Ironwood
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Abagadro
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No, it is ridiculous. The FCC has been hijacked by the same fundy brigade that has taken over much of the Executive Branch and there is a nice astroturf organization called the Parent's Television Council that gins up complaints.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Phildo
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I blame this on the Parents Television Council.
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IainC
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Wargaming.net
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This is from a show that aired in 2003. Why is it getting slapped down now?
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Merusk
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I've more objections to seeing Dennis Franz's ass than any female's. Yay for the FCC.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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schild
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I blame this in Christians.
Jews love ass.
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Llava
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Rrava roves you rong time
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This makes complete sense.
I mean, sure, it's just one female's ass on the air now, but it's a slippery slope. First it's just a hint of buttocks, and the next thing you know your kids are watching midgets wearing nun habits in hardcore double-penetration S&M porn on the Disney Channel at two in the afternoon and there's not a DAMN thing you can do about it.
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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Lantyssa
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Turn off the TV?
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Merusk
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Turn off the TV?
What are you, some kind of commie? |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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NowhereMan
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I tried to turn off my television and jackbooted FOX thugs burst in and started beating me with truncheons.
I can only assume that if I'd been in the US and had access to FOX it would have been even worse and probably have involved tasers/guns.
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"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
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Signe
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I tried to turn off my television and jackbooted FOX thugs burst in and started beating me with truncheons.
I can only assume that if I'd been in the US and had access to FOX it would have been even worse and probably have involved tasers/guns.
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Nevermore
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Turn off the TV?
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Over and out.
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Lantyssa
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What are you, some kind of commie?
Close enough for Politics. Turn off the TV?
And turn off the advertising? Are you insane? Yes? |
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Rendakor
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This makes complete sense.
I mean, sure, it's just one female's ass on the air now, but it's a slippery slope. First it's just a hint of buttocks, and the next thing you know your kids are watching midgets wearing nun habits in hardcore double-penetration S&M porn on the Disney Channel at two in the afternoon and there's not a DAMN thing you can do about it.
Now that's a future I can look forward to.  |
"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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DarkDryad
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Meanwhile you can still get soft core porn on FX by catching the continued exploits of Sean and Christian our resident favorite plastic surgeons... Damn I love that show.
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BWL is funny tho. It's like watching a Special Needs school take a field trip to a minefield.
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Mazakiel
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As an update, the appeal was declined recently, and they have to pay up by today on the majority of the fines. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6533658.html?industryid=47171...the FCC concluded Tuesday again that "the depiction of an adult woman’s naked buttocks was sufficiently graphic and explicit to support an indecency finding."
The FCC continued: "She is not wearing a g-string or other clothing, nor are the shots of her buttocks pixillated or obscured. Thus, the material is sufficiently graphic and explicit to support an indecency finding. Although the partial views of her naked breast from behind and from the side are not sufficiently graphic and explicit in and of themselves to support an indecency finding, they also add somewhat to the first factor’s weight here."
"In context and on balance," the FCC concluded, "the graphic, repeated, pandering, titillating and shocking nature of the scene’s visual depiction of a woman’s naked buttocks warrant a finding that it is patently offensive under contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, notwithstanding any artistic or social merit and the presence of a parental advisory and rating. Therefore, it is actionably indecent." What a crock of shit. |
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Engels
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I just don't get it. Where do these people get that these scenes were shocking or titilating? I'm a big fan of NYPD Blue, and yes, it was nearly a joke how often they'd make an excuse to show ass. However, it was always in the context of an intimate and often tender moment between main characters.
It may have been titilating. So what? Shocking? Only to these maladjusted perverts. Pandering? Pandering to who? Porn starved morons too stupid to find porn on the internet? Oh, right, that'd be the FCC.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Nebu
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American television cracks me up. You can show people getting killed thousands of different ways. Show a nipple or an animal getting hurt and it's mass hysteria. It's messed up.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
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cmlancas
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Eurpoean football does the same to me. I can't see fighting someone else simply because you don't like the same sports team as I do. Different strokes, and all that. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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American television cracks me up. You can show people getting killed thousands of different ways. Show a nipple or an animal getting hurt and it's mass hysteria. It's messed up.
 Hi, we're here to rape and pillage your entire continent. But our women shan't show their necks or ankles! |
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Slayerik
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This country is so fucked.
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Evil Elvis
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In all fairness, someone probably should be fined for trying to pass her (nsfw) off as someone who would be fucking him. |
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Righ
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Carry on like this and you may as well become a British colony again.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Yegolev
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Would I be paid in pounds?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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I would rather be paid in pints, if it's all the same.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Lantyssa
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We can form the Pounds and Pints Party!
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Righ
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Actually, that's about right. You get wonderfully drunk and wake up in a barracks bunk with a shilling in your pocket.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Phildo
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I ain't bein' pressed into the British service again!
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Yeah! We got us representation for our taxation now. Just look at how legislators reflect almost exactly the public opinion polls and look how highly governmental bodies are rated in satisfaction.
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Oban
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Yeah! We got us representation for our taxation now. Just look at how legislators reflect almost exactly the public corporate opinion polls and look how highly governmental bodies are rated in satisfaction by their lobbyists.
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Do I really have to green text posts like that?
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