This weeks "poor taste" award goes to Yahoo

[T_Bone]

http://store.yahoo.com/ppfastore/ihadabt.html

[edit] Lol! They removed it! There was a T-shirt there that said "I had an Abortion" sponsored by Yahoo and Planned Parenthood.

[cecilia]

assuming it's true, why is this in poor taste?

[T_Bone]

double post

[T_Bone]

cecilia wrote:
assuming it's true, why is this in poor taste?

Oh, I don't know, because the shoe fits?

IN POOR TASTE(P): Dictionary Entry and Meaning
WordNet Dictionary
 
    Definition:       [adj]  lacking aesthetic or social taste
 
    Synonyms:       barbaric, brassy, Brummagem, camp, campy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, indelicate, kitsch, loud, meretricious, off-color, off-colour, ostentatious, pretentious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy
 
    Antonyms:       in good taste(p), tasteful
 

Hell, I've had hemeroids before, but I wouldn't wear it on a T-shirt! :-P

[cecilia]

well, it's only obviously in poor taste for YOU.
i don't see anything wrong with people being proud of an intelligent decision.
yeah, it's not "PC", but then we all know my hatred of "PC".

it may not be something i'd wear, but that's because i'd rather have an AMIGA t-shirt.

[blobrana]

Hum,
>>"Hell, I've had hemeroids before, but I wouldn't wear it on a T-shirt!"

Or post that fact on a public forum?  :lol:

[PMC]

T_Bone wrote:

Hell, I've had hemeroids before, but I wouldn't wear it on a T-shirt! :-P

That's it.  I'm going to get a T-Shirt printed saying "I bruised my chumleys while mountain biking"

[blobrana]

Hum,
a tip is to tie-wrap those foam tubes to the top bar...

i had to on my gents bike...

[PMC]

Not easy to do with a monocoque frame.

I find that the best method of prevention is for me to stop riding like a muppet.

I'm off to join a soprano choir.....
 :bigcry:

[blobrana]

Hum,
very strange...
That`s why they call it `mo no coque`...

it`s really difficult to hurt yourself with that..




 

[PMC]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
very strange...
That`s why they call it `mo no coque`...

it`s really difficult to hurt yourself with that..




 

I was riding downhill on a negative camber stretch when ambition outweighed riding ability as I attempted to jump some rocks.  The back end slid away and lodged on a rock whilst the front end did the same and the bike toppled on it's side with me under it.

Meanwhile the laws of motion were acting upon my 175lbs and I had a leg trapped either side of the frame.  Stationary bike + inertia = a very nasty accident indeed.

[T_Bone]

Geeze, first you guys tell me "Yea! Biking is fun! You should really consider taking this up as a hobby" and then you get me interested in it... I buy a bike costing a few grand... and only NOW do you tell me about these testicular risks!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[T_Bone]

cecilia wrote:
well, it's only obviously in poor taste for YOU.
i don't see anything wrong with people being proud of an intelligent decision.

Getting pregnant with a child that has to be terminated isn't an "intelligent decision", it's an "accident" and a way of dealing with it.

Pride? Geeze, you make it sound like it's a goal to be aimed for, let's get pregnant and get abortions. Hell, even in medically necessary cases where a baby must be terminated to save the life of a twin or even the mother I'd be highly surprised if someone described that decision with "Pride."

Anyway, I think it's in piss poor taste not from the standpoint of being against abortion, but for the simple fact that people walking around with shirts like that are slapping a crass and nasty message in the face of millions of people who've HAD abortions because they had no alternatives. I think you'll find that includes most women who've had them, as most reasonable people don't "aspire" to be put into that situation, they make that tough decision because they had no other choice available to them. Wearing a shirt like that is grinding salt right into that wound.

Hell, you'd think someone who's HAD an abortion would be the LEAST likely person to be insensitive to others in that situation.

I'm not one for political correctness either, but offending millions who've been forced into a dead end just to make a weak political point (which it doesn't even succeed in doing , as no reasonable person advocates abortion, just the "choice") is just poor taste.

it may not be something i'd wear, but that's because i'd rather have an AMIGA t-shirt.

 :lol:

By that time, all the unborn children will be of voting age!

[Glaucus]

cecilia wrote:
assuming it's true, why is this in poor taste?

Well, personally, I've always considered any T-shirt with big block letters on it to be in poor taste. Just tacky as hell. Very popular too, unfortunately.

  - Mike

[cecilia]

Getting pregnant with a child that has to be terminated isn't an "intelligent decision", it's an "accident" and a way of dealing with it.

it's "intelligent" because it takes courage to do the right thing.

there are alot of married women with children - say about 2 - who can't afford another. and out of concern for their existing children must have abortions.
if there was a contraception that was 100% effective these abortions wouldn't be needed, but no one ever seems to notice this.

Pride? Geeze, you make it sound like it's a goal to be aimed for, let's get pregnant and get abortions.

trust me, no one has an abortion because they think it's fun. it's not a goal to have an abortion. it's a goal to do the right thing.

if you look at the t-shirts that planned parrenthood does have (according to the link you had), they expressed the idea that Every Child is Planned and Wanted.
THAT'S the real goal.

Wearing a shirt like that is grinding salt right into that wound.

like i said, i personally wouldn't be interested in wearing such a shirt - mostly because I don't care to become a billboard - but if i saw it on someone else I'd see it as a person expressing their pride in self-determination in the face of rampant Political Correctness. the Bain of the 20th century.

and, BTW, since i AM an artist, I can make my own Amiga shirt. I don't have to wait for anyone.

Time and cecilia wait for no man!