Ludwig,

"Surely this means that there aren’t too many people who are really concerned about it…. and that there isn’t really too much wrong with it.

Are some of their slogans offensive to women or children? Yes possibly. But surely not any significant extent.

Afterall, our kids get exposed to the full gamut of foul language and sexual innuendo at school and with their friends from an early age.

And there are much more offensive, and outrightly dangerous, things out there on the roads, in the form of rank drivers."

Well I suppose it's down to the sort of thing you wish to have fouling your vistas. I've never seen anything resembling that where I live in WA.....maybe it's a "Queensland thing"?

I'd prefer it if I didn't have to see smutty puerile slogans such as that daubed in my view. Do you reckon it's because it was mobile smut that it lasted so long?

I imagine if it had been daubed by someone on their front wall, they'd probably have been asked to remove it.

Talking of rank drivers...like the young men who feel it's necessary to squeal around corners to show how masculine they are (?)...I s'pose they'd be the same type who would snigger at a Wicked Camper van?

This is not directed to you, Ludwig, but I do snort when I see people standing up for "freedom of speech"...using all their energy to defend some foul drip daubing his van with X-rated garbage.

So much for civilisation.

Not every Wicked van is driving around with a highly offensive slogan or artwork. We all can tell when we see something that has crossed the line. And of course that line is not well defined, but even the most avid free speech advocate can tell if something is not fit for public exposure. Maybe the test should be... would the slogan be acceptable on a roadside billboard?

Sometimes I wonder if raising the issue publically is a bigger problem. In the instance of the "Princess" Wicked van, the slogan that was only viewed by those who actually saw it, digested it, and decided for themselves if they were offended has now received National exposure. Everyone has now seen it. And was this lady's child actually offended before her mother screamed in horror, so to speak?

I think most of us agree that if a Wicked van slogan is pornographic, racist, sexist, age-ist in a very derogatory way, we would appreciate the Wicked company applying it's own common sense censorship before the van hits the road.

I have a T-shirt that says, "You find it offensive, I find it funny. That's why I'm happier than you."

Maybe you stuck-up wowsers should just, "Get a life." ;-)

Raarowwwww, Skisssst, Skisssst.

Yeah, Jayb...

But we'd expect it from you.

But for society opting for standards that represent the lowest form of wit - base sexist humour...well?

I think we can do better.

Jaybe,

<<Maybe you stuck-up wowsers should just, "Get a life." ;-)>>


Please don't include Poirot in that category --it would be grossly unfair!

Poirot would better be described as SELECTIVE wowser--she only gets wowserish when the act originates from a group she doesnt sympathise with.

Careful poirot, your nose is getting perilously close to the ceiling fan. ;-)