None of this posting is being done from a City Hall computer on city time, is it?
Sailboat
Thanks for those thoughtful comments such as they were.
Yeah i maintain it is soft porn, at least that FHM is… I wonder if my city would be as blase if someone was receiving “high times”, or “your gay life” or something like that. ::shrug:: I highly doubt it.
OTOH I wonder how they’ll feel about the free sample of queen size girdle undies in nude I forwarded to the “fire dept”. Though I think queen size will barely fit the slimmest officer they have. Now we are talking fetish hmmm. HA!
By posting about it here it helps vent my frustration which has mounted due to other issues in the office (city manager tiptoeing up behind female workers in his socks and stands there breathing until you notice or he says BOO). Lack of resources for my department, and on and on.
My oppostion to those subscriptions has nothing do with prudism, sexism yes. BUt no doubt others will see girlie magazines in the workplace as a positive progressive symbol of our culture. I disagree. 
Are you kidding? Iam home today, though I do use my internet at work to do my banking, check my student email, follow my auction on ebid, check the weather and my secret vice, celebrity gossip on the office home page at MSN. The old dude who shares my office and has a bad habit of pulling on his prick get viagra ads with blue peole humping in it ad nauseum on his email account which he often forgets to log off from.
BUt no, I’d rather my city remain ignorant of the dope.
Ouch. Go to your room and don’t come out until you promise to behave!
But you do also use city resources for personal purposes, just the same as these bad ol’ firemen have been doing. You’re using the internet, they’re using a mailbox, but by your own admission of checking on celebrity gossip (which often involves printed details on sexual escapades BTW) on line you’re simply getting the same information you would be if you were getting Star or The National Enquirer delivered to your office. Just because you use a different form of media than they do makes this a bit of the old Pot and Kettle, don’t you think?
The city’s computers are all clearly marked: “FOR OFFICIAL BUSINESS AND DOWNLOADING PORN ONLY!”
Princhester, now I know you’re joking, because your last post implies…er…but that’s…oh that’s impossible…I mean, there really ought to be a law against the kind of depraved, sick, maladapted goat that would have sex with an Australian of any age
And chela, try to live and let live. A self-righteous prudishness is a greater vice than lust. But if there’s an old dude who “has a bad habit of pulling on his prick” in your presence, and the city manager engages in boorish behavior with female employees, it’s frankly astonishing that you didn’t begin your complaint with something a little more substantive than firemen’s reading habits. Maybe the lacy, racy cover of the latest issue just drove these examples of actual harassment from your mind. But now that you have brought it up, I have no choice but to agree that city hall is a den of depravity and sin, and that you are extraordinarily lucky to have found a place that so suits you. I mean, I don’t judge you, your fetish regarding slender firefighters wearing oversize womens’ underwear is a little out there, but nothing of which you should be ashamed.
How many magazine subscriptions could the city afford if they quit paying you to “do my banking, check my student email, follow my auction on ebid, check the weather and my secret vice, celebrity gossip on the office home page at MSN.” I’ll bet they could afford some decent periodicals of which even you would approve, and you’d be rid of the whole “respect” issue, of which you seem to be running a deep deficit. Peace officers and firefighters are your protectors, dear. They risk much for little reward. Respect does not require denying their weaknesses (if that’s how you see it), it requires acknowledging their virtues and accepting their faults. Whose home did you save today?
seconded
Must be wonderful to have a second language.
What a delightful turn of phrase, bravo.
Who was it who said ninety percent of wisdom is recognizing when something isn’t your business and keeping your nose out of it?
Whoever it was: what he said.
Or: Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.
Maxim does not speak for me, or for any man I’ve ever met.
You think that counts as “fetish”??? Ahh, sweet, sweet innocence.
Lookit, I consider myself a square and the last magazine I bought featured a naked chick in a bathtub with an octopus on her head.
If a guy in your office is actually masturbating to porn on his computer, while you are there, then perhaps magazines aren’t your greatest concern. Perhaps you should have the guy arrested.
But given your penchant for blowing things out of proportion, let’s see if we can get to the reality of this statement.
If you think Maxim is a fetish magazine, then by “old dude” you must be talking about a guy of, say, thirty-sevenish. Let’s assume that age. Like, totally old guys like that are totally gross, and totally shouldn’t be having sex. Totally.
I’m going to assume that he doesn’t actually share space with you, he’s just somewhere in the building.
By “pulling on his prick” you must mean that you once saw him adjusting his package. Hey, we guys do that on occasion. Things tend to get uncomfortable down there. Hey, I know I need to adjust. That’s what happens when you have an armadillo in your trousers.
And he gets viagra ads. Big fucking whoop. So do we all. We also get home mortgage ads. Sucks, but what are you going to do?
So let’s try this again:
A thirty-seven year old man somewhere in this building who once adjusted himself while no one was looking gets the occasional home mortgage spam.
:eek:
Wait a minute – was the bathtub filled with jello salad, tarantulas, and rat blood, or was it filled something – you know – weird?
I think- along with others here, that you are a blue-nosed busy body (thanks Uvula Donor 
). First, you huge prudish pussy (thanks woodstockbirdybird ) they are FIREMEN, the dudes that risk their fucking life to save your worthless censoring hide every goddam day.
Next, its Maxim, you selfrighteous hypcrite- not Butt Fucking Monthly. Hell, for the Firemen, I 'd have no problem with Butt Fucking Monthly (as long as the female firefighters got “Hung Studs Monthly” to be fair). I don’t know exactly what it is you do for the city, but I doubt if your entire career up to now has been as worthwhile as single a month in the life of your average firefighter.
Get a life. :mad:
Is anyone else having problems parsing this run-on?
Not anymore. See post #54.
I try and remain civil at all times, but honestly have to say, however, that Chela’s posts on this topic leave me with little choice but to go in search of a metaphorical herring with with to metaphorically slap her with. :eek:
Chela, I don’t want to get personal or Armchair Psychoanalyst on you, but your usage of the word “Peeps” suggests to me that you’re a 15 year old girl on work experience and you’re pissed off because one of the hunky firefighters you secretly have a crush on is looking at big-titted bikini models in a magazine instead of taking you to the Box Social or whatever the devil it is you children do these days. 
This may not be the case (and I hope for everyone’s sake that it isn’t), but that’s certainly how it comes across.
“Fetish Magazine”? Either you live a very, very sheltered life (and keep it up, by the way- the Real World is a scary place!), you really are an adolescent girl (in which case a real Fetish Magazine would warp your fragile little mind by it’s mere presence in the same area code as you- not that you should be looking at them anyway, until you turn 18!), or you’ve been misinformed as to what “Fetish” means, in which case I direct your attention to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Look, here’s the thing: These guys risk their lives saving people from burning buildings. If they want to look at hot, bikini-clad women in their down-time, I will be the last person to object to object to that.
Here’s a little-known Male Secret: Heterosexual Men Like To See Attractive Women Not Wearing Very Much, Or Better Yet, Nothing At All- Except Possibly Some Knee-High Boots. 
I imagine Gay Men also rather enjoy photographs of attractive men not wearing very much (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), but my point- albeit one we haven’t arrived at yet, but bear with me, the pilot has put on the “Fasten Seatbelts” light- is that it’s natural for people of both sexes to enjoy looking at pictures of attractive people naked, or not wearing much.
You don’t think the Romans had all those Statues and Mosaics of Naked People in their Villas because they really tied the room together, do you? (Sure, that’s what the History Books want you to think, but we know better!)
All those Renaissance paintings of Adam & Eve (sans fig leaf, as it were) had the triple purpose of being A) Art, B) Religiously OK (after all, nudity is fine if it’s in the Bible!), and C) An Excuse To Have Naked People On Your Wall.
Even the Victorians weren’t adverse to a bit of Naked Art (“Gentlemen’s Relish”, anyone?). In short, If you’re going to get worked up at “porn”, then I suggest you direct your Ire Phasers towards Cleo, Cosmo, Girlfriend, Dolly, et al.
Every issue that I’ve seen (hey, people leave them in the staffroom, and there’s not a lot of intellectual stimulation to be had when you work nightshift in a supermarket! 
) is geared towards encouraging teenage girls/young women to:
- Dress in ways that will raise the ire of your parents
- Buy lots of makeup
- OMG Boyz! giggle
- Real-Life reads that involve at least one lesbian/bisexual experiment (It’s a shame it’s just the one usually, but I digress)
- How to lose weight by eating more
- Is your body normal?
- OMG Boyz! giggle
- OMG Bestest Friends!
- OMG My Bestest Friend stole my boyfriend!
- My parents are too strict!
… You get the idea. They’re about as intellectually stimulating as a water cracker, without the benefit of tasting nice when combined with cheese and smoked salmon.
I’m not saying FHM or Ralph or Maxim are any better (they’re not, really), but if we’re going to talk about “porn” then you’re looking at the wrong magazine rack in the wrong store, so to speak.
Besides, how would you feel if they objected to you reading whatever magazines you read because they took umbrage with whatever was on the cover?
And as other people have said: Haven’t you got anything better to worry about?
Perv.