Politico doesn't want motorists displaying plastic genitals

"People are making a joke out of it," says Maryland Delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr. "But I think it's a pretty serious problem. You have body parts hanging from the hitches of cars. We've crossed a line." His bill would prohibit motorists from displaying anything resembling or depicting "anatomically correct" or "less than completely and opaquely covered" human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female breasts. (Washington Post)

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I think he should be more concerned about motorists displaying real genitals.

[KDP]

Why do these idiots get elected? Who are the idiots electing them?

These elected officials just drive down the remaining amount of credibility left to them.

The revolution is coming. Pay cash for ammunition while you still can.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

"The truck ornament industry is not amused. "It's not a perverted sexual thing at all," said David Ham, founder of Your Nutz, a San Diego-based business that sells more than 200 kinds of fake testicles. "

200 kinds? I'm trying to think of all the parameters and even including the animal kingdom....

[Jim]

The idiots that get elected are just jealous because they want a pair for real.

[Oxhead]

Why do lawmakers still think they should decide what's in good taste?

[Prof. Johnson]

Things could be worse. In Victorian England, drivers could be flogged if their carriage hitch had a naked female ankle or wrist attached to it.

This must mean that all of his city's education problems have been solved, the homeless are no longer homeless, drug abuse and prostitution have been alleviated, an unemployment rate of 0% and cats and dogs are best friends!!! Wow, would I ever like to live in his little world!

This must be a liberals paradise!

[john a]

Wow. You should check out http://www.yournutz.com/

I'm impressed. I doubt I'll be ordering the "POW MIA Black Ribbon Urban Camo 8" Nutz" anytime soon, but the "8" Sun Kissed Sienna Nutz" have a certain dramatic appeal.

[Acedia]

I remember some time ago on another board that this subject came up and the men were all up in arms over their right to hang tessies from their truck bumper.

Guys? Yuck. Sorry, know you are enamored of your equipment but, sorry, they're not exactly attractive accessories and the rest of us really don't want to look at giant replicas in traffic in front of us. (About as attractive to us as couple of ovaries hanging from a bumper would be to you.)

A lot of guys claim it's funny but, hmmm. I know there's such a thing as low humor but where, exactly, is the joke? That anyone who would actually display such a thing actually has no REAL balls?

In any case, it always amazes me that men actually seem to think that a guy's power and macho-quotient is somehow related to the size of a couple of fleshy sacs.

[Bryan]

Mine are bigger than yours acedia

[Acedia]

Well thank god for that Bryan.

[KDP]

How about a trailer hitch cover that resembles the outer parts of female genetalia? Just plug in the drawbar with the testicles hanging off and the picture is complete - sex education on the highway.

Won't work KDP. Some car with testicles will run over a car with labia and claim it was sexual attraction.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

"Guys? Yuck. Sorry, know you are enamored of your equipment but, sorry, they're not exactly attractive accessories ....."

Its all about proper maintenance......

[pdg]

There is a woman here in the office that has this lovely ornamentation on her truck - it's very low class and given all her other "issues" it adds nothing to her already questionable persona.

I saw some joker the other day with a pair of chrome testicles hanging from his rear bumper. As far as class, I assigned a different adjective than "low", just a two lettered word that rhymed with it.

[Phranqlin]

I guess fake balls were the inevitable next step after the anatomically improbable girls on the mudflaps and the decals of peeing boys on the back window. It's so ludicrous that you just have to laugh.

Some of these guys are already compensating for the, er, small size of their packages by buying a big-ass pickup truck. And then they hang glowing neon testicles underneath it. Yeah, we get it that your truck is your substitute phallus.

[fermata]

I don't think I've ever seen any of these items displayed on a car. I'm missing out! Perhaps San Francisco just isn't the right market?

[Dan]

I'd support this bill, but only if they make it a 1st degree felony to purchase them. That will help control the redneck population.

Any guy that has to hang fake nuts from his vehicle is making up for his lack of them. I've seen these fake nuts hanging on the back of a few pick-up trucks and it just tells me that the guy in the truck is either gay or lacks a lot of self confidence.

[WellThen]

Okay, I have a somewhat on-topic question here.

Why is it all right to display testicles of whatever variety on your truck, but a national catastrophe if half of a female nipple appears on broadcast television?

Because the testicles are fake, the nipple was real. You have opened another whole can of worms though. Why is it okay to show murdered people on broadcast television and not nude ones?

[WellThen]

anon:

Fake vs. Real doesn't seem to make much of a difference if the fake body parts are designed to look realistic.

And the broadcast violence vs. broadcast sex debate is really an entirely different argument.

My point was:

Viewing realistic depictions of sexual organs on trucks in the general public = just good redneck fun

Viewing realistic depictions of sexual organs, or the actual sexual organs themselves, on broadcast television = the downfall of America

Sorry to disappoint you WellThen, but the chrome testicles I saw hanging were in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the car of an African-American. If you want to label him a redneck, you'll get a guffaw from me, perhaps an arguement from others (like real rednecks.)

Real and realistic are different. Although I understand your arguement and agree. Personally, Janet Jackson's tit is less offensive than some stupid plastic hanging from the back of a car.

[JimmyVa]

We have lots of So. MD rednecks with these idiotic sacks hanging from their pickups. These half-wits, I think, really believe it is cool? Unreal...

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

I'd say boobs should be characterized as "dual purpose" as opposed to 'sexual'. And I don't remember seeing Janet's nipple, just boobness. And yes, what is up with this country? Of all things to see and hear on TV, a boob sends everyone into fits.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

I was just thinking about it, and those fake boat propellers on the hitch can go too.

Help me out:
...I assigned a different adjective than "low", just a two lettered word that rhymed with it...

"Bo",.."Mo",.."Yo"? I give up.

[boynamedsue]

the testicles are stupid.

but i support someones right to display their own stupid shit.

[Dog Lover]

Ho?

[PW]

I can't believe the original WP article didn't have a photo. That's shoddy journalism.

[agshare]

is this guy still living in the victorian era? geez,guy,lighten up,for petes sake..spend your time on something worthwhile ..like fighting crime.

[Soo]

There's an armory museum in Leeds, England that has an odd logo, a ram's head done up like an african mask. In creating the night-glow roadsigns, some of it was left off, and as you drove by at night it looked like a complete female reproductive system.

logo: http://www.mintat.co.uk/site_portfolio_job.php?job_id=89

/no clicky, no pops, no skilz

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

That's a really weird logo regardless.

[AE]

I saw one of these on a truck that also had a "What Would Jesus Do?" bumper sticker. All I could think of was that he sure as hell wouldn't hang a giant plastic scrotum from the back of his truck!

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

I always wanted to get a bumper sticker that read: HWJD-How Would Jesus Drive

Just another Republican trying to save the children.

[Soo]

Agshare:

Fight crime? What the hell do you think they are, elected officials?

Man, if fighting crime is what politicians do in your neighborhood, I'm moving tonight! In my 'hood, it's all bluster.

[Talentscout]

Common courtesy, not a law, should dictate that we not display private parts in public. And I'm not talking about a nipple flash. I'm talking about intentionally displaying for the world what you MUST know is going to be offensive to a large number of people who have done you no harm. Maybe I'm old fashioned in this regard, but I would no more do that than I would display a... oh... let's say... a rebel flag. And no, I'm not personally offended by plastic nutz OR rebel flags, but I AM offended by inconsiderate people.

You can not legislate courtesy or morality or just plain common sense. Is it disgusting? Yes. Does this demonstrate a lack of intelligence and couth? Yes. Should it be made illegal? No. This is a huge waste of public resources for an idiot who no doubt has been a Darwin candidate and will eventually be a winner. Don't even try to teach these folks good taste. It's a waste of time.

[Soo]

My neighbor has a huge pickup truck onto which he put a chrome gas flap. He then decided he had to get dual mufflers that are ultra-loud because the shiny flap put the "redneck" out of balance with the "city."

All I could say to that was, "WTF are you talking about? That truck screams "redneck," and all you're missing is a damn flip-down ladder to climb in that thing."

Unfortunately, that got him to thinking... And for some people, thinking is a dangerous thing.

[KDP]

You do not have the right to not be offended.

[BigPlasticNutz]

Maryland Delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr. is seriously jealous of those nuts as he has none of his own.

[pnwgal]

I don't get why someone would want to hang plastic/metal/chrome/etc genitalia from any part of their vehicle. I mean...I REALLY don't get it. And I can honestly see I've never seen anything like that in my neck of the woods.

Of course, this post is the voice of doom. Now, on the way home, every truck I see will have a plastic dick and balls hanging from it.

[Rusty]

Again...my short poem about testicles...

Ahem...

'I tote 'em,
In my scrotum!'

Thank you

I really don't want to see another "Git R Done" sticker either, whether those are offensive or not.

[Soo]

I agree about the anonymously mentioned sticker. I'm dorky enough that I read them like this:

"Git" "Are" "Done", as in Toys-R-Us.

"Git R Done"

What does that mean?

you're obviously not a redneck and have never heard of Larry the Cable Guy...hahahahaha

[hibiscusroto]

Well this is America...and although I'm not part of the "Truck Nutz/Git R' Done/confederate flag" demographic I do peacefully co-exist with people who enjoy such things. If the politician really wants to help society out he should propse a law that forces people who want Truck Nutz to have to buy large, brightly colored ones...that way I can see the person from 1/2 mile away and stay the hell away from them.