Comments | seanorange: We Hold These Tits To Be Self-Evident...

seanorange

We Hold These Tits To Be Self-Evident...

Jun 03, 2007 16:37

(According to Penn & Teller's "Bullshit"...)So apparently where public nudity/obscenity laws would get a woman busted for going about topless, it's actually constitutionally-protected speech if you're doing it in protest of said law ( Read more... )

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fuzzyinthehead June 3 2007, 22:19:17 UTC

FYI, it's legal for women to go topless in Madison. No one actually does, but it is legal.

willmn June 4 2007, 02:28:13 UTC

"FYI, it's legal for women to go topless in Madison."

Must move to Madison...must move to Madison...haha.

world_rim_walke June 4 2007, 02:52:06 UTC

Find me the law online and I'll spread the word...

Or maybe not. People already think I'm sex-obsessed.

xoshua June 3 2007, 22:32:56 UTC

pants with words written across the ass are funny.

crabmoon June 3 2007, 23:45:30 UTC

and there are so many responses I could give...It's like my shoulder angel is calling you a pig and my shoulder demon is giving you the thumbs up, oh well.

seanorange June 4 2007, 04:22:13 UTC

Well, by your Woody Allen ico, I clearly see which one won out!

~Sean

world_rim_walke June 4 2007, 02:50:53 UTC

I think that's kind of silly.

thewyteryno June 4 2007, 02:57:35 UTC

1) Speaking as a former fan of the show, I've come to believe most of Bullshit is entirely that.

2) You encourage women to protest and go topless. But we both know that if this caught on, the women that would start going topless are exactly the type you'd want as clothed as possible. Like, mullets and cheetos with stress veins all over the ta-tas. And missing teeth.

And very very fat.

seanorange June 4 2007, 04:34:59 UTC

It's true. The poster child for "Top Free", or whatever it's called, was kinda like that. And the previous episode I saw about Wal-Mart had an even "better" candidate.

Really, until this episode, the newer stuff has been pissing me off. The aforementioned Wal-Mart episode was really quick to defend the company, and super glossed over the whole sweatshop issue, going so far as to show someone defending it under the logic, "we might be exploiting them, but we don't exploit them as badly as other companies did, and who knows how badly-off they'd be withot us!" And, the icing on th cake, "even this country went through that period, but we got out of it because we were eventually able to build economic propsperity," and that these kids were better off in the sweatshops than selling their bodies on the streets to earn some cash.

WHAT!? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ( ... )

thewyteryno June 5 2007, 04:42:25 UTC

For me, the show was killed way before the new episodes. (In fact, I've seen none of them passed early season 2) As a huge film buff, over the years I've come to really appreciate the subtle power of editing. And oh, how Pen and Teller utilize it with masterful skill (even though I'm fairly sure they have little to do with the show besides hosting) Directors like Michael Moore and the Super-Size Me goof do the same stuff.

I think the first episode I saw was the "Green Peace/Environmental Awareness" one, which I still think is high-larious and well put together. But then I saw the "Alternative Medicine" one and I'm like, hold on a tick... All they seem to be doing is finding some (ANY) foolish-looking yokel out in the sticks who is guaranteed to say something stupid. You know, just one of those dumb guys that'll believe whatever dumb thing. It's doesn't matter if he's actually dangerous or hurting people, just that he looks stupid. He'll going on about magnetic beds or the dangers of standing too close to a microwave. Then ( ... )

koriandrkitten June 4 2007, 13:13:42 UTC

Wow thats the entirely wrong way to run with that idea.

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