Unfettered television.
Lunatic Goofballs
22-06-2005, 01:12
WHich nation do you think has the fewest television taboos? I'm talking language, violence and sexuality in regularly scheduled primetime programming.
Socialist Autonomia
22-06-2005, 01:19
If I were to guess I would say Sweden or the Netherlands or some other similar country.
WHich nation do you think has the fewest television taboos? I'm talking language, violence and sexuality in regularly scheduled primetime programming.Are you asking about Cable TV or public broadcast? and taboo concerning who's standard. What America allows on their TV is different than Spain or Japan.
Boonytopia
22-06-2005, 02:28
From the quality of nudity in the TV shows that make there way here, I'd have to say northern Europe/Scandinavia. Long may they take their clothes off. :D
from a western standpoint Japan definately has the fewest Taboos, thats not even debatable
AkhPhasa
22-06-2005, 02:38
Canadian stations show full frontal softcore porn on basic cable stations (like, channel 9 and 13 on a Friday evening, Prime Time). And nobody gave a damn about Janet Jackson's nipple shield, the subject was laughable.
japanese stations have a history of showing the occasional HARDCORE porn flick on daytime.
Boonytopia
22-06-2005, 03:03
Canadian stations show full frontal softcore porn on basic cable stations (like, channel 9 and 13 on a Friday evening, Prime Time). And nobody gave a damn about Janet Jackson's nipple shield, the subject was laughable.
Yeah, it was a complete non-issue here. We thought fuss made in the USA was totally stupid.
Coquetvia
22-06-2005, 03:05
Australia is probably up there.
We also found the "Nipple-gate" scandal quite hilarious. If that had happened here, not only would no one have cared, someone would have won money on a bet that it would have happened, and then everyone would go to the bar and get pissed and laugh at those Americans for being so uptight.
We tend to show a lot of stuff on TV, and we showed two people having sex in a bath at 9:30 pm just a few weeks ago.
We might not be number one, but we'd be up there.
Socialist Autonomia
22-06-2005, 03:12
Australia is probably up there.
We also found the "Nipple-gate" scandal quite hilarious. If that had happened here, not only would no one have cared, someone would have won money on a bet that it would have happened, and then everyone would go to the bar and get pissed and laugh at those Americans for being so uptight.
We tend to show a lot of stuff on TV, and we showed two people having sex in a bath at 9:30 pm just a few weeks ago.
We might not be number one, but we'd be up there.
I remember when I was on vacation in Australia as a kid and they were showing a news story about some porn star. Then all of a sudden they go into this gratuitous two minute long segment of naked pictures of her for no other reason than to show boobies. I stared upon-mouthed in shock until someone covered my eyes.
Daistallia 2104
22-06-2005, 04:20
japanese stations have a history of showing the occasional HARDCORE porn flick on daytime.
Wrong, wrong wrong!
Latenight TV does allow more than what is allowed on Netwotk TV in the US, but hardcore is not shown except on two or three premium cable or satellite networks.
Full frontal is absolutely not allowed, even in video, as depictions of a penises or vaginas are still deemed obscene leagally.
Wrong, wrong wrong!
Latenight TV does allow more than what is allowed on Netwotk TV in the US, but hardcore is not shown except on two or three premium cable or satellite networks.
Full frontal is absolutely not allowed, even in video, as depictions of a penises or vaginas are still deemed obscene leagally.but I LOOOOVE your horror stories...
on an off topic question. NGN in Hawaii showed a series called Mokudo Kuaidan (SP?) it was a series of short ghost stories including a one that was a group of elementary kids solving ghost mysteries. is that still going on in Japan?
Daistallia 2104
22-06-2005, 04:51
but I LOOOOVE your horror stories...
on an off topic question. NGN in Hawaii showed a series called Mokudo Kuaidan (SP?) it was a series of short ghost stories including a one that was a group of elementary kids solving ghost mysteries. is that still going on in Japan?
No idea - I'm not familiar with that one.
I assume you're familiar with the works of Lafcadio Hearn?
No idea - I'm not familiar with that one.
I assume you're familiar with the works of Lafcadio Hearn?
Unfortunatly no, any titles?
Cannot think of a name
22-06-2005, 05:05
Yeah, it was a complete non-issue here. We thought fuss made in the USA was totally stupid.
Most of us did too. We just didn't write as many letters or host as many tv shows...
Lacadaemon
22-06-2005, 05:10
I thought nipplegate was actually the product of cynical sports marketing. And as P.T. Barnum rightly observed: "no-one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
It was clever how they co-opted most of the news media into providing hundreds of free hours of advertising for an otherwise tired institution though. It was even tried again with less success for that desperate housewives show.
Daistallia 2104
22-06-2005, 05:42
Unfortunatly no, any titles?
An Irishman who lived in Japan in the Meiji period. He was an author, best known for his books about Japan. Check out Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things and In Ghostly Japan. The first was made into a movie Kwaidan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/).
He also lived in New Orleans in the 1870s and 1880s, and wrote some interesting books about Louisiana.
An Irishman who lived in Japan in the Meiji period. He was an author, best known for his books about Japan. Check out Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things and In Ghostly Japan. The first was made into a movie Kwaidan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/).
He also lived in New Orleans in the 1870s and 1880s, and wrote some interesting books about Louisiana.Kwaidan...
that was in the title.... :headbang:
Moku No Kwaidan... the symbols on the guys face in the movie poster was also in the opening sequence. they did a second season where the kids were older and in intermediate school.
THANK YOU... now I can go find that film and be scared S#*tless.
err ever played Fatal Frame on the PS2? heard it was also baised on a Japanese horror story... wait a minute... you're suppose to be in BED... go... good night and thanks.
Daistallia 2104
22-06-2005, 05:59
Kwaidan...
that was in the title.... :headbang:
Moku No Kwaidan... the symbols on the guys face in the movie poster was also in the opening sequence. they did a second season where the kids were older and in intermediate school.
THANK YOU... now I can go find that film and be scared S#*tless.
Enjoy. :D
err ever played Fatal Frame on the PS2? heard it was also baised on a Japanese horror story...
Nope - not really into the computer games.
wait a minute... you're suppose to be in BED... go... good night and thanks.
Nope - I am rarely abed at two in the afternoon... ;)
Sarkasis
22-06-2005, 06:32
On Canadian TV, we get less sex but more boobs.