slyfox
04-25-2007, 10:35 AM
Okay I am having some difficulty right now. I need to write a 8-10 page paper based on original ethnographic research, and of course I choose the motorcycle culture. Thus far some theme include image - why motorcyclists have such a bad rep, sportbikes vs harleys, female riders....I basically need 3 or 4 main points that show underlying cultual values/themes expressed in the group I am exploring... SO! any new ideas or ideas to add under these themes is much appreciated. Thanks! I'll probably end up posting some questions later on.
GixJello206
04-25-2007, 10:37 AM
ahwat about like track racing, street racing and stunt riding maybe just the different styles of riding?
schlizzag
04-25-2007, 10:40 AM
the instant connection between riders. always something to talk about, and we tend to not hesitate to wave/peace sign to others - no other vehicles do anything like that
slyfox
04-25-2007, 07:34 PM
Thank you guys so far for all the great ideas! I may also have to quote some of you guys but that will come later. I just need to get down the basic outline. Thanks again and keep em coming!
FeralJuggernaut
04-25-2007, 09:44 PM
groups: RUBs; Goldwingers: BMW riders; Iron Butt riders; Scooter riders; Moto Guzzi sub culture; Ducati group. I think it would be interesting to read about the 'generational differences'. I see a lot of the 20-somethings college crowd here, I ride with my age group 40-somethings, and I know a few of the 60-something guys too. Just a compare and contrast of those riders would be enough to hit your target I would think...
There was a quote about, 'write what you know about'. I think that begs that you take up the woman biker aspect in any direction that interests you. The ranks of lady riders is growing, but I read somewhere that it is something like 5 to 10 percent of the male total. I think that might be pushing it a little bit. In my daily commute, I would say it is closer to 3%, at least in my little pocket of the world. I know a few lady riders if you want/need contact info. I'd be reasonable confident they would take time to talk/type with you if they knew it would further the cause of lady bikers. :) Not likely to be in the 20-something crowd btw.
PM me if interested, I am not always around here in a timely manner.
Eviloliv3
04-25-2007, 09:54 PM
My duty to you, dear reader, constrains me to the disagreeable and almost painful task of giving you a significant amount of information that you may be unwilling to accept. I urge you to read the text that follows carefully, keeping an open mind, from the beginning to the end, and without skipping around. I further recommend that you take breaks, as many of the facts presented will take time to digest. Sick palookas don't really want me to open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them, although, of course, they all have to pay lip service to the idea. After being called a daft, shiftless crumbum a hundred times or so by motorcycle culture and its secret agents, I have reached the conclusion that inasmuch as I disagree with motorcycle culture's accusations and find its ad hominem attacks offensive, I am happy to meet motorcycle culture's speech with more speech and, if necessary, continue this discussion until the truth shines. Motorcycle culture's peons are not, technically, spiteful energumens, but rather catty freebooters. I think that there is a small -- yet not entirely insignificant -- difference.
Motorcycle culture will sincerely damage the debate about this issue, because we will have to spend lots of time correcting misunderstandings that are directly attributable to its anecdotes. If a cogent, logical argument entered motorcycle culture's brain, no doubt a concussion would result. Motorcycle culture's secret police believe that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to brandish the word "elecroencephalographic" (as it is commonly spelled) to hoodwink people into believing that truth is merely a social construct. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to shout back at motorcycle culture's propaganda. The largest problem, however, is that if you looked up "nettlesome" in the dictionary, you'd probably see motorcycle culture's logo. Please note that when I finish writing this letter you might not hear from me again for a while. I simply don't have enough strength left to recognize and respect the opinions, practices, and behavior of others. Nevertheless, motorcycle culture's propaganda factories continuously spew forth messages like, "People don't mind having their communities turned into war zones" and, "Priggism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions". What they don't tell you, though, is that you may be wondering why officious doofuses latch onto motorcycle culture's inveracities. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why motorcycle culture possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, it can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it.
When I'm through with motorcycle culture, it'll think twice before attempting to rescue clericalism from the rubbish heap of history, dust it off, slap on a coat of cheap sophistry, and market it as new and improved. There's only one proper consideration here: the harm that'll be caused if motorcycle culture's allowed to trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry. All else is abstract, unrestrained, intellectual hooey. It is becoming increasingly obvious to many people that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Of course, if motorcycle culture had learned anything from history, it'd know that the snappish nature of its ruses distracts us from the real lessons we could learn from a rigorous critique of motorcycle culture's pleas. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I meant to say is that once one begins thinking about free speech, about biased, shameless delinquents who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own discourteous beliefs, one realizes that if motorcycle culture continues to make anarchism socially acceptable, I will clearly be obliged to do something about it. And you know me: I never neglect my obligations. Considering the corruption and foolishness that characterize conniving stirrers, if motorcycle culture gets its way, none of us will be able to build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. Therefore, we must not let motorcycle culture promote the parasitic policies of hostile mafia dons. I stand by what I've written before, that motorcycle culture doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. It uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. If we let motorcycle culture recruit and encourage young people to raise extortionate demands, just as older drug dealers use young kids to push drugs, then greed, corruption, and antidisestablishmentarianism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions.
Motorcycle culture's overgeneralizations were never about tolerance and equality. That was just window dressing for the "innocents". Rather, motorcycle culture has only half (if that) of the information needed to make an informed decision about voyeurism. That's pretty transparent. What's not so transparent is the answer to the following question: In view of motorcycle culture's sexist claims, what does it make sense for us to do now? A clue might be that I have to wonder where motorcycle culture got the idea that it is my view that it is a spokesman for God. This sits hard with me because it is simply not true and I've never written anything to imply that it is. Motorcycle culture's fairy tales prove that it did little to no research before concluding that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance, period. I apologize if what I'm saying sounds painfully obvious, painfully self-evident. However, it is so extremely important that I must truly say it. If motorcycle culture continues to use both overt and covert deceptions to detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity -- family, class, private associations -- the result can be a tone-deafness, a cluelessness, on matters that are at the center of experience for vast segments of the population.
I get concerned when I see motorcycle culture wipe out delicate ecosystems. Equally important is the fact that it loves getting up in front of people and telling them that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming. It then boasts about how it'll make people suspicious of those who speak the truth one of these days. It's all part of the media spectacle that is motorcycle culture. Of course, it soaks it up and wallows in it like a pig in mud. Speaking of pigs and mud, everything I've said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that it's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of craven power brokers like motorcycle culture can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. Motorcycle culture's holier-than-thou attitudes are like a Hydra. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim that its historical record of pugnacious, rebarbative treatises is clearer than the muddled pronouncements of its worshippers. The only way to destroy its Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the knowledge that several things motorcycle culture has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of its that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how the laws of nature don't apply to it.
Despite total incompetence, motorcycle culture is often afflicted with an amazing conceit which causes it to impose ideology, control thought, and punish virtually any behavior it disapproves of. Motorcycle culture has never inscribed its name on the Parthenon of human excellence, either mental or moral. The reason is clear. Motorcycle culture's older equivocations were rude enough. Its latest ones are unmistakably beyond the pale.
The space remaining in this letter will not suffice even to enumerate the ways in which motorcycle culture has tried to scar little children's self-image. There are rumors circulating that it's hard to fathom just how unsavory motorcycle culture is, so let me just clarify something: If it were up to motorcycle culture, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. I should add parenthetically that motorcycle culture appears to have found a new tool to use to help it undermine the current world order. That tool is teetotalism, and if you watch it wield it, you'll doubtlessly see why you may be worried that it will see to it that all patriotic endeavors are directed down blind alleys, where they end in frustration and discouragement some day. If so, then I share your misgivings. But let's not worry about that now. Instead, let's discuss my observation that according to motorcycle culture, dodgy, dim-witted thought police aren't ever disdainful. It might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then motorcycle culture would realize that sometime in the future it will condemn innocent people to death. Fortunately, that hasn't happened...yet. But it will unquestionably happen if we don't think outside the box. Given the tenor of our times, malodorous racketeers are more susceptible to motorcycle culture's brainwashing tactics than are any other group. Like water, their minds take the form of whatever receptacle it puts them in. They then lose all recollection that what motorcycle culture is doing falls just short of giving handguns to schoolchildren. How much more illumination does that fact need before motorcycle culture can grasp it? Assuming the answer is "a substantial amount", let me point out that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: motorcycle culture.
Motorcycle culture can't help it; it just loves to permit nugatory, subversive poseurs to rise to positions of leadership and authority. Ever since motorcycle culture decided to replace our natural soul with an artificial one, its consistent, unvarying line has been that one can understand the elements of a scientific theory only by reference to the social condition and personal histories of the scientists involved. Speaking of which, motorcycle culture wants you to believe that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by motorcycle culture's overbearing dissertations. Motorcycle culture's slaves all have serious personal problems. In fact, the way it keeps them loyal to it is by encouraging and exacerbating these problems rather than by helping to overcome them.
Even without the fatuous ideology of terrorism in the picture, we can still say that if one could get a Ph.D. in Sadism, motorcycle culture would be the first in line to have one. What, then, does "thymolsulphonephthalein" mean? It means considerably more than any dictionary is likely to say. Do not let inflammatory rhetoric and misleading and inaccurate statements decide your position on this issue. Motorcycle culture's argument that it is the way, the truth, and the light is hopelessly flawed and completely circuitous. Motorcycle culture's prevarications are based on hate. Hate, gnosticism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life.
Anyone with an IQ two points higher than a wet sponge's knows that motorcycle culture is unable to deal with a world populated by human beings. But, even so, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am shocked and angered by motorcycle culture's tasteless improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated. In closing, although this letter has been lengthy there are still a large number of comments about motorcycle culture that I have had to leave aside. I didn't even begin to mention, for instance, that I could go on in this same vein for hours. Anyway, the important point is that motorcycle culture should stop caterwauling about what it doesn't understand.
MooseDrool
04-26-2007, 10:34 AM
I stopped reading after the first 2 sentences. A.D.D.
me too
another one u could do is how we r stereotyped by people who dont ride and cops as being stupid trouble making organ donors just cause we ride streetbikes
Jsquared
04-26-2007, 01:13 PM
You're no help evil!
4 pages done, 4 more to go!!!!
WOO HOO Half way done :D
Eviloliv3
04-26-2007, 07:14 PM
hahaha i sense some sort of automated essay generator that spews out B.S.
:cool: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/ (http://www.pakin.org/complaint/)
You're no help evil!
4 pages done, 4 more to go!!!!
i DO have a name... SARAH!!!
Eviloliv3
04-26-2007, 10:43 PM
you dont just call everyone by there forum name? haha
i wouldnt feel comfortable calling you "magnum" in front of others
what you and i do behind closed doors is a different thing...
Eviloliv3
04-26-2007, 10:46 PM
4 pages done, 4 more to go!!!!
use double spaces. problem solved...
slyfox
04-27-2007, 07:33 AM
use double spaces. problem solved...
It already is.
you dont just call everyone by there forum name? haha
Sorry I forget who's who sometimes!
i wouldnt feel comfortable calling you "magnum" in front of others
what you and i do behind closed doors is a different thing...
LOL
Eviloliv3
04-29-2007, 12:49 PM
Umm that's a little obvious...
Anyway, 7.5 pages!!!
just copy and paste a paragraph from the middle somewhere. the teachers dont read it all the way through and just read the conclusion.
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