'I'm a Pastafarian': Man who claims his religion forces him to wear a sieve

[kwassa]

on his head given permission to wear one on his official identity card picture.

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Brno City Hall spokesman Pavel Zara explained: 'The application complies with the laws of the Czech Republic where headgear for religious or medical reasons is permitted if it does not hide the face.'

Novy claims to be a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, when emerged in the USA as spoof on organised religion.

[ZombieHorde]

1. I am happy to see this act of religious freedom.

Good for the Czech Republic, and good for that believer.

[rug]

2. I have another phrase for wearing a pot on one's head.

The phrase is not an "act of religious freedom".

[ZombieHorde]

4. It is a sieve, not a pot.

And I happen to think it looks delightfully silly.

[cbayer]

6. It's a strainer, not a sieve.

[progressoid]

7. Our denomination calls them colanders.

[kwassa]

8. so, now Pastafarians divide into colanders, sieves, and strainers! Schismatics! Where is the unity?

It had to happen.

[progressoid]

10. I've heard that some of the more modern ones use PLASTIC!

[cbayer]

11. In my religion, we find multiple uses for it.

I have used it as a steamer basket with great success!

[kwassa]

12. Metal is the orthodox position, plastic is clearly heretical.

[CincyDem]

26. I think those are only used by Reformed FSM members. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

28. Plastic?

That's just the reform Pastafarians, not the regular ones.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. Bloody splitters!

[Dollface]

16. It is the Holy Colander, blessed of His Noodlyness because He Boiled for Us inside it

[kwassa]

18. No, he boiled in the Pot of Purgatory, and was drained of his suffering in Holy Colander.

"Forgive them, for they know not what they boil."

[Dollface]

33. Rats! I've been caught skipping the catechism. Now I'm in hot water.

[rug]

9. Where the hell do you think you are to draw such distinctions? Religion?

[2ndAmForComputers]

20. U mad bro?

[rug]

21. Yes, I fly into a rage at someone wearing a pot on his head.

[bunnies]

3. He's been touched by the noodly appendage.

Ramen.

[kentauros]

19. I wonder if he reads

the Gnocchi Gospels...

[okasha]

25. I think we should all remember

the Holy First Prophet Joxer, who wore a flattened metal collander as a breastplate. This should settle the heretical status of plastic, and certainly calls into question the schismatic usage of wearing such a sacred object on the (possibly unwashed) head.

[cbayer]

5. Hey, if he wants his official picture to be of him wearing kitchenware, go for it.

[customerserviceguy]

29. If anything

you could say he was a sort of exhibitionist. Or he has the other form of Attention Deficit Disorder, where he feels he's not getting enough attention unless he's doing something outrageous.

Of course, when my company adopted its disasterous software, and I freaked out somewhat, I did tell my supervisors, "You can believe that I'm evil, that I really want to hurt this company, or that I'm stupid, that I just can't possibly understand this stuff, or that perhaps I see something that the rest of you don't."

Given my associates degree in computer network administration, they at least had to consider the latter alternative...

[cbayer]

30. Love that answer.

So, were you right?

[customerserviceguy]

31. We're still struggling

with that software, even today. It takes a new person a long time to learn it, even after a most extended training course, they make serious mistakes for almost a year.

Yeah, they know I was right, but the groupthink of our management "team" doesn't question what comes from The Big Giant Head. I put the word "team" in quotes, because there have been numerous firings and ship jumpings of those most intimately involved in the project to bring us the software.

[cbayer]

32. I've worked with "teams" like that before.

Very frustrating.

I was involved in a massive software implementation for electronic medical records.

While there was actually a lot of teamwork, it was a nightmare start to finish.

[TNNurse]

13. I hate to be serious

but I am afraid this gentleman has some actual psychiatric issues that might need to be addressed. I enjoyed all the jokes but suspect that this might be "something". Sorry, the nurse in me just could not ignore the signs. Yes, I know there are many folks out there with true mental illness who look and dress "normally" but there is a feeling of problems there. I take a risk that I will draw criticism of all types....but sometimes.....you just have to say what you feel.

[cbayer]

14. I've read about him before and I think he's just mocking religion, to be honest.

He's been previously described as a prankster and there are others in the country that have done the same.

I'm with you when it comes to mocking the mentally ill, but the information I have would lead me to believe that that he is not.

I surely do understand and appreciate your concern, though.

[TNNurse]

17. thanks

as I said, I thought the jokes were funny and have no problem mocking religion when it is richly deserved.

[hrmjustin]

24. Please lets not make things personal here. I did not alert but I agree with it.

[DeSwiss]

15. My what thick spaghetti you have!

- K&R

[CincyDem]

27. Conversation overheard just 3 minutes before this picture was taken.

"I dare you".

"How much?"

"How much what?"

"How much you pay me to wear this pot on my head?"

"Nuttin'. I just know you're a chickenshit if you don't wear it."

And then the clerk said...."Next..."