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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Here is the bottom line. There is an appropriate time and place for certain behaviors and expressions. Further, there is an appropriate maturity level in which people should be exposed to certain behaviors and expressions. This basic principle of human socialization is a norm across all human societies.
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If the airline found it a problem they would have a policy at the scanners/ticket takers. You HONESTLY think that its 'better' to drop someone at a desination not intended in their travel? sounds much more likely that a steward or stewardess had a bitch about it to me, its not policy related, and it was obviously personal to some extent. I hope that the airline has decent lawyers - but then, id take a stab in the dark that the law would side (stupidly) with the airline. Hell, theres money involved for the govt.
As i said earlier in another thread, in NZ (and probably Aus) theres anti-bush sentiments on advertising billboards for pizza and cellphones here. Noone cares, people think its funny - that t-shirt sounds like it would be likely to be worn here; hell, the prime minister would likely laugh at it, along with everyone else. People here openly wonder what the **** is wrong with society that elects a ****ing moron like that - and its simple. We recently held elections in which the right (national) nearly won, and it was largely due to their policies which were seperatist, racist and basically promised lots of extra money via tax cuts (whilst playing down the cuts on healthcare, super-annuation, education - hell, everything).
Heading towards a US style country is exactly what NZ DOESN'T need. We have decent free healthcare, free education, and good super-annuation payments. The day that you die because you cannot afford health insurance for a simple operation is the day that your country has failed you. Why did they nearly get in? PURE GREED. People cannot stand paying for someone else, sharing the load - but god forbid if they ever get sick and cannot work under a govt that has totally ****ed their health pay outs.
Course, people like that tend to think only a year or two ahead... seems somewhat like the US really, are you people honestly surprised that you're the target of terrorist attacks, after ****ing with the middle-east for over 50 years? thats like going into someone elses house, telling them their wrong, beating them with crowbars and burning a few people for good measure, waiting around and deciding what is best for them, then wondering why the rest of the neighbourhood flys a plane into your house. GEE, I WONDER WHY. Its no 'mistake' that london, new york, and now apparently Melbourne and LA are being targeted by terrorism. You get that when you occupy a country that doesnt want you to be there. NZ wont be touched, as we specifically have nothing to do with the 'War on Terrorism'. "Oh, we need to keep them from doing something" - do it legally through the UN, perhaps? come to a cognitive conclusion, rather than have a monkey in a suit posing as president say 'we gotta stop the war... (10 minute pause) on terrorism. Yeah, thats it.'
For all your censorship, theres little sense in it. Culture that glorifies gangs/pimps openly, media that encourages bullshit to the extreme. A president that allows hundreds of thousands to die or lose their homes, primarily because a) idiots voted him in and b) hes a ****ing clod. I'd hazard a guess hes pretty racist too.
Just the other day my partner was shopping in a store similar to k-mart here, and theres a doll called
'bling bling barbie' - What. The. F*ck. Im sure the accessories will be a low rider with airbags and a pimp with a purple feather in his hat. I'd love to see that in surburian America, Mom coming home to her little girl in the sandpit by the white picket fence, 'look mommy, i pimped my hoes now they're blinging, yo!'. Its completely sad that someone actually designed and manufactured that, and allowed it to be sold.
And you talk about a political slight (which is really quite funny) being 'worse' than these things? THATS A HO DOLL SPECIFICALLY MADE TO BE SOLD TO LITTLE GIRLS?
Time and a place? yeah, ok - looks like their deciding the WRONG ****ING TIME AND PLACE.
"As to my view on war...I believe that evil prevails when good men do nothing."
And how many innocents have been killed in the middle east because of the US influence? im talking, including arming militants and terrorist groups to their own means, not just the US occupying the area... how many are destitute? how many lives has American 'good will' totally destroyed? course, you media will downplay that totally - you'll never see much of it. Reminds me of 'lies, damned lies and statistics'.
Oh, heres another of my pet peeves - the fact that America was asking for INTERNATIONAL AID when the trade centre was destroyed. Yeah, cause you need international aid for 4000 people dying, you need to appeal for something like, hrm, 6 months? Theres disasters in countries on a near monthly basis that take out more people than that, and you dont see 6 month appeals from other countries who have probably what, 5% of the income that America does.
Yeah, makes LOTS of sense to the rest of us.
ps. yes, this is a rant - but its directly related to freedom of speech and American laws/policy, so its not really off topic.