This months 'crime' for two coppers....
Discussion
ing Nectar card" T shirt to Sainsbury's, and you can get those at the same place, would you be arrested for upsetting the cashiers? er....it COULD be offensive though.
What if it said "You're a c**t"? Should people be allowed to wander around wearing that sort of thing?
I managed to offend my grandmother, quite seriously, a while back by saying "well the royal family aint done a whole lot of worth for ages". She was really upset and cross with me - which I hadnt even consiered. So yeah - this t-shirt could offend people.....and what gives the right to teenage girls to go around randomly upsetting thoer people?
I think cot death jokes are quite amusing. lots of poeople really dont.
What if it said "You're a c**t"? Should people be allowed to wander around wearing that sort of thing?
I managed to offend my grandmother, quite seriously, a while back by saying "well the royal family aint done a whole lot of worth for ages". She was really upset and cross with me - which I hadnt even consiered. So yeah - this t-shirt could offend people.....and what gives the right to teenage girls to go around randomly upsetting thoer people?
I think cot death jokes are quite amusing. lots of poeople really dont.
nightmare said:
er....it COULD be offensive though.
That's quite a slippery slope to start down though. If we decide that no-one should be allowed outside their front door wearing an outfit that could potentially offend someone then what could we wear? Women would all have to wear burkhas (spelling?) as not doing so would offend certain religous types. But then wearing anything might offend militant nudists (assuming they exist).
Where will it end?
nightmare said:
er....it COULD be offensive though.
What if it said "You're a c**t"? Should people be allowed to wander around wearing that sort of thing?
I managed to offend my grandmother, quite seriously, a while back by saying "well the royal family aint done a whole lot of worth for ages". She was really upset and cross with me - which I hadnt even consiered. So yeah - this t-shirt could offend people.....and what gives the right to teenage girls to go around randomly upsetting thoer people?
I think cot death jokes are quite amusing. lots of poeople really dont.
“Bo**ocks to Blair” and “you’re a c***” are completely different; the former is an expression of opinion of Blair (justifiably so), the latter is an ignorant provocation aimed at anyone who reads it.
Would she have been arrested if the T-shirt read only “Bo**ocks” ?
I realise the irony of my censoring that word, so don’t bother pointing that out
Free speech.
Who cares if you offend someone, I get offended by Tony BLiar, but I don't ask for him to remove himself as PM of the country so I'm no longer offended.
Stupid bloody country.
If you don't like something, either cover your ears, eyes mouth or nose, or whichever sensory organ it is entering through, and move away.
Never been a problem for me.
Dave
Who cares if you offend someone, I get offended by Tony BLiar, but I don't ask for him to remove himself as PM of the country so I'm no longer offended.
Stupid bloody country.
If you don't like something, either cover your ears, eyes mouth or nose, or whichever sensory organ it is entering through, and move away.
Never been a problem for me.
Dave
nightmare said:
er....it COULD be offensive though.
What if it said "You're a c**t"? Should people be allowed to wander around wearing that sort of thing?
I dislike "FCUK" T-shirts, though I can see the funny side as well. Odd that B******* is offensive but FCUK isn't, yet both have a long and illustrious history in the English language.
Well, I need a couple more T shirts, one of these will do nicely. I've just ordered one
www.houndblair.com/
A tenner well spent I reckon....
www.houndblair.com/
A tenner well spent I reckon....
"I asked the officers how they could arrest someone for wearing a T-shirt and they told me it was because it would offend a 70-80-year-old woman."
So it appears that those BiB knew what would offend a 70 to 80-year old woman. Is this part of their training? Did they receive a complaint from any example person? Did they test their hypothesis on any such person?
Why wouldn't it offend a 69 year-old woman? Or one aged 81?
Why wouldn't it offend a 70 to 80-year old man? Were the police discriminating on the grounds of sex?
But much more importantly ...
Would the BiB have arrested her if it had read "Kobblers to Kennedy"? [Nu-Labia being supporters of modern education, that's probably how they'd spell it!]
On second thoughts, perhaps the police were right ... but we've missed the point. It wasn't that the BiB thought that "bollox" was offensive, but that they thought that "Blair" was!
On no! That's stupid of me, isn't it?
Streaky
PS - I wonder how long it would take the Met to send out an ARU if wore a T-shirt reading "FCUK Ken Livignstone" and stood in front of a C-Zone camera? - S
So it appears that those BiB knew what would offend a 70 to 80-year old woman. Is this part of their training? Did they receive a complaint from any example person? Did they test their hypothesis on any such person?
Why wouldn't it offend a 69 year-old woman? Or one aged 81?
Why wouldn't it offend a 70 to 80-year old man? Were the police discriminating on the grounds of sex?
But much more importantly ...
Would the BiB have arrested her if it had read "Kobblers to Kennedy"? [Nu-Labia being supporters of modern education, that's probably how they'd spell it!]
On second thoughts, perhaps the police were right ... but we've missed the point. It wasn't that the BiB thought that "bollox" was offensive, but that they thought that "Blair" was!
On no! That's stupid of me, isn't it?
Streaky
PS - I wonder how long it would take the Met to send out an ARU if wore a T-shirt reading "FCUK Ken Livignstone" and stood in front of a C-Zone camera? - S
[quote=streakyOn second thoughts, perhaps the police were right ... but we've missed the point. It wasn't that the BiB thought that "bollox" was offensive, but that they thought that "Blair" was!
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Could be on the right track but maybe its the wrong Blair and it refers to the T.Blair semiamise twin Ian Blair.
Would explain why the coppers found it offensive. Guess it would still be over the top when you could have just said "Blair is a prick" instead.
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Could be on the right track but maybe its the wrong Blair and it refers to the T.Blair semiamise twin Ian Blair.
Would explain why the coppers found it offensive. Guess it would still be over the top when you could have just said "Blair is a prick" instead.
autismuk said:
Who apparently arrested a young girl for having a tee-shirt with "Bollocks to Blair" on it.
Their argument was (apparently) that it might upset a 70-80 year old woman...
Where are we going ?
www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/392/68779.html
My own Mama ist in this age group - mailed her this story - she asks where she can purchase this T-shirt. 
So that se can wear it when she next come to visit me.. 
Have also taken straw poll amongst all little old ladies I know around here - starting with the farm shop's farmer's granny (aged 88) und the group of old biddies in the cake shop in the village this mornuing - aged between 70 -76 years... all would like their own t-shirt proclaiming their thoughts on the bloke in charge.....so thus not offensive to little old ladies...
Also each little old lady asked whether of not these officers had anything better to do - like "catching criminals" Und one asked which town - as it seem that burglary and pinching handbags from little old ladies must be low there if they have resort to arrest 20 year olds for telling the truth across their bosoms - for something to write in their little policeman's notebook!
Und their faces were picture when I told them about this story
nightmare said:
er....it COULD be offensive though.
What if it said "You're a c**t"? Should people be allowed to wander around wearing that sort of thing?
I've got a Jesus is a c**t T-shirt.
You get some odd looks and some laughs but no one has ever actually said anything.
Mavis Riley takes it up the sh*tter is still my fave though.
Funny isnt it, phone up about a crime in progress get given a number, make a perfectly valid statement on a t-shirt and get arrested. I noticed the other day that there is facility to report hate crime by SMS now, which I suppose is handy, if your assailant is very very short...
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