Whats your stand on AIB's Roast? - Page 9

Originally posted by: mahatma123

U r talking as if fir means they r being imprisoned.

They can state their side in court 😊

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

India is a great country. That means our paradoxes and ironies are great as well. They were going to remake American Pie' with Ranveer Singh in the lead. As you can figure, he was very excited about humping an apple pie or gajar ka halwa in this case. He's always excited about an opportunity to hump something. But the mithaiwala association took objection to the objectification of sweets. Our sweets are not meant for perverse pleasures they said. Which is quite ironic because humping towels is a popular activity in many movie songs. They just thrust it between their legs and go at it, all right out their in public. The towel rights association must be defunct. Which puts towels at a slightly better place than women.

But all this puts me in a conundrum. I'm now terrified of having chocolate in India. Chocolate is better than sex. Unlike sloppy lovers, chocolate never fails to hit the spot. Every time I eat a good piece of chocolate I'm like "Hmm. So good. Ah yes". Now I'm like is this OK for me to do? Are they going to charge me for perverse pleasures? I'm actually wondering if one might be better of buying condoms than chocolate. Well, I can't live without chocolate, so I know what I'll do. Typical diversion, desi style - Hey there look at that person licking the ice-lolly there. Go arrest them - thats blow job training.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

You shouldn't file an FIR because you simply disagree with another person's tastes. It is not a legal matter.

Originally posted by: charminggenie

An FIR for being unfunny makes sense in which universe?

So basically all the FIRs against PK were justified , because they were legally within in their rights in protesting against the movie because it didn't fit their sensibilities?

Originally posted by: atominis

Who decides what is a legal matter and what is not?

People have right to protest within legal means.

An FIR or PIL are anyday better than going out and bombing people.

This brouhaha over freedom of speech in India is exaggerated. Nothing but free publicity for an obscure bunch of comedians.

Originally posted by: atominis

Yes FIRs are okay.

Complaint is everybody's right.

The final action needs to be debated if it is serious. It is not like these filmmakers or comedians were jailed or hanged without being given a chance to explain their case, without fair trial and without all complaints first examined by authorities.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

@atominis

The constitution grants freedom of speech. If your freedom of speech is curbed. It is a legal matter. Your desire to curb someone else's freedom of speech is not a legal matter. Unfortunately, in India rather than being responsible citizens and defending freedom of speech by Voltaire's principle we choose to burden our legal system with ways trying to restrict people's freedom of speech.

The Comedians are getting free publicity not because of defenders of free speech, but because of the people who do not like people to have free speech. If the ones against AIB didn't give a flying fcuk AIB wouldn't get even 1/2 of its publicity.

I'll never get why supposedly normal citizens love comparing themselves to terrorist. At least I'm not a trigger happy terrorist, is the flimsiest argument in history. Killing people is wrong. Period. No question about it. At least no one is killing anyone is a red herring to distract people from the real discussion on free speech itself.

Originally posted by: charminggenie

You do understand these baseless FIRs burden our legal system which is funded by public taxes. So I take it we shouldn't complain about the backlogs and the long judicial procedure of our country when we are ok with any random , illogical FIRs.