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Now that I've started commuting by bike, I need to keep this pinned up everywhere I look forever. God willing, it'll keep me both humble and out of spandex.
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Meh, so comics aren't funny, what else is new? Probably fits between Blondie and Garfield pretty well.
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I'm with @2. This is not a commentary on cyclists; it's a reminder of how pathetic most comic strip writers are these days.
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The thing is, when you're riding every day and drivers are honking at you and trying to force you off the road or kill you with their car doors or turn without signaling and end up forcing you into a parked car -- and they always drive away so you can't respond to what they just did -- honestly, you develop an irresistible compulsion to tell drivers (pretty much everyone you meet) two things:
1) You suck (You are fat. You are lazy.)
2) If you insist on sucking, could you at least make a minimal effort to avoid killing me in the process? (Share the road!)
That's just a natural reaction to being on the receiving end of driver bullshit for any length of time. Like radical feminists who go around calling all men rapists; it's obnoxious, but there is, at least, a reason for it.
1) You suck (You are fat. You are lazy.)
2) If you insist on sucking, could you at least make a minimal effort to avoid killing me in the process? (Share the road!)
That's just a natural reaction to being on the receiving end of driver bullshit for any length of time. Like radical feminists who go around calling all men rapists; it's obnoxious, but there is, at least, a reason for it.
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@13:
Your "radical feminist" analogy is interesting, and at first blush the most apt comparison I can think of for rabid cyclists. In my view, the truly radical types are both your basic racing-type cyclists in spandex and the self-entitled CM types, then there are an exponentially greater number of rational folk who consider themselves "feminists"/"people who ride bikes" who share the essential concerns of the radicals - safety, recognition from the powers-that-be. Then there are the "others." The failure of the radicals is their inability to see allies among the "others," the failure of the rational folk is to stand by while the radicals create schisms with the "others," and the failure of the "others" is to assume that the radicals represent anything other than self-absorbed douchebags. But I'm glad we have them all.
Your "radical feminist" analogy is interesting, and at first blush the most apt comparison I can think of for rabid cyclists. In my view, the truly radical types are both your basic racing-type cyclists in spandex and the self-entitled CM types, then there are an exponentially greater number of rational folk who consider themselves "feminists"/"people who ride bikes" who share the essential concerns of the radicals - safety, recognition from the powers-that-be. Then there are the "others." The failure of the radicals is their inability to see allies among the "others," the failure of the rational folk is to stand by while the radicals create schisms with the "others," and the failure of the "others" is to assume that the radicals represent anything other than self-absorbed douchebags. But I'm glad we have them all.
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Yo. ARE U RELATED TO MUDDY CHARLES? LOLOLOCIDE.
@10. HI-LOCIDE! U R LIKE TOTALLY DEFEATING CHI TOWN RITE AID NOW!
@10. HI-LOCIDE! U R LIKE TOTALLY DEFEATING CHI TOWN RITE AID NOW!
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"Pearls..." has some kind-of-burned-out story lines (e.g. the whole crocs-vs-zebra thing), but overall it's pretty damned good, I think. And the puns Pastis comes up with for some of the Sunday strips are groaners of the first order. "Blondie" should have been retired 25 years ago. "Hagar" and "Beetle Bailey" have lost whatever they once had, and the appeal of "Garfield" has ALWAYS been lost on me. ("Radical" bikers can be assholes (I'm a VERY relaxed biker myself [my 21-speed Schwinn has been stuck in some middle gear for about 2 years and I don't give a sh*t, even though it's my only transportation])
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@13 part of being a grownup involves learning to control said impulses because they are dickish and counterproductive. If someone tells me we need to fight sexism and reduce rape I am generally in full support. Same when they say build more bike lanes.
But when someone calls me a rapist or a lazy fatty I tell them to fuck off.
But when someone calls me a rapist or a lazy fatty I tell them to fuck off.
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