Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2019

Why are people who ride on bikes called cyclists, while those who drive motorcycles called bikers?

Pardon me if someone has already mentioned this.

good reconsidering, Jef

I like all three choices.

I ride a trike, that’s what happens when you get old. So anyhow cyclist is more inclusive and of course we all know we have to be more inclusive cough cough hack hack

To dehumanize cyclists requires that they be human in the first place.

This claim that “cyclist” is dehumanizing started with an academic, not with any cyclist organization.

Rat forgot to offer Psycho-lists

First world prejudices…

I’d go with “Spoke-Jokers” !

helmet heads…?

Shites on bikes…

About time Jef showed up for this conversation.

I’m leaning towards #2.

I know, let’s all think of names for car drivers. To be fair though, we have to decide if we mean those who drive their car to the “fitness club” or those on their way to McDonald’s.

“Loon Psychoist” has a nice ring to it!

I liked Mob O’ Snobs. In fact, I like it so much I think it is the term I will use hereafter.

Could have called them MAMILS — Middle Aged Males In Lycra

With Rat on this one(Oh Boy!) … Croc Power !

Spurious Spoked Spandex Snobs.

Pastis needs to see a Cyclotherapist concerning this obsession of his.

The only really accurate term is unprintable in this family forum.

Just call us Fantastic!

I heard someone refer to them as MAMILS. Middle aged men wearing lycra.

Idc what they’re called. Just don’t turf my lawn….LOL

Ickie Bykie

Sprocket heads?

Jef is annoying, as are all cyclists.

“Lycra loon” is almost as good as “sac smuggler”, a term we once applied to a gentleman of the cycling persuasion who wore his lycra just a tad too tight.

Wow, it’s like yesterdays comments have been incarnated into a strip today!

A friend of mine, a fellow runner, was hit by a car while riding her bike a couple of months ago. The driver was, one, on his phone, two, possibly under the influence (they didn’t test in a timely fashion but he was acting strangely at the scene), and three, crossed the double lines to pass someone who was going too slow for his liking, and hit her head-on. Had she not been wearing a helmet, she probably would have been killed. As it is, she’s now a paraplegic.

Our local news station interviewed her as part of a story on the need for bicycles and cars to safely share the road. 90% of the comments on the story were in the vein of “good riddance, I have no sympathy for her because two years ago I encountered a cyclist who thought they owned the road.” It was rather disheartening.

A certain local radio host refers to them as “the spandex mafia “

Yesterday near Tampa, a bicyclist IN A MARKED bike lane was killed by a white pickup – who fled the scene. . He left 2 very young kids with his widow. I was hit ON A SIDEWALK in Jan.2017 – broke my left hip-which has never fully recovered. I have NEVER worn Lycra, and do not"preen" (I couldn’t-I’m 80 yrs old)….Steph, I love your strip – but you’re giving me a pain with this “Jef” crap. Why don’t you take on the motorcyclist who"creates" a third lane at 90 mph ?

MAMIL – middle age males in lyrica

Judging on how Jeff usually acts, I would probably go with Mob O’ Snobs.

Spandex schmucks?

Just can’t change the classics.

Don’t forget “Cycle Psychos”! ;o}

Are the cyclists as depicted by Steve human?

Just call them velocipedists and move along.

Car, cycle, or bike, you’re probably not wrong by figuring that most folks are either asleep at the wheel, drunk, homicidal, or D). All of the above. People are asshats pretty much across the boards when they’re on the road.

Good job, Rat

Get a group of them and they’re a “chain gang.”

He’s just cranky.

Most cyclists are just regular joes who ride bikes. Sure, a lot of us react poorly when threatened, but it’s a waste of everybody’s time to make fun of the lycra crowd. Leave us cyclists alone.

Howzabout “Entitled Stop Sign Running Pinheads”?

“You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room.”

Guaranteed that Pastis uses the “N” word ironically and these comics are his ways of justifying.

As a young man, I learned to clam up whenever someone asked either my religion or politics, but after Lance Armstrong I added “bicyclist.”

basically nobodies with no achievements that no body would give a damn about unless they act entitled and undignified for the most idiotic reasons; that means they have to act as sissies so people notice them. Somehow I feel this is related with Disney, who for decades used the template of the poor and helpless princess who waited for princes charming, then since they were criticized so much for that now they even deny it and can not help it but to shove down the throat of everyone who watches their movies (even the generic template of superheroes and emotional manipulation with generic stuffing and expensive cgi that has nothing to do with princesses) the SJW attitude that now the princess kicks butt. What would a superhero movie had to do with this, but since we are in millennial and emo era it means everybody has a cause because they want attention

My 89 year old mother refers to them as “spandex moonies”

I like Lycra Loonies.

MAMIL: Middle-Aged Men in Lycra

Kudos to them for getting exercise. Shame on them for pretending that they belong in the same lane as cars.

I rode a bicycle to work every day for years when I was younger. Never once wore Lycra or Spandex.

Jeff, who dehumanizes any non-cycler, doesn’t like a word because it dehumanizes him?

Maybe just the tiniest crack is appearing in Cyclist Jef’s HUGE ego? Or is Rat speaking truth to power?

Where’s your bat, Rat?

If someone has already said this, I apologize… I don’t have time to go through all these to find out… a more modern term for motorcyclists, is “riders.” Bicyclists have basically remained “cyclists,” or, “annoying morons,” in some cases.

I used to ride a bicycle a lot, but I can agree with “Heels on Wheels” for those lot who disobey traffic rules, etc.

Unlike automobiles, cyclists also emit methane.

Ah yes.

Just because someone likes riding bicycles (no matter the reason), they’re automatically a snobbish jerk.

We live in a garbage society