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Tombstone Blues
Earthsea
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 26/01/2008 : 22:39:29
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Bleedin' Americans
can not even laugh at themselves
like us English. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 05:43:10
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| Oh, I don't know LTNS ... we have quite a few 'whitehouses' of our own. It is flippin' ridiculous though ... they have no objection to showing all sorts of violence but heaven forbid the kids get to see a nipple! |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Earthsea
2211 Posts |
 Posted - 27/01/2008 : 11:14:52
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They knew the rules...NO BUTTS |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1178 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 21:00:48
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| I didn`t know their watershed was 10pm. I`ve always thought our 9pm was a bit early, myself. |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 21:36:27
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Originally posted by Fluffy Sheep
I didn`t know their watershed was 10pm. I`ve always thought our 9pm was a bit early, myself.
It is 9PM here in England.
We Ain't Part of Warmonger America,
Do you look on the link
can you not see the $???? |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1178 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 23:16:41
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I know it`s 9pm here. But I still think, as I always have, that`s too early for `adult` programmes.
And yes, I know times have changed, but KIDS haven`t.
Fifty or even forty years ago, there was ONE telly in the house, however affluent the householder, however indulged their offspring. Now, ok, the industry has quite recently introduced the `parental control` facility to some tv sets, but there are still many tellies in kids` bedrooms that pre-date this development, and also, there`s a new generation of parents who didn`t have that watchfulness imposed on them, and feel it didn`t do them any harm to watch what they liked...
Fifty, or even forty years ago, kids got Sent To Bed, and the 9pm watershed might have made sense then. BUT, you can send a child to bed, you can`t make it sleep! I was one of those, my son was too, and now my grand-daughter (8) is just the same. Still awake at midnight, and that`s when you need a Story - for me, it was books from when I was able to read, for my son it was story tapes (Paddington Bear, the Kipling `Just So`s etc., and for my Little Treasure, it`s now moved on to a favourite DVD, her current favourite is Hitch-hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy, before that it was Garfield and Corpse Bride. This, of course, is what a child resorts to AFTER some exhausted adult has read to them/read with them till they`re spitting feathers....There`s no tv aerial connection in her bedroom here, deliberately.
Kids are progressively smarter than their parents,too, where technology is concerned.
I always felt that the violence was worse for kids to see than the odd bit of nudity or sexy scenes. Little Treasure has recently watched with us both Emperor Penguins and Avocets mating, as part of the things we were watching, and she was fine with that. My son was a Starsky & Hutch fan at her age, it was all so hyped, but he recalls that period as `how the goodies stuck together`, he doesn`t recall violence as what made that series his favourite then.
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 23:25:21
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We all know Your Out of date
TV views.
What about PS3 and X-box. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 23:39:24
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Originally posted by long time no see
We all know Your Out of date
TV views.
What about PS3 and X-box.
For Your Out of date please read "differing from my"
Gratuitous violence is far more harmful then the odd nipple on show. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 23:43:54
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Violence is part of many Films.
Clockwork Orange
is a Great Film.
Sign Of The Times. |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1178 Posts |
Posted - 27/01/2008 : 23:56:39
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| My son is a great fan of Clockwork Orange, as I`ve told you before. HE bought his daughter an X-Box. HE regulates what she plays on it, and what DVD`s she watches here, and HE`s the one who DOESN`T want her to have a telly aerial connected in her bedroom. This isn`t my out-dated views, this is my son being a responsible parent - however much he loves Clockwork Orange,Blade Runner, etc... |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 28/01/2008 : 00:20:31
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Originally posted by long time no see
Violence is part of many Films.
Clockwork Orange
is a Great Film.
Sign Of The Times.
So is "The Colour Purple" but I would not advocate it for youngsters. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1401 Posts |
Posted - 28/01/2008 : 10:21:42
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what gets me is I cannot access channel 24 or "XXX" channels till after 12midnight |
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Nudity fine