tare either under or over represented in the active forum community.

Isn't this the basic idea of internet forums? You meet people who can live anywhere in the world, but who share similar interests with you, while in your physical life, you meet everyday people who live near you, but who are interested in very different things. That's what I try to explain to people who refuse to use the internet, on the ground that they prefer to have real relationships with real people.

[Kim]

Isn't this the basic idea of internet forums? You meet people who can live anywhere in the world, but who share similar interests with you, while in your physical life, you meet everyday people who live near you, but who are interested in very different things. That's what I try to explain to people who refuse to use the internet, on the ground that they prefer to have real relationships with real people.

Quite.

Overlooking the fact that most of the people on the internet are all in fact real, and - with the exception of the odd few who tend to regard communication as a point-scoring or trolling game - it's perfectly possible to have real relationships with them.

[Bledlow]

Tea: milky english breakfast (none of that fancy stuff)

I thought English Breakfast was fancy stuff!

Not in Surrey it ain't. And I use loose leaf tea. I'm so posh that I may get a cravat and call myself Crispin*.

A Crispin is a pretty regular rider on our Wednesday evening rides*. Yes, it really is his name - & yes, he's posh, but he's not been seen wearing a cravat on any rides,

*Led by Mrs B tonight - & alas, leaving me out as insufficiently recovered from my bash on the head.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I met a Tristan on Sunday's ride. He mentioned his wife but unfortunately she isn't called Isolde.

[Mr Larrington]

I knew a Tristan at skool but he was Belgian so it doesn't count.

[Wobbly John]

I have an awful feeling that I may have worn a cravat on a YACF ride, and drunk formosa oolong tea... 

[Wowbagger]

We drink Yorkshire tea, milk with no sugar. We used to drink PG Tips but stopped when they tried to give away a toy chimpanzee of an extraordinary hideousness free with each packet. Now if it had been a gibbon...

My brothers and their wives drink tea without milk or sugar. I believe it to be a lot more common than Ham thinks.

I don't own a television nor a licence and haven't watched anything on Iplayer for months.

My politics are sound although I do have a great-niece yclept Margaret. Simon Heffer was an objectionable first year at my school when I was in the Upper VI.

[Wobbly John]

In an attempt to steer the thread off a rather tea-centric theme:

Vegetarianism is another way YACFers tend not to be representative of the populace - I am reminded of the 'Up the 'uts' weekender when we rang the local curry-house "2 set meals for 7, please, and do you do the same thing as vegetarian...   Yes? two of them as well...  no, not vegetarian set meal for 2 - for 14! - i.e. two vegetarian set meals for 7"

[Kim]

Vegetarianism is another way YACFers tend not to be representative of the populace

Is it?  I hadn't noticed.

That said, I know a lot of QUILTBAGs, where vegetarianism is the default state.

[geraldc]

Do you think it's the environment of this place? It would be interesting to see how the views of this place contrast with the cyclechat forum.

I found ACF through looking for information for audax, and made for the lifeboats when it went tits up over there.

My cycling has reduced, now it's just commuting, but this place (and its predecessor) got me through an SR series, and LEL, and so more than anything I stay here for the sense of community.

[T42]

I found YACF after someone on the CTC forum hissy-fitted "if you want to use language like that, join YACF".

[rr]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

[pcolbeck]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

I would be a craghoppers ony person too except work and my style consultant (Mrs Pcolbeck) have nixed that.

[padbeat]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

Surely tweeds and removable collar shirts?

[Andrij]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

Surely tweeds and removable collar shirts?

 

[Steph]

Vegetarianism is another way YACFers tend not to be representative of the populace

Is it?  I hadn't noticed.

That said, I know a lot of QUILTBAGs, where vegetarianism is the default state.

Deffo a QUILTBAG here, and a socialist, but far from vegetarian. As for tea, all sorts of it including EB and EG, but not lapsang wotsit.

I drink tea with milk except when touring, when it's black as keeping fresh milk is a nightmare. No sugar.
No TV, no petrol fuelled conveyance, no I-phone. Most definitely into sentences as it's what I do.

[Biggsy]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

Good one.  It's almost entirely Craghoppers in my case - well, for the bottom half.  Haven't tried wearing them as a jersey.

[Gareth Rees]

There's a commonly quoted factoid* that 2% of tea-drinkers in Britain drink tea without milk (see for example here, or here). If this is true, yacf would seem to be pretty average in this respect.

* This factoid seems to originate with the UK Tea Council. I have written to them asking where the number comes from, and will report back if I get an answer.

They replied:

Our data is produced by Kantar and Neilsen but the information packs are for the sole use of our members, who pay for the data through their membership fee.

Translated from PR-speak into English, I believe that means "fuck off".

[Cudzoziemiec]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

Good one.  It's almost entirely Craghoppers in my case - well, for the bottom half.  Haven't tried wearing them as a jersey.

Well, they couldn't be called Craghoppers if you wore them as a jersey. You'd have to name them after something that moved with its arms. I know, Crag Gibbons! 

[davelodwig]

Judging from the smart watch tread a disproportionate number of us have wardrobes.consisting mainly of craghoppers.

Good one.  It's almost entirely Craghoppers in my case - well, for the bottom half.  Haven't tried wearing them as a jersey.

Well, they couldn't be called Craghoppers if you wore them as a jersey. You'd have to name them after something that moved with its arms. I know, Crag Gibbons! 

The trousers being kiwi trousers.

Today I'm wearing,

Craghoppers Kiwi Trousers
Craghoppers Kiwi Shirt
Craghoppers Fleece

I buy, own so much of their stuff I swear they should make me a board member or something.

F.

[mattc]

No sugar.
No TV, no petrol fuelled conveyance, no I-phone. Most definitely into sentences as it's what I do.

Ahem.

[clarion]

I don't really do Craghoppers.

I do have several pairs of Endura Humvees.

[Woofage]

I've got a Craghoppers 3-in-1 jacket. Does this count?