I think I got some guy in serious trouble....

[Mr. Rager!]

W-'I see...Well I think I'll be by today to get it.'
M-'No! Um, it's really really big and heavy. You should send him to get it. Very heavy. Yep.'

HAHAHA! Seriously in that situation, I might have said the exact same thing. Funny!!

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

Sedorna,
Being older now, I know what some of the origins of some of the fairy tales I read as a child are. I understand they weren't all happy rainbows and pink fuzzy bunnies, and that's fine. But it's not something I knew as a child, and it, I guess in a way, is dissapointing to see how the twists on the stories have deviated from the tales I knew as a kid. In a way I kinda feel like it's robbing me of the innocence I enjoyed from those stories.

Tollbaby,
I admit I got a lil offended because I felt I was being singled out for my opinion, as if it were wrong to feel that way. There is at least one other person that admitted to not liking the idea on this thread. I tried to keep my reasons (at least on my post) to being as least offensive to others as possible, and frankly I think I did a damn good job of that. I even admitted at one point in a later post that I was incorrect about some of my assumptions, which goes to show you that I am not above admitting when I am wrong. However, people can be informative without attacking someones personal opinion on a subject. After all, that is (quasi) what these boards are for, right?
I won't presume to tell you that you should or shouldn't subject your children to a sanitized reality, but that's not even the subject we were discussing. I was speaking about my personal opinion on fairy tales turned all *bow chicka bow wow* on me. I just think it's disturbing-that's all I was saying to begin with, and I think you would agree that your children wouldn't be exposed to this anyway.

[Gouge]

I feel bad ,like I started this. Sorry didn't mean to. If you don't like it or even find it offensive cool. I would never hold someones like/dislike of reading materiel against them. (Ya know until they become one of those Burn all the Evil 0nes and their Evil Books!! People)

I'm very socially liberal and just from personal experience find way more of the females in my life have a thing for porn than men. Men usually just like pictures, maybe some dirty reading materiel. I've had to many female friends show me there "Romance Novels" that really are little more than graphic porn with a story. Not that all Romance Novels are like that. Heck the main reason I know about those Anne Rice books is because of a female friends minor fixation on them.

Anyway sorry to start out like this.

but yeah that guy that ordered thos books is gonna get it bad

Gouge

[AFpheonix]

I can JUST imagine the conversation if the wife caught him.

Wife: Honey, I found this collection that you ordered, care to explain?
Husband: Uh, well, I, uh, well it's not exactly mine but uh...
W: IT IS TOO YOURS!! IF YOU GET YOUR KICKS BY READING ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IN SEXUAL EXPLOITS THEN GOOD-BYE!!! MARRY THE DAMN BOOKS FOR ALL I CARE!!!!

Are my husband and I weird because we show each other funky porn clips and then proceed to critique them?

I really don't care if he looks at porn.

[Gouge]

Are my husband and I weird because we show each other funky porn clips and then proceed to critique them?

I really don't care if he looks at porn.

Yes. But me and my wife are the same way so...
Our yearly christmas party has been known to wind down with drunken group
MST3K style commentary of porn put up on the living room TV.

Gouge

[BookstoreEscapee]

This is why I always tried to avoid giving titles when calling orders, unless I was speaking to the person who ordered it. Even if it's not something, shall we say, "questionable," you never know if it's supposed to be a gift for someone in the house or whatever...

That said, if you don't want the wife to know what you ordered, you shouldn't give a number that she might answer. I've had customers give work #s, or specifically ask us not to say the title (that's what the notes field is for), even sometimes ask us not to call at all and check back themselves (those are usually just paranoid types, but sometimes they are legit and even give us their # but ask us not to call.

This is also why I prayed for answering machines. I had my script and it was really easy. "Hi, this is BN Mytown calling for Soandso to let you know the book you ordered has come in, and we will hold it at the registers until X date. Thank you." If they need more info, they'll call us back. I figure, if they managed to order the book, they can find us again . 95% of them just come and get the book (or not and we never hear from them again).

-ams-

[Arachne]

Nope. it isn't kiddie porn per se, but i think the wiki article may sum it up. It seems work safe. But Ill ask that a NSFW warning go up anyways....

From the Wiki article in question:

The graphic novel release by Top Shelf Productions has come under fire from critics who have argued that the book's controversial sexual content involving children might open up stores that carry the book and people who buy the book to be charged with child pornography possession.

...* Alice Fairchild having sex, first with a man and then with several girls and women, beginning at the age of fourteen.

Again, I really don't want this remark of mine to get tied up into the debate of whether pornography/erotica is wrong or not. It isn't my thing, but I don't have a problem with it. But it seems to me like we as a society would be better off if we weren't encouraging people, men women or what have you, to be looking at erotica/pornography starring fourteen year old girls.

If I were that guy's wife and I ever saw a book that depicted such things in my house, my husband would have a -lot- of explaining to do. For his sake, I hope she didn't pick up the book herself.

(The fairytale debate is a really interesting one, and I'd love to discuss it further if we could find a proper place to do so.)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Actually if it were me, I would've had the wife come pick up the book and "forgot" that it was porn.

IMHO, any guy who orders porn when there is the slightest chance his spouse will be getting the call and picking it up deserves whatever awkward moments that come from it.

Just the evil side in me coming out I guess

[Immortal1982]

(The fairytale debate is a really interesting one, and I'd love to discuss it further if we could find a proper place to do so.)

How's about Fratching?

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

How's about Fratching?

How did you find out about this site?

If it weren't for the fact that I'd have to go and register with another website all over again for one topic I might do that... I'm so freakin lazy

[KuzcoLlama]

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ead.php?t=5479

Been there for a little while now.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ead.php?t=5479

Been there for a little while now.

I guess it got buried under the depths of new threads before I got here. Didn't see that one. Thanks!

[Rapscallion]

It's a spare one I run to allow us to debate the more inflammatory things in a safer place and keep arguments off this board.

Rapscallion

[zzapp the witch]

*Hides her collection of Tijuana Bibles before anyone can rant her for reading them repeatedly and laughing*

[repsac]

zzapp

Oh come on now. The Tijuana Bibles are classics. Hilarious on all accounts, but classics. How else would we have learned where Huey Duey and Luey came from?