otb,

"The Wicked satire may be 'low brow' and vulgar, but so what? I would see it as more undergraduate, the blunt offence of student newspapers..."

It's more than "vulgar".

You're a fellow who pretends every now and then on this forum to stand up for young women - and respect in general - in our society.

How would you feel if you were driving along with your kids, mother...whoever - and happened to pull up behind a clapped out van sporting Wicked's garbage. I'm sure your great aunt Edna would be thrilled to imbibe such "vulgarity". Imagine it, there they'd be stuck in a traffic jam reading "In every little princess there is a slut who wants to try it just once..."

I can just hear you now..."Never mind young Jenny, Mum, Auntie Edna...it's just a bit saucy and vulgar - just the thing to brighten up the afternoon after a lunch with the family".

Hmmmm.

Point being that if blokes get their jollies from reading such sentiments, maybe they should stick to the internet or slink quietly into their suppliers for such material....(as in "student newspapers" are normally read by students who know what they're likely to get)

A civilised respectful society doesn't need this puerile rubbish pasted over moving sign boards and trundled around the town for the eyes of unsuspecting people.

We have in our society certain limitations
on what people can say and do. We have them for reasons
that have nothing to do with the "freedom of speech,"
of "Political Correctness."
All democratic societies have limitations.
In this country there is an Advertisers Code of Ethics.
There are set standards that are set by the Advertising
Standards Bureau (ASB). Advertising should not portray
material that is discriminatory, vilification on gender,
race, and other grounds. Or material promoting violence.

As John Webb, of "Wicked Campers," stated, "A sense of
humour is a sense of proportion. In this instance we have taken
things out of proportion..." Mr Webb's company is Australia's
biggest serial offender when it comes to advertising
complaints. However, Mr Webb has agreed to comply with the
watchdog's rulings and remove the adds that over-stepped
the line of public decency. Adds like -

"I wouldn't trust
anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die!"

And others promoting violence against women. Mr Webb agreed
that applying adds specifically to the female gender was out of
proportion, as was the promotion of violence.

Police were also concerned with the Company offering discounts
to marijuana smokers.

Foxy: "I wouldn't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die!"

Sounds like a good reason to me. It's probably why I don't trust women.

Foxy: As John Webb, of "Wicked Campers," stated, "A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

I would have said, "A sense of humour is a necessary to have a stress free life." I can see there are a lot of posters getting ulcers because they have no sense of humour.

Query? What is a young child doing knowing what the message means anyway. Unless the mother explained it to her.

Jayb,

"Sounds like a good reason to me. It's probably why I don't trust women."

Yes, I've noted your apparent dislike for women here - so I'm not surprised at all that you'd be infavour of all kinds of appalling slogans daubed on vans insulting (and, in some cases, inciting violence) to women.

"Query? What is a young child doing knowing what the message means anyway. Unless the mother explained it to her."

Well...der...young adolescent girls (and younger) can read - and they have a brain...as do mature men and women who don't wish to read misogynistic garbage as they're going about their business.

Poirot: Yes, I've noted your apparent dislike for women.

I don't dislike women. I don't trust them. Different ting. Then, It's only the ratbags anyway & there's a lot of them on here.

Yes, kids can read, but do they understand what they read when it's mostly innuendo. Unless it's explained to them by their mother. Then, what's she doing explaining that.

We were told when we were kids, "You understand when you're older."

I can see there are a lot of posters getting ulcers because they have no sense of humour.

So, how's ya ulca.

Reading back through the comments it seems some are just using this as an excuse to bag certain others they perceive as "lefties" which going on history they probably are. The 'lefties' where I come from would support the right to free speech, and reading through the comments I don't see anyone saying free speech should be denied. However there is a difference between free speech and inappropriate offensive language and I sure every poster knows when the line has been crossed. Playing devils advocate to support Wicked's right to continue crossing the line is non-productive.

And then comes the comment:"Political correctness is the antithesis of freedom of speech." Well maybe in some circumstances but I don't see how that applies to this discussion. I hate political correctness, well at least in it's more ridiculous applications. And I have seen slogans and artwork on Wicked vans I felt were not appropriate for public exposure. Slogans I would be embassed to be seeing if my mother or duaghter were reading it at the same time. Does that place me with the politically correct loony left?

I generally associate having a sense of humour as a quality the politically correct are lacking, and at times I have to question if some on the left have any common sense at all. But now seeing some of the diatribe coming out of those who are clearly lefty-phobes, I'm wondering if common sense is just a things of the past.