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  • I wasn't allowed to watch about a dozen cartoons, several live action shows, and most movies.

    One of the things about living in a Catholic household is that your mom finds Courage the Cowardly Dog horribly offensive.

  • edited 2012-04-02 22:51:12

    She had a 9-5, she could afford daycare and had family members to help out.


    Not everyone does.

    And it's not like it takes more than ten minutes to check a TV schedule anyway.

    Gee, when I think of in-depth descriptions, I think TV Guide.
  • Not everyone does.

    If you can neither afford daycare, nor have family members or a spouse to watch your children while you're at work. You have far, far bigger problems than what your kid sees on TV.

    Gee, when I think of in-depth descriptions, I think TV Guide.

    Worked for folks in the pre-internet days.

    Nowadays you could probably just Google it. Or hell, most TV services anymore come with an on-screen tv guide.

  • edited 2012-04-02 22:56:13

    You have far, far bigger problems than what your kid sees on TV.

    They aren't mutually exclusive.

    Poor people shouldn't have standards. beggars can't be choosers.
  • No, I suppose not, but solving one problem (the issue of not having anyone at home to watch your children) solves the other (by putting people at home to watch your children, you put someone there who can regulate what they watch on TV).

    Poor people shouldn't have standards. beggars can't be choosers.

    I quite sincerely have no idea what you mean by this.

  • The sadness will last forever.

    TV is not a babysitter. Can't people understand that?

  • edited 2012-04-02 23:02:37

    And I addressed that. TV shouldn't be used as a babysitter.


    ^ ^ ^ True.


    So how should the networks go about alleviating poverty throughout the U.S.?
  • What?

    Inane, you seem to be drawing the rather bizarre conclusion that poor people can somehow not control their children?

    If you are so poor that you literally cannot have anyone in your home--at all--to watch your child while you're at work, you again, have far bigger problems than what happens to be on Nickelodeon. And again, solving one of those solves the other.

  • I'm kind of getting sick of zombies showing up everywhere nowadays.

    Them and vampires. Suddenly our entire culture seems obsessed with the undead. Yet, skeletons still get no love.

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Vampires, zombies, werewolves, they're all overdone.

    We need some new Standardized Pop-Culture Monsters.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    Skeletons can't really, like, attack.

    They can only sort of gently push people and hope they fall into something dangerous.
  • Inane, you seem to be drawing the rather bizarre conclusion that poor people can somehow not control their children?


    Mmmnope.


    But this is all besides my point, perhaps I shouldn't have brought up using the TV as a babysitter.


    My point was that it should be reasonable for parents to assume that, when they turn on the TV, their children will be exposed material they feel comfortable with them veiwing.
  • Plasma people or something.

    My point was that it should be reasonable for parents to assume that, when they turn on the TV, their children will be exposed material they feel comfortable with them veiwing.

    And I think it is here that you and I have a severe difference of opinion.

    Granted. I think you should be able to turn on Nick Jr. and not see a hardcore porno, but, I don't think that it should be a reasonable assumption that anything that is a cartoon is for children. I honestly don't get where the assumption even comes from, because cartoons have been "not just for children" for a very long time. I can think back as far as Fritz the Cat, but I'm certain there are even older "not for kids" examples of cartoons.

  • BOMBER GRAPE
  • The sadness will last forever.

    TERRORISM

     

    BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My point was that it should be reasonable for parents to assume that, when they turn on the TV, their children will be exposed material they feel comfortable with them veiwing.
    I agree with you, to an extent.

    But the problem is that what is and isn't appropriate is a huge grey area. Take SpongeBob SquarePants, for example--for a long time, my aunt and uncle didn't think it was appropriate. Fair enough. But when the network's S&P, a vast majority of their viewership, and--and this is important--the network's sponsors all find it appropriate for children, is it reasonable to expect that the network shouldn't air it based on the complaints of a few?

    If my aunt and uncle want to keep their kids from watching it, of course, they're entitled to do so, but at that point it becomes their responsibility to enforce that.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    If I had kids - God forbid - they wouldn't watch any TV.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    what would happen if lauren faust became a juggalo
  • Nothing important to most, since she's no longer on MLP and that's the extent of her work that the majority of people care about.

    Which is a shame, because I think that whole Galaxy Girls thing is much more interesting.

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    what would happen if lauren faust made a deal with the devil
  • Her name would suddenly be appropriate.

    well the Faust part anyway. I don't even know what "Lauren" means.

  • edited 2012-04-02 23:41:20
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^^ The Powerpuff Girls would become a registered trademark of Hell, Inc.
  • I think that if I ever get good at drawing Legit, I'll make a little 4koma-style webcomic with her and some other WACKY CHARACTERS and it'll be amusing.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    I've got you under my skin
    I've got you deep in the heart of me
    So deep in
    my heart that you're really a part of me
    I've got you under my
    skin

    I'd tried so not to give in
    I said to myself, "This affair never
    will go so well"
    But why should I try to resist when, baby, I know so
    well
    I've got you under my skin

    I'd sacrifice anything come what
    might
    For the sake of havin' you near
    In spite of a warning voice that
    comes in the night
    And repeats, repeats in my ear

    "Don't you know,
    little fool, you never can win?
    Use your mentality, wake up to reality"
    But each time that I do just the
    thought of you makes me stop
    Before I begin 'cause I've got you under my
    skin

    I would sacrifice anything come what might
    For the sake of havin'
    you near
    In spite of the warning voice that comes in the night
    And
    repeats, how it yells in my ear

    "Don't you know, little fool, you never
    can win?
    Why not use your mentality, step up, wake up to reality"
    But each
    time I do just the thought of you makes me stop
    Just before I begin 'cause
    I've got you under my skin
    Yes, I've got you under my skin

  • WHEN I WAS YOUNG LIFE SEEMED SO BEAUTIFUL. IT WAS WONDERFUL, MAGICAL.
  • I cut class like I like swords

    and if you ain't hard like the boulevard? Erase your boards.

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Centie did you forget that PPG was created by Craig McCracken and not Lauren Faust?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Lauren Faust and

    Pinkie Pie Mephistopheles
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Mephiles the Dark
  • edited 2012-04-03 00:05:50
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^^^ No, I didn't; I just thought it was funny.
  • McCracken and Faust are married. And Faust did have some form of input on PPG, I forget exactly what, though.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    "McCracken" is an awesome name
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Get McCracken!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...you know, I find it kinda amusing that MLP:FIM is, in a way, descended from 2 Stupid Dogs.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    CORPSE BEATING
  • The sadness will last forever.
    -mauls next poster-
  • I'm a loser. Also, Creeper. And a woman.
    @Anonus: Say what?
  • The sadness will last forever.

    WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S

     

    IT'S GONNA BE FUN

     

    SO MUCH FUCKING FUN

  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    That movie sucked.
  • The sadness will last forever.

    A SERBIAN FILM

     

    TOTALLY A FEEL GOOD MOVIE

     

    AMIRITE

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    What is it with you and A Serbian Film?
  • The sadness will last forever.
    I dunno.
  • The sadness will last forever.
    OMG ZOMBIES
  • The sadness will last forever.
    THIS THREAD NEVER ENDS
  • The sadness will last forever.

    LEGEND OF ZELDA

     

    LINK

  • The sadness will last forever.
    SAMMICH
  • The sadness will last forever.
    TORTURE
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