[an0n]

No, I'm not having a party........yet.

I'm *****ing about human stupidity.

Once again there's been a ground-swell and it's pissing me off having all these retards swimming around my feet.

http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/niptuck/main.asp

Nip/Tuck was one of only about 70 series I bothered watching. ****tards. Goddamn, no-life, self-righteous ****tards.

I'm hereby redesignating all of B-Group (short-range nukes), which I was going to launch at France, for deployment on American soil.

****tards.

I hate them sooooo much.

[Flipside]

'Because our children are watching'

Why aren't they watching their ****ing children?? Great, a website for irresponsible parents!

[01010]

****ing hell, if they're so concerned about what their kids are seeing on TV why don't they just get rid of the ****ing thing. But then I suppose that'd actually mean spending time with their kids, we can't have that now can we.

[mikhael]

Yet another reason to wipe televisions from the face of the earth.

[Taristin]

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Yes, yes. Americans are stupid, obnoxious, opinionated morons who feel everyone should feel the same as them.

Why is this news?

[Rictor]

Except for some cartoons, I don't miss not having a TV at all. I just read over the synopsis for the season finale or whatever on the concerned parents website. It reads like a soap opera, but then again so does most of the stuff on TV these days.

50 cop dramas, 30 law dramas, 50 reality shows, 20 dating shows, 40 sitcoms who apparently have the same writers as every single other sitcom ever in the history of the universe, the odd teen drama, comedy and miscellaneous drama. Whats with all the drama? Don't people have enough of that in their own lives? Oh thats right, people who tend to watch this stuff live boring, shallow, empty lives, in a world where their only role in life is to consume. Do like the Tee Vee says and laugh at their stupid jokes. Feel for the crappy characters.

Yes, real believable performances all round,...*clap clap*.

Oh no!, Sheryl didn't get that corner office she's been gunning for, and Mike's wife wants a divorce cause he aint rich enough. Oh look, some black guy said something funny. *cue canned laughter*. Is it too much to ask for TV shows to break new ground? Explore some moral dilemas? Have real, believable characters who you can actually feel for, instead of rich kids who are pissed off at the world for no apparent reason. Every show has to be set in America, has to have good looking, rich people. Has to have a battle between good and evil, no grey areas. The viewers don't want to be challenged, they want to be entertained, they want to see on TV people exactly like them, only more succesfull.

Dance monkies, dance. Laugh when they say so, cry when they say so. Its better than real life.

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I never intended for this to turn into a rant, its just sort of did. Go figure.

[Sandwich]

*is once again grateful that he doesn't have TV and isn't bothered by this on a personal/household level*

[Rictor]

Did you mess with my post? Either that, or I put that last sentence in the wrong place...

edit: Probably me, nevermind.

[Sandwich]

I don't mess with people's posts without stating so clearly using my trademark red text and signiature: // Sandwich

I do leave room for exceptions to that rule in the case of other admins though.

[color=66ff00]I just post in my well known Green... //Maeg
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[Liberator]

I'm assuming the debauched obcenity that is Nip/Tuck is being cancelled.  That stuff is fine on pay networks like HBO, but FX is a part of so many cable systems basic level that it makes good business sense to make as many people as happy as possible.

Before you flame, you should know that FX is 4 channels down from Cartoon Network on my cable, both at my place and at my parents that an audience of 50,000+ people that risk their children seeing the debauched shenanigans of those two freaks.

There is such a thing as obcenity and I will be damned if I let it be put on display in a public arena.

[mikhael]

Actually, Lib, I think you and I agree on this one--to an extent.

Without commenting on the quality of the content of the show, its not the sort of thing that belongs on network (and/or basic cable) television, any more than the Sopranos, the various graphic medical/crime shows, Deadwood and the like.

I will say, however, that it doesn't really matter, in the end, WHAT gets shown on television. If you're a parent and you don't want your child watching what is shown on television, don't let them. That's your responsibility as a parent. When you try to dictate what OTHER people (or their children) get to watch, well then you step over the line.

[an0n]

You realise pretty much every single cable, satellite and TiVo system in existence has the capability to block channels, right?

Why should I have censorship forced on me? It's just another example of retarded facism.

[mikhael]

Actually, An0n, it has nothing to do with fascism (An extreme form of nationalism that played on fears of communism and rejected individual freedom, liberal individualism, democracy, and limitations on the state). It could be a building block for fascism though.

[Flipside]

Well, I always remember a scene from South Park where the Parents are trying to get a TV Show banned, and the kids are discussing how the parents see the TV as some kind of surrogate babysitter, and not being able to understand why Parents found it so easy to judge TV and so difficult to look after their kids themselves.

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Flipside
Well, I always remember a scene from South Park where the Parents are trying to get a TV Show banned, and the kids are discussing how the parents see the TV as some kind of surrogate babysitter, and not being able to understand why Parents found it so easy to judge TV and so difficult to look after their kids themselves.

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.

But all that aside, Nip/Tuck was probably cancelled because nobody was watching it.  Despite "Critical Acclaim" it's still the story of two debauched plastic surgeons that commit even more debauched acts.

I'd rather watch Tripping the Rift, at least it's funny sometimes.

[Stunaep]

And exactly, aside from you being British and all... make that you being an0n and all, what have you got against the French?

Actually, forget I ever asked.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by an0n
Why should I have censorship forced on me? It's just another example of retarded facism.

[color=66ff00]Indeed, does no one else find it preposterous that someone else can dictate what you can and cannot watch on TV or DVD/video? (well assuming that you're an adult)
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[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Originally posted by an0n
http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/niptuck/main.asp
 

Thanks, an0n. Your link gave me the best laugh for a while

[diamondgeezer]

Wasn't Nip/Tuck on at about 10 at night?

These people really ought to watch the South Park episode with Death in it

[an0n]

I'd buy Evil Bikini Death Nazi's. Not all German women are heffers, after all.