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Mortious had this to say about Robocop:
Channel 4.Not suprised.
For those of us not able to watch UK TV directly, can you give a small breakdown of what the channels are?
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Mortious enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Channel 4.Not suprised.
I think Channel 4 is their equivalent of Fox here.
Except they show BB, which I dearly love. 
Aury fucked around with this message on 07-18-2006 at 12:56 PM.
[edit:]Check that. It seems to be some creepy hybrid of fox and PBS.
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Aury had this to say about Tron:
Except they show BB, which I dearly love.
But that was covered in another thread. 
This thread is about Live Public Masturbation.
Something that will probably never been shown in the US. Ever. (and that's not a bad thing)
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Random Insanity Generator said:
But that was covered in another thread.This thread is about Live Public Masturbation.
Something that will probably never been shown in the US. Ever. (and that's not a bad thing)
Give it time. We'll come around when the baby boomers start dying off.
It would explain why so many people have a hardon for going to war though. Lots of explosions and shit.
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There was much rejoicing when Random Insanity Generator said this:
For those of us not able to watch UK TV directly, can you give a small breakdown of what the channels are?
Well back in the day we had 4 channels. BBC1 and 2 ITV (3) and Channel 4.
Then channel 5 came along and it was shit.
But yeah, since the advent of digital TV each company has steadily popped out a million other channels that only really serve as an archive for stuff nobody really wants to watch. Except BBC Three because it shows fairly amusing stuff.
imho, Channel 4 is awesome if you ignore Big Brother (Which is only mildly entertaining because there's a guy with Tourettes on it this year.) and the fact they like to play Coldplay/Snow Patrol/Bands only really liked by bedwetters's OMFG EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS every so often.
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leckzilla! wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Well back in the day we had 4 channels. BBC1 and 2 ITV (3) and Channel 4.Then channel 5 came along and it was shit.
But yeah, since the advent of digital TV each company has steadily popped out a million other channels that only really serve as an archive for stuff nobody really wants to watch. Except BBC Three because it shows fairly amusing stuff.imho, Channel 4 is awesome if you ignore Big Brother (Which is only mildly entertaining because there's a guy with Tourettes on it this year.) and the fact they like to play Coldplay/Snow Patrol/Bands only really liked by bedwetters's OMFG EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS every so often.
I was only familiar with BBC1/2 and ITV (yay for what little makes it to PBS on this side of the pond). Channel 4 just seems like a generic scum-pit catering to lowest-common denominator.
So Aury was right... it's the UK Fox. 
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Hardly. It's gonna take years to unravel the "sex is bad but high-powered explosives and guns aren't" mentality.It would explain why so many people have a hardon for going to war though.
Lots of explosions and shit.
Wait what? At least in the northwest, and probably almost everywhere else in this retarded country, they think guns and high explosives are just as bad
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Led had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Wait what? At least in the northwest, and probably almost everywhere else in this retarded country, they think guns and high explosives are just as bad
'splain to me why you can have a movie where there are large explosions and people shooting at each other that only gets a PG13, but any form of nudity is R.
NYPD Blue got ripped on for showing a man's bare ass at one point but 24 has had nukes go off and people shot just about every episode without any real negative backlash (at least none that I've seen, but I admit I am a bit disconnected).
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Random Insanity Generatoring:
'splain to me why you can have a movie where there are large explosions and people shooting at each other that only gets a PG13, but any form of nudity is R.NYPD Blue got ripped on for showing a man's bare ass at one point but 24 has had nukes go off and people shot just about every episode without any real negative backlash (at least none that I've seen, but I admit I am a bit disconnected).
Part of that you can thank the Parents Television Council for, but part of it is the fact that ratings are age limits based on content - it's generally established that it's fine for little kids of a certain age to see guns and explosions with guidance (aka the G in PG) but that those same kids may be irrevocably damaged by viewing sexual content.
When you try to shit all over America, at least get the right parts of it.
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Part of that you can thank the Parents Television Council for, but part of it is the fact that ratings are age limits based on content - it's generally established that it's fine for little kids of a certain age to see guns and explosions with guidance (aka the G in PG) but that those same kids may be irrevocably damaged by viewing sexual content.When you try to shit all over America, at least get the right parts of it.
The concept that it's ok for a 13 year old to be exposed to flying chunks of body parts via an explosion or the image of someone being blown away by full auto gunfire seems just as irresponsible as showing said 13 year old a pair of tits.
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Random Insanity Generator had this to say about Pirotess:
I was only familiar with BBC1/2 and ITV (yay for what little makes it to PBS on this side of the pond). Channel 4 just seems like a generic scum-pit catering to lowest-common denominator.So Aury was right... it's the UK Fox.
I beg to differ, it used to be like that but it's gotten a lot better. i personally think it shows the best Friday night comedy and has some pretty fascinating documentaries and so on. Yeah it does sink into smut a little but it's pretty funny.
If it wasn't for Doctor Who and a few other random bits that I fail to remember the name of on the BBC I wouldn't bother paying my license fee.
