Baby sues dead man and chums over genitalia failure

[ubit]

13 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

I wonder if the relatives of David are contemplating sueing Michelangelo for the pain and suffering of portraying him with such small tackle. 

 

 

Is that considered small? Asking for a friend.

[BigRedX]

Courtesy of The Joy Of Tech:

 

[Rich]

Fixed.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 26, 2021 by Rich

[Nail Soup]

17 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Not enough credit to @upside downer for the thread title.

 

Way to go, sir

Indeed. 
When I saw it I thought ‘this is going straight to off topic’😃

[MacDaddy]

[Rich]

https://newsthump.com/2021/08/26/banana-to-sue-the-velvet-underground-over-exploitative-album-cover/?fbclid=IwAR3pwW6UkToduFPLbr65kqNd8t5X6COg0lVVSybDsrSVqTakAsUeon95ZiQ

[TheGreek]

I can see a theme developing here...

[Mickeyboro]

Whichever way you look at it, it’s a pink torpedo-up... 😆

[Nail Soup]

4 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

I don’t watch many films - What’s the reference here?

[Eldon Tyrell]

51 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Whichever way you look at it, it’s a pink torpedo-up... 😆

Thanks man, always glad for opportunities to showcase this great song 😉

 

 

[YouMa]

Solicitors and Lawyers lovely people. Ian brady had one you know!

[BillyBass]

 reckon this will start an avalanche of law suits of similarly abused individuals by exploitive bands

[Nail Soup]

Fair enough if he does a few recreations and dines out on it for life, but suing is totally out of order.

Typical of the litigious culture in the States..... which reminds me of this by The Yeastie Girls (recorded even longer ago than Nevermind):

 

[musicbassman]

Whole bunch of lawsuits here.......

Still, they can afford it.

[Rich]

This guy is never going to live it down, is he..?

 

[Crusoe]

The irony of the baby in a photograph chasing the dollar, now chasing the dollar because he was the baby in the photograph chasing the dollar...

[Nail Soup]

Here are some other case of cover stars suing (with varying degrees of legitasamy)

A Brief History of Musicians Being Sued by Their Album Cover Subjects | Pitchfork

 

Edited August 27, 2021 by Nail Soup

[MacDaddy]

After all they have done to him over the years, if Eddie decides to sue Iron Maiden they are truly fecked 😜

[pst62]

I wonder who'll be next?  Blind Faith and The Scorpions?

[Hellzero]

This one, certainly...

[Newfoundfreedom]

8 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

This one, certainly...

Wow!

 

I know we live in a very different world today. But how did they ever think that was a good idea, let alone get away with it? 

[BassTractor]

2 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

Wow!

 

I know we live in a very different world today. But how did they ever think that was a good idea, let alone get away with it? 

 

These were the days that a-holes like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir signed the infamous letter about "love" relationships between adults and kids being OK, as again brought to the surface with the talk around the Vanessa Springora book.
Ya know, raping is OK if you do it in a responsible manner...

Edited August 30, 2021 by BassTractor

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, BassTractor said:

 

These were the days that a-holes like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir signed the infamous letter about "love" relationships between adults and kids being OK, as again brought to the surface with the talk around the Vanessa Springora book.
Ya know, raping is OK if you do it in a responsible manner...

 

Just different times, I reckon. There's a very long list of child brides in the Wikipedia...

 

List of Child Brides ...

 

... from past and recent times. One may note, for an extreme example ...

 

Isabella of Valois (aged 6) was married to Richard II of England (aged 29) in October 1396, a little over a week before her seventh birthday. The marriage was never consummated. After Richard's death, Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans (aged 11), in June 1406, when she was 16.

 

... or, more up-to-date ...

 

Nujood Ali (age 10), an arranged marriage by her father to a 30-year-old man in 2008. Coverage of her self-presented application for divorce later that year led to the legal age of marriage in Yemen to be raised to 18.

 

I'm not condoning, just remarking. Times change, but slowly.

[BassTractor]

19 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Just different times, I reckon.

[ ... ]

I'm not condoning, just remarking. Times change, but slowly.

 

I appreciate your somewhat philosophical approach, but:

To start, and for clarity's sake, my stance is not driven by hate for the mentioned writers or their branch of existentialism. I believe both Sartre and de Beauvoir were fantastic thinkers and writers, and I've also accepted some of their thinking. However, as to the theme at hand, we're talking about:
- a cultural elite,

- in the 1970s,

- in an advanced Western society.

IMHO this cultural elite totally lost it.  I strongly disliked this back then, and still do.

The knowledge and insight were out there for everyone to pick up  -  especially for a French cultural elite who were way more educated and well-read than I've ever been, and probably more intelligent as well.
One just has to read the then available books on the subject.
I did.
They must have too.
 

Ha! With my experience of elite circles in Paris in the 70s, I'd wager a guess these people would probably look at me as someone unable to produce coherent thought (yes, I know they actually haven't said that about me, but I stand by my notion).
Yet they were adamant that young children had the ability to give informed consent.
It's not rocket surgery.

 

Sorry for the rant. 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2021 by BassTractor

[BassTractor]

On 26/08/2021 at 19:37, Nail Soup said:

I don’t watch many films - What’s the reference here?

 

 

Morgan Freeman is from The Dark Knight (2008)

The last pic is Spencer Elden himself.

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2021 by BassTractor