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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 08:56 PM
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Why are TV shows like "Fear Factor" O.K...
Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 09:01 PM by Placebo
but ANY nudity, or nudity from behind, is the subject of national scandal? :shrug:

People eating cow eyes, being dumped into a vat of roaches, and throwing themselves off a speeding boat alllllllll for money = good.

Skin = evil.
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RoeBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 08:58 PM
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1. What is...
...implied nudity?
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 08:58 PM
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2. yah. discerning minds wanna know . . .
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:00 PM
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3. Don't question me!
:crazy:
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No Mandate Here. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:00 PM
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4. Especially when the contestants are often nearly naked, anyway?
Part of the appeal to the guys in the audience must be waiting to catch a glance when the suit falls off? Sort of like beach volleyball. Did you see the thong- like uniforms in the Olympics?
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:00 PM
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5. geez. do you mean that the lowest possible denominator is
voyeurism? or maybe self-indulgence? OMG.




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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:00 PM
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6. Not forgetting last year's big ratings grab of having people eat...
reindeer testicles covered in ants... :puke:

Barbarism.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:01 PM
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8. Were the reindeer still attached ?

Otherwise it was just gross, not barbaric
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:00 PM
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7. I Wouldn't Say Those Shows Are Okay
and just don't watch them.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:10 PM
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9. Those shows are disgusting.
I don't get peoples fears of other naked bodies. We all have one. Big deal, I saw a naked bum. The odds are, if it's on TV it was one fine looking bum and I don't mind seeing it.
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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 09:21 PM
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10. Jack Nicholson said it best
Show a man tenderly kissing a womans breast and it's a "R" rating.
Show a man hacking off a womans breast with a machete and you get a "PG".

We are a sick, sick country and I fear for us all.
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