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What are your thoughts on nude swimming? |
It should be allowed at all beaches |
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It shouldn't be allowed at all beaches, but there should be more places where it's acceptable |
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The current state of affairs is fine |
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It shouldn't be allowed on any public beach |
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partypie
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watt price tully wrote: | Pies4shaw wrote: | think positive wrote: | So who's ready for summer, or are we all wearing burkas on the beach? |
I'll be swimming with the sharks, as usual. |
Ha ha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5Xv7QqXiM |
I was told that sharks left the water when lawyers entered out of professional courtesy |
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watt price tully
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partypie wrote: | watt price tully wrote: | Pies4shaw wrote: | think positive wrote: | So who's ready for summer, or are we all wearing burkas on the beach? |
I'll be swimming with the sharks, as usual. |
Ha ha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5Xv7QqXiM |
I was told that sharks left the water when lawyers entered out of professional courtesy | _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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Pies4shaw
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This is the version of that joke that I had in mind. It's the one generally favoured among partners of Australia's larger firms:
Did you hear about the lawyer on vacation whose sailboat capsized in dangerous, shark-infested waters?
He surprised his traveling companions by volunteering to swim to the far-off shore for help. As he swam, his companions were startled by the appearance of two dorsal fins -- great white sharks, heading straight toward the lawyer.
To their surprise, the sharks allowed the lawyer to take hold of their fins, and escorted him safely to shore.
When the lawyer returned with help, his companions asked him how he had managed such an incredible feat. The lawyer answered, "Professional courtesy."
There's a slightly better version, in which an entire school of sharks lines up between the boat and the shore so that the lawyer can walk to safety without getting her silk suit wet but I can't find that one on the internet. |
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watt price tully
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Pies4shaw wrote: | This is the version of that joke that I had in mind. It's the one generally favoured among partners of Australia's larger firms:
Did you hear about the lawyer on vacation whose sailboat capsized in dangerous, shark-infested waters?
He surprised his traveling companions by volunteering to swim to the far-off shore for help. As he swam, his companions were startled by the appearance of two dorsal fins -- great white sharks, heading straight toward the lawyer.
To their surprise, the sharks allowed the lawyer to take hold of their fins, and escorted him safely to shore.
When the lawyer returned with help, his companions asked him how he had managed such an incredible feat. The lawyer answered, "Professional courtesy."
There's a slightly better version, in which an entire school of sharks lines up between the boat and the shore so that the lawyer can walk to safety without getting her silk suit wet but I can't find that one on the internet. |
_________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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swoop42
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
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Pies4shaw wrote: | This is the version of that joke that I had in mind. It's the one generally favoured among partners of Australia's larger firms:
Did you hear about the lawyer on vacation whose sailboat capsized in dangerous, shark-infested waters?
He surprised his traveling companions by volunteering to swim to the far-off shore for help. As he swam, his companions were startled by the appearance of two dorsal fins -- great white sharks, heading straight toward the lawyer.
To their surprise, the sharks allowed the lawyer to take hold of their fins, and escorted him safely to shore.
When the lawyer returned with help, his companions asked him how he had managed such an incredible feat. The lawyer answered, "Professional courtesy."
There's a slightly better version, in which an entire school of sharks lines up between the boat and the shore so that the lawyer can walk to safety without getting her silk suit wet but I can't find that one on the internet. |
I'm calling BS.
A real lawyer would have explained to them on returning that he had negotiated with the sharks that they could eat his contemporaries in return for safe passage and then pushed them in. |
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partypie
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Trust lawyers to turn what was a simple joke into something long and complicated! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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David
to wish impossible things
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Pretty sickening story, but not actually off-topic: the newspaper evidently thinks it's acceptable to show footage of someone getting shot dead, but they blur his genitals you know, just in case anyone gets offended. That's our society in a nutshell. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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think positive
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That's really disgusting. Why would they shoot an obviously unarmed man?
That footage, even with a warning is distressing enough without balls though. I was going to say it should not be in the net, but there is a clrear warning about the content, and quite frankly the world needs to see what's going on. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
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David wrote: | Pretty sickening story, but not actually off-topic: the newspaper evidently thinks it's acceptable to show footage of someone getting shot dead, but they blur his genitals you know, just in case anyone gets offended. That's our society in a nutshell. |
Yep, but if I'd posted the same link from the Herald Sun would it have been typical Murdoch garbage? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
to wish impossible things
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Quite possibly. But frankly I have little more time for Fairfax these days.
think positive wrote: | That's really disgusting. Why would they shoot an obviously unarmed man?
That footage, even with a warning is distressing enough without balls though. I was going to say it should not be in the net, but there is a clrear warning about the content, and quite frankly the world needs to see what's going on. |
I guess the same reason East German guards shot people at the Berlin Wall. Sometimes border fences are just a way to demarcate territory, and sometimes they're a way of keeping the prisoners in. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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think positive
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Could be
(As a side, every time I see this thread I picture you at black rock beach, pasty white and skinny, starkus! Scary!) _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Back on topic, should clothing be optional at the beach?
It's been my experience that clothing optional beaches are full of ugly naked people (except when I'm there).
When you consider what is considered "decent", swimming naked really isn't all that offensive. |
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stui magpie
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3.14159 wrote: | Back on topic, should clothing be optional at the beach?
It's been my experience that clothing optional beaches are full of ugly naked people (except when I'm there).
When you consider what is considered "decent", swimming naked really isn't all that offensive. |
Dear oh lord, that pic is the definition of too much of a good thing. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
to wish impossible things
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think positive wrote: | Could be
(As a side, every time I see this thread I picture you at black rock beach, pasty white and skinny, starkus! Scary!) |
Um... scarier that you're imagining me naked every time you visit this thread?
(P.S. I have no doubt that there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't particularly want to see me naked; but my girlfriend does, and that's really all that matters. ) _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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