Tulip
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Brave New World.
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You can't outlaw poor taste.
Where do you draw the line on questionable taste ? Pretty soon any comedy would be brow beaten out of existence because comedy usually involves offending someone's sensibilities.
They didn't break any law, and all the offended are doing is giving oxygen to their stupidity.
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I'll retract my statement for now, but don't be surprised if Damien Barrett breaks the story on Thursday night. He's the best in the business, you know..
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Who has suggested they face legal consequences? You seem to be saying there should be no outrage. It is such a black and white view to say people can act in anyway they want without breaking the law and not be critisiced. I agree comedians should be controversial, but surely you'd agree there's a line. I can't see how trivialising child abuse somehow falls into being acceptable
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Well I do think an actual comedy show/piece is a bit different to posting something on social media when you're in the public eye. You seem to agree considering you believe they are stupid?
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Freo do. Whether they dress up for it I'm not sure, players have in the past and they have definitely hit the piss hard.
Unless it's illegal, then everything is subject to each persons values system.
Be careful about enforcing your values too heavily on others. If people want to make poorly judged statements, as bad as that is, it shows a society not afraid to express itself. With good, also comes the bad and the ugly.
Most comedy has always been a dark edged statement on society.
What they did I didn't like, but that's about the sum of it. If they want to expose themselves to ridicule, then I support their rights to do so.
Now, who becomes the arbiter of poor taste?
Who makes the definitive judgements of what is and isn't allowed ?
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Clearly this right belongs to the person who is most offended. I'm ratcheting up.
And if the most offended person objects to your tshirt design, your going to a football game on a Sunday, your relaxed attitude to any range of social behaviours?
Are you then compelled to abide by their moral judgements?
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/photos-fnlmw1po-1227045110780/?page=1
Mitch Grigg loses out for going as himself
Hendo as Daniel Talia's cat
Surely that's not another Rolf
Lester Burnham
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I'm not psychic. I don't know what might offend other people. I am going to take 50 tshirts so I can change 'just in case' I offend someone. I might even nip out at half time if I realise I have inadvertantly offended someone and can't unoffend them.
Or you just go about your business knowing you're not breaking the law and if people don't like what you're doing...... that's their problem. If you get ridiculed for going about your business, then you've got to decide for yourself if the ridicule is worth it or not.
Mugatu from Zoolander
That is appalling. So insensitive to victims of serious assaults.
Viv Michie as a glassed Redfoo... witty, topical, nothing too attention seeking, original. Absolute gem. Freo should lament letting this guy go.
You insensitive campaigner. How do you think people born without the ability to judge sarcasm feel now?
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Redfoo or Scary Spice??
Viv Michie as a glassed Redfoo... witty, topical, nothing too attention seeking, original. Absolute gem. Freo should lament letting this guy go.
bjgoddard18
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There's a problem with that standard. When racial discrimination wasn't illegal you could make that argument but laws are always changing. Free speech has limitations for the overall benefit of society by protecting minorities and the vulnerable.
bjgoddard18
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Gee Finey is clueless here. He says this girl was not specifically named therefor it's ok, without realising that she is depicting all the children he abused.
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Understand Petts, the problem is whites simply don't have the mortgage on rascist nastiness, even in recent history.
But I know when dark-skinned people do white-face, it's not a nod to the Barbary Coast slave trade.
And when Asians do white-face they are not celebrating the atrocities inflicted by Japan on Anglos and Dutch in WW2.
Wear make-up or not, debate that, but NO exceptions for different colours.
By the way I once wanted to spoodge Petts myself! Unlucky with injuries was Kayne.
