I just discovered this person on YouTube, member name is LegalEagle (real first name is Devin) who is a real life lawyer, and has been doing videos discussing the accuracies (or mistakes) TV shows or movies make when featuring real legal matters.
He already has many videos up, but this video
is a good starting point, where he discusses the infamous series finale to Seinfeld.
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Edited by kory on Sep 22nd 2024 at 9:15:19 AM
I mean, I'm totally chill with making shooting guns out of a moving vehicle illegal. Go nanny state!
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Or people will do stupid things and kill people doing them. The only reason it's illegal to store radioactive material in sleeping quarters is because people died. Not the people ordering the material stored there, so they had little incentive to stop on their own.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.It's rather hard for me to picture "truck nuts" as some kind of artistic or political expression. I don't see them as graphically obscene, either, so laws against them seem spectacularly pointless.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Truck nuts are deliberately made to look like a pair of hanging testicles. Two people even engaged in a long and stupid war over who invented them.
Vice (July 20, 2015): The Bitter Battle Between Two Men Who Both Say They Invented Truck Nuts
And yes, the article gleefully engages in a lot of fore — I mean word — play concerning the plastic nutsacks.
The article also notes that the attempts to ban them only made them more popular.
In 2012, a man was pulled over in South Carolina and ticketed for his balls. The police’ report had a section that read, “The vehicle was displaying an obscene object from the rear bumper. The object was a pair of large fleshy testicles.” The simple fact that people were attempting to emasculate these trucks almost certainly increased their popularity.
After all, is their a better way to stick it to the man than shoving a big ol’ set of nuts in his face?
Edited by M84 on Feb 4th 2025 at 2:31:51 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI agree that I don't see Truck Nuts as having any particularly meaningful political or artistic statement. Are they obscene? Well, they are essentially depicting genitalia in a completely frivolous and superfluous manner.
I'd say it's perhaps too much Poking The Poodle to justify being straight-up illegal but I'd say it's approaching the line of being obscene.
Leviticus 19:34Lots of things indicate "manchild" status but they aren't illegal. This is a ridiculous argument on all sides.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I remember one person pointing out the irony of some of those truck drivers being transphobic, but will call their vehicle by she/her pronouns, and then put nuts on the back of their truck.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!I disagree. Now, owning Truck Nuts, putting them in a sock to create your own Slap-Jack, and then clubbing someone upside the head with them and yelling SLAP NUTS would be being a man-child.
It would also both be rude and hilarious, but those things aren't contradictory.
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