Oh look, a legislator from Indiana is doing something stupid

[Mercutio]

Hey everybody, look at this! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051012/film_nm/porn_dc)

For those too lazy to click, this asshole republican (but I repeat myself...) wants to reclassify sex scenes in movies and TV shows to match the same criteria as actual, explicit adult films.

In other words, movies and TV shows with love scenes - even ones where the actors are clothed would be deemed unsuitable for children and therefore regulated as such.

Wow.

I hate this fucking country.

[Gilbo]

The ridiculousness that constantly iterates through your government is really quite amazing Mercutio. Sometimes I don't realize how much of a different world Americans live in since most of the ones I've met have seemed so normal. I guess the sickos don't travel north very often. They concentrate themselves and focus on messing up life for nice, normal, friendly people.

Recently a little more of this silliness than usual seems to be trickling north. Like that internet wiretap legislation that's pending. Or how Marc Emery might be extradited.

Someone needs to do a Thunder and Awe style operation on the states using pot and porn instead of cruise missiles and bombs. Once everyone realizes how harmless such things are things will hopefully calm down a little.

[Mercutio]

Whereever you work, are you hiring, Gilbo?

[Bozo]

We become more like communist Russia everyday.

I'm ready for the next revolution.

Bozo :mrgrn:

[mubs]

Whereever you work, are you hiring, Gilbo?
Minister: Canada Needs More Immigrants (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_re_ca/canada_immigrants_needed)


Thu Oct 13, 8:11 PM ET

MONTREAL - Canada's foreign affairs minister said Thursday that the country badly needed more immigrants to replace aging workers who are headed for retirement.

Pierre Pettigrew said that increasing the population to 40 million by welcoming more immigrants would help foot the bill for new infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.

"This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it's a bigger country than the United States is," Pettigrew said. "I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill."

The minister, in comments to reporters after a speech in Montreal, said Canada was built by immigrants and that's the way it would continue to be built.

Canada's population of just under 32 million has grown by only three million in the past decade. The federal government is set to unveil a new immigration plan this month that would open its doors to 320,000 skilled immigrants a year by the time the plan is fully implemented in five years.

Emphasis mine.

[Mercutio]

Argh.

Just when I have new employment prospects on the horizon!

[Gilbo]

Sorry Merc, I can't help you out, but like mubs said, Canada is looking for immigrants, especially skilled workers in the tech trade. Ottawa, where I used to live was hit hard by the Bubble, but its tech industry has come back to life the last couple years or so. The west is just booming as well --mostly thanks to oil.

[jtr1962]

I agree this law is beyond ridiculous but I really wish the film industry would voluntarily stop sticking gratuitous sex scenes in practically every movie. I for one don't enjoy them at all. I feel they overuse this plot device due to simple lack of creativity. I also question whether the general public's demand for these types of scenes is as high as the film makers seem to think it is, or if they're just putting things in a film that they want to see.

[Mercutio]

I think the more important issue is that everything that comes out of Hollywood seems to need a romantic sub-plot, even when it's unnecessary.
Case in point: Batman Begins. Why the hell is Katie Holmes in that movie?

However, I cannot lend support to anything that might lead to the display of fewer nubile Hollywood starlet boobies. Many a movie has been saved by a quick flash of skin, or even the right outfit at the right time (anyone seen "HeartBreakers"?)

I wish Hollywood would ditch those L-shaped sheets they always use, so the guy in the bed is bare-chested yet his ladyfriend is demurely covered after post-coital bliss.

[timwhit]

I usually don't complain when I see a gratuitous sex scene. Wait, I never complain.

[sechs]

I bet that Merc liked Showgirls.

Never have I seen a movie so lacking in the plot department. It's just a skin festival. And that was after the recut for "R!"

[Mercutio]

What's not to love about Showgirls? There are asses and there are boobs. Elizabeth Berkeley could stand around in a thong for 90 minutes, and it still would've been worth $7 to see it.

Was there an R-rated recut? I saw the NC17 version in the theater (and had a glazed, happy grin the entire time) and the DVD I have says it's "unrated".

timwhit, it sounds like you need more pr0n. This whole country needs more pr0n. Like Gilbo said.

I need to finish setting up my personal web site so I can commence reviewing the vast quantities of non-Family-friendly adult entertainment that I have accumulated.

[timwhit]

I have quite a bit of the porno already. Not as much as you, but enough. (until tomorrow, when I will download more.)

[Mercutio]

Yes, but I have all the porno. And I have the empornium and puretna ratios to prove it. :D

[i]

Elizabeth Berkeley? (http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/eberkeley.html)

[Handruin]

Wrong spelling...saved by the bell (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000924/).

[sechs]

Was there an R-rated recut?

Yes. And it makes you wonder why the board required a couple of computer-generated goons to stand in front of a little bit of thrusting in Eyes Wide Shut.

[Mercutio]

Yet another reason I wish I could get out of this country. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml)

[timwhit]

Where do these people live? I am certainly glad that there aren't a lot of them in Chicago.

[Handruin]

Think of what it means to be American. Who is an American? This country has a high mixture of foriegners from all over the word. To say you want to move out of this country means your moving closer to the source.


This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 808 adults, interviewed by telephone October 3-5, 2005. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus four percentage points.

Think about it for a minute...how many sane people did they have to call before someone was willing to take a phone survey? Most people hang up...

[Bozo]

Qbviously that poll was taken in a convent :wink:


Bozo :mrgrn:

[Fushigi]

I'm also just a tad skeptical that 808 people are a statistically large enough sample size when representing a population of 270+ million. That's 0.0003% of the population.

And yeah, who agrees to phone surveys any more? Folks who are concerned about privacy generally won't and most people don't want to be bothered. Anyone with Privacy Manager wouldn't be called, etc. Basically, that leaves those who don't know or care about protecting their privacy and saving their time as the base of people willing to answer the questionnaire. Probably not your average Mensa member.

[jtr1962]

Yet another reason I wish I could get out of this country. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml)
So much for advancement of the human race. I can't believe such a huge percentage of the population can be that ignorant. You can see evolution right before your eyes with fruit flies. Exactly why do these people refuse to believe something which is so obvious? Kind of reminds me of the scene in the original Planet of the Apes where Dr. Zaius blew up that cave because the evidence inside contradicted the ape's religion. How long before we start burning scientific books and killing scientists?

I think we're on the verge of entering a new dark age.

[sechs]

Did anyone check page two?

[Santilli]

Darwin, at one point in his writing, stated his intention was to explain how it was done, and alluded that he thought some sort of sentinent being controlled it.

GS

[timwhit]

Yes, I read both pages.