Yeah the Danes are like the rest of the Scandinavian countries and use a cross laid sideways with a background colour. They have a white cross with and Orange-Reddish background.FelixG said:Ahh I see, I recognized a white cross on red background as Swiss, didn't know Denmark used a similar color scheme.Guffe said:really nice comic.FelixG said:I loled at how the swiss dude is all in love with the penis in the game xDDaystar Clarion said:Worgen said:
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This make a lot of sense...
Though isnt it the exact reverse for European countries, they freak out at violence but shrug off nudity?
But what swiss dude?
playing=Swede
first one=american
second=iceland(ian)
third=dane
fourth=norwegian
Just a shame they left the Finn out, not the whole of scandinavia without us there
Should I Report?
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Preventing sick people from harming children: very good.AngelOfBlueRoses said:
Preventing children from playing how they want and enjoying themselves: bad.
I don't want to live in a place where people are so afraid of being a potential victim that they cover their body from head to toe and never leave their home. If we do that, the predators win. If we do that, we make ourselves and our children a different kind of victim. May as well report everyone that's ever taken their top off at a beach or joined a nudist community--for their own safety, right?
It's also worth reminding everyone here that a child is much, much, much more likely to be harmed by a parent or friend than a stranger, so this "pedo driving by" scenario is pointless. You wanna protect kids? Awesome. Being scared isn't the way to go about it. We get so swept up in wanting to protect our kids from strangers that we don't take the time to protect them from ourselves. It's not nice and no one wants to think about it, but it's the truth, and the longer we ignore it, the longer kids suffer in silence, too ashamed or afraid to speak out 'cause their abuser lives with them or goes to their school or church. The monsters you know, as they say.
Life's too short to be afraid. Teach your kids about stranger danger, tell them to call for help the second anyone, even one of their parents--no matter what they say--touches them on their bikini areas. Get to know the people your kids hang out with. Talk to your kids. But whatever you do, don't be afraid of the world, 'cause kids pick up on it and the more time we as a society spend freaking out, the less fun this life's gonna be and the more scared our kids will be. Do you want kids too afraid to walk to school? Or do you want kids walking to school equipped with the tools and information to be safe? Kids aren't dumb. Teach them what they need and keep the lines of communication open.
Be informed, not afraid.
/rant
ThisDags90 said:
While nudity in of itself isn't bad you have to remember this isn't Europe, Mexico, South America what ever. People have had there kids taken away for less. The Authorities are extremely overzealous in regards to this type of stuff. I would try explaining that to your neighbor.
If anyone's wondering why America has this prudish attitude when it comes to nudity, it's because these were some of the first people to colonize the U.S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans
People who wore all black, didn't party, didn't dance, and confused the hell out of everyone by wearing belt buckles on their hats.
Nah, mate, it's not a problem. Pretty common in europe. People are more comfterable with nudity. Coming from britain, it's not much better here, but a little bit.
Finland was too busy doing thisGuffe said:really nice comic.FelixG said:I loled at how the swiss dude is all in love with the penis in the game xDDaystar Clarion said:Worgen said:
...
This make a lot of sense...
Though isnt it the exact reverse for European countries, they freak out at violence but shrug off nudity?
But what swiss dude?
playing=Swede
first one=american
second=iceland(ian)
third=dane
fourth=norwegian
Just a shame they left the Finn out, not the whole of scandinavia without us there
Car alarms are very effective as a preventive measure, especially during daylight. Their usefulness is diminished during the night because most people are asleep at that time, but before car alarms were invented, daylight car theft (or breakins) were much more common.Shawn MacDonald said:
That's also very incorrect.Shawn MacDonald said:
First of all, that assumptions is based on you living in America, which has a much higher "every man for himself" mentality than some other parts of the world (especially in regards to crime prevention, first of all because the police in America are much less trusted by the citizens for several reasons, but second and more importantly because guns are much more common there). I'm from Denmark, and despite being a small country of 5-6 mil inhabitants, we very often have cases were criminals were either arrested by a civilian, was caught because they were tailed by a civilian (including tailing drunk drivers), or civilians just calling the police because they have spotted suspicious activity. People are very willing to get involved most of the time.
And even then, while it's true that people don't like to get DIRECTLY involved, many people are still gonna be willing to involve themself indirectly, for example by calling the cops.
Oh please. If you're in the process if kidnapping a child, and you are approached by someone who wants to ask what the fuss is about, 99.99% of kidnappers would fail the test. First of all, you have to come up with a pretty convincing story while under stress. Then you have to deal with the child being able to tell on you (and not just with words. Most people who are clever enough to approach and ask are clever enough to figure out if something is off), and finally you have to pull it off with convincing body language and a convincing voice while under said stress.Shawn MacDonald said:
You are dreaming things up here. Fact is that most attempted child-kidnappers, when approached, panics, or at the very least attempt to jump the fence. You can't drag a screaming child along with you and expect people to believe your story. It's not gonna work.
Here's my question...what the fuck is going on with those kids? I live in Canada. I cannot think of a single canadian child who at the age of 9, would run around their front yard naked. I have never seen it. Not once. At nine years old, if someone would have suggested to me to go outside naked and run around, I would have used every bad word I knew at the time to tell them in no uncertain words 'No.' Maybe it's just me. Maybe there *was* some magical neihborhood full of innocent cherubs wearing only the suit god gave them and I just never noticed.
Any other canadians reading this thinking 'Yeah...I'd put some underwear on.'
I'm not going to go on about pedophiles or kidnappers or people who enjoy the idea of children being naked , I'm just going to go from the perspective I, and apparently every single one of my childhood comrades seemed to share. When you are outside in public, clothes go on your body. It really doesn't matter what age you are. I don't want you waggle-dangling your infants dong on the counter at the local Tim hortons, and I don't want to see your grandpa's wrinkled ass rolling down the sidewalk. And if I was walking past somebodies house and there were a bunch of naked kids running around, I would probably call someone and say' Yo, there's somebody who obviously either can't afford to clothe their children properly, or haven't taught them propriety.
You guys can defend the naked kids all you like, but most of you probably wouldn't have done it at that age, and if you actually saw it, would probably be kinda' wtf...?'
Any other canadians reading this thinking 'Yeah...I'd put some underwear on.'
I'm not going to go on about pedophiles or kidnappers or people who enjoy the idea of children being naked , I'm just going to go from the perspective I, and apparently every single one of my childhood comrades seemed to share. When you are outside in public, clothes go on your body. It really doesn't matter what age you are. I don't want you waggle-dangling your infants dong on the counter at the local Tim hortons, and I don't want to see your grandpa's wrinkled ass rolling down the sidewalk. And if I was walking past somebodies house and there were a bunch of naked kids running around, I would probably call someone and say' Yo, there's somebody who obviously either can't afford to clothe their children properly, or haven't taught them propriety.
You guys can defend the naked kids all you like, but most of you probably wouldn't have done it at that age, and if you actually saw it, would probably be kinda' wtf...?'
Different cultures. It was mentioned in the OP that they were mexican, where they're not nearly so stupidly prudish.Aglynugga said:
Aren't most kidnappings and molestations done by family members? Something like 80%, I think? And aren't most of the rest done by people the family knows?Shawn MacDonald said:
I really don't think you understand the nature of what you're talking about. You should probably inform yourself a little better before speaking. I think it's people doing exactly what you're doing that has helped make us such a sexually paranoid nation (in all things that can possibly be related to sex, not just stranger danger), and I'd like to ask you to stop embarrassing us.
This issue is tricky.
I think they really shouldn't allow that to happen. It's not safe and when the hell are the children supposed to learn modesty? The parents will probably make it harder for themselves as they get older. I mean, they have a 9 year running around naked. Unless they're raising nudists, I wonder how tough it'll be to change the routine.
But I probably wouldn't report. I spoke to my mom and while she believes it's not safe, there's a risk there. In general, most people want you to mind your own business. If you report, they might grow hostile with you and that'll be a tough thing to deal with.
I think they really shouldn't allow that to happen. It's not safe and when the hell are the children supposed to learn modesty? The parents will probably make it harder for themselves as they get older. I mean, they have a 9 year running around naked. Unless they're raising nudists, I wonder how tough it'll be to change the routine.
But I probably wouldn't report. I spoke to my mom and while she believes it's not safe, there's a risk there. In general, most people want you to mind your own business. If you report, they might grow hostile with you and that'll be a tough thing to deal with.
Glad I'm in the minority. I'm from Yorkshire and I went through the "playing contact rugby on tarmac in t-shirt and shorts in sleet and rain in November" phase, so I have a high threshold for cold, but I've spent years going around Europe so heat doesn't really bother me either.Dags90 said:My first experiences were much more enjoyable. We went to the beach in Venice. It's actually a sand beach, too! Not American sand mind you, but good enough to go barefoot. Anyway, there was a group of guys about my age playing with a soccer ball on the beach in Speedos and square cuts.usmarine4160 said:Define "hot". I've heard British people who complain when the temperature gets above 25 C and is sunny. Also, dear God I hope you bring some SPF 1,000. We saw these British tourists on our vacation, and I swear they looked like lobsters. Lobsters with funny accents.Daystar Clarion said:Our beaches are pretty shit yeah.
My idea of a good holiday isn't to stay in the same country -_-
Somewhere hot.
I love to find a great coffee shop, sit in the shade and drink cappuccino all day
Being from Yorkshire is relevant because A) higher elevation = more exposure to cold (though I'll admit the Scots have us beaten on this) and B) People from Yorkshire (the proper rural places at least, as urban areas are all the same) are generally more bad-ass than the rest of Britain
To actually be on topic, child nudity irritates me, but it's best just left alone. They'll snap out of it sooner or later.
What's unsafe about it? As others have said, the great majority of child abuse is done by people previously known to children. Same thing for kidnapping. There's no real reason to think that a child who's playing naked in their front lawn is more likely to be kidnapped, especially when half the neighborhood is staring at them like they have a third head.game-lover said:
Do you really think the children are going to need to be taught modesty? A nine year old still isn't sexualized, they've got nothing to cover up. As soon as they start developing sexual features, they'll probably want to cover up of their own accord out of embarrassment. If you're a 9 year old boy, you don't care if anyone sees your dick because you aren't thinking of it as anything other than what you use to pee. By the time you hit 12, you don't want anyone to see your dick without your permission because you know it's sexual and you're worried about how you measure up.
There's no reason to think it wouldn't happen either. And I'm pretty sure the whole neighborhood wouldn't be staring. If anything, they'd avert their eyes after a fashion. But why would you risk it? And hey, who says kidnapping has to be the main issue? It could be some stranger taking pictures and putting it on child porn websites for perverts to enjoy. That'd take considerably less effort and risk if the right camera can work at a distance.Dags90 said:
And why not? keep in mind, no one body is the same. I developed sexual features when I was 9 going on 10 years old myself. Still, the rest of your points seem to make sense. But you're pretty much taught that part of your body are sexual. I'm wondering how it's gonna go with the parents teaching their daughters that their bodies are sexual all of a sudden when it wasn't before.