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Author Topic: More over-the-top PC CRAP! Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-15-2007 05:08 PM                  Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 11-15-2007 05:40 PM                        And, obviously, the assumption is that little kids with "their first Santa experience" are going to turn to a life of illicit solicitation, because a culture niche half a world away uses a SINGLE SYLLABLE differently. But, by that logic, they're equally likely to turn to a life of gardening. In some circles, the "ha ha" is slang for the female genitals. You can't win, can you?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-15-2007 06:05 PM                        I heard about this the other day. I tell ya, we're pandering to everyone and overprotecting our kids. We're raising a nation of pussies.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-15-2007 08:37 PM                        The problem with most "department store" Santas is, they just say the words, "Ho ho ho!" It's not a laugh, they're just reciting the words. If you give a good "ho-ho-ho" belly laugh from the throat, it comes out more like "hoh-hoh-hoh." If these Santas would learn to do the laugh properly, there'd be no problem. Regardless, this is PC-ness gone amuck. We're going to get to the point where we just can't talk to each other at all. Or look at each other, either.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-15-2007 10:40 PM                     Nothing but sheer Comstockery! Bullshit, I say! But I got one better for you: Last year, we had this singer named Sara Gazarek play at our theater. Here is a link to the picture we published in our brochure to advertise the concert. We got phone calls from irate people who complained and bitched because they thought she was "touching herself" in the picture! This one lady came to the box office and SCREAMED at the cashier! However, on the very next page of the brochure, there was a picture of THIS band, named "Ba Cissoko": There wasn't even a peep about this picture! Notice the shirt the guy, second from the left is wearing! It's been over a year since then and people in our office are STILL laughing about it!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-16-2007 06:22 AM                  quote: Joe Redifer ...we're pandering to everyone and overprotecting our kids. We're raising a nation of pussies. You're absolutely right, Joe.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-16-2007 09:27 PM                        They think she is touching herself? Oh horrors. Well, when that woman came screaming that the picture showed the performer TOUCHING herself, I would have looked her right in the eye and I'd say very quietly, very calmly -- "Yes...yes she is." Bet that would stop the banchee dead in her tracks. Then I would conclude, "Madam, she is merely on a quest of self discovery. She is trying to find out what makes her tick....and drip. And we are encouraging ALL our female patrons to go home and do the same."  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-16-2007 09:56 PM                     The issue with that photo is just another in a long line of examples that easily illustrates a retarded contradiction in American "morals." We believe sex is just so much more horrible and offensive than violence. I was laughing while reading some reviews and news articles regarding Beowulf. People were surprised the movie's CGI nudity didn't earn it an R-rating. Um, a better question to ask is why the violence wouldn't accomplish that restrictive rating. But then that's how it has been in the American movie industry for a long time. Violence is truly a more destructive thing than sex, but for some odd reason we're far more offended by sex.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 11-16-2007 10:33 PM                     The running joke around here is that an R-rated film without nudity or sex is a "family film".  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-17-2007 07:45 AM                     So long as it doesn't have any smoking depicted it shouldn't be R rated  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-17-2007 11:00 AM                        And thus the old saying...."Show someone licking a woman's erect nipple....NC-17; show her head being sawed off with a machette....PG-13." In our twisted, sex-obsessed culture, the only thing we get morally outraged and self-rightious about is what happens between the bellybutton and the kneecaps. Everything else, no problem. Woe is he who's got a "wide stance."  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 11-17-2007 07:57 PM                        Devil's advocate: Let's revise that "saying". Show someone licking a prosthetic foam breast nipple ... Show actual footage of a human woman being decapitated, ending her life. I think the ratings would be slightly different. Our perceptions are that depicted violence are mere depictions, discounted--if even subliminally--as "not real"; whereas nudity is bloody well nudity!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-28-2007 02:54 PM                        Wasn't it the Australians who came up with the alternative version of 'Jingle Bells': Warning: bad language and politically incorrect humour below. Ho, Ho, F***ing Ho What a crock of s**t We all work for Santa Claus We've had enough, we quit, 'cause We do all the f***ing work While he stars in the show. So stick your Christmas up your arse, Ho, ho, f***ing ho! I'm Santa Claus's wife I've known him all the while That lecherous old git Is a f***ing paedophile! His sleigh's packed full of toys And he rogers little boys So stick your Christmas up your arse, Ho, ho, f***ing ho!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-28-2007 04:19 PM                     Leo that was Kevin Bloody Wilson who sang that song  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-29-2007 07:51 AM                     Then...yes. Warmest Christmas wishes, John 'Bloody' Wilson.  |  IP: Logged

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