Is this Avatar offensive??
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Well folks I've been in touch with lomag to see if my avatar was indeed offensive. I thought I'd leave that decision to the admin people. Credit to Mark, he said it was questionable, but not as bad as some of the others. He asked me if I would remove it for him, which I have, for him.
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
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Originally Posted by wickster' post='919670' date='Jun 22 2009, 06:08 AM
Well folks I've been in touch with lomag to see if my avatar was indeed offensive. I thought I'd leave that decision to the admin people. Credit to Mark, he said it was questionable, but not as bad as some of the others. He asked me if I would remove it for him, which I have, for him.
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
I understand that people in the UK and in continental Europe are not nearly so uptight about sex.
Of course, the puritanical attitude in the US toward human sexuality and the attitude of making sex seem like some sort of forbidden fruit or shameful act not to be discussed explains why the US is the teenage pregnancy capital of the Western world.
Don't even get me started about my feelings about whether organized religion's death grip over politicians on social issues here in the US is bad for my country. Suffice it to say that I personally believe that religion and the state should remain entirely separate -- lest people be compelled by the government to live their lives in accordance with a religion that they do not practice or believe it -- exactly the result that the founders of the US strove to avoid when they wrote the US Constitution's provision barring the establishment of the state religion (the Establishment Clause).
But that's just the way it is here and I'm not giving any disgruntled female employee a pretext to ruin my life and that of my family by launching a sexual harassment lawsuit. Again, here in the US, the male target of such a complaint or lawsuit is basically presumed to guilty and even if subsequently found innocent, the injury to the man's reputation is often permanent.
All of this is a way of explaining why, although most regrettable, it is necessary to keep this website PG-13. If it isn't, many of us will no longer visit it from work or even from a work-provided Blackberry, Iphone or other PDA.
If you want porn and images close to porn, there are about a million websites for that. We all know where to find them.
If E60.net is no longer safe to visit at work, the amount of activity and posts will go way down. And I don't think that any of us want that.
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I agree with sdq1871. The focus of this forum should remain about the automobiles for which it was intended. We can't limit user viewership/input over something
as simple as an avatar, or, material that has nothing to do with an e60.
I miss my Rigid tool calendar at work, but, the HR manager said it had to go. Just a sign of the times.
as simple as an avatar, or, material that has nothing to do with an e60.
I miss my Rigid tool calendar at work, but, the HR manager said it had to go. Just a sign of the times.
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Originally Posted by 530inOK' post='919700' date='Jun 22 2009, 08:19 AM
I miss my Rigid tool calendar at work, but, the HR manager said it had to go. Just a sign of the times.
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Originally Posted by wickster' post='919670' date='Jun 22 2009, 06:08 AM
Well folks I've been in touch with lomag to see if my avatar was indeed offensive. I thought I'd leave that decision to the admin people. Credit to Mark, he said it was questionable, but not as bad as some of the others. He asked me if I would remove it for him, which I have, for him.
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
Being a newbie to this site I've been inspired/helped with my car, because of the great people on this great forum.
I wouldn't want to offend anyone on here, but were all adult right?? I just feel the pc brigade have won again we know when we've over stepped the line, and me personally don't think we did.
Like radz said, girls and cars are related
Okay, I'll get down off my soap box now, oh and say goodbye to my little lady
P.S. All the bridge avatars were being used so I had to use this one
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Originally Posted by 530inOK' post='919713' date='Jun 22 2009, 08:34 AM
Yes it does. How is it that the 1 percent has taken over?
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