Leisure Suit Larry banned in Australia

[patrickl]

Man even on that link they mention Amsterdam. I thought oppressed people just came here for the drugs, hookers and the gays. Now apparently for fetish videos too. Are we that loose overhere? I'm pretty sure the germans are "worse". AFAIK the poop/piss/bestiality videos and such, tend to be german products mostly. Allthough I have to admit I never set foot in a porn video shop so I wouldn't know really (but then our regular video shops are full of porn anyway ).

The funny thing is that these adult videos are watched mostly by people living in the most conservative/religious areas of the Netherlands. So the people who object the most to these "obscenities" are in fact the biggest users of the product. Mwahahahahaha

[Dartful Dodger]

yes, having sex without a condom is utterly immoral...

edit: as i pointed out, the pedofille question is one of the few things EVERY country in the world agrees on.

if were to be re-incarnated, why would i want to be an american? (no offense). and why 'american-born'? are your immigrants second-class? or are they the 'immoral' ones that don't wear condoms?

It's not the American Born Americans that think things are immoral, like I said before immigrants come into the US with higher restrictions than us. When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections, we adjust our laws to keep them happy.

Wear a condom don't wear a condom, I don't care, just don't touch my guns.

[namzep]

This is a free country (at least in theory) and therefore things like censorship have no place here.  There are certain universal standards (at least near universal) such as laws against pedophillia/bestiality and those are there for a very good reason.  However, things that are not so universally abhored (such as nudity/foul language) should really not be moderated by the goverment at all.  

Television/movies/albums are an area that really get me angered.  Particularly tv.  Laws banning themes that might be inappropriate for children are obsurd.  If parents don't want their children watching such shows then they should personally take the responsibility to not let their children see them.  If I want to watch shows I should have the freedom to do so.  The stupid thing is that violence is somehow seen as less offensive than nudity in this country.  

[Spaced Invader]

Why not just let your much vaunted "invisible hand" take care of it.  Afterall, don't conservative values say that CBS will self-censor when they see their ratings plummet in the aftermath of the superbowl, as right-minded parents and other moral people around the country start blocking CBS to avoid any further nipple exposure?

I love hard-line religeous conservatives.  It's impossible for them not be hypocrites.  Of course, that's also what makes me hate them.

Because that very same invisible hand would have swatted the conservative politicos in charge if regulators had sat on their figurative hands.  

I'm not damning nor defending the action...but that is why it was taken. Moral outrage on the part of the politicians had little or nothing to do with it.

Personally, I say bring on the nipples...and I'm a Republican...this really is a diverse nation.

[Spaced Invader]

--snip--
so you guys ARE prudes!!
--snip--
our GOVERNMENT are full of prudes nowadays, but the citizens are still hip-swingin'
--snip--

Come on, Danny, WE are prudes but in Australia its just the GOVERNMENT? I've personally experienced quite a bit of very unprudish (a new word!) behavior right here in America...and Holland, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, Turkey, Mexico, and...my point is don't paint us with such a broad brush.  

[Floyd10]

HAHAHAH!! ITS LiKE ORAL SEX!!

[shmokes]

It's not the American Born Americans that think things are immoral, like I said before immigrants come into the US with higher restrictions than us. When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections, we adjust our laws to keep them happy.

Where in the name of god do you get this stuff???  You totally just pulled that out of your ass.  The christian right, who have by far the most influence in government when it comes to censorship and legislating morality in general, hate minorities.  

Where in hell do you get the idea that censorship is pandering to immigrants?  Why would politicians pander to immigrants?  They have no money and vote in small numbers.  

[fredster]

Shmokes,

come on man.  In a republic, MAJORITY RULES.  90% of all people in the US say they believe in God or a god.   If they are the Majority, they make the rules.  We are in a republic, that's how it works.

Where do you get off that Christian people hate Minorites?  Where? In UTAH?

You are stating your personal opinion, not fact.

I am personally upset that a few people make the rules bend for them.  Like the ##@!@ shoe bomber.  1 man out of BILLIONS puts a bomb in his shoe and now we all have to scan for it.  Geeze.

[Dartful Dodger]

Where in the name of god do you get this stuff???  You totally just pulled that out of your ass.  The christian right, who have by far the most influence in government when it comes to censorship and legislating morality in general, hate minorities.  

Where in hell do you get the idea that censorship is pandering to immigrants?  Why would politicians pander to immigrants?  They have no money and vote in small numbers.  

In the US, unless you're an American Indian you or your families were once immigrants.

Jesus was a black Jew with a Mexican name.

[patrickl]

Fredster, DartFul,

Shmokes was talking about the remark DartFul made:

It's not the American Born Americans that think things are immoral, like I said before immigrants come into the US with higher restrictions than us. When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections, we adjust our laws to keep them happy.

I read this to mean that new immigrants are making the prudes out of the US government. I have a very hard time beleiving that the intent of the message was that "pilgrim fathers" are meant with "immigrants" and Indians with "American Born Americans".

[Dartful Dodger]

Fredster, DartFul,
Shmokes was talking about the remark DartFul made:
I read this to mean that new immigrants are making the prudes out of the US government. I have a very hard time beleiving that the intent of the message was that "pilgrim fathers" are meant with "immigrants" and Indians with "American Born Americans".

You are trying to tell me what I was thinking when I wrote a post.

*"When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections..."

Since I don't want to call you any negative names, I wont say anymore.
(hopefully you'll understand the intent of this statement, but I doubt it)

[patrickl]

Fredster, DartFul,
Shmokes was talking about the remark DartFul made:
I read this to mean that new immigrants are making the prudes out of the US government. I have a very hard time beleiving that the intent of the message was that "pilgrim fathers" are meant with "immigrants" and Indians with "American Born Americans".

You are trying to tell me what I was thinking when I wrote a post.

*"When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections..."

Since I don't want to call you any negative names, I wont say anymore.
(hopefully you'll understand the intent of this statement, but I doubt it)

I'm saying what seemed the most likely interpretation. If by "american born" you mean "native indians" fine, but then say so. Now you just look like someone trying to cover his mistake by acting like an ass.

[Dartful Dodger]

[I'm saying what seemed the most likely interpretation. If by "american born" you mean "native indians" fine, but then say so. Now you just look like someone trying to cover his mistake by acting like an ass.

like I said before immigrants come into the US with higher restrictions than us. When enough of them come in and start influencing the elections, we adjust our laws to keep them happy.

To influence the election the immigrants wouldn't be immigrants anymore. Each new wave of immigrants brings new changes to the laws.  This is why America will always be great.

I'm rubber you're glue, blah blah blah...

[patrickl]

Two things:
1)  We already established that the US is one of the most prude nations on earth (especially when compared to the countries where people are allowed to immigrate to the US). So if immigrants would come in then it makes more sense the restrictions are eased.
2) It's unlikely that immigrants flock in in such numbers that they would even influence the election outcome

But then I'd still say Shmokes' reply says it much better. "Owned" was a word that sprung to mind ...

[shmokes]

flip-flopper

[Floyd10]

I think, to register to vote in the us, you have to have lived in the us for at least 12 successive years.

[Dartful Dodger]

Two things:
1)  We already established that the US is one of the most prude nations on earth (especially when compared to the countries where people are allowed to immigrate to the US). So if immigrants would come in then it makes more sense the restrictions are eased.
2) It's unlikely that immigrants flock in in such numbers that they would even influence the election outcome

But then I'd still say Shmokes' reply says it much better. "Owned" was a word that sprung to mind ...

I get it we're no longer talking about censorship, and back to whinning about Gore losing 4 years ago.

[shmokes]

No...We're still talking about censorship.  You just seem to be having a difficult time taking a consistant position.

[fredster]

Dodger,

Patrickl's comments are a worthless. How would he know what it's like in the US?  

Patrickl, why don't you tell us what's wrong with Japan now?

Shmokes, it's hard to keep to one point t when such a target rich conversation erupts.

Floyd, No. You can be a citizen here for 1 day and register in most areas. It's a state by state thing.

Some people with dual citizenship in the US and Israel are voting even though they haven't lived here since they were children.

[patrickl]

Fredster,

You are right, how can I possibly know ... I'm obviously still mad over the Gore incident   Things like that will cloud my judgement.

[Floyd10]

Floyd, No. You can be a citizen here for 1 day and register in most areas. It's a state by state thing.

I mean should have to have.

I know it isnt like that, but it should be.

[danny_galaga]

Dodger,

Patrickl's comments are a worthless. How would he know what it's like in the US?  

Patrickl, why don't you tell us what's wrong with Japan now?

actually, im pretty sure patrickl has said before he HAS lived in the US...

[shmokes]

Shmokes, it's hard to keep to one point t when such a target rich conversation erupts.

Careful Fredster.  More talk like that and you're apt to vote for Kerry.

[Mameotron]

1)  We already established that the US is one of the most prude nations on earth (especially when compared to the countries where people are allowed to immigrate to the US).

In Saudia Arabia all alcohol is banned, as well as all hard and soft drugs, and women must be completely covered (face, too) when they are out in public.

Certainly that makes the US one of the most prude nations on earth.

[patrickl]

1)  We already established that the US is one of the most prude nations on earth (especially when compared to the countries where people are allowed to immigrate to the US).

In Saudia Arabia all alcohol is banned, as well as all hard and soft drugs, and women must be completely covered (face, too) when they are out in public.

Certainly that makes the US one of the most prude nations on earth.

"compared to the countries where people are allowed to immigrate to the US" (i.e. western countries)

[Mameotron]

Call it what you will.  You say prude, I say decent.

[patrickl]

Call it what you will.  You say prude, I say decent.

LOL

You say potato, I say aardappel,
you say tomato, I say tomaat ...

hmm somehow it doesn't work in dutch  

[danny_galaga]

ya, niet so goed...