Posted on 12/08/2005 5:42:45 AM PST by tuffydoodle
Yesterday my husband and I were doing some errands. We were stopped at a red light and woman in a truck pulled up beside us, but just a little ahead. On her back window was a sticker that said, "I f#$%ed your boyfriend." (it was written out, no symbols like I just did) She also had several other offensive stickers, but that one was by far the worst. When the light turned green we got up beside her, my husband honked several times to get her attention but she wouldn't look at us. She finally did and I mouthed "you pig" at her. I'm just glad I didn't have my 5 kids with me, included my 6 year old who likes to read everything she sees, out loud.
She looked like a cowgirl dyke. Even Max has his standards... (I think)
Max has standards!?
Punchline of the day!!!
So if the sign said " I layed your boyfriend "it would be OK or "I screwed your boyfriend". Frankly a word can be made to mean anything the user wants. You can call the VP Dick but you can't call him A Dick.You can say the donkey got the rooster but not the ass got the cock. See what I mean? I do not need the word police in my life.
Around here, at least, 911 is NOT just for life threatening emergencies. If you want to report a crime and call the PD they'll have you call 911. Here 911 is "dispatch" - it's the same place that we report to and from which we get, uh, dispatched, whether it's for a car on the lid in a ditch or last weeks egging of your windshield.
Thank you, Humpty Dumpty.
Here on earth, certain words are obscene and there is no excuse for coarsening our society by accepting them in public. In private, knock yourself out. In public, I don't want my children reading your filth. It's not a hard concept to understand. If you urinate in your bathroom, it's not obscene. If you do it in the parking lot of the supermarket, it is.
SD
What is obscene to you may be everyday language for others. Don't paint yourself so rightous. It is a cruel mean world out there in someone elses element. Grow a thicker skin and be prepared for it.
eastforker, do you have children?
"Grow a thicker skin and be prepared for it."
It's not our ADULT skin than we are worried about. We are trying to protect our children from public obscene material.
Get a little respect for other people. Obscenity is defined by community standards, always has been. The community in public is broader than the gang you work with or hang out with at the local watering hole. I'm no shrinking violet, and i've used a word or two. Heck, I think Jay and Silent Bob can be hilarious. But I wouldn't want my 4 year old watching it, or having some jackass spewing obscenities in public.
SD
How come it's his element and not mine? Let him grow a thicker skin!
Seriously, where do you draw the line? (Or is that a legitimate question?) Display of genitals? Copulating in public?
Is there some good in keeping kids from the knowledge and the use of certain obscenities and profanities for a while? If so, and if bumper-stickers with obscenities are licit, then people with kids seem to me to end up burdened in a way which is arguably as inhibiting of freedom as prohibiting a I F%$#ked your boyfriend bumper-sticker might be.
My children are all grown and gone on their own. If you shelter children of all evil they may not recognise it as an adult. As others have said if the word is encountered by your children use it as a teaching moment.They will hear or see it when you are not around. This is not some mid eastern muslim country that has the vice police punishing people on the street over morality issues.Will you want to call the police on some woman who is a little to scantily dressed in your opinion?
Shoot someone over a bumper sticker? Yea, I think that's what Jesus would do too. Some here say he even casted the first stone.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hypocrite to you and yours.
Keeping kids from the knowledge is much worse than teaching them your morals when it is encountered. How many times here on this fourum have we seen WTF or STFU. Do you read them as just letters or for what they stand for. Same for others here that write the word God as G-D. Did they think the word God or did they think G-D.
Don't worry. I don't think anybody here was talking about sheltering children from ALL evil, just from this one and from SOME evil. We used to have obscenity laws, until the Supremes decided that Carol Doda's silicon-expanded mammaries were "speech", and we managed to avoid instituting Shariah law.
I don't think we have to exaggerate or to contemplate only the extremes.
"Will you want to call the police on some woman who is a little to scantily dressed in your opinion?"
If it was obscene, yes.
Thanks. You, too.
"Besides the boyfriend one, there was the one of the little boy peeing and under the stream, it said something else about a boyfriend."
Puh-leeze. I see those all the time with Nascar fans. Now, if it was on a minivan with a soccer ball decal, shoot away (sarcasm).
Again, its a word. BFD.
Obscene to you, what about others that may not think so. Why should your opinion be the only one that matters. A bikini is okay but an outfit showing a bra and panties is taboo?
Fantasy Fest is this week in KW....if you happen to be down there, be sure not to open your eyes...
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