In Australia a new law will make all cigarette packets the same uniform brown colour with the names of the cigarettes written in the same uniform typeface. The only pictures on the packets will be the ones used today of cancerous mouths and feet.
if pharma companies can advertise pills, why the heck can’t cigarette companies. I think if you do one, you should have to do all. Including alcohol. Don’t get me wrong. I hate cigarettes, and love the smoking ban, but you can’t just take away a companie’s ability to advertise without some kind of trickle down…
Consumer freedom is freedom and any way to stifle inhibits all freedoms. Lets not itiot proof our world. If I wanna drink a beer and smoke a cig/doobie then i should have the choice. If something should be outlawed its GMO’s and HFC. The people that want cigarettes banned are the same that would like to take all bicycles off the streets, tyranny knows no limits.
-FTW
I don’t WANT to ban ciggys, just not have to choke on a smokers smoke.
Just as we put doors on toilets to make an act that could be viewed as offensive in public a private act, I think that Smoking should be treated the same way. Okay for the smoker(s) in private, but not in public. Choice – I CHOOSE not to smoke or be subjected to it and would like to not have that choice taken away by somebody elses selfishness.
Sure, let cigarette companies advertise like pill companies – require them to state the actual effects. Instead of implying “this will make you look cool” require them to say the actual truth: This product will make you a social pariah, will cost you thousands of dollars a year, may addict you for life, will stain everything from your teeth to your furniture, will make you smell horrible, and will take at least a few years off your life.”
Some of those pictures are really disgusting. I have seen smokers ask for a pack of cigarettes in a store, look at the picture, and ask for a different pack with a different picture. (I think the cancerous lung picture is the one they don’t like.)
I tend to agree – much as my comment above, except drinkers do not endanger my health when they drink while smokers do when their smke comes my way. After-effects of both: A drinker may be a dangerous driver after imbibing etc but a smoker does not necessarily become antisocial after a drag. On balance, drinking can affect the health/life of more people than smoking so should be treated more rigorously? This is not a rant, just me thinking out loud and prompting a response?
In the UK smokers are banned from smoking in some public places.
On the same theme – maybe drivers should be prohibited from driving for being ‘hazardous to health’?
Around here, we move a lot of goods by rail. Railways and cargo bicycles make excellent partners in moving goods. It is amazing what can be carried on cargo bicycles.
For example, in Montreal, there is even a business, Transport Myette, that only does home moves by bicycle. For details see:
Private vehicles that are used to move butts are not trucks used to move goods. The ones that move butts (usually one at a time) are the ones that cause the problems and need to be banned. If we would have built a more robust and wider rails system we would only need trucks to get from the rail terminal to the actual stores and that could be done by electric or hybrid vehicles instead of gas or diesel.
I have not read any study suggesting that cycling is a net hazard to health. On the contrary, mortality rates for NON-bicycle commuters (“adjusting for all risk factors”, which means dealing with the not-healthy-enough-to-bike selection effect) are 39% HIGHER. Yehuda is entirely correct.
And, further, more head injuries would be prevented if car drivers wore helmets, rather than cyclists. Accidents are somewhat rarer per mile, but drivers drive a lot of miles, and there are a lot of drivers.
Medications are obviously not a net hazard to health, but there are warning stickers over medication boxes anyway.
I’m convinced that cycling is healthier (if not accident-wise safer) than driving, this is not the problem here.
I just think we shouldn’t do to drivers what we don’t like being done to us… and just ignore each other when possible. Just like most jazz-lovers don’t feel the urge to annoy rap-freaks even if they listen to c****y music.
…and anyway the health problem doesn’t come from driving, it comes from not cycling. A roadie riding 200 km every week-end and driving during the week has probably a stronger heart than a utility-cyclist riding 5 km every day.
Amen. There are a lot of us out there who’d just love to shut the Yehuda Moon’s of the world down out there, mainly because they such shelf-absorbed jerks. Who have a problem understanding the concept that there are other points of views beside their’s. Yehuda is a wonderful comic character. In real life? A real jerk. Cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
Of course, the tobacco industry has had their butts kicked over marketing cigarettes to kids. Now they’re going after the youth market via snuff and chewing tobacco.
A combination of public-health measures and social change seems to have worked here in British Columbia. Smoking is way down and you can go out on a Saturday night without stinging eyes and burning throat. The master-stroke was that the health authority made it a case about workplace safety.
Speaking as a former smoker who still struggles with temptation, I will say the nasty pics on the packs have actually discouraged me a couple of times. But I’ll admit it probably is of somewhat dubious value. The Australian measure, I think, would work about as well without the cancer-pix part. Just eliminating he branding will make your smokes much less of a social statement, so people would either settle on the product that’s cheapest, or that they actually like. Of course, then there’s the moral hazard of putting graphic designers out of work . . . ah, policy debate.
@Greyryder….the skyrocketing price of cigarettes is at least partly due (certainly here in Maine) to public policy. Adding a hefty “sin tax” does tend to cut down on tobacco use. Unfortunately the yearly excise tax on vehicles hasn’t appeared to do the same.
“Sin taxes” on gasoline do appear to reduce car driving. And strongly affect the type of cars driven, so that people use more small cars and less hulking SUV urban assault vehicles. European countries, such as Denmark and The Netherlands, that have gas prices up to $2.00 per litre have high bicycle mode shares. And very few urban assault vehicles.
The last time I was in the USA, I saw gasoline prices as low as 60 cents per litre. That’s insane.
As with so many things, Canada is somewhere in the middle between Europe and the USA. I went by a gasoline station when I was visiting North York the other week, and I saw the price at $1.06 per litre. In my opinion, that is one reason why Canada’s cycling rate is three times that of the USA.
Here in Ontario, an extra 8% gasoline tax was imposed on July 1. This resulted in typical gasoline prices going from $0.98 to $1.06. There seems to have been a psychological effect of going through the $1.00 threshold.
I was reading this morning about public transportation cuts and fare increases to cope with the transit agency’s budget shortall. It’s just assumed that public transit must make up its own shortall.
Made me wonder why public works, the police, and health weren’t dealing with their budget problems by raising taxes on cars. At least in the amount of their increased expenses that are car-caused.
I know the answer, of course. Raising fees of any sort on cars is impossible. And since some of those fees are called “taxes” it’s doubly impossible in this crazy place. Raising transit fares primarily hurts the relatively powerless and isn’t called a tax.
We have petrol up to about $1.80 just now but still a very low number of people cycle to work or shops and 4x4s are everywhere. The national modal share for cycling is 1%, Edinburgh is up to a dizzy 4%.
ah, the old change the unit to appear to lower the price. dont get the usa started on pricing by the quart. we will love the “cheap” price and drive that much more. After all it is our god given right.
I’ve thought that perhaps the “sin tax” on vehicles should be a weight-driven license fee. Say, $1 per pound of gross vehicle weight, taken from a database the state maintains? $2,000 per year would sound ominous, until you started looking at a 6,000 pound Hummer, Denali, etc.
After all, we in the US need more money to build and maintain the road network, and weight drives the maintenance required.
Might put some long haul trucks out of business, but I do own some railroad stock!
If you go by GVW some of the SUVs will be facing $10k/annum taxes, some of the GM “luxury” SUVs are ~8000 pounds EMPTY. I did a little comparison of the relative wear of a fully-loaded touring bike with a Clydesdale riding, and a Escalade with just the driver, and a semi at the mak legal weight (80K pounds). Using the fully-loaded tourer (350 lbs GVW) as 1 wear unit, an Escalade with just the driver was 3000 wear units, and the fully-loaded semi was 160,000,000 units. If the cargo was something that could be divided up into 120 pound chunks, you could save a whole bunch or wear and tear on the roads by just getting a bunch of guys with bikes. And don’t even get me started about the Caddy with one person in it…
I have yet to encounter an SUV driver who was so disturbed as to mock my efforts to cope with major cancer surgery. There appear to be a lot of profoundly sick people with internet access.
On the subject of profoundly sick people with internet access, I just read about Vladimir Rigenco. On a car driver website, under the username ”bmw550ifreak” he bragged about driving 140 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This took place in a Toronto suburb.
The police investigated, traced his real name and successfully canvassed the neighbourhood to find a witness to this crime.
Mr. Rigenco was just convicted of careless driving and sentenced to 12 months probation, a fine of $1,000, banned from driving for six months and ordered to attend a remedial driving program if he ever wants to drive again. Because it was his first offence the judge was very lenient and did not give him any jail time. Careless driving is good for up to six months in jail.
“..mock my efforts to cope with major cancer surgery…” Sorry, I missed that. Cancer surgery? You being mocked for it? I’ve seen you being mocked for other things, but not that.
In any case, sorry to hear about your encounter with the big C. Here’s to kicking its posterior…
You should be able to mock anyone for being a dumbass, no matter what kind of surgery they’ve had. Just as you should be able to call for the president’s head on a post because of their incredibly corrupt and inept management, regardless of race.
“Shrub”? Bush been out almost two years, dickbreath. Your Lord and Saviour Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm, mmm, mmm) been in charge. And he’s (half) black. How you inbred white trash been with that? Never mind; I think I know.
And some leftwing political outfit been trying to figure out how you people can blame Bush for everything on up to the 2012 “election” without sounding “whiney”. Or don’t you get no news there in Hillbiilyland? Fuck, Cletus, buy a God damned vowel. Sell some foodstamps or something. Oh, and how does it feel, being represented in the Senate by a man with (presumedly) no ties to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? Jeeze, pigfucker! “Shrub”? The man at least has a birth certificate.
Oh yeah, if you get a couple free minutes while you’re banging her, tell your sister Ol’ Quadzilla says “hey”.
Sorry ’bout your cancer surgery. Didn’t know. Just thought I dish a little ribbing back at ya! (as I drive an SUV -and minivan- as well as my bikes, you are always lovin’ on your Pashley, and I have seen it noted that you have an electric motor -didn’t know or ask why)
Hope the fight is going well, and keep riding!
But I may snark back from time to time-all in fun
One of the greatest worldwide health issues is exposure to dihydrogen monoxide. There is a definite correlation between death rates and the amount of this substance present in the environment. Inhaling significant quantities can cause almost instant death. Some people believe that lesser exposures are not dangerous, but scientists have proven that the dosages are cumulative. Ingesting even small amounts leads to the buildup of high concentrations in tissues throughout the body. The presence of this chemical often accelerates the effects of other toxins. It has been shown to cause widespread enviromental damage as well, in some cases wiping out entire ecosystems. This chemical played a major role in the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even before that, the damage it has caused to life and property along the Gulf Coast over the years is almost incalculable. Worst of all, the death rate among those who are exposed to ANY amount of this chemical is 100%. It just takes longer for some people than for others. Yet there are few people calling attention to this dangerous substance.
Yes, you’re right about the dangers of oxygen. I neglected to mention that if dihydrogen monoxide is allowed to come into contact with an electric current, it can generate large amounts of oxygen.
After I posted the warnings above, my son pointed out to me that dihydrogen monoxide is widely used as a solvent, coolant, and lubricant, in both industry and the home, making it virtually impossible for the average person to avoid coming into contact with it.
So at least you’ve got a choice. What’s the problem?
Oh yeah, and why “odd”? What, you consider anyone “odd” who doesn’t share your leftwing whacko views? Probably like to put them in some kind of “camp”, wouldn’t you?
Now why does this thread suddenly have me thinking of Germany in a time before I was born?
And railroad cars. I’m thinkimg of railroad cars full of people. But the cars weren’t designed for people. How odd. How very odd.
You just saw her “odd” and raised it a “wacko”, then all but called her a nazi and, I bet, you feel that you were right in doing so… can you still connect the dots. BTW, I’m a conservative, the way we used to be, well raised, respectful people.
I want to “like” the post, and “unlike” the guy running for office. We need (us people that are sane and like bicycles) to hammer this dude on the UN taking over Denver by bicycle sharing every chance we get, until the day after he loses the election.
Yehuda, why do you hate cars so much?
Was it because one ran over your friend, Fred?
But wasn’t that your plan all along?
I mean, with Fred out of the picture the Kick Stand could be all yours.
No more Fred to stand in your way.
He befriended you–a homeless, bike-obsessed kook–and you took advantage of his kindness.
But you just couldn’t stop there, could you?
You had to have it all.
You had to bump Fred off so you can have the Kick Stand!
Admit it!
And you hating cars, it’s just you redirecting your own guilt.
It’s eating you up inside, isn’t it?
Confess, Yehuda!
It’s the only way to ease your guilt.
Tell me what happened.
Come on.
No reply?
This is the final opportunity to tell your side of the story.
Fine, we’ll let the courts decide.
Thistle’s GPS device was integral in the capture of Ruckus, the junkyard owner / bike thief. See http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20091202 for the beginning and (eventual) resolution of that story.
Sweetroll saw the arborium bike break into pieces underneath him while he rode it; Joe sent the broken bicycle to Kevlar Bead to dissuade him from producing his unobtainium bikes (which were copies of the Arborium bikes): http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20091121 Look for a LOT more Kevlar Bead and Rival Cycles in the comic come late Fall….
…After the beginning of a new story arc (that actually begins with an older, resurrected story arc) next week.
Balancing storylines and ‘one-off’ strips is still a precarious act, and after three years, most comic strips decide on one or the other. ‘Yehuda Moon’ has not, and it will likely continue to move from one to another as the days progress.
Cars ARE the new Cigarettes!
In Australia a new law will make all cigarette packets the same uniform brown colour with the names of the cigarettes written in the same uniform typeface. The only pictures on the packets will be the ones used today of cancerous mouths and feet.
Cancerous feet???
How do you Aussies hold your cigarettes???
It’s (cancerous mouths) and (feet). The feet is what they taste like, not a cancer warning.
Zydeco that sounds like a great law i wish we had somthing similar in the U.S., take away there power to advertise.
if pharma companies can advertise pills, why the heck can’t cigarette companies. I think if you do one, you should have to do all. Including alcohol. Don’t get me wrong. I hate cigarettes, and love the smoking ban, but you can’t just take away a companie’s ability to advertise without some kind of trickle down…
Consumer freedom is freedom and any way to stifle inhibits all freedoms. Lets not itiot proof our world. If I wanna drink a beer and smoke a cig/doobie then i should have the choice. If something should be outlawed its GMO’s and HFC. The people that want cigarettes banned are the same that would like to take all bicycles off the streets, tyranny knows no limits.
-FTW
I don’t WANT to ban ciggys, just not have to choke on a smokers smoke.
Just as we put doors on toilets to make an act that could be viewed as offensive in public a private act, I think that Smoking should be treated the same way. Okay for the smoker(s) in private, but not in public. Choice – I CHOOSE not to smoke or be subjected to it and would like to not have that choice taken away by somebody elses selfishness.
Pharma companies can’t advertise prescription drugs in Australia either. Only stuff available in supermarkets, painkillers etc.
Sure, let cigarette companies advertise like pill companies – require them to state the actual effects. Instead of implying “this will make you look cool” require them to say the actual truth: This product will make you a social pariah, will cost you thousands of dollars a year, may addict you for life, will stain everything from your teeth to your furniture, will make you smell horrible, and will take at least a few years off your life.”
Some of those pictures are really disgusting. I have seen smokers ask for a pack of cigarettes in a store, look at the picture, and ask for a different pack with a different picture. (I think the cancerous lung picture is the one they don’t like.)
I wouldn’t so much say that cars are the new cigarettes – I’d much rather see BOOZE as the “new cigarettes”. {insert rant about alcohol here}
I tend to agree – much as my comment above, except drinkers do not endanger my health when they drink while smokers do when their smke comes my way. After-effects of both: A drinker may be a dangerous driver after imbibing etc but a smoker does not necessarily become antisocial after a drag. On balance, drinking can affect the health/life of more people than smoking so should be treated more rigorously? This is not a rant, just me thinking out loud and prompting a response?
Windmill? ROFL..Yehuda does appear to look like Don Quixote (Peter O’Toole).
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RfHnzYEHAow/0.jpg
All he needs now is to mention the ecological issues with cars and he’ll have covered most of the ground! I like this idea!
נדב, אתה רואה מה עשית לי?!
@Zack – Okay, I’m dumb … is this the ‘warning’ printed on ciggy packets?
It’s Hebrew writing, but I’m too rusty to translate. Been way too many years.
Nadav, you see what you did to me but I dont know the source.
I was referring to my friend Nadav that got me hooked on checking out what Yehuda is up to on a daily basis, wasn’t expecting so many comments though
It may become a great quote!
Thanks
Hebrew? Thanks. I don’t want a translation, I would be interested in whether it is the warning on a fag packet though?
Dang, my astigmatism suddenly got worse! :::o)
Does Thistle or Joe play the part of Sancho?
I love it when Yehuda gets all tilt-y like this. *swoon*
In the UK smokers are banned from smoking in some public places.
On the same theme – maybe drivers should be prohibited from driving for being ‘hazardous to health’?
…Hmmmmmmm….then what happens the next time you need goods? like vegetables from half-way across the globe, or the computer you typed your message on?
Around here, we move a lot of goods by rail. Railways and cargo bicycles make excellent partners in moving goods. It is amazing what can be carried on cargo bicycles.
For example, in Montreal, there is even a business, Transport Myette, that only does home moves by bicycle. For details see:
http://www.thestar.com/article/659250
Private vehicles that are used to move butts are not trucks used to move goods. The ones that move butts (usually one at a time) are the ones that cause the problems and need to be banned. If we would have built a more robust and wider rails system we would only need trucks to get from the rail terminal to the actual stores and that could be done by electric or hybrid vehicles instead of gas or diesel.
Looks like Yehuda reads the Copenhagenize blog. See:
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/07/driving-kills-health-warnings.html
Ah, shoot. No, I hadn’t seen that post. A good one, though!
Riding a bike can be dangerous too… Opposing the helmet and putting those stickers on ads seem to me two uncompatible attitudes, Mr. Yehuda.
Nooooo, not the hellmet (sic).
I have not read any study suggesting that cycling is a net hazard to health. On the contrary, mortality rates for NON-bicycle commuters (“adjusting for all risk factors”, which means dealing with the not-healthy-enough-to-bike selection effect) are 39% HIGHER. Yehuda is entirely correct.
And, further, more head injuries would be prevented if car drivers wore helmets, rather than cyclists. Accidents are somewhat rarer per mile, but drivers drive a lot of miles, and there are a lot of drivers.
Medications are obviously not a net hazard to health, but there are warning stickers over medication boxes anyway.
I’m convinced that cycling is healthier (if not accident-wise safer) than driving, this is not the problem here.
I just think we shouldn’t do to drivers what we don’t like being done to us… and just ignore each other when possible. Just like most jazz-lovers don’t feel the urge to annoy rap-freaks even if they listen to c****y music.
Just kidding… I know rap is not music.
…and anyway the health problem doesn’t come from driving, it comes from not cycling. A roadie riding 200 km every week-end and driving during the week has probably a stronger heart than a utility-cyclist riding 5 km every day.
I always put a helmet on in my car, just after someone asks me for a ride. I say, “Sure! Hop in, better hang on (as I put on the helmet)!”
Yehuda might want to consider buying a Ferdinand GT3 RS. It sounds like his kind of car.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/01/aluminum-foil-porsche/
Thistle’s digit is freaky. I wish I could unsee it.
It looks like the finger of someone who’s been working on bikes. What’s wrong with a little grease?
You got that right, chipped nails with grease is a mark of someone who has done an honest days work. Thanks for keeping it real Rick.
Latex gloves are your friend.
I don’t think it HAS worked with cigarettes, actually. In my experience, people don’t care to be lectured.
Amen. There are a lot of us out there who’d just love to shut the Yehuda Moon’s of the world down out there, mainly because they such shelf-absorbed jerks. Who have a problem understanding the concept that there are other points of views beside their’s. Yehuda is a wonderful comic character. In real life? A real jerk. Cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
I agree about being lectured. Yet, something worked since there are a lot less smokers than there were in the ’60x and ’70x for example.
Not so much lecturing, as pop culture no longer portrays smoking as “cool.” The skyrocketing price of cigarettes hasn’t helped, either.
Of course, the tobacco industry has had their butts kicked over marketing cigarettes to kids. Now they’re going after the youth market via snuff and chewing tobacco.
Response to JeanM re:’ there are a lot less smokers’ – Is that because they all died?
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A combination of public-health measures and social change seems to have worked here in British Columbia. Smoking is way down and you can go out on a Saturday night without stinging eyes and burning throat. The master-stroke was that the health authority made it a case about workplace safety.
Speaking as a former smoker who still struggles with temptation, I will say the nasty pics on the packs have actually discouraged me a couple of times. But I’ll admit it probably is of somewhat dubious value. The Australian measure, I think, would work about as well without the cancer-pix part. Just eliminating he branding will make your smokes much less of a social statement, so people would either settle on the product that’s cheapest, or that they actually like. Of course, then there’s the moral hazard of putting graphic designers out of work . . . ah, policy debate.
Graphic designers can apply their skill to other products.
@Greyryder….the skyrocketing price of cigarettes is at least partly due (certainly here in Maine) to public policy. Adding a hefty “sin tax” does tend to cut down on tobacco use. Unfortunately the yearly excise tax on vehicles hasn’t appeared to do the same.
“Sin taxes” on gasoline do appear to reduce car driving. And strongly affect the type of cars driven, so that people use more small cars and less hulking SUV urban assault vehicles. European countries, such as Denmark and The Netherlands, that have gas prices up to $2.00 per litre have high bicycle mode shares. And very few urban assault vehicles.
The last time I was in the USA, I saw gasoline prices as low as 60 cents per litre. That’s insane.
As with so many things, Canada is somewhere in the middle between Europe and the USA. I went by a gasoline station when I was visiting North York the other week, and I saw the price at $1.06 per litre. In my opinion, that is one reason why Canada’s cycling rate is three times that of the USA.
Here in Ontario, an extra 8% gasoline tax was imposed on July 1. This resulted in typical gasoline prices going from $0.98 to $1.06. There seems to have been a psychological effect of going through the $1.00 threshold.
I was reading this morning about public transportation cuts and fare increases to cope with the transit agency’s budget shortall. It’s just assumed that public transit must make up its own shortall.
Made me wonder why public works, the police, and health weren’t dealing with their budget problems by raising taxes on cars. At least in the amount of their increased expenses that are car-caused.
I know the answer, of course. Raising fees of any sort on cars is impossible. And since some of those fees are called “taxes” it’s doubly impossible in this crazy place. Raising transit fares primarily hurts the relatively powerless and isn’t called a tax.
We have petrol up to about $1.80 just now but still a very low number of people cycle to work or shops and 4x4s are everywhere. The national modal share for cycling is 1%, Edinburgh is up to a dizzy 4%.
We produce more oil than Kuwait.
When you say ‘national,’ do you mean UK or Scotland?
I mean Scotland but the UK figure might not be much different.
Buck eighty a GALLON? Sign me up.
ah, the old change the unit to appear to lower the price. dont get the usa started on pricing by the quart. we will love the “cheap” price and drive that much more. After all it is our god given right.
I’ve thought that perhaps the “sin tax” on vehicles should be a weight-driven license fee. Say, $1 per pound of gross vehicle weight, taken from a database the state maintains? $2,000 per year would sound ominous, until you started looking at a 6,000 pound Hummer, Denali, etc.
After all, we in the US need more money to build and maintain the road network, and weight drives the maintenance required.
Might put some long haul trucks out of business, but I do own some railroad stock!
I thought you were going in the “driver weight” direction….
If you go by GVW some of the SUVs will be facing $10k/annum taxes, some of the GM “luxury” SUVs are ~8000 pounds EMPTY. I did a little comparison of the relative wear of a fully-loaded touring bike with a Clydesdale riding, and a Escalade with just the driver, and a semi at the mak legal weight (80K pounds). Using the fully-loaded tourer (350 lbs GVW) as 1 wear unit, an Escalade with just the driver was 3000 wear units, and the fully-loaded semi was 160,000,000 units. If the cargo was something that could be divided up into 120 pound chunks, you could save a whole bunch or wear and tear on the roads by just getting a bunch of guys with bikes. And don’t even get me started about the Caddy with one person in it…
Maybe the answer is to charge at the tollbooth charge by weight and light vehicles and slimmer drivers would result?
If Humans weren’t such FOOLS they wouldn’t NEED to be lectured.
Like the dirty beat up hands!
Maybe if they could find a link between SUV driving and impotence?
SUV drivers have to be compensating for something.
Like missing a motor on their bike..?
I have yet to encounter an SUV driver who was so disturbed as to mock my efforts to cope with major cancer surgery. There appear to be a lot of profoundly sick people with internet access.
On the subject of profoundly sick people with internet access, I just read about Vladimir Rigenco. On a car driver website, under the username ”bmw550ifreak” he bragged about driving 140 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This took place in a Toronto suburb.
The police investigated, traced his real name and successfully canvassed the neighbourhood to find a witness to this crime.
Mr. Rigenco was just convicted of careless driving and sentenced to 12 months probation, a fine of $1,000, banned from driving for six months and ordered to attend a remedial driving program if he ever wants to drive again. Because it was his first offence the judge was very lenient and did not give him any jail time. Careless driving is good for up to six months in jail.
Further details at:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/845967–gta-man-convicted-of-careless-driving-after-bragging-online-about-speeding
What can I say? There are a lot of profoundly disturbed people out there.
“..mock my efforts to cope with major cancer surgery…” Sorry, I missed that. Cancer surgery? You being mocked for it? I’ve seen you being mocked for other things, but not that.
In any case, sorry to hear about your encounter with the big C. Here’s to kicking its posterior…
You should be able to mock anyone for being a dumbass, no matter what kind of surgery they’ve had. Just as you should be able to call for the president’s head on a post because of their incredibly corrupt and inept management, regardless of race.
Like the Shrub?
“Shrub”? Bush been out almost two years, dickbreath. Your Lord and Saviour Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm, mmm, mmm) been in charge. And he’s (half) black. How you inbred white trash been with that? Never mind; I think I know.
And some leftwing political outfit been trying to figure out how you people can blame Bush for everything on up to the 2012 “election” without sounding “whiney”. Or don’t you get no news there in Hillbiilyland? Fuck, Cletus, buy a God damned vowel. Sell some foodstamps or something. Oh, and how does it feel, being represented in the Senate by a man with (presumedly) no ties to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? Jeeze, pigfucker! “Shrub”? The man at least has a birth certificate.
Oh yeah, if you get a couple free minutes while you’re banging her, tell your sister Ol’ Quadzilla says “hey”.
On the subject of profoundly disturbed ^^
If you ain’t “profoundsly disturbed”, either you ain’t keeping up with current events or you’re a Communist.
I’m happy to be whatever it is you’re not.
Good for you mongo! The first step is to admit that you have a problem! That’s a big deal. Now it will be much easier to find help.
Sorry ’bout your cancer surgery. Didn’t know. Just thought I dish a little ribbing back at ya! (as I drive an SUV -and minivan- as well as my bikes, you are always lovin’ on your Pashley, and I have seen it noted that you have an electric motor -didn’t know or ask why)
Hope the fight is going well, and keep riding!
But I may snark back from time to time-all in fun
The activity with the highest rate of death is watching TV. The activity with the second highest rate of death is driving / riding in a car.
One of the greatest worldwide health issues is exposure to dihydrogen monoxide. There is a definite correlation between death rates and the amount of this substance present in the environment. Inhaling significant quantities can cause almost instant death. Some people believe that lesser exposures are not dangerous, but scientists have proven that the dosages are cumulative. Ingesting even small amounts leads to the buildup of high concentrations in tissues throughout the body. The presence of this chemical often accelerates the effects of other toxins. It has been shown to cause widespread enviromental damage as well, in some cases wiping out entire ecosystems. This chemical played a major role in the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even before that, the damage it has caused to life and property along the Gulf Coast over the years is almost incalculable. Worst of all, the death rate among those who are exposed to ANY amount of this chemical is 100%. It just takes longer for some people than for others. Yet there are few people calling attention to this dangerous substance.
re: ‘Inhaling significant quantities can cause almost instant death’ – The same is true of OXYGEN!
Yes, you’re right about the dangers of oxygen. I neglected to mention that if dihydrogen monoxide is allowed to come into contact with an electric current, it can generate large amounts of oxygen.
After I posted the warnings above, my son pointed out to me that dihydrogen monoxide is widely used as a solvent, coolant, and lubricant, in both industry and the home, making it virtually impossible for the average person to avoid coming into contact with it.
That’s just crazy!?!?!??! Health officials also suggest you drink 810 glasses of this crap each day ! ! ! Unbelievable ! ! !
All this advocacy is clearly a UN plot, didnt you know? See http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15673894
This very odd fellow (that’s putting gently) is now the official candidate of the Republican Party for governor of Colorado.
So at least you’ve got a choice. What’s the problem?
Oh yeah, and why “odd”? What, you consider anyone “odd” who doesn’t share your leftwing whacko views? Probably like to put them in some kind of “camp”, wouldn’t you?
Now why does this thread suddenly have me thinking of Germany in a time before I was born?
And railroad cars. I’m thinkimg of railroad cars full of people. But the cars weren’t designed for people. How odd. How very odd.
You just saw her “odd” and raised it a “wacko”, then all but called her a nazi and, I bet, you feel that you were right in doing so… can you still connect the dots. BTW, I’m a conservative, the way we used to be, well raised, respectful people.
I want to “like” the post, and “unlike” the guy running for office. We need (us people that are sane and like bicycles) to hammer this dude on the UN taking over Denver by bicycle sharing every chance we get, until the day after he loses the election.
I don’t think there’s much chance he will win the election, but he will undoubtedly add color to the race!
Don’t mind me, but I love to ride and I still love to drive my car.
Yehuda, why do you hate cars so much?
Was it because one ran over your friend, Fred?
But wasn’t that your plan all along?
I mean, with Fred out of the picture the Kick Stand could be all yours.
No more Fred to stand in your way.
He befriended you–a homeless, bike-obsessed kook–and you took advantage of his kindness.
But you just couldn’t stop there, could you?
You had to have it all.
You had to bump Fred off so you can have the Kick Stand!
Admit it!
And you hating cars, it’s just you redirecting your own guilt.
It’s eating you up inside, isn’t it?
Confess, Yehuda!
It’s the only way to ease your guilt.
Tell me what happened.
Come on.
No reply?
This is the final opportunity to tell your side of the story.
Fine, we’ll let the courts decide.
Cars don’t run over people. People do
Is anyone else wondering what happened to Kevlar Bead and the Unobtanium bike? How about Thistle’s GPS devices attached to the stolen bicycles?
I’m loving that the strip is back, but I’d love to have some resolution on some of the story lines.
Thistle’s GPS device was integral in the capture of Ruckus, the junkyard owner / bike thief. See http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20091202 for the beginning and (eventual) resolution of that story.
Sweetroll saw the arborium bike break into pieces underneath him while he rode it; Joe sent the broken bicycle to Kevlar Bead to dissuade him from producing his unobtainium bikes (which were copies of the Arborium bikes): http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=20091121 Look for a LOT more Kevlar Bead and Rival Cycles in the comic come late Fall….
…After the beginning of a new story arc (that actually begins with an older, resurrected story arc) next week.
Balancing storylines and ‘one-off’ strips is still a precarious act, and after three years, most comic strips decide on one or the other. ‘Yehuda Moon’ has not, and it will likely continue to move from one to another as the days progress.
Might there be some news of the investigation into Fred’s death?
There might.
Jesus, people! It’s a freakin’ CARTOON! Get a life already.
Or don’t. It’s all the same to me.