America - Land of the Free...
 

This made me laugh and laugh.

REF: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...E13762,00.html


The US is a strange place. Wonderful and inspiring in so many ways, yet altogether laughable and scary in others.


Mr Mephisto

Lol...that's pretty pathetic. I can't believe that they are actually being serious about this.

Some standard of public decency is reasonable.

Land of the Free!*

* (Some restrictons apply. Void where prohibited)

to quote the BareNaked Ladies "It's all been done"
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=54910

it was ridiculus then and still is.

hahahaha. good one :lol:

back to the original post.
They might as well propose a bill that ban old people from wearing tacky clothes...jeeze...

f*** that. I wear them all of the time, because they are the best-fitting and most-comfortable.
What next?
Pretty soon we will be little hamsters on the wheel. If that happens, I'll move.

I say America The land of marginalizing freedom

For some reason the mass burning of Beatle records in mid 60's Georgia just popped into my mind.

I think I will call this
"Mandatory Eduction of National and State Equal Symbiosis"

Re: America - Land of the Free...
 

So I take it he's gonna outlaw overweight plumbers?

And I also assume that - due to his detailed description - he prefers to look at young men's sexual organs in blue silk underwear?:D

Here in Eugene you're likely to find naked people walking around come summer time downtown. And at the Oregon Country Fair... more naked people than I could count.

It takes a little getting used to... I wish it wasn't so shocking.

Why would one complain about seeing too many panties etc due to low cut jeans? Weird.

wouldn't it make more sense if they tell the companies that made these pants to stop making them...?

Hmm.. isn't Mardi Gras in Louisiana? Are they going to arrest every girl down there?

Doesn't matter. This bill won't pass..

offended= write a law
Good lord! It should be "Land of the almost free"

My first thought was that the plumber's are gonna be pissed. I found this on google.

http://www.realstupidnews.com/cheeky_louisana.html

The bill, aimed at teens who mimic the low-riding pants of pop music stars like Nelly and Britney Spears, has already had some unforeseen consequences, beginning with a lawsuit by the Plumber's Union (PU) Local 327.

"Butt crack exposure is a non-negotiable issue for our members," explained PU shop steward Dirk Valley. "It's an integral part of who we are as plumbers. You might as well ask cocktail waitresses to cover their cleavage. Or Kirk Douglas to cover his cleft chin."

land of the free ... hmmm ... it's not as bad as declaring the value of Pi to be 4, but it sounds a bit stupid.

reminds me of the Frank Zappa comment

interviewer: Mr Zappa, do you believe we can ever be free?
FZ: well, at least we can be cheap!

I wish it wasn't so damn snowy in Canada. I'd so be moving there tomorrow if I could handle the weather there.

Lol, that's too true.

There is more snow in upstate New York, Vermont and Minnisota than there is in Toronto...

Land of the free....as long as you don't speak your mind, follow all the rules, think the government doesn't lie to us, and believe all the mind numbing falsities that media feeds us.

//Insert trip to paranoia forum here

As always, it's easy to criticize a country where all the extensive precious freedoms we do possess have been secured by the blood of countless others.

Cheap shots have a markedly hollow ring...

Snow or not, its still damn cold there to someone who's spent their whole life in the Sonoran Desert.... I'm used to summer highs around 115F and winter lows around 35F. Although I'm sick of the heat, I can't take the cold.

Fair enough!

That's absurd.

I believe that a government, in no way, should be able to decide what I can and can not wear. If I wanted to wear a shirt that said "fuck Lousiana and it's government" I would wear it. If they have a problem with that, tough.

As far as the decency thing goes, I believe this nation is way too uptight about nudity and such. I think people should be allowed to wear whatever the hell they want, including nothing.

Agreed. It's far too easy for the media to jump on a bill that someone proposes and make a national scandal about it - having everyone foaming at the mouth screaming that the government won't stop them from wearing low cut pants.

Obviously the bill will never pass - but someone thought it was worth bringing the attention to the matter. That said, there's no need to rant about how the US restricts your freedoms when (a) nothing has been done, (b) it's just one state and would very quickly be overruled as unConstitutional

I don't like the fit of low-rise jeans, I won't wear them. But then again I (despite my weightloss) still wear granny-panies. *shrugs* not that it really matters, This law doesn't effect me.

There was a really funny piece about this last night on 'The Daily Show'. And I've never understood why we have to wear clothing in public. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of people I DO NOT want to see naked, and I would never go in public naked myself, but if someone doesn't want to wear clothes they should have every right not to.

I suspect that if I void where prohibited, I'll get arrested. But then, whaddya expect? :D

Yeah. Go to an airport and tell them you have a bombardier beetle in you lugage and see how fast they take you down.

Yes, he does. He's a politician. You can tell when politicians are lying 'cause sound is coming out of their pie-hole.

He's embarassed by his own filthy filthy thoughts. Sucks to be repressed.

*sigh* It's the corporations that rule - not the government :D
They can't go after the corporations, so they go after the people.

I'm not really sure I understand this comment, but if you mean that America owes all its liberties (if you will) to the "blood of countless others", then that's complete nonesense.

Yes, there was a revolution. But after than, the US has legislated for most of its laws. The US, unlike most countries in Europe, have never had to fight to defend their homeland or repel invaders. That's a good thing (before anyone starts accusing me of anti-Americanism).*

It wasn't a cheap shot. It was a joke. I was going to include a "unless you want to show your knickers" in the body of the post but I thought (justifiably as it turned out) that most people would see the pun and not react inappropriately.



Mr Mephisto


* I am not anti-American. Far far from it. But I'm unashamedly anti-Bush.

Understood.
I reacted more to the general direction the thread was taking.

The easy bashing of a great country with a great history of securing (not simply legislating) human freedom is not funny to me when it becomes such a common habit.

There's a fine line between public lewdness and being fashionable. It is up to the legislators (sometimes unfortunately), to decide where that line is. How many people in Louisiana, a deep south, very conservative state, are opposed to this bill? Not nearly as many as you might think, I'd bet. If the federal government tried to pass this kind of law, that'd be one thing, but for a state to say "The majority of our representatives, representing the majority of the people in their district, find this to be public lewdness" is well within their rights. If people in that state are truly opposed to it, they will voice that and have the bill defeated.