Yea, they should just let it die. So pop stars will do anything for publicity, no big news there. The only thing that people should really care about after this is that we can now start getting good halftime shows.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Damn, I create this topic, leave it for one day, and come back to find it three pages long!


I agree with the people who say that if it's okay to see a guy get shot in the head, what's wrong with a boob for one second? I guess you could say its inappropriate on broadcast TV, but even that argument isn't completely sound.

As I said before, you can see artwork of naked women and naked women maniquins which are completely anatomically correct, but you can't see the real thing. If the woman has no problem letting the world see her boob(s), then why should we? Hell, the babies breast-feeding get a boob shoved in their face all day. Lucky *******s....

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

The only problem I really have with the nudity part is parents had no chance to judge wether or not their kids could see it. MTV just shoved it in their face like they do everything else, and it's ridiculous.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Kinda funny really. Only thing that was really memorable from the Superball was not the game or the ads but a loose boob.

I also found it funny when I read the headlines:

America vs. Boob

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What is it, three times now that people have made claims that gratuitous violence is readily available on American basic TV? Without any real proof?

I guess you can cite shows like CSI, but those have warnings, and generally come on late at night. The Superbowl didn't come with a warning saying, "Warning: this program may contain adult content not suitable for children. Parental discretion is advised."

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

No warning in front of CSI

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Think about that for a second. It's their mom's. The last thing you want to think of during sex is your mom, so why would it be good to get your mom's boob shoved in your face? Eeeeewwwww......


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"What I find especially funny are the neo-Celtic religions based on accounts made by the Romans. It's like learning about Judaism from Nazi lore." --stat

Well, according to Freud, its the only thing you want more than anything, and you desire to have your mother more than anything

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

That's right. I hear they're in favor of banning the word entirely in Georgia. They can teach about it, but they have to call it "Self-Inflicted Biological Change over a short time."

Don't hurt me.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

/me hurts happydud

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

Yeah, cause apparently everyone thinks bloody corpses are okay for kids to see. Yet, NYPD Blue has a warning cause you might see Sipowicz's *** .

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

To be fair I think a bloody corpse might be far less damaging to a child's psyche than Sipowicz's *** ....


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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1 & 2 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Zing.

Wolfy, Regardless of specific examples, I guarantee that your average child has seen a lot more violence then nudity or sex on tv and in movies.

Yes, but either the kid sneaked down at 12 midnight and turned on the TV or it was at the parent's permission.

I don't want to turn on the TV and see a woman's breasts. If they include that with cable TV, that's fine - you can block those channels. But I shouldn't have to block ABC, CBS, and NBC simply for fear that my kids may see breasts with their Saturday morning cartoons.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

What so frightening about a woman's breast? I mean, they're practically entertaining pillows.


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Roach - Steal acceptance, lend denial.

0 of 14.

I'll tell ya, people might not complain so much had it been one of these breasts that was revealed:



But nooo... it had to be one of Janet's, which appeared to actually be quite saggy and disappointing looking.

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"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."

Heh, the British aren't afraid off boobs, and neither am I

her boobs look way too freakishly big.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

And that's a bad thing? They dont look overly huge...

Yes they do, and fake.

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Roach - Steal acceptance, lend denial.

0 of 14.

She looks a bit like Cameron Diaz. Except not anorexic.

But yeah, boobs aren't a big priority for me, but she has a nice chest. (had to choose my words carefully...lest I inadvertently insult someone)

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"What I find especially funny are the neo-Celtic religions based on accounts made by the Romans. It's like learning about Judaism from Nazi lore." --stat

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited February 10, 2004).]

Overly large and fake.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Boobs are my greatest fear.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

the only reason janet jackson needs to be sued is not because her acts were OFFENSIVE but because legally, she aired her 14+ body to a g-rated program. simple as that. quite frankly im sure the woman who is sueing indulged on porn at some point in her life and im fairly sure all the men she know in her life will(if they're very young)/already have indulged in porn many times. so the poeple who are OFFENDED, all i gotta say is, you live in teh country where your kids can watch soft core porn at like family-prime time, and just coz you celebrate christmas, you think you have the right to act all religious and get offended at this 'obsersurdity'?? (when i say you, i mean the people like that woman whos sueing) its beyond crazy. the only reason i can think someone is so traditional and offensed by this would be like a religious reservedness that many families have, and i respect that, however swears at you, you cant sue them right away, you can get a restraining order tho, sot ahts waht people got. janet isnt allowed to show her boob anywhere else anymore much less her face for the time being. you got ridance, what more do you want?

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[teletubbie voice] BIG HUG!!!! [/teletubbie voice]

well this is about as offensive as im going to get. so here coems my no offense line. no offense but as much as some of you people claim to keep up with pop culture, you dont. just coz you saw janet's tit and know its janets tit, and know tha tjanet is michael's sister, does not mean you know evreything. i was watchin oprah a while back where janet talked bout her nipple piercing, and how shes got a variety of astronomy inspired nipple rings. infact at that oprah epsiode oprah was like all shocked and shes like what are you wearing right now if anything? sheslike right now im wearing this little crecsent moon thing. no offense but anyone woman that walks aruond iwth a metal crescent attatched to her boob, on a happy jolly wednesday, might as well be wearing on 24/7 whenever she goes out somewhere..shes a celeb, incase of emergency you always gotta be in style

im not sayin the thing was an accident, im just sayin it could have been.
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[teletubbie voice] BIG HUG!!!! [/teletubbie voice]

[This message has been edited by Wolvie17 (edited February 10, 2004).]

Brit's don't like Jordan.

Freud was one sick b@stard...

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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

Yeah, he was! Why go after your own mom when you can mack on all the fine a** b****es...

Holla back, p-wiz!

You talk to psychologists, and they say the whole Oedipus complex and the like set back psychology by at least half of a century.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

Really? Didn't know that. Wish I still don't..

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I wouldn't call them freakishly big. They seem like a perfect size to me.

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

Er...they could stand to drop a few sizes.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

Faaaaaaaakkeee!

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<scribbly handwriting barely resembling name>

That's a good one, really. Got me laughing it did.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I was listening to a radio show(tell me if you recongnize it. I know some of you listen to it to.) Someone made a very good point. I'm going to go off the cuff and pretty much state what this guy said.

Uh, It's okay to watch someone eat cow rectum and drink sperm whale giz, but I can't see a little nipple for even 2 seconds? Really? I can watch some retard yak into a bucket while covered in cockroaches while I'm eating my sloppy joe, but I can't see any breast while I'm drinking a beer, hanging with the guys and watching a football game?!!

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"What I find especially funny are the neo-Celtic religions based on accounts made by the Romans. It's like learning about Judaism from Nazi lore." --stat

I see absolutely no reason to not ban shows like Fear Factor from TV. They're shock TV, disgusting, and intellectually-devoid.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

[This message has been edited by Wolfy (edited February 11, 2004).]

Yes, I have to agree - in terms of having a huge, life-altering, global impact (aside from the creation and progress of this thread), I think we can all sleep easily at night

However this said, I can understand the parental argument that the whole planned/unplanned "stunt" was totally unacceptable for the timeslot that it was allocated. Equally, valid is the point that given the "bloodshed" scenario vs the "breast" scenario, I know which one I would prefer to witness (if forced to make a choice - of course you could always turn the tv off and go for some exercise but that's a different can of worms.... ) but as JediGreedo points out, "parents had no chance to judge wether or not their kids could see it".

Essentially, I guess it's down to the individual to address whether or not the "content" is distressing/distracting and its overall appropriate-ness. However the woman that was suing; from my UK perspective, this is why I detest what is fast becoming a stereotypical US response: "sue if something happens to you - heck - sue if it hasn't happened to you, so it can then happen and then sue..." (more cans of worms, anyone?) .

Back on topic though, I attribute the article's claim to the UK newspapers that feature page 3 girls (I could be wrong - does the US produce similar newspapers?). Are the British more exposed to the titillating joy of breasts than the Americans? (I'd apologise about the puns if I really meant it ) Who knows - quite frankly who really cares, especially when most people can't draw the line between "art" and "suggestive sexual intimacy/interludes" (especially artists).

It would seem to me that this whole discussion centres around the media's coverage of the various events - for example, Janet's "unplanned performance" actually revealed a breast when compared with Jordan's "Jungle Experience" just in a bikini. The latter was expected from the off whilst the former was not, which is what's at the pith of this topic - the right to have a choice and to be able to choose from the media's (obvious) stirrings to gain more attention that what it's really worth... (isn't everything about "money" and "ratings"? )

Anyhows - these are just a couple of my thoughts...

-Jackpot

PS: Yes - I'm proud to be British (and the title implications )

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"lucky_jackpot is the smily god..." - gothicX

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)