Down with Free Speech!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Name the subject you would most like to see banned from public (and, if possible, private) discourse:

Religion
Politics
Sex
Economics
UFOs
Sports

Or add your own and explain your choice.

[BibliophileTRJ]

MENSTRUATION!!

I can't tell you how many times I've sat down to a meal (usually spaghetti) in front of the television and been confronted with a Kotex commercial. "Oooow, I have such a heavy flow" "Uuuummmm....I don't feel so fresh" BLECK!!! :sick: :sick:

There goes MY appetite!

[kilted exile]

Agree fully, I have no need to know about that nonsense - especially when eating.

**EDIT**

Really any woman who wants to make a guy uncomfortable needs only do one of 2 things:

1) Ask him if he was breastfed

2) Discuss your "feminine problems"

[kathycf]

Ditto on "manly" issues such as jock itch and erectile dysfunction. ;)

But of course, "true" freedom of speech is a seperate issue from private censorship. Freedom of speech is generally understood to be free from reprisal from the government over "unpopular" speech. Private censorship is something that is imposed by private entities...business corporations, internet message boards and the like. As private citizens we have no more right to limit "private discourse" or in other words...what other people discuss in their own homes as we do to limit what food they put on their table, or what brand of soap they buy. :)

Ooops, sorry. This is in the games section so I won't be serious any longer. Um...down with discussions about everything I think is boring! That means football, whether "American" style or not!!

[Shalot]

I agree with kilted and bib --- those commercials for FH products are unnecessary and embarrassing. I used to hate it when those "do you douche?" commercials would come on when I was watching tv with my dad or gramps.

Do they think we can't figure out what to do without them telling us what to buy? And did you know that the whole FH industry is really unnecessary? We could all just take some BC bills and there would be no need for those ridiculous commercials.

[Brigitte]

I actually agree. I'm a girrrrl, but I really don't like those commercials and I rarely even walk into the aisle where they sell them at the market. Blood is icky.

[Turk]

If nobody wants those advertises why do they broadcast them?

[Scheherazade]

If nobody wants those advertises why do they broadcast them?'There's no such thing as bad publicity.'

[Pendragon]

Those "Here's Bob! Encite comercial make me want to hurl-- preferably Bob's grinning idot face off the Empire State Building!

[kathycf]

As long as we are on the topic of advertisments...I really hate "Preperation H" commercials of people wiggling around on chairs while complaining of "itching and burning". Too...much...information. In fact, if it is about a bodily function other than eating, I don't want to see commercials about it. Even some of the food commercials are just sort of icky. I refuse to believe eating a hamburger can inspire semi-orgasmic bliss.

[BibliophileTRJ]

Those "Here's Bob! Encite comercial make me want to hurl-- preferably Bob's grinning idot face off the Empire State Building!

Pen, I'll gladly hold the window open while you chuck Bob out!!


As long as we are on the topic of advertisments...I really hate "Preperation H" commercials of people wiggling around on chairs while complaining of "itching and burning". Too...much...information. In fact, if it is about a bodily function other than eating, I don't want to see commercials about it. Even some of the food commercials are just sort of icky. I refuse to believe eating a hamburger can inspire semi-orgasmic bliss.

Kathy, We're seeing eye-to-eye on that one, too. And the Gas-X ads....just fart and get it over with!

What about those awful Pepto-Bismol commercials with the "indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea" song AND dance!! It's a good thing my partner is fast with the mute button!!

[andave_ya]

oh man! You guys are hilarious! My little sister used to do spoofs of that Pepto-Bismol commercial and everyone'd just laugh and laugh. But yeah to all these suggestions...ugh, some of them really make me blush !

[kathycf]

Pen, I'll gladly hold the window open while you chuck Bob out!!

Kathy, We're seeing eye-to-eye on that one, too. And the Gas-X ads....just fart and get it over with!

What about those awful Pepto-Bismol commercials with the "indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea" song AND dance!! It's a good thing my partner is fast with the mute button!!

Oh that Bob guy...he looks like he needs a good swift kick in the posterior. Enhance that, pally.

I am not sure which is worse, the Pepto song or the dance....I wonder how much the diarrhea lady got paid? Especially when she holds her butt to signify her "distress". :sick: Can you imagine being a struggling actor and calling your family or friends to celebrate about this job?

"Hey guess what! I just got a job on Pepto Bismol ad...I have the diarrhea! Yay!" :rolleyes:

[Taliesin]

KitKats!
The damn propaganda here starts tiring us at some times.

[Shalot]

And the Gas-X ads....just fart and get it over with!

What about those awful Pepto-Bismol commercials with the "indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea" song AND dance!! It's a good thing my partner is fast with the mute button!!

I have to disagree with you on that one. The gas x commercial with the flatualent guy at the meeting is funny. Farting is absurd and funny for some reason and I think that commercial was good.

And I like the indigestion heartburn diarrhea song. Well done. These are problems people of all ages can relate to and I don't mind those commercials at all.

[apples of gold]

Those discussions we hear everywhere, the ones that go like:

"ooowww we like went ... over and like .... and then we like .... and it was sooooo like kewl."

could do without those.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Those discussions we hear everywhere, the ones that go like:

"ooowww we like went ... over and like .... and then we like .... and it was sooooo like kewl."

could do without those.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I agree! or actually, a couple of girls were walking behind me and one of them said, "I'm going to be exactly like Desperate Houswives, I'm going to marry a rich guy and cheat on him with hotter guys!" Not even kidding...

[motherhubbard]

I would ban the sex lives of the rich and famous, anything about Paris Hilton and others like her, and commercials that use sex to sell everything from rice to shampoo. Rice really has nothing to do with sex. No one is going to have kinky sex and run to get the rice.

[Mortis Anarchy]

I would ban the sex lives of the rich and famous, anything about Paris Hilton and others like her, and commercials that use sex to sell everything from rice to shampoo. Rice really has nothing to do with sex. No one is going to have kinky sex and run to get the rice.

OH WOW!!! This made me laugh so much...I'm still laughing...goodness!!

I would ban...celebrity status. Who cares. What makes them any different. You got me thinking with the whole sex thing.

I love Pride and Predjudice...so romantic...such a good movie..and guess what, no SEX!

[motherhubbard]

I also love pride and predjudice...no rice either

[motherhubbard]

I would ban the gross domestic product reports. Every time someone gets cancer or a divorce or has a serious catastrophe it goes up. It sounds like the country economy is improving when actually it's getting worse for the people. While I’m on this, I would ban the practice of naming things something that sounds like it’s what we should want, when it’s really the opposite of what we are getting. I can’t name a specific without breaking a rule.

[Pendragon]

Ban all comercials during an election year.

[dramasnot6]

I also love pride and predjudice...no rice either

:lol: You crack me up motherhubbard


I too hate celebrity gossip, but even worse is gossip about people you know, it is pointless and can only do harm.

[Bii]

Really any woman who wants to make a guy uncomfortable needs only do one of 2 things:

1) Ask him if he was breastfed

2) Discuss your "feminine problems"

Actually it's a great way (for a woman) of getting round work related issues, but this only works if you have a male manager. So, if you're having a rubbish day, and you manager tries to take you to task over it, you just have to say 'oh, I'm sorry it's just that it's, you know, time of the month and I'm not feeling too great...' and when you get to the word 'time' see how he turns green, walks away (no runs!) and doesn't challenge you for the rest of the week. Fantastic!

I would ban:

- discussions about football (soccer!). This would leave most men with nothing to say.
- TV news, as they only talk about celebrities, scandal and disaster. It should be called the daily gossip. It's disturbing that David Beckham arriving in the US and making a very 'eloquent' speech made headline news. Today's headline news was the fact that a 'sacred cow' in Wales has been spared the chop despite the fact it has contagious TB. I have no issue with the exercising of religious rights but I'd rather not hear about it as headline national news.
- any discussions whatsoever about reality TV.
- discussions about shoes and shopping.
- just reading back, can I add Wales to the list. I'd like to ban Wales.

Oh my list is too long already.
-

[Granny5]

I would totally ban any talk of poo in my house, especially when there is company or during meal time.

[The Bookinator]

I would ban any conversations about how badly someone needs to diet or how fat someone is. I hate how my fellow teenagers are so obsessed with looking like the next Paris Hilton or whoever is cool now. (I don't really pay attention to that rubbish.) *rants for hours and hours*

[The Atheist]

I would totally ban any talk of poo in my house, especially when there is company or during meal time.

We have a tv ad running on one of the channels at the moment, right in the middle of one of the few programs my kids like to watch - playing at dinnertime - a kid sitting on a toilet having a dump and calling out to mum that it's really stinky and he needs deodorant!

It just adds that zing to a meal.