“Outlaw Rubber Truck Testicles? Over My Dead Body, Virginia!”

This is a serious issue. You know how many trucks and SUVs are on the street? The gas consumption and environmental impact of an out of control truck population is astounding.

Please spay and neuter your trucks.

It was only a matter of time.

Next to go will be the chromed nude silhouettes.

I can almost understand this. After all, most parents don’t want to have the discussion with their 4 year old daughter who asks “Mommy, what’s that?”.

Of course, if they live in the country, or have dogs, they’ve seen scrotum before.

The reason I can really understand it is just the pure redneckitude it takes to hang those on your truck. Yes, I just made that word up. Anyone who would put these on their truck deserves any hassle they get.

Of course, growing up in MS, I saw people put real deer scrotum over the trailer hitch on their trucks.

#4 Ben

Exactly, the US as the “Land of the Free” is anything BUT! That’s like saying Iran is the “Land of the Free.”

China seems to be more socially free than the US by a long shot. Your story about drinking a beer in the supermarket would have the same result in China – just pay for it – that would be the only concern.

The dumb thing is most Americans firmly believe not only are they the best in everything but the US is as well. Goebbels taught governments how that trick works…

For example: The US mobile phone network – +70% still the old analogue network and the digital coverage sucks.

Yep the new Christian Iran – the USA – its the best!

Cheers

Just another example of a politician trying to show that he has cojones.

Yeah, purify your children from science and human anatomy… That’s the spirit! GOD forbid your child finds out what testicles are from you as a “parent”, before sleazy uncle Jimbo shows it to him/her! #7, you are right; this IS the Christian Iran.

BALLS, I say !!!

There’s a truck at the place I get coffee in the morning that has these. It’s there every day without fail. It’s not exactly what you want to see at 6:30am.

Dude, comparing rubber testicles and rubber boobs is like comparing Karl Rove and Jennifer Anniston naked.

And really, on a jacked up truck, like a F-350 or Ram, it’s practically at eyesight level. The truck always sits opposite the edge of the building where you turn, I have to look at the tailgate in order to not hit it.

I never liked those Calvin pissing on “insert picture here” decals either.

So what. My wife drives around with a vagina in her trailer hitch insert.

Pretty ballsy move Mister Spruill.

The article isn’t faking when it says that they’re a safety issue because it could distract other drivers. The other day, in the lane to my right, was a truck with balls, and behind it, 4 cars got in a huge pile-up wreck, and then they all exploded and created a huge fireball that took out all the traffic behind them.

Then it happened again a few minutes later.

#5 – The reason I can really understand it is just the pure redneckitude it takes to hang those on your truck. Yes, I just made that word up.

But a good word it is

#10 – I’ve had three of the Darwins ripped off.

I feel your pain brother…

Freedom. No, you “should” not be hassled for whatever you put on your car, but yes, you will be. So==make choices and understand/live with the consequences and don’t whine like a little baby.

Distracting and a safety hazard? Yes they are==mostly on first seeing these things==as with any humorous bumper sticker, suction cup on window, femaile outline mudflaps and on and on. To be fair, we “should” outlaw them all, or legalize them all. I’m all for outlawing all such speech under time and place restrictions. Driving is for driving. blogging is for blogging. Voting is for voting. Bedrooms are for sex. Why the mix and match?

This is not a censorship issue. They don’t need to be banned because they’re crude or a distraction.

They need to be done away with because they look and are stupid.

#29 – To be fair, we “should” outlaw them all, or legalize them all. I’m all for outlawing all such speech under time and place restrictions. Driving is for driving. blogging is for blogging. Voting is for voting. Bedrooms are for sex. Why the mix and match?

Your personal issues are your own, but I don’t need, nor will I tolerate such narrow restrictions on living… Especially since I only get to ride the ride one time.

Bedrooms are for sex? You live quite a vanilla little life there. Sorry about that.

Think about it like this. That rubber replica is quite realistic. If I hung some realistic boobs in the back window of my Suzuki, what would the feminists say?

Also, if they can hang a rubber scrotum, why can’t I hang my real scrotum? Why can’t I walk around the mall parking lot with my balls hanging out?

Plain nuts, if you ask me.

Freedom of speech is ALL ABOUT bad morals and bad values and peeing on things. Questioning the occasion of people to display their stupidity is missing the point.

Are cars the proper vehicle (sic!) for posting any free speech item or should public safety trump such issues?

I wonder how often he’s gotta get his trailer hitch re-chromed.

What sort of white trash loser idiot would want those on his vehicle anyway?

That’s about as tacky as is gets.

I say keep ‘em legal!

They’re just about as good as a Day-Glo orange t-shirt that proclaims “I IS A VULGER MORAN!!”

Gives you fair warning before you get anywhere near ‘em…

If you honestly think this is something to put on your vehicle (or anything else, for that matter) then your emotional maturation came to a screeching halt at about age 12.

It should be illegal to hang big rubber nuts from a truck unless you also hang a big rubber dick with them.

They should not ban them.

Here is the south I see them fairly often. Personally, I think it’s gay. Why would a guy drive around with balls on his truck? Does he love balls? I bet he does love balls. On his truck and chin.

After reading all of these,I find myself stuck on the one from the guy who said his wife drives around with a vagina in her reciever hitch…wow!Amazing how much this topic stimulated a response from so many…America,the land of the kinky…

#38 – Some people have no morals and values…

My values are that even though I hate the plastic nuts, I don’t get uptight and try to use the force of law to please my own aesthetic tastes.

#49
lmao. I was thinking along this same line. I think these guys fantasize that they are actually exposing themselves… ewwwww.

#50–OFTLO–the issue is not your personal reaction to rubber testicles. Rather, the issue is whether or not ANY car ornamentation should be controlled as a threat to public safety, or alternatively, accommodated as free speech. lI’ve reread your post #28 and see that we basically agree on this issue. Figuring out how we wound up on opposite sides thereafter is not worth the candle.

So–real accident statistic. Find a billboard at an intersection and put up pictures of nude women. Accident rates go up.

Should such signs be outlawed as a traffic safety issue, or allowed as free speech?

Same deal, perhaps with fewer accidents, with rubber testicles==ie, anything that takes ones’ attention off the road and safe driving.

Free speech absolutist, or regulate time and place to accommodate competing valid interests?

#57 – Rather, the issue is whether or not ANY car ornamentation should be controlled as a threat to public safety, or alternatively, accommodated as free speech.

Yes. Any ornamentation that involves roof mounted rocket launchers, napalm, a giant bucket that drops nails on the road, lasers, wild wombats, or anything like that should be regulated.

Any ornamentation that involves words or images should not.

I’ve reread your post #28 and see that we basically agree on this issue.

You always come around.

So–real accident statistic. Find a billboard at an intersection and put up pictures of nude women. Accident rates go up.

But why? Is it because men get hopelessly transfixed on nude women, go catatonic, and plow into a bus? Or is it because uptight moralist asshats fresh from their Sunday Sermon on the holiness of busybodyness go into self righteous conniption fits and lose control of their car?

Should such signs be outlawed as a traffic safety issue, or allowed as free speech?

The only reason to outlaw signs, stickers, whatever, is to suppress free speech. Every inch you give is an inch you’ll never get back without bloody revolution.

There are no safety issues related to bumper stickers or plastic nuts. You either have the basic skill to drive or you don’t… and we need to quit lowering the bar.

#60 – The original post and my hypothetical that you did initially agree with was that there is/can be a public safety issue as well.

Never in this thread or any other have I agreed that there is a public safety issue.

Is the speech inherent in rubber testicles important enough to allow uptight moralist asshats to cause accidents?

Yes. Assuming that uptight moralist asshats are causing the accidents, it is the asshats who are at fault… not the redneck who thinks these absurd little balls are funny.

I absolutely do not think these nuts are funny, but I defend everyone else’s right to snicker like fools at them.

I say there is no value at all in this so called speech, very little value in the asshats,

I agree. I also agree that Larry Flint’s cartoon of Jerry Falwell fucking his mother in an outhouse has no real humor value in and of itself… yet, the Supreme Court protected it.

but a protectable interest in the lives/safety of the innocents the asshats run into.

Do we have any data at all that rubber balls are causing accidents? I doubt very seriously that we do. And even if a few fender benders occurred because some driver was looking at these plastic nuts, it is that driver who caused the accident.

People have been in accidents because they were distracted by girls in miniskirts, squirrels, 50% off sale signs in store windows, and a whole variety of other things.

Do you propose we ban girls in miniskirts, squirrels, 50% off sale signs in store windows, and a whole variety of other things?

“Since any non-felon should be able to own any weapons system they want, they should be able to mount them on their vehicle as well.”

No problem with selling Uzis to paranoid psychotics who hear voices, then, right? As long as they don’t have a record, they are competent to bear antipersonnel weapons, have I got that straight?

Using the “public safety” issue is just a way of outlawing this lewd truck implement! I don’t REALLY believe it is a public safety issue, come on.

I really don’t believe that everyone has a right to free speech if their form of speech is mean spirited and or extremely vulgar. (Yes, I do find the rubber testicles extremely vulgar. We have children to protect!

I know that I will never win a “free speech” argument however, when common sense and courtesy to others flies off the face of the earth, I wish we could censor thing a bit more.

I am well aware that “for the love of” probably won’t like my post here. Let’s see if he can give me a reply that isn’t too condescending…

#64,

But, he’s a mighty fine BBQ chef, so I like to cut him slack for his ludicrously outrageous and borderline satirical opinions.

Didn’t Jeffery Dahmer get credit for being a great BBQ chef too? I understand people raved about his burgers and ribs.

#68: I’m not sure he cooked them. I think he was into human sushi.

I repeat…this is not a freedom of speech issue. This is a matter of brain power.

They should not be banned out of vulgarity or because of them being a distraction; the fact that they are supremely stupid should be reason enough to ban them.

So while the rest of you debate the First Amendment into tatters, nothing changes the fact that the people who would put these on their vehicle are supremely juvenile and stupid. May they never reproduce (or reproduce again if they already have).

#65 – Let’s see if he can give me a reply that isn’t too condescending…

I don’t see that happening.

What you are essentially promoting is the idea that your sense of morality, civility, courtesy, and taste is superior to all others and you would subjectively legislate aesthetics.

The cornerstone of our free* society is our freedom of speech. Our unique ability to put any idea or expression into the public marketplace of ideas lends to every last man, woman, and child** the absolute and unassailable right to comment on the state of the culture, ethics, faith, politics, or what have you.

Take this away, and you are now marginalizing wide swatches of people, not because they are inferior, but because you feel they are inferior.

I’ve said before and shall say again, there is no such thing as harmful words. There is also no such thing as harmful images. Generally we’ve reached an uneasy peace, as a people, by somewhat agreeing to this tenuous notion of community standards when it comes to things that we perceive as profane or pornographic, and pushing those expressions indoors or underground. That’s a shame particularly because the standard in any given community is too often not the community’s standard, but rather the standards of a minority who wields influence through wealth and power and who typically represent their own narrow demographic***

If we were a vigilant people who said, “we want porn in brown wrappers behind the counter” and we left it at that, we’d probably be okay. But often a narrow and self righteous group seeks to impose censorship on others, not because what others say or show is profane, but because they don’t share the same values. For example, trying to shut down a gay pride parade or protesting an art exhibit that isn’t positive toward a certain religion or worse yet, shows women as bold, independent, and/or authoritative.

The slippery slope is that we, in the guise of protecting children, or some subjective moral sensibility, censor the things we all (well, most, not all) think are just crude or without value, but once we do that, we slide toward putting the muzzle on artists making critical statements, religious minorities expressing alternative ideas, and finally land in the lap of silencing political voices whose only crime is opposing the status quo. Not worried about that? Go to a public appearance of President Bush and try to protest outside the “free speech zone”.

Citizenship in a pluralistic secular democratic republic with an outlined decree of rights for all, isn’t easy. Your freedom and liberty are dependent on mine and hers and that guy over there’s and the artist with the crucifix in the cup of urine (which I admit, I don’t get) and the topless lesbian with a slogan painted across her… well, you know… you have to support all these people, or you have none yourself.

Bobbo thinks I’m inflexible about First Amendment issues. He’s right. I am. I’m also inflexible about slavery. I will not live as one. Thus, I must be inflexible about speech and expression. And so must you, or you might as well put the muzzle on yourself and live as a submissive servant to “the authorities”.

#65 – Let’s see if he can give me a reply that isn’t too condescending…

Okay… It happened.

*at the moment
**you know, within reason, because children require guidance
***often white, male, and Christian

#70 – That does frame a reasonable debate–not from OFTLO since he treats the subject as you do as one of his personal preferences.

My preference is that we live in a society that actually rejects our basest elements and celebrates excellence over mediocrity and crudity. I’d rather we listened to the best music and sought diversity rather than rushing to the bland and familiar. I’d rather we watched movies by the best writers and directors and actors than bought tickets to sensationalist pablum. I prefer the wit of Oscar Wilde over Larry The Cable Guy.

The reality is different and if I am to live up to my notion that diversity is a virtue then I must support the right of people to hang plastic testicles on their hideous redneckmobiles as readily as I support the things that I actually like.

But I agree with everyone here who says its crude and stupid. I just don’t agree that I have any right to do anything about it beyond voicing my opinion that it is crude and stupid.

Sometimes – just sometimes, mind you – the standards of white men, who, like it or not, are responsible for most of the things that constitute civilization, are the correct ones. Tolerance, inclusiveness, cultural relativism, condemnation of slavery, universal human rights, a just system of law, EQUALITY – these are all things the world learned from DWEMs, as much as they despise having to admit it (those who are honest enough to admit it).

Yeah, but now it doesn’t get in fights with all the other trucks on the block, does it?

#80 – #73 & #75–OFTLO==excellent posts as is the norm when you give it the time to do so.

I’d thank you except that later you say… (see below)

Absolutist positions are inane and therefore irrelevant. The closer you are to an absolute position, the more inane and irrelevant you become.

I reject this statement because it is absolute.

Perhaps if you understood there is more than just one right in the Constitutition you would see the need to balance?

There is one right that makes all the other rights possible to preserve. The First Amendment is the opposable thumb of civilized society. Without, no other right matters because we are savages.

There is no need for balance. You either preserve the First, or society isn’t worth a damn.

Now, in a discussion of the right to free speech vs the right to public safety,

There is no right to public safety.

it is fair to come down on the side of free speech when it comes to car ornaments–but not with the rational you give.

Absolutely it is, with my rational.

Understand… I don’t care about the academics or theory of it. It’s not a brain teaser to get my IQ jollies with. You can do your fun little pedantic wordgames all you like, but I will kill people to defend the First Amendment, were it to become necessary.

i’ve had balls on my truck for two years and never seen it cause an accident. not everybody likes them. some people just don’t get it. including some posting on here. lionel’s motivation is because he didn’t know how to explain it to his child. i am a father and i had to explain it to my son as well as several nephews and nieces.(my penance for bringing it to their attention) I didn’t stop maturing at 12 or any of the other stereotypes I read. Didn’t read every post. I know several guys who have balls and each seems to have their own reason/meaning for them. OK tough guys now you can talk trash.

I should have clarified… I meant the outraged testicle lovers. Not the outraged public. ALL of the latter were in a spin about the nipple. But I bet lots of the other bubbas were too.

If I’m behind you and you have a set off balls hanging from your bumper and my 4 year old daughter asks what they are. YOU ARE IN A WORLD OF DANGER. I will cut those balls from your bumper and shove them down your redneck throat.

I have a set of bulls balls on my F250.
I hung them there as america is being pussified by the libtards.
Any and all male displays of power and supremacy is being neutered. Go ahead try to take my balls fagets…
If your kids don’t know the difference between boys and girls, they you are the child molester that needs to be locked up!

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#87, this is for you!

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