Yes, Americans heads literally spin when a naked boob is shown on non-pay channels. 
Like England is any ****ing better.
Like England is any ****ing better.
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is that a breast on CNN's website?
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Or even worse... American Minors...
Some of the Americans here are under 21. They're too young for this.
Channel4 shows a hell of a lot that wouldn't make it onto network telly in the US. Where's iBlue when you need her to verify the truth of this?
Despite complaints, could you imagine this documentary making it onto network TV in the US?
I remember watching something on TV once (don't remember what the show was or what chanel), but they showed part of a baby's bottom and it was blurred out. I am positive though that if they didn't blur it out, some perverted ass would have called up the station to complain.
It's not just Channel 4. Whether it's innuendo laden sitcoms on the BBC, late night soft porn on Channel 5, Page 3 girls in the tabloids, or just going down the beach in the summer and seeing everyone go topless, England has no problems with its ladies showing their chests. On a Friday night in any town in the country, the girls don't even need to be persuaded to flash their breasts. It's just nipples everywhere, and only a few prudes and religious types seem to care.
Really, when it comes to boobs, England isn't as reserved as our international reputation would have you believe.
For the record, I am not one of those hyper-religious boob-haters.
Like the presidency, American morality is representative of only part of the population.
I had to cringe when CNN showed an Ohio candidate for the house being approached by a middle aged woman who asked him whether he was a Christian and had Jesus in his heart. When he answered in the affirmative, she appeared satisfied with him as a legislative representative.
Such discerning taste in politics...
Like the presidency, American morality is representative of only part of the population.
I had to cringe when CNN showed an Ohio candidate for the house being approached by a middle aged woman who asked him whether he was a Christian and had Jesus in his heart. When he answered in the affirmative, she appeared satisfied with him as a legislative representative.
Such discerning taste in politics...
The reminds me of years ago when the video for Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" was released. (for those who don't know it was animated).
When presented with the preview, Much Music (Canada's video station) commented that the scene where the character chops all his limbs off with an axe, leaving stumps, was too violent for daytime TV, and requested that the scene be removed, which was done.
When presented with the same video MTV, in the US, had no problems with that image but requested that the nipples on the cartoon nymphs be blurred out, as that was inappropriate for daytime TV.
I've always held that in my mind as an example of the difference in acceptable standard between the two countries.
When presented with the preview, Much Music (Canada's video station) commented that the scene where the character chops all his limbs off with an axe, leaving stumps, was too violent for daytime TV, and requested that the scene be removed, which was done.
When presented with the same video MTV, in the US, had no problems with that image but requested that the nipples on the cartoon nymphs be blurred out, as that was inappropriate for daytime TV.
I've always held that in my mind as an example of the difference in acceptable standard between the two countries.
LMFAO! What the hell? Minors and Americans? We can handle tits just like the rest of you!
Save the ta-tas
Solidarity! (pumps fist in air)
Interesting anectdote about the Radiohead video...American TV certainly has a higher tolerance for gore than sex. Which is weird, considering most of us have sex, but gory violence is definitely not normal behavior. We've got it all backwards.
Of course I recognised it. If I want to see that type of thing, all I need to do is look in the mirror. I get a bit too excited, though, so I try not to do things like that anymore.
Maybe he's the guy in the picture.
I have a hard time imagining any documentary making it onto network TV here.
Unless you mean public television (PBS), in which case, it would more likely be based on the female reproductive system as a whole.
I have a hard time imagining any documentary making it onto network TV here.
Unless you mean public television (PBS), in which case, it would more likely be based on the female reproductive system as a whole.
Huh?
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Yes, yes I could. It's called Trailor trash television, and it often comes on during soaps and while children are at school and men and women are working. Some notorious examples of this is the Maury Povich and Jerry Springer shows.
Sometimes I wonder if people in the US would be so bothered if it wasn't such a taboo. If nipples were everywhere, like they are elsewhere in the world. But I doubt it, because let's face it, we're all a bunch of horny perverts. It's built into our DNA.
I guess no one remembers what they're for - feeding babies. Somehow that got turned into something sexual. Yeah, I don't know how that happened either.
I guess no one remembers what they're for - feeding babies. Somehow that got turned into something sexual. Yeah, I don't know how that happened either.
Jesus doesn't hate t3h b00bz. He's just not interested.
Oh yes, a man in his 30's who has never had a relationship with a woman, now what does that tell you?
You don't have the slightest clue. I've seen the Jerry Springer show and it's nothing like a documentary featuring Germaine Greer. The UK has it's own downmarket TV but this is something else entirely different.
As a personal friend of Jesus, I can tell you he loves b00bs. God made them for His pleasure and ours. It's not faith that bans them in America, it's fear; namely the fears of little boobied moms that their babies might notice that some women have bigger ones. Not that it matters to me or teh J dude, we love 'em all ('cept for the big man boobs!)
>edit: Y'all shoulda seen the Lord hangin wit me down in Sobe Miami. He can rap with da womens fer real.
Not that it matters to me or teh J dude, we love 'em all ('cept for the big man boobs!)>edit: Y'all shoulda seen the Lord hangin wit me down in Sobe Miami. He can rap with da womens fer real.
Yeah, kinda thought the same.
The likes of, The Real Wifeswap: Swingers in Holland (10pm, Channel 4), Sex tips for girls/men (Depends on which night you watch it, 10:30pm Channel 5). Jerry Springer with his 'My mam really turned out to be my dad, and was having sex with my uncles brothers dog' has frack™ all all these. A bit of bleeped out swearing and chair throwing... hmmm... I think ill pass.
Anyway, you get where I'm going, and those are the two off the top of my head.