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26 July 2006

British men may be banned from going topless. Seriously? →[More:]

Maybe I kinda see the point, but really this isn't the tit-for-tat I was hoping for regarding decency laws.

I hereby nominate jon and pips for Royal Family. You UKers don't mind, do you?

post by: danostuporstar at: 12:33 | 20 comments

An Irishman on the throne? Let alone a naked one?

Queen Victoria's corpse is not amused. or aroused.

posted by jonmc 26 July | 12:35

Topless carwashes to raise fund to fight this injustice?

posted by warbaby 26 July | 12:48

Queen Victoria's corpse is not amused. or aroused.

Hell, my corpse agrees! Besides, you'd need welding goggles when sunlight hits all of that pasty white flesh.

posted by eriko 26 July | 12:57

I'm for tolerance. I think everyone should be allowed to go topless in public places. Even pasty fat people with possum-like chest hair. But not in restaurants or offices. Those should require hats and gloves.

posted by small_ruminant 26 July | 13:00

Hell, I think everybody should be allowed to go butt-naked if they want. And that's not just because I like looking at teh butts and teh boobies. It's comfortable, it's fun and it's a confidence builder. So there.

posted by jonmc 26 July | 13:04

Topless has to be better than not-washed-for-a-week shirt. Although if the shirt hasn't been washed for a week, likely the body hasn't either.

Travelling on the tube in 110F heat, with no air-con on the trains and the only ventilation being tiny windows that open a crack, I am taken aback but somehow not surprised at how stinky some people are. And this is at 6.30am. If they stink like that first thing in the morning, what the hell are they like by lunchtime?

posted by essexjan 26 July | 13:06

I hate hate hate it that's it's not socially acceptable for women to go topless. It's legal here in Portland, but you know if I did people would stare and probably call the police.

posted by Specklet 26 July | 13:16

I dunno, speck. At the nude beaches, after awhile you just get used to seeing all the naked parts, and if more women went topless or nude in regular surroundings, the same would happen probably. An attractive set, will still turn heads, sure, but they'd do that dressed, too.

posted by jonmc 26 July | 13:20

I like the idea. hell i would like "no shoes, no shirt, no service" to be the rule everywhere but the beach/waterparks/etc.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 26 July | 13:31

Now we'll just see more dudes in sweaty, stained wife-beaters.

posted by pieisexactlythree 26 July | 13:34

There might be good reasons for enacting this law. We'll never know what they are, though, since all the ex-government minister will give us is a bigoted, insulting screed about fat sunburnt yobbos and the vague unease he feels when he sees them shirtless. I think there should be a law against poncey old loudmouths playing church lady to a whole country, what.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 13:48

Jon, that's exactly my point. It's socially acceptable at a nude beach, but not walking around my neighborhood! Everyone would have to do it for it to become nothing to stare at. And they don't. Because it's not socially acceptable.

posted by Specklet 26 July | 14:02

I'm saying that as more people go topless or nude, public nudity will become more socially acceptable. But I'm not expecting that anytime soon.

posted by jonmc 26 July | 14:17

After a great deal of thought, I have come to the conclusion that I like nudity.

Thank you.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 14:20

yours or other peoples?

posted by jonmc 26 July | 14:21

Yes.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 14:22

Nudity is great. But so is non-stickyness. One of the reasons why I have a towel on my leather chair at home is so my ass doesn't stick to it when I use my computer.

So take that and multiply it to sitting on subway cars? Ewwwww! I'm totally for topless sunbathing wherever, but I'm more for not having to sit in someone else's sweat.

Having said that, I keep telling myself that every summer, I'm going to take a day and test out that old bit of knowledge I've got that says that you're allowed to be topless in New York and you won't get arrested. And so far, every summer, I've not done it.

I have a feeling that unless I get myself to one of the nude beaches here in NYC, this will be yet another topless-less summer.

posted by TrishaLynn 26 July | 14:58

One of the reasons why I have a towel on my leather chair at home is so my ass doesn't stick to it when I use my computer.

Ok, so you just admited that you're naked when you're at home on metachat, right?

posted by pieisexactlythree 26 July | 15:36

Either that, or she keeps her caramel apples on the chair when she's not sitting down.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 July | 15:53

Some odd mental images being conjured here.

Despite my deep affection for all things b00bie related, I think some things should be kept at least semi-private. Flopping them out all over the street makes them less special. I know that is kind of your point, jon, but I don't agree that it would be a good thing.

posted by dg 26 July | 21:53

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