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  • Something is rotten in Denmark

    The Danes' government may have hit an all-places all-times low in its efforts to get out the vote. I cannot be any more specific than that sentence.
    The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

    [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
    The Danes' government may have hit an all-places all-times low in its efforts to get out the vote. I cannot be any more specific than that sentence.
    Please attempt to be more vague. If I look, I might be able to figure out what you're talking about.
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    • #3
      This thread is pretty much just spam.
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      • #4
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
          The Danes' government may have hit an all-places all-times low in its efforts to get out the vote. I cannot be any more specific than that sentence.
          If you really think that you "cannot be any more specific than that sentence" I would really hate to see when you're being cryptic or even slightly vague.

          I'm always still in trouble again

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          • #6
            Took me five seconds to find what Truthseeker is talking about. He's quite right. It's hilarious in a face palm kind of sense; someone's going to lose a job over this I suspect! And the reason for being coy is the full details would likely violate decorum!

            This CNN news report should pass muster, however. link to CNN report.
            Source: Danish election cartoon 'Voteman' pulled over scenes of sex, violence, CNN May 14


            It's a perennial problem. How do you persuade young, apathetic voters to go to the polls? Enter "Voteman" -- Denmark's rather ill-judged and short-lived cartoon solution.

            The cartoon opens with two apparently politically disaffected young men. The scene switches to Voteman, a muscle-bound, stubble-chinned superhero, answering a call asking him to persuade voters to have their say in the upcoming European Parliament elections.

            Naked, he leaps up from a bed surrounded by women apparently performing sex acts on him and -- having donned a leather waistcoat and trousers -- sets off from a Bond villain-esque island hideout on his mission, riding a pair of harnessed dolphins as waterskis.

            An orgy of cartoon violence follows -- one of the original men is decapitated, while other would-be non-voters are punched, slapped and tossed through the windows of a polling station to vote.

            The cartoon is the unlikely creation of the Danish Parliament's EU information center, originally posted to its official YouTube page.

            Less surprisingly perhaps, it has now been pulled and an apology made for its graphic sexual and violent content.
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            • #7
              I'm wondering what DE and Teal think what the spam is for.
              The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

              [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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              • #8
                Grab some popcorn The revealed thoughts of DE and Teal might be interesting.
                The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

                [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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                • #9
                  So when they said they needed a strong man to inspire voting, how come their first instinct was immediately to dress him up in gay bondage gear? The only man of that type they knew?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
                    Grab some popcorn The revealed thoughts of DE and Teal might be interesting.

                    You start a spam thread, you get spam - next time, don't be so vague. Sylas managed to find a reference that met Decorum - so you could have, too.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by sylas View Post
                      Took me five seconds to find what Truthseeker is talking about. He's quite right. It's hilarious in a face palm kind of sense; someone's going to lose a job over this I suspect! And the reason for being coy is the full details would likely violate decorum!

                      This CNN news report should pass muster, however. link to CNN report.
                      Source: Danish election cartoon 'Voteman' pulled over scenes of sex, violence, CNN May 14


                      It's a perennial problem. How do you persuade young, apathetic voters to go to the polls? Enter "Voteman" -- Denmark's rather ill-judged and short-lived cartoon solution.

                      The cartoon opens with two apparently politically disaffected young men. The scene switches to Voteman, a muscle-bound, stubble-chinned superhero, answering a call asking him to persuade voters to have their say in the upcoming European Parliament elections.

                      Naked, he leaps up from a bed surrounded by women apparently performing sex acts on him and -- having donned a leather waistcoat and trousers -- sets off from a Bond villain-esque island hideout on his mission, riding a pair of harnessed dolphins as waterskis.

                      An orgy of cartoon violence follows -- one of the original men is decapitated, while other would-be non-voters are punched, slapped and tossed through the windows of a polling station to vote.

                      The cartoon is the unlikely creation of the Danish Parliament's EU information center, originally posted to its official YouTube page.

                      Less surprisingly perhaps, it has now been pulled and an apology made for its graphic sexual and violent content.
                      ...

                      © Copyright Original Source

                      It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
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                      • #12
                        RW apparently knew the Tweb limits of decorum far better than I did.
                        The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

                        [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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                        • #13
                          Who?
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                            Who?
                            Sylas. I relied on my memory too much, sorry.
                            The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu

                            [T]he truth I’m after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
                              Sylas. I relied on my memory too much, sorry.
                              Oh, okay - no prob. I just was confused.
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                              "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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