# For fuck's sake, people, it's just a boob. Get over it. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144 "2004-02-02T04:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/221 "2004-02-04T18:59:42Z")
STOP IT! ENOUGH ALREADY! Every time I see this post back up at the top, curiosity gets the best of me and I check to see what’s new. NOTHING IS NEW! OK! You didn’t get the chance to protect yourselves/ your children/ your parents/ your aunts, uncles and cousins/ your neighbours/ your friends/ your coworkers/ your compatriots from a SPLIT second of tit. This split second of tit was so fast that even those who saw it didn’t know if they saw it. Your children CERTAINLY didn’t know. Not until you made a fucking deal about it. WE GOT THE FUCKING MESSAGE! SHUT UP! Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty. SHUT UP! Un-fucking-believeable how you’ve taken this to a new level. Un-fucking-embarrassingly-believeable. OK CONTEXT OK! GOTCHYA. It broke my heart when Rachel and Ross broke up. I didn’t get a “heartbreak notice”. It broke my heart when the Red-headed kid on American Idol got scolded. It broke my heart to see how many couples were disolved after Temptation Island. It broke my heart to hear about this asshole who poisons dogs. It broke my heart to see the blood, guts and massacre of the latest suicide bombing in Israel. GUESS WHAT PEOPLE? THAT’S LIFE! You know what? I’m between two thoughts of thinking … Either you’re the lousiest lays in the world, or you’re the biggest hypocrites possible. Honestly, I think sex with you would be the worst sex possible. Turn off the lights. Don’t touch me there. Use KY cause it’s not gonna happen. Oy, you’re hurting me get it over with. If we didn’t have a child as a result of this ‘dirty act’, I hope G-d forgives me for letting your dirty fluids enter my body. Either that or you’re a fucking animal in bed. Fuck me hard, fuck me fast, in every position and orifice you can think of. Shoot all over me. But don’t tell a fucking soul we’re doing this or I’ll rip off your head and shit down your throat. Either way, my Absurd Puritanical Friends… Get the fuck over it. G-d created Eve for a reason. And it wasn’t for bickering over a bad call on a play. SHUT UP! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/222 "2004-02-04T18:59:39Z")
> [@katerina2](#): > > Funny how I never saw a boob on British tv, though I’ve seen a few bums in my day, all on public tv in America when I was a tyke. It isn’t like you’re going to see one watching horse racing on a Sunday afternoon. After 9, though, anything goes- and not just on satellite or cable, but Brit _terrestrial_ broadcasts. I saw _9 1/2 Weeks_ uncut at about ten once. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/223 "2004-02-04T19:02:25Z")
Easy, tiger. Nurse- we’re going to need a case of beer for **CheekyMonkey316** , stat! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/224 "2004-02-04T19:37:07Z")
[http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=723414](http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=723414) How about this? ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/225 "2004-02-04T19:43:46Z")
> [@dutchboy208](#): > > I saw _9 1/2 Weeks_ uncut at about ten once. Wow, at ten weeks old you were watching movies!? [sub]\* Just a post for all the cheeky monkeys out there…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/226 "2004-02-04T20:13:32Z")
> [@dutchboy208](#): > > Nurse- we’re going to need a case of beer for **CheekyMonkey316** , stat! G-d bless you, your family, your coworkers and your friends, Dutchboy. Just a minor correction … It’s CheekyMonkey613. Wouldn’t want the RX administered to the wrong patient. I’m sure the nurses will get it down. And as for the choice of beer, Miss Head Nurse: Molson Dry, please. That will get everything sorted real fast. It seems oral dosage isn’t sufficient at this point. Thanks Dutchboy for keeping my health at heart. And while I’m buzzed, get this shit sorted. Last thing I want is to wake up to the same kind of people who inspired alcohol indulgence in the first place. Stop the madness; if for nothing else, do it for my liver. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/227 "2004-02-04T20:17:12Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=723414](http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=723414) > > How about this? If you go to a death metal concert, you expect death and metal. If you watch the Superbowl, you expect to see something like a prime-time variety show, not a (premeditated) boob fest. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/228 "2004-02-04T20:23:19Z")
> [@CheekyMonkey613](#): > > STOP IT! > > ENOUGH ALREADY! Every time I see this post back up at the top, curiosity gets the best of me and I check to see what’s new. > > NOTHING IS NEW! > > OK! You didn’t get the chance to protect yourselves/ your children/ your parents/ your aunts, uncles and cousins/ your neighbours/ your friends/ your coworkers/ your compatriots from a SPLIT second of tit. This split second of tit was so fast that even those who saw it didn’t know if they saw it. Your children CERTAINLY didn’t know. Not until you made a fucking deal about it. WE GOT THE FUCKING MESSAGE! SHUT UP! > > Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty. SHUT UP! Un-fucking-believeable how you’ve taken this to a new level. Un-fucking-embarrassingly-believeable. > > OK CONTEXT OK! GOTCHYA. It broke my heart when Rachel and Ross broke up. I didn’t get a “heartbreak notice”. It broke my heart when the Red-headed kid on American Idol got scolded. It broke my heart to see how many couples were disolved after Temptation Island. It broke my heart to hear about this asshole who poisons dogs. It broke my heart to see the blood, guts and massacre of the latest suicide bombing in Israel. > > GUESS WHAT PEOPLE? THAT’S LIFE! > > You know what? I’m between two thoughts of thinking … > > Either you’re the lousiest lays in the world, or you’re the biggest hypocrites possible. > > Honestly, I think sex with you would be the worst sex possible. Turn off the lights. Don’t touch me there. Use KY cause it’s not gonna happen. Oy, you’re hurting me get it over with. If we didn’t have a child as a result of this ‘dirty act’, I hope G-d forgives me for letting your dirty fluids enter my body. > > Either that or you’re a fucking animal in bed. Fuck me hard, fuck me fast, in every position and orifice you can think of. Shoot all over me. But don’t tell a fucking soul we’re doing this or I’ll rip off your head and shit down your throat. > > Either way, my Absurd Puritanical Friends… Get the fuck over it. G-d created Eve for a reason. And it wasn’t for bickering over a bad call on a play. > > SHUT UP! SNORT!! Heavens to Betsy **CM** Do calm down. There is nothing in this thread to suggest that your wild over the top accusations are in fact taking place. It’s the same as any other disagreement. One side is presenting it’s case, the other side answers its points. Side A replies and brings up other supporting info, Side B answers their questions/comments. It happens in lots of different subjects in which people are interested. If it’s not Janet’s boob, it’s whether or not the tailgater, or the tailgatee is the rudest (depending upon their behaviour). Did you have a quad shot espresso by mistake?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/229 "2004-02-04T21:09:31Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > For the _n_th time, the nipple proper was exposed. The star thingee went around it, not over it. The areola was covered. And the only way you know this is because you watched all the replays and close-ups and whatnot. If you were simply watching the live broadcast, you probably would have thought it was a pastie as well. Either that, or you watch television fron six inches away… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/230 "2004-02-04T21:26:41Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > If you go to a death metal concert, you expect death and metal. If you watch the Superbowl, you expect to see something like a prime-time variety show, not a (premeditated) boob fest. A boobfest? You considered that a _boobfest?_ I can’t even argue with such epoch shattering stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/231 "2004-02-04T21:31:05Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > A boobfest? You considered that a _boobfest?_ I can’t even argue with such epoch shattering stupidity. I think the bottom line is: that it was PLANNED, that’s what makes it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/232 "2004-02-04T22:48:31Z")
“The Janet Jackson thing, for one day, was the most-searched thing in the history of the Lycos 50 and probably in the history of the internet.” Now tell me we aren’t obsessing over and sensationalizing it to a psychotic degree. Tell me this insane aftermath is less harmful to children, and society as a whole, than the original 2 seconds of blurry, impossible to see, nipple. Tell me we haven’t just made sure that kids everywhere will be talking about this, wondering whether breasts are obscene. Tell me we haven’t just proved how inconceivably successful such stunts will be at getting attention. Of course, merely objecting and then letting go of the issue would have worked fine. But no. I’m realizing now that all this is exactly what people want. They don’t want to let go. They LIVE for this. They probably want to put up posters of close up shots of the nipple in schools, with “Don’t look at this” written on them. They probably want to call every kid who watched the show as witnesses, show them Janet’s breasts in person, and ask “is this the nipple you saw?” They are stretching the bounds of hypocrisy so far, we are going to need a whole new word for their behavior. ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/233 "2004-02-04T22:49:52Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Should you act surprised if the restaurant has a huge XXX flashing on the outside? > > They announced the halftime performers like 50 fucking times, and if people are too stupid to figure out that it wouldn’t be family safe, then they should go join the lemmings. > > You assholes want the government and the networks to do the job the parent should be doing. World Eater What’s eating you??? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/234 "2004-02-04T23:17:50Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > I think the bottom line is: that it was PLANNED, that’s what makes it wrong. Ok, So two people planned it, bitch them out, then move on. Do we really need to blow taxpayer money on congressional hearings? It’s a simple answer, they did it because they’re attention grubbing music stars! I just saved the country ten million dollars! You know how you shut down attention grubbing music stars? Don’t give them attention! ---
**Author:** ![bettyspaghetti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bettyspaghetti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bettyspaghetti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/235 "2004-02-04T23:52:28Z")
I really don’t think the half time show woud’ve been talked about at all if the breast flip flop never occurred. No, we wouldn’t have cared that the halftime show was borderline lewd, with salacious lyrics, with connotations of rough sex, it would have been business as usual and on to the next topic of broadcast crap we call entertainment. BUt no, we see a boob flash and Horrors!! We are outraged about that, not about who might be offended by any of the other toilet bowl offerings. aka commercials for Levitra or viagra (erectile dysfunctiuon is it really a disorder anyway) Re: the poor children - JJ’s boob I can explain, the need for some impatient bloke to get it up in a hurry I can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/236 "2004-02-05T00:46:22Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > **Bud Light Presents, Real Men of Genius.** > > _Real Men of Geeenius!_ > > **Today we celebrate you, Mr. Superbowl Streaker Guy.** > > _Mr. Superbowl Streeeeeaker Guy!_ > > **You’ve shown us that no matter how naked a guy gets, he can easily be forgotten if Janet Jackson shows a little nipple.** > > _We won’t forget you…_ > > **So grab yourself a Bud Light, you pale, flabby, middle-aged nudist! And just know that it was no accident that the blanket they used to cover your birthday suit was red, white, and blue!** > > _Mr. Superbowl Streeeeeaker Guy!_ > > **Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis Missouri.** 😃 That’s some funny shit! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/237 "2004-02-05T01:07:36Z")
Heh: I do believe **CheekyMonkey** has been eating some of that Canadian beef. Caught the Mad Cow stuff, poor soul. Now, according to stories from Vancouver, he’ll have to be avoidin’ the Canadian Bacon as well. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/238 "2004-02-05T01:09:36Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Not at all. But there’s a line. The line is the knowledge of what is permissible on broadcast TV. I didn’t find any of it “perfectly OK,” but I did find the semi-explicit lyrics, scantily-clad females, highly raunchy moves and endless innuendo all within the bounds of what I might expect on broadcast TV. If my child saw that, it would, indeed, be my fault for letting it happen. > > What isn’t my fault is the moment that is NOT acceptable on broadcast TV. That, I didn’t know was coming, and could not reasonably predict it. Now, you may be suggesting that there is no difference between the explicit lyrics, scantily-clad females, highly raunchy moves and endless innuendo business and the bare breast. But I say there is. And that difference is accurately represented in the actual regulations concerning broadcast TV, which I relied upon. You may feel that mine is a poor place to draw the line, but I have the existing regulations on my side; you, so far I can discern, have only your opinion. > > - Rick I can’t believe you rely on governmental regulations to decide what your child can watch. If that is the case, and you know that explicit lyrics, scantily-clad females and sexually suggestive moves are allowed, do you ever allow your child to watch broadcast TV? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/239 "2004-02-05T01:18:23Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Ok, So two people planned it, bitch them out, then move on. Do we really need to blow taxpayer money on congressional hearings? Nahh … we need to spend more money on making bombs to attack the next “imminent threat” to the US. (Hmm … I don’t know where that came from, oh well, nevermind.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144/240 "2004-02-05T01:27:50Z")
This whole “I didn’t see it coming” defense is a load of fucking shit and I’ll tell you why. it presumes that is something wrong with a tit to _begin_ with. If there’s nothing wrong with seeing a tit (as most of us have agreed) then wtf difference does it make if you see one by surprise. How does the element of surprise make it harmful? Does it matter if you see an _elbow_ by surprise? How is a tit any different? How are you precious little brats harmed by seeing a surprise flash of tit? Please explain it to me because so far nobody has. I know some people don’t want to see tits. I don’t give a FUCK about those people. They have an irrational hang-up and that hang-up does not deserve to be nurtured or pandered to. There are people who were probably offended at seeing a white guy dancing with a black chick. Why do mammophobic morons deserve any more consideration than racist morons? (I’m not comparing mammophobes with racists on an evil scale, just on a stupidity scale). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fucks-sake-people-its-just-a-boob-get-over-it/227144.md?page=13)