The 'Naked Rambler' jailed for 22 months, following arrest within 60 seconds of his release!
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Plastic Paddy
Oh don't be so ridiculous.
Enviro said we were bombarded with nude imagery and equated it to a bloke walking the country with his dick and bollocks hanging out. I refuted that such imagery existed saying that fannies, knobs, bollocks and naked arses are covered in mainstream advertising. You then listed some designers and PETA to make the point that I was wrong and I asked you to show us the adverts.
I'll make it even easier for you. Show us some mainstream ads from any of your list where even full nudity is the norm.
The point that Enviro made and you tried to support, is a poor one.
weltweit
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Society at large values clothes, who was it that said: naked people have virtually no influence on society? We wear clothes for warmth, for protection, for identity, for status, for fashion, for all sorts of reasons.
Indeed this guy himself has not totally discarded all manmade stuff, he wears walking boots and I think socks.
However it is understandable that someone like this is going to make a lot of people, who themselves would never dare to be naked in public, uncomfortable.
Indeed this guy himself has not totally discarded all manmade stuff, he wears walking boots and I think socks.
However it is understandable that someone like this is going to make a lot of people, who themselves would never dare to be naked in public, uncomfortable.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
but what pray is intrinsically bad about that activity? OK so you are sitting down to a big feast at the Hugry Horse eatery with nephews and nieces and some cunts ordered a double on your tab- then a naked man might perturb, annoy and so on.
But he isn't up in the hungry horse, waving his chap about. He's just wandering paths that you'd never even think of bothering with. He's not there, in your face with a proper diamond cutter tickling himself unto climax is he?
I say let him wander. Who is he hurting-He's not bursting into the local WI meeting with gonads a go-go is he
weltweit
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Corax
Luke 5:16
The disingenuous nature of legally justifying things like the naked bike ride (annual green protest) in contrast pisses me off more than Gough's willy tbh.
I was out for a works do a couple of weeks ago when the street was suddenly filled with naked men and women on bikes and skateboards, whilst the police looked on. I was outside the pub having a fag at the time and asked the coppers what differentiated it from the naked rambler. The answer they'd been given by their superiors was that it was an advertised and publicised event and people therefore had a choice, and could avoid it if they wished.
Which in reality was utter bollocks. I had no idea it was due to go past, and neither did anyone else in the 20-strong crowd of smokers standing there gawking. In fact, I'd suggest that Gough's received far more publicity than the naked bike ride.
The truth is that Gough's nakedness is seen as 'weird' whereas the naked protest is seen as 'wacky', and that's why he's arrested and they aren't. The flimsy attempt to cover this by reference to publicity and choice is pathetic.
ETA: To clarify - I'm not in favour of arresting the protesters or Gough. Nakedness is not the same thing as pornography.
I was out for a works do a couple of weeks ago when the street was suddenly filled with naked men and women on bikes and skateboards, whilst the police looked on. I was outside the pub having a fag at the time and asked the coppers what differentiated it from the naked rambler. The answer they'd been given by their superiors was that it was an advertised and publicised event and people therefore had a choice, and could avoid it if they wished.
Which in reality was utter bollocks. I had no idea it was due to go past, and neither did anyone else in the 20-strong crowd of smokers standing there gawking. In fact, I'd suggest that Gough's received far more publicity than the naked bike ride.
The truth is that Gough's nakedness is seen as 'weird' whereas the naked protest is seen as 'wacky', and that's why he's arrested and they aren't. The flimsy attempt to cover this by reference to publicity and choice is pathetic.
ETA: To clarify - I'm not in favour of arresting the protesters or Gough. Nakedness is not the same thing as pornography.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
must have kept the bank filled for fucking weeks
Corax
Luke 5:16
Eh?
ETA: Oh, that kind of bank!
Took me a minute, sorry. No - not really - there was nothing sexy about it at all. I had a brief chat with some random bloke also out for a smoke - he was a proper 'lad' iykwim - he was really genuinely confused as to why he wasn't turned on. "If I was dancing with her in a club and thought I'd get to see her naked I'd be like a dog in heat, but there she is completely naked in front of me and... nothing!" *glances at his own crotch and looks puzzled*
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Is he fuck.
He's been getting naked on planes, in courts, prison car parks, towns (Hebden Bridge) and cities (Perth, Halifax).
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
they'll still be talking about it in Halifax in 20 years.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I find it hard to see which of those places could not be improved by the sight of a man wielding his rusty sherrifs badge. Especially prison car parks.
weltweit
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Corax
Luke 5:16
Even if he was, so what? As long as he sat on a towel that is.
If I was out with my son, nephews, or nieces and he sat down at the next table then they'd undoubtedly wonder what was up with that. So I'd tell them. Kids are curious, but they aren't necessarily thick. They ask about difference, that's all. We sat next to a guy who'd tattooed his entire face blue once, and they asked about that. So I explained. They've seen people with various disabilities that make them stand out to them as different, and I've explained about that. They've asked about people with dreadlocks, piercings, two men kissing, and dozens of other things that are new to them. So I've explained, and it's no big deal. It's adults that have the hang-ups, not kids. But we seem absolutely determined to pass them on to the next generation at any given opportunity.
Corax
Luke 5:16
You might like to see this woman's reaction to that demonstration
Wow.
I wonder how a man complaining in similar fashion and referencing the flat-chestedness of the female protesters would be received?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
do it in the wrong place and you can find yourself on the register. I know a bloke who bitches endlessly about being on the register for a mis-timed piss up a school wall at three am.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
of course nobody ever buys the 'it was just an innocent slash' story
proper fucked
proper fucked
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Pissing on a school wall at any time is a mistake
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Even if he was, so what? As long as he sat on a towel that is.
If I was out with my son, nephews, or nieces and he sat down at the next table then they'd undoubtedly wonder what was up with that. So I'd tell them. Kids are curious, but they aren't necessarily thick. They ask about difference, that's all. We sat next to a guy who'd tattooed his entire face blue once, and they asked about that. So I explained. They've seen people with various disabilities that make them stand out to them as different, and I've explained about that. They've asked about people with dreadlocks, piercings, two men kissing, and dozens of other things that are new to them. So I've explained, and it's no big deal. It's adults that have the hang-ups, not kids. But we seem absolutely determined to pass them on to the next generation at any given opportunity.
I don't do likes so I'll just say 'true say'
why the towel though- ball sweat?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Did he call the OB?
Nah, he just said: "that's disgusting, bloody disgusting!" in a David Bellamy type voice.
cesare
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Probably didn't fancy washing it off.
He's probably forgiven me.
cesare
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Wasn't an RC church then or you'd have had to a penance or summat
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
scifisam
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It's no different from the point of view of the people he exposes himself to. They don't know what his intentions are.
I do think there would be quite a few people with traumatic experiences who would be extremely unnerved (at the least) to have this bloke revealing his genitals to them, and that's more important than his supposed right to show his genitals to whoever he likes. I'm actually quite surprised that you disagree with that.
Jail is not the answer, but apparently he doesn't qualify as needing help enough to be sectioned, which is weird.
Priests are RC aren't they and Vicars CofE? Or at least that's what I thought the difference was.
comrade spurski
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