(02-12-2010 08:46 )Sooky™ Wrote: [ -> ]And before people bang on about our rights as adults blah blah blah - it could be worse, we could be like a number ofmxountries in the far east where the governments regulate and block all sorts of stuff on the Internet limiting what people can and cannot access - things could always be worse[/color] 
Jeez, i'll second that, i spend a lot of my time in Thailand, you'd live to be 150 before you saw so much as an exposed tit on any tv channel out there and internet porn of any kind is completely banned.
And yet you can walk 50yds from any internet cafe over there and get a hooker for the night for £20 or less, which the authorities pay less than zero attention to......Go figure.
This country is nowhere near as screwed up about sexuality and sexual content as some, Ofcom or no Ofcom.
(02-12-2010 03:15 )gazfc Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah blame ofcom for having to punish 60 rule breaks, jeez how many times does that need to be said
Has anyone stopped to think for just one second
why Bang continually broke the rules? Maybe it wasn't stupidity as so many of you presume, maybe, just maybe, it was an act of defiance... done to make a point.
(02-12-2010 10:27 )colino Wrote: [ -> ] (02-12-2010 08:46 )Sooky™ Wrote: [ -> ]And before people bang on about our rights as adults blah blah blah - it could be worse, we could be like a number ofmxountries in the far east where the governments regulate and block all sorts of stuff on the Internet limiting what people can and cannot access - things could always be worse[/color]
Jeez, i'll second that, i spend a lot of my time in Thailand, you'd live to be 150 before you saw so much as an exposed tit on any tv channel out there and internet porn of any kind is completely banned.
And yet you can walk 50yds from any internet cafe over there and get a hooker for the night for £20 or less, which the authorities pay less than zero attention to......Go figure.
This country is nowhere near as screwed up about sexuality and sexual content as some, Ofcom or no Ofcom.
Yes on the bigger picture we're not even close in terms of censorship as in the far east and even in the USA but my point still stands that we are still far too regulated for a country in Europe. I must admit that a couple of years back I visited the Bahamas and I asked the guy in reception why I didn't have any titty or porno channels in my hotel room (I was fairly pished at the time by the way) and he didn't seem to know what I was talking about and when I told him what we in the UK see on our satellite tv his jaw must have frozen as he looked at me in disbelief and thought it was a wind up (bearing in mind that the Bahamas in a very religious god fearing country) He just didn't believe me that content such as topless phone in shows existed and how on earth they were allowed on the telly. So I suppose in many ways we are very lucky with what we have at the moment.
What the the same Bahamas where you can get a Hooker sent to your room?
Not in the Bahamas as it's illegal and certainly not in the hotel I was staying in. Anyway why would I need a hooker what with being Scottish all I had to do was put my kilt on and go down to the nearest bar to pick the women up easy.
True, you scots do wear a dress quite well after all
(02-12-2010 22:19 )gazfc Wrote: [ -> ]True, you scots do wear a dress quite well after all
Thats rich coming from a country of morris dancers. No we don't wear a dress, the main difference being a Kilt comes up above the waist whilst a dress only goes up to the waist. Also unlike the English we are welcomed all across the world especially in Germany because we have long since put the war's behind us unlike the English who are well hated the world over. You only need look at the miserable 2 votes the 2018 World Cup Bid got to see how hated you lot are. Remind me again incase I've forgotten was it 1966 the last time you lot won the World Cup with a dubious offside goal! Talk about bribery eh!
PS - This is just a wind up not to be taken seriously as I have many friends who are English. The ironic thing is if it hadn't been for that Panorama programme and they actually applied censorship in what was said England may well have hosted the World Cup in 2018. How to shoot yourself in the foot.
Well at least we've won the world cup
so their *does a little dance