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Well everyone loved the first one 😀


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:31 pm
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I'm going to watch this one from a safe place...

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Posted : 12/08/2014 9:32 pm
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Too much bike


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:35 pm
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Danny is a dead man to the STW keyboard warriors.


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:36 pm
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Chocolate rich tea in place.


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:42 pm
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0:25 Danny should have got a bunny to iron his top. 8)


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:46 pm
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Selfie at the end. Cannot believe how those bunnies treated Danny as an object. Totally boycotting the Playboy Mansion now . . .


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 9:54 pm
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I agree with Danny. Bunnies are shit at tennis.


 
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Posted : 12/08/2014 9:57 pm
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Just seen him practicing outside the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow...sadly not a Playboy Bunny in sight!


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 10:25 pm
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STW white knights out in 3,2,1........


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 10:38 pm
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I think, on balance, I would have shaved.


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 11:02 pm
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Nice vid, honest chat with the guy 🙂


 
Posted : 12/08/2014 11:09 pm
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I wasn't comfortable with the way he just objectified the walls,lawns, courts and just rode all over them.....


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:08 am
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Good on him, looked a blast, and if it upset a few folk then they need to let their balls drop - certainly better than rolling up for work for another day in IT support*.

* not a dig at the perceived working status of stw whingers


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:11 am
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Just a bunch of people getting paid to do their jobs. No slave labour, no one got hurt and it all ended peacefully.
I can think of plenty of things for people to get indignant about but Danny Mac videos are not on that list.


 
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Just a bunch of people getting paid to do their jobs. No slave labour, no one got hurt and it all ended peacefully.
I can think of plenty of things for people to get indignant about but Danny Mac videos are not on that list.

Yeh but it was a bit shit wasn't it.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 6:15 am
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This truly is the forum topic that keeps on giving!


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 7:55 am
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The girls seem very bright (and chirpy)


 
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Yeh but it was a bit shit wasn't it.

I think we can agree it wasn't his finest piece of work but I'm sure the cheque was fairly rewarding.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 8:58 am
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I tink Mr M is adding weight.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 9:04 am
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Thanks for posting, watching that just illustrated how churlish certain folk were about the entire affair, he would have been asked to do it for his sponsor and being a professional did as he was asked, it's what happens if you accept the 'Kings Shilling' and it looks as if he enjoyed it so good for him.


 
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he would have been asked to do it for his sponsor and being a professional did as he was asked, it's what happens if you accept the 'Kings Shilling' and it looks as if he enjoyed it so good for him

Odd definition of professional there, doing whatever your employer asks. I've frequently had to tell my employers no, that's the wrong thing to do and I'm not going to do it.


 
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he would have been asked to do it for his sponsor and being a professional did as he was asked, it's what happens if you accept the 'Kings Shilling' and it looks as if he enjoyed it so good for him
Odd definition of professional there, doing whatever your employer asks. I've frequently had to tell my employers no, that's the wrong thing to do and I'm not going to do it.

There's a mile of difference between the traditional employer/employee relationship and that of a sponsor and a pro sportsman, particularly in a minority or niche sport where it is very very difficult to get actual cash to do the sport you love doing anyway.

So no the only odd thing was possibly defining 'professional' in regards to trick cycling, Danny Mack has broken ground, given lots of kids hope and a goal to shoot for and if that means going to bloody playboy mansions then so be it, let the whiners stew, its pretty much the green eye anyway.


 
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And, they're off! Really, desperately tried to be offended by the original video - failed. The male gaze is an evolutionary phenomenon documented by philosophers and artists for many generations. It's not a bad thing,wwe're not talking about up-skirt photography here...

Yes, to an extent, the women in the video are being objectified ( ogled if you prefer ) but I promise you, they don't mind.

Are they perpetuating the eternal cycle of men looking at women and going "phwoooaar"? Yes. That's just the way it is.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 9:37 am
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Yes, to an extent, the women in the video are being objectified ( ogled if you prefer ) but I promise you, they don't mind.

That doesn't make it okay.


 
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There's a mile of difference between the traditional employer/employee relationship and that of a sponsor and a pro sportsman, particularly in a minority or niche sport where it is very very difficult to get actual cash to do the sport you love doing anyway.

That's not actually that different a choice as it effectively boils down to how much you want the money and what you are prepared to do to get it.

I've not watched the video and I've no real intentions of watching it either so I'm not offended by it, but attempts at justifying ogling women by saying "hey it's all evolution" or some other such nonsense is frankly ludicrous.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 9:52 am
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Really, desperately tried to be offended by the original video

Why would you do that? 😕


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 9:53 am
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Hey everyone, Graham is here to give us disapproving looks again 😛

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Anyway. We are aiming to beat [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/singletrack-decide-not-to-cover-the-danny-macaskill-playboy-video/page/12 ]12 pages of replies.[/url]

So let's 'ave you!


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 9:55 am
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Hey everyone, Graham is here to give us disapproving looks again

Nah, I'm only nibbling the bait. I think I said what I wanted to say in the last one. Not much point in repeating it.

The general consensus seems to be that an 88 year old millionaire paying young women to hang around his mansion in their skimpies and be his "girlfriends" is not at all misogynistic and actually the kind of glamorous lifestyle that should be promoted with flashy action sports videos.

After all it gives [i]"lots of kids hope and a goal to shoot for"[/i].

Especially the girls.

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Posted : 13/08/2014 10:11 am
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Posted : 13/08/2014 10:14 am
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a goal to shoot for

😀


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:15 am
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That doesn't make it okay.

No, it makes it normal. You don't need to feel guilty when you look at a woman's bottom / boobs and get a bit excited. That's what's supposed to happen. It's how we reproduce.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:16 am
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This video/s create worse threads than 650b (sorry kittens) ones. 👿

Seedy IMO.

and Cumberbatch is proper p'd off with that tea

lawn could have done with a trim too was getting a bit shaggy (the one he nose manualed down)


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:18 am
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It's how we reproduce.

So, just getting excited when I see a pwetty laydee is how we reproduce? Shitting jaysus!


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:19 am
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Ok, so putting those bums and boobs in a mansion for perusal is a bit weird but the point stands.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:21 am
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Though I imagine lots of the folk who like this kind of thing are the ones who never get closer to the true reproductive experience than getting excited at the mere sight of ze big boobies.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:23 am
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Nah, I'm only nibbling the bait. I think I said what I wanted to say in the last one. Not much point in repeating it.

E-mail al for removal of Big Hitter certificate

FWIW I dont think we reproduce by watching [ soft] porn I think we actually need a lady to be there.
Oh and Woosh.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 10:27 am
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Dongle fail and a record time difference for a DP 😯


 
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So, just getting excited when I see a pwetty laydee is how we reproduce? Shitting jaysus!

Ok, so you're exempt from reproductive duties. It's a tough one - we all grew up with hedge-porn and girls of easy virtue (well, I did). I suppose
i probably couldn't give a single toss.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:00 am
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Not one whit do I care.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:02 am
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it's not a question of anyone being offended, or wishing to protect those [s]poor, abused[/s] well-paid women in the video.

it's this:

the people at STW-Towers decided not to publish the original video on their website for the same reasons why i chose not to share it on my facebook page:

i'm not 12, and sexism hasn't gone away yet.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:02 am
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How ever many hundreds of thousands of years ago when Homo sapiens first walk the earth I am sure male Homo sapiens would look at female Homo sapiens and think, I would .
Probably before even having language.

And I hope in however many hundreds of thousands of years time two male Homo sapiens will be sat on a train or futuristic equivalent when a young female homo sapiens will board and walk to the front of the carriage whilst wearing a skirt just tight enough to accentuate her behind.
And male homo sapiens number one discreetly elbows and whispers to male Homo sapiens number two. " out of ten" to which male Homo sapiens number two replies "I'd give it one " And they both laugh, no one dies.

Don't think women don't do similar. It was not uncommon for me to hear "he would get it" or "he'd do" when I would run past groups of women when running late in the evening .


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:26 am
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[i]And male homo sapiens number one discreetly elbows and whispers to male Homo sapiens number two. " out of ten" to which male Homo sapiens number two replies "I'd give And male homo sapiens number one discreetly elbows and whispers to male Homo sapiens number two. " out of ten" to which male Homo sapiens number two replies "I'd give [b]it [/b]one " And they both laugh, no one dies.[/i]


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:47 am
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I assumed the "it" was a typo. Tell us it was a typo chip, please?


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 11:50 am
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Clang...!


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:04 pm
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*runs off to the kitchen at work to practice drinking tea angrily*
what fine acting!


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:05 pm
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No it wasn't , I think that was how eric and ernie performed it and would like to stay true to the original dialogue (although I could be wrong).

Anyway it's funnier with "it" than "her".


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:07 pm
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All of this is all very well, but did he get a shag or not?


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:10 pm
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I like a bit of vulgarity in the correct situations.
I still open doors and offer my seat on the bus, although this has been known to offend some people.

You can't win sometimes.


 
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That's not actually that different a choice as it effectively boils down to how much you want the money and what you are prepared to do to get it.

I've not watched the video and I've no real intentions of watching it either so I'm not offended by it, but attempts at justifying ogling women by saying "hey it's all evolution" or some other such nonsense is frankly ludicrous.

No-one said anything about evolution, well not from me, this is about Red Bull saying to a young lad from Glasgow who has become famous for bike tricks, would he do some in the Playboy Mansion, now are you honestly saying if you were him, you'd say no?

All the rest is about publicity seeking bandwagoning, it could be argued STW Towers were being very clever in their approach, there being no such publicity as bad publicity and it's an easy one to take the PC moral high ground for effect. I wouldn't think for one moment that wasn't part of their commercial consideration.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:21 pm
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[i]he get a shag or not?[/i]

If he took his credit card.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:22 pm
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No-one said anything about evolution, well not from me,

You didn't, user-removed did.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 12:50 pm
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what fine acting!

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he get a shag or not?

If he took his credit card.

Ooof!


 
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Though I imagine lots of the folk who like this kind of thing are the ones who never get closer to the true reproductive experience than getting excited at the mere sight of ze big boobies.

married men?


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 1:59 pm
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Just watched the original vid again...

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Just watched the original vid again...

You're saying they look like fun gals?


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 2:24 pm
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Maybe he's just very impressed by a nose wheelie


 
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Posted : 13/08/2014 2:37 pm
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[i]No it wasn't [/i]

I get it now, you're suggesting a future with pleasurebots yeah?


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 2:40 pm
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Good to see Danny always wears protection.

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Posted : 13/08/2014 2:45 pm
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Why are there 3 on his right and 2 on his left?


 
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I like that they've put up rabbit fences.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 2:49 pm
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Why are there 3 on his right and 2 on his left?

Because one is off [i]entertaining[/i] Mr Hefner.

...I think they're playing Xbox.


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 2:49 pm
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[i]...I think they're playing Xbox.[/i]

If that's what he wants...


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 2:59 pm
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I get it now, you're suggesting a future with pleasurebots yeah?

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Do you think there won't be.


 
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Posted : 13/08/2014 3:38 pm
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bit sad that his playboy vid generates more stw postings than his far superior Imaginate or even the Epecuen one

still I suppose that what his sponsors are after!


 
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Another low point for moderation, the images i posted, which were criticisms of harassment and casual misogyny were removed because a couple of cells contained the f-word. As though that were any less acceptable that the ideas and images being posted here. There seems to be a whole MTFU attitude to people being offended or people being offended on behalf of others, yet certain words are deemed to offensive, for whom I'm not sure.

Anyway, link here *warning contains the f-word (****)*

http://m.tickld.com/x/next-time-someone-says-women-arent-victims-of-harassment-show-them


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 3:44 pm
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My baby now sits there, meaningless 🙁


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 4:52 pm
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My baby now sits there, meaningless

You should write country and western songs.


 
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Thanks CharlieMungus. I have printed that out and will keep it in my pocket for the next time someone tells me women aren't victims of harassment.

Might be a long wait though because I have never been told that before.

Have you got one where the roles are reversed?


 
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Yes, to an extent, the women in the video are being objectified ( ogled if you prefer ) but I promise you, they don't mind.

Here's your chance!!!

Have you got one where the roles are reversed?

No


 
Posted : 13/08/2014 5:11 pm
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said it last time, disappointed, no chebs on show.


 
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I am lolling at (other) Jamie's C&W suggestions.
"Not long ago, you held my baby's bottle, but the one you're holding now's a different kind..."


 
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Not particularly to keen to resurrect this thread, but I just found the Epecuen video!
http://epecuen.redbull.com/

Everything that the Playboy Mansion film isn't, i.e. fascinating landscape, awesome stunts, beautiful cinematography. I can't find a thread for it in the search but I'm sure it's here somewhere.

And for anyone that's interested in the history of the place, watch this:

- 'Pablo's Villa - the remaining resident, who is also the old bloke on a bike at the beginning of the Danny video.


 
Posted : 04/09/2014 12:31 pm
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Any chic's in it though?


 
Posted : 04/09/2014 2:14 pm
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No scantily clad women looking awesome in that Epecuen video, so I've got nothing to bitch about... So it's not worth talking about. 😆

Good video though, but it did come out before "**** yea danny does playboy video". 😉


 
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Yeah I realised it came out before, hence why I'm assuming there was a thread on it back then (not that I can find it with the search tool).

Clearly it didn't generate as much publicity for Red Bull as the Playboy one, or the others for that matter (Industrial Revolutions, Imaginate etc) - surprised I hadn't heard of it before. Strange because it's a really nice film.


 
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