1. Comment #42040 by solera on May 17, 2007 at 2:05 pm

The trick will be finding a concealing material that doesn't significantly impede outgoing shrapnel...

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2. Comment #42042 by ? on May 17, 2007 at 2:08 pm

What's so immodest about the two in the photo? They're covered from head to toe! They need a giant shield over the entire bike?!!! Insane.

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3. Comment #42046 by Jenin on May 17, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Comments like the one made by Solera remind me of the sort of remarks I have been reading from Jerry Falwell. To associate Iranian and Muslim individuals with terrorism and violence in this manner is hateful and racist.

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4. Comment #42053 by sauronlord on May 17, 2007 at 2:30 pm

How about men use their self control to not look at the clothing on their legs and waists and just mind their own damn business.

Oh right, because Iran and like countries believe men are uncontrollable beasts (well we are animals afterall!)

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5. Comment #42055 by sauronlord on May 17, 2007 at 2:33 pm

As for @Jenin:

As far as I'm concerned -- those that believe in the inerrant word of a religious text that praises those that inflict violence on others for unjust causes deserve it.

Yes, that goes for Christianity and other belief systems that promote violence directly or indirectly.

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6. Comment #42056 by Dog Boots on May 17, 2007 at 2:34 pm

My God (sorry), they know how to waste brain cells, time and money in Iran.

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7. Comment #42062 by USA_Limey on May 17, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Comment #42046 by Jenin wrote:

"Comments like the one made by Solera remind me of the sort of remarks I have been reading from Jerry Falwell. To associate Iranian and Muslim individuals with terrorism and violence in this manner is hateful and racist."

... How can it be racist since neither Iran or Islam, (Muslims) are race specific? As for being hateful; nah - just a bit insensitive but I still laughed. You'll need a thicker skin if your gonna get by on this site.

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8. Comment #42063 by steveroot on May 17, 2007 at 2:48 pm

Seeing those two women on that bicycle...uncovered...ooooh...
< /uncontrollable lust >
Steve
Well, there IS such a thing as a full fairing!

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9. Comment #42066 by blueollie on May 17, 2007 at 2:52 pm

What's the point of those long bikerides if you can't see the ladies in their spandex? :)

Just kidding; this does remind me a bit of one of the women sprinters at the Athens Olympic games. She didn't have to wear a burqua, but she did have to have lose shorts with tights underneath and a scarf.

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10. Comment #42067 by the great teapot on May 17, 2007 at 2:52 pm

That's right mock.
But if you owned one of those women how would you like other men looking at them.

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11. Comment #42070 by steveroot on May 17, 2007 at 2:57 pm

10. Comment #42067 by the great teapot on May 17, 2007 at 2:52 pm
That's right mock.
But if you owned one of those woman how would you like other men looking at them.

SMPL!*
Steve

*S__t My Pants Laughing

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12. Comment #42073 by blueollie on May 17, 2007 at 3:03 pm

Oh gosh, this reminds me a bit of the part of "Root of all Evil" where Professor Dawkins interviewed this Muslim guy who converted from Judaism.

The Muslim guy complained about how western women dressed and how it was his (Dawkins) fault (as a male); Dawkins responded something to the effect "where I come from, women dress themselves".

I was ashamed of myself for laughing...

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13. Comment #42077 by Luthien on May 17, 2007 at 3:12 pm

I love my bike, and I cycle to work on it almost every day wearing a long skirt (it has a very low bar on it and a chain guard). I'm quite sure I could still cycle it if I was wearing a burka, I just wouldn't be able to see the traffic. :-P

Seriously though, this reminds me of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's comments (in "infidel") about how nice it is to cycle with the wind in your hair. I'm sorry that these women are missing out on that. :-(

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14. Comment #42078 by Jenin on May 17, 2007 at 3:13 pm

USA_Limey and sauronlord:
Yes, racist was the wrong word. I should have said bigoted. As for the other comments, I agree that those who believe in the Koran etc. deserve to be criticized. However, the majority of people in the Muslim world are undereducated and poor and have never been exposed to Western, enlightened thought. Moreover, most of them have no interest in harming others--that is a small minority of Arabs and Muslims--and the comment I was responding to implies that is the case. Having actually come from and lived in the Muslim world, I can attest to the fact that most people there really just want to live in peace and have enough food to feed their children. My guess is that if someone had written on this site characterizing African Americans by the bad behavior of a few others, or Jews by the Revava extremists, there would be an outpouring of criticism on this comment. I know it's fashionable and acceptable now to speak about Arabs and Muslims this way, but it's really no different.

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15. Comment #42084 by USA_Limey on May 17, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Comment #42078 by Jenin wrote:

"My guess is that if someone had written on this site characterizing African Americans by the bad behavior of a few others, or Jews by the Revava extremists, there would be an outpouring of criticism on this comment."

Don't be so sensitive. Everyone on this site is ultra tolerent; liberal minded to a fault, totally fair minded and inclusive and non discriminatory in every way....

... oh except we fucking hate god botherers.

:-)

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16. Comment #42092 by Jenin on May 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm

USA_Limey:
I know that most people on this site fit your description. I have been reading and browsing it for at least six or seven months now, I simply rarely feel the need to respond to anything. I only wanted to point out the double standard: that the comment to which I first replied seems to be acceptable to people on this site, whereas if another group of people was characterized this way, more people would be reacting as I have.

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17. Comment #42093 by the great teapot on May 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Luthien.
I had no idea you were a woman.I had always assumed you were male.
I shall treat your comments with less respect in future.
Like you I cycle to work, but I can assure everyone my crossbar is very high indeed and I have no need for such feminine fripparies as chain guards.

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18. Comment #42094 by Devolution on May 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Woooaah I can barely control myself with those hot exposed ankles. Ohhh Ohhh is that the hint of a bra I see?!? Allah take away these horrible thoughts from my head! (smashes hammer against scrotum) Ok better now, back to work...

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19. Comment #42099 by Yorker on May 17, 2007 at 3:47 pm

Hmmm...could lead to interesting developments, having an all around fairing would give them a good place to hide bombs. Come to think of it, they could install a machine gun inside also, triggered perhaps by the bike's bell push, instead of going "ring, ring" it would go "brrrrp, brrrrp" :)

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20. Comment #42102 by solera on May 17, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Jenin said "To associate Iranian and Muslim individuals with terrorism and violence in this manner is hateful and racist."

The article did not refer to 'bicycles for individuals who may happen to be Muslim'. It says "Islamic bicycles". Which group, if any, first comes to your mind when you hear the word 'terrorist'?

I'm also a long-time cyclist, which is what caught my attention. Imagine seeing a 'burka-bike' coming toward you at a checkpoint...

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21. Comment #42103 by USA_Limey on May 17, 2007 at 3:52 pm

There IS a serious point here....


.... I just don't know what it is.

P.S. Teapot, you sexist beast; assuming Luthien was a man tut tut I don't know. Wasn't it obvious from the avatar she was a lesbian with a fetish for full body stockings?

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22. Comment #42106 by Yorker on May 17, 2007 at 3:59 pm

3. Comment #42046 by Jenin

I think Solera was joking, as I was in my last post. In addition, I think such comments are neither hateful nor racist.

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23. Comment #42109 by Tony B. on May 17, 2007 at 4:02 pm

Jenin,

While you are right to say that most people in the muslim would do not harm others, it is their silence as others do that is the problem. The "silent majority" in the muslim world gives tacit approval to the terrorists by not dragging them from their homes kicking and screaming and telling them "not in my name!". A teenage girl was stoned to death in Iraq yesterday in the name of islam. Watch the video as men in modern dress and talking on cell phones stand around smiling as her face is bashed in repeatedly until she dies. Can someone please tell me why muslims the world over are not marching in the streets to condem this barbarism? It is because that while they themselves might not do such a thing, deep down they agree that she deserved it. Ask your muslim friends. You'll always get the same answer: "It was horrible what happened, but...you know....gods law ...blah, blah, fucking blah...". Even here in the hyper-religious U.S.A., I have no doubt that an angry mob would form in minutes to deal with the perpitrators of such a crime. And well they should.

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24. Comment #42118 by Veronique on May 17, 2007 at 4:37 pm

Good morning Yorker

Forget the levity you lot. I have come across this interesting article - it's a couple of days old now. At least there's a positivity in it, which, I think, we often ignore. And have any of you read Riverbend's blog from Iraq? I think she has finished now, the family is getting out of Baghdad.
This came from Media Monitors

Bertrand Russell writes most eloquently on the Dark Age of Isramerican tyranny
by Greg Felton -(Friday, May 11, 2007)

"Wherever there is power, there is a temptation to encourage irrational credulity in those who are subject to the power in question."-Bertrand Russell

It may be argued that the great Welsh philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell could not possibly have anything relevant to say about modern U.S. politics since he died more than 37 years ago.

In a purely chronological sense that may be true, but a person's wisdom has a timeless quality. During periods of unreason, fear, and absurdity, old thinking becomes especially important, for it contains truths that thrived before being censored or scorned.

Europe would never have emerged from the tyranny and obscurantism of the Catholic Church if Arabs like ibn Rushd and al-Hasan ibn Haytham had not preserved and passed on the knowledge contained in classical Greek texts. Because of the Arabs, interest in the seven liberal arts and the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Xenophon, Praxiteles, Archimedes and others were reborn in, well, a Renaissance of learning.

In a real sense, we owe our modern, democratic, scientific age to the Great Arab Used Book Store, which gave Europeans an alternative to the intellectually ossified scholasticism of the day.

Today, we are again in the midst of a Dark Age, where logic, reason and moral sense are being stamped out by religious tyranny and obscurantism. Like its Medieval predecessor, this new church, The Church of Zionist Rectitude, uses torture, murder, intimidation and blackmail to enforce obedience to its verities.

Scholars, artists, politicians and journalists who point out the patent absurdities underlying the cult of Israeli/Jewish victimhood, "the war on terrorism" or the official narrative of the Sept. 11 attack, for example, are persecuted and ostracized, just as Christian Church persecuted freethinkers who pointed out inconsistencies in official dogmata surrounding the origin of life, the structure of the universe, or the veracity of the Bible.

The Muslim world that brought us out of the darkness, and to which the West owes an incalculable debt, is now vilified at will by the new church. From the new pulpits of cable television, newspapers, radio and the Internet, the CZR's army of preachers flood our senses daily with superstition and intolerance so that free, critical thought on canonical zionist matters should become impossible.

In this the "Disinformation Age," therefore, we must not accept at face value what we read, see or hear or accede to arbitrary frames of reference, and this point brings me back to Russell.

In a local used bookstore last week I picked up his 1957 book Understanding History and Other Essays. One of these other essays is The Value of Free Thought written in 1944. By "free thought," Russell did not mean simple opposition to authority, but rational thought free of coercion or the tyranny of one's passions. The observations he made then are directly applicable to our new Dark Age.

"Wherever there is power, there is a temptation to encourage irrational credulity in those who are subject to the power in question."

For proof of this abuse of power, we need look no further than the official narrative of Sept. 11. Despite conclusive proof that the World Trade Centre was deliberately imploded, many seemingly intelligent people still believe the irrational "official narrative" that blames Muslim hijackers for the disaster.

In fact, the propaganda has been encouraged so effectively--beginning in the first hour after the first plane hit--that some people, including the leader of one local Arab organization, cannot even discuss the matter. This kind of invincible ignorance makes tyranny possible.

"The modern advances in the art of propaganda have been met with no corresponding advances in training to resist propaganda."

Even though Russell was writing in a time before e-mail, URLs and blogs, the statement is still valid. There is no training to resist propaganda, because an enlightened, informed citizenry is not in the interests of industry or government, both of which are self-serving entities.

If anything, those who challenge propaganda face vilification as well as well-oiled propaganda machines. Former President Jimmy Carter wrote a book detailing the apartheid practices of Israel, and for his efforts he has been savagely attacked by Alan Dershowitz and other intellectual kneecappers for the CZR. In a more general sense, we have legitimized propaganda. "Public relations officers" (professional propagandists) in industry and government are trained to lie with style on behalf of their employers.

"Moral codes which are irrational, and have no basis except in superstition, cannot long survive the habit of disinterested thinking."

The best example of an irrational morality in decline is zionism. To the disinterested thinker, the notion that the world should do nothing while Jews hide behind the myth of a divine land grant to murder and dispossess Palestinians is no longer defensible, as if it ever was. So perverse is the idea of Israeli democracy that it can only be propped up by censorship and wholesale coercion of foreign governments.

"The populations of the world, one by one, as 'civilization' reaches them, go down into a dark pit of madness, where all that is worth preserving perishes in aimless slaughter."

Russell was writing during the last days of Nazi Germany and many of his criticisms are directed at fascist and communist states alike, but this observation is also a perfect description of the U.S. destruction of Iraq.

"Aimless slaughter" describes not only the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis murdered, but also the thousands of U.S. soldiers whose lives are being wasted in a war that was deliberately provoked for reasons unrelated to the U.S. national interest.

"If a population is to escape tyranny, it must have a free-thinking attitude towards its government and the theories upon which its government is based; that is to say, it must demand that the government act in the general interest, and [it] must not be deceived by a superstitious theology into the belief that what is in fact only the interest of the governing clique is identical to the general interest."

This statement encapsulates the dilemma of the thinking American--how do I force the government to act in the general interest when the general interest means nothing to the government which is driven by superstitious theology?

Congress is overrun by Christian sociopaths; the Israel Lobby dictates foreign policy and co-opts legislators to serve the interests of a foreign government; and the country itself has become a de facto police state.

Short of armed insurrection, I don't have an answer to the question, but those who want to put an end to the Dark Age could show conspicuous support for free-thinkers in academia, the press and government who are trying to end the Dark Age, and embrace the motto of the Enlightenment "sapere aude"--dare to know.

I hope you liked it
V

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25. Comment #42125 by Vinelectric on May 17, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Tony B:

No muslim will tell you it's "god's law fucking blah blah" as you so eloquently put it; this time the perpetrators happen to be non-muslims (Yezidi).

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26. Comment #42176 by MrEmpirical on May 17, 2007 at 7:50 pm

In Australia, one of the leading Muslim clerics in the nation (Sheik al-Hilaly) recently referred to women who do not wear a veil as "uncovered meat", and that we should not be surprised when they are brutally raped. He basically said "if you leave uncovered meat outside, you expect cats to eat it, in the same way an uncovered woman will be raped". These comments came in the wake of numerous brutal gang rapes perpetrated by Muslim men in Australia. The silence from the Muslim majority was deafening. Sure, a couple of liberal Muslims spoke out against the Sheik, but in general there was no outrage. Indeed, a great number of Muslims gathered at various Mosques to publicly support the Sheik amongst calls from non-Muslims that he resign. It was disgusting. And al-Hilaly is seen by many as the leading Islamic cleric in Australia.

So yes, most Muslims are generally decent people who will leave you alone, but then again they generally refuse to denounce the lunatics whom they look to for spiritual guidance.

I guess it really is "god's fucking law" in many cases.

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27. Comment #42178 by mandrellian on May 17, 2007 at 8:12 pm

MrE

Perhaps you saw the recent episode of ABC's The Chaser in which one of the intrepid tag-team reporters accosted al-Hilaly at an airport and offered to gaffer-tape the dear sheik's gob for him (after al-Hilaly had actually offered to do the same, following more ignorant stone-age ramblings he expectorated while he was in the MidEast)? For some reason he got all offended by this! Perhaps didn't see the context. Now he knows how we all feel when he opens his hateful troglodytic pie-hole.

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28. Comment #42182 by hightrekker on May 17, 2007 at 8:40 pm

We need to break the spell of religion---
These people are barbarians, living in medieval societies that are terrified of the feminine, and repressed sexually.
We do not have to be respectful to this barbaric treatment of women.
Speak up now, or be reprimanded for seeking the truth.
This is a turn away from reason, and toward the toxic parasitic trash that Islam is.

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29. Comment #42184 by bouwe on May 17, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Comment #42178 by mandrellian

Yes, I saw it. He certainly got agro didn't he?

They also did a good send-up of "The Secret".

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30. Comment #42186 by bouwe on May 17, 2007 at 8:57 pm

We have heard from most of the regulars on this thread, but, strangely, no comment from bicyclerepairman!!

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31. Comment #42188 by BT Murtagh on May 17, 2007 at 9:00 pm

DISGUSTING!!!

Why, you can see at a glance that those women are bifurcated! Bipedal, so to speak. Two completely obvious legs, drawing the male imagination inevitably to speculate on where they join, and just to make it worse, they have a physical object (the bicycle itself) jutting obscenely between them!

Why couldn't they ride sidesaddle in a full-length skirt, like Allah intended?

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32. Comment #42193 by flyingscot on May 17, 2007 at 9:40 pm

Perhaps a good idea would be for all muslim men to wear blindfolds. That way they won't have to look at women at all!
It seems a much simpler solution to their problem of being offended by the female form.

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33. Comment #42210 by Big T on May 17, 2007 at 11:16 pm

In the first place, those brazen hussies should not be allowed outside the home unless accompanied by a male relative. In the second place, only a burqa is sufficient covering. In the third place, Luthien is a woman, and women should not be allowed to post their thoughts on this or any other website. If women were not allowed to learn to read and write, they would remain barefoot and pregnant, as Allah intended. Allahu akbar! Death to infidels!

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34. Comment #42213 by petermun on May 17, 2007 at 11:26 pm

Everywhere you look - pedalphiles.

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35. Comment #42217 by pewkatchoo on May 17, 2007 at 11:55 pm

Big T I agree totally. Ouch, sorry dear I didn't mean it.

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36. Comment #42250 by Pantore on May 18, 2007 at 1:36 am

LOL, why are people concerned about a bike in Iran?

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37. Comment #42255 by Corylus on May 18, 2007 at 1:58 am

You're all laughing about men getting off on women on bicycles, but it happens you know!

Senex

Oh would I could subdue the flesh
Which sadly troubles me!
And then perhaps could view the flesh
As though I never knew the flesh
And merry misery.

To see the golden hiking girl
With wind about her hair,
The tennis-playing, biking girl,
The wholly-to-my-liking girl,
To see and not to care.

At sundown on my tricycle
I tour the Borough's edge,
And icy as an icicle
See bicycle by bicycle
Stacked waiting in the hedge.

Get down from me! I thunder there,
You spaniels! Shut your jaws!
Your teeth are stuffed with underwear,
Suspenders torn asunder there
And buttocks in your paws!

Oh whip the dogs away my Lord,
They make me ill with lust.
Bend bare knees down to pray, my Lord,
Teach sulky lips to say, my Lord,
That flaxen hair is dust.

John Betjeman

Plus, I for one am very glad that a theocratic state is doing its bit to fight global warming.

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38. Comment #42284 by Tycho the Dog on May 18, 2007 at 2:55 am

Filthy Women! How dare you place the temptation of the recently sat-upon saddle before us.

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39. Comment #42285 by Russell Blackford on May 18, 2007 at 3:04 am

Biker girls wear burqas; Muslim miss
Hides from the men of the metropolis.
But those velvet lesbian chicks,
With their tribadistic tricks,
Find lovely limbs to see and touch and kiss.

Meanwhile, the men who rule the caliphate
Proclaim that God is glorious and great.
But they're always full of lust,
And sometimes they really must
Cooperate to alleviate their state.

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40. Comment #42297 by Corylus on May 18, 2007 at 3:30 am

I do like it when people use words I have to look up. I can then play at seeing if I can work them into conversation.

Russell "Tribadistic" is now my word for today. I will try not to get myself into too much trouble with it ;)

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41. Comment #42299 by Philip1978 on May 18, 2007 at 3:36 am

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

THERES A WOMAN! SHE IS RIDING A BIKE...AND I CAN SEE HER LEFT EAR...WHY HASN'T GOD TAUGHT ME HOW TO TREAT WOMEN PROPERLY? WHY DOES THIS BOOK OF MINE TELL ME TO ONLY TREAT THEM LIKE SLAVES AND OBJECTS OF MY LUST?

Devolution, after you with the hammer old boy...

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42. Comment #42321 by Combine_Dave on May 18, 2007 at 4:08 am

[Quote]Plus, I for one am very glad that a theocratic state is doing its bit to fight global warming. [/Quote]

When religions collide ;-)

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43. Comment #42332 by Yorker on May 18, 2007 at 4:49 am

I have a friend who openly admitted his fetish for sniffing ladies bike seats!

Hello Veronique, been doing some reading lately I see, I've never come across that Riverbend blog before.

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44. Comment #42342 by Newton30 on May 18, 2007 at 5:10 am

Reading these responses, I think I know where this practice came from and where it's going.

When our earliest ancestors would walk around completely naked, the men would lust after the women because they could see their privates.

The brilliant plan was to cover women's privates so men would no longer lust after the women. Men's privates were covered so they could not reveal their lust.

However, this may have backfired, because the men still lusted after the women and even more strongly. This is because the women's breasts were swinging around in plain view. Since the men could no longer see the privates of the women (and the internet was not invented yet), the breast's sexual role became all the more enhanced. The logical result is to have women cover their breasts.

It had then been noticed that even when women don't have their breasts swinging in plain view, men would still lust after them, because legs can be just as sexy. This entailed the more complete long dresses that are quite common today.

Somehow, in some areas in the world, this was not quite enough; the men would still lust after them because they could see their beautiful hair and small of their backs sometimes. Headscarves became mandatory for all women.

Just the face of a woman is enticing. Sometimes just an ankle peeking occasionally out of the dress as the woman would walk could throw a man's sex drive into overdrive. Full long burquas, covering the face, were the logical result in those areas.

But it seems that it's still not enough. Men go crazy with the slightest shape of a woman. Even the presence of the burqua indicated the presence of a woman.

It's become clear that this type of escalation, a kind of sexual arms race, where the missile tubes are not titanium, has not, and will not work.

Here is my suggestion for iranian ayatollas, afghani mullahs and all other muslim men who just cannot control their sexual ICBMs.:

1) Instead of hiding the women completely, which can backfire, just make all women dress like men.

Of course, women have breasts that can give them away…

2) So in addition to making women dress like men, you should make all men wear fake breasts under their clothing.

If a man cannot find a woman, he cannot lust after her. That way, the women would simply disappear, becoming totally indistinguishable from men. This is the ultimate burqua. Not relying on difficult and restricting clothing, but stealth.

But that's not all! There would be quite a lot of positive side-effects from this:

1) New (shapely) political men would suddenly spring up, promoting good relations with neighbors and long-term goals.
2) Children would not be sent into war lightly.
3) New scientists and engineers would appear, helping the country out of poverty, disease, and all sorts of problems.
4) All doctors would be allowed to treat all patients because they would all be breasted males, greatly increasing the effectiveness of the medical system.

So, because you are men and in charge of the country, do the right thing and set the example by ordering on your set of fake breasts today. Available in auburn, buff, taupe or ecru. Only 19.95 iranian rials plus 4.99 S/H.

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45. Comment #42378 by scottishgeologist on May 18, 2007 at 6:12 am

Devolution, your comments were extremely amusing. Thanks for that...still chortling

But on the women and bike theme, presumably the Islamofascists are worried about this ever happening:

http://luthor.altervista.org/queen01.jpg

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46. Comment #42396 by Luthien on May 18, 2007 at 6:46 am

17. Comment #42093 by the great teapot on May 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Like you I cycle to work, but I can assure everyone my crossbar is very high indeed and I have no need for such feminine fripparies as chain guards.

I find it bizarre that it is the men's bikes that have the highest cross bars. I certainly hope you never have to stop suddenly ;-)

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47. Comment #42402 by GodlessHeathen on May 18, 2007 at 6:54 am

Does this mean my idea of opening a raised-pedal recumbent bike shop in Iran is ill-advised?

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48. Comment #42410 by Philip1978 on May 18, 2007 at 7:04 am

Luthien, its god's reminder to us not to think about sex when riding a bike! Its in the bible somewhere at the back...

"And lo he rodeth his bike,with his mind filled with lusty thoughts about "knowing" the virgin next door. The man then didst almost runneth into his neighbour's father, who did begot the virgin and lo he had to stopeth most quick in order that he might not smite his neighbour with his bike. Forwards did he flyeth into his crossbar with his balls and cryeth did he with much gnashing of teeth and pain!

and god did sayeth unto him
"HA! THAT'LL TEACH THEE!"

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49. Comment #42412 by Russell Blackford on May 18, 2007 at 7:05 am

Corylus, I'm looking forward to your report on those conversations in which you'll be looking for a chance to drop in the word "tribadistic".

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50. Comment #42430 by CJ22 on May 18, 2007 at 7:32 am

Hmm, surely in an islamic bike, the saddle should be removed entirely and the ladies required to stand up at all times. After all, a saddle implies a place to place upon it.

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