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dre83

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It's very weird for me, not being an american, that and one side there's PG30 when in a movie someone says "****" or shows boobies....

But at the other hand everyone wants to be free, and have a gun....
 
dre83 said:
It's very weird for me, not being an american, that and one side there's PG30 when in a movie someone says "poo poo" or shows boobies....

But at the other hand everyone wants to be free, and have a gun....
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PG30? Never heard of it.... There's a PG13, but no 30.

And the MPAA rating system is a private non-profit organization... the government has no involvement (thankfully) what-so-ever. Theaters can choose to enforce it or not.
 
Yeah, I'm not sure I follow either. Here in the states, we ONLY have PG13. That's the only "PG##" rating. PG-13 means "Parents strongly cautioned / kids under 13 should be accompanied by an adult" or something like that. The next rating up would be "R" (for "Restricted").
 
Geez, maybe Paul Hudson was on to something. It has been getting kind of moronic around here.

In spite of our "american" freedom of speech, I say lock 'er up.
 
We also have american TV-stuff over here. And it's funny to see that words like ****, ****, damn, hell, or beeped away, and what it makes more funny is knowing that
(or so it seems for us) every american says ****, damn **** about 7778761867866 times/minute. For every small isue (an argue with a neighbour about a tree for example), it seems
that there needs to be 40343434 times ****, ****, hell, damn in it. :-p

So I ask myself, how come they spend time in putting beeps on those words ? Knowing that every kid already know those words when they're born...
and everyone uses them.
 
dre83 said:
We also have american TV-stuff over here. And it's funny to see that words like poo poo, s**t, damn, hell, or beeped away, and what it makes more funny is knowing that
(or so it seems for us) every american says s**t, damn poo poo about 7778761867866 times/minute. For every small isue (an argue with a neighbour about a tree for example), it seems
that there needs to be 40343434 times poo poo, s**t, hell, damn in it. :-p

So I ask myself, how come they spend time in putting beeps on those words ? Knowing that every kid already know those words when they're born...
and everyone uses them.
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That's generally an internal censor at the TV station. They're basically trying to generate a "family friendly" environment for the network.

Channels like Disney, Cartoon Network, ABC Family, ESPN, FX, ect. are free to air what ever they please.

The government on regulates language on broadcast stations. (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS, and some other channels)

And more than likely those beeps you're getting where you are, are added by internal censors where ever you are. I'm sure they send un-edited dialogue masters.
 
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If you really want to be confused by the rating system over here, watch 16 Candles and then The Breakfast Club. 16 Candles (1984) had a lot of language and full frontal nudity. PG. The Breakfast Club (1985) has some language (but not as bad as 16C IIRC), no nudity, and it's R. Maybe because they're "smoking pot."
 
what it makes more funny is knowing that
(or so it seems for us) every american says s**t, damn poo poo about 7778761867866 times/minute.
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Oh, you're right on the money. There's no "seems" about it.

So I ask myself, how come they spend time in putting beeps on those words ? Knowing that every kid already know those words when they're born...
and everyone uses them.
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Well you raise a good point.

What free speech? Sure the government doesn't say you can say this or that, but there's almost a sense of words being banned from society by various different groups. So basically can't say what you want anymore with out fearing your life being in danger.
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Andrew, I'm talking about the Cafe and DVXuser exclusively, I meant lock the thread. They want it civil, upbeat and friendly. At first I thought this was straight-up trolling, but like I mentioned, he is raising some good points about our appalling use of slang & foul language. On that note if I may flip it around, how about all the casual use of the "c" and "f" words in British films?
 
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If you really want to be confused by the rating system over here, watch 16 Candles and then The Breakfast Club. 16 Candles (1984) had a lot of language and full frontal nudity. PG. The Breakfast Club (1985) has some language (but not as bad as 16C IIRC), no nudity, and it's R. Maybe because they're "smoking pot."
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Do you know if The Breakfast Club was produced independently? The MPAA generally rates Indie films with stricter guidelines than Studio films. 16 Candles would have probably received a PG13 rating, had it existed at the time. It was instituted in August 1984, a few months after 16 Candles release.
 
I think it's more easy and less riskfull buying a gun in the US then shouting "aaah damn, go to hell you...you beep beep" to someone :-p

And yes I like to discuss and yes I like to "scare" people and confront them with hard stuff :-p
 
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