Potential fine over t-shirt slogan :)

[MiniMatt]

Controversial topic of the day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6943734.stm

Man warned of £80 fine if he continues to wear t-shirt with "Don't **** me off, I'm running out of places to hide the bodies" slogan :D

Thing is, I'm not sure whether this is "political correctness gone mad, instigated by liberal left wing weenies", or "right wing draconian authoritarianism gone mad". Either way, I thought it was funny :D

[kwak zzr]

thats just funny and this world we live in is just mad.

[Jools'SV Now]

That's Peterborough for you.

If you're not having a fight on a Friday night down Broadway- they fine you.

You also get fined for not using your full 'retail park hours' quota.

[hovis]

i got told by a copper to take off my UK SUBS t-shirt just cos it said "punk as f**k" on it

[Richie]

Many moons ago I was told to take my t-shirt off followed by the rest of my clothes on a beach in Ibiza... and she wasn't even a copper.... Loverly Lass, amazing tongue as I remember....=P~

[rictus01]

Street warden ? is that one of the community support people then ?

sounds like someone who's just been taught in a class room the "fine letter of the Law", but lacks any real world experiance, to me.

Cheers Mark.

[northwind]

i got told by a copper to take off my UK SUBS t-shirt just cos it said "punk as f**k" on it

My mate Dan's a huge UK Subs fan, and he got the same line when he was in Brighton- "Someone's complained about the language on your shirt, you'll have to take it off". So he did, displaying the massive "PUNK AS F**K" tattoo that runs across his shoulders :cool: "Wot? You want me to take me skin orf as well? Hur hur hur"

[the white rabbit]

'Mr Pratt said the slogan was intended to be humorous'.....as is the name

[Stig]

Personally, speaking as a parent, I think there is a right time and place for clothing with swear words and such. In the middle of the day walking down the high street is not one of them.

[keithd]

i find them childish and completely devoid of humour.

which is ironic cos it sums me up nicely

whoda thunk it.

[Caddy2000]

It's hardly offensive language - listen to Radio One at the moment, Six weeks of Summer with their life's a beach and life's a b***h thing that they are running.
The word 'p**s' is used by them as well..........

Certain words I readily accept as offensive ( Michael Portillo for example), but that one? No, I can't - it's just a word........

[MeridiaNx]

Personally, speaking as a parent, I think there is a right time and place for clothing with swear words and such. In the middle of the day walking down the high street is not one of them.

Fair enough, and I'm not a parent so I don't have these things to consider but it does remind of a bit of Bill Bailey's stand up:

“I don’t know anything about Afghanistan, but I know it’s full of terrorists, speaking as a mother.” So what is this "speaking as a mother" then? Is it a euphemism for "well, talking out of my ****"? "Suspending rational thought for a moment"? As a rational human being, Al-Qaeda are a loose association of fundamentalist zealots who could be rounded up with a sustained police investigation. But speaking as a parent, they’re all eight foot tall, they’ve got lasers under their moustaches, a huge eye in their foreheads and the only way to kill them is to nuke every country that hasn’t sent us a Christmas card in the the last 20 years. Speaking as a mother…

Hehe, just made me laugh when I heard it ;)

[gettin2dizzy]

www.tshirthell.com (http://www.tshirthell.com)
hehe
(not u-rated, there's a few naughty words)

[gettin2dizzy]

Fair enough, and I'm not a parent so I don't have these things to consider but it does remind of a bit of Bill Bailey's stand up:

“I don’t know anything about Afghanistan, but I know it’s full of terrorists, speaking as a mother.” So what is this "speaking as a mother" then? Is it a euphemism for "well, talking out of my ****"? "Suspending rational thought for a moment"? As a rational human being, Al-Qaeda are a loose association of fundamentalist zealots who could be rounded up with a sustained police investigation. But speaking as a parent, they’re all eight foot tall, they’ve got lasers under their moustaches, a huge eye in their foreheads and the only way to kill them is to nuke every country that hasn’t sent us a Christmas card in the the last 20 years. Speaking as a mother…

Hehe, just made me laugh when I heard it ;)

:rolleyes: :flower:

[Lissa]

I have a t shirt that has been known to offend a few people:D

Caused a big furore a couple of years ago when a photo of me wearing it was published in the SOC magazine.:rolleyes:

I would stick a pic of it on here, but it's got a definitely non U rated word on it;)

[Ollie_07]

go on lissa! :D

[Stu]

go on lissa! :D
Yeah, then we can tell you to take it off!

[hovis]

I would stick a pic of it on here, but it's got a definitely non U rated word on it;)

is it ****?

[Ollie_07]

www.tshirthell.com (http://www.tshirthell.com)
hehe
(not u-rated, there's a few naughty words)

Some of the slogans on that site are hilarious!:D

Not that i would wear most of them mind!

[Lissa]

I'll post it if one of the mods checks it first and okays it:D

I'll be happy to pm one of the the pic if they wish.

Yep, I'm a chicken:D

[Lissa]

is it ****?


No, it's the 'W' word:D

[Sideshow#36]

P.C. gone mad!

[Biker Biggles]

I think this story shows more about how far we have allowed authoritarian culture to establish itself over the last decade or so.We have always had jobsworths,but now it seems the State officially backs them up.

[northwind]

I think this story shows more about how far we have allowed authoritarian culture to establish itself over the last decade or so.We have always had jobsworths,but now it seems the State officially backs them up.

Nah, don't think that stands up, we've had people being harassed for obscene tshirts for as long as there's been obscene tshirts, but they're pretty recent themselves after all. If 16th century nonconformists had worn "PURITAN AS F***" tabards I imagine they'd have been hassled by the watch.

[Biker Biggles]

Yes I should have said re-establish.No one doubts that things were pretty authoritarian in the 16th century,but the rise of democracy brought about a similar rise in liberal values over most of the 20th century.I believe that this trend has been firmly in reverse over the last two decades.

[northwind]

That was just an off the cuff example, you can find people being harassed by the police for no good reason in any period of history. I was just amused by "PURITAN AS ****". I nearly went with textile workers with home-spun shirts with "LUDDITE AS ****", or Emily Davison wearing a "SUFFRAGETTE AS ****" dress as she jumped under a horse :smt003

[MiniMatt]

Still not 100% sure what the offensive part is supposed to be - is it the word beginning in "P" and ending in "S"? Or is it the inference that the wearer murders people on a daily basis and shows no respect for Teh Rule O' Law?

If it's the "P" word, I suspect all the wearer need do is point the "street warden" (one up from Milk Monitor?) to the nearest **** billboard - there's generally one in every town and if I was the kind of person to get upset by such things (I'm not really bothered it has to be said) I can imagine getting more distressed by the afore mentioned high street shop name than the "P" word.

EDIT: Chuckle, the afore mentioned shop name offends the swear filter, thus proving my point nicely :D For clarification, it's the clothing shop which begins in "FC" and ends "UK"

[the_runt69]

Used to have a T shirt with "The Runt" on the back, have been asked to cover it a couple of times. Asked what the problem was and they said the word was offensive. To which i ve always replied "thats what i'm called and I dont find it offensive so would you rather it started with C," have always backed off then.

[Jester666]

Years ago I got into a spot of bother in a pub whilst wearing a Skid Row t shirt with Eat F**k Kill on the back. The lady in question objected to the Kill bit!! :confused:

[Captain Nemo]

in 1987 i had a WASP T-shirt that said "im an animal i F**k like a beast!!!" on the back,

i got smacked round the back of the head by a bloke in bridlington cos his kid repeated it as he walked past..............i was pretty pi55ed at the time, now thinking back if i was in the dads position id be lkely to take the same stance.

still, id wear it today if my mama hadnt accidentally put the iron through it..........................

[Jester666]

Accidentally? I don't think so! :rolleyes:

[Iansv]

haha, i'll have to take some of my www.corpseclothing.com (http://www.corpseclothing.com) selections with me next time I go back to peterboghorror for the weekend ;)

Got some great dirty looks last time I went shopping at Lakeside with my "Women, do something useful and hoover the pub" tshirt :P

[RhythmJunkie]

i got smacked round the back of the head by a bloke in bridlington cos his kid repeated it as he walked past

The father ought to have been arrested and an assault charge thrown at him for showing his son that violence is the way.

[Steve_God]

www.tshirthell.com (http://www.tshirthell.com)
hehe
(not u-rated, there's a few naughty words)
Brilliant website... have been subscribed for ages - but never bought from them yet...
I REALLY want the 'I've had it up to here with Midgets' - with the low line :p

If they thought that T-shirt was bad on that bloke, they should have seen some of the ones from the site when they had the 'Worse than Hell' section, eg: 'I Surfed Tsunami 2004'!

[Captain Nemo]

The father ought to have been arrested and an assault charge thrown at him for showing his son that violence is the way.


to paraphrase the song.....

"it was acceptable in the eighties"

[northwind]

Years ago I got into a spot of bother in a pub whilst wearing a Skid Row t shirt with Eat F**k Kill on the back. The lady in question objected to the Kill bit!! :confused:

You sure she didn't just object to Seb Bach?