OH my!
Yup. There are tattoos out there that are a helluva lot more offensive than Yosemite Sam.
Still no.
And when you put two complete nutters in a box together to see if they will mate, the result is:
Seems like a lot of homage for an adult to pay to a cartoon character. I had a Huckleberry Hound lunchbox when I was in first grade, but damned if I would ever permanently decorate my body with Huckleberry or put him on a motor vehicle. I guess to me it seems like a case of arrested development.
Peeps be nutz.
I had a client at work mention that I looked tired, and must be working too hard. I told her I wished that was why I looked the way I did; actually I had a massive hangover.
The woman flipped out on me because I used the word “hangover” in front of her 10 year old granddaughter. She threatened to “turn me in” as well?!?
It does sound irredeemably tacky and lowbrow. Such an offense against good taste is an even graver sin than one against morals or political virtue.
I would call you a different–and worse-- P-word: plebeian [said with withering disdain]. I don’t use the kind of vulgarities found in your title.
If someone I knew got a “Yosemite Sam” tattoo, so help me God, I would never speak to him again.
I sentence you to 15 hours at the Milwaukee Museum of Art, no fewer than three solemn high masses, and 6 hours browsing Design Within Reach.
May God have mercy on your soul (and taste level).
Well, I wouldn’t be talking about my hangover to clients, either, but not because it would offend their 10 year old granddaughter.
You sound fun. 
I once worked with a guy who has a Tasmanian Devil cartoon tattooed on his calf. I literally hated everything about him.
Even at my ripe old age, I still love Warner Brothers cartoons.
I have a tee shirt with the WB Martian saying, “You are making me very angry”.
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.
I’m offended by the fact that he promised us a poll, but he didn’t submit one.
Before he posted the update, I assumed that he was going to have it tattooed on his scrotum, which he’d then prominently display at work. His tattoo artist then duly informed him that doing so may offend some people. In my mind, the most mundane explanation would have been that someone wearing a cowboy hat was offended when pkbites did a Yosemite Sam impression in their direction.
Why would you wish that?
After a good night’s sleep, a hangover goes away. Anybody looking like that as a result of working too hard probably needs to be hospitalized for a few days.
Big time. Shielded her sons eyes? What the hell? Are kids not allowed to watch Looney Tunes now? If Gibbs draws his pistol on NCIS do they have to turn the channel?
Of course not. What offends me is that, after one oversensitive ninny makes some stupid objections to your matching tattoo and mudflaps (way to accessorize, by the way), you go off on an incoherent rant as if the world is going to the dogs and images of yosemite sam are somehow verboten. All with no context, so 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.
It would have been nice if you’d posted the context from the very beginning, pk
That was rude. Openly criticizing what somebody else chooses to wear as personal decoration is not appropriate, unless they asked for your honest opinion.
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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.
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That was rude. Openly criticizing what somebody else chooses to use as vehicle decoration is not appropriate, unless they asked for your honest opinion.
Irrelevant question. Whether somebody is offended by a tattoo of Yosemite Sam, or by a tattoo of a pinup girl showing some thighs and cleavage, or by a tattoo saying “Legalize Pot”, or by a tattoo saying “Don’t Re-Nig in 2012”, or by any other tattooed image that doesn’t actually constitute a breach of the peace, the correct thing for them to do is the same in all cases: SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT.
The shopper at the Aldis had every right to shield her son’s eyes from what she considered your “offensive” tattoo, and she could also have turned away from you in disdain and/or markedly walked away to stand in another checkout line instead.
It’s not incorrect or impolite to respond to someone whose behavior or appearance offends you by coldly shunning them. (If the person in question secretly agrees that they’re being offensive, they can feel embarrassed and ashamed, and if not, they can just ignore you.)
But it is incorrect and impolite to directly rebuke somebody because you find their appearance offensive. Their appearance is none of your damn business.
C’mom, cut the pk some slack here. How often does he get an opportunity to post about a confrontation where he was the sane person?
Crazy people are the main reason I don’t shop at Aldi’s.