- Jul 7, 2003
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Get used to it: this is probably not the last time we'll hear the expressions "Brighton & Hove" and "going down" in the same sentence over the next few months.
"Ever since they made this a protest city, people think they’ve got the right to do what they like.
We’ve had smut, smut and more smut."
What is that councillor talking get about? How does she manage to equate protests with people having sex on a beach? As a local I'm gutted I'm missed out on all this smut which is sweeping the city according to her.
That's basically saying it absolutely fine to live like animals? Maybe muff diving in public doesn't offend you - but what about the little 6 year old walking past, holding an ice cream and having a lovely day.. a lovey day until he/she sees some skank holding a can of lager with her legs akimbo and some bloke with his head between them? Is that something a child should see?
I refuse to believe Dawn Barnett isn’t an alternative comedian who has taken the Tories for a ride, no one can be that permanently outraged at everything
Disgusted from Eastbourne.
No, just a person with standards...
Oh come on, I bet you’d have had a cheeky peek if you happened to have been strolling past?
Depends if a court would view it as journalism or voyeurism (now a criminal offence).Presumably the person who took the picture has also done something illegal?
But would you apply that same argument to sh*tting in public? After all sh*tting is a perfectly natural and vital function and we don't get offended when we see a cow sh*tting in a field when we're out on a country walk so why not a human?
Like you I'm very liberal and open minded and not easily offended but I do realise there have to be boundaries as I appreciate that others might be of a more sensitive disposition. There is also the consideration of not exposing young impressionable children to certain things in case they think such behaviour is acceptable and should be emulated. Furthermore the behaviour of animals is instinctive and not dictated by moral constaints and considerations so the comparison is not really applicable.
We have to remember that not everyone is a swinging libertine.