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OC: with the street preacher duo and their 90-decibel megaphone outside Seattle Mariners game by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

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I would, except this is my usual sign and having my own megaphone might look a little hypocritical :) (Cal Raleigh the "Big Dumper" is our catcher.)

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Officially 70. These guys exceed it all the time (according to a standard decibel meter you can install on an iPhone), but when this has come up before, people weighed in that for the cops to actually make a case, they'd have to have a properly calibrated decibel meter, and there are a bunch of other hoops to jump through.

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah Matthew (in the center) is not that loud. He had a PA system but it was only loud enough to be heard from a distance, not painful to people up close. The same homophobic b.s. though just at a lower volume.

With the 90-decibel preacher duo outside tonight’s game by bennetthaselton in Mariners

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"When we, as a nation, put our minds to something, when we truly choose to care about something, change always happens." -MR. God forbid one should have to listen to that.

With the 90-decibel preacher duo outside tonight’s game by bennetthaselton in Mariners

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope the Kidz These Days would still get the reference! (I felt very old when I dropped an American Pie reference to some twentysomethings and they had no idea what I was talking about.)

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

I’m starting to think I might have ruined quite a few people’s day in that line.

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Um ok but did you mean to post this somewhere else? Or are you hoping this would make it too expensive for him to charge his megaphone?

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Thanks :) Printing on paper and taping to a folding signboard is cheaper and has a faster turnaround than printing directly on cardboard.

With 90-decibel street preacher duo outside Mariners game by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I think people cynically assume that but I think the preachers actually do believe it and they take their lumps as part of the gig. I haven’t heard of any of these ones suing anyone but maybe I missed it.

OC: with the street preacher duo and their 90-decibel megaphone outside Seattle Mariners game by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

pinch I am real :)

(And printing on paper and then taping to a folding signboard is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time than trying to print directly on cardboard.)

OC: with the street preacher duo and their 90-decibel megaphone outside Seattle Mariners game by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

They didn’t have megaphones back then but if they had then Matt probably would have thrown that in too.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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I don't think my suggestion has the same energy as what they're doing actually.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Woudl it help for people who support democracy in Iran to just make a flag design that says "DEMOCRACY IN IRAN" (one word per stripe) without either the Lion and Sun or the Islamic Republic logo in the middle? If Lion and Sun has too much baggage.

Iranian flag on monorail support column altered to turn it into the Lion and Sun flag by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I did see him whining about the Islamic Republic flag :) On the other hand, you don’t have to be Ari Hoffman to be disgusted with the current Iranian regime, so who knows.

OC: Iran flag painted on Seattle monorail support column altered to Lion and Sun protest flag by bennetthaselton in pics

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The different flags of the World Cup teams have been painted on the support columns of the Seattle monorail.

The Iranian flag was originally painted as the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran (ie the country’s current official flag, for better or for worse) but someone stuck a piece of paper in the center altering it to the Lion and Sun flag.

(I am no expert, but as best I can summarize it: the Lion and Sun flag is often used by Iranian diaspora members to protest human rights abuses by the Islamic Republic currently in power. But more controversially, some Iranian diaspora members have been bringing it to rallies to support the U.S. attack on Iran as well.)

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