I must say, this poll has been a quite successful one for being started a day and a half later than normal. There were some heated tempers, and some very passionately hateful e-mails sent to my account. More e-mails than votes on the poll, so some of the messages I got were from non-voters. I have to say, even with all the no votes, if you add up all the yes votes on here, the yes votes won out by a long shot. At any rate, here are the results:
Do you think T-Shirts and other clothes with “language” should be allowed in public and child friendly places?
- No, People should take into account children before they wear offensive clothes (36%, 68 Votes)
- The First Amendment protects free speech, that’s all that matters (30%, 56 Votes)
- Yes, they’re just clothes, other people be damned (15%, 28 Votes)
- Yes, People should be allowed to wear what they want, when they want, wherever they want (14%, 27 Votes)
- Yes, and I have shirts in the same genre! (3%, 6 Votes)
- No, that type of language offends me. (1%, 2 Votes)
I know that a lot of you think that the First Amendment only protects free speech in certain places, and not in privately owned establishments, but you have to remember that not everyone twists the Constitution to suit their own needs. When the First Amendment was written, the framers weren’t thinking about what people can and cannot say at a restaurant, they were thinking that people should be able to say what they want in any form or fashion because this is a free country. It might have been in poor taste to not make the wearer of the shirt leave, or ask him to remove it, but we weren’t in the wrong by any means. We very clearly protected the wearer’s right to free speech, and based on the answers of this poll combining the yes and no votes, (yes = 117 to the no’s = 70) the majority of you agree with that right in some way.
I need to put more of these controversial polls up, lots of hits involved.
Now for what you all came here to see!
Ghetto Names of the Week!
Women: LaDesha (from tonight, bitch tipped me $1.00 on a 40 dollar check)
Shantemeki (someone in the bowling alley)
Aramekia
Submission from a loyal reader named Ayah: CashMo’Nae and Nahtica …. Those parents are evil people.
LaKeelia
Men: Quenshaw
LaJustance
Gramarion
Teravious
Well everyone, that’s all for this week. The new poll will be up in a bit, though I don’t quite know how I’ll top the T-shirt one. Keep sending me in poll suggestions and I’ll put some new ones up that are more user friendly.
Ribeye
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April 26th, 2008 at 7:06 am
I know that a lot of you think that the First Amendment only protects free speech in certain places, and not in privately owned establishments
It has nothing to do with opinion; it is objective fact that the First Amendment only protects people against government regulation of speech.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I think the tshirt is acceptable, but I did ask a table to calm down their language the other night at work. The table was friends of the other waitress and seated next to a table of mine that had a well behaved five year old. I don’t care for kids, but had to say something when the vulgar table was shouting swear words like they had tourettes. They told me that the parents shouldn’t have brought their goddamned kids there (to a family friendly place) and that if I didn’t like it I should find another job. It was around 8:30. Some people are idiots, and these idiots caused my table to leave before they were finished with their food.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:59 am
To be honest, I have to agree with Mike: restauranteurs should be able to do as they damn well please on privately owned property. It sickens me that our city is able to tell the proprietors of my restaurant whether or not patrons can smoke on our patio… ridiculous.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
2 more ghetto names for you…..I work in a pharmacy and a lady handed me a Medicaid card for her twins….
LemonJ’ello and GreenJ’ello she said thats what she craved while pregnant.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:11 am
I think one has the “right” to wear the shirt - but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t consider the environment.