Boris Johnson, Tadej Pogačar and Taylor Swift are the same person, apparently… the problem with calling all cyclists ‘Cyclists’

Is deploying the same noun to describe absolutely anybody who decides to make a journey by bike particularly helpful? George Hill has some hot takes

Yep, you’re reading that right. Boris Johnson, Tadej Pogačar and Taylor Swift are the same person. They all believe the same things, behave the same way, and they even dress the same. I don’t know how nobody has noticed this before, when it is so obvious to anybody who takes three seconds to look through the comments on any provincial Facebook group as soon as the word ‘cyclist’ is typed.

 

Jocelyn, a member of the same beloved local provincial Facebook that I am a member of, has noticed that “…in my experience [they] make their own rules up. Then if there’s an accident/incident, it’s everyone else’s fault, and they become abusive.”

 

Meanwhile, the ever insightful Rob mentioned: “They normally just make there [sic] own rules up.”

He has a point. Tadej is certainly rewriting the rules of professional cycling, Taylor Swift has changed the rules around ‘childless cat ladies’, and Boris likes to have parties during lockdowns, cheat on his wife etc…

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