People freaking out because of mannequins in thongs [Archive]

Goofball

10-06-2005, 00:59

I love this crap. People losing their minds about panties on pedestals. But they probably have no problem with their kids ogling an AR15 in a gun shop's display window...

Get a freakin' life.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9601234/

My favorite quote:

"Well," said Steina Rubin of Bethesda, "I find it just totally disgusting." And, no, she would not be shopping there. "I'm not entering a whorehouse," she said. "I come to the mall with my daughter. It's disgusting. And I'm from Europe!"

Yeah. It's a whorehouse. In a mall...

Idiot.

PanzerJaeger

10-06-2005, 01:03

Proletariat

10-06-2005, 01:09

Heh. That's the same VS location I shop at. What idiots.

Strike For The South

10-06-2005, 01:16

Ah my Eyes my beatiful christian eyes I will never be able to oogle another Ar-15 agian NONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

BFD

Spetulhu

10-06-2005, 01:19

Conjecture. You've created this gun loving, thong hating character just to tell him to get a life. What do guns have to do with this?

The US public does have a worse problem with nudity than violence. Just check your TV programming or local cinemas. Killing people in the most sadistic ways possible is OK as long as you don't show any nipples.

Not this particular story, but it is quite common.

Strike For The South

10-06-2005, 01:24

The US public does have a worse problem with nudity than violence. Just check your TV programming or local cinemas. Killing people in the most sadistic ways possible is OK as long as you don't show any nipples.

Not this particular story, but it is quite common.

not to derail the thread or anything.......Spetulhu is right and I think I know why espacilly where I live. There are a lot of fattys let me rephrase there are a lot of older fattys. I mean I can understand when they say love is more than skin deep becuase I swear to god some of these people look like friggin walruses nice people great to be around and kind to boot but still. So put yourself in John shoes spend weekend with 5'6 350 LB wife with a miniture city on her back or go hunting with the boys.

Kaiser of Arabia

10-06-2005, 01:41

nothing wrong with some good old violence. Same with sex, nothing wrong with it, as long as it aint SO freakin overboard it's disgusting

Byzantine Prince

10-06-2005, 01:43

HAHAHA! :laugh: There's thongs on basic cable all the time. If women will wear them, and they are for sale at the store, then they should be on display, that makes sense to me.

_Martyr_

10-06-2005, 01:51

I wonder do the men and women in question who object so strongly to this ever bring their daughters to the beach?

Kaiser of Arabia

10-06-2005, 02:04

I wonder do the men and women in question who object so strongly to this ever bring their daughters to the beach?
Probably not. But the beach is overrated. German lakes, all the way. All the fun with tons of less people. ~:)

_Martyr_

10-06-2005, 02:07

Cant argue with that! Although my favourite lake in the world is Austrian (Schwarzsee near Kitzbuhel).

Kralizec

10-06-2005, 02:10

I wonder do the men and women in question who object so strongly to this ever bring their daughters to the beach?

Exactly!

bmolsson

10-06-2005, 02:43

Strange. I actually think that some naked skinn would brighten up a day of shopping...... ~D

Crazed Rabbit

10-06-2005, 03:08

I love this crap. People losing their minds about panties on pedestals. But they probably have no problem with their kids ogling an AR15 in a gun shop's display window...

That's right! AR-15s are so eviiiillllllllll, aren't they! Nothing good could come of even touch it. Better to get beaten to death than use one of those malacious looking black plastic rifles to defend yourself. All they do is go around, causing crime and viole...what's that? You say they're an inanimate subject and can't do anything by themselves, but are rather used for good or ill as controlled by the person who uses them?

huh.

Crazed Rabbit

GoreBag

10-06-2005, 05:32

You say they're an inanimate subject and can't do anything by themselves,

Hence, in part, the comparison with the mannequin wearing a thong.

The story is beyond stupid. Normal panties are okay, but thongs aren't? Ugh, I'm not even going to think about this anymore.

Papewaio

10-06-2005, 06:13

Thongs in Australia are a beach sandal...

Crazed Rabbit

10-06-2005, 06:14

Xiahou

10-06-2005, 06:48

True. The mannequin bit is hardly bad. Just don't shop there.

But the thing is, Goofball ridiculed those criticising the thongs (rightly so, perhaps, though the degree of actual ridicule deserved might have differed) while at the same time suggesting that those who "oogle" AR-15s are somehow bad people since AR-15s are 'bad, evil things'.

Crazed Rabbit
Carrying over frustration from the Florida self-defense law methinks. ~;)

Personally, I think this is an idiotic news story. So they found a few people to complain about the displays at VS? Who cares? You can find people to complain about anything imagineable if you just look around. Is it newsworthy? No!

Crazed Rabbit

10-06-2005, 07:01

Well, do you think the reporters are just going to sit on thier duffs and not do anything just because there's no real news? It'd be feast and famine for them. No, when there is no news, they make news.

You can tell when its a slow news week when the newsmagazines have cover stories on real old history (like the cursades) or a fiction book (dan brown).

Carrying over frustration from the Florida self-defense law methinks.
~D

Crazed Rabbit

AntiochusIII

10-06-2005, 07:01

Thongs in Australia are a beach sandal...lol. Have you ever been to Phuket? ~;)

How sad it was crushed by the Tsunami... :embarassed:

And yes, Americans are hypocrites when it comes to violence vs sex. Just look at the Rockstar case. And I'm saying out of experience, not American-bashing. I guess if we intrepret Goofball's original comment about "[summarized as]kids being obsessed with guns" as a metaphor rather than a direct attack at unregulated gun folks (hehe...) it would make much sense.

Kagemusha

10-06-2005, 07:57

This is just ridicilous.Thongs eeek!:eeeek:

bmolsson

10-06-2005, 12:36

lol. Have you ever been to Phuket? ~;)

How sad it was crushed by the Tsunami... :embarassed:

And yes, Americans are hypocrites when it comes to violence vs sex. Just look at the Rockstar case. And I'm saying out of experience, not American-bashing. I guess if we intrepret Goofball's original comment about "[summarized as]kids being obsessed with guns" as a metaphor rather than a direct attack at unregulated gun folks (hehe...) it would make much sense.

Not hypicrites, just frustrated over the performance pressure....... ~D

yesdachi

10-06-2005, 14:58

"Well," said Steina Rubin of Bethesda, "I find it just totally disgusting." And, no, she would not be shopping there. "I'm not entering a whorehouse," she said. "I come to the mall with my daughter. It's disgusting. And I'm from Europe!"
Sounds like somebody is a little uncomfortable with her own sexuality. I’ll bet her husband can’t wait for her to return home from the mall with all her granny panties and full-length flannel nightgowns.

"I love it," Rosario said, "I like the dark side of Vicky's. Every woman has a little bit of the dark side in her. They can do this. The mannequins aren't real. I have a husband, and I know he would love this. This is what keeps you happily married."
I like this lady, “dark side” indeed!

Americans have always had a public issue with sexuality but the mail order sex toy and lingerie business seems to be doing pretty good. How does the song go? “She’s a lady on the street but a freak in the bed.”~D

drone

10-06-2005, 15:03

I didn't know they had added on to Tyson's Corner lately. It's about 15 minutes from where I live, I'll have to talk to my girl and see if we can do some firsthand reporting of this. ~;)

The Stranger

10-06-2005, 16:24

wehjoo ~:eek: freaky

BDC

10-06-2005, 18:41

Clearly they wouldn't want to walk past an Ann Summers on the high street here then.

Viking

10-06-2005, 19:06

And yes, Americans are hypocrites when it comes to violence vs sex. Just look at the Rockstar case. And I'm saying out of experience, not American-bashing.

Yeah. Violence is ok, nipples is not. I say kids have much better of watching the latter than violence, looking at the crime rates 'over there'.

Proletariat

10-06-2005, 19:10

I didn't know they had added on to Tyson's Corner lately. It's about 15 minutes from where I live, I'll have to talk to my girl and see if we can do some firsthand reporting of this. ~;)

It's nice but the traffic getting over there is still insane.

The_Doctor

10-06-2005, 19:23

This seems to sum up everything:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/635/635629p1.html

And it is funny.~:cheers:

Viking

10-06-2005, 19:33

But MoralValuesMan would have none of it: He lifted the fireplace poker high and brought it down upon the man in boxer shorts. The carnage that followed was horrifying. Afterwards, he turned to the woman: "Now get out of here," he said. She was gone in moments.

His M-Rated actions baffled me. "Why did you kill him but let her live?" I asked.

"Well, she was wrapped in a towel, and if I attacked her there was a good chance it would fall off," he explained. "Then we would be greeted with the horrifying, unnatural, disgusting visage of an unclothed female." He tossed his fireplace poker onto the grisly carcass of his victim. "Nobody needs to see that."

~D

Great fun and points it out exactly.

drone

10-06-2005, 20:35

It's nice but the traffic getting over there is still insane.
Yeah, and the traffic will get worse as Christmas gets closer. I used to have an apartment right next to Tyson's II, what a nightmare around that time of year.

The old VC store at Tyson's was pretty large anyway, I think it had 2 sections to it. It was definitely larger than the one at Fair Oaks Mall (the closest to me). IIRC, the old store wasn't hidden away in a corner, it was on one of the main walks. It must be some display for so many people to "get their panties in a bunch". Maybe I should check the Fair Oaks store first to see if their new display is also offensive.~D

I've said it before, I'll say it again. The US was populated by all of the religious fanantics that Europe did not want. What do you expect? If we could, we would gladly send them back across the pond.~:cheers: