# In which I pit the fucker with the huge LCD screen **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081 "2004-01-06T21:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/81 "2004-01-10T08:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*As I was saying before, the price of living in a free society is that everyone has to tolerate obnoxious behavior from everyone else. Unless, of course, there’s a law specifically against the behavior. \*\* Public displays of nudity are illegal in most places in the US. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/82 "2004-01-10T21:08:05Z")
Well, actually, nudity in front of windows in houses is against the law in many places IF there is not a reasonable attempt to keep it from the public view. Your house is right near the sidewalk or street? No, you can’t stand in the window having sex, or show porn movies on big screen TV’s etc. Might want to check your local ordinances… ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/83 "2004-01-10T21:17:26Z")
Don’t want your daughter finding out what a blowjob is? Lock her in her room until she’s 18, buddy, 'cuz you’re not gonna get it. Hell, if she’s in school, I bet she knows what a blowjob is NOW. Get over yourself. Seeing naked flesh isn’t gonna turn your kid into a psycho sex-monster. However, anal-retentive parents probably will. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/84 "2004-01-11T01:27:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > From what you’ve said in this thread, I can only conclude that you feel it would be your duty as a citizen in a free society to silently ignore me. Yep. Now you see the point. > [@](#): > > There’s nothing I can do that would prompt you to complain about me to others, as long as I don’t break any laws? Probably not. My emotional well-being is sufficiently secure that boorish behavior from you is not enough to disturb it. My zen is securely fastened. 🙂 > [@](#): > > While I agree that someone’s high beams briefly in your face is nothing to lose your shit over, it doesn’t change the fact that a person who consistently drives around with their high beams on is a dick. As is a person who stalks you and shines a laser pointer in your eye. As is a person who drives around broadcasting a porno. The world is full of dicks doing obnoxious things. If you cannot learn to cope, you may as well sequester yourself in a darkened bedroom for the rest of your days. (Why is it that some people have a hard time accepting the idea that society is not always obligated to shield them from stuff they don’t like?) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/85 "2004-01-11T03:29:26Z")
When I first read the OP, I was mildly surprised that car companies don’t have some sort of parental-block sort of thing hard-wired into their car-mounted, factory installed DVD players. Then I remembered that one of those car companies - maybe it was GM? - has a controlling interest in a few of those PPV porn channels. Don’t get me wrong, I like porn as much as the next Internet user. But I just thought someone at the car company would have thought about the potential for this situation for a moment… Then again, maybe it was an aftermarket 15" flat-panel display. ---
**Author:** ![MrMyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@MrMyth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMyth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/86 "2004-01-11T03:35:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Don’t want your daughter finding out what a blowjob is? Lock her in her room until she’s 18, buddy, 'cuz you’re not gonna get it. Hell, if she’s in school, I bet she knows what a blowjob is NOW. > > Get over yourself. Seeing naked flesh isn’t gonna turn your kid into a psycho sex-monster. However, anal-retentive parents probably will. \*\* Did ya read _any_ of the thread besides the OP? _Expose_ does not mean _know_. I’ll have ‘the talk’ with her when she’s ready. **She’s not ready to see a blowjob at five.** Besides that point, I never expressed the sentiment that she’d go crazy over seeing naked flesh. Others took this thread in that direction. If she had seen the guy’s screen, then I’d be in for some uncomfortable (to me, at least) explaining. It wouldn’t be the end of the world. But the guy was still an ass for broadcasting porn from his vehicle. **Ravenman** , there was no way in hell that screen was factory installed. I’m not even sure it was meant to be installed in a vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081/87 "2004-01-11T04:30:56Z")
Raven: I’m not sure I understand what a parental block would have done in this case? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-the-fucker-with-the-huge-lcd-screen/223081.md?page=4)