I currently can't tell what this is in response to - I'm assuming my no sense of humor remark? To be clear, I'm not advocating the position, I'm pointing out that the people most likely to trot out "feminists don't have a sense of humor" seem to also be dudes who respond to everything with tone-deaf, angry diatribes…

I had kind of learned to tune them out as well, but once you're able to experience their absence, you realize how invasive they really are. But I think people's general desensitivity to billboard advertizing is why were now seeing things like animated electronic billboards, or those horrible ads for The Strain t.v.…

Jesus Christ. I thought feminists were supposed to be the ones without a sense of humor.

I am a scrawny, misshapen, middle-aged dude - muffin-tops are not on my personal list of concerns. Apart from the over-arching concern that no human being should be forced to feel inordinate shame about their own body just in the process of commuting on public roadways.

Ah, yes, because a twenty-year long act of willful defiance of federal law and public land for personal financial profit is exactly the same as the one-time defacement of personal property in pursuit of a larger ideological point. Any other false equivalencies you'd like to pursue, or can you only think of the one?

Yeah, that's completely ok. Someone will either a) respond with another smart ass comment, or b) paint over it, and c) the original idea is so factually and ethically wrong that there's no reason to take it seriously in the first place. Any other totally mind-bending thought experiments for me?

I'm all in favor of dissenting opinions displayed via vandalism..

You're totally right. I'm sure if we did an informal poll of everyone in this thread, they'd all admit that, now that they've been cunningly exposed to this "free national [advertising] coverage" they're all just scrambling to book the soonest flight into the Ann Arbor metro area, in order to undergo liposuction from…

These are simple ideas, wrapped up in state-school, cultural-theory verbiology. Apologies, I'm trying to recoup my tuition investment. In short, the general idea is : OLD BILLBOARD DUMB; NEW BILLBOARD FUNNY.

Its not the aesthetic experience of the billboard I find abhorrent (although it is aesthetically abhorrent), its the inherent ideological message that I find offensive. Therefore, when someone subverts the inherent capitalistic ideology of the billboard and replaces it with an obviously proletarian and personal…

I am fighting to change it. One of the ways I'm doing so is by encouraging vandalism like this, in an effort to reduce the financial incentive of asshole plastic surgeons to pay for preposterous and insulting advertising like this. Don't like it? Go out and stop every vandal you see.

The law doesn't suit me though. Private land being rented at profit solely to bombard me with propagandist messages as I try to go about my day doesn't "suit me." I've traveled to Vermont repeatedly over the past few years, and one of the biggest aesthetic differences which is immediately apparent is that billboards…

Yeah, how dare someone with an opinion try to shove it down my throat without first paying a monthly rental fee to a third-party for the right to do so.

Filed to: JAMES BLUNT VIRAL AD CAMPAIGN, JUST NOW REACHING MICHIGAN

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The Trapp beer I sampled out there was certainly fine, but we're from central Minnesota, so we're spoiled with traditional German/Austrian beer. Schell's is the go-to around here. Been in continuous production since 1860. They went through an adequate-to-forgettable streak when I was growing up, but in the past 5…

Sidetracking slightly based on your Skynet reference:

My wife and I took a flight out to Vermont in 2012 because she has family roots there. At the time I wasn't even aware of the beer scene there, until I talked to some of the more well-read beer snobs I know. When we headed the the Alchemist brewery, there were a few people there, but no line to buy, and I think the…

Yeah, between "making illicit bathroom recordings," or "marrying 13-year old cousin," or "in general, being Ike Turner," the progenitors of rock and roll displayed some shockingly anti-social behavior.

Might I suggest only traveling out in public while wearing these sunglasses..