We mustn’t dehumanise cyclists by referring to them as “cyclists.” Says the Guardian.
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I live in Toronto so consequently I refer to cyclists as assholes
And assholes is more humanizing than cyclists.
How about “spandex-clad road vermin?”
Or my favorite, “speed bumps.”
road kill
A cyclist in Canada in the winter is as Mr. G describes.
We must have much more global warming so we can cycle in the wintertime.
2 wheeled rectums……is that pohlite enuff????
I used to be a cyclist …. until I bought a car. Now I hate them like all right thinking people and especially despise those dedicated lanes with no one using them.
As seen last night. 10 PM, dark, dressed in all black, on a bicycle with no lights, riding on the wrong side of a multilane street.
Even if it is called a rose, a pile of poo is still a pile of poo………
“and remember that we are all people, no matter how we use the roads”
Maybe if some road users (cyclists!) would actually try to follow the rules of the road, they may be better thought of.
And governments should stop their constantly catering to the few cyclists.
I’m an asshole and damn proud of it, how dare someone demean me by calling me a cyclist.
If they don’t want to be called cyclists the choices are limited. Maybe they’d prefer ass peddlers?
Someone should tell Guardian how insulting, offensive, rude, slighting, insolent, impertinent, discourteous that word “Guardian” is.
Organ-donors
“And governments should stop their constantly catering to the few cyclists”
Saskatoon currently has a bike nut mayor running the place and there’s bike lanes everywhere that aren’t being utilized much. When the brutal winter weather arrives he’s one of the few still riding his bicycle and swears up and down the bike lanes are being used.
Learning from Mayor Don in Edmonton? Almost the entire city council in E-town is off the rails with bike lanes, LRT and vision zero nonsense. People keep bitching, but they’ll all get re-elected.
“…courtesy towards other road users is a necessary social lubricant.”
I think David is loosing it.
It is important to be courteous to other DRIVERS. Eff the rest (no lube required).
As to the referenced works.
Arguing that the term cyclist is dehumanizing is sophistry; vilification is not dehumanization.
Their aim is to interrupt hegemony against bicycles as a normative mode of transportation.
I have two responses.
1. Save a fetus; abort a cyclist.
2. (A personal favorite): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY
That guy in the diesel spared no expense. The wind was perfect and every cyclist tasted his disdain.
Overheard during the late 1800s.
“Crazy white man, sit while run”.
What is it about bicycle seats? As soon as a person’s ass touches it, brain cells start dying.
Perhaps a warning label is mandatory. “Warning! Sitting on this will cause you to suffer permanent cerebral necrosis.”
You really cannot begin to get a handle on just how batshit crazy elitist arrogant holuer-than-thou asshole brain-dead morons those two-wheel pedal pushers are until you ride a motorcycle in places infested with them!
One of those idiots hits you when you’re driving a car…a somewhat minor inconvenience.
However if one of those idiots hits you when you’re riding a motorcycle…you’ve having a bad day.
I was riding through the downtown of a major city not too long ago, and let me put it this way: Cars were the least of my concerns.
I am an asshole and a cyclist so I am having an identity crisis. That being said, I do not cycle on roads. Breathing in all that car and diesel exhaust is a fast path to an early death. Only an idiot would breathe in all that shit. And only an idiot would choose to prostrate themselves completely unprotected to thousands of tonnes of metal whizzing by at 60 miles an hour.
Mark Twain once asked what is the difference between a donkey cart and a cyclist? The answer is that the cyclist is the donkey.
Here in N. CA (San Francisco) a group of thug-cyclists refer to themselves as critical mass http://www.critical-mass.org/
These cyclist-thugs are affectionately referred to as critical massholes. And they are. All of em.
Would that account for all the poop on the streets there?
Here is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYeYgiHBdwQ as for the prostate masseurs the law should grant automatic immunity to drivers who collide with them. Bikes have no place getting in front of cars. The catering to prostate masseurs is part of liberal war on cars and drivers.
Psycholists
Wouldn’t want to misgender them by calling them Bi-cyclists.
The article assumes that cyclists are to be considered human. Why?
I live in Toronto so consequently I refer to cyclists as assholes
And assholes is more humanizing than cyclists.
How about “spandex-clad road vermin?”
Or my favorite, “speed bumps.”
road kill
A cyclist in Canada in the winter is as Mr. G describes.
We must have much more global warming so we can cycle in the wintertime.
2 wheeled rectums……is that pohlite enuff????
I used to be a cyclist …. until I bought a car. Now I hate them like all right thinking people and especially despise those dedicated lanes with no one using them.
As seen last night. 10 PM, dark, dressed in all black, on a bicycle with no lights, riding on the wrong side of a multilane street.
Even if it is called a rose, a pile of poo is still a pile of poo………
“and remember that we are all people, no matter how we use the roads”
Maybe if some road users (cyclists!) would actually try to follow the rules of the road, they may be better thought of.
And governments should stop their constantly catering to the few cyclists.
I’m an asshole and damn proud of it, how dare someone demean me by calling me a cyclist.
If they don’t want to be called cyclists the choices are limited. Maybe they’d prefer ass peddlers?
Someone should tell Guardian how insulting, offensive, rude, slighting, insolent, impertinent, discourteous that word “Guardian” is.
Organ-donors
“And governments should stop their constantly catering to the few cyclists”
Saskatoon currently has a bike nut mayor running the place and there’s bike lanes everywhere that aren’t being utilized much. When the brutal winter weather arrives he’s one of the few still riding his bicycle and swears up and down the bike lanes are being used.
Learning from Mayor Don in Edmonton? Almost the entire city council in E-town is off the rails with bike lanes, LRT and vision zero nonsense. People keep bitching, but they’ll all get re-elected.
“…courtesy towards other road users is a necessary social lubricant.”
I think David is loosing it.
It is important to be courteous to other DRIVERS. Eff the rest (no lube required).
As to the referenced works.
Arguing that the term cyclist is dehumanizing is sophistry; vilification is not dehumanization.
Their aim is to interrupt hegemony against bicycles as a normative mode of transportation.
I have two responses.
1. Save a fetus; abort a cyclist.
2. (A personal favorite): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY
That guy in the diesel spared no expense. The wind was perfect and every cyclist tasted his disdain.
Overheard during the late 1800s.
“Crazy white man, sit while run”.
What is it about bicycle seats? As soon as a person’s ass touches it, brain cells start dying.
Perhaps a warning label is mandatory. “Warning! Sitting on this will cause you to suffer permanent cerebral necrosis.”
You really cannot begin to get a handle on just how batshit crazy elitist arrogant holuer-than-thou asshole brain-dead morons those two-wheel pedal pushers are until you ride a motorcycle in places infested with them!
One of those idiots hits you when you’re driving a car…a somewhat minor inconvenience.
However if one of those idiots hits you when you’re riding a motorcycle…you’ve having a bad day.
I was riding through the downtown of a major city not too long ago, and let me put it this way: Cars were the least of my concerns.
Here’s some video evidence…I’m clearly not alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Wb8exPj3o
I HATE pedal-pushers.
100% truth right there.
I am an asshole and a cyclist so I am having an identity crisis. That being said, I do not cycle on roads. Breathing in all that car and diesel exhaust is a fast path to an early death. Only an idiot would breathe in all that shit. And only an idiot would choose to prostrate themselves completely unprotected to thousands of tonnes of metal whizzing by at 60 miles an hour.
Mark Twain once asked what is the difference between a donkey cart and a cyclist? The answer is that the cyclist is the donkey.
Here in N. CA (San Francisco) a group of thug-cyclists refer to themselves as critical mass
http://www.critical-mass.org/
These cyclist-thugs are affectionately referred to as critical massholes. And they are. All of em.
Would that account for all the poop on the streets there?
It’s either that, or soil their leotard …
…or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ySSQedmmk
Yep … that puts a PERIOD on the topic. Sheesh.
Here is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYeYgiHBdwQ as for the prostate masseurs the law should grant automatic immunity to drivers who collide with them. Bikes have no place getting in front of cars. The catering to prostate masseurs is part of liberal war on cars and drivers.
Psycholists
Wouldn’t want to misgender them by calling them Bi-cyclists.
The article assumes that cyclists are to be considered human. Why?