Why Can't it be Christmastime All Year (sing along)
Turns out, the students figured out a way to power the display using Cialis.
Unfortunately, you can only see it in December when the moment is right.
Millennials 'horrify' their neighbours with knob-shaped lights display
You've heard of the e-penis – the measure of an individual's power and stance on the internet – but have you considered the street penis? Yes, 'tis the season to overcompensate by spewing the most garish Chrimbo lights display possible all over your home to let your neighbours know that you are indeed the big man. We all know …
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Monday 3rd December 2018 15:11 GMT Teiwaz
Apparently flamingos and unicorns also
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7855442/millennials-swap-traditional-christmas-decorations-unicorns-mermaids/
Penii or mythical beasts, either tends to offend the reactionary who seem to never tire of the yearly indulgence in the tired old trappings of the season, totally unaware most of the current yearly decor comes only from the Victorian era, and is not an eternal tradition.
We're well overdue a renewal or a makeover of the season - it's just got so cliche - from the usual holiday telly schedule to the tedious endless repetition of christmas songs in every shop you go into from the end of November onwards.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 09:06 GMT jmch
Re: Apparently flamingos and unicorns also
"mythical beasts, either tends to offend the reactionary who seem to never tire of the yearly indulgence in the tired old trappings of the season, totally unaware most of the current yearly decor comes only from the Victorian era, and is not an eternal tradition."
Mythical beasts such as flying reindeer? :)
Incidentally while many 'tired old trappings' might indeed be Victorian-era, actual Christmas Trees date from the 1600s while tree-worship and the hanging of greenery indoors around winter solstice time predates Christianity. Saint Nicholas as a bringer of gifts is also a much older idea, and many European countries celebrate 6th December, his feast day, with the arrival of 'Sinterklaas', 'Samiklaus' etc
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Monday 3rd December 2018 15:48 GMT LucreLout
Well done students...
.... I can see why you thought this was funny, because I think it's funny.
Yes, I possibly should have grown up by now, which is certainly my wife's view after overhearing me explaining to our youngest why boys _always_ find fart jokes funny, no mater how old they get.
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Monday 3rd December 2018 16:12 GMT Martin
Re: Well done students...
Well, when I was a student, I might have found it funny. For about five minutes. And then, it's just a bit silly.
But it's also pretty damn puerile. And if their landlords didn't see the funny side, they might have found themselves out of their accommodation for the New Year.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 01:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Well done students...
It would be interesting to know what legal means the landlord would have to evict them that quickly? Considering they haven't broken any standard letting agreement.
My oldest has just moved into a rented property, and the rental agreement is standard for the letting agency and includes a vast number of "thou shalt not..." clauses. I'd be very surprised if anybody letting properties to students would be daft enough not to include prohibition on causing offence, hazard or harm to neighbours, amongst many other things.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 07:19 GMT JoshOvki
Re: Well done students...
None of the ones I ever signed as a student (or since) included any clauses that would cover this.
Also just because you break the agreement it doesn't mean the landlord can say "pack your bags". They have to issue a section 21 (basically we want you out), go to court and have a judge agree (they are the only people that can say you HAVE to go) and get county court bailiffs (only people that can throw you out). Looking at a good 7 or 8 months for the full process. Same rules apply if you don't pay rent or break any other clause, if they don't have the specific clause in the contract the judge might not even agree with them. One of the good things about the UK is the protection tenants have.
(I own my own house now but have always taken an interest in tenency law)
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 14:32 GMT Loyal Commenter
Re: Well done students...
...of if it's an 'assured shorthold tenancy', as I believe most are these days, assuming they have been there for the tenancy period on their contract (6 or 12 months usually), give them 1 month's notice of termination of their rolling contract without need for a reason.
One of the bad things about the UK is how little protection tenants have compared to other European countries, especially when it comes to things like rent increases, or the landlord deciding to sell up to someone who no longer wants to let the property.
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Monday 3rd December 2018 16:05 GMT bussdriver
lack of context
Having the paper explain it and getting attention to it is great but for most it will just look juvenile without context. They should do some thinking about the statement it makes; that would be difficult without writing "my insecurity is bigger" below it. I think I'd be more inclined to take a spot light and aim it into the window of the extremist lighting up the world and put a wreath around it and say "it's only a decoration."
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Monday 3rd December 2018 16:25 GMT Curly4
Private, not public.
. . . The concerned resident neglected to mention whether he was offended by the sight of his own appendages. . . .
I don't know about that person but I am not offended by the sight of my own appendage. Neither do I go around flaunt my appendages to just any Tom, Dick or Harry. My appendage is for private showing only and that to only a very select individual.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 23:38 GMT cbars
Re: Private, not public.
have not downvoted.... but I have two observations:
1) Offence is taken, not given.
2) It is fine to have a moral standpoint, it's fine to be proud of it, but don't wave it about in people's faces or shove it down children's throats.
So, your moral stances are like your dicks, keep them between you and your significant other and everyone will be happy. Representations or written descriptions of your moral standpoints are acceptable, but they might offend some people - in that case however, I doubt you'd give a fuck and you'd still feel justified in conveying the concept.
Ok, 3.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 12:56 GMT LucreLout
Re: Bah!
can cause offense
Offence can never be caused; it's a choice the offended person always makes to be offended. I can't possibly know what you might find offensive vs the next snowflake in line, so it's really up to you to choose not to be offended by things.
That we've allowed ourselves to be driven so far down this utterly barking mad road of allowing "you" to retrospectively flag something that offends you when it's too late for me to not say it and was previously unknowable to me that you might choose to find it offensive, is the biggest risk to society we face. Once everyone chooses to be offended all the time, in a game of oversensitive oneupmanship, then no progress will be possible.
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Tuesday 4th December 2018 14:38 GMT Loyal Commenter
Re: Bah!
Offence can never be caused; it's a choice the offended person always makes to be offended.
Whilst this is undoubtedly true in some cases, I wonder whether you would agree that, for instance, daubing racist graffiti on someone's door, in human excrement, would be deliberately causing offence, or whther the victims are just being "snowflakes", because you'd have a hard time defending that position in front of a magistrate.
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Wednesday 5th December 2018 03:22 GMT Stevie
Re: Bah!
All very good points, but everyone missed mine, which was that those who push their neighbours' buttons may find themselves sleeping in draughty cold houses with cardboard window panes at the start of the spring term if they hit home.
I never said *I* would break any windows. Then again, I never said I would draw things on my walls with fairy lights, things designed to get a rise out of my neighbours.
Because, well, where's the win?
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Wednesday 5th December 2018 10:23 GMT LucreLout
Re: Bah!
I wonder whether you would agree that, for instance, daubing racist graffiti on someone's door, in human excrement, would be deliberately causing offence
It's criminal damage for sure, but ultimately while the offender hopes the victim to be offended, only the victim can choose to be so. It's not within the offenders gift to ensure.
you'd have a hard time defending that position in front of a magistrate.
Quite rightly so, but not because of any offense the victim perceived, but because it's a clear cut case of criminal damage, which is what you'd actually be charged with.
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Monday 3rd December 2018 16:52 GMT Maty
Good to see the ancient traditions being maintained
In Greece and Rome the phallus was a symbol of good fortune and abundance. It was regularly carried on religious processions - sometimes requiring several people to do the job.
There was even a deity called Fascinus who was represented by a set of male genitalia, whose image was kept - for some reason - by the Vestal virgins.
So if the students are told to take their symbol down, they have several reasons for refusing on religious grounds. Depending where you work, this image might not be safe for it.
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/106636993812665674852/5737049636927307330
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Monday 3rd December 2018 17:42 GMT The Nazz
Oh dear ...
First bunch of students "We thought we'd have a laugh and erect some christmas lights in the shape of a penis."
Second bunch of students "Well it's offensive, reeks of toxic masculinity, rape culture and it's ....it's ....it's oh so, so white. Don't you care about diversity?"
First lot again "Well yeah, we did think of putting a black one up but no-one would've seen it. And besides, the buildings only three stories high."
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Monday 3rd December 2018 17:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Candle
All I see is a candle with holly berries around tbe base. It looks like someone forgot to include the holly leaves, or they flash out of sequence resulting in something which might be construed as obscene by those with less than moralistic minds.
Roight. I'm off to Dick's Sporting Goods to get some balls. Anyone else want to come?
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Monday 3rd December 2018 19:18 GMT Robert D Bank
obviously a Christian knob as it's a helmet rather than a skin. So what's the issue?
Seriously though, I wonder if the same 'complainer' remonstrates his kids about watching the daily news of people around the world being blown up, tortured, starved, displaced and generally fucked over in the name of imperial resource hoarding and money making arms companies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
