They have silly facial hair and ride single-speed bikes. Who are they?
I wouldn't be surprised if you said "hipsters". That's probably the answer I would give, too.
Miep von Sydow has another answer:
Perhaps not surprisingly, von Sydow is a Swedish-American military historian. This photo, on her blog, shows a World War I German bicycle infantry unit on the Western Front in 1914.
Now, I don't think it ever would have occurred to them, or hipsters, to beat swords into plowshares--or paintbrushes or handlebars or anything else. If it had, the result might look something like this:
At least the silly facial hair isn't as noticeable on the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride!
I wouldn't be surprised if you said "hipsters". That's probably the answer I would give, too.
Miep von Sydow has another answer:
Perhaps not surprisingly, von Sydow is a Swedish-American military historian. This photo, on her blog, shows a World War I German bicycle infantry unit on the Western Front in 1914.
Now, I don't think it ever would have occurred to them, or hipsters, to beat swords into plowshares--or paintbrushes or handlebars or anything else. If it had, the result might look something like this:
At least the silly facial hair isn't as noticeable on the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride!
