Slow Day, Big Article

Monday, bloody Monday

Monday should be a day of joy. The new week begins, challenges await, adventures start and tasks are set.

Bollixs

Monday is a dreadful day when things start badly, get worse and finally go tits-up. The rest of the week is then spent sorting out Monday's mess.

Hasty decisions, followed by mis-keyed emails and failed FTP uploads. SQL errors and contact form email spam.

MONDAY... roll on TUESDAY!

Modern culture usually looks at Monday as the beginning of the workweek, as it is typically Monday when adults go back to work and children back to school after the weekend. Thus, Mondays are often seen as a misfortune. (Wiki)

Monday, a Moon Day.

Black Monday, 19 October 1987 — the second largest one-day decline in recorded stock market history.

Miracle Monday tells the story of Superman trying to stop an entity of pure evil from causing universal chaos.

Monday Hangover, an experience to avoid.

Monday Article Approving

All of the LPR staff had the weekend off. No articles were approved, no visitor statistics were assessed, no server up/down time checked... we went on the piss!

Just goes to show. The Internet ALSO has a "Sod's Law". Seems like everything went offline Friday night except for the database. That continued to accept articles.

Most of Monday we scrabbled to recover things.

EIGHT hours later, we ARE back.

Great effort from the team.

This has been voted the article of the weekend:

Offensive Language, T-shirts and Web Sites

Written by Jack

Just what can you print on a T-shirt?

Is this political correctness gone MAD?

Today, the BBC published an article about a man risking a fine for having an
"offensive" slogan on his T-shirt.

It reads, "Who the f**k is MICK JAGGER?"

He thought it was a bit of a laugh, but Peterborough City Council failed see
the funny side of the T-shirt.

Note: Even I "starred out some letters" maybe, I think it's
offensive...

Any Hole is a Goal! Except a Manhole...

Another man has been threatened with a £80 penalty notice after wearing a
top with the slogan: "Don't piss me off! I am running out of places to
hide the bodies."

It seems the "JAGGER" T-shirt was originally bought in Los Angeles,
where the local cops seem to be OK with the statement.

The BBC got an opinion from a criminal solicitor; "It is not necessary
for someone to have made an official complaint for the police to act, they just
have to think it might offend a hypothetical third party".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6944008.stm

This got me thinking.

There is nothing inherently offensive about any word it just depends on the
context and company.

Words are, after all, merely combinations of sounds. What makes them offensive
is the meaning, or interpretation, given to those words by the individual. It is
the very act of declaring a word to be offensive which makes it offensive.

http://www.dave.co.nz/5cents/swearing.html

In Ireland "Feck" is often used as a substitute, while in England
"Flip" is sometimes used.

A basic bit of Internet research reveals that there's quite a few T-shirt
printers quite willing to provide custom printed T-shirts and they even supply a
whole range of "offensive T-shirt" designs.

Examples:

• AK47, for when you absolutely, positively need to kill every motherf**ker
  in the room
  
• Any Hole is a Goal! Except a Manhole...
  
• Today's word is legs, Spread the word
  
• Curry makes you Shit Hot
  
• If you don't believe in oral sex, keep your mouth shut!
  
• Viagra is for pussies
  
• Fanny magnet

More examples and pictures:

http://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/products.asp?cat=51&pass=1

I guess most of the examples above are mildly offensive in certain
circumstances and even have a certain amusement value. I wonder which ones would
incur a fine or an ASBO from the local police?

Why is it an offence to wear a T-shirt for the police to act; "It is not
necessary for someone to have made an official complaint for the police to act,
they just have to think it might offend a hypothetical third party" while
publishing a picture (which probably will have a far wider impact) on the
Internet?

In conclusion:

The offensiveness or perceived intensity or vulgarity of the various
profanities can change over time, with certain words becoming more or less
offensive as time goes on. For example, in modern times the word piss is usually
considered mildly vulgar and somewhat impolite, whereas the King James Bible
unblushingly employs it where modern translators would prefer the word urine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity#Western_History

2 Kings 18:27 (King James Version)

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee,
to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that
they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018:27;&version=9;

Man barred from flights over 'offensive' t-shirt... strewth an Aussie
makes a stand on his T-shirt statement

Airline staff argued the t-shirt, which bears an image of the US president
with the slogan 'World's number 1 terrorist', was a security risk or an item
likely to upset passengers.

The bloke cleared security and was ready to board, when he decided to really
"rub some Quantas nose". Unfortunately, he should have waited until he
actually got to London! Full
Story