There’s such a thing as being too sensitive.
The other day the mayor of Culver City, California absolutely freaked out over a teapot, because if you squint hard enough it resembles Adolph Hitler. I kid you not. Check out the article. The sh**storm was so immediate that JCPenney actually had to pull the pot from its product line.
Culver City is in Los Angeles County and has a crime index of 11 (100 is the safest), and more than 50,000 people sleep in the streets in that county every night, so you’d think the mayor would have bigger fish to fry. But no. That kettle had allllllll of his attention for a while there.
And then there’s the “huge” scandal about President Obama forgetting to salute a marine before boarding a helicopter. He immediately realized his mistake and went out and shook the young man’s hand, but some took this incident as an outrage.
Lest we forget, the man is the leader of the free world and probably has a few other things on his mind. He’s also never served in the military himself, so saluting probably is not the gut reflex it is for your average veteran. And as this article mentions, some would debate the appropriateness of saluting when out of uniform and not wearing a hat. But the main thing I took away from this story is that many of us have entirely too much time on our hands.
Take, for example, the latest news from the city of Wildwood, New Jersey, where they are planning to ban droopy shorts on the boardwalk. Kids, today. They can’t be trusted to keep their pants up high enough to suit the older generation, apparently, and this means that legislation is required. And what if the kids don’t comply? Will they be arrested by the fashion police? One wonders.
And there are those veterans who still boycott Jane Fonda because she went to Hanoi to protest the Vietnam War. In 1972. Even though it’s long since been proven that she never passed notes from prisoners of war to the enemy as previously alleged. Are these same people boycotting Dennis Rodman for going to North Korea? Not so’s you’d notice. And that happened this year. It seems to me that your energies would be better spent focusing on current and active gadflies to our servicemen such as the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, rather than a rapidly aging actress who does not share your political opinions, but honestly, it’s so much more fun to piss in the wind of the past, isn’t it?
Before you get your knickers all in a twist, I’m not an anti-Semite, I fully appreciate the service of our men and women in uniform, I don’t enjoy gazing at the butt cracks of the nation’s youth any more than the next person, and I don’t think that Jane’s visit to Hanoi was her finest hour even if she did make her point and voice her opinion as every American, fortunately or unfortunately, has a right to do. I just happen to think that there are so many other causes to take up, so many other stands to make that are much more important than the foolishness we so often get spun up about. I just get disgusted with society in general. That’s all.
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Hope the storm isn’t recking havoc in your area… Stay Safe.
It’s been an uninterrupted torrential downpour all day, and the mayor got on TV and said anyone who needed free sandbags could pick them up at various shelters. Glad when this is over.
And sometimes an ass is just an ass…
Shhhh….this is a PG blog. Most of the time, anyway.
The droopy pants guys started it.
Trouble makers.
I did a great post about that style choice. I need to reblog that.
Yeah. When you do, add a link to it here in these comments.
Like I’m smart enough to do that…
Oh come on, silly. Go to the page that contains the blog entry in question. Copy the http address up top, then come to THIS page, and paste the http into my comment section.
I will try to do that.
But I might not get to reposting that soon enough to tie in with your post. I have to find the old post, and it isn’t named something that will help track it down.
Do a keyword search within your blog.
Search what… underwear… boxers… stupid idiots… morons… the fashion challenged… teen angst… clothing styles you are so going to regret looking at pictures of one day… why you look like jerk… pull your freekin’ pants up… why we can’t take teen boys seriously… no, we don’t want to see that… how long did it take you to figure out exactly how much of your underwear showing would make you look cool… nice, now can I give you a wedgie… yeah, that was a cool thing to do for the first three people who did it… if you really want to look cool, try coming up with something new… copying a style does not make you an original, in fact exactly the opposite is true… what a wannabe… it just makes me want to punch you in the face when you dress like that… you will be sorry when you try to run from the cops and your pants fall down and trip you…???
Exactly! 🙂
Wait… that worked… I found it… what am I supposed to do again???
Which also reminds me of a story I heard once about a guy who was running from the cops and “hiding” in the dark, and he couldn’t figure out how they caught him so quickly. It was because he was wearing the latest style at the time, which was a pair of tennis shoes that lit up with a bright red light every time he took a step. Dummy.
Bless his heart… and his feeble little mind. I found the post… I tried putting the link in the comment box on your post, but it isn’t turning blue, so I dot’ know if it worked. Or do I have to repost it and have you do a link?
I think I did it… at least I redid the post…
Hmmm, JCP’s pulling the billboard, reafirms the Mayor’s self-importance and ego, making him a little more Hitler like.
And hopefully the droopy pants guys are wearing underwear. The other day at the Courthouse, while he bent over to sign paperwork, a man’s pants showed his all by-crackie. It was inescapable, and gross.
Ewwwwww….yeah, that’s disgusting. But still not legislation-worthy, I don’t think. But the man definitely needs to be schooled on the need for a belt at the very least.
And yeah, I hadn’t thought of that in regards to the mayor. Interesting point.
That’s interesting. I too had heard that it had originated in prison, but the sex thing, no. I heard it was that they weren’t allowed belts. And the style migrated outside to the rest of the world because kids wanted to brag that they’d been to prison.
I found the post I did about this fashion trend… http://pouringmyartout.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/life-lessons/
I don’t think that link worked… but there you go.
It worked! Welcome to the next level, grasshopper.
(Oh, and I didn’t know the crest and OJ thing, either, so thanks. )
I am here to make the world better for everyone…
I heard about the teapot thing on one of our satirical comedy shows, I can’t remember which one…we all found it very funny, more so the overreaction of people like this mayor; he’d love France, swastikas and iron crosses and the like are banned; I used to work for an art gallery specialising in WW2 aviation and when we did a show in France we had to put tape over all the bits of paintings and prints that weren’t allowed to be shown.
I can almost understand it there, as they were ground zero after all. Almost. But Culver City, California? Give me a break.
I think France have gone too far, and Culver City man was just silly.