Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Toyman! :

Oh, I say, sir!  Your monkey is indecent!

Toyman! said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

I'm of the opinion that all should be allowed. But I don't own the place so...

Forgive me for repeating myself:

Duke said:

It doesn't matter what each of us as individuals thinks about political content.

In reply to Duke :

Memes, or put a cork in it!

I'm thinking this thread needs locking for a week. 

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:

I'm thinking this thread needs locking for a week. 

Don't be silly.  Everything is lovely.

Duke said:

Toyman! said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

I'm of the opinion that all should be allowed. But I don't own the place so...

 

Forgive me for repeating myself:

Duke said:

It doesn't matter what each of us as individuals thinks about political content.

 

I'm not the meme police. Others have appointed themselves to that position.  

In reply to Toyman! :

Dude, this is an excellent forum which we get to enjoy for free thanks to the generosity of the site owners.  They run a business, and while this forum is effectivly a loss leader, it's still a publicly facing window into their business. As a business they have to think about how they are seen by the world at large.  They have made the decission that politics are not allowed.  This is their site, they can make the rules, why do you want to tell them what they can and can't do.  Please back off.

On a personal level I don't care what peoples politics or religion are.  I have friends who range from pure Libetarian to Anarchists.  I have friends that range from devoutly religious to complete athiests.  It's no problem, we can sit over a beer and discuss happily our views no matter if we agree or not, it can be fun do disagree and have a friendly discussion and see a different view point.  But a business is different.  People can and do make decisions on how business appear to behave. 

There is a chiropractor that I stopped visiting.  Not because I disagreed with their politics, I already knew that and it was fine, but because they took to FB and started lambasting people with oposite views from their business page.  I was fine knowing we were different, but it went too far when they startedf attacking people.  There's a well known online retailer for car parts that specialises in one of the brands I own, and also carries parts for another brand I own.  I will not buy anythiung from them, even (on the admitidly rare occasions) they are cheper than the dealer or other retailers.  They have the best search engine for figuring out part numbers etc.  I use that for free then spend my money elsewhere. Why?  Because they have, on there public forums a politics and religion sub forum where they allow absolute untruthes, slander and lies by both people from sides of the political spectrum, although heavily weighted one way not the other.  Do the owners of the site agree with what's posted or not?  I don't know, but it doesn't matter, I wont touch them.  To me, by allowing that, they are agreeing too, and promoting hate speach, conspiracy theories, fake and missleading information etc.  I am not going to support a business that I see as being divisive and helping perpetuate the mean spirited and confrontational BS that passes for political discourse today.

Please, please, just stop and let us go back to having fun.

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

The only political content on this page is yours. 

Try more memes and fewer words. 

I guess I don't understand. I was told dead politicians were fine. RBG is dead. So is Abraham Lincoln. At least, I'm pretty sure he is. I might have to Google it. No one got their tie in a twist over the Nixon meme a few pages back. 

In reply to volvoclearinghouse :

An all white meme could be considered offensive to non white people, just sayin'

My first meme:

Ahh, the old bird-roasting, bridge-melting Union Pacific gas-turbine electric locomotives