I nominate this guy: http://www.last.fm/music/Spermswamp NSFW

^ Is apparently somebody with a keen interest in feline ballistics

< Is freakin bored and cannot deal with anymore anatomy revision tonight

Quote from: AScannerDarkly on December 20, 2008, 04:00:05 AM
You'll have a lot on your hands. Some lobby group (a democrat one, by the way) got the legal line drawn at anything depicting sex with a minor or minors in sexual situations. I believe some states have a "13 or older" rule for drawn material.

Personally, I think that notion of a 13 or older rule for drawn material is pointless as all the author has to do is stick an "age 18" in the corner of the picture of the 8 year old they've drawn.

Quote from: Rika-chama on January 26, 2009, 05:23:55 PM
So the feds could bust in my door one day and arrest me for all the guro and other weird sh*t I have on my computer?  That law is stupid.  No one gets hurt when it is drawn and fictional.  Books like Lolita are out there but the minute it gets turned into pictures people start freaking out.

Are you seriously comparing Lolita to child guro porn? I'm not an arts student or anything but i'd argue that the intended target audiences and the responses the creators are trying for are fairly dissimilar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita#Style_and_interpretation vs lets be honest about the majority of doujins, shameless wank material.

One of the main problems I have with the original ANN article is that the author seemed to be jumping to the defence simply because it was manga the guy was reading. I honestly don't get the people who like anime because it's anime regardless of whats going on in it. For example I'm a massive fan of Gantz, but couldn't really care less about say, digimon or one piece, largely because they're kids shows, but you get guys on message boards getting excited over anything because it came from japan. Personally, I see it more of a format than a genre (although obviously there are a lot of common anime tropes but I think that's more to do with differences in cultural attitude. This is a bit of a tangent so I'll stop that point and debate it another time). It does lead me to wonder if the author would have given a flying fuck about the case if it was, for example, Simpsons porn.

And whos to say drawings aren't harmful? I don't think you can just make absolute blanket statements like that. Certainly not directly to an individual child, but frankly I'm not comfortable with anything sexualising children like that. Turning (fictional) children into sex objects can and has lead people to an interest in actual child porn or god forbid finding actual children sexually attractive, which I think we can all agree is a bad thing.

As for the obvious debate of what constitutes art and what constitutes porn, as well as debate over whether cartoon child porn is ok, this thread I found whilst lurking seems to cover a lot pretty nicely http://www.cracked.com/forums/index.php?topic=41309.0

So about 6 or 7 months ago, I took up capoeira which is proving to be pretty awesome with the added benefit of making me crazily fitter than before and meeting some pretty awesome people while I'm at it. My question to you then is do you do any sports? How did you get into it etc etc?

Thread necro! As this is pretty much the only manga I follow anymore and its still good, I'm wondering if anyone else keeps up to date with it (chapter 296 is just out)?

Are you proposing the creation of superstates? Calizona has a nice ring to it...

^ Is now apparently an expert in chinawear forensics?

Skilled at spotting clues. Should be a detective

^ endorses piracy

^ Keeps several nautical vessels as pets

So recently, I went and saw Bill Bailey (from Never Mind The Buzzcocks) do live stand up at Wembley arena which was freaking awesome. I've also seen Frankie Boyle and Ed Byrne live which were pretty funny.

So anyone else like stand up and who do you like?

Quote from: exckilla on January 24, 2008, 03:39:34 PM
My god its a doctor who freak, nooooooooo! maho!!!

Oh christ, I wish. :icon_neutral: To be honest, beyond the new series I've only really seen a few McCoy serials so i'll stand back and let the seasoned who guys debate this one. I still stand by what I said about the daleks though

^ Has a "Lizard BBQ" apron

^ Has since retired the gecko as it was no match ;D

Yeah, but thats kinda their thing isn't it? Get totally wiped and then turn up again later. Only happened like 3 or 4 times so far