Censorship

It turns out that I am quite well adjusted to censorship from the States. I know we like to think of the whole freedom of speech thing, but that just doesn't apply to media - yay FFC! I like to have the TV on while I do stuff around the flat because living by yourself can be a bit quiet. We all know quiet = creepy. I was cooking away one night when I found myself thinking the TV sounded odd. True, primarily because I was watching some awful Andy Dick Apprentice spinoff, shocking in and of itself. Secondarily, Andy was dropping the f-bomb left and right and I heard no bleeping. Shocking! While it was on their MTV equivalent, it wasn't on exceptionally late and it isn't cable. Children could have seen it! Sometimes, shows do bleep the f-bomb, sometimes they don't. Andy was, of course, using other creative language that I was astounded by as well. Trust me, kids, I've heard it all. Most things linguistic don't shock me anymore, but seeing and hearing it on TV for the world to be exposed to takes me aback just a tad.

But! That was nothing!

A few days later, I was watching some good ol' MTV equivalent before bed. It's usually just music videos (remember when MTV had music?) which is great for helping me to relax before bed. Well, that night, it was some stupid Jackass or Viva la Bam spinoff. There was a segment entitled Naked Guys. Naturally intrigued, I paid bit more attention. Talk about your mistakes. First off, the didn't blur out these guys' dangly bits. Again, not shocking in and of itself, but the lack of censorship certainly was. Worse yet, these guys were obviously beyond their years in maturity because they started to smear stuff on each other. "What is it?" I innocently queried. In more polite terms, one of the guys yelled, "Poop attack!" and smeared his own poo from his own bum on another of the naked guys.

Ew.

Maybe censorship isn't so bad after all. Who wants to see poo-y naked guys acting like they're four years old? Scratch that... I know four year olds that look like dignitaries in comparison.