I just told a nobel lauriat that "Everything's 5x5
Maybe (s)he'll think Allyson is a pilot or radio operator.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2006 8:27:43 am PDT #9501 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
sarameg - Jul 31, 2006 8:35:58 am PDT #9502 of 10002
Mostly they are not keen on seeing sexual situations on the screen with their parents in the room.
I'm still not keen on that.
Sex and language on tv/movies was ok in our house, but violence, even cartoon violence, nsm. It used to bewilder me when my friends' parents would ff through the sex scene, but some guy having his brains bashed in was fine. Violence on screen still tends to flip me out. I've got a very low tolerance level for graphic stuff. You made your point, I don't need the details, thanks! Anything that relies on graphic stuff is just not going to be my cup of tea, ever.
Trudy Booth - Jul 31, 2006 8:38:55 am PDT #9503 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sex and language on tv/movies was ok in our house, but violence, even cartoon violence, nsm. It used to bewilder me when my friends' parents would ff through the sex scene, but some guy having his brains bashed in was fine. Violence on screen still tends to flip me out. I've got a very low tolerance level for graphic stuff. You made your point, I don't need the details, thanks! Anything that relies on graphic stuff is just not going to be my cup of tea, ever.+1
Strega - Jul 31, 2006 8:47:12 am PDT #9504 of 10002
I remember my mom explicitly asking me not to watch was Real People. I don't remember exactly what she said, but I know she didn't really forbid me from watching it; she just said she and my dad would prefer I didn't. I think she felt it was mean-spirited (which it was).
She also strongly disapproved of Hogan's Heroes, but I know we did watch it at least sometimes. Possibly when she wasn't home.
Fred Pete - Jul 31, 2006 8:54:57 am PDT #9505 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was into my teens before HBO hit big, and older than that when videos really hit. So my parents didn't have too much trouble with anything I saw on TV. When I was 11 or 12, I started staying up on Friday nights to watch reruns of Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr.
They also didn't really censor my reading much, which meant I read a lot that they would have probably disapproved of had they known. When I was about 15 or 16, my mother had a minor freak-out when she found me reading a Jacqueline Susann novel. I had the good sense not to tell her that I didn't learn anything from it that I hadn't already learned from reading The Godfather.
sarameg - Jul 31, 2006 9:00:20 am PDT #9506 of 10002
They also didn't really censor my reading much
Yeah, no reading censoring took place. Well, except of the put that book down right this minute and take out the trash! sort. I think I read Madame Bovary at 12. And Anna Karenina, and Vanity Fair. (they were in a collection my dad bought, so they are all sort of tied together in my head.)
Vortex - Jul 31, 2006 9:05:58 am PDT #9507 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yeah, in my house, the TV was on lockdown, but I could read anything I wanted.
Funny story about what scares kids: Went to see Star Wars when it came out. I remember the spaceship coming across the screen, everyone saying 'ooooh", and then the airlock blew and Darth Vader came through. I screamed and got under my seat.
Emily - Jul 31, 2006 9:06:10 am PDT #9508 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My mother and grandmother once went to see a play and ended up sitting separately. My mother enjoyed it but was glad she hadn't been sitting next to her mother. My grandmother enjoyed it but said she was glad her mother wasn't there. I think you pretty much never get over that.
Ouise - Jul 31, 2006 9:12:14 am PDT #9509 of 10002
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
When I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch The Flintstones - not because of the dinosaurs so much as because it gave the impression that the economic system had always been capitalism.
I'm pretty sure my parents were the only people in the neighbourhood to teach the kids they babysat about the concept of "property is theft".
Regarding scariness: my mother had to take my sister (RahRah) out of The Empire Strikes Back because she was terrified of ... Yoda.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 31, 2006 9:14:03 am PDT #9510 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
1. I was scared of the Disney Black Hole movie as a kid. I was lame.
2. I had little to no censorship of anything watched in the home or read. Hence the reading of Erica Jong novels in, like, 5th grade.
3. My friend's father wouldn't let her watch "The Facts of Life" because he thought it was dirty. Also the love boat. I think he never actually watched The Facts of Life.
4. I lived with both grandparents and my mother in a very small house in which the upstairs was unbareably hot to sleep in in the summer. My gradma and I both tended to stay up all night. Which is how I ended up watching Basic Instinct with her.
ETA:
I was also terrified of Grover, because he sang I'm so Blue and it made me tooo sad. I think it was my first experience of "watch from the hall"