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Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: Shane for Wax on July 12, 2013, 06:26:41 pm
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State troopers are confiscating tampons, maxi pads and other potential projectiles from those who are entering the Texas capitol to watch the debate and vote on a controversial anti-abortion bill. Guns, however, which are typically permitted in the state capitol, are still being allowed.
I wish I made it up (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/tampons-confiscated-texas_n_3588177.html).
They however, have stopped so... yay? Still, it shouldn't be forgotten.
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THEY'RE ALLOWING GUNS INTO THE STATE CAPITOL! WHICH ARE PROJECTILES! I CAN'T YELL LOUD ENOUGH OVER THE STUPID!
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A part of me is still foolish enough to hope that this is just some rumor.
Seriously Texas, just give the rest of the world yet another reason to laugh at you.
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THEY'RE ALLOWING GUNS INTO THE STATE CAPITOL! WHICH ARE PROJECTILES! I CAN'T YELL LOUD ENOUGH OVER THE STUPID!
No, see, bullets are projectiles. They're banning potential projectiles. This makes perfect sense...
...somewhere humans haven't discovered yet.
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My head hurts. This just too stupid.
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Okay, when are they going to make the "No cooties" rule? You know it's coming.
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So when someone has a hole blasted into them what will be used to plug the wound? After removing the bullet of course.
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...And then Senator Kirk Watson asked the DPS to stop confiscating the "offending" items. They did.
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Maybe they were afraid women would start launching them out of their vaginas with lethal force.
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Apparently you can be killed by cotton women's' hygiene products. They must be more dangerous than pieces of metal shooting through the air at 80 mph (or whatever)
That's what I take from Texas' form of logic.
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Maybe they were afraid women would start launching them out of their vaginas with lethal force.
Thank you for that image.
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Maybe they were afraid women would start launching them out of their vaginas with lethal force.
Thank you for that image.
You're welcome ;D
But as we all know, THE 2ND AMMENDMENT GIVES US THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, NOT THE RIGHT TO BEAR TAMPONS! YAAAAAAAAAAAA
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See, I woulda been toting a case of disposable douche bottles.
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They certainly have no problem allowing douche bags into the capitol.
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Sorry, there aren't enough ellipses to convey the sheer what-the-fuckness of this, but I can certainly try.
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Maybe they were afraid women would start launching them out of their vaginas with lethal force.
Thank you for that image.
In a related mental image, I knew a guy in high school who thought tampons were spring loaded because the commercials never showed hands pushing on the applicator.
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Sorry, there aren't enough ellipses to convey the sheer what-the-fuckness of this, but I can certainly try.
Careful, Texas' capitol might perceive that many periods in a single post to be a threat.
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Maybe I should add an ASCII art gun and pretend they're bullets. Y'know, to make them feel safer.
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Getting a tampon thrown at you is degrading and embarrassing. Throwing rocks, bottles or other heavier items might harm you, perhaps even kill you. So they are definitely protecting the politicians from harm.
On the other hand second amendment has always overruled logic in USA so allowing guns is perfectly ok. After all no amount of deaths caused by guns will ever make USA rethink the second amendment so even if someone shoots a politician due to anger at the abortion bill it won't matter.
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^Askold, that level of derp is more or less unique to Texas.
Back on topic: This is a sure sign that the State has gravely misplaced its priorities.
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They also passed the bill: http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Texas-Senate-on-track-to-pass-tough-abortion-rules--215245811.html
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They also passed the bill: http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Texas-Senate-on-track-to-pass-tough-abortion-rules--215245811.html
Well fuck a Republican with a chainsaw.
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We always knew that was gonna happen. They need the magic bullet because you never know what the make-up of SCOTUS is gonna be stupid enough to override itself.
Ironbite-which it never will.
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Well hopefully all that accomplished it that the the members of the GOP lost the next election.
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So is it official yet that Texas does not see women as actual thinking beings, yet?
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So is it official yet that Texas does not see women as actual thinking beings, yet?
Pretty much. To be fair, most of Texas is not made of actual thinking beings.
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There are no words as to how stupid this is. Too bad there are no guns that you can fire tampons with.
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So is it official yet that Texas does not see women as actual thinking beings, yet?
Turns out that Texas politicians are actually Ferengi in disguise.
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And there's no chance that the Republicans wouldn't rub salt into the wounds they've inflicted upon the rights of Texas women, is there?
If you follow me on Twitter, you'll probably know the answer by now. (https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/355917126311231489)
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And there's no chance that the Republicans wouldn't rub salt into the wounds they've inflicted upon the rights of Texas women, is there?
If you follow me on Twitter, you'll probably know the answer by now. (https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/355917126311231489)
So. Much. Class. /Sarcasm
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And it won't even be a glimmer in anyone's eyes.
Ironbite-the little shit deserves to be fired off the earth.
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Things are never supposed to reach the point I'd want to see someone shot. But really, confiscating feminine products WHILE actively pissing off a fair portion of the female population already. I'm not sure it's a want so much as would laugh at horribly, but I want to laugh.
Or you know someone could rig up a small scale potato gun featuring a resovior to dampen the tampons so they expand enough to fit the barrel properly and have at it like a sniper as the idiots leave the capital building, that'd be funny too. Probably have to go the compressed air route for that one though rather than the typical explosive powered ones.
Yeah, it really does seems like I'd like to see someone shot over this and don't really have any reservations beyond not wanting to admit it. Well done Texas, you're why I don't own a gun, I'd feel the need to use it.
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Despite the obvious absurdity behind this I just love what it says about the Texas legislature.
It basically says that the government knows that it intends to pass a bill that the vast majority of women strongly disagree with, and know they disagree with it to the degree that they will throw feminine products at the people in government. However they just dont care and are going ahead regardless. it is such a snub in women's faces its ridiculous.
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State troopers are confiscating tampons, maxi pads...
Not ones currently in use I hope.
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State troopers are confiscating tampons, maxi pads...
Not ones currently in use I hope.
First thought: Ewww...
Second though: Wouldn't that count as a rape? Something on that line anyway.
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sexual assault I would think... something along those lines.
But not rape.
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I see the logic there. Guns are manly and such. Tampons and maxi pads are icky and make many gun toting men think of women as other than baby/sammich makers. And in Texas, that simply shouldn't be.
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I see the logic there. Guns are manly and such. Tampons and maxi pads are icky and make many gun toting men think of women as other than baby/sammich makers. And in Texas, that simply shouldn't be.
But it's Texas, where Rick Perry is elected governor, Ted Cruz is elected Senator (in a 16 percentage point landslide, no less), and Steve Stockman, Joe Barton, Louie Gohmert, and--before 2006--Tom DeLay were repeatedly elected as Congressmen.
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Really, whats scarier:
A small metal device that propels silly little chunks of lead at lethal force towards it's target,
Or a ladies You know, stuff and whatnot.
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Really, whats scarier:
A small metal device that propels silly little chunks of lead at lethal force towards it's target,
Or a ladies You know, stuff and whatnot.
Admittedly, I would rather be shot than have a used tampon thrown at me.
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I see the logic there. Guns are manly and such. Tampons and maxi pads are icky and make many gun toting men think of women as other than baby/sammich makers. And in Texas, that simply shouldn't be.
But it's Texas, where Rick Perry is elected governor, Ted Cruz is elected Senator (in a 16 percentage point landslide, no less), and Steve Stockman, Joe Barton, Louie Gohmert, and--before 2006--Tom DeLay were repeatedly elected as Congressmen.
Just you let you guys know, I was one of the thinking, anti-Tea Party Texans who voted against Ted Cruz. I was even pissed off when he won.