Originally Posted by Sylvester2007
No. That doesn't offend me in the slightest. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is and my kids don't get to see it.
I'm talking even tackier - Geordie Shore etc and those tacky ITV 2 programmes that pretentious nonsense dressed up as entertainment.
I think the only thing it offends, is the intelligence of those who watch it.
I recall someone in the '80s - might have been somone like a Clare Short/ Germaine Greer but probably not either of them- who said that although she did not agree with "top shelf" porn, it was more honest than the Sun/ Star showing topless women on page 3.
If you wanted to see naked women, buy a porn mag - don't stick it in a daily "newspaper".
There are many offensive shows on tv - not really offensive, though, but more correctly very irritating. Two that spring to mind are Top Gear and Come Dine With Me, with that awful narrator/commentator who is actually more irritating than Clarkson. Who is this man and what qualifies him to know everything better than all the contestants on that show?
Going off on a tangent, what's happening to Channel 4? Surely one of the 'main'channels shouldn't be allowed to show several episodes of the same programme back to back like satellite/cable/minor freeview channels do?:(
I recall someone in the '80s - might have been somone like a Clare Short/ Germaine Greer but probably not either of them- who said that although she did not agree with "top shelf" porn, it was more honest than the Sun/ Star showing topless women on page 3.
If you wanted to see naked women, buy a porn mag - don't stick it in a daily "newspaper".
It could have been Gremlin, she once posed in Playboy (Jan 1972) though I rather hope she does not repeat the experiment. (Centrefold of Age Concern's mag?) and she does seem to have a realistic understanding that porn cannot be magiced away. Clare Short on the other hand did try and get a law passed to ban Page 3 and has a well known anti-porn stance.
Has anyone noticed how the new seasons BBC shows have many more female participants? There seems to be an unofficial quota for women on quiz shows even if they aren't the best for the subject. In effect shows with less than 25% women have been banned and ones with less than 50% discouraged. And don't get me started on Sherlock.
Probably with those small number of figures, people WERE genuinely offended by something.
Its those ridiculous cases that annoy me when the number of people who complain after a broadcast was tiny, but then a newspaper turn the original thing into a major incident, and then suddenly the couple of complaints turns into tens of thousands, by people who never saw the programme but like to be offended by things, just so they can get a kick out of complaining
Some time back slapper channel BangBabes was banned by Ofcom because of "lots" of complaints saying it was offensive. It turns out there were a total of 100 incidents in 2009 and 2010. Quite a lot but 28 came from businesses - possibly rivals and 11 from internal monitoring where not one single member of the public complained. Many supposedly from ordinary members of the public quoted exactly the same sections of the Ofcom rules book. This was despite something having gone wrong so the channel was pushing the rules and failing to reply to investigations.
Despite the stong content almost no genuine member of the public complained. Ofcom investigated time and again demanding more and more compliance information. Was this really in the public interest?
This Morning has proven itself to be offensive and its presenter a libellous shyster. What should really be a fairly innocent morning show has been proven to be a nasty, unpleasant show with the journalistic attitudes of the News of the World.
This Morning has proven itself to be offensive and its presenter a libellous shyster. What should really be a fairly innocent morning show has been proven to be a nasty, unpleasant show with the journalistic attitudes of the News of the World.
There how many millions of people watching TV at any one time yet only 1500 actually complained. What that says to me is not that the programmes listed were offensive but that 1500 need to get a life
I don't know about offensive, but to me the most annoying shows are the proliferation of late night gambling shows. They serve no purpose whatsoever other than to fleece those who either can't afford it or who have drunk a little too much on their Friday/Saturday night out.
I don't know about offensive, but to me the most annoying shows are the proliferation of late night gambling shows. They serve no purpose whatsoever other than to fleece those who either can't afford it or who have drunk a little too much on their Friday/Saturday night out.
And make the broadcasters that sell the airtime to allocate these shows, alot of money.
There how many millions of people watching TV at any one time yet only 1500 actually complained. What that says to me is not that the programmes listed were offensive but that 1500 need to get a life
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I find this person offensive on TV
I don't know if she ever watched it again after that.
I'd say this, as someone who used to really like it.
I think it just used to be so ridiculously crude that it was funny, now it's just crude, sexist and a bit desperate for shock value.
I recall someone in the '80s - might have been somone like a Clare Short/ Germaine Greer but probably not either of them- who said that although she did not agree with "top shelf" porn, it was more honest than the Sun/ Star showing topless women on page 3.
If you wanted to see naked women, buy a porn mag - don't stick it in a daily "newspaper".
Going off on a tangent, what's happening to Channel 4? Surely one of the 'main'channels shouldn't be allowed to show several episodes of the same programme back to back like satellite/cable/minor freeview channels do?:(
It could have been Gremlin, she once posed in Playboy (Jan 1972) though I rather hope she does not repeat the experiment. (Centrefold of Age Concern's mag?) and she does seem to have a realistic understanding that porn cannot be magiced away. Clare Short on the other hand did try and get a law passed to ban Page 3 and has a well known anti-porn stance.
Has anyone noticed how the new seasons BBC shows have many more female participants? There seems to be an unofficial quota for women on quiz shows even if they aren't the best for the subject. In effect shows with less than 25% women have been banned and ones with less than 50% discouraged. And don't get me started on Sherlock.
Its those ridiculous cases that annoy me when the number of people who complain after a broadcast was tiny, but then a newspaper turn the original thing into a major incident, and then suddenly the couple of complaints turns into tens of thousands, by people who never saw the programme but like to be offended by things, just so they can get a kick out of complaining
Despite the stong content almost no genuine member of the public complained. Ofcom investigated time and again demanding more and more compliance information. Was this really in the public interest?
Complaint details here http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complaints_against_bang_channels#outgoing-232990
A bit OTT perhaps Glenn!
And make the broadcasters that sell the airtime to allocate these shows, alot of money.
So true if i ever saw.