Beer Bellies Banned?

Damocles

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Before you go baring that beer belly in public, you’d better check to see if your need to be free flies with the locals.

This summer’s skyrocketing temperatures have led local lawmakers in the UK to consider bans on public nudity of the middle-aged shirtless man variety, The Daily Mail reports.

"There is a problem," government minister Nicholas Bennett said. "In my part of the country we are trying to revitalize the main shopping precinct.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205777,00.html
 
People can divert there eyes.. I dont see the reason behind this law... but it makes more sense than banning topless women....
 
This certainly is not the law and if a local council attempted to pass a by-law preventing me from taking my shirt off i'd have them up before the court to strike it down before you could say "your breasts are bigger than you wife's"

I know looking at very red gentlemen with breasts down to their knees is not a pretty sight, but some of us have something to show off. Liposuction is not cheap you know.
 
Jarod said:
People can divert there eyes.. I dont see the reason behind this law... but it makes more sense than banning topless women....
If you're going to ban topless women you pretty much have to ban topless men too. Fair is fair.
 
OrnotBitwise said:
If you're going to ban topless women you pretty much have to ban topless men too. Fair is fair.

I always prefer to go in the opposite direction... Let others enjoy the benefits other people do rather than restrict them equally.
 
Damocles said:
I always prefer to go in the opposite direction... Let others enjoy the benefits other people do rather than restrict them equally.
Oh, I agree. Though even that option has a downside: I can think of several women who really need to keep their tops on in public, lest they frighten the horses and children.

:eek:
 
OrnotBitwise said:
Oh, I agree. Though even that option has a downside: I can think of several women who really need to keep their tops on in public, lest they frighten the horses and children.

:eek:

Why is it always those particular women that take up the charge and walk the streets of the city topless? Why can't it be one of the girls on Supernova?
 
OrnotBitwise said:
Oh, I agree. Though even that option has a downside: I can think of several women who really need to keep their tops on in public, lest they frighten the horses and children.

:eek:



Agreed, so why discriminate based on sex... Discriminate based on body fat percentage.

Pass a law that anyone with a Body fat percentage over "X" cannot go shirtless.
 
Jarod said:
Agreed, so why discriminate based on sex... Discriminate based on body fat percentage.

Pass a law that anyone with a Body fat percentage over "X" cannot go shirtless.
Enforcement nightmare. Especially since too many cops would fail to make the grade.

Just let it all hang out, I say.
 
Jarod said:
Agreed, so why discriminate based on sex... Discriminate based on body fat percentage.

Pass a law that anyone with a Body fat percentage over "X" cannot go shirtless.

Added benefit: It incentivizes healthy body fat...

Negatives: Nobody wants to see anorexia exposed...
 
Damocles said:
Added benefit: It incentivizes healthy body fat...

Negatives: Nobody wants to see anorexia exposed...


Okay so a range, you may take your clothing off if your body fat percentage is between "X" and "Y". This would be much easier to enforce than say speeding. The cops would just need one of those little pincher things nutritionists use to determine body fat, they could hang outside dunken donuts and measure topless people as they came out.
 
LadyT said:
Honest question here, do public beaches forbid women to go topless?



The Supreme Court has held that public nudity is only prohibitable if done for a sexual purpose, otherwise its free speach. Even though all the laws that do not account for this are unconstitutional...they still exist, and if you got naked at most beaches you would be arrested for indecent exposure... you would likely be convicted and would have to take the case to the higher court for a ruling (an expensive proposition, but you would likely win). Anyway while technically illegal to go naked in most public places... the prohibition is UNCONSITUTIONAL.
 
it's all in the eye of the beholder...
i watched a discovery channel special where men in the deep jungles of africa were shown outlined drawings of women's shapes, and asked to pick the silhouette that was sexiest to them...

they randomly polled different aged men in the villages they were in....and ALL OF THEM picked the picture of the woman that was apple shaped...(big droopy boobs, rounded fat stomach, with a butt just as round), vs. the pear shaped or thinly shaped silhouettes that most men in the western world picked...
they thought the shapes of the women that were picked by men in the western world were just DOWNRIGHT UGLY!

lol!
i did find this interesting!
 
Jarod said:
The Supreme Court has held that public nudity is only prohibitable if done for a sexual purpose, otherwise its free speach. Even though all the laws that do not account for this are unconstitutional...they still exist, and if you got naked at most beaches you would be arrested for indecent exposure... you would likely be convicted and would have to take the case to the higher court for a ruling (an expensive proposition, but you would likely win). Anyway while technically illegal to go naked in most public places... the prohibition is UNCONSITUTIONAL.

I'm not talking about nudity per se - just going topless. In reference to state and township beaches specifically, I know its okay for men to go on them without tops, is it okay for women to walk around without tops as well?
 
Jarod said:
The Supreme Court has held that public nudity is only prohibitable if done for a sexual purpose, otherwise its free speach. Even though all the laws that do not account for this are unconstitutional...they still exist, and if you got naked at most beaches you would be arrested for indecent exposure... you would likely be convicted and would have to take the case to the higher court for a ruling (an expensive proposition, but you would likely win). Anyway while technically illegal to go naked in most public places... the prohibition is UNCONSITUTIONAL.


I know a municipality that banned T backs. (The type of bathingsuit that shows most of the ass. The law required the bathingsuit to be a certan amount of inches wide in the back. Police had to measure if they suspected the suit was illegal... That law was soon repealed.
 
LadyT said:
I'm not talking about nudity per se - just going topless. In reference to state and township beaches specifically, I know its okay for men to go on them without tops, is it okay for women to walk around without tops as well?



Depends on the municipality, some make it illegal, even though doing so is unconstitutional.
 
Jarod said:
I know a municipality that banned T backs. (The type of bathingsuit that shows most of the ass. The law required the bathingsuit to be a certan amount of inches wide in the back. Police had to measure if they suspected the suit was illegal... That law was soon repealed.


ewwww, who's job was that?
 
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