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What in God's name is this all about, select participant(s) who engaged in fire play during Friday's end-of-month ride, but by no means represent Critical Mass or the tireless work that they do as a whole?
Honestly. This just doesn't look safe. But it sure looks exciting. Let the games begin...
Hat tip: Everything Is Everything (via the fine folks over at Mission Mission) who have even more jarring shots from last week's Critical Mass.
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I was just thinking this was a slow holiday week on the ist.
Well done, Brock! Nothing like some HEATED (heh.) bike v. car v. pedestrian chat to get things rolling!
Cheers!
An official spokesman for Critical Mass denies involvement: "JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say..."
Are you f'reals? Because if there's an Official Spokesman for Critical Mass, he/she needs to step up, there's 15 years of permits and fatty cop overtime to be paid for. However if he/she is an Official Spokesman in the same way a Black Rock Ranger is an officer of law enforcement then I say fuck off you nannying, A-type-personality smurfhole, we hated your overbearing ways in high school and we despise you even more now. And that fire is completely lame. I've made bigger explosions lighting my butt trumpets.
That I'd actually suggest that a) there'd actually be a Critical Mass spokesperson, and b) that said spokesperson would quote an 80's Billy Joel song to deny accountablity for fire the size of a flaming bag of dog poo should speak volumes about the state of my f'realsness.
F'realness is so hard to judge in the internet, f'reals.
we should chat more about burning stuff, and explosions and....well...just really cool stuff like that. And stuff. It's cool. Like way.
A homage to the late Michael Jackson's hair?
@Tennessee
tons of *Win* and a free vodka Pepsi to boot!
Looks like a Clan rally. Are all CM riders white?
funny you mention that because that photoset has a really cool picture of an old cat smoking a stogie and wearing nautical gear...
(it also has some horrible full frontal nudity)
someone lit a beer fart in honor of rob anderson's failure to stop the bike plan.
...but by no means represent Critical Mass or the tireless work that they do as a whole?
Snark! Yay!!!
I was being serious.
Speaking of fire, any news on the Toilet Torcher?
Great job, massholes, let's go ahead and add vandalism to the list of annoying things Critical Mass stands for. I mean clogging up traffic isn't nearly enough is it?
Looks like a standard-issue flag-burning (Ooh, they're so angry!).
It appears they've torched a Smart Car (out of principle, I guess).
"Oh shit, this isn't Burning Man, mybad."
I may be showing my spots here but I knew some of the original founders of Burning Man & Critical Mass and both anarchistic events turned into things they never intentioned.
Critical Mass achieved their original goal. Bike lanes, paths and laws protecting riders.
Now it is infested with massive douchebaggery, bad behavior and hangers on who want to cause trouble. Bleeders from other pointless 'movements.'
Let's just call them the disaffected dolts from elsewhere who just want to cause trouble somewhere other than their own home town. Let's see some hands you asstards - go back to Montana or Minnesota and poop on your parents lawn and stay the hell out of traffic every month. You wouldn't understand "GREEN" if it smacked you with a turnip.
Causing a massive traffic jam is so great for the environment. Retards.
Anarchy is pretty cool when it is still anarchistic and has a cause.
At this point, you're just being annoying douchebags.
Yes, there is a difference and no, you do not understand it.
RobInSF said "Causing a massive traffic jam is so great for the environment. Retards."
Is the traffic jam caused by the bike riders, or the idiot drivers who insist on driving into an area where they KNOW there will be congestion?
I don't know about you or other car drivers, but I wouldn't be caught dead trying to drive around down there on the last Friday of every month. The few times I have been down there for whatever reason (always on foot), I just have to laugh at the red faced & fuming drivers bleet their horns in ineffective dismay. hilarity.
Sorry, I will never ever feel sorry for a driver caught up in the traffic jam, ya just got to know better by this point.
How can people "know" where CM will be? they change the route every month. And many people drive into the city who have never heard of CM.
Robinsf hit the nail on the head.
How can people "know" where CM will be? they change the route every month. And many people drive into the city who have never heard of CM.
Robinsf hit the nail on the head.
and why that reply printed 3x is beyond me. Sorry about that folks!
Critical Mass jumped the shark ages ago. Unless you do it in say, San Mateo County, it's just another thing the hipsters do. The thing is they get their little party paid for by the taxpayers and the lindy hoppers in the park just got slapped with a cease and desist and an order to get permits.
LAME!
RobInSF said "Causing a massive traffic jam is so great for the environment. Retards."
Is the traffic jam caused by the bike riders, or the idiot drivers who insist on driving into an area where they KNOW there will be congestion?
I don't know about you or other car drivers, but I wouldn't be caught dead trying to drive around down there on the last Friday of every month. The few times I have been down there for whatever reason (always on foot), I just have to laugh at the red faced & fuming drivers bleet their horns in ineffective dismay. hilarity.
Sorry, I will never ever feel sorry for a driver caught up in the traffic jam, ya just got to know better by this point.
i think it safe to say most people that "drive" around the downtown/mission areas don't live in SF. do you really expect them to know the CM schedule?
Yes, of course.
...that was in response to loosecharm
I don't own a vehicle and actually sold my Jeep back in 2002 due my inability to get anywhere, park anywhere or afford my monthly tab of $200 in parking tickets due to 7AM street cleaning on Saturdays. I take that shithole system called MUNI, BART and Caltrain then supplement with a frequent taxi.
Assholes who clog the streets on a Friday AT RUSH HOUR with their bikes tying up public access ways designed for vehicles in San Francisco and by default, the entire Bay Area are doing nothing more than increasing emissions, smog, cancer and death. These people are nothing more than aimless, slogan chanting, retarded, short-sighted assholes. Kind of like our Mayor McNewsom and the idiots on the BOS.
I sit on a MUNI bus which is chugging tons of diesel fuel while you smug assholes cruise through red lights causing a traffic jam from Santa Rosa to Emeryville. I'll bet with near absolute certainty that the IQ of a current Critical Mass participant is just below that of Marina jockstrap. Cute dopey sign included.
Each and every single one of you should get a ticket for $500 for fucking up the environment.
Then you might learn a real lesson on being environmentally conscious - instead of a hanger-on, poser who tinks they are backing a "cause."
Just in case there was any additional confusion by the already clearly confused - my rant was directed at "loosecharm" in addition to every other mindless retard who might take part in Critical Mass and thinks they are doing anything positive.
RobinSF, for the record, I have never participated in a Critical Mass, I don't own a functional bicycle and drive to work everyday (albeit out of SF).
None of that precludes me from being a "mindless retard", of course.
RobinSF, for the record, I have never participated in a Critical Mass, I don't own a functional bicycle and drive to work everyday (albeit out of SF).
None of that precludes me from being a "mindless retard", of course.
Dearest Rob, aka aimless, short-sighted asshole/asstard with an IQ below that of a Marina jockstrap,
Whoah! I'm so impressed with your environmental consciousness and greenness - and that you know the founders of Burning Man and Critical Mass and their exact original intentions! This must mean that you're super credible and reputable! You state that Critical Mass has achieved bike lanes, paths and laws protecting riders and so that now it has no "cause." Cities are still dominated by wide concrete boulevards filled with cars that pollute the shit out of our urban areas. Unlike in many cities of Northern Europe, our SF bike lanes are not protected by a curb, and many bicyclists still get hit, hurt and even killed by automobiles. Much, much, much more money is spent in our country on construction projects for cars/driving than bike lanes/projects. What if we closed off some of our city streets to cars - and replaced them with gardens and kept a skinny concrete bike lane? There's is definitely still a "cause." And last Friday, there was cause for celebration as the city of San Francisco approved 46 new bike plane projects. Rob you point out that your rant is directed at "the mindless retard who...thinks they are doing anything positive." Actually, every Critical Mass is cause for a celebratory bike parade that doesn't exclude old or young and is a joyful party in which everyone can cruise through all the stoplights and ride through the tunnels without fear or worry of being smashed by a polluting, steel death machine.
Even if we're just having fun, that, in my opinion, is something positive. So, yes, go fuck yourself Rob. Cheers!
You militant bike retards have your heads so far up your asses it's a wonder that you don't plow into more car doors, lamps, sign posts and people on the sidewalk.
How about you hold your little attention whore celebration on lesser traveled roads, not during rush hour and perhaps on the weekend and maybe I will consider that possibility you are not just a big bunch of annoying assholes.
Until then, you are nothing more than self absorbed, annoying assholes.
Ahh...where to begin with you dopey Liberal Arts majors...so simple, yet so incredibly overwhelmingly simple.
A. The basic engineering of the US Highway system is the main reason you can spew off at the beak in the first place - otherwise you might be speaking Japanese, German or possibly even Canadian, eh? They were built to move supplies from one coast to the other and allow planes to land. Read up on it sometime, it's called a history book.
B. I am but a single entity on this board. robinsf
Period, Brock can attest if need be based on my IP address and logins.
C. Critical Mass DOES exclude those based on age and race due to the basic fact that it only includes bothersome, douchebag, militant young posers. Check the photos.
D. Critical Mass excludes the elderly, the young, the sick and the poor or anyone who relies on public transportation to get to their survivable wage job to get by in this city. Or back home on the last Friday of every month. Selfish Pricks.
You short-sighted, retards stall public transit, access to basic services, emergency services and prevent basic access on your randomly asshole based as-yet-to-be-determined route.
I hope that you are all very proud of yourselves.
You know, once you get past being overly smug and annoying.
Go hit up on your 6 foot bong and leave the adults alone. We've got shit to do.
Enjoy your public exercise in mental masturbation, because that is all that Critical Mass really is at this point. You did not lead, you did not create, you are a follower. Just deal.
I think half of you have unwittingly started "Critical Comment" where your thoughts are posted multiple times by SFists crappy servers/programming. He, he, he. Fire! Whu?
Come on guys SF doesn't care.... Critical Mass is a waste of time and makes the Bike community look like asses. Traffic SF could care less
As awesome as fire in the streets is, I call for an SFist Critical Mass moratorium...just like the Frank Chu moratorium...
Critical Mass is yet another prime example of a great idea made into a terrible thing by overbearing San Francisco assholes. I love this town, and yet I hate this town.
I used to live in Rye, NH where the residents met weekly over coffee and drinks, donuts and whatever anyone baked. We discussed the issues of the day, like rational, responsible adults, and came to a consensus. The board that we elected voted. Then we voted the board in or out at the next election based on their vote and how well they represented us.
In this town you can take a bus full of crackheads and get a socially and mentally retarded poser like Newsom or Daly elected until their term expires - or perchance, they aspire to higher public office. Let's all hope that the Newsom campaign is expecting a high turnout in the meth community with his new "MethLabs Not Cash" progam.
It seems like what the founding fathers had in mind. Degenerates bribed by free drugs, (methadone clinics in the very center of the city???) and free bus rides then told which button to push to get their dope pusher Daly or Newsom reelected.
San Francisco is Rome during Nero, France during the Revolution and a backwoods, hillbilly, podunk town all tossed into the same shit stew.
And I hope that someday, somewhere, somebody quotes me on that one.
It is a place of last resort for politicians and precisely why we have Newsom, Daly, Ammiano, Midgen etc. as our *cough* leaders.
There is nothing like a bike thread to make people explode with rage. Happens every time. I don't get it.
Comment #1 ---- Don't burn the flag !!!!!! Sheest what arsehat's....
As for anything else... I've participated in a few 'Critical Mass' rides. It gives me a chance to get in a good healthy bike ride. Longest I've ridden in one was 3 hours. This last one only an hour and then I had to bail for personal reasons.
To me the monthly 'Critical Mass' ride is a chance for me to get in a good bike ride with like minded people. Basically it's like a big rolling party with people who are more interested in having a good time than screwing people over. It really is a better way to spend a friday night than so many of the other 'recreational' experiences on a friday night this city has.
Unfortunatly there are always those who think that messing with someone's property or people in general is fun. Fortunatly I still have a brain cell working, despite the booze and weed, that doesn't enjoy just being an arsehat.
So to the 'Critical Masser's' out there and the car driver's.... see ya' next month. :-)