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TV warnings
Topic Started: Nov 24 2014, 07:23 AM (293 Views)
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Is it me or are the TV companies really patronising viewers?

Its been going on with films for years because if it had violence, sex, adult themes etc etc you knew it was a good'n. I then noticed on Fox that before family guy, The Cleveland show and american dad it said 'warning this show contains adult humor.

Im now watching tony robinsons world war I and the warning said 'contains archive photography' and the other day I had to put my pin in to watch walking through time WWII special. There was/is nothing gory, explicit and no swearing so why the hell do people need to be warned.

This is ridiculous as its history and people need to know what went on.

You get worse on the news with descriptions of torture and executions but theres no warning about that before the program starts.

Do people honestly sit there and think 'Im going to watch this program about WWI, I hope theres no dead people or killing in it'

It also makes me laugh when they put a flashing warning on programs. I know that photosensitive epilepsy is real and very serious but you don't get the warnings in the adds and they have more flashes than the programs.
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Mark M
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i know what you mean

also photo sensitive epilepsy occurs in 1/10000 epileptic so 1/1000000 of the uk population and there is no evidence to surgest tv flashes of any kid induce fits as tvs are the wrong frequency
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'We'd like to warn you about the content of the next programme, but we don't know where to start'

Recommended disclaimer in advance of any of the 'Spartacus' series programmes.
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I think it's the fear of litigation so they have to warn about everything these days, don't forget there are some very strange people out there now who watch everything for the slightest blip.
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shaunb
Nov 24 2014, 07:23 AM


Im now watching tony robinsons world war I and the warning said 'contains archive photography'

So, what they are saying is the program contains old photos. So next will we be getting warnings before the Antiques Roadshow, or any of those other antiques programs? :bang:
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Yep, and top gear will have a warning 'contains tw*ts'
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all part of the politically correct attitude that wants to mollycoddle people and 'protect' them from anything that might corrupt them in some way

i was reading the other day how two 'pressure groups' (ie....someone who has nothing better to do than get all high and mighty about something and want to change how everyone thinks to their way of thinking) have persuaded tescos and asda to change the way they display newspapers, so only the name appears and not the headlines so children can not see what it says cos apparently seeing 'disturbing' headlines causes distress .....lets forget what they see on the telly (you seen what passes for kids cartoons these days?) or the internet or video games

kids are going to grow up thinking everything is fluffy and people dont get hurt
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beowulf
Nov 24 2014, 10:34 AM
all part of the politically correct attitude that wants to mollycoddle people and 'protect' them from anything that might corrupt them in some way

i was reading the other day how two 'pressure groups' (ie....someone who has nothing better to do than get all high and mighty about something and want to change how everyone thinks to their way of thinking) have persuaded tescos and asda to change the way they display newspapers, so only the name appears and not the headlines so children can not see what it says cos apparently seeing 'disturbing' headlines causes distress .....lets forget what they see on the telly (you seen what passes for kids cartoons these days?) or the internet or video games

kids are going to grow up thinking everything is fluffy and people dont get hurt
Yes I can see how it would disturb a child to see how "celebs" in the jungle are getting on each other's nerves!
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shaunb
Nov 24 2014, 09:45 AM
Yep, and top gear will have a warning 'contains tw*ts'
Warning, this program contains gratuitous tyre squealing! :whistle
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Its should all go back to the good o'l days when we had Rolfe harris, bill cosby, DLT, stuart hall and who could forget jimmy savile.

oh wait.........never mind.

Its no wonder I grew up to be as pessimistic and warped as I have. Looking at some of the 'odd' people teaching our youngsters stuff on the TV today I would say they are all f****d.

Thank god I will be dead.
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You do realise Shaun that funerals are going to be banned because they may upset children and the sensitive and other religions (read what you like here). I'm going in the Compost bin.

Leave Top Gear alone it's one of our favourite laughs.
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I didn't say I disliked top gear as I prefer presenters to be tw*ts rather than arse h*les :laugh:

I have no religion so will probably have a 'humanist' funeral like sarah's grandad did. That made me laugh because the bloke was a strict catholic but because Sarah's mum was so against it she buried the bugger as a humanist. He was (as is Sarah) related to Phil lynott and it was Sarah's grandad that disowned him because he was a halfcast.

Its our right to be offended but its up to the individual to act on it. If a program offends me I turn the channel over, if a news paper offends me (which most do) I don't read it, if someone offends me then I bite back as thats how I chose to do things. I would love to put people down for offending me but sadly I hear they lock you up for that :laugh:

Im offended by one direction but yet those silly little ares h*les are still about
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shaunb
Nov 24 2014, 12:47 PM


Im offended by one direction but yet those silly little ares h*les are still about
gve it another 6 months then the bubble will burst...................then in 5 years time we will suffer the 'reunion tour' cos they are broke :rolf
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What's one direction?
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A group of arses who are on that barrel scraping, self justificating excuse for a record more comonly known as band aid
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