Kids:
Next time Grandma comes whinning about how they world has become too liberated, and how good values prevailed in the old days, show her this... link
deleted user 22.08.2006 23:26
Meanwhile, a frying pan to the face remains fine...
--Penetration_Guru
lol
i cant beileve they banned smoking!!
My roommate just came back from Scotland (she's Scottish and here for the PhD program)....I read her the article on this, and she just shook her head and started laughing. :-)
You said dic....
anyewho that is shit, I mean looking at the pack of my dad's ciggeret pack has made me not want to smoke, and I was just about to eat when I saw that... *shivers*
deleted user 23.08.2006 06:23
Penetration_Guru wrote: Meanwhile, a frying pan to the face remains fine...
Exactly, and the kids are more interested in that side of it anyway. My six-year-old sister watches these cartoons every day, and I don't think she's going to start smoking anytime soon.
These people will always come up with something. What was it about Harry Potter books being banned in schools because it could encourage kids to practise witchcraft?
I don't smoke, but this anti-smoking witchhunt is getting out of hand. I'll bet you that an absolute majority of the anti-smoking lobby consists of boozers, people who eat more than some small nations, child-porn fans and other major vices. In other words: they themselves aren't as clean as they wish to make out. A bit like the McCarthy-crew, actually.
I somewhat agree with having smoking banned from cartoons. For the naive mind of a little child, it might indeed seem as a bad influence for which the kid will get the idea that smoking is OK.
However, I would only consider a ban on smoking cartoon characters during times when kids are most likely to be watching.
Since Boomerang shows cartoons 24/7, perhaps I might say that after 9 p.m. they could show classic cartoons completely uncut, including 'Fritz The Cat', and that other cartoon where Donald Duck is getting a blow job.
Yeah...I noticed. :-P
I haven't slept yet! Leave me alone! :-)
I tried to add you to my MSN Live (cause we can do Yahoo messenger stuff too). Did you get it?
CMU HistoryGirl wrote: Yeah...I noticed. :-P
I haven't slept yet! Leave me alone! :-)
I tried to add you to my MSN Live (cause we can do Yahoo messenger stuff too). Did you get it?
I rarely go on Yahoo messenger.
I use MSN most of the time, so you could try reaching me there instead.
I think I got it to add you (Lisser gave me your handle yesterday). I think. I'm not real familiar with MSN Messenger Live. If it didn't go through for whatever reason, my handle is in the signature of my posts. :-)
Smoking advertising is done everywhere. The companies are certainly trying to market to kids, because they are the next generation of smokers.
Banning smoking from cartoons may be going a bit too far, but it really won't change anything, because kids see people smoking every day, which in itself is advertising.