Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity


World | 207314 hits | Jul 13 4:51 pm | Posted by: snookums
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An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".

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  1. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:11 am
    how can he claim to be an atheist yet fight for a religious right(not someone else's but his own)....no matter how funny it is?

  2. by avatar saturn_656
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:18 am
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:

  3. by avatar Gunnair Gold Member
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:35 am
    "saturn_656" said
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:


    More like an idiot.

  4. by avatar fifeboy
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:49 am
    "Gunnair" said
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:


    More like an idiot.


    I am putting you on a 2 step program Gunny

    STEP 1



    STEP 2


  5. by avatar raydan
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:01 am
    Get your pasta right, Fifeboy... that's not spaghetti, that's tagliatelle.

  6. by avatar gonavy47
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:12 am
    I get a religious experience when I eat ratatouli. I'm torn between the pastafarians and the mushroomites.

  7. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:29 am
    "saturn_656" said
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:



    A self-confessed atheist, Mr Alm says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,


    While humourous, the government needs to keep in mind the precedent it sets. It's sort of like me saying I'm an atheist, yet belonging to the United Church of Canada...on second thought, maybe that's not such a far fetched comparison.

  8. by avatar martin14
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:48 am
    All the time reading this, I was thinking............................ biker. :)

    Finally figured out how to get around the helmet laws.

    Sadly, I was mistaken. R=EM

  9. by Trautsla
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:06 am
    May His noodly appendage touch you.

  10. by avatar GreenTiger
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:15 pm
    "Gunnair" said
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:


    More like an idiot.
    No, he is just a smart ass atheist making a point about religious headgear.
    He make it by saying if you can wear chadoras(or whatever they are called) Islamic Do-Rags (again whatever they are called), yamakas, ect, then I should be allowed to wear a pasta strainer for religious reasons.

    He did, he won and made his point. Pat Condell would be proud.

  11. by avatar commanderkai
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:23 pm
    "GreenTiger" said
    He's not an atheist... he's a pastafarian. :wink:


    More like an idiot.
    No, he is just a smart ass atheist making a point about religious headgear.
    He make it by saying if you can wear chadoras(or whatever they are called) Islamic Do-Rags (again whatever they are called), yamakas, ect, then I should be allowed to wear a pasta strainer for religious reasons.

    He did, he won and made his point. Pat Condell would be proud.

    And now he has a pasta strainer on his head on his driver's license. How does this not make him look like an idiot?

  12. by avatar bootlegga
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:32 pm
    I think this is kind of funny - and maybe its his own odd way of protesting Muslim/Sikh head gear...

  13. by Choban
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:36 pm

    and maybe its his own odd way of protesting Muslim/Sikh head gear

    It's his way of showing how bending to every group and special interest for no reason other than personal prefernace is rediculous.

  14. by avatar Brenda
    Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:44 pm
    I didn't realize pastafarianism was an officially recognized religion in Austria.



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