Thread: Censorship has gone too far this time!!!

I am watching a show called "how its made" on the science channel which is owned by Discovery. They were showing how they make mannequines, they were all just simple plastic white faceless mostly featureless mannequines. However when the first mannequin came out of the machine they actually blurred out the protrusions in the plastic that are supposed to form the shape of breasts....that is just rediculous.

Yes, America likes to stay true to its puritan roots.

lol, I remember that episode (I watch the show all the time). Up here in Canada we got to see those foam mounds in all their glory

Hurray for canada. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's friday night, and that means a few of our fine cable available canadian TV stations are broadcasting uncensored softcore porn

Damn, it's Friday already?! *Looks at watch before disappearing in a puff of smoke*

Ain't it funny that they are perfectly fine with showing torture and bloodshed but they find something as natural as a human body or sex offensive?

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Ain't it funny that they are perfectly fine with showing torture and bloodshed but they find something as natural as a human body or sex offensive?

That's cuz torture and bloodshed are fun. Sex is dirty.

Josh.

I will never understand the USA: every idiot over there is allowed to own a gun but not supposed to look at a picture of a naked adult female human being (or male for that matter).

What has taken more lives: sex or guns?? So what's more natural and less dangerous?

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Originally Posted by urleebird

Well, actually, no... every idiot over here is not allowed to own a gun. This would have been a great post over on the 2nd amendment thread. So to understand, you must first get the correct information. I probably would be confused as to why a country would allow just anyone to own a gun, myself.

Bill,

My entry was meant to provoke those w/ strong feelings about guns. I am only an outsider of course. When I put my post together V.D.'s did cross my mind.
If not every idiot is allowed to own a gun, how come so many idiots seem to have one? Is that because responsible citizens sell them to irrespnsible citizens? Or is it because so many guns in the community enable the idiots to steal one without much effort? If either is true that means that possesion of fire arms by responsible citiziens enables the idiots to lay their hands on them with little effort.

I once read that the number one cause of death of young black males in the US of A is a violent one and that just saddens me a bit. I know social things do contribute to that figure, and maybe if fire arms were more restricted in the USA they would get killed by another weapon, but to me it seems that owning a gun for some is like trusting the cat to keep the cream. Unless you are a collector I can only see one reason for owning a gun and that is using it at some point in time.
I have lived in Houston, Tx for nine months and never felt unsafe without a gun. A few prople have shown their pistols to me but I never felt the urge to have one.

Blade Wielder agrees with Kees.

And since this thread has already been hijacked, I'll mention that I grew up around firearms, and happen to own a few. But aside from a couple of handguns of my uncle's that I shot a long time ago (which are fully licensed, by the way, and kept unloaded, trigger-locked and within a locked drawer in a locked room), every one of these weapons was and continues to be used for hunting or target practice.

I enjoy shooting a lot and I have quite a few conservative viewpoints -- in other words, I'm not some anti-gun guy. But I've read up on the various gun laws in America (which vary from state to state) and realistically, this "freedom" to own and carry weapons that are designed not to put food on the table, but to kill human beings, taxes more than it enriches.

Just like the frog that is perfectly content in a pot of gradually heated water, most Americans know no other existence, so they see no reason to complain. And just like that frog, most are incapable of recognizing that their gun problem has reached a boiling point. And yes, the numbers tell us it is a problem.

urleebird stated in the opening post of his thread (where I suppose I should be writing this) that most often, a debate won't solve anything because each opponent is usually too stubborn to change his opinion; too egocentric to even entertain another way of doing something. This is often the case. Heck, he should know: I read through that thread, and after all the talk, he has only scoffed at the idea of gun regulation.

I find it amazing (and a little sad) that so many people are incapable of picturing their life without guns. Instead of them saying something like, "You mean if I happened to have been born somewhere else, today I might not feel the need to strap on my .38 every time I go to the store for a carton of milk?" their first reaction is: "These guns are my right! Anybody who tries to take my guns, is trying to take my fuckin' rights! And anybody who tries to take my fuckin' rights gets fuckin' shot!"