Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear". Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons. Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism. The Austrian authorities required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive. The idea came into Mr Alm's noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point. A self-confessed atheist, Mr Alm says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted faith whose members call themselves pastafarians. A medical interview established the self-styled 'pastafarian' was mentally fit to drive The group's website states that "the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma". In response to pressure for American schools to teach the Christian theory known as intelligent design, as an alternative to natural selection, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote to the Kansas School Board asking for the pastafarian version of intelligent design to be taught to schoolchildren, as an alternative to the Christian theory. Straining credulity In the same spirit, Mr Alm's pastafarian-style application for a driving licence was a response to the Austrian recognition of confessional headgear in official photographs. The licence took three years to come through and, according to Mr Alm, he was asked to submit to a medical interview to check on his mental fitness to drive but - straining credulity - his efforts have finally paid off. It is the police who issue driving licences in Austria, and they have duly issued a laminated card showing Mr Alm in his unorthodox item of religious headgear. The next step, Mr Alm told the Austrian news agency APA, is to apply to the Austrian authorities for pastafarianism to become an officially recognised faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 File under 'b' for ballbag . On a level with 'jedi' on a census form tbh . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 No really, he's an atheist proving a point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 No really, he's an atheist proving a point What point though? Who cares? The bloke and people likehim are just attention seeking pricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I recognise all types of pasta . He's a silly sausage all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 things cannelloni get better . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 You always have to take a joke too far(falle). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 His religion is FuSilli buggers, like Gemell(i). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 aye, his passata stinks . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Some of the posts he pennes are pasta best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Though others make me a bit gigli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 He does post quality on a fregula basis mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Photo taken on the most holy day in the colander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Its unlikely hes got a girlfriend it has to be said. Its probably a canneloni existence tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Leazes on any second slagging the ragu heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 spaghetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'm sure there's simmer to come but i'm drained . . . All this talk of Momma's meatballs got me thinking of the thread ToughGuyMick set away on gangster films/docu's and you all started quoting stuff at him and he didn't have a clue . The pesto-headed babboon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anth 113 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Leazes on any second slagging the ragu heads. Winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It made me chuckle, and it does prove a point... pasta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenL 0 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 No really, he's an atheist proving a point What point though? Who cares? The bloke and people likehim are just attention seeking pricks. He feels strongly enough about it to wait 3 years for a licence. If he wanted attention he could have just sent a picture of his cock instead, scanned it, and emailed it around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2207 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 It all had to unravioli at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Dunno gnocchi's problem is tbh . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Imagine if he hadn't pasta driving test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Gemelli hates these punning threads btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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