[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by SilverStreak

...but at Roy Rogers with kids around?

Holy $hit -- you would take your kid(s) to eat at Roy Rogers? Even with all the scandalous hype after the video surfaced featuring Dale Evans with Trigger?!?

You are a sick, sick man...

[smdubovsky]

I *FAIL* for even taking it this far in this thread

Originally Posted by SilverStreak

...Wearing a picture of mohammed would not get you stoned here but elsewhere it would.

No? Tell that to the danish press, salmon rushdie(?), or people in NY one Sept a couple years ago. History is full of intolerant people trying to enforce their views on people who don't live there. Sometimes w/ a sword, sometimes w/ a pen. Both are just as wrong.

Originally Posted by SilverStreak

...inconsiderate, amoral miscreant... This society frowns on it and it should.

No, YOUR society frowns upon it. Hers obviously doesn't. Who are you to impose your morality on her? If you don't want your daughter to see foul words, homosexuals, drug addicts, war, and whatever else you find offensive then lock her in a box now until shes 18 (I know, every fathers secret wish). The freedoms we have in this country are what makes it great. The "whore" deserves them as much as you and your daughter. If you don't agree, move somewhere else

I actually mostly agree w/ you and am just playing the devils advocate here BUT the way you stated your argument is very elitist.

[Potomac-Greg]

Originally Posted by AJ986S

In principle I do agree. But I'm not sure which is the better response philosophy. Since we do have have certain freedoms, censorship is sometimes problematic. But I tend to feel that pointing out the DumbAssGene behaviour is sometimes helpful. I wouldn't necessarily want to draw attention to it in front of a child. But if they were to ask, I don't think it needs to be a big, dramatic production. Simply point out that some people are idiots, and shame on them for not knowing better. I've seen too many "strict" households over the years, where the kids ended up being the most obnoxious, irreverant, disgusting cretins out there. (heck...some are even on this board....)
I guess its kinds like germs.....so much attention is spent lately on being sanitary and clean, that kids aren't naturally developing immunities any longer; the world did reasonably well for centuries without all those costly disinfectants. A little dirt isn't gonna kill ya.....

Exposing a 5 year old to germs is not exactly the same thing as explaining to them a creative sexual act.

And freedom of speech is a right we have in relation to our government. It doesn't help to confuse the right of free speech with propriety. Nobody's saying that this shirt was illegal or should be illegal; it was just inappropriate. And I don't think it's a matter of opinion. I honor her right to make that dumbass statement, as she surely supports my right to critique it. As long as nobody passes a law to abridge it, then we're all cool from a Constitutional perspective.

I'm sure the kid in her womb will grow up to have a great sense of humor.

[Rick V]

Ok I think the important question here is did she have a nice looking mouth?

[Dr K]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Ok I think the important question here is did she have a nice looking mouth?

I don't know about her, but "you have a real purdy mouth..."

Peter

PS: great book, great movie.

[Rick V]

Moooooooooooomy, The mean Dr. is scaring meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Moooooooooooomy, The mean Dr. is scaring meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Don't be scared -- at least he was looking at someone's mouth this time

[Dr K]

Originally Posted by BlackTalon

Don't be scared -- at least he was looking at someone's mouth this time

[SilverStreak]

Originally Posted by smdubovsky

I *FAIL* for even taking it this far in this thread



No? Tell that to the danish press, salmon rushdie(?), or people in NY one Sept a couple years ago. History is full of intolerant people trying to enforce their views on people who don't live there. Sometimes w/ a sword, sometimes w/ a pen. Both are just as wrong.



No, YOUR society frowns upon it. Hers obviously doesn't. Who are you to impose your morality on her? If you don't want your daughter to see foul words, homosexuals, drug addicts, war, and whatever else you find offensive then lock her in a box now until shes 18 (I know, every fathers secret wish). The freedoms we have in this country are what makes it great. The "whore" deserves them as much as you and your daughter. If you don't agree, move somewhere else

I actually mostly agree w/ you and am just playing the devils advocate here BUT the way you stated your argument is very elitist.

There is a sense of decency and decorum that we have lost. Period. Elitist or not. Would you wear that shirt to dinner with your grandmother? I wouldn't and since fast food places are generally filled with senior citizens she essentially wore a t-shirt with a foul message to dinner with her grandmother.

There's no arguing that it is inappropriate. Her right to wear it notwithstanding, she's thoughtless to put everyone around her in an awkward position. We weren't at a bar. It wasn't her bachelorette party.

And for the record, her mouth was nothing to look at. If it had been . . .

[tdatk]

And now for something completely different...
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article...er_shoots_self