Guitar Malfunction

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

And, as a 6-foot-tall dirty gaijin fat American male, if I stand in the middle of a Japanese department store and say it somewhat loudly, it will completely mortify Lani (and I suppose the fact that I was willing to do that explains why she won't tell me how to say monkeybutt in Japanese, requiring me to instead say "monkey, but" since I know those words on my own).

I don't think I want to know why you'd want to do this......

[Alex]

Monkeybutt is just a word I say randomly. Don't know why. It just appeals (and therefore it was funny when some character said it randomly on an episode of Scrubs).

But, even though I don't say it right, I've grown fond of saying it "monkey, but" in Japanese so that I know what I mean and no stray Japanese people around are possibly offended (though they still think I'm retarded most likely).

[Ghoulish Delight]

As for whether what Prince did should be considered appropriate for TV, or should require some sort of "Turn your children away" disclaimer...I don't know. It's a never-ending debate with no clear dividing line. My view of it oscillates constantly.

But what I do know is that I find it ridiculous that, while the Prince "thing" is getting covered, it's NOT generating the outrage that the boob did, and that belies to me a seriously screwed up double standard. What a wonderful message. Simply seeing a part of the human female anatomy for a second, with nothing else to intimate a sexual context is the height of debauchery and lead to one of the largest fines the FCC has ever levied, but a 60 foot silhouetted simulation of male masturbation is just kinda debatable.

Like I said, I don't claim to have an answer as to whether it should be controlled, regulated, disclaimered, censored, etc. But damnit I wish people would get their priorities straight and stop this nonsense of declaring the human body (and more specifically the female body) as de facto pervesrion.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

As for whether what Prince did should be considered appropriate for TV, or should require some sort of "Turn your children away" disclaimer...I don't know. It's a never-ending debate with no clear dividing line. My view of it oscillates constantly.

But what I do know is that I find it ridiculous that, while the Prince "thing" is getting covered, it's NOT generating the outrage that the boob did, and that belies to me a seriously screwed up double standard. What a wonderful message. Simply seeing a part of the human female anatomy for a second, with nothing else to intimate a sexual context is the height of debauchery and lead to one of the largest fines the FCC has ever levied, but a 60 foot silhouetted simulation of male masturbation is just kinda debatable.

Like I said, I don't claim to have an answer as to whether it should be controlled, regulated, disclaimered, censored, etc. But damnit I wish people would get their priorities straight and stop this nonsense of declaring the human body (and more specifically the female body) as de facto pervesrion.

I agree that there's no meaningful difference between the two acts, but there certainly was a sexual context to the breast. They did a sexy duet, he ripped part of her clothes off, and she was wearing that strange nipple dart.

Most fines don't deter. When Randy Moss was fined $10K for fake mooning the Green Bay fans, he said, "What's ten thousand to me. Next time I'll shake my d*ck at them." Vince McMahon regularly gets fined by cities where bloodletting is not allowed in wrestling matches. He puts on the show he wants for his loyal audience, pays his fine and heads to the next city to do it again. I doubt the FCC could/would fine a network or the NFL enough to prevent future "malfunctions."

[Alex]

I'm of the opinion that the FCC should have thanked Janet Jackson for teaching our young women that you can do more with your nipples than simply have them.

[Kevy Baby]

Or what NOT to do with them.

Depending on you POV.

[Alex]

Nothing wrong with a pierced nipple. She didn't show what you should do, but what you could do.

Piercing a nipple doesn't seem any odder than piercing an ear (though it is potentially more rewarding depending on your preferences).

[bewitched]

I just don't think that a vast majority of little kids see a performer playing a guitar behind a screen as masterbatory (no matter how provocative the performer's movements seem to be to adults). And while obviously, little kids masterbate, it's not commonly sexual in nature.

If a kid does view it as provacative or sexual, it is because (s)he already has context from elsewhere, probably from their anal retentive parents who made a big freakin' deal out of it instead of just allowing it to be a performance.

People need to get over it.



And Alex, he is short, he's also skinny...but for some reason he exudes sexy.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Piercing a nipple doesn't seem any odder than piercing an ear (though it is potentially more rewarding depending on your preferences).

With one crucial difference. Keep a barbell in your ear when you're camping in the cold and you're fine. Keep a barbell in your nipple when you're camping in the cold and it's seriously painful.