Oh, thank you, helmet zealots!

[Joy Beeson]

I just got back from my first bike ride to church. Wearing a helmet
when my hair is pinned up is impossible.

A Skid Lid would have been Gibson-compatible, and it would have
protected the parts of my head that hit the pavement when I fall off
my bike, but of course a Skid Lid is utterly useless when someone
happens to drop a wrench while one is riding under a bridge, therefore
it is far, far better that I ride with no protection at all.

Thank goodness zealots are looking out for my welfare!

--
Joy "Where's the popcorn" Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

[John B.]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:16:49 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

>
>I just got back from my first bike ride to church. Wearing a helmet
>when my hair is pinned up is impossible.
>
>A Skid Lid would have been Gibson-compatible, and it would have
>protected the parts of my head that hit the pavement when I fall off
>my bike, but of course a Skid Lid is utterly useless when someone
>happens to drop a wrench while one is riding under a bridge, therefore
>it is far, far better that I ride with no protection at all.
>
>Thank goodness zealots are looking out for my welfare!

Is there a mandatory helmet law where you are? We here have a
mandatory helmet law for motorcycles but bicycles are free of the
foolishness. Too many Grannies pedaling to the market every morning
for the day's groceries.
--
Cheers,

John B.

[John B.]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:23:06 +0700, John B. <sloc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it
was the practice at one time.

--
Cheers,

John B.

[Duane]

On 3/23/2014 1:16 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
>
> I just got back from my first bike ride to church. Wearing a helmet
> when my hair is pinned up is impossible.
>
> A Skid Lid would have been Gibson-compatible, and it would have
> protected the parts of my head that hit the pavement when I fall off
> my bike, but of course a Skid Lid is utterly useless when someone
> happens to drop a wrench while one is riding under a bridge, therefore
> it is far, far better that I ride with no protection at all.
>

Did someone tell you that you needed to wear a helmet on your way to church?

> Thank goodness zealots are looking out for my welfare!

In my experience zealots of any stripe are typically not looking out for
the welfare of anything but their own religion.

Glad to see that your back on the bike plan is working out. Keep on
trucking.

[Frank Krygowski]

On 3/23/2014 11:34 PM, John B. wrote:
>
>
> As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
> head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it
> was the practice at one time.

That practice went away long ago. From what I see - which is Roman
Catholic practice - most "church" clothes are almost indistinguishable
from, say, going-to-the-basketball-game clothes.

--
- Frank Krygowski

[John B.]

I was depending largely on very youthful reminiscence and I remember
that my mother always wore a hat to church.
--
Cheers,

John B.

[Duane]

Mine did too but then again the masses were in Latin then. Frank's
right, it ain't like that no more.

[John B.]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:21:17 -0400, Duane <duane....@group-upc.com>
wrote:

I had a good friend who had attended mass in every major cathedral in
Western Europe. He said that when the mass was in Latin he could
follow right along but after they changed to the vernacular they were
incomprehensible.
--
Cheers,

John B.

[Duane]

Not to piss off anyone or offend their sensibilities but once you can
understand what they are saying it really IS incomprehensible. Growing
up in a catholic family left me with very little tolerance for religion
or zealots of any stripe.

[Frank Krygowski]

On 3/27/2014 9:14 AM, Duane wrote:
>
>>
>
> Not to piss off anyone or offend their sensibilities but once you can
> understand what they are saying it really IS incomprehensible. Growing
> up in a catholic family left me with very little tolerance for religion
> or zealots of any stripe.

I remain amazed that anyone thinks their God (or any god) would be
comprehensible.

We don't expect our goldfish to really understand us. Why would we
expect to really understand God?

--
- Frank Krygowski

[John B.]

Of course it is not comprehensible, after all religions are have
nothing to do with Gods, rather they are evidence of human's beliefs
in Gods.

And probably better debated elsewhere :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

[John B.]

[Joy Beeson]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:34:11 +0700, John B. <sloc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
> head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it
> was the practice at one time.

When I was very small, women wore hats every time they left the house.
Mom once told a story about a day so cold and windy that a
particularly-refined acquaintance gave in and wore a scarf instead of
a hat.

Scarves were for little girls. The fashions changed fast enough that
I never stopped wearing head scarves -- there is nothing warmer,
especially if you pin your scarf instead of tying it under the chin as
children did. (A good all-leather, fur-lined flight helmet is quicker
to get on and off than the equivalent warmth in scarves.)

Hats for very dressy occasions were at least permitted well into the
sixties. But it's been a long time since I owned a hat that I
wouldn't take off when under a roof.


--
Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier,
some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii
joy beeson at comcast dot net http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.

[John B.]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:13:00 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:34:11 +0700, John B. <sloc...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
>> head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it
>> was the practice at one time.
>
>When I was very small, women wore hats every time they left the house.
>Mom once told a story about a day so cold and windy that a
>particularly-refined acquaintance gave in and wore a scarf instead of
>a hat.
>
>Scarves were for little girls. The fashions changed fast enough that
>I never stopped wearing head scarves -- there is nothing warmer,
>especially if you pin your scarf instead of tying it under the chin as
>children did. (A good all-leather, fur-lined flight helmet is quicker
>to get on and off than the equivalent warmth in scarves.)
>
>Hats for very dressy occasions were at least permitted well into the
>sixties. But it's been a long time since I owned a hat that I
>wouldn't take off when under a roof.

When I was a young lad all the ladies that attended the Protestant
churches wore a hat to church. At the Catholic church it seemed to
vary a bit with which mass they attended with the early risers often
wearing a scarf. Probably all changed these days.
\
You are right, high school girls wore scarf's but when the weather
really got cold so did a lot of married women - keeps the ears warm
while you are walking down to the store :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

[Frank Krygowski]

On 3/28/2014 7:36 AM, John B. wrote:
>
> When I was a young lad all the ladies that attended the Protestant
> churches wore a hat to church. At the Catholic church it seemed to
> vary a bit with which mass they attended with the early risers often
> wearing a scarf. Probably all changed these days.
> \
> You are right, high school girls wore scarf's but when the weather
> really got cold so did a lot of married women - keeps the ears warm
> while you are walking down to the store :-)

There's no accounting for fashion - especially for women's fashion,
which seems to change on a much shorter time scale than men's fashion.

But even men's fashion is random and unpredictable. To look only at
hats, we now have ball caps with big flat bills, perhaps worn backwards
or sideways, for the inner city crowd; unless they're modern urbanists,
whose coolness now requires a porkpie hat. There are more ordinary ball
caps for those identifying as "country"; unless they're
"country-western" in which case they'll wear a cowboy hat, despite never
associating with cows.

All of which are _so_ much more sensible than fedoras, straw boaters,
bowlers, top hats, tri-corns and whatever came before... not to mention
military ceremonial hats, gold crowns, fezzes and the like.

One of my favorite books is "Daily Life in Holland in the year 1566,"
mostly for it's wonderful illustrations by Poortvliet. As he says,
after documenting over a dozen styles of men's hats: "It really didn't
matter what you had on your head as long as you had on something."

Well, really, it probably did matter. A man's choice of hat is intended
to demonstrate his identification with a certain culture or sub-group of
society. Except, that is, for a decade or two following JFK's
inauguration, when he - followed by the Beatles - declared that to be
part of the proper group, one must NOT wear a hat.

Our desire to be part of a clan, tribe or "in group" triggers our deep
need to wear hats, no matter how weird the hat may look to those outside
the group.

And the styrofoam manufacturers are saying "Thank God!"

--
- Frank Krygowski

[John B.]

If you move to a place that is HOT you will likely find that a
substantial percentage of the people wear a "hat". But the type of
hat will be dependent on fashion, to some extent - a bloke who is
outdoors in southern Texas all day is probably going to wear a hat
that keeps the sun off, at least while working.... but he might well
have a "go to town hat" for holidays :-)

But mankind's do or die efforts to be a member of a specific group is
a whole different story. It would seem to deny the great American
effort to see everyone as equals.
--
Cheers,

John B.

[news13]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:34:11 +0700, John B. wrote:


> As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
> head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it was
> the practice at one time.

Yes along with white gloves.
Blokes also had to wear suit and tie.
Number dwindled, so tour church announced you could turn up in boiler
suit and numbers boomed, although the surfer got tutted by the
congregation. Then numbers dwindled again when they finally realised that
the promised kegger didn't happen until you went to heaven and a last
minute repentance would get you in anyway.

That was about four decades ago.

[cycl...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:13:00 PM UTC-7, Joy Beeson wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:34:11 +0700,
>

> > As an addendum to my above, don't women normally wear a hat, or other
> > head covering, when they enter a church? I seem to remember that it
> > was the practice at one time.
>
> When I was very small, women wore hats every time they left the house.
> Mom once told a story about a day so cold and windy that a
> particularly-refined acquaintance gave in and wore a scarf instead of
> a hat.
>
> Scarves were for little girls. The fashions changed fast enough that
> I never stopped wearing head scarves -- there is nothing warmer,
> especially if you pin your scarf instead of tying it under the chin as
> children did. (A good all-leather, fur-lined flight helmet is quicker
> to get on and off than the equivalent warmth in scarves.)
>
> Hats for very dressy occasions were at least permitted well into the
> sixties. But it's been a long time since I owned a hat that I
> wouldn't take off when under a roof.
>

> Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier,

Joy you old bat. Don't try to explain to anyone the lives of Christmas past. We lived in a time where respect and self-respect was common.