# POLL: Are you offended by this image? WARNING:NSFW (or so some fucking pussy told me!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 13, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863 "2012-11-13T06:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/81 "2012-11-13T21:19:12Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > Crazy people are the main reason I don’t shop at Aldi’s. If you can’t find them there, try WalMart, where prices on crazy people are falling every day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/82 "2012-11-13T21:21:31Z")
> [@spinky](#): > > \ it just seems like you’ve had a mental misfire and are basically wandering around the mall in your underwear mumbling about society trying to take away your mudflaps. I’ve got that pencilled in for about 15 years from now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/83 "2012-11-13T21:31:49Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If you can’t find them there, try WalMart, where prices on crazy people are falling every day. That’s why I like WalMart. It’s so crowded that you can just blend in and hide from the crazy folks. Aldi’s is just…blergh…eastern bloc circa 1980 or something. It’s always kind of empty, so there’s no escaping the talkative freaks. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/84 "2012-11-14T00:07:58Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Clearly she never watched Looney Tunes, else she’d know that rather than glorifying guns, Yosemite Sam was portrayed as an ineffectual schmuck who couldn’t frighten a sassy rabbit, guns and all. Like I’ve always said…“The Parents Television Council: A club for people who’s parents wouldn’t let them watch _Jonny Quest_.” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/85 "2012-11-14T00:45:12Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m not offended by the image, and if I was it would totally be worth it because this is an awesome meltdown. I think. > > ROWSDOWER! Just don’t start a thread about said meltdown in the event he gets banned. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/86 "2012-11-14T01:51:04Z")
The OP is now veering into Victoria Jackson levels of crazy. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/87 "2012-11-14T01:55:38Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Thank-you. My creative juices just weren’t sufficiently warmed up yet. We Brits love a good double entendre… ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/88 "2012-11-14T10:49:51Z")
I was at a comedy club (in a _mall_ in Santa Rosa, fer gawd’s sake) years and years ago, and one comic derided a recent complaint that had surfaced that Porky Pig was demeaning to people who stutter: “Porky Pig is no more a slur against people who stutter than Yosemite Sam is a slur against gay people!” A long beat; total, bewildered silence in the crowd. Finally, the comic speaks: “I’m just just messin’ with ya. You should have seen the look on some of the faces here – ‘What? Sam’s gay?’ 'Bout half of ya were ready to run out to the parking lot and rip the mudflaps off your trucks, am I right?” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/89 "2012-11-14T13:11:30Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The thing about the proper use of a trebuchet is that one never threatens – one simply flings the threatening party away. You need a trebuchet. Newsletter. Interested. Subscription please. 🙂 > [@Revtim](#): > > I’m offended because when I was very young lad reading comics, I thought his name was pronounced Yo-sah-mite. Not sure why I didn’t notice the correct pronunciation on the cartoons I know I watched. Me too. I liked to imagine he had an Australian cousin called Vegemite Vic. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/90 "2012-11-14T13:52:47Z")
Over sensitive nutter with a gun. (And maybe a willingness to brandish it, to intimidate? Was that this Doper? I can’t recall now.) Someone didn’t like your tat, get over it! You weren’t ‘threatened’ or ‘under attack’. She’s just freakin’ oversensitive. There is lots of such people around. Like you. You’d think oversensitive nutters would cut each other a little more slack as a professional courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/91 "2012-11-14T14:01:04Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > She’s just freakin’ oversensitive. There is lots of such people around. Like you. You’d think oversensitive nutters would cut each other a little more slack as a professional courtesy. Nah, they’re like betta fish. You can’t have more than one in the same tank or they’ll just nip each other to death, even though it benefits neither fish. It’s [del]betta[/del] better not to let them even see each other or they’ll knock themselves silly hurling themselves at the glass trying to get at each other. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/92 "2012-11-14T14:24:13Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > [?](http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2012-11-04_1280749905796238/tv/simpsons/homer/what_the_hell3a.wav) > > I happen to have that tattoo (exact except mine has the revolver in his left hand pointing downward). A woman in line at the Aldis shielded her [7-8 year old] sons eyes from it and proceeded to lecture me how my tattoo glorified gun violence. > My only response to her was to say “time for your meds, lady!”. And I took my 2 gallons of milk and loaves of bread and left. I was dressed in a short sleeved t-shirt with no printing on it and blue jeans. I was not openly carrying a weapon. > > I’ve had this tat since 1981, and had it recolored in '96. I’ve never gotten anything but compliments on it. > > I have a pick up truck that I use as a “beater” vehicle. I really only use it in the snow for the 4 wheel drive. I drove it that day so I could get the oil changed and stuff and get it ready for winter. It has mudflaps with a similar image of Sam on it. > In the lot she continued to babble about it, and at the corner when I was driving away she was in her car bantering about something while glaring at me. All this took place over a period of about 5 minutes. > > Now I ask again. Does that image offend you? See, if you would have just told this story in the OP, everyone would have known where you were coming from, and you would have a much more enjoyable Pit experience, with more sympathetic answers. Questions about an offensive image are just kind of mystifying, because they just made me stretch for situations where that image would be offensive (on a T-shirt at the funeral of a gunshot victim? Replacing Christ on the Cross above the alter? If my husband wanted to get an 8-foot mural for the living room?) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/93 "2012-11-14T14:29:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I know that Friz Freleng wanted to give Bugs a different foil besides Elmer Fudd, but he went too far with his Headless Texan. Ahem. YOSEMITE Sam. That would be California, not Texas. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/94 "2012-11-14T14:31:18Z")
It’s just a name. The character was based on a Texas Ranger who was a family friend of Chuck Jones’ (and was originally slated to be named “Texas Tiny”). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/95 "2012-11-14T14:31:40Z")
Yosemite Valley may be in California, but Yosemite Sam is an over-the-top Texan personality, right down to his non-Californian accent. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/96 "2012-11-14T14:54:59Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Ahem. YOSEMITE Sam. That would be California, not Texas. Only for now. First secession, then expansion. Be afraid. Be very afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/97 "2012-11-14T15:07:28Z")
Maybe they were offended by the [gay marriage](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FPy0fqaehs4/UKD5ekmMx2I/AAAAAAAAJuM/icphfk5-Dss/s1600/Yosemite-Sam-Mustache-570x490.jpg) thing, and his ties to [Islamic extremists](http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pawlenty-yosemite-sam.jpg). But he did mellow somewhat in his old age and even served as [UN Ambassador](http://images.politico.com/global/news/110715_john_bolton_ap_328.jpg) for a time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/98 "2012-11-14T18:34:29Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > But he did mellow somewhat in his old age and even served as [UN Ambassador](http://images.politico.com/global/news/110715_john_bolton_ap_328.jpg) for a time. I died. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/99 "2012-11-14T19:42:33Z")
Yeah, you really outdid yourself with those. Bravo. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863/100 "2012-11-14T19:58:24Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I was dressed in a short sleeved t-shirt with no printing on it and blue jeans. I was not openly carrying a weapon. Were you carrying a weapon that you believed was concealed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-offended-by-this-image-warning-nsfw-or-so-some-fucking-pussy-told-me/640863.md?page=6)