Hmpf. Are you going to tell a Jewish man that he must wear his yarmulke at all times? :dubious: Why are you imposing your own rules on when a devout Pastafarian should or should not display his devotion to the Noodly One?
The first story in Chesterton’s Tales of the Longbow is about a man who ate his own hat; the whole book is an exercise in how to make impossible-sounding idioms come true. I thought some of you might enjoy it.
A strainer cannot be eaten, but hey, if you wear it as a hat for long enough, who’s to say it’s not a hat? There’s quite a few hats out there that look more like enlarged socks than like fedoras!
Exactly. Totally ridiculous.
Pasta Jihad!
Flog the unbelievers with linguini!
On the upcoming holy month of Ramendan, may we all be touched by His noodly appendage.
RAmen.
Webster plans to use this photo in their dictionary entry for douchebag.
This guy is such a putz.
Oh, is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Ramen. Sauce mote it be.
I know this isn’t the first thread I’ve read here about this very topic. The last one was 2 or 3 years ago.
No kidding. It must be very difficult navigating daily life when someone being goofy gets your nose that out of joint.
Why? Because people look goofy with colanders on their heads? Sure, I can get behind that.
I hope the rice-noodle sect doesn’t show up in all their puffery. Their explosive antics just make a mockery of communion.
I’m unfamiliar with Ramendan. Do we fast or do we just eat fast? Are flavor packets allowed, or is sacrificing mild chicken taste just part of our allegiance to His Noodly Goodness?
The SPLC (Southern Pasta Leadership Council) mostly made up of NBC (National Pasta Convention) members, disagrees with the SPC (Southern Pasta Convention) over the acceptance of Gluten-free pasta as “real pasta”.
Is there anything that can bring these factions back together again?
I’d also like to add my prayers for another weevil-free harvest this year.
Ramen
Coolness.
I celebrate in a fairly liberal fashion, consuming at least one ramen meal every day, but other foods as well.
Eating nothing but ramen for a month, with or without flavor packets, is too intense for me.
Also, there’s the margarine issue.
It was just a stunt to get in the news. I doubt that he’ll wear it regularly in real life.
There are many people like the Sikhs that take their headwear (turban) very seriously. It’s part of their identity and religion. I respect that.
Anything this absurdly self-referential is good. Religions all take themselves too seriously, even those that were created to fight against or parody the dominant paradigm. Imagine an alternate universe in which a pulp SF writer comes up with an interesting set of ideas and then promotes it first as a self-help regimen and then eventually as a religion. Years later, the writer (who is dead by now) is revered as a ‘true genius’ and his writings are preserved in an underground bunker. This created religion has tens if not hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers throughout North America and Europe. And these dedicated followers all appear to actually believe in the ideas promoted by the SF writer.
Humans are very strange creatures. We appear to be wired to accept even the most absurd notions if such are presented in the right light. No matter how internally inconsistent these beliefs may appear to be to the outside observer, the dedicated followers will defend them even when doing so goes against their best interests. We see this is religion, of course, but also in politics, sports, and art.
As someone once said, humans are not a rational species; we are a rationalizing species.
May Sauce Be Upon You All.
In Soviet Union, pasta drains YOU!.
There are people who seriously dress up like Santa for only a couple weeks a year. I’m assuming your begrudging them is just as serious, right?
Maybe we can appoint you to the position of determining how serious someone is about their religious practices. Of curse that’s not a lifetime position and soon you must step down so that the next guy can judge how serious YOU are about what you do.
<shrug> If the guy wants to wear a pasta strainer then go for it.
I thought the publicity stunt was dumb and he looks like a giant putz. It doesn’t annoy me. I don’t care one way or the other. It’s a free country and he can wear whatever he wants.
Why is it not a religion? It certainly claims that it is.
This is a serious question by the way. The claims it makes are no more and no less ridiculous than many other “accepted” religions.