Yesterday, my husband participated in Minneapolis’s Urban Assault Ride, a checkpoint bike race with silly challenges at each stop that finally ends in a beer garden. Once he was there and rehydrating, he started posting photos, as any good photographer would. When he titled one “Huh…okay…”, it caught my attention.
Dude, that kilt is too long. Yeah, I know they tell you to measure them to the bottom of the knee, but that just looks silly and cuts off one of the shapelier parts of the leg. Besides it’ll chafe in the rain when the hem…wait, that wasn’t my point.
Is there any rivalry so trivial that someone won’t claim that the purportedly omnipotent creator and ruler of the entire universe has a vested interest in their side of it? Even setting aside the fact that Saint Paulites might not want people looking too closely into the naming of their fair city, how invested does one have to be in a barely existent and entirely pointless rivalry to want to wear something that implies your bible is an endorsement of a city that was named 1,800 years later?
Luckily, these “Mormon” riders provided an amusing counterpoint.
When asked whether their presence meant that people now had to debate religion, they said they guessed they could do that…as long as no one wanted them to take religion’s side.
I have to admit, the St. Paul shirt made me laugh.
Given the way believers give “God” credit when their favorite sports team wins, I’d say the answer to your question is clearly “no”.
The kilt’s not too long, it’s just getting riding too low because it’s getting pushed down by his gut. Just like the shorts I’m wearing at the moment…
Trebuchet, I love Utilikilts, but they really do tell you to wear them at the bottom of the knee. My husband has one almost unusable kilt because of this. He could fix it by hitching it up, except that he went with a standard waist placement when he ordered. So he either hides his knees (a true pity) or wears the kilt like Grandpa would (which ain’t happening).
Hmm, being from Europe where we don’t take religion that seriously, I found the shirt funny and thought he was mocking exactly that sentiment in a poe-like manner.
Gilleil, I suspect that it’s not meant to be taken too seriously–except that it totally means that Saint Paul is superior. We go in for cognitive dissonance around here.