freedom of speech?

OK, so I’m going to have a bit of a vent here

Is it that time of the month already?

But I am going to TRY and make it a carefully worded rant

So as not to get Dad anyone in any more trouble

Here goes

Say you were a member of a social networking site

Called….ummmm….Spacelook!

And say you were also a comedian

A popular Australian comedian

KNOWN for your politically incorrect-ness

And your daughter, who’s totally hot & skinny signed you up for Spacelook

And showed you how to use it

You get the hang of it pretty quick

Start yourself a ‘fan’ page

And your mates add themselves at a rate of 500+ a day

Then on the day your page hits over 107,000 *likes*

Spacelook DISABLE your page

For violating its policies

 

Now I understand you need rules

You need to control the content on these kind of pages to some extent

You don’t want people being abusive or threatening

But I think you have to watch how you enforce these rules

See, comedy is a very subjective thing

And what some people find funny

Others may find it offensive

Examples of such jokes are the ones about Japan

I personally haven’t posted any

I haven’t heard any/read any that I found funny

But I’m not going to shit on your parade if you do

If I don’t like it, I just ignore them

But I don’t take offense

Because offense IS something that is TAKEN

It’s very hard to GIVE it to someone

There’s very little comedy that is intended to offend

Just like a certain Australian politically incorrect comedian

There’s no malice in what he says or does

It’s just what he finds funny

“….bought a brand new Japanese car. With only 15 nautical miles on it”

I’m like…’meh’

It certainly doesn’t bother me

Now, if some of the 107,000+ fans on your page then post their own versions of what they think is funny on your wall

Which, in my opinion, not much of it was

Should that affect ‘your’ Spacelook account?

Apparently it does

For inciting hatred

But the kicker is

It takes people to complain about it

If enough people report your comments to Spacelook as being offensive

Your account will get disabled

But these people that report you

Are *fans*

That’s how they get to read what’s on your page

So, they’re enough of a fan to *like* your page

They know what you do

Possibly even have your cds

Or maybe attended a show at some time

But now, there’s something you’ve written that they’ve taken offense to

Really?

You’ve got nothing better to do than troll through peoples Spacelook pages and report shit that doesn’t please you?

Dad Someone told me something once.,

“…don’t let people with no lives dictate how you live yours”

So yeah, maybe I’m overly pissed off about this

And Dad others couldn’t give a fuck

Why don’t these fun police spend their time dobbing in the true trouble makers?

Like the anti-muslim groups

The I hate-so & so groups

The pedophile groups

Leave the people alone, that for 27 years years have been telling the jokes that make people laugh

Sharing the stories for no other reason, than to make people happy

Except for the ONE time it didn’t

I think sites like Spacebook should examine disabling accounts more carefully

Check out who they’re really shutting down

Arsehole, mean-spirited blokes spewing hatefilled rants?

Like a lot of fucktards ARE doing with their pathetic payback for Pearl Harbour & the whales ignorant postings

Or the genuinely good blokes that are on sites like Spacelook to connect with their fans

And maybe give them a laugh every now & then


I feel a song coming on

A love song even

Dedicated to Mark Zuckerberg Dark Fuckingterd

 

UPDATE: one of Dad’s fans (Hi Malcolm!) has started a “BRING BACK KEV!” page

CLICK HERE to add yourself to it & feel free to share it with your friends

This should be interesting…

 

primpin’

Put on a pair of thongs this morning and nearly threw up on myself

And by thongs, I’m talking Aussie here

That’s flip-flops to my U.S. mates

And my Pommy mates

Well, I’m pretty sure it’s never been warm enough to wear them over there

Just so you know, they are SUMMER footwear for people too lazy/cheap to buy/wear real shoes

‘Cause dude, my feet were in BAD shape

I’m talking lifetime members to skansville

Grody to the MAX!

So I decided to dust of some of my vouchers I got a while back, for the local nail place

And hoped they’d still be valid 2 years later

This is something that I would usually do on my own

Go to the nail place at the mall

Comfy massage chair

Warm water for my tootsies

Coffee

Magazine

Little snooze

But Diamond was working his arse off doing some tiling around the house

And being the champ that I pretend to be am

I was all like, SURE.…..I’ll take the girls with me

While inside, I was thinking about all those women I’d seen before

At the nail place with their kids

And I would stare at them, all what the fuck lady – you’re paying for your TODDLER to get a manicure?

Money to burn dipshit or what?

And this reminded me of all the other times that I may have been a little judge-y about peoples parenting methods

BEFORE I was a parent

Back when I knew fucking everything

So today, I was going to be one of THOSE women

Taking her 2 little girls into the nail salon

And I told myself that there was no way I was going to pay for them to have their ant sized fingernails painted

They could just sit and watch me do some colouring or read a book

I had the best intentions

Then we got there

And the lady that runs the place’s little boy, goes to school with Miss 6 and she was all, let me do their nails, they’re so cute – but I was all, well no ’cause I’m trying to prove a point here that I think women that get their little girl’s fingernails done are fucktards and I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but I am SOOO the opposite of a fucktard – but then Miss 6 & Miss 4 looked at me with those oh my God is it too late to get another Mum ’cause this one invented embarrassment pleeeease can we get our nails painted and the boss lady was all, it’ll only be $5 and I’m like $5? for both? well OK then cause my gift certificate will totally cover that ’cause you’ve been such good girls and I’m feeling a bit awesome today…

Short story?

I caved

We all got our nails done

You know what’s scary?

They were SOOO excited

Like Disneyland excited

WAH?

Does that mean I’m one of  ’those’ Mum’s now?

‘Cause Miss 6 asked if we could go back & do it again

And I said SURE

When you get a job

And I suggested, well, I’m a really good nail painter

Next time I’ll do them for you at home – for FREE!

She just gave me that uuggh you’re a DORK woman GAH – I give up look

So I think I may have screwed myself

But I have a plan

I’ll tell her that if we’re going to start doing ‘special’  big girl ‘girly’ things together

We have to do ALL the girly things together

I reckon if I took them ONE time to the beautician

To observe the clearing of the forest that is my vajay jay a bikini wax

They’d be all about staying home and watching the shit out of Sponge Bob

.

Hah!

I win.