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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: udet on May 19, 2003, 02:35:42 PM
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Today I watched the unbelievable on Comedy Central-a woman was not even bare-chested, but the area was blurred nontheless. Maybe some nipples were showing, maybe the thing she was wearing was a bit transparrent. Your children can see that level of nudity on the street or in a room with A/C on :)
At the same time, the movie abounded with uncensorred references to oral sex and erections.
Does one have to have the IQ of a dead slug to be a television censor?
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I thought of this the other day while listening to the radio. A local morning program here will talk about sex-realted matters all morning, but they will censor the word "damn" from that song by Avril what's-her-face where she says, "it's a damn cold night".
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the 'good people' are just trying to save you from evil thoughts. i feel sorry for the censors, they have to actualy SEE all the evil before they can save us from it.
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its totally absurd... you can watch someone get their heads sliced off and used as a kick-ball but you can't see someone's bare butt
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All the TV channels are doing is complying with the laws of the country and the wishes of their sponsors. If you don't like it, vote for somebody who will change the laws, don't watch commercial TV and don't buy products from the sponsors.
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unless they show boobies
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Yes, if they show boobies, buy more of the sponsor's products. Channel 2 (KTVU) in Oakland used to show boobies and bush after hours (after 11pm) I think. They left a lot of old movies unedited. Of course now all those old movies have been replaced by infomercials. Kill your TV.
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"Because they're stupid, that's why everybody does everything!"
Homer Simpson.
-SW
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Well we could prove we aren't stupid, by not buying all the crappy products advertised on network TV. But nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public. As Jello Biafra said, "The Dumbest Buys The Mostest."
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I spend most of my time watching Skinemax, they advertise a lot of boobies... I have yet to find them being sold anywhere.
I am truly disappointed. :(
-SW
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yeah but still.. thank god for sattelite eh?
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Yep DirecTV are happy sell you all the porn you can handle.
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
I thought of this the other day while listening to the radio. A local morning program here will talk about sex-realted matters all morning, but they will censor the word "damn" from that song by Avril what's-her-face where she says, "it's a damn cold night".
I got muted once for typing whoopeeed...
Tronsky
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I didn't know that "Damn" was an unaccepteable cussword.
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Originally posted by hawk220
its totally absurd... you can watch someone get their heads sliced off and used as a kick-ball but you can't see someone's bare butt
Yes you can.
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Damn is one of the few that are literally a curse word.
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Originally posted by funkedup
Well we could prove we aren't stupid, by not buying all the crappy products advertised on network TV. But nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public. As Jello Biafra said, "The Dumbest Buys The Mostest."
Didn't peg you for a DK listener, I must say, Funked.
But then I'm not sure how I would characterise a dead kennedys afficionado anyway.
Nice to see Jello Biafra quoted here (I really didn't expect it)
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yes, I truly feel for ya, you live in such a censored world :rolleyes:
sound like a preteen looking for cheap thrill on tv, do you stared at the scrambled channels also?
do like the other experienced pervs here, pay for it properly
hint:
victoria secret catalogs are free....
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Originally posted by udet
Today I watched the unbelievable on Comedy Central-a woman was not even bare-chested, but the area was blurred nontheless. Maybe some nipples were showing, maybe the thing she was wearing was a bit transparrent. Your children can see that level of nudity on the street or in a room with A/C on :)
At the same time, the movie abounded with uncensorred references to oral sex and erections.
Does one have to have the IQ of a dead slug to be a television censor?
The History Channel shows nudity constantly, and also doesn't "bleep" out bad words. I guess they figure kids don't watch documentaries. However, I have a three year old nephew who would rather watch black and white airplane footage than Barney or Builder Bob. Gotta love it!
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You could imagine my suprise bounder when I saw Funked quote Morrissey here once, and it turns out he is a huge Smiths fan. :D
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do like the other experienced pervs here, pay for it properly
People pay for porn?
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the FRENCH show boobies:D
always did, always will.
just goes too show you ENGLISH are retarded when it comes too boobies:eek:
you see 1 booby and ya'll get cream in your pants:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by SLO
the FRENCH show boobies:D
you see 1 booby and ya'll get cream in your pants:rolleyes:
I only do that when I grab one... :)
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Originally posted by Nash
You could imagine my suprise bounder when I saw Funked quote Morrissey here once, and it turns out he is a huge Smiths fan. :D
bastard :)
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Originally posted by GrimCO
I only do that when I grab one... :)
see there you go.....only grabbin 1.
did ya know they have 2:D
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Originally posted by Nash
You could imagine my suprise bounder when I saw Funked quote Morrissey here once, and it turns out he is a huge Smiths fan.
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bastard
And heaven knows you're miserable now :)
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Originally posted by SLO
the FRENCH show boobies:D
Actually, I have yet to see a commercial without tits and ass...and this is not a joke, we have naked chicks in about one in five commercials,we hardly notice it anymore...
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I simply don't watch television, except for the occasional news program. If I want to watch a movie I rent it (and not from those editing bastages at Blockbuster!)!
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Originally posted by Eagler
yes, I truly feel for ya, you live in such a censored world :rolleyes:
sound like a preteen looking for cheap thrill on tv, do you stared at the scrambled channels also?
do like the other experienced pervs here, pay for it properly
hint:
victoria secret catalogs are free....
I'm not looking for porn on TV-I get that from the net :) It's just annoying to have portions of someone's anatomy blurred. If they think it's too risque for TV, they shouldn't air it. It's just plain stupid.
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retardeness???dont you mean television censorship in america is reaching great levels of less than average intellegence...retardness is censored now ;)
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Originally posted by Nash
You could imagine my suprise bounder when I saw Funked quote Morrissey here once, and it turns out he is a huge Smiths fan. :D
That's excusable if your record collection also contains copies of ,'Frankenchrist', 'Bedtime for Democracy' or 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables'.
Just don't tell collects Luther Vandross LPs too please - that sort of cognitive dissonance can fuse your frontal lobes together.
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Originally posted by hawk220
its totally absurd... you can watch someone get their heads sliced off and used as a kick-ball but you can't see someone's bare butt
I gotta agree with you on this one. I've held the belief that the censors have it all wrong. They've let violence on television get out of control, but when it comes to nudity, well that gets the smack down. Personally, I believe its ok to show folks what the human body looks like so long as the stinky parts are covered.
Take "Baywatch" for example. Its greatest claim to fame is showing chicks in bikinis. No nudity, not even during the "Baywatch: Hawaii" season when ancient Hawaiian customs were shown (strategically placed leis accomplished what a fuzzy blue dot would normally do). And yet there was no prohibition against fist-fights on the beach, or the hero wrestling the bad guy and hitting him with the PFD can. Nobody talked about the gratuitous violence, just the gratuitous bikini shots.
More recently, we have the "Matrix" sequel. {SPOILER ALERT}
There's the love scene where Neo and Trinity copulate tastefully. But you know what? No skin. A bit of Keanu's cheek, but nothing much. Instead, we get a film full of martial arts, gunplay, car chases, steel shards through a guy's chest, and gunshot wounds.
I think somewhere, somehow, America got it all backwards.
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Originally posted by funkedup
Yep DirecTV are happy sell you all the porn you can handle.
I'd rather DirecTV supply me all the gore I can handle, and get the cheeks for free. I'd save a lot of money that way! :D
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It all comes down to religion... The human body is a shameful thing, atleast thats what Jebus says.
-SW
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udet has a point though. Why even show the person with the blurred out anatomy? The sexual connotation is still there, you just can't see it. Is that really protecting anyone who is watching that particular scene?
If you don't want to show someone naked on TV, then don't show someone naked.
Similar principle is noted in the Triumph poops on Star Wars segment. When they get the guy dressed up as a Vulcan, he's flicking off the SW fans, but it's fuzzied out. Uhmm, we KNOW what he's doing! How is fuzzying that out protecting anyone's innocence? It's ok in the same segment to show Triumph humping several objects (and people's arms) though?
Same thing with radio censoring. Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy" was on yesterday. They censor out sh*t in the song, and quite literally as I typed it. You can clearly hear the "sh" and the "t" of the word. How is that shielding anyone's overly sensitive ears.
Censorship makes no sense the way it is done right now. Oh wait, yes it does. Sex sells... EVERYTHING. So by putting up the little blurry boxes, you can get around the laws and still have your sex selling scenes.
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For goodness sake, won't SOMEBODY please think of the children?
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Originally posted by bounder
Just don't tell collects Luther Vandross LPs too please - that sort of cognitive dissonance can fuse your frontal lobes together.
Lol, I wouldn't doubt it. :D
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Originally posted by Chairboy
For goodness sake, won't SOMEBODY please think of the children?
its the children who are against censorship:p
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Originally posted by GrimCO
The History Channel shows nudity constantly
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Oh yeah, nothing better than Babes Of The History Channel! Did you see the episode where that African Native chick was topless as she was plucking a dead chicken? Man she had boobs like mudflaps... Hot stuff! How 'bout the episode where that Amazon Indian woman was nursing her twin boys? She had a GREAT smile- all she lacked is teeth.
Who needs The Playboy Channel when The History Channel is free?
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Originally posted by Airhead
Oh yeah, nothing better than Babes Of The History Channel! Did you see the episode where that African Native chick was topless as she was plucking a dead chicken? Man she had boobs like mudflaps... Hot stuff! How 'bout the episode where that Amazon Indian woman was nursing her twin boys? She had a GREAT smile- all she lacked is teeth.
Who needs The Playboy Channel when The History Channel is free?
exactly ... take the playboy ch babes, spin it up 30 to 40 years in the future and you have the history ch babes :)
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I just did a channel surf and on HBO right now is a movie called "Gia." The scene playing was two nude women in a lesbian scene- and it's 7:30 PM right now, which is prime time.
If anything television needs to get even stricter during prime time hours. If you want porn then rent a video, but don't whine about not being able to see explicit sex during prime time hours.
Perverts.
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"it's not TV, it's HBO" :) they say it themselves
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"She had a GREAT smile- all she lacked is teeth."
I dunno ... a girl with no teeth sounds kinda fun :D
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Originally posted by Airhead
Oh yeah, nothing better than Babes Of The History Channel! Did you see the episode where that African Native chick was topless as she was plucking a dead chicken? Man she had boobs like mudflaps... Hot stuff! How 'bout the episode where that Amazon Indian woman was nursing her twin boys? She had a GREAT smile- all she lacked is teeth.
Hey, a boob's a boob even if they're hanging there like grapefruits in a tube sock. :)
They also have a special called "The History of Sex" or something like that. Pretty explicit with lots of nudity, and no naked Aboriginese beating on the bongos.
I was neither endorsing or opposing it, just making an observation...
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Originally posted by Airhead
I just did a channel surf and on HBO right now is a movie called "Gia." The scene playing was two nude women in a lesbian scene- and it's 7:30 PM right now, which is prime time.
If anything television needs to get even stricter during prime time hours. If you want porn then rent a video, but don't whine about not being able to see explicit sex during prime time hours.
Perverts.
you gotta be gay.....or your a religious freak.:rolleyes:
you seem to forget that its NATURAL you inverted geek.....
its the sweater your wearing that's not natural.....
boobs are the most natural thing in the world.....
now you calling me perverted BECAUSE I like lookin at boobs.....
think about that 1 my friend....in the end you'll find that you've been mistaking dweeb.....
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Originally posted by SLO
you gotta be gay.....or your a religious freak.:rolleyes:
you seem to forget that its NATURAL you inverted geek.....
its the sweater your wearing that's not natural.....
boobs are the most natural thing in the world.....
now you calling me perverted BECAUSE I like lookin at boobs.....
think about that 1 my friend....in the end you'll find that you've been mistaking dweeb.....
Wow SLO- brilliant rebuttal- Four insults in one post- pretty good. So now I'm a gay religious freak geeky dweeb?
Actually I'm none of the above- I am a concerned parent who believes there's too much gratuitous sex and violence on television today. I'm not opposed to your "right" to view porn, but I'm opposed to having porn readily available to our children via network TV. Kinda like people who smoke- I don't care, just don't blow it in my face.
By all means, rent whatever tape you want, order any pay per view you want, download whatever kind of porn you want- just don't expect me to agree with you that television should be uncensored. Only other perverts will agree with you. Now go mastrubate and leave me alone.
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airhead, I know you're trolling here more than anything, but...
how is HBO even remotely considered "network TV" ?
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Originally posted by Nifty
airhead, I know you're trolling here more than anything, but...
how is HBO even remotely considered "network TV" ?
cause bet you a nickel more ppl on this board have it than don't
probably more households in US have it than don't
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So? More people in the USA view pornography than don't, does that mean that porn videos should be considered Family Videos?
Your logic is flawed.
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people still use television to see porno???
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They should be able to send whatever they want... and say whatever they want for that matter...
Its up to the parents to take an active role in their upbringing of their children, not djust dumping them by the TV...
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Originally posted by Chairboy
So? More people in the USA view pornography than don't, does that mean that porn videos should be considered Family Videos?
Your logic is flawed.
I don't know, Chairboy. Do you watch your porn videos with your young children? Do you keep your video of "Debbie Does Dallas" next to your 9 year old daughters' video of "The Little Mermaid?" If so then you're right- your porn videos are also family videos.
If, instead, you keep your adult videos hidden in the top shelf of your closet and only sneek them out at night when the kids are asleep then you are agreeing we need to censor what our children can see on the television. I'm not a crusader on this issue, but seeing a lesbian scene at 7:30 PM on HBO, a network channel that's as much a staple of the television dial as TNN, CBS, Discovery Wings or The Cartoon Channel, is proof that censorship isn't TOO restrictive yet.
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If, instead, you keep your adult videos hidden in the top shelf of your closet and only sneek them out at night when the kids are asleep then you are agreeing we need to censor what our children can see on the television. I'm not a crusader on this issue, but seeing a lesbian scene at 7:30 PM on HBO, a network channel that's as much a staple of the television dial as TNN, CBS, Discovery Wings or The Cartoon Channel, is proof that censorship isn't TOO restrictive yet.
If you didnt find YOUR fathers porn-magazines and porn tapes when YOU where an kid then you simply didnt look hard enough :rolleyes:
The censorship only makes an young mind want it more...
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Originally posted by Maniac
The censorship only makes an young mind want it more...
Obviously kids are curious about sex, but I don't feel the answer is showing explicit adult situations on prime time television to "satisfy their curiosity." If you disagree then by all means, give your child a copy of an adult video for their next birthday. Of course your kids are also curious about smoking, drinking and any other adult behavior they might hear of, so why not throw in a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of Crown Royal?
In the mean time don't advocate relaxing the already lax standards television adheres to today- some of us don't wish our children to see explicit sex and nudity on prime time television. The fact you, SLO and others see nothing wrong with porn on network television makes me wonder if you have children. Well, do you?
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Airhead please define porn.
Thx.
Airhead, what is worse to you, having your kid grow up and start smoking? Having your kid grow up and drinking alchohol? Having your kid grow up and do drugs? Having your kid grow up adn get in fist fights constantly for no apparent reason? Having your kid grow up and having sex?
:rolleyes:
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HBO is network television in CA? Here on the right coast we pay extra for it: it's a "premium" channel as opposed to the basic cable service that has all the family stuff.
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Originally posted by Erlkonig
HBO is network television in CA? Here on the right coast we pay extra for it: it's a "premium" channel as opposed to the basic cable service that has all the family stuff.
Yes, it's a prenium channel, but it's part of a cable package in my area. Far different than Playboy Channel or Spice Channel, where you have to actually order the programming on an individual basis, HBO is part of my television dial accessable by anyone able to change channels on the remote, which makes it no different than Nickelodeon or CNN in the ease of access.