PBS comparisons, rants, and more, I guess

"tanadashoes" wrote:

But at least they never covered up the breasts of Venus on the Half Shell
(it is one of the alternate names for that painting IIRC) or digitalized the
buts and breasts of humans on nature shows. Please don't give the wine and
cheese weinies any ideas by writing them.

But you've got it all wrong. It's not the "wine and cheese weenies" who
get bent out of shape about breasts, butts and swearwords. That'd be the
job of Bible thumpers and puritannical types. Don't forget John Ashcroft -
not a wine and cheese weenie.

Whereas the wine and cheese weenies were the ones who wanted to put a
statue of a murderous conquistador up in the center of El Paso, Texas,
despite protests from local Native descendants of survivors of the
massacre. (I posted about this recently). Gotta know which type of weenie
goes with which stupid idea.

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Joyce ^..^

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Kreisleriana wrote:

My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds comedy, which
contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each instance was changed
to "Viking"!!

That's just bizarre. "Viking" isn't even the right part of speech. Not
to mention the total irrelevance factor.

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Joyce ^..^

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Kreisleriana wrote:

My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
instance was changed to "Viking"!!

That's just bizarre. "Viking" isn't even the right part of speech.
Not to mention the total irrelevance factor.




This makes me think of the worst show EVER on tv (IMO). That would be the
smurfs. A program which could single-handedly remove any child's
comprehesion of parts of speach. They would randomly replace words with
SMURF irregardless of part of speach (or sense). This might have been one
of the first of the current wave of children's programming aimed at the
_absolute_ _lowest_ common denominator. The logic being (I assume) -If
they think, they may not buy our product-

outsider wrote:
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Kreisleriana wrote:

My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
instance was changed to "Viking"!!

That's just bizarre. "Viking" isn't even the right part of speech.
Not to mention the total irrelevance factor.




This makes me think of the worst show EVER on tv (IMO). That would
be the smurfs. A program which could single-handedly remove any
child's comprehesion of parts of speach. They would randomly replace
words with SMURF irregardless of part of speach (or sense). This
might have been one of the first of the current wave of children's
programming aimed at the _absolute_ _lowest_ common denominator. The
logic being (I assume) -If they think, they may not buy our product-

If you strangle a Smurf, what colour does it go? ;-)
--
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outsider wrote:
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Kreisleriana wrote:

My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
instance was changed to "Viking"!!

That's just bizarre. "Viking" isn't even the right part of speech.
Not to mention the total irrelevance factor.




This makes me think of the worst show EVER on tv (IMO). That would
be the smurfs. A program which could single-handedly remove any
child's comprehesion of parts of speach. They would randomly replace
words with SMURF irregardless of part of speach (or sense). This
might have been one of the first of the current wave of children's
programming aimed at the _absolute_ _lowest_ common denominator. The
logic being (I assume) -If they think, they may not buy our product-

If you strangle a Smurf, what colour does it go? ;-)



I don't know but would be more than willing to find out if I see a smurf!

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"Smokie Darling (Annie)" wrote:

There is nothing worse than watching a film, seeing a guy trying
to get away from a predator (on SciFi it's usually some sort of
monstrosity like a giant alligator or shark), and saying "shoot"
over and over. Got news for you, SciFi re-runs enough stuff, and
I've seen most of their films elsewhere, and "shoot" is *not*
what that guy is saying as he steers the boat to get away.

LOL! Yeah, there is something incredibly lame about hearing a
Mafia guy on some gangster movie going, "Forget you!" 50 million
times.



My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
instance was changed to "Viking"!! I laughed my ass off , but
wondered if viewers of Scandinavian descent would get insulted to
hear their ancestors used as a swear word. It also caused me to
remember this and snort every time afterwards, when I hear anyone
refer to Vikings. Like the Minnesota Vikings, for example. Or
"Give him a Viking funeral."


One of my pet peeves. I'm deaf and follow the captioning on TV. But
I can still hear a bit with my implant and I'm pretty good at lip
reading.

Often a swear work will be included in the audio programming, but they
will delete it from the closed captioning.

It isn't that I have a need to read swear words, but I find that so
incredibly condescending.

Jo

Jofirey wrote:

One of my pet peeves. I'm deaf and follow the captioning on TV. But
I can still hear a bit with my implant and I'm pretty good at lip
reading.

Often a swear work will be included in the audio programming, but they
will delete it from the closed captioning.

It isn't that I have a need to read swear words, but I find that so
incredibly condescending.

The whole thing is condescending. I don't like being treated like a
delicate child.

Sometimes, a lot of swearing is how real people talk, and if you want a
film or show to have any verisimilitude at all, you have to write a
script where characters say things you'd hear people say in real life,
or it just sounds ridiculous.

By the way, I've seen the opposite from what you describe, Jo. The spoken
word will be dubbed or bleeped, but the caption will have the real word.

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Jofirey wrote:

One of my pet peeves. I'm deaf and follow the captioning on TV.
But
I can still hear a bit with my implant and I'm pretty good at lip
reading.

Often a swear work will be included in the audio programming, but
they
will delete it from the closed captioning.

It isn't that I have a need to read swear words, but I find that
so
incredibly condescending.

The whole thing is condescending. I don't like being treated like a
delicate child.

Sometimes, a lot of swearing is how real people talk, and if you
want a
film or show to have any verisimilitude at all, you have to write a
script where characters say things you'd hear people say in real
life,
or it just sounds ridiculous.

By the way, I've seen the opposite from what you describe, Jo. The
spoken
word will be dubbed or bleeped, but the caption will have the real
word.


Somehow I find that reassuring. And its something I wouldn't notice.

I feel like I can hear the television when I'm wearing my processor,
but really I can't understand a great deal of it unless I have the
captions as well. If I were to read a word, I would 'think' I'd heard
it as well.

Jo

outsider wrote:
My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
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If you strangle a Smurf, what colour does it go? ;-)

I don't know but would be more than willing to find out if I see a smurf!


Get in line or leave me the Teletubbies!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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"Lesley via CatKB.com" u27720@uwe wrote in news:88e5d1b101dcf@uwe:

outsider wrote:
My all-time favorite dub: I was watching an old Burt Reynolds
comedy, which contained many instances of the word "f***ing." Each
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]

If you strangle a Smurf, what colour does it go? ;-)

I don't know but would be more than willing to find out if I see a smurf!


Get in line or leave me the Teletubbies!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs



Deal!