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Leoba
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Thanks for posting that Nienor. I went searching for it yesterday to no avail, after the Nemi conversation started. :mrgreen: I cannot believe it was refused as a sig though. :LMAO:

Alandriel, you can spare yourself the pain of the Pollution Well - that Metro site has the up-to-date cartoon strip. The one Sunsilver pointed out was the one we had this morning! ;)


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First time I have EVER seen the word 'penis' in a published cartoon strip! :Q


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:Q

I didn't even notice it was anything out of the ordinary. :oops:


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Why would anyone refuse that as a sigpic? :Q

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The gal in the first panel had a bare shoulder?

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I think 'that gal' is Galadriel. :mrgreen:

When I tried to submit it as a sig-pic, I got a mail back saying that it was "quite inappropriate". It's probably because of what that guy says in the last panel (panel, yes ;) ), that "I have only seen the films and never read any of the books. I am inferior and have no right to criticize" - which I guess could have insulted some people...

(But boy, I do love that strip! :mrgreen: )

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And there's a problem with someone, who hasn't read the book, being insulted - how??? :Q


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Well they will miss the point of the films :twisted: :LMAO:

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Leoba wrote:
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I didn't even notice it was anything out of the ordinary. :oops:
That's because there wasn't anything out of the ordinary for you. See, when Americans hear, read, or see things like penis, it sure does stand out because we're not accustomed to seeing it mentioned in everyday things. For instance, Iavas and I were watching Graham Norton one night (really pausing on it whilst flicking through the channels) and they were playing a game to see which man was not wearing anything under their kilt. If they got chosen, they had to stand over an air vent or something that shot air up from underneath him. Well the last guy wasn't wearing anything under his kilt and all was shown quite clearly. It shocked me only because that would never happen on American public TV. It would have been blurred out so I couldn't help but naturally expect that to happen.

So we just come from different perspectives, that's all. Not getting into what's right and wrong of course. Better to leave that in the symposium. ;)


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I know that Eruname. I was rather remarking on my own unshockability.

Not that I read the Sun or the Star - but it's not unusual for the guy reading the morning paper opposite you to fold the page and flash plenty of bare breast at the rest of the train carriage.

I recall when Rho was over here the other summer (and she will probably hiss at me for this ;) ) and we (that it: she, I, Bardy and Eari) settled down to watch Sean Bean in Lady Chatterly. And I recall both her and Bardy commenting on how you just wouldn't get that level of full frontal on prime time TV in the US.

I'm not sure if one is better or worse.... but I know I had enough hassles getting over my own fear of the naked body in my late teens, so lord only knows what I'd have been like if it was seen as more shameful and hush-hush than it is.

Maybe we should take it to the Symposium after all. :oops: :LMAO:


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I guess I was trying to say that there's no reason to be shocked for you...that there's nothing wrong with the fact that you didn't notice it. I bet the same thing happens with many European folks. In otherwords, you're normal! :mrgreen:
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but I know I had enough hassles getting over my own fear of the naked body in my late teens, so lord only knows what I'd have been like if it was seen as more shameful and hush-hush than it is.
Tell me about it. :roll: I'm so modest, it's annoying!


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Sure, bring it over...that way I can really get going on a rant on how suppressed American culture is, in sexual terms...

The only reason I've found Not to pull off stuff like wearing a kilt and flashing everyone is because it's not only entirely expected, but not only do people not want to see it, it "offends their sensibilities"...

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:LMAO:

I'll copy and paste the posts over. ;)

I do seem to be lowering the tone here somewhat tonight. :oops::mrgreen:


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Nope, just changing things slightly...I don't see how talking about sex is low...

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Yes, you're right. Very different standards in Canada and the States. Since the comics in the paper are read by children, you will never see anything but the tamest sexual references in them, unless the paper was not meant for distribution to the general public. (For example, University of Toronto's Engineering Society newspaper, the Toike Oike! ) Even that has had to clean up its act a lot since women began to come into the engineering program in large numbers. It's still a flthy rag, but now it's a Politically Correct flithy rag... :LMAO:


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So Nemi is from Norway? Wow I never noticed really, I don't think I've seen any strips that gave any clues as to possible origin.

I did love the "Shall not pass" parody strip they showed us last year some time...

On the States, well the place never fails to amaze me, regarding one strange contradiction or another. The prudity just makes me feel like that part of the States is trapped in the 17th century. Yet it is still one of the most dynamic places in the world.

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We're stuck in the 19th century...in sexuality, and business ethics...

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How can that be true when you have a president named after...well in UK slang it does not refer to a shrub.

And if you have that as your leader in cheif's name :Q

I do wonder somtimes how polite society can deal with so much Bush on TV :LMAO:

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Trust me, we have the same slang...and Don't get me started on politics...

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That Nemi cartoon is priceless. :damnfunny

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