The 5 senses
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Better late than never. I was out being healthy today, and luckily it generated a post! If you ride a bike, as opposed to ride in a car, you get a different perspective on your surroundings. For a start, all 5 senses work in a different way.
Instead of your car passenger's perfume and doughnuts, you can smell first-hand the diesel, gas fumes, cow crap and pesticide spray in the fields. Yummy.
Instead of a dumb ass radio shock jock, you can hear the cackling mothers and foul-mouthed kids yakking on street corners. Listen out for the musical noise pollution too, emanating from passing vibrating cars, and appreciate the racket penetrating through bedroom windows shimmering under the pressure of mad bass beats. Life on the open road is sooooooo rewarding.
Instead of tasting the recycled air-con in the car, you can perpetually recycle your gummy spit until it becomes unbearable and then you, you know, make a space for some more!
Instead of seeing the rear of the car in front of you, you get to look into the passing cars, and because you are wearing shades, if you see someone interesting who is keeping under the 25mph limit, you can keep up and study them really hard without giving too much away.
And finally, the sense of touch. Like, how touching when arrogant fat-assed kids walk extra slowly across the road so they can get a close-up view of a healthy person in action. And how touching that you can almost feel their defiant breath on your cheek as you weave out their way. Or plough straight through them, in my own defiant way, staring them out through my shades, wishing them a good day and wishing they would get a life. Like they care.
Yes, cycling is a great hobby, enervating and relaxing and extra sensory. I recommend it, as long as it is conducted in the countryside away from civilisation.
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