Or unacceptable public behavior. Well, they seem more like pet peeves to me but they're interesting. See if you agree. If I had to keep the top ten list, I think I might invert it. I can't stand smoking farters who litter.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Yes, you're both right! Nothing worse than seepage from bodily orifices that shouldn't be seeping into the wrong containers. Or something.

Now that I think about it, I've got another pet peeve! Will there ever be a film without the obligatory VOMIT scene??? Maybe it's just the Virgo in my soul but I just hate vomit scenes. The only one I have ever truly loved was the vomit scene in Team America -- that is, the Director's Cut -- the full, unadultrated vomit scene. I love the vomit icon though. I look back with fond nostalgia to the days when ne'er a toilet appeared in a film or on a TV show.

I'd rather see a dozen people wearing hoodies than watch one of them vomit. 

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I think it's a UK thing, Booth.  Probably has to do with those "Chavs" in their Burberry hoodies.  Now if my hammer and sickle hoodie guy were the exemplar, I'm sure no one would have any objections to such a garment. 

Then there was the Uni-bomber's hoodie... 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

 
I WANT THAT HOODIE. GIVE IT TO ME NOW.

Unfortunately there was a spate of incidents in UK shopping centres where people in hoodies were stealing from shops and even abducting children from the centres; these people were wearing the hoods up on purpose to prevent their identification from the CCTV tapes...so they have banned the wearing of hoodies and baseball caps in all the shopping centres over here.  Why on earth they couldn't stick to the old-fashioned method of heaving a brick through a window to steal goods, I don't know.

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

Well, I'd agree with you there, James!  There's a dearth of wisdom these days most certainly!  I found this on the Always Reliable and Never Biased BBC.  What a riot!

Qua es "yobbish" btw?

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

lol, I just don't get why people are so "offended" by nudity. 

Same with a mum feeding her baby.  I don't think it is a matter of offense, more that nudity, even though it is completely natural and harmless frightens people.  I mean, yeah, some people you look at all their wrinkly saggy bits and think "ew!"  but we come in many differnt shapes and sizes..

Nobody forces anyone to look at the naked/breastefeeding people but they do and I think that is why they pretened to be offended by it because they're denying that part of themselves that knows it is natural and reading sex into everything.  Either that or pretending to be offended because they want the tits. hehe

I would have no problem joining a nudist camp.  I doubt Rush would either.  The body is a beautiful work of art. it is just sad that we have become so afraid of and apprehensive of it to me.     I work skyclad all the time and I don't care about being naked but it did make me afraid years ago when I first became a wiccan, but to me now it just poses the question of

What an uptight society we live in!

"watch out for my cousin.."

^^^^^Exacto

I mean, why should a wee baby's hunger be prolonged until a more convenient time and place is reached? Just to avoid offending prudish, uptight or snooty people? Feck that! Get them out!!

Oh, pullease, kids! It is not a matter of being prudish. It's about etiquette. Good manners. It's a matter of time and place.

Even having small children in a fine restaurant, for example, is jarring. Add breast-feeding to that initial blatant offense (there oughta be a law ), regardless of the character and shape of the breast, and it's also out of place. It's selfish and narcissitic of the mother who would value her 'right' to disrupt the atmosphere of a dining room above her fellow diners simply because she is a breastfeeding mom and her baby is hungry. Should the baby need a diapey change, another perfectly natural occurence, why not lie the child down on the banquette and baby wipe away. Whazza matter, you? Never seen a baby's innocent little behind? How's about burping the same baby after the visit to tikes supping at the Milk Bar? Barfing on mom's shoulder at the next table okay by you? Not me.

As for the body beautiful and the nudist camps, it reminds me of the Jerry Seinfeld episode with "good naked/bad naked" when he had a beautiful girlfriend who enjoyed walking around his apartment in the altogether. Oh, but you had to be there. It was hilarious! "Bad naked" had something to do with vacuuming and bending over dusting coffee tables. "Good naked" was mostly with dimly lit bedrooms. Funny because it's true.

It is the rare nudist colony that can scrounge up enough beautiful bodies to achieve a really good overall look to the surroundings. Few nudist colonies are inhabited by the usual denizens of the Playboy mansion's grotto. And that's just when discussing the women. The men? Rarer still.

I am not a prude nor particularly uptight. Snooty? Maybe. But I do not want to sit alongside babies, sucking on either bottles or breasts, in a nice restaurant or any other similar venue. I would not want to be either an observer or member of the Happy Jaybird Badminton Team. It's about ambience, guys!  

Now tell me, would you prefer to eat your dinner by candlelight with a nice flame burning in a quaint fireplace, with pretty sconces and sparkly chandeliers on low dimmers? Over-stuffed armchairs pulled up to an antique rubbed-with-age oak table? Cut crystal goblets, linen napkins, silverware and fine porcelain plates? Or does the same meal taste just as good with flourescent tube lighting or one bare 300 watt light bulb overhead? A folding chair and a TV tray? Plastic forks and knives, paper plates, and a paper cup with a straw? Elbows on the table A-OK? Belching?  

Call me snooty. I prefer the moniker "aesthetic." (I always loved Dick Tremayne!)  A place for everything and everything in its place.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

What happens if say, the mother is on a long bus journey somewhere and the baby is crying? I know for snooty types like yourself Susan it is hard to imagine being on public transport with common folk, but just imagine for the sake of argument.

So what would you rather have ? A wide-awake, yappy, little demon spawn or a content little bundle of joy eased back into dreamland by the natural milk of his mother's breast?

Bingo, James! Likely I'd not be traveling on public transport unless I were traveling and wanted to get a touch of the native flavor! {{{{Okay, I'm imagining it....this is tough but it's coming to me...}}}} Yes, I can imagine! I'm on a crowded train bouncing along through the countryside. Scrunched up next to me, with her brood of runny-nosed tykes, I see a nursing mother. Isn't that quaint! I might even whip out my digital camera and take a discreet photo. Must be careful to keep the camera out of view though as I'd not want to fight off her little thieves!

Now see how you've made me yearn to travel again! I haven't been to Old Europe in such a long time. Yearn, yearn.

Tee hee. If you only had known me during my La Leche League years when I was a major proponent of breastfeeding! I still am, by the way, but would not have done so in a public setting. I'm not sure breastfeeding does all the group used to claim it would do in terms of protecting the child from all disease and giving them super-power IQs but somehow it makes sense to me especially in the first 6 months of life.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin