[Rictor]

The irony, I can't bear it....

Whats scarier, that they think there is a game about Evil Bikini Death Nazis? Or that there actually is?



 

[Jiggyhound]

http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/shows/main.asp?shwid=86

I found this the funniest

*Frequent offensive language includes “*****,” “ass,” and “piss,” as well as euphemisms for ‘f—k.’ *

PUSSIES!

*falls of his chair laugthing*

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Liberator
What it basically comes down to is parents are busy doing dishes or balancing the checkbook, or doing basic household stuff since they can't afford for one of them to stay home and do it during the day.  And they want to be able to leave they're 8 year old with the remote and know that they aren't going to see something they shouldn't.  It's as simple as that.

I don't have children. People with that particular STD don't have the right to dictate what I can watch. If they're terribly concerned about what little Johnny might do with the remote, TAKE THE DAMN REMOTE AWAY. Smack of totalitarianism? It worked for my parents.

On the other hand, if you want to let your parasites be raised and baby-sat by the idiot box, use your local, individual methods for controlling it. If FX is a problem, drop it from your cable line up--its not a broadcast channel. If you get standard cable without a box (IE, non digital, channel numbers less than 100), get a damn box. Yeah, that's right, I said pay extra to protect YOUR children. Surely <$50/mo isn't too much to protect the rotten fruit of your loins from the equally rotten fruits of other people's minds. After all, you're already paying at least $30 to have the sewage that is American cable television pumped into your house, right. If you do have a cable box, any standard digital cablebox (IE anything made after about 2001, and certainly anything installed by any cable system in the United States today) has channel blocking features. You can block on rating, time, or channel. Since FX does indeed publish the ratings of its shows, it is simplicity itself to block all the shows that exceed the limits of your morality. If your cable box is too old, most cable companies will cheerfully swap your box out for a modern one.  

For ****'s sake, with the myriad possibilities for taking care of your own children in your own home without trampling on the rights OR sensibilities, you'd have to be the victim of a pre-natal lobotomy to try to force such censorship on the rest of the nation.

Call me crazy. I just don't like people who use their STDs as an excuse to force other people to change their habits or behavior.

[Jiggyhound]

*The orgy scene on "America's Next Top Model" will leave much more to the imagination than originally planned. In the aftermath of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident and congressional action on indecency fines, UPN has ordered executive producer and host Tyra Banks to cut out portions of next week's raunchy show. (March 11, 2004)*

THESE PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED !

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Hmmm... every show that I'm ever been even slightly interested in is marked with bright red.  Does that make me a total psycho ready for a killing spree?

[IceFire]

I only watch TV these days for a couple of reasons:

1) Weather (most important)
2) News (too depressing, normally turn it off or watch local morning news which is slightly less depressing)
3) StarGate SG-1 (except that they don't show new ones so I'm watching the DVD set instead)
4) Enterprise (I'll keep watching and see where it goes )
5) Simpsons at dinner...the classics are funny and its great for dinner time TV when there is nothing else to do

While appearing to be an extensive list that is all that I use the TV for....oh and the occasional Classic Trek or Next Gen rerun on Space channel.

Most of the shows on are total garbage...its the same tried concept over and over and over again.  The networks hate innovation and they shut down or fire whoever is involved with making new shows that may not initially take off but will later...

[Liberator]

Originally posted by mikhael


I don't have children. People with that particular STD don't have the right to dictate what I can watch. If they're terribly concerned about what little Johnny might do with the remote, TAKE THE DAMN REMOTE AWAY. Smack of totalitarianism? It worked for my parents.

One of these day's, very soon, I will be laughing as mik tells us his GF/Spouse(make her an honest woman already mik) is pregnant.

[mikhael]

Um. Lib, we've been married five years and together for twelve. I met my wife at approximately the same time you were learning what your dangly bits were for something other than making bubbles in the toilet.

If we do have children, they'll be our children. That won't change the fact that other people's children are an STD best removed from the face of the planet with deep, cruel prejudice.

Did I mention I hate other people's kids? If not: I hate other people's kids.

Oh, and for the record, she made me an honest man, not the other way around.

[Rictor]

And I hate other kid's parents. If we team up, we can wipe the world clean of people. Won't that be fun?!

Seriously, as much as I don't believe in a magical dude in the sky, kids are not an STD. They are at worst a means of procreation, and at best a mix or humanity and nature. Works of creation and, not to sound cliched, miracles.

All that, and I don't even plan to have the bastards.

[Liberator]

You'll have twins or triplets then.

[SadisticSid]

Well I'm in agreement with mik, at least for his libertarian view on parental responsibility regarding TV, though I eschew his peculiar labelling all children as STDs.

[mikhael]

Other people's children make me feel ill (to put it mildly). They ARE sexually transmitted. That makes them an STD, one you don't even have to catch for it to make you miserable. My child (one, not two or more) will be perfect, naturally.

I'm sure there's decent kids and decent parents out there. I just have met any. Well, ONE, and that's my cousin. She's an attitudinous little troll, but she's smart, knows when to quit being a pest, and plays a mean game of pinball. I guess she's the exception that proves the rule.

Regardless: when "protecting" YOUR children induces you to trample on MY rights, its time for you or your children to be removed from the equation, preferably both, because you've likely infected them with your screwy ideas.

And I'm serious about the one kid thing. I'm fully behind the ZPG project, and to a lesser extent the VHE project.

[Tiara]

Once again I'm grateful to live in a country like Holland Nip/Tuck is still on over here and nobody even looks at it oddly. We can say ****, *****, ass, stupid nazi ****, etc etc etc on TV as many times as we want.

It's always funny to see American movie/music stars on tv here when they're interviewd by Dutch people They always go like

"I can say the f-word on TV here, right?"
"Yes, you can."
"Ok, then I ****ing hate that guy."

[diamondgeezer]

I also detest kids. If I want something noisy, smelly, expensive and tiring to operate, I'll buy a dog.

[Rictor]

Yeah, nudity too. Long live progressive Europe. Don't know why America is so uptight. I guess that what you get when you've got a country founded by Quakers...

**** the ****in' ****ers. :D

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I also detest kids. If I want something noisy, smelly, expensive and tiring to operate, I'll buy a dog.

Yes, but a dog can't spend insane amounts of your hard earned money, do badly in school, get addicted to crack, turn gay and end up generally being a huge disapointment, now can he?

[Rictor]

double post, nevermind

[Flipside]

I think that was the Edit button you wanted not the Quote

Kids don't need deworming as often.....

[Ace]

Originally posted by Rictor
Yeah, nudity too. Long live progressive Europe. Don't know why America is so uptight. I guess that what you get when you've got a country founded by Quakers...

**** the ****in' ****ers. :D


Yes, but a dog can't spend insane amounts of your hard earned money, do badly in school, get addicted to crack, turn gay and end up generally being a huge disapointment, now can he?

It wasn't the Quakers, it was those Calvinist wackos that were and still are the problem. Let's go blow up Parliament, get outselves exiled to the colonies, let the merchants and intellectuals rebel and then say it was divinely inspired, and now Parliament is our *****!

THE TERRORISTS WON!!!111

[Flipside]

Look at it this way, Guy Fawkes was the World's first officially recognised Terrorist, and yet every year we set of enough Gunpowder to reduce London to cinders in celebration of this man! The tradition of putting the Guy on the Fire and the actual story behind it all has been lost in the 'bigger better firework' race

And so Capitalism continue to gorge upon it's own limbs

[diamondgeezer]

And of course you don't stand there every year going 'ooooh, aaaah!'