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Friday July 11 2008

I always scrutinise David T’s Friday Ephemera.  This time, my personal highlight was a comment, from Matt M, about something that might have been included in the collection, but wasn’t:

Have you been following the great wafer controversy?

Some American academic is taking the piss out of Catholics for supposing biscuits to be able to turn into Jesus, and various psycho-Catholics are angry about this.  (You hate us because we’re nice.  Die!) In among all the joshing about crackers, there was this comment from this guy:

If you make it a hobby to disrespect people you will get hurt - and the people that hurt you don’t have to be religious fanatics. They just have to be “human”.

Hm.  His answer seems to be for us all to respect each other.  Can’t see that working.  Taking the piss is also “human”, isn’t it?

Meanwhile, Mick Hartley sticks up for another group of people who are frequently disrespected on account of their weird beliefs: cyclists.  The weird beliefs of cyclists also involve transubstantiation, this time them being transubstantiated from (very thin) motorists to (wheeled) pedestrians and then back to motorists, all in the space of a few seconds, in whatever way entitles them to go wherever the fuck they like, partaking of the extremest possible interpretation of the rights of whichever thing-that-they-actually-aren’t that they (absurdly) believe they have turned into at any particular second.

Absolutely right about the cyclists Brian. I can’t stand them on the pavement. And our local PCSOs do nothing despite it being against the law. The real coppers might act but I seem to have forgotten what they even look like.

Posted by Nick M on 12 July 2008

Upon closer inspection, one may notice his suggestion of theft and destruction of property may be a bit more pertinent than his theological disagreements.  This idiot left-wing atheist has been around for a while, suggesting statolatry according to his ‘science’, while, of course, ignoring the science of economics.

Now, of course, he’s demonstrating he’s forgotten a lesson that should have been learned in kindergarten- don’t steal other people’s crackers. 

Yeah, I’m angry, but I don’t expect atheists to understand the depths of my anger at the suggestion of this particular action.  But I do expect that he wouldn’t want me to steal anything, particularly something he values highly and then destroy it with much fanfare.

Posted by August on 12 July 2008

I have been wanting an excuse to talk about

“Aggressopithecus Saurocyclodon”

for some time. This may be a species in the genus “Homo”, but I suspect not, for its diet, mating rituals (if any) and other habits preclude this.

Individuals fall into two types:
(1) The “courier/work-traveller” - it wears no special clothing, and travels on any nondescript bicycle, very fast, ignoring road signs, traffic signals, pavements-vs-roadways, other traffic etc. It is invariably male, no females having been observed for many years, so hopefully may go extinct. It shouts “faaaaaa** OFFF!” if you challenge it.

(2) The “sports/club-cyclist” - this wears typically skin-tight coloured “sportswear”, plus a plastic hat and funny occular prostheses which obscure its eyes. It is invariably (almost) male and aged at least 35-40. It typically travels in groups, on machiens weighing at most 3 grams. It is impossible to overtake safely, travelling as fast as it does. Very few females have been seen, and are superficially indistinguishable from the males.

Personally, I would insure cyclists off the roads. They are a menace to workers. Their third-party cover alone would come to £466,000 per year per man, and for comp? Well, now you’re asking!

Posted by David Davis on 14 July 2008
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