{"id":6403,"date":"2011-07-18T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2011-07-18T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:56:08","slug":"austrian-pasta-man-thinks-hes-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Pasta Man Thinks He&#8217;s Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a title=\"STV - Man Wears Pasta Strainer\" href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.stv.tv\/showbiz\/262838-man-wears-pasta-strainer-on-driving-licence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snip in STV reports that an Austrian man<\/a> has been allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head on his driver&#8217;s licence photo.<\/p>\n<p>Under the mistaken belief that he has a sense of humour, I would guess, Niko Alm said he must wear the utensil for religious reasons. He claims to be a member of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose followers call themselves &#8216;Pastafarians&#8217;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Austrian authorities have taken 3 years to decide he can do this. Apparently, they asked for him to be assessed by a doctor to make sure he was mentally fit to drive.<\/p>\n<p>I think the doctor should also have been asked to assess the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Alm is an atheist. In other words, he doesn&#8217;t have a religion &#8211; he&#8217;s just a base-level shit-stirrer.<\/p>\n<p>(I won&#8217;t file this under &#8220;funny&#8221;. Alm isn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s just an idiot.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This snip in STV reports that an Austrian man has been allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head on his driver&#8217;s licence photo. Under the mistaken belief that he has a sense of humour, I would guess, Niko Alm said he must wear the utensil for religious reasons. He claims to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}