This thead is a fucking waste of space. There are no ads here, so take it up with the people that printed it...
Geez! Goozgaz!! I'm sitting here in my elementary school office "working" on my computer and read this. I instantaneously spew my Dublin Dr. Pepper all over the screen and out my nose! I'm laughing so hard, the secretaries come in to see what I'm laughing at. Of course, I can't tell them, because then I'll be sued for sexual harrassment... all the while waiting for the reply, of course. So what is it? Pills or pump???? You guys are just don't know how a crappy day is made better instantly by the H.A.M.B.
"I was pissed when my last issue of BARELY LEGAL had car ads!" I agree. "Wordbootysicktightyo! Most of us don't speak gibberish, retard. Please stick to english. ..and pull up your pants, you look ridiculous." It's called sarcasm...I think he agrees with you, only you didn't get it. Hot Rod's content has gotten much better lately and more in line with what I think HAMB'ers would enjoy. As for the ads, I didn't even notice. I think 8 and 11 year olds have access to "better" stuff if they wanted to find it. Overall for the kids, I think the benefits of having the subscription is greater than the consequences of not having it it at all.
I think its kool you care what the kids are looking at int he mag....but question what happens when they put those damn comercials or worse feminine product comercials in the midst of a game a movie or somthing else mundane.....maybe a conversation about it might be in order....look lil bobby there birds bees .......but god knows what they have to do with SEX
Gimme a break man....Who reads thoses adds anyway. Hell there are Viagra Stock Cars. Cyalis was the Superbowls main sponsor. There are the make your dick bigger adds on TV ( Enzyte or Enzite?? ) Hot Rod is a pretty good mag. Did you see last months with the Stone-Woods and Cook Willys. F'n great. As for your two nephews or sons ( whatever) they see far more on MTV, It's 2005. It aint porn although that can be seen in about 2 seconds on the web. All the mags need revenue to keep going. It's about the hobby. It's a love for all things that have to do with rodding. .Kidd
Dammitt, this is America, the marketplace dictates what ads get in whatever publication for maximium return on the dollar. I know some of you old coots are in love with the '50s, but guess what, it's the noughts now. If you wanna return to some squeaky clean time when the word pregnant was verboten you might want to consider moving to Singapore. As a consumer you have every right to complain vociferously about whatever it is that rubs your pussy hair the wrong way, but it won't get you anywhere because the times have changed. And if you think debauchery didn't exist in your beloved '50s, it sure as hell did, but penis enlargement wasn't an issue that was openly didcussed so it was kept hush hush. Same thing with homosexuality, bisexuality and the love between amputees. Be glad you live in a country that's as free as this one.
FUNNY SHIT!!! all the people working around me think im a freak....busting out in hysterical laughter!! although a mental picture im going to have to consume many beers to forget. short stack
I agree... with all of you, actually. I think some of it is out of control, and some of it I could give a shit about. You can't stop at the magazines. Have you seen the PS2's Grand Theft Auto III, and the other 2 newer versions? Every kid (myself included) loves that game, and it's far from moral. MTV is out of control. AND the internet... need we even mention the possibilities? When I was 8, or 10, I used to get nudey mags from my older brother ;o). Where there is a will, there is a way. For you "older" guys who grew up in the 50's, times have changed. I wish I could've grown up then, but I didn't.
Hahahahaha!!!! That is funny!!! But seriously, you are going to whine about a one page ad for penis enlargement, but not even mention the several pages of HOT FEMALE hot rodders and such?!?! Hoo doggy!! Gimme the one in the yellow jumpsuit!!
Dang Nads.... Ya almost got me standing up waving a flag!!! That was beautiful! (I mean Stars and Stripes and standing up on my feet, you pervs.)
Sometimes it takes a foreigner to see the lack of respect that native born Americans have for their freedom. Try this on for size.....worry about your own house, be a good parent or uncle or whatever. You have the power to lead your children as you seem fit, it's not society's job, it's yours, you lazy bums.
It takes a special talent to artificially enlarge a little insignificant non-issue into a big throbbing whopper of a problem... ( If condition persists for longer than 4 hours, consult your local physician...)
My 'freedom' should be free of crass-commercialism and idiots telling me what I should buy at every turn of the page. I hate magazines and don't subscribe to any of them. I don't want to pay for the right to have unwanted, foriegn born crap shoved down my eyesockets. In fact, as I write this I just got some Viagra spam at my work computer... We've entered an age when the marketting is the ONLY product. How many people think that Penis Enlargers really work? You're right... It's our choice to buy the mag-atizements. Give your nephews subscriptions to Rodders Journal.
Too bad. There are a couple of good ones out there along with Rodders Journal. (YOU have the option of ignoring the ads)
Spam's a whole other issue, so's telemarketing, these are the worst aspects of a free market society. When I'm sitting on my sofa releasing huge amounts of bodily gas after a black bean burrito and a Miller Lite, the last thing I want is some asshole ringing me up trying to sell me shit. Same goes for when I'm on the computor. Spammers and telemarketers......you can add prosthletyzers to the list, ought to be smacked upside the head with a baseball bat. Don't fuck with me in my house. And of course you have every right to not buy a publication because of it's advertising content, but the publication has an obligation to its stockholders to return a profit at the end of the year. There's money to be made from human beings lack of self image, it's the truth, it's always been this way, it always will be. People with little dicks have an enormous burden, can't you at least have some pity for the poorly endowed peckerheads?
But a kid that doesn't live with you may or may not know better... Hot Rod has a history that as far as I can tell, doesn't include sexual potency as a core ingredient. When you buy the mag, you don't think you will be confronted with that kind of content. It's innappropriate to change that up on an unexpecting consumer. Especially if you purchased a subscription as a gift for a child with the understanding that this would be car-oriented material. You can talk about 'freedom' all you want but everything has it's limits. Why should the majority of society who has no intrest in their children seeing that kind of material, have to cow-tow to the vocal few who have no moral qualms with it whatsoever? Is that 'freedom?' I just got a call saying I was unicuely chosen for a Marketing study and a free trip to Cabo San Lucas.
Utter bullshit Kilroy. Hot Rod magazine used sex in a gratuitous manner from day one, tell me that a scandily clad chick holding a torque has nothing to with sex? They had bathing beauties from the first issue, and they were probably as scandalous as the chicks in FHM are today. If you're worried about your young 'un getting a peek at your reading material put it behind lock and key or build a higher shelf. I bet you're worried sick about the day you have to explain the aspects of TAB A fitting into SLOT B to your offspring. Relax man, even chimps can figure out humping without textbooks.
And Kilroy, just because I'm vehemently against censorship, don't you ever accuse me of being immoral.
An ad for a penis enlarger in Hot Rod? Oh my! Well, it is called Hot "Rod". (do a google search on "hot rod", see what you come up with) I don't reckon I'll get all twitterpated about this ad. Now when Hot Rod magazine runs a tech article on how to use the thing, maybe I'll be concerned.
My point has nothing to do with scantily clad women, or my reading material. It has to do with the case at hand. The gifting of a subscription to children and the idea that the person who purchased that subscription is ouraged by the inclusion of a Penis enlargement ad in his gift. Why is it wrong, or idiotic for him to be pissed about it? Why should he 'get over it?' Why is it OK for you to insinuate he is failing as a perental figure because he doesn't feel his nephews should be confronted with that kind of advertisement in a magazine that probable never used the word "Penis" in any of it's articles in all the years it's been in publication? Why should he accept that as "the way it is?" Preventing him from expressing his outrage, and vilifying him for his desire would truely be "Censorship."
Deal... But if you ever again insinuate that I'm a neglegant parent because I disagree with your liberal views of the freedom of the press, I'm flying down to Florida and slapping your Fez wearing, clownshoed ass... MMMMKAAAY?....
By God Nads, you're right. And that's scarey..... Sex has always been rampant in Hot Rod Magazine... Mutt
Kilroy, it was you that said that hot Rod never had sexual potency as content, what I said was that it did. Sex is a huge part of our hobby, it always has been. Okay maybe penis enlargement wasn't an issue back in the '40s but obviously it is now. I'm not sure why that is, but it's here, so's breast enlargement and the desire for Michael Jackson to turn himself into an otherworldly being. Kilroy don't take this too harshly but the things you want to keep out of your children's hands are your responsibility. If you don't bring them in the house in the first place they will never see them on your watch. If they do get their hands on something that belongs to you that you'd rather not let them see, then you are in fact negligent. If your kid finds a grumble mag in a garbage bin at school, that is not your fault. You can't cloister a child forever. I've read this with regards to rearing children, At first you give them roots, then you give them wings. I tell you what, I'm eternally grateful to the Lord up above that he made Europeans far more liberal than us, because I get to see their half nekkid girls on a regular basis, I love working on International Drive. I wish you would come down here and kick my ass, I probably deserve it, but I will put up a fight.
See that first cover Mutt, it was supposed to say 'BOOBS AHEAD' but J.Edgar Hoover made 'em change it.
J. Edgar wanted to wear the clothes that the chickies are wearing on that cover. He would have been a very ugly woman. Mutt
Kilroy, I can see your point. (no pun intended) But in this day and age it's damn hard not to be "surrounded" by advertising regarding "sexual enhancement." TV probably has the most ads, followed by magazines, (pick one; ANY ONE, I can assure you that there will be a least a couple of ads in them) then walk into ANY drug store these days; and there they are, front and center. (hell in my day "Kotex" was a word you didn't say!) Then take your kids (nephues) to a hamburger joint, I'll guarante you can't drive more that 10 blocks without passing a bill board advertising "sexual enhancement" products!
Doesn't HR and just about every other car magazine promote modifications to perfectly good cars that might be viewed as irresponsible, negligent, and/or offensive by most of society? Gas guzzling big blocks with no modern emission controls would offend the modern day environmentalist..... SAVE THEPLANT FOR OUR CHILDREN! Hop-Up speed parts that make things go faster than the LEGAL speed limit would offend just about every driver on the road(including my grand-mama and the police).... THOSE WREKLESS DRIVERS SHOULD HAVE THEIR LICENSE REVOKED. DON'T THEY SEE MY "BABY ON BOARD" SIGN? Off topic post should offend Ryan This is not a cute and sweet community with lots of compassion for all things "street rod" - this board was built to be focused on the traditional and thats how it will stay. In conclusion. I respect that fact that this material maybe offensive to him and his nephews but taken that it is in the context of a hot rod magazine . I just cant give it as much weight. BTW: Anyone ever seen two porcupines doing the double dutch with a manskin jump rope? OUCH!