So, Republicans, have you been tea bagging lately ?

A most hilarious thing happened here in US: Republicans decided to protest high taxes and high government spending by re-enacting an historical revolt from 1776, the Boston Tea Party, where rebels dumped the king sponsored tea on the Boston harbor.

A nice idea but what could you call such protest ? I guess "Tea Party" sounded a bit girly and childish so a lot of conservatives started calling it "tea bagging" based on the fact that tea nowadays comes generally in bags.
http://norwegianity.files.wordpress....teabagging.jpg

Problem is "tea bagging" has a very naughty meaning:
http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:.../tea-bag-1.jpg Cat being tea bagged

They had their protest day April 15th and were mocked mercilessly on the media, because just a few came - less than a single Obama rally - and because of their entertaining name for the thing. And now they are up in arms because the rest of the country is laughing at them. Including me :D

So have any of the forum resident GOP fans have been teabagging ? Has it been draining ? Exhilarating ? Did it leave a sour taste on your mouth ? Was it good ? :D

Oh and get this.. Their next protest is 2 million men for marriage, or as craiglist woud say 2M4M . I'm not making this up!!!!

Oh neat this one has a history lesson.

ya for the Brits and other Europeans here :p

Besides, this one is more to laugh at the name than to discuss the merits:

Republicans: Tell us your experience of waving your tea bags around on April 15th

Sane people: suggest names for the next Republican protests and causes:
Dirty Sanchez for anti immigration ?

I wonder if those folks even know what 'teabagging' denotes these days... probably not, I'd guess.

I don't much care for protests that are based on mindlessly mimicking some popular/trendy format, instead of making an actual point about something. The Daily Show illustrated this well: a bunch of protesters bragging about the truckload of one million tea bags they'd bought for their protest. A truly pointless waste of money on a disposable foodstuff, just as set decoration for a protest against... financial irresponsibility?

I regulary practise the art of teabagging as does Psy and Dan!

ha ha ha
id be a republican if i lived in america

Oh, those wacky high-born aristocrats.

The Son's of Liberty would be appalled by these "teabaggers".

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Originally Posted by Fonz

The Son's of Liberty would be appalled by these "teabaggers".

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Yeah, I thought of Metal Gear when I saw "teabag" as well.

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This little shop is in Urbana, Ohio. :bigsmile: When we were coming home my mom's aunt saw it and was wondering why we were laughing so hard. We explained to her what tea bagging is. She was mortified. :D

Republicans, no wait, excuse me, right-wing extremists are funny. At least some Republicans are intelligent.

Teabag the Liberal Democrats?

Fetch me Paddy Ashdown at once!

Nothing beats a nice warm teabag after a long day. I should join them in their endeavor.

Hahahahaha

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Originally Posted by Kentarou

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Originally Posted by Fonz

The Son's of Liberty would be appalled by these "teabaggers".

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Yeah, I thought of Metal Gear when I saw "teabag" as well.

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I'm talking about Samuel Adams and the others.

Wait, they actually called the protests "teabaggings" themselves?

Haha.

Hahaha.

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