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Man arrested for snowman with a rocket launcher

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Typhon

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TheIlliterati said:
I'm not the one who said it, but I think sexualizing animals is disgusting. I think your avatar is disgusting. Before you say it's not sexualizing, I see no reason why a cartoon dog should have rippling bodybuilder muscles.
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Oh no, it's totally sexualized, but frankly I never considered it or even thought about it as an issue. I picked an artist who's style I like, gave her a description of what I wanted and a reference sheet (which was not sexualized) and she went to work. I don't really see what the issue is, you say "why should a cartoon dog be ripped?" and I say "what shouldn't it be?".

Back on topic, I've did some more research on the Irish conflict and I have a better understanding on how this could be an issue.
 
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Dan said:
America had a bit to do with it too, you know.
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Hey when they don't? =P But it wasn't on their soil. It didn't affect the lives of American people very much.
Hollywood Duo said:
The Troubles were worldwide news back in the day. We had a movie with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford about it. Just a lot of young people on here. Anyone 30+ in the US who is even slightly informed knows about it.
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Ah fair enough. I've just had the impression that average American doesn't follow much foreign events or know about foreign history (tbf, neither do I). This ofcourse could be a misconception on my part based on a stereotype.
 
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Hollywood Duo said:
The Troubles were worldwide news back in the day. We had a movie with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford about it. Just a lot of young people on here. Anyone 30+ in the US who is even slightly informed knows about it.
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Don't remind me with how bad Brad Pitts accent was :P

For anyone else from Northern Ireland they'll probably remember adverts like this we used to see back in the day:

 
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Budi said:
Hey when they don't? =P But it wasn't on their soil. It didn't affect the lives of American people very much.
Ah fair enough. I've just had the impression that average American doesn't follow much foreign events or know about foreign history. This ofcourse could be a misconception on my part based on a stereotype.
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It's a relatively accurate stereotype that Americans don't know much about foreign events but there are exceptions where there are globally important events that get a lot of coverage. The Troubles are one of those.
 
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It also affected enough people to make them want to provide funding for various entities in the conflict.
 
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Wow, I'm American and even I know the IRA and why this would be problematic if not a downright threat of violence. The last thing the world needs is the IRA.
 

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Hollywood Duo said:
The Troubles were worldwide news back in the day. We had a movie with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford about it. Just a lot of young people on here. Anyone 30+ in the US who is even slightly informed knows about it.
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I was way to young to know about it, and they unfortunately don't teach us jack here.

Been trying to find some good books about it though.
 
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Brera said:
Thinking it's some kind of IRA support group?

This would probably be religiously motivated/hate crime
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When the painting is directed at no one directly, in anyway.... How is it hate speech?

We already had a person win in court for a speech at a commeration.

Suppression of alternative positions in Northern Irish politics.
 
VaporSnake

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It's sad that with the recent thread of "man cementing head into microwave" when i first read this thread title I automatically assumed some young youtuber put an actual rocket launcher in a snowman.
 
BLEEN

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That's bad ass as fuck. I see no issue with it. Better than graffiti or nothing at all.
 
TheSkullPrince

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Oh god I feel so fucked up for laughing now I'm so sorry. I should have read more into the story first then to just laugh at a picture of snowman with a rocket launcher. Thought it was a joke at first but after reading the article clearly it's not *smacks forehead*
 
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"huh"
*reads OP up to 'republican'*
"odd"
*reads OP up to 'Irish republican'*
"Come on, OP!"

Glad to see you've been brought up to speed since then. I'm not sure if arrest is necessarily the right law enforcement approach, but what they did sure as shit wasn't cool.
 
Brera

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I'm not Catholic, Irish nor protestant and I can see why this would be offensive and why the dude got locked up.

Everyone who thinks it's just free speech needs to wake up a bit and stop being so niave
 
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Brera said:
Thanks to your inability to deal with the alt-right, these morons are now infecting the rest of the western world...maybe further...
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Also you're shaming a dude because he serializes cartoon animals. It's not cool to do that and it's not cool that you're making somebody defend a furry. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, it's just that this board's mantra is being inclusive to people who don't harm other people.
 
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Chekhonte said:
Also you're shaming a dude because he serializes cartoon animals. It's not cool to do that and it's not cool that you're making somebody defend a furry. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, it's just that this board's mantra is being inclusive to people who don't harm other people.
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I haven't made any anti-furry comments?

But furries do need to banned. Not as bad as Bronies though.
 
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I think it's an unhealthy obsession.

Buy a bike, hit the gym and meet some real girls.
 

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It's Northern Ireland, they have overbearing speech laws for very practical reasons including not wanting the country to be on fire.
 
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Brera said:
I think it's an unhealthy obsession.

Buy a bike, hit the gym and meet some real girls.
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It's hobby, I can do both. Furry is spectrum, some take it too far, most don't. Most of the time I live a fairly normal life. A few times a year I go to cons and meet ups and make new friends from around the world. And I'd be more interested in meeting guys :)
 
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I think you guys are mixing me up with some other poster?

My comments were purely about the actual story posted.

I was then asked for my opinion on furries?
 

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When read the thread title I was under the impression that someone gave a snowman a real live rocket launcher and not for a drawn image.

30yearsofhurt said:
Do some of you kids just not understand what happened in Northern Ireland?
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I kinda do, but I was young and didn't really understand what exactly was going on.

Been changing that with self research.
 
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Brera said:
I think you guys are mixing me up with some other poster?

My comments were purely about the actual story posted.

I was then asked for my opinion on furries?
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You're the one with an avatar of Meowth with a furry penis coming up to his mouth. I'm surprised you aren't more sympathetic.
 
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Brera said:
He's actually giving you a pre-emptive middle finger!
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Sure thing bud. I bet your name in the community is Clifford the Big Red Lipstick.

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Typhon said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42285433

Posting this because I don't understand.
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That's okay. I think a lot of posters have now learned about the Troubles. I'm just posting here to point out that there is nothing in this article about an arrest. He's probably just been summonsed, as this doesn't look like an arrestable offence.

I looked up the relevant legislation, and it appears to be section 19(1)(c) here:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/463/part/IV/data.xht?view=snippet&wrap=true

The person charged would be the owner of the property. Presumably the two counts are the image and the greeting.

Another section on the same page bans the public wearing of "uniform signifying his association with any political organisation or with the promotion of any political object s" unless they have special permission. Yes, this is Ulster. Wearing a beret is illegal.
 
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