We did "things you hear in line", how about things you see in line?

ThunderbirdsMT said:
well how about you quit pissing and moaning and just dont read if it affects that much.

Chat shorthand (and atrocious grammar) is expressly verboten as per the forum guidelines.

The strangest shirt I've ever seen was worn by a guy in line for Millennium Force. It was custom-made. On the front it had a snapshot of a young woman in a casual setting. I forget the exact verbiage, but on the back, it stated that on a certain date "my girlfriend, (whatever her name was), stabbed me. I love her and forgive her."

Seriously, what sort of person first gets involved in such a situation, and then makes a t-shirt about it? Again, I've seen more disturbing things on t-shirts, but nothing so perplexing.

And speaking of offensive, a few years ago I saw a guy in line for Mantis who was wearing a shirt that said "Jesus C*ckblocked Me." I'm neither a prude nor religious, and wasn't personally offended, but this was in the afternoon, and I was a little surprised that this guy had apparently been walking around all day, and had not been asked to change shirts or turn it inside-out.

I also saw a dude last year strolling around in a homemade "Abortion is Homicide" tank top. Aren't we here at the park to have fun and escape the outside world for a bit? Was this guy just itching to get into some angry confrontation with a stranger at the amusement park?

Why would he be asked to turn it inside-out? Was the asterisk replaced by the actual letter?

I saw a guy who was wearing a "Gosh, this Orgy Sure is off to a Slow Start" t-shirt in a queue for one of the rides this year.

Actually I stumbled across it on tshirthell.com and always think about ordering it. That site, obviously, is famous for all the borderline, and flat out over the line, t-shirts.

djDaemon said:
Why would he be asked to turn it inside-out? Was the asterisk replaced by the actual letter?

I saw a guy at the gate get asked to turn his "Single and ready to mingle" t-shirt inside out this year.

What the hell? How is that the least bit offensive?

Honestly, I thought the same thing... Him and his posse were debating with the ticket person, and he was torn between taking it back to his car or turning it inside out. I think they wanted him to take it to his car for fear he would just flip it back once inside.

That's insane. Personally, I'm offended when I see shirts that imply my only hope for afterlife happiness lies in accepting their chosen deity as my own. Funny how people are rarely, if ever, asked to remove such garments, while something so seemingly playful and harmless would cause a problem.

It wasn't a big shot employee, it was just the girl who takes the tickets. My guess is they are instructed to keep an eye out for risky t-shirts, and, not being americanized in the slightest she felt it was inappropriate.

I don't think shirts should cuss, or have asterisks in a curse word to make it ok, outside of that I really don't care.

djDaemon said:
Why would he be asked to turn it inside-out? Was the asterisk replaced by the actual letter?

Yes, it was the whole word, no asterisk. I just self-censored my post.

Kyle2154 said:
It wasn't a big shot employee, it was just the girl who takes the tickets. My guess is they are instructed to keep an eye out for risky t-shirts, and, not being americanized in the slightest she felt it was inappropriate.

I don't think shirts should cuss, or have asterisks in a curse word to make it ok, outside of that I really don't care.

Any shirt containing one of the Seven Dirty Words, whether in full or edited/implied shouldn't be allowed.

I own a handful of shirts in this category, so I don't have some moral objection to them, but an amusement park just isn't the place for them.

I have no problem with the seven dirty words, in pretty much any context. Especially in print.

Our fear or whatever of these words makes no sense, to me anyway. Kids are fully capable of learning when not to use certain "dirty" words in the same way they're able to know when to use any "clean" word.

djDaemon said:
Kids are fully capable of learning when not to use certain "dirty" words in the same way they're able to know when to use any "clean" word.

Like on a shirt at an amusement park is when not to use them. ;)

Circular argument much? :)

I'm fine if Joe Blow wants to wear the shirt "Suck My (insert word here)" to the bar on Wednesday night, but if I have my 8 or 9 year old son or daughter with me, standing behind him in a queue for millennium for 2 hours it would bug me.

Call me crazy...

No...I am crazy;)

I find it funny that they would not let a someone in the park wearing a shirt that says "single and ready to mingle", when they sell shirts much worse than that in the park.

Name of the shop escapes me right now (maybe called attitudes?) but they sell shirts like "fat chicks dig me" or "pimping hoes".

You're both crazy. ;)

I dunno... I guess I just find our fear of certain words (based on our puritanical roots) hilariously pointless.

As do I.

I just don't get the whole "bad" word deal. What's makes the word "crap", any differant from the word "sh!$"?

It means the same thing...so why is one bad, and one not?

That's exactly the conversation I don't want to have in the queue with my 8 year old ;)

While there is no perfect answer, he is still going to look like an idiot, get detentions, expelled, etc. if he talks that way.

At its root level, CP is on private property, and beyond any sort of free speech/constitutional argument (and I'm not saying that anyone here has tossed out such an argument).

However, I do think that the policy needs to to be applied consistently. If, as Crazy Horse said, the park sells t-shirts that are more bawdy than those they are rejecting at the gate, then they either need to sell tamer stuff, or allow more in at the gate.

Likewise, DJ's point about the religious shirts is well-taken. I'm not talking about shirts identifying people as belonging to a certain church group, but rather the "I'm going to heaven and you're not" variety. To me, that sort of thing is as provocative as anything else, but it's the type of provocation that's widely tolerated in the midwest. Just as I believe the guy I saw in the abortion shirt was trying to provoke, I just don't see the amusement park as being a good place to get into shouting matches with strangers, or to proselytize.