I don't particularly want to see members of the public naked but if a naked dude was doing his shopping I'd just think he was eccentric, and if he was lurking in bushes or by school gates I would alert the authorities. Bit of a difference.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 733
Yes but a nightmare to enforce.
Quote: sootyj @ March 26 2012, 10:50 AM BSTPerhaps we need a more nuanced attitude towards nudity. But that means changing the law and not ignoring it.
Under your system, we'd have to change each and every law to suit the individual peccadillos of every nutjob that comes along. Should we justify the actions of every mentally ill person in Britain who habitually commit acts of anti-social behaviour?
Quote: AJGO @ March 26 2012, 11:22 AM BSTI don't particularly want to see members of the public naked but if a naked dude was doing his shopping I'd just think he was eccentric, and if he was lurking in bushes or by school gates I would alert the authorities. Bit of a difference.
And you like looking at cock. Unfortunately, we don't all share the same 'tolerance' to naked mad people displaying their genitals to children and old people.
Of course, this story would have a different spin if said rambler weighed 30 stone.
Do you think public nudity will become that much of a problem if this guy is let out of prison though? Dunno why I'm so strongly on his side, I give a panicky squeak if I accidentally see myself naked, let alone people wandering around Sainsburys. Might just be cos he looks a bit like Christopher Eccleston and therefore must be an alright bloke 
And RC, I will always fight for a society in which you have the right to wear your silver jumpsuit without fear of being locked up
Quote: AJGO @ March 26 2012, 11:40 AM BSTAnd RC, I will always fight for a society in which you have the right to wear your silver jumpsuit without fear of being locked up
It's not so much the fear of being locked up but put in an oven and then covered in beans.
Quote: AJGO @ March 26 2012, 11:40 AM BSTMight just be cos he looks a bit like Christopher Eccleston and therefore must be an alright bloke
And there we have it. Your judgement on this issue has been clouded by both his physical appearance and class - I say class because you described him as eccentric, which is posh code for mental spakka.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 11:37 AM BSTUnder your system, we'd have to change each and every law to suit the individual peccadillos of every nutjob that comes along. Should we justify the actions of every mentally ill person in Britain who habitually commit acts of anti-social behaviour?
No but the law must be willing to change. Nude sunbathing has been acceptable in public parks in Germany for years. The idea of criminalising all that offends is foolish.
And pathologising antisocial behaviour as mental illness has always been a dangerous and worrying trend.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 11:50 AM BSTIt's not so much the fear of being locked up but put in an oven and then covered in beans.
Like a Hoxton Hansel and Gretel
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 11:50 AM BSTAnd there we have it. Your judgement on this issue has been clouded by both his physical appearance and class - I say class because you described him as eccentric, which is posh code for mental spakka.
You might be right. But if everyone thinks that then it's still a waste of taxes innit? Especially since he said in article if he was allowed to go home naked then he'd put some clothes on after
Quote: sootyj @ March 26 2012, 11:51 AM BSTAnd pathologising antisocial behaviour as mental illness has always been a dangerous and worrying trend.
Worrying to whom? Who are the victims here? How else do you explain behaviour so bizarre that it deliberately offends other people? Why do these people not feel guilt, remorse or shame? Because something has gone squiffy in their brain pans, that's how you explain it.
I'm all for being right on and inclusive, but a line has to be drawn to protect the innocent from naked, transsexual huggers that live in swimming pools.
Quote: AJGO @ March 26 2012, 11:55 AM BSTYou might be right. But if everyone thinks that then it's still a waste of taxes innit? Especially since he said in article if he was allowed to go home naked then he'd put some clothes on after
I bet the people who live in his town don't think it's a waste of tax money. But I do agree that prison isn't the right environment for Rambly McNaked. A secure mental institution is what he needs.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 12:00 PM BSTnaked, transsexual huggers that live in swimming pools.
What I like about you is that you're not prejudiced, you just f**king hate everyone
Quote: AJGO @ March 26 2012, 12:03 PM BST
It's a full time job. Keeping up this level of hate requires a huge amount of effort. I do feel under appreciated at times.
I mean he may go sky clad because he is an awkward, stubborn so and so who likes showing his cock off. Thats eccentric it's not mentally ill.
Not so long ago if you wondered round Australia with clothes on you'd have been treated as mad by the Aborigines.
(by which I mean they'd probably have eaten you or made you watch a Paul Hogan movie, not sure which is worse..)
Something I learned today: the man who leads the CIA's counterterrorism efforts, including drone strikes and the bin Laden mission, is himself a convert to Islam. Interesting.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 12:00 PM BSTHow else do you explain behaviour so bizarre that it deliberately offends other people?
Why do we have to explain it? Some people actually get funding to ponce around on stage naked doing daft things, while Guardian critics praise it as performance art. Others dress up as chickens and run 26.2 miles, it gets televised and society applauds them. So he walks around naked, well I can't explain it, but at least his hairy bollocks don't require a grant.
Instead, I have to pay taxes to lock him up, while violent crims get let out early. Is that what you want? More terror on the streets, and people covering up more? Are you some sort of burka-loving Islamist terrorist? Do you jack off to an Abu Hamza poster? Do you go 'on holiday' to Pakistan? You disgust me.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ March 26 2012, 12:00 PM BSTHow else do you explain behaviour so bizarre that it deliberately offends other people? Why do these people not feel guilt, remorse or shame? Because something has gone squiffy in their brain pans, that's how you explain it.
Take a look in the mirror Mr "I act like a dick online because it's just part of my persona"
(you said that, by the way)
Quote: Nogget @ March 26 2012, 1:03 PM BSTInstead, I have to pay taxes to lock him up, while violent crims get let out early. Is that what you want? More terror on the streets, and people covering up more? Are you some sort of burka-loving Islamist terrorist? Do you jack off to an Abu Hamza poster? Do you go 'on holiday' to Pakistan? You disgust me.
That is so me. Do you have a secret webcam in my flat?
Quote: Harridan @ March 26 2012, 1:09 PM BST
(you said that, by the way)
I don't think I used the word 'dick'. I prefer rogueish charmer (or Judith Chalmers in a pinch).
Rambly McNaked doesn't have to stay in prison. He has been released several times, however he refuses to put on clothes to walk home. He has made a deliberate choice to offend the authorities - including showing up to court stark bollock - and his actions have had repercussions. He's obviously a mental with serious attention issues.
It's nice to know that people on this forum who don't know the man, live in his town or have to see him naked are so supportive of his 'lifestyle choice'.