She's not keen on pickles either by the look of it.
Society/Culture Being 'offended' - Australia's favourite pastime?
- Thread starter fairdinkum
- Start date
- Tagged users None
- Thread starter
- #127
Here's a different take.
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...es-for-gay-cricket-remark-20120604-1zqoh.html
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...es-for-gay-cricket-remark-20120604-1zqoh.html
And thats how it should be, people have the right to voice disapproval he can apologise, if he wishes.
Came across this youtube i thought fitting for this thread. The problems go to a new level once we start policing whats offensive which is whats happening now, we open up the can of worms. We have political correctness going crazy, now the political correct police.
Erode our freedoms, then we all should be offended
Mark Steyn's Australian Freedom of Speech Tour 2012
being annoyed seems to be a default stance. people need to chill. and like the hamburger thing, i wonder if those of us inclined are driven to embellish our annoyance a bit so that it becomes 'more valid'.
places like ninemsn (who have recently added their own comment section which could potentially rival the herald sun in terms of idiocy) outsourcing their news to the lowest common denominator doesn't help. you the reader can contribute, send in photos, etc etc. ninemsn shouldn't have given this lady time of day.
places like ninemsn (who have recently added their own comment section which could potentially rival the herald sun in terms of idiocy) outsourcing their news to the lowest common denominator doesn't help. you the reader can contribute, send in photos, etc etc. ninemsn shouldn't have given this lady time of day.
The Prosecutor
Brownlow Medallist
- Sep 13, 2011
- 12,188
- 19,251
- AFL Club
- Essendon
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/swifter-higher-stronger-dumber/story-e6frfhqf-1226387957984
Can anyone tell me how this photo is offensive?
Has anybody said that it is offensive? I thought the line from the AOC was that it was innapropriate.
Theses are two guys who have big question marks over their heads going into the Olympics.
One punched a teamate and has since claimed bankruptcy to avoid paying court sanctioned damages. The other filed a false police report to avoid anybody finding out that he had fallen off his skateboard and got injured.
As a result of their own actions, they have brought attention to themselves.
The pic is not offensive, but clearly these 2 guys are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Theses are two guys who have big question marks over their heads going into the Olympics.
One punched a teamate and has since claimed bankruptcy to avoid paying court sanctioned damages. The other filed a false police report to avoid anybody finding out that he had fallen off his skateboard and got injured.
As a result of their own actions, they have brought attention to themselves.
The pic is not offensive, but clearly these 2 guys are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
The Prosecutor
Brownlow Medallist
- Sep 13, 2011
- 12,188
- 19,251
- AFL Club
- Essendon
The Herald Sun are definitely playing up the offensive angle, mentioning the term 'offensive' both in the heading and in the body.
That said thing is, people will be offended, only because they are told they should be.
- Nov 20, 2011
- 10,164
- 1,259
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
- Banned
- #133
Can anyone tell me how this photo is offensive?
It isn't.
The state and it's corporate masters in the media don't like the idea of the social acceptance amongst the slave class of implements that can be utilised to overthrow or destabilise the state and it's corporate masters.
- Thread starter
- #134
I've disagreed with you in the past but you are spot on the money this time, Prosecutor.
That photo even making the news at all is a joke. I don't buy the hardcopy of the Hun but it wouldn't surprise me if that 'story' made it to one of the first three or four pages.
That photo even making the news at all is a joke. I don't buy the hardcopy of the Hun but it wouldn't surprise me if that 'story' made it to one of the first three or four pages.
One of the most stupid media beatups of all time. Journos should be ashamed of themselves, along with the dimwit anti gun lobby pushing it.
Having shot 60 rounds of an AK47 in Cambodia a few weeks ago, I am offended at the soft**** nature of their weaponry.
lolwut?
If the picture was of them smoking a bong, you'd get a similar reaction. Misplaced though the outrage is, it has nothing to do with your pseudo-anarchist fantasies.
evo
Let's hit the f*ken road!
Angkor Wat is pretty awesome, eh.
- Thread starter
- #140
And that's the problem imo.
Smoking a bong is actually illegal in Australia, and (probably) detrimental to their training for the Olympics. So public outcry would at least be somewhat justified. Very different to posing with guns in a legal gunstore yet, as you rightly point out, the reaction is as though they've committed crimes and/or hurt their own chances at the Games.
Ridiculous.
Well, substitute 'smoking a bong' for 'posing with half-naked strippers' then. Basically, people want public figures to be role models that conform with their own ideas of appropriate behaviour. If they don't, the public/media get outraged.
It's stupid, but it's not a conspiracy to further repression of the proletariat.
It's stupid, but it's not a conspiracy to further repression of the proletariat.
evo
Let's hit the f*ken road!
Where does getting outraged by the HUN fit in with all this?
Seems to me that is one of the favourite pastimes of all.
Seems to me that is one of the favourite pastimes of all.
I know, but your post made me realise an element of my original analogy that was flawed.
- Nov 20, 2011
- 10,164
- 1,259
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
- Banned
- #145
Why does the Hun make a big deal of the matter and the myriad of other similiar sensationalist s**t it vomits on a daily basis?
Will you delete my amygdala/conservative sheep thing, if I post it again?
Pie eyed
Premium Platinum
- Jun 26, 2007
- 42,593
- 23,344
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Magpies
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/swifter-higher-stronger-dumber/story-e6frfhqf-1226387957984
Can anyone tell me how this photo is offensive?
I laughed when I heard the "uproar" this morning.
Totally s**t journalism gone mad.
Those who "allegedly" were offended should see a psychiatrist.
- Nov 20, 2011
- 10,164
- 1,259
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
- Banned
- #147
The Herald Sun would have us believe that you were referring to a sizeable chunk of the population.
If this is so, then fortunately we have democracy to protect us from idiots.
..............oh wait.
Si Botak
Team Captain
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/swifter-higher-stronger-dumber/story-e6frfhqf-1226387957984
Can anyone tell me how this photo is offensive?
s**t Triggerguard discipline.
Agree, makes you wonder what the world is coming to if this is any sort of issue at all. Ill be interested in the coming days to see how many in the media go into bat for them. Worst thing is these poor buggers will feel like theyve committed some terrible crime. Hopefully the HS are coping/ get a serve for it.
Similar threads
