coffeecake

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...rticle1591998/ (sorry, my FF at work is not letting me format links properly.)

(Warning: article in link will push pretty much every button you possess as an A&S denizen.)

I generally think I can have a bit of a laugh, but this attempt at "satire" is turning me into the proverbial humourless cyclist. Although I guess I shouldn't expect too much from the automobile section of a national paper.

Seattle Forrest

I'm going to go with C on this one.

unterhausen

Seattle, I can't count how many times I've wondered why there are so many cars are on the road I'm riding on. There is a road that goes past my house that has a lot of traffic on it, but if you go anywhere near the speed limit, it takes 5 times as long to get anywhere as the 4 lane highway next to it. So of course nobody goes the speed limit, and they still take over twice as long as the more appropriate route. There is a road on my commute with the same sort of thing, and there is a difficult left turn at the end that takes forever at rush hour. And yet there is tons of traffic on this road through an otherwise quiet residential area. A similar scenario is repeated millions of times a day throughout the U.S.

mikeybikes

I found it hilarious. I was laughing through most of the article.

dnuzzomueller

I actually found it pretty darned funny. Its basically so ridiculous that its obviously just for laughs. Not to mention the guy says that he will do one on cars next week. I give it two thumbs up.

DX-MAN

I WOULD have laughed, except I realize that there are hundreds of thousands of drivers who would read these ridiculous things and TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY, because THEY BELIEVE ALL CYCLISTS DO THESE THINGS!

It's kinda like all the defenses about Kornholer's radio debacle -- "It's a characterization, it's satire, it's a joke, he's not really like that", ad nauseum. Then, several days later, an SUV driver actually does what Kornholer "satirizes", and runs down a cyclist in D.C., but not before cussing out said cyclist as he lay on the pavement, and then driving away.

If you're going to saitirize in print, or on the airwaves, be sure the dumbest of the dumb know it, too. Here in the US, we can run it past Boehner......

Dchiefransom

Now I want to know what a Kiehler intern is and how I can get one.

cyclokitty 

That was fun. And I've witnessed most of those on my commutes. Except witnessing some cyclist's self pleasuring moments. I look away.

Sixty Fiver

Caution: Reductivist artists at work.



9. It is January and a storm warning is in effect. Conditions are treacherous. Snow piling up. The roads are slick. You …

b) Time make winter your *****. Down a Red Bull, slap on a tuque and start biking. This will look so good on YouTube.

HoustonB

Now I need to clean my display.

Seattle Forrest

Does a public transit rider count? This guy in the back of the bus had an odd expression on his face, a disgusted-looking talked to the driver and then left the bus, and after about five minutes of being parked on the side, a homeless man walked to the front of the bus and said out loud "I want you to call the police. That woman said I was masturbating, but I wasn't. She's spreading lies about me." The old man sitting next to me starting singing "Someone's going to jail" over and over again, but the bus got back on the road when the homeless dude left.

Roody

Thanks, coffeecake. I thought it was a cute piece.

rogwilco

Cyclists do do many of these things. I definitely recognised myself in some of the answers.

closetbiker

It sure is interesting seeing different attitudes to cyclists in different cities.

The quiz is well written, clever, and cute, but speaking as someone from Vancouver, it seems to me Toronto has a massive difference in acceptance of bicycle culture than Vancouver.

It seems far more combative.

Not that aren't conflicts here, but it doesn't seem to near the scale as it is there.

*and btw, the title says a bit about attitude too. This is a Toronto exam, written by someone in Toronto expressing Toronto attitudes, but as all other Canadians know, Toronto considers itself the center of the universe and anoints itself so.

no motor?

I thought it was pretty funny too, but isn't it a requirement to use "eh?" somewhere in the article?

rob!

#3 is my favorite

Raiden

I enjoyed that, TBH.

jakub.ner

Some things stung (the helmet emphasis and the winter cycling as nuts comments) but overall I giggled. The author has a pretty vivid imagination as to cyclist ************.

trackhub

Heh, that was actually very amusing. But what's a "Kiehl's Intern"?

electrik

**** yeah, is this guy a Canadian or a little keyboard button pushing *****?


Where is the redbull bandoleer?

Anyway, glad people are finding it funny... here are some better articles - https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/814960
https://spacingtoronto.ca/2010/06/10/...ng-in-toronto/

sanitycheck

You really didn't think it was funny, Coffeecake? I laughed way more than I grumbled while reading that.

Only parts that bugged me were his assumption that no one should be on the road without helmets -- or more to the point, his assumption that it was already a universally agreed-on point -- and the last couple questions that implied we should stay off the roads when it snows. Other than that, hilarious. And even if I do stop at stop signs, from now on I'm also gonna point at 'em and shriek "damn graffiti!"

crazzywolfie

i thought that the white lines around the stop sign made them optional. i found it pretty funny.

closetbiker

What storm? January was nice. In February, we had to truck in snow for the Olympics

Yellowbeard

I thought I had a sense of humour, but I was distracted by all the typos.

**correction: Okay, didn't know you could spell toque like that, but I still didn't think it was very funny. Not it the grumbling sense, though.

coffeecake

Eh, I've mellowed somewhat. I just found it somewhat ... Torontonian.