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Reason.tv presents a review of 2008's really annoying Nanny State bans.
Created by Ted Balaker.
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Now Playing at Reason.tv: Do You Really Want to Live in a World Where Giant Inflatable Apes Are Banned?
Comments to "Now Playing at Reason.tv: Do You Really Want to Live in a World Where Giant Inflatable Apes Are Banned?":
Lefiti | December 19, 2008, 11:34am | #
Dance, libtards, dance! Wee ha! Waaa hey!Pro Libertate | December 19, 2008, 11:48am | #
Wait a second. "Dance, libtards, dance!" is derived from "Dance, Monkey Boy, dance." Which would make that a standard Hit & Run comment/joke. Lefiti is becoming one of us, one of us. We're insidious that way. Welcome to libertarianism. Drinks are in the back, illegal drugs and prostitutes are upstairs.Giant, inflatable apes are a natural right.
worst of all: some one, somewhere, is proud of their efforts to contain the inflatable ape menace.
domoarrigato | December 19, 2008, 1:00pm | #
Lefiti is becoming one of us, one of us. We're insidious that way. Welcome to libertarianism. Drinks are in the back, illegal drugs and prostitutes are upstairs.I predict Lefiti will never post again, he has gone out back and hung himself with artisian hemp rope.
andrew | December 19, 2008, 1:47pm | #
We just need to ban bans...Unless they ban together and ban ban bans.
Pro Libertate | December 19, 2008, 1:54pm | #
edcoast,If you think that freedom is libertarian worship word and that others will not speak it, then you're one of us.
andrew | December 19, 2008, 1:57pm | #
Freedom from giant inflatable apes?Pro Libertate | December 19, 2008, 2:04pm | #
Really, no one can be free from giant, inflatable apes.john | December 19, 2008, 2:25pm | #
"How do I know if I'm one of us?"If you're a social liberal, a fiscal conservative, have a slopped brow, a dislike of hippies and a general feeling that you're empty inside.
geniusiknowit | December 19, 2008, 2:37pm | #
Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty state!geniusiknowit | December 19, 2008, 2:43pm | #
The state will always attempt to increase it's size and scope. This is the nature of the beast. You want a government? Then get used to this kind of shit.geniusiknowit | December 19, 2008, 2:44pm | #
*itsLefiti | December 19, 2008, 8:09pm | #
Noooooo! I'll never join you! I kiss the cold dead hand of the state! Mommy! Make it stop!FichenDich | December 19, 2008, 8:18pm | #
If giant inflatable apes are illegal, only criminals will have giant inflatable apes !I of course will not be effected as my arms are full of my life size inflatable sheep.
Brandybuck | December 19, 2008, 8:40pm | #
Gobble gobble!Sadly I can't even laugh at this. The motherfuckers have banned bemused laughter in my state.
Kathy Deupree | December 21, 2008, 1:56pm | #
Reason is a nest of control freaks! How else can you explain that incredibly annoying popup ad that won't even let me scroll to the freaking close button??? Take care of your own nanniness first.Just Some Guy | December 21, 2008, 2:14pm | #
Great video and commentary!I'd be okay with Giant Inflatable Apes if they were approved by popular vote, but using the courts to force Giant Inflatable Apes on the public is just wrong.
Goerge Taylor | December 21, 2008, 5:01pm | #
Barry | December 20, 2008, 2:12amWhat about a giant inflatable half-buried Statue of Liberty?
PLANET OF THE GIANT INFLATABLE APES.
"Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
In this context, "blew it up" has a different meaning than the original.
Well, at least they said "giant inflatable apes" and didn't specify Barney Franks by name.
Taylor | December 21, 2008, 6:19pm | #
This is madness!! What next? A ban on my not-so-giant Gina Lollobrigida doll? Not a world I want to live in at all... especially facing such a long cold winter....Curse you Nancy State types!
Robert The Bruce | December 21, 2008, 7:49pm | #
I served with Giant Inflatable Ape; I knew Giant Inlfatable Ape; Giant Inflatable Ape was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Giant Inflatable Ape.Being "annoying" in Brighton, MI will get you a ticket; however, the city attorney assures us those cases potentially violating free speech will be reviewed by the city. Gee thanks. Since I'm not in Brighton, MI I feel free to say this with impunity "You're a bunch of spineless pin heads with your heads up collective behinds!"
Wylde Bill | December 22, 2008, 3:12am | #
And "the children" will never know they aren't really "free" as they remove more and more rights each generation, and the state indoctrination units across the country make sure of it...Nothing in this video surprised me, but I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry after viewing it.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater | December 22, 2008, 1:19pm | #
A planet where giant inflatable apes evolved from giant inflatable men?!?!Wacky Hermit | December 23, 2008, 6:11am | #
You forgot that they banned lead in toys. The CPSIA goes into full effect Feb. 10, 2009, but it was passed back in August.http://nationalbankruptcyday.com
Colonel_Angus | December 23, 2008, 3:27pm | #
Politicians don't have the nuts to ban giant inflatable rats.How long until booze is band in bars?! Administrators have banned all that stuff! They banned soda! Even diet soda. This is going too far. Skittles are banned in Los Angeles.
steve | December 23, 2008, 7:58pm | #
I'm a student at UF and the video is slightly misleading. The measure banned "common source containers" (ie. kegs) and, basically, activities that promote binge drinking - but only on campus. That pretty much only rules out lame-ass parties at frat houses and the possession of kegs by of-age individuals living on campus.The first I have no qualms about, but the second does bother me.
We weren't rated the #1 party school for throwing down on Frat row.