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- jammyfred, on 07/09/2009, -7/+119How about get the ***** over yourself. Seeing a naked body isn't going to harm anybody.
If it offends you then don't watch it. - DiggyWiggy, on 07/09/2009, -8/+88Nudity is offensive only to the sexually repressed.
If it's about the children, which it almost always is, 1) They've already seen everything before anyway, 2) By objecting to the natural beauty of the human form, you're repressing their sexuality in the same way yours has been repressed, thereby creating an endless cycle of anger, frustration, and self-hatred, and 3) You're creating a double standard and by default encouraging violent acts by allowing murder, torture, and reckless weapon use to air without any of the same objections. - Fhwqhgads, on 07/10/2009, -5/+58What a pathetic culture, so terrified of our bodies. But seeing those bodies getting killed and beaten is fine as long as they remain covered.
I'm sorry, but I just can't wrap my mind around the mentality.
Hey! Anyone wanna invade and take over America? Do it in the nude. We'll all be too frightened to fight back. - Chewie67, on 07/09/2009, -3/+44Oh yeah, and how about "Take Responsibility For What Your Children Watch"
I have two kids. If they watch something I think is inappropriate, that's MY FAULT. I should have been keeping a closer eye on what they view. It's not the TV Station's fault.
Show the program, name it something obvious, and tell those who complain to not watch. - breadfred, on 07/10/2009, -1/+37Correction, if it offends you you need to seek help. Seriously.
- abadjay, on 07/09/2009, -4/+40link to clip???
- chriscalifornia, on 07/10/2009, -2/+32*switches to channel 4*
- ScaryUK, on 07/09/2009, -5/+28The title of the programme not obvious enough for them then?
- Quasic, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21There's the general assumption that children can see television before the watershed.
I think if a parent wants to prevent their child from seeing a naked body, even in a non-sexualised form, that is their choice.
But the parenting public will never take responsibility for the fact that they can control what their child watches: TV is not a babysitter. There are far worse things on at lunchtime than a naked body. The news, for instance.
Don't let the TV raise your child. - WibWobble, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2090% of the commenter here clearly haven't had the experience I had today, flicking through channels, then on 4 seeing a OLD FAT MAN NAKED on the screen. Totally threw me off my Coco Pops.
- moxley, on 07/10/2009, -1/+20We really need this in the US...I am so tired of the constant cyclic refrain of: violence, backstabbing materialistic reality TV bitches, violence, torture, stupid comedy, violence...
We need more naked people.
This is why I don't watch network TV...I watch movies and ***** on HBO and Showtime.... - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -4/+22Prudes.
- acceleration, on 07/10/2009, -1/+19This would never even happen in the first place in America, their regulations are so strict. They don't even let you see "the finger" on American TV without blurring it out.
(Subscription television is very popular in the US though - cable has no official regulations as far as I know.) - robertisaar, on 07/09/2009, -11/+28AND THEY'RE COMPLAINING?
Europe is so much different than America... - rocknog, on 07/10/2009, -0/+14It's not that, it's the fact that people get so up in arms about nudity. What the ***** is up with the outrage? People have serious issues if nudity is so offensive.
- djmgpsp, on 07/10/2009, -2/+15Here is yesterday's model in Picture: NSFW http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hr8iaA4NHXQ/SfhA2tW1TfI/ ...
- xirfan, on 07/10/2009, -2/+15watch online in the UK..
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/life-class-toda ...
nobody said hot nudes.. - noizeuk, on 07/10/2009, -1/+13I know next thing you know you will need a warning when getting undressed infront of a mirror.
- senseilmno, on 07/09/2009, -2/+13Dear Channel 4 please send episode to Canadian daytime programming
- tfox2k1, on 07/10/2009, -1/+11If only television Brazil could do the same.
- anthropodeus, on 07/10/2009, -0/+10"The video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your location."
- akula89, on 07/10/2009, -0/+9you think Americans wouldn't complain?! the religious right would be up in arms!
- bwishey, on 07/10/2009, -1/+10Nudity is on European TV all the time. I remember watching TV at like, 1pm when I was in Italy and there'd be random infomercials with topless women on the equivalent of ABC or something. It was weird.
- KarlH, on 07/10/2009, -1/+8Well, no. The Old Fat Man Naked channel isn't part of my cable package. I had to choose between that and Hypnotoad.
- Argentothe1st, on 07/10/2009, -8/+15There are times I hate living in America.
- izaakmiller, on 07/09/2009, -1/+8Cheers
- Piha, on 07/10/2009, -1/+8Not surprising really, People pretty much complain about everything.
- paperclipsNsoup, on 07/10/2009, -1/+8Most Americans wouldn't complain, its the religious right who will go all up in arms, hell it's not even the Religious Right, its one, ONE activist group.
When Janet Jackson showed her nipple on TV, there where some 540,000 complaints. 99.8% of those came from the Parents Television Council, an activist group that regularly sends in hundreds of complaints a week for Family Guy.
Just another example of the very few imposing their will on the many.
Sources:
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2004/12/4442.ar ...
http://www.parentstv.org
Now I'm against illegal hacking, and destroying websites, or even changing where the FCC complaints are auto sent to. But I could do without the parentstv.org hint hint - TheBifman, on 07/10/2009, -1/+7Oddly enough bitching about it takes longer than CHANGE THE ***** CHANNEL
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -1/+7In the UK they just complain. In America the fundies would go bananas.
- Treshnell, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6Yeah...but I tried!
- aldaden, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6I missed the best day :(
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198491/Nu ...
Google "Kirsten Varley" - drexl, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5How about changing the ***** channel and stop with the goddamn crying.
- denizen42, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Guns, blood, greed and violence are soooo much easier on the soul.
- RudeTurnip, on 07/10/2009, -4/+9The story is from the UK. You wouldn't even be able to get that on daytime TV in the US in the first place. I'm all for invading the UK though; none of them are armed except for farmers, but we need them to keep making food anyway.
- irvin666, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6I don't understand, I thought everyone likes boobies. It's so confusing!
- rmxz, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Nudity sure seems less harmful than violence which also gets shown on TV.
- BigTuna, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4We'll just put in a happy little bush right over here. Yes, that's a nice, happy little bush.
- roostersheep, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4This is UK TV. It's generally just old people who complain about this sort of thing, but like the rest of the world, we ignore the senile.
- nepidae, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Yeah and I'm sure Viewers have also complained about lack of lunchtime TV nudity.
- zip000, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4We in the US have like the most puritanical laws outside of the middle-east. We can't have any nudity on broadcast TV at all unless it is after 10pm...and even then it's usually only a fat, hairy man-ass.
- paperclipsNsoup, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Its weird how its set up, anything broadcast through the air (Free channels, not satellite) is regulated for broadcast frequency(The reason the FCC was initially created), content, and ownership (no one company can own x% of the market).
Basic cable (Most Americans have) is regulated very much in the same way, but the content restrictions is a bit looser. Nudity is allowed in an educational setting, foul language is OK after 10pm, and so on.
Pay per Channel (HBO, SHOtime, Cinemax, etc) and Pay Per View (Playboy, pay per view movies), and satellite broadcast*, are completely unregulated (As long as the content is legal, ie no kiddy *****, or [real] snuff films)
*Though the Sattelite broadcast is unregulated, the channels are often on basic cable too, so they are regulate.
You can see an general overview here if your interested
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/csgen.html - rft3rd, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3omg people, its coco PUFFS, Frosted Flakes and Lucky CHARMS...
/s - crowbarred, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4I'm good to go at lunchtime
- inhalent, on 07/10/2009, -4/+7links or it didn't happen... it's that simple
- MrRtd, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4This is probably just Channel 4 trying to get higher ratings. But the real issue is why is it OK to show all sorts of violence, fighting, blood & guts, shootings, stabbings, but it's taboo to show a naked body posing? It's not like it's some sort of porno.
- paperclipsNsoup, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Seeing Oprah naked would be just about the only thing that could decrease her viewer ship.
So I'm for it - Quasic, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Did you see the show? There was one 70 year old man who was naked.
- saikyan, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3Agreed. People are so ***** uptight.
- XPSM1210, on 07/10/2009, -2/+4Our standards of what is appropriate and what can be seen on televison has become so censored, that soon they will only be showing head shots of the actors and regular people because a body view is too erotic... yep nice way to blind society. Those people need to accept the world for what it is. a giant sphere of visual experiences
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