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Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
The Person in Question
And time can do so much.
The blue elephant in the room.
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
i agree, except with the ‘sorry’ part. leave that to warb
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
Not fast enough for me.
The Person in Question
Time makes me feel like a cat named Rodney
Tim pisses me off to, always ‘borrowing’ my stuff and rarely returning it in the are condition, if at all.
Stupid Tim. I pass him by as quickly as I can.
Are there some who call him that?
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
I feel like the older I get the faster time seems to pass.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
where’s that ric pic fella
Are there some who call him that?
Reference detected and appreciated
where’s that ric pic fella
He’s union now.
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
I feel like the older I get the faster time seems to pass.
Sounds like a good thing to me.
The Person in Question
I don’t know why or how movies/TV can get away with what they do now. Like, it looks like porn. That, and what they seem to show high schoolers and other minors. Binge drinking till they pass out, having sex (in incredibly explicit ways), so on and so on. These are minors… why are we normalizing this?
Did you not go to high school? Not saying it’s necessarily good to show teenagers doing that on TV, but it certainly didn’t need TVs help to become the norm.
The trend is that it is actually decreasing.
I’d like to make clear that my problem is not that teens have sex and drink alcohol, though I don’t particularly like the thought, it’s something so widespread that nothing you do is going to stop it. But the way media portrays it in increasingly explicit ways seems to glorify and perpetuate it, and I find that kind of disgusting. I feel like we need to better educate our children of consequences in a better way than we currently are.
I’d like to make clear that my problem is not that teens have sex and drink alcohol, though I don’t particularly like the thought, it’s something so widespread that nothing you do is going to stop it. But the way media portrays it in increasingly explicit ways seems to glorify and perpetuate it, and I find that kind of disgusting. I feel like we need to better educate our children of consequences in a better way than we currently are.
I agree completely.
I don’t know why or how movies/TV can get away with what they do now. Like, it looks like porn. That, and what they seem to show high schoolers and other minors. Binge drinking till they pass out, having sex (in incredibly explicit ways), so on and so on.
I don’t think television programs show nude minors engaging in sexual activity. I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but when actors pretend to have sex, all they’re doing is pretending. It isn’t actually happening and typically these actors and actress aren’t minors, they’re usually in their twenties. If the movie or TV show is good, then I don’t care what kind of nudity or sexual content or drinking on camera occurs. If the movie or TV show is bad, then I don’t watch it.
These are minors… why are we normalizing this?
Because it’s not 1958 anymore. We don’t consider, or at least we shouldn’t consider, what is going to offend people’s sensibilities when we try to tell a compelling story.
I’d like to make clear that my problem is not that teens have sex and drink alcohol, though I don’t particularly like the thought, it’s something so widespread that nothing you do is going to stop it. But the way media portrays it in increasingly explicit ways seems to glorify and perpetuate it, and I find that kind of disgusting. I feel like we need to better educate our children of consequences in a better way than we currently are.
Won’t someone please, just please, think of the children?! Give me a break. Parents can teach their own children what’s right and what’s wrong. If the kids are relying on television for their morals then they’re already fucked so don’t try to water down entertainment even more for the sake of poorly raised children.
The Person in Question
people aren’t supposed to watch those sort of tv shows before they’re at least 16 or 17, but nobody cares. also, most teens are like that, so why would they change from displaying reality to a twisted utopia?
I don’t know. I don’t get it.
The Person in Question
I’d like to make clear that my problem is not that teens have sex and drink alcohol, though I don’t particularly like the thought, it’s something so widespread that nothing you do is going to stop it.
But the way media portrays it in increasingly explicit ways seems to glorify and perpetuate it, and I find that kind of disgusting. I feel like we need to better educate our children of consequences in a better way than we currently are.
There is some dissonance between those two paragraphs. You seem to think there is something we can do and I agree.
It does come down to parenting like mfm says, although I depart from him in wanting to limit their access to certain media. And I don’t think the fact that it’s not 1958 means anything.
I don’t watch much TV (and don’t know what shows you’re referencing) but I’ve been long appalled by what is normalized by many shows that aren’t explicit.
TV isn’t a representative medium. The Parents Television Council seeks to “protect children and families from graphic sex, violence and profanity in the media, because of their proven long-term harmful effects.”
The blue elephant in the room.
The trend is that it is actually decreasing.
So it being shown on TV isn’t actually a problem after all, right? And let’s be honest, teens aren’t watching TV anyway.
Tangentially related, but 6th graders are more vulgar than one would expect.
I don’t know, watching porn when I want a story isn’t really for me, especially underage porn.