Emphatic Profanity News

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

On the subject of profanity, I assume most of you have heard about this, since it also pertains to time wasting. (Bono, we never expected anythign better from you).

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I'd love my kids to be able to watch TV with impunity. ON the other hand, I think it somewhat wrong for an agency to be telling us what words we can and can't say on TV or radio in the first place. So... unofficial loosening of the FCC censors, good or bad? Logic behind the original decision on this, good or bad? What's YOUR take?

[fuzzyoctopus]

1. No, I haven't.
2.

I assume most of you have heard about this,

Well, This links to this rather nice picture of a monkey.  Perhaps the monkey is quietly cursing.

[Tage]

This is a good example of why it's impossible to have a rational discussion on this forum.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Oh, I don't know, I was expecting a hard hitting news story about profanity and I got a monkey.  Pretty good deal to me.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I think the FCC shouldn't be allowed to tell us what to do perchance. But instead we should be allowed to have a menu in our TV's and other forms of media, where we can decidedly block unwanted things. Like parental controls.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

er.."I don't know what you're talking about."

Sorry bout that, I had two links to communicate, and I obviously didn't get the second one copied like I thought I had. The link is now fixed.

[Lieutenant Kije]

Yeah, like Gemm I'm still waiting for the v-chip in tvs, and the dvd technology that would allow you to watch different versions of a movie depending on what rating you want to see (PG, PG-13, R, etc.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

actually, I'm pretty sure the DVD technology already exists and is affordable. It's just a lot of work for producers who don't think that different ratings on the disc would net them that much more money.

[Lieutenant Kije]

well, I've officially registered my discontent.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ah, but thats where the line is different Kije. I don't really care much about it. Just that they'd do it, get it over with, and that all the whining buttheads out there can shut their pie-holes. I just think that if you give someone what they want, they'll shut up for some time. And until then you have some time to relax until they bring up another stupifying subject.

[stacer]

Not just kids--I'd like to be able to watch TV with impunity. Every show I watch seems to take the name of God in vain in one way or another, and I've been starting to think that maybe I'd rather just cut out TV entirely (for a variety of reasons, not just that--sometimes I find myself having watched TV all night and wonder just what I got out of all that time. So now I've taken up knitting. At least I'll get a cool hat out of it.)

[fuzzyoctopus]

I know what I usually get out of the TV - background noise.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I don't watch TV, really. NO one in my family does. We're unwilling to pay for cable and the reception is terrible. But it's the principle.

Oh, and I *do* listen to the radio. And when I'm in the office, I'm not always free to change the station because I have other things going on. It will always be the offensive bits that register in my ears. Grr...

[fuzzyoctopus]

I understand that one, Saint.  The warehouse I spent two summers working in was like that.  the managers got to control the radio stations, and they always picked ones that not only had annoying music, but had commercials for three things  1. Gentlemen's Clubs 2. Beer  3. Phone sex lines.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, I have my own radio, I'm just often on the phone and can't spare my hands to spin over to the radio and change the station, since I'm looking things up or typing or writing.