Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 12, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  about 5 years ago

    But jerk is already taken.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    must be Jef’s doing

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    Bilan  about 5 years ago

    If he doesn’t have a problem with being called Rat, …

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    DennisinSeattle  about 5 years ago

    And then there are we walkers. We hate being called pedestrians, because pedestrian has the additional meaning of ordinary, and boring. Rise up, Walkers!!

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    sirbadger  about 5 years ago

    Hey Mother Truckers! You need a new name!

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    Concretionist  about 5 years ago

    Not all cyclists are horrible people. Probably not even half of them. Of course not all automobile drivers are horrible people either. Maybe not even half of them.

    I do think that using a bike for your primary means of transport probably does make you a lot more paranoid about those people driving the big heavy killer-vehicles.

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    Gent  about 5 years ago

    So now we shouldn’t call a cyclist a cyclist? I’ve got another word for you, cyclist. But you may not like that either.

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    Kind&Kinder  about 5 years ago

    I first learned that some people don’t like being directly identified when I first found out that garbage collectors (a perfectly honorable profession) wanted to be called “sanitary engineers.” Okey-doke! Just…please…don’t rattle those cans so loudly at 5 a.m.!

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    The Moose Group  about 5 years ago

    Better name for cyclists…..targets

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    Zykoic  about 5 years ago

    So many bike lanes! So few bikes!

    So many buses! So few passengers!

    So much government! So many idiots!

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    Yontrop  about 5 years ago

    I don’t understand why Pastis wants to try to squeeze humor out of adding to the divisions among people. Very few people who ride bikes are like that.

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    Radish...   about 5 years ago

    I suppose you could call them bi-cyclists.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Another name for cyclists? Auto Shaming Smugness, also known as A.S.S.

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    jessie d.  about 5 years ago

    hey, cartoonists, you need a new spiel?

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    Troglodyte  about 5 years ago

    Re-cycled bi-cycle humour.

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    Breadboard  about 5 years ago

    Cyclists = Road Leeches …. because somebody else paid for the roadways they demand to ride on …

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    asrialfeeple  about 5 years ago

    That’s much better than being disliked for thinking you own the road.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  about 5 years ago

    And I suppose that all the cyclists want you to also use their preferred singular personal pronoun, “they.”

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    A Common 'tator  about 5 years ago

    We’re already known as “Knights-of-the-Road”… You wanna argue? I’ll ram you off the motorway… Oops… masked slipped a little there… Yes… as I was saying… “Knights-of-the-Road”… 10/4…

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    Geophyzz  about 5 years ago

    Cervelo, are you going to weigh in on this?

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    mjb515  about 5 years ago

    It is the thing itself, not the word that causes dislike.

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    V45mikky  about 5 years ago

    Truckers new name semi road warriors.

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    Masterskrain  about 5 years ago

    So, WHY are guys who ride a MotorCYCLE called “Bikers”, but guys who ride a BIKE are called “Cyclists”???

    AND, if you don’t like truckers, try to live one month without using ANYTHING that was on a truck at one time or another. You will end up naked in a cave, living on nuts and berries! 35 years driving over-the-road, several MILLION safe miles, by the way… in spite of the idiots in the cars… and I have the ATA awards to show for it, too!
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    cdgar  about 5 years ago

    Take that Jef.

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    fjames01  about 5 years ago

    And they really do. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/experts-cyclist-word-dehumanizes-bike-riders/

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 5 years ago

    The word has taken on a negative connotation because of the behavior of the people it refers to.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 5 years ago

    If I’m crossing the street with the light, if I see a car coming toward the red light heading my way, I don’t worry about it and just cross. If I see a cyclist doing the same thing, I stop and wait to see what he’s going to do, because I know he may just go right through that light and hit me.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Paris, there are NO “maybes” about it!

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    uniquename  about 5 years ago

    Not sure I’d pick truckers as the first group to confront.

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    Zebrastripes  about 5 years ago

    Gasp! Watch it! Those truckers can be misconstrued as…..

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    Ellis97  about 5 years ago

    Look who’s talking.

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    YippiKiAyMofo  about 5 years ago

    If they don’t like “cyclists” they can always go with “impotents.”

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    LKrueger41  about 5 years ago

    Not all riders-of-bicycles act like the selfish, infantile, arrogant road hogs that cause the trouble. No matter what they are called, we can tell the difference but the bad ones will continue to make us wary of all of them.

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    Reader  about 5 years ago

    Cyclists like Jef don’t consider themselves mere mortals anyway, correct?

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    Ralphsloan  about 5 years ago

    More Crocs and little guard duck please.

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    Al Nala  about 5 years ago

    The Cycleism is coming…Coming….COMING!!!!!

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    witten.homer175  about 5 years ago

    Leaving them alone,they will soon become extinct.

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    Mighty Phavahg  about 5 years ago

    Man, there’s a lot of angry people on this page.

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    walstib Premium Member about 5 years ago

    When I worked at a logistics/distribution center, we’d tell the drivers to get the truck outta here.

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    Linguist  about 5 years ago

    Living in a country where bicycles are an economic necessity for lots of folks, I have noticed that the attitude towards cyclists is very different than in the U.S.A. Drivers are a lot more tolerant of bicycle riders than motorcyclists.

    There aren’t many of the lycra-clad cyclists here, thank goodness. The rare few you do see on the roads are serious bicycle racing competitors, not the obnoxious roadhogs you encounter in the States.

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    Cerabooge  about 5 years ago

    Lots of car-ists seem to get triggered by any mention of people who use bicycles.

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    DCBakerEsq  about 5 years ago

    I’ve got a few suggestions …

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    Snoots  about 5 years ago

    If “Cyclist” is demeaning… one must wonder how it came to be so.

    Personally I’m with the crowd. I think cycling is great, but some of the most rude, arrogant people I’ve met on the road were cyclists. Of course, to be fair they’re probably exactly the same way when they’re driving their automobiles. It’s not that they’re cyclists; they’re just rude, arrogant people who are more visible than hiding inside a car.

    There are good cyclists… polite, yielding, follow the law, don’t stretch out across the road. It’s the bad ones that give cycling a bad reputation.

    Oh, it just hit me: if cyclists travel the same path every day, are they re-cyclers?

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    Kurtass  about 5 years ago

    Where’s Jeff?

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    Ermine Notyours  about 5 years ago

    Call ’em psychoists.

    And another group: don’t call them stewardess, call ’em trolley dollies.

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    MartinPerry1  about 5 years ago

    Is this real? If so, it’s an indication of too much blood flowing to their legs and not enough to their brains.

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    Leojim  about 5 years ago

    Wow, there are a lot of triggered people here today!

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    Manitobaman  about 5 years ago

    Call me anything you like. Just don’t call me late to dinner. :-)

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    zeexenon  about 5 years ago

    Antibikeite?

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    jonnytest  about 5 years ago

    Considering how many names they call those of us who drive cars because we are old or simply work so far from home, the CYCLISTS can go screw themselves.

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    jbruins84341  about 5 years ago

    I heard about this some months ago. As a cyclist, I have no problem with the term. It is just some more made-up PC wannabe nonsense.

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    jbruins84341  about 5 years ago

    And, if we do want to go down this road of lunacy, we need to change other words like teacher, governor, astronaut, senator, employee, ad infinitum. We could not refer to people by their job titles anymore, even in the workplace. Imagine how much more burdensome conversation could become. Just stop it now.

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Sure sounds better than “Spandex Encased Guys Hogging the Road.”

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    Digital Frog  about 5 years ago

    How about Cyclepaths?

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    grafdog  about 5 years ago

    Oooh, I knew this one would bring out the keyboard cadets from all sides. I love peeking on here every once in a while to see how polarizing the smallest little thing can be… keeps me from ever getting optimistic about the human condition. #sadbuttrue

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    AtariDragon  about 5 years ago

    I would want to be called a Cyclops.

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    Sisyphos  about 5 years ago

    I like Rat!

    Who cares what cyclists think?

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