I don't know. Perhaps I have blinders on, and don't see it clearly. Perhaps I don't want to see it clearly. Perhaps I see through what may appear to be one way and see it for what it is; a way to describe a thankless person that many people are able to identify with, wether right, wrong, or indifferent.

I can read it as a description of an ultra feminist lesbian who hates men. I guess on the west coast we can see other points of view.

I tell you what, more than anything, at least the writing brings people up to point, and gets them to say thier feelings, and reveal themselves and thier break over points for what's acceptable and not. I wonder how many people have sat back looking at this thread, and though further thinking "at least someone stirs up the pot with something other than brakes versus no brakes..".

in the whitebread part of anti-semitic america i'm from, it means to haggle, i.e. "i jewed him down from 40 bucks to 20." Funny how we can't even keep our bigotry straight in america. We who grew up, not in the wrong part of america, but in the wrong age of americans, must remember we're not just the sum of our parts. Here's to hoping those bigoted cliches die off with my father's generation (may he in his misguided ways live a long and healthy life).

Oh, definately. Cuz that's exactly how I act. :rolleyes:

I just can't win, can I?

Do you act that way? I don't know.

if you list: christian, muslim, hindu. what is the missing category? a feminist???? what the **** else could he be insinuating? and of coarse he brings it up because he wants to say she 'jewed'/'gipped' him. he doesnt doesnt mention the race/ethnicity/religious beliefs of any of the cool bike messengers. why not? saying the woman is a jew is obviously meant to be a disparaging remark. no mayo is not 'testing' us to see if we 'create' that conclusion on our own. he is espousing it himself, and apprently many people didnt get the joke. but that is the joke. and it is racist and lame and not something i would pay money to see published.

maybe the story could be told from her perspective. there are a million justifications for why bikes would go unused. she is trying to get them tuned up to be used, and maybe she was put off because someone treated her like she didnt belong there and she didnt feel like thanking him after being treated that way. or maybe she really is just a rude and selfish assshole. but what the **** does that have to do with jews or judaism?
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ok all done now.

Maybe the elusive Mayonnaise is really Mel Gibson.

You feel better? 'Cause this is getting ugly quick, and I really am begining to think you're reading much to much into it.

Thank the gods that somebody can bring some humor to this!

I have a perversity. I often continue to read things despite the fact that they make me nauseous. I feel really sick in my gut about this whole thing. Events like this make me want to become a hermit and puke and hate everybody. And I mean it: I really hate the walls that everybody puts up, the walls that history has put up, the walls that people have continued to propagate through history between each other. Right now I feel stuck in that wall. Alone. In cider blocks.

You all suck. I hate you all. At least for right now.

It is tax day, after all.....I'm kinda grumpy.

Crazy ****, though, man-hating feminist, etc. geez.

I used to live in San Francisco (and I do miss it.. I don't care for plastic culture San Diego). I remember walking with a (very attractive) girl.. And getting called "breeder" more than once.

I do apologize if I offended anyone with that comment.. I assure you that.. well I can screw up my thoughts when I try to put them down.

(crawl under desk)

Make all the domokuns go away!!!

hahahahaha!!! "BREEDER!" hahahahah!!! i hate breeders. seriously. 6.whatthe****ever BILLION people in the world, and yahoos gotta go making MORE?!

if i had the choice, i wouldn't have been born.

That makes two of us that wish you wouldn't have been born. :eek:

Whoa, Zing!!!

Reminds me of my friends bumper sticker "Abortion: I wouldn't have minded"

Well, maybe I was just getting into Mayo's "goodwill"gesture towards the bike-friendly crowd but I seemed to have missed his anti-semetic remark. However, after reading everyone's posts and then going back to re-read it, I can see how the replies and arguments can influence my or someone else's thoughts regarding the terms he used, or didn't use in this case.

It's funny how a simple post about trying to help others on a nice sunny day has become muddied and discoloured by all the insinuations and afterthoughts. Racism affects us all everyday. Do we need to bring it here?

Speaking of stickers: I was in SF and Loficustoms had a sticker "I park in bike lanes like a dumbass". 5 for a dollar. I was gonna buy a whole bunch.

Sometimes people will show you exactly where a sterotype comes from. I really hate that it happens but it does. I think MAYO was tryiong to be subtle with his/her(?) description of this person. But then again who the hell knows. I really hate cab drivers as a whole group. Why? Because there have been a few that have nearly killed me and they drive like asses. I do know that not all of these folks are as bad as the few that I have dealt with.
Actually this kind of reminds me of when I first got on this bikeforums thing and used a word that I thought meant something so far from what others had in mind.

I would love to slap these on all the cars parked in central sq. in cambridge.

.....

thank you

not to get **** all in a flurry again, but still i gotta say this to yall:

i dont understand why people dont acknowledge that the comment was there, in the original post. if someone were to offer a viable alternative interpretation i would listen, but no one has... least of all mayo. and i honestly dont think there is one. i didnt make this up and its not my problem. its mayos.

it was an implied stereotype... there. it's been said.

Now can you all shut up about it, so I can stop puking? at least for the time being?

Atheist? what if he meant atheist? What if he meant lizard like? What if he probably did not mean to piss any one off? What if I am just tired of this silliness?

Anybody else tired? 165?

dude, i couldn't understand that nonsense, the listing of religions, so i didn't understand initially... (plus furtive, at work, etc.).

So, i think it was very important and necessary that you called the sh*t out!

thx

Let me begin by saying I’m sorry. I did not mean to offend anyone, and I did not mean to imply any anti Semitism whatsoever. I apologize if I hurt anyone’s feelings.

I woke this morning with a million things to do , one being dealing with a four thousand dollar tax issue. Five major issues all came down today and I had to get them done before work, and I had a nasty hangover that made concentrating difficult, but I wanted to write a quick post about my day. So I wrote out the thing and did a quick proof read for spelling. I made a note to myself to change the line in question because it was vague and not my original intention. The line should have read: “She wasn’t Catholic, she wasn’t Jewish, she wasn’t Hindu, she wasn’t Muslim, she believed only in herself, if you catch my drift.” The phone rang and interrupted my flow and when I got back to the computer an hour later I hit “quick post” thinking I had finished when I’d forgotten to make the changes. I then left for work and came home just now to all of this.

I admit I’m no angel, I admit the city has made me mean, I admit to trying to provoke on occasion, but I never had any intention of implying the woman was Jewish or making anti Semitic statements. I’ve gone back and re-edited the text.

Again, I am sorry.

hahaha. ******** hilarious. wow. :lol: :fight: :roflmao: :crash:

I still think Mayo is Mel Gibson.

I'm not letting you off that easy Mayonnaise. Do not back down from your hatred of VillageCycleCenter. Embrace the hatred and focus it like a laser beam. jeff

I was so tired, I missed my mark.