What do you think are the “unspeakable truths” – those things which you know are true, but society, culture, pc -ness and peer pressure make you afraid to state them publically?
Here is mine:
The FDNY and NYPD are using the horrible tragedy of 9/11 and the brave and noble work of their fallen brethren as a public relations gimmick to get a well-deserved raise. I think they dserve the raise, but not by using 9/11.
What’s yours?
I’m not one to hold my tongue. If poo stinks, call it poo, not a rose.
This could get nasty pretty quickly. furnishesq, you might want to think about what you’re trying to accomplish with this thread – you’re making a pretty controversial political statement up there, and MPSIMS probably isn’t the proper place for those kinds of things. People tend to get pretty riled up about stuff like that.
My unspeakable truth: Capri pants are ugly.
I am outraged at your unpardonable and unjustified accusation of the ugliness of capri pants. Who can forget Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petri, the first TV woman allowed to wear capri pants?
yojimboguy: How dare you question my completely truthful and righteous statement regarding the hideous capri pant? What is ‘unjustified’ is your attitude, mister! I think you will find that in throwing down the gauntlet on this issue you have bitten off more than you can chew.
First of all, most of the women that wear capri pants have ugly calves. Throw some jeans on those legs, girls! Or a nice long skirt! See, now doesn’t that look better? Second of all, if they want to show off their lower legs so badly, wear a skirt! Skirts are attractive, classy items of clothing, unlike the godawful capri pant like some hell-spawned abomination of a cross between shorts and pants. Capri pants are just knickers, rechristened with a 21st-century slant! Would you wear a pair of knickers if someone offered them to you? I don’t think you would, yojimboguy.
[sub][sup]furnishesq: See how ugly things can get? ;)[/sup][/sub]
Wow. And here I was going to weigh in on the side of White Lightning and ugly capri pants.
Somehow I feel the need to stand aside, lest I get caught in the crossfires.
My unspeakable truth? The US Government has lost touch with its constituants. Democracy has failed.
The keystone of Democracy is an informed and educated voter. This has completely failed in the US. Media conglomerates and PR firms now decide who is elected and when. In effect, the government is now decided by a handful of the policymakers for mass media. Which stories to give top billing, what types of stories to run, etc.
My even more unspeakable truth? All the Media Conglomerates and PR firms power combined pales in comparison to the power weilded by the Federal Reserve Board. The dollar has won.
Steven
Unspeakable truths:
Some babies are truly ugly. Not merely homely – ugly.
The vast majority of folks who take recreational drugs don’t ruin their lives.
People who are most attracted to positions of power (police officers, politicians, judges) are very often exactly the kind of people who should not be allowed to.
Not everybody deserves to be a parent.
McCarthy was right.
Unspeakable truth: McDonald’s McMuffin sandwhich is better than it’s biscuit.
McCarthy was right.
Unspeakable truth: Starbucks Coffee tastes horrid.
I don’t care how trendy it may be, it just does not taste good, at all.
As great as the SDMB is, it doesn’t always work right. 
Unspeakable truth: Everybody masturbates. Everybody does. And don’t try to deny it.
[Your favorite demographic group] are terrible drivers.
I won’t even mention who I think are terrible drivers. I did once in a post here and was castigated with “of course intolerant **** are all excellent drivers.”
But now that you have uttered them out loud Inky , can I jump on the bandwagon and agree wholeheartedly??
There are an enormous number of stupid people in this world.
Especially on men! :eek:
There is no afterlife, no reincarnation, and no judgement. When the sinner and the saint die, they end. So will you.
The Truth?
The teletubbies are actually aliens we secretly captured and force to perform in an Alien POW camp located in Britan.