Steve G. Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Depends where he or she lives. I can't see it being a problem here, its pretty funny in my opinion, but then, I never have been one for the PC lobby. 83943[/snapback] I'm with you Nogbad. It would garner a chuckle here. And I'm maxed out on P.C. Ciao, Steve G.
dlaing Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 I don't see any photos? you remove them jaap? 83986[/snapback] Warning the following link leads to an image that some may find offensive: http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6549/motomussolini2ro.jpg It depicts defacing of the holy Moto Guzzi logo, with the name SELF CENSORED In my opinion less dis-tasteful than BMWs in SELF CENSORED regalia.
DeBenGuzzi Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Warning the following link leads to an image that some may find offensive:http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6549/motomussolini2ro.jpg It depicts defacing of the holy Moto Guzzi logo, with the name SELF CENSORED In my opinion less dis-tasteful than BMWs in SELF CENSORED regalia. 84017[/snapback] Thats just wrong. Photo shop? or is someone that dumb.
dlaing Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Thats just wrong. Photo shop? or is someone that dumb. 84021[/snapback] I opened it in photoshop and zoomed in. If it was photoshop on the tank logo, it was a better job than I can do in less than many hours. I don't think we can assume they are dumb. I think most of us have stuck our foots in our mouth with bad humor. Putting that on your bike does not mean you support or condemn the man. The owner likely just thinks it is funny, and I'll bet many will agree. To me it is harmless, but I don't know much about WWII history. From what I know, Italy was no Germany. Driving through certain urban areas in a Dukes of Hazard car is dumb. Did you notice in the Dukes of Hazard movie, they removed the flag from the car? My Dad's ex-girlfriend (a Swiss Citizen) was denied entrance to the insert nation that supports evil rulers because she was arrested for throwing tomatoes at insert evil ruler. Dumb as that action may be, she is my hero I wish I had her huevos. I'll bet the owner of this bike is on this forum and is as smart and well meaning as the rest of us. But then again, he could me a member of insert evil political party I used to have a Cabaret Voltaire song, "Do the insert evil ruler headkick" I did not really understand the song... "Do The insert evil ruler(Headkick)" contains the lyrics "White spats and bola lats / Black shirts and perverts / Father's hands / Kick the corpse" with a chorus of "Do the insert evil ruler Headkick." Without criticism of politicians, the world would be a very scary place. Using your bike or this forum to do it, may be dumb.
helicopterjim R.I.P. Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 I'm watching this thread very carefully... 83977[/snapback] Me too but I started too late and all the good bits are gone!! What did I miss? At least PM me! Never mind. I found it. Whatever.
Martin Barrett Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 With out taking this thread too far off tangent. My eldest (just shy of 15) this week is on a school history trip visiting Nuremberg, Prague and Berlin. Last year they went to the Somme battlefields. So hopefully the lessons of history are being learnt. My lasting memory of a trip I did with the air cadets when I was 16 is that of the Inner German border I hope people can make informed decisions. It's a shame it's taken the best part of 30 years to debunk the theories of David Irving The oppression of views can make them attractive to some. Unfortunately it's the same people who perhaps couldn't make a reasoned decision. Oh and the marking up of the bike is just poor taste
mike wilson Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 From what I know, Italy was no Germany. Try asking Ethiopia about that. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2timeline/Prelude05a.html Read the paragraphs in "Films" at the bottom, as well as the body text. Most, if not all, countries have some episodes in their past that they are not proud of. m
callison Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 83965[/snapback] I think you ought to delete this thread and then we'll work on the 850cc Griso and Breva.
gallo_se Posted March 30, 2006 Posted March 30, 2006 Try asking Ethiopia about that. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2timeline/Prelude05a.html Read the paragraphs in "Films" at the bottom, as well as the body text. Most, if not all, countries have some episodes in their past that they are not proud of. m 84189[/snapback] Being italian i consider myself called into the topic, I don't want to say that Mussolini was a saint, he was a tyrant and for sure he did bad things, but he was not as bad as the nazis for sure. I have been In Rode, one of the greek islands colonized by the italians in the second world war. The old people there have good memories of Mussolini's period, because he built roads, hospitals and infrastructures. This is what an old guy personally told me, speaking in italian. By the way, he was a bad guy, but we also have to consider that the invasion of ethiopia, which for sure was a wrong and questionable act, came on the wave of the colonialism that was already spread in the world since a good while, shall we talk about the colonies that England had? or Spain? or Portugal? or Netherlands? Didn't they invade those countries? I don't think that pointing the finger on one forgetting all the others is fair. Let us not forget also what is gong on nowadays in Afghanistan and Iraq, the neo-colonization wave.
dmoon64 Posted March 30, 2006 Posted March 30, 2006 Some doofus puts a Mussolini sticker on his bike and America is colonizing Iraq and Afghanistan. Why does it always get back to the evil Americans? He has the right to put the sticker on and we have the right to make fun of him...
dlaing Posted March 30, 2006 Posted March 30, 2006 Why does it always get back to the evil Americans? 84365[/snapback] We should do something to change that.
Frenchbob Posted March 30, 2006 Posted March 30, 2006 Thanks for the link, David: I couldn't see it, either. At least it's a well-kept bike! The whole family used to refer to my last, much-loved Ducati bevel drive as "Il Duce", but I'm no fascist. Maybe there's a story behind this one....
Guest Nogbad Posted March 30, 2006 Posted March 30, 2006 Why does it always get back to the evil Americans? 84365[/snapback] If you have to ask, you couldn't possibly understand.......
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