Comments on: …and Dionysus is an arsehole

By: Moz

Moz — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:00:57 +0000

So who decides what’s offensive? I’m offended that in the 21st Century there are still people stupid enough to believe in God, Allah, Jehova, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy, but I don’t feel they should be arrested for their mind-numbing idiocy

By: Dazmosis

Dazmosis — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:04:44 +0000

Nice tits though

By: blog.jeffbrock.org » Tony Blair’s Britain

blog.jeffbrock.org » Tony Blair’s Britain — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:05:41 +0000

[...] Ah, Britain. Where you can be fined for saying ‘f..k’ in a private conversation. Where every single child will soon be fingerprinted. Where all people will be ordered to carry an I.D. card at all times, to be swiped every time they withdraw a fairly small amount of money from the bank, buy an airline ticket, apply for a fishing license, purchase property, apply for a library card, get a prescription filled, and so on. Where the government wants to make the possession of “abusive porn” a crime. Where you can be sentenced to 80 hours of community service for wearing the wrong T-shirt. Where having a pen knife in your car can get you arrested. Where being too fat can get you carted off to a mental institution. Where government workers will come to your home to verify you’re not using too much electricity, and to note whether or not you smoke. Where all vehicles’ whereabouts will soon be monitored by satellite 24/7. Where you’ll get fined for using a pencil instead of a pen when filling out a form. Where people are captured by video surveillance cameras some 300 times a day. Where officials tell you how to go to the bathroom. [...]

By: Jesus is a cunt | ]V[orlock ? Liberitas

Jesus is a cunt | ]V[orlock ? Liberitas — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:26:40 +0000

[...] Ayer fui a la farmacia y había un hombre con una camiseta que en la espalda ponía "Jesus is a cunt". Me quedé trabado porque no creía que estuviese leyendo bien, pero después de releerlo tres veces me convencí de lo que estaba viendo. Después de buscar en Internet me he enterado de que es una canción del grupo Cradle of Filth y en Nueva York un chico fue condenado a ochenta [80] horas de trabajos a la comunidad por llevar esta camiseta puesta. La camiseta es así por delante [otra toma] y así por detrás. [...]

By: martin reed

martin reed — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:33:04 +0000

Arent british policeman wonderful?
TITHEADS ONE AND ALL !!!

By: Ian Clenshaw

Ian Clenshaw — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:03:31 +0000

BTW The Sisters Of Mercy succesfully defended the sale of their t-shirt “Fuck Me And Marry Me Young” with the ruse that that particular use of the word “Fuck’ was it’s established Anglo-Saxon meaning and not deliberatley offensive.

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:53:08 +0000

christ what is wrong with the law? If I got done for wearing the t-shirt I’d tell them to go fuck themselves. They have no right at all to tell us how we can and cant dress its not up to them. I mean so what it says Cunt on the back I’m sure they use that word as often as we do the fucking assholes.

By: Jaf

Jaf — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:36:59 +0000

The only thing I find objectinable aboput this whole thing is the implication that Jesus actually ever existed. Maybe the t-shirt should have said ‘If there ever were such a person as Jesus (which there wasn’t) he would have been a cunt.’
Not exactly snappy though, is it?

By: yasar majeed

yasar majeed — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:53:41 +0000

oh la la la la All in all, the most appropriate punishment would’ve been for the cop to confiscate the t-shirt and make the kid walk home topless. That way people would be looking at him for his chest and nobody else’s. it is wrong ok so i am spy for all deaf people…

By: tom p

tom p — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:45:50 +0000

The police may have tried to make this a religious issue, but I recall people being punished for wearng ‘obscene’ t-shirts for quite some time.
If I remember correctly, some time around 1993 a kid somewhere in England (I think it was in the west country, but I could be wrong) was fined around a hundred quid for wearing a Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy t-shirt with “I can express more emotions than laughter, anger and let’s fuck” on it.
As I recall, the band paid the fine on the kid’s behalf.

I’m quite ambivalent about this, because of where the kid was. Context is everything. If I went into a crowded pub, saw a friend and called him a cunt then nobody would bat an eyelid. If he worked in an old-peoples’ home, I went in to see him and did the same, then it would probably unnecessarily offend pretty much all the residents (at least those who had their hearing aids turned up).
Since Devon is pretty much one big old peoples home, then I can understand the police taking that into account.

On the other hand, it is only a word, and one written in a heavy metal font, and thus probably pretty much illegible anyway.

the only truly objectionable thing about the t-shirt is the woman in a porno pose. The nuns habit is neither here nor there, but I do reckon that a picture of a naked woman frigging is unnecessary on a t-shirt.

All in all, the most appropriate punishment would’ve been for the cop to confiscate the t-shirt and make the kid walk home topless. That way people would be looking at him for his chest and nobody else’s.