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    Discrete packaging always reminds me how a bicycle company made their shipping boxes look like smart TVs so package handlers wouldn’t break them.

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        My Spanish autocorrect thinks it knows English better than me. It is a little confused but its heart is in the right place.

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      If a bicycle can’t handle being shipped I’m failing to understand how it can it handle being ridden…

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        They’re designed for impacts in mostly one direction. Your knees can run just fine, but a kick to the side and you can easily destroy them.

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              The head is pretty much made to take a beating and protect the brain as much as possible, so I don’t see any single direction it would be better at but of course the forehead is better than the other parts. Maybe headbutting played a role in evolution?

              Shoulders, from what I see, as long as you keep the muscles tight (and not get tired doing so), should give similar results in all directions, though having the impact taken by the limbs first, would significantly reduce direct damage to the joint.

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        Sure, but the same bicycle that lands you safely from a 5 meter drop on a mountain trail will get bent and useless if dropped two feet over a rock at the wrong angle. Bicycles are a compromise between material lightness and structural strength. Carbon fiber cracks and aluminum bends if you apply force at the precise angle, and it doesn’t take too much to ruin a bicycle. Hit a curb at low speed at the wrong angle and you can ruin a frame forever. Sure, the bicycle will still ride, but the balance will be all out of whack from then on.

        Also, in most of the world, guarantees don’t cover shipping. So any damage is the responsibility of the courier, and good luck with that claim. The alternative is costly shipping insurance for high value items. It is not like couriers are gentle with TVs, it’s that they have the same misinformed beliefs as this comment and are rougher with other items they incorrectly perceive as tougher.

        If just changing the packaging significantly reduces property destruction, then the problem wasn’t the bicycle’s durability.

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        That’s why I don’t trip if my electronics are handled a lil bit rough in transit. I rather they break in shipping so I can return them and steer clear of that company than later because they’re flimsy shitty products. That said, I understand some electronics need to be handled with care.

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    I think this needs to be asked, how well would that vehicle perform in a wind tunnel, compared to a Bulbasaur?

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    I feel like this would be a popular service for sending anonymous joke gifts.

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    I ordered a sex toy once to a communal place I was living. Okay fine it was a buddhist temple.

    The website said they’d use discreet packaging. NOPE. Their box was labeled and even had a logo for their company, which sells nothing but sex toys.

    Their idea of “discreet packaging” was that the box was regular brown cardboard, so that anyone observing from fifty feet away wouldn’t be able to see that it was anything special.

    I chewed out their support staff on the phone. For fuck’s sake.

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    Imagine if this one was involved in a head-on collision with a vagina counterpart.

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      It’s the new tourism slogan!

      …which makes the comma even more important than it already was 😄