OT (sort of): CBS revisited

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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| C J Campbell wrote:
| Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
| BWAHAHAHA!
|
| I guess exposing a breast is obscene,
|
| What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
| is "obscene"?
|
| The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
| not.

No matter where you draw the line of decency, there will be people who are
outraged by it. For you it is breasts. Perhaps you have some sort of
fixation? :-)

You have to draw the line somewhere. Personally, I think there is way too
much bare flesh as it is, for both men and women. Everyone seems to want to
go around dressed as some sort of prostitute. Selling sexy clothes, jewelry
and makeup to three year olds is a multi-billion dollar industry in this
country. Now, that really is embarrassing. We spend a fortune fighting child
porn on the one hand and dress kids as porn stars on the other. Talk about a
mixed message....

Maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy, but I long for the days when some
public decorum was expected. It might have been hypocritical on the part of
some, but at least you knew that there were lines you shouldn't cross.

Anyway, I suppose that now we will see it on TV more and more until it
becomes accepted. Then the yahoos will be complaining that it is
embarrassing that we don't allow hard core porn to be broadcast on TV. Allen
Bloom wrote once wrote that patriots made enormous sacrifices to protect
freedom, the best minds were marshaled to develop the most advanced
technology, loving parents scraped and sacrificed, and for what? So that
some eight year old can listen to a drag queen sing the praises of onanism
and murdering parents on his own CD player. What will future generations
think? Bloom noted that a society's greatest excesses always seem normal to
itself. Perhaps our television of today will seem as barbaric and
uncivilized to some future generation as the Roman circuses seem to us.

Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a
woman's breast is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often
than not.

No matter where you draw the line of decency, there will be people
who are outraged by it. For you it is breasts. Perhaps you have some
sort of fixation? :-)

Lol - go back and read what I posted, then try again!

C,

You have to draw the line somewhere.


You do? What happened to the "land of the free" concept? There's an
off-switch on that TV, you know?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

You have to draw the line somewhere. Personally, I think there is way
too much bare flesh as it is, for both men and women.

That's fine, if the exposed human body freaks you out, then by all means you
should shield yourself from it. Ironically, it's the religious zealots who
seem to be most afraid of looking at nudes as their bible says man was
created in his likeness - you'd think they would be the ones promoting us to
be in our most god-like state. Then again, what is yet another
contradiction?

Everyone seems
to want to go around dressed as some sort of prostitute. Selling sexy
clothes, jewelry and makeup to three year olds is a multi-billion
dollar industry in this country. Now, that really is embarrassing. We
spend a fortune fighting child porn on the one hand and dress kids as
porn stars on the other. Talk about a mixed message....

Perhaps if children were raised where the body weren't so taboo, people
wouldn't be so jazzed by it. Look at the tribes in Africa, do the kids
giggle and the oldsters scowl when a woman walks by in her natural state?

Children run around blissfully naked until they are taught it is "wrong".

FYI: as a teenager, the easiest chicks were the ones who's parents sent them
to to "girl only" schools. They just couldn't wait to find out what their
parents were "protecting" them from.

Maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy, but I long for the days when
some public decorum was expected. It might have been hypocritical on
the part of some, but at least you knew that there were lines you
shouldn't cross.

Maybe you are simply closed minded.

Anyway, I suppose that now we will see it on TV more and more until it
becomes accepted.

Every TV I've ever seen has a power switch.

Then the yahoos will be complaining that it is
embarrassing that we don't allow hard core porn to be broadcast on
TV. Allen Bloom wrote once wrote that patriots made enormous
sacrifices to protect freedom, the best minds were marshaled to
develop the most advanced technology, loving parents scraped and
sacrificed, and for what? So that some eight year old can listen to a
drag queen sing the praises of onanism and murdering parents on his
own CD player. What will future generations think? Bloom noted that a
society's greatest excesses always seem normal to itself. Perhaps our
television of today will seem as barbaric and uncivilized to some
future generation as the Roman circuses seem to us.

The "for what" is for personal gain, as is most exemplified in the USA.

Certainly most citizens don't give a rat's ass what "future generations"
think (as in saddling them with our debt with our current drunken sailor at
the helm) just as we don't care what our global neighbors think.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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| Anyway, I suppose that now we will see it on TV more and more until it
| becomes accepted.
|
| Every TV I've ever seen has a power switch.
|

Yes, it does. I don't have to watch shows that are offensive. However, one
does not expect things like the Superbowl to offensive. Programs that are
billed as suitable for families should be just that -- suitable for
families.

Every TV I've ever seen has a power switch.


Yes, it does. I don't have to watch shows that are offensive.
However, one does not expect things like the Superbowl to offensive.
Programs that are billed as suitable for families should be just that
-- suitable for families.

So CBS has now given you at least 2 reasons to never watch them again. What
was Gomer Pyle's famous saying again?

"John Harlow" wrote in message
...
| Every TV I've ever seen has a power switch.
|
|
| Yes, it does. I don't have to watch shows that are offensive.
| However, one does not expect things like the Superbowl to offensive.
| Programs that are billed as suitable for families should be just that
| -- suitable for families.
|
| So CBS has now given you at least 2 reasons to never watch them again.
What
| was Gomer Pyle's famous saying again?

I don't remember it. I'm sure it was both appropriate and funny.

No, I don't watch CBS any more. In fact, I probably have not watched
anything on CBS in over a year. They simply have not had any programs that I
found interesting. I think "Law and Order" was the last show they did that
held any interest for me at all, and I could hardly be called a regular
viewer of that. Didn't that show originate on A&E? I did not even watch the
Superbowl (for one thing, I don't have much time for TV, or even golf, for
that matter). I can't remember when the last time was I got to enjoy the
Superbowl, but it has been several years, maybe decades.

Broadcast television mostly annoys me because of the abundance of
commercials. Granted, the commercials are usually better than the shows, but
after you have watched the Gecko park his little sports car in the "Employee
of the Month" parking space about a thousand times you begin to wish for a
little originality.

Besides, I hold GEICO in about the same low esteem as I do Farmers: a lot of
bragging about low cost and good service, neither of which are true, and
never a mention of how quick they are to deny a claim and cancel your
insurance. I mean, who wants an insurance company that will cancel you if
you have a radar detector in your car (not that I actually have a radar
detector, you understand -- everybody tells me I drive like an old woman,
but it is the principle of the thing)?

So CBS has now given you at least 2 reasons to never watch them
again. What was Gomer Pyle's famous saying again?

I don't remember it. I'm sure it was both appropriate and funny.

Lol - it was something to the effect of :
"fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice, shame on me!"


No, I don't watch CBS any more. In fact, I probably have not watched
anything on CBS in over a year. They simply have not had any programs
that I found interesting. I think "Law and Order" was the last show
they did that held any interest for me at all, and I could hardly be
called a regular viewer of that. Didn't that show originate on A&E? I
did not even watch the Superbowl (for one thing, I don't have much
time for TV, or even golf, for that matter). I can't remember when
the last time was I got to enjoy the Superbowl, but it has been
several years, maybe decades.

Broadcast television mostly annoys me because of the abundance of
commercials. Granted, the commercials are usually better than the
shows, but after you have watched the Gecko park his little sports
car in the "Employee of the Month" parking space about a thousand
times you begin to wish for a little originality.

Besides, I hold GEICO in about the same low esteem as I do Farmers: a
lot of bragging about low cost and good service, neither of which are
true, and never a mention of how quick they are to deny a claim and
cancel your insurance. I mean, who wants an insurance company that
will cancel you if you have a radar detector in your car (not that I
actually have a radar detector, you understand -- everybody tells me
I drive like an old woman, but it is the principle of the thing)?

And let's not forget the constant barrage of "ask your doctor about..." ads
from the drug companies. Isn't the doctor's job to tell YOU what to take?
Lol!

I disconnected cable a long time ago and never looked back. Nowadays I
usually only turn the TV on for new "Simpsons" episodes, and "Red Green" on
PBS

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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| Perhaps if children were raised where the body weren't so taboo, people
| wouldn't be so jazzed by it. Look at the tribes in Africa, do the kids
| giggle and the oldsters scowl when a woman walks by in her natural state?

Have you ever considered that maybe there is a reason that those groups that
run around naked have remained primitive tribes despite thousands of years
of progress by all their neighbors? Um, yeah. The kids giggle. There aren't
any oldsters.

C J Campbell wrote:
"John Harlow" wrote in message
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Perhaps if children were raised where the body weren't so taboo,
people wouldn't be so jazzed by it. Look at the tribes in Africa,
do the kids giggle and the oldsters scowl when a woman walks by in
her natural state?

Have you ever considered that maybe there is a reason that those
groups that run around naked have remained primitive tribes despite
thousands of years of progress by all their neighbors?

Maybe another way to think of it is they have successfully sustained whereas
other "progressive" neighbors come and go?