American TV

Look, we're NOT all 12 years old OK?

Censorship on TV really grips my shit, specifically when so-called 'bad words' like "shit", "piss" and (oooooh, here a really bad one) "goddamn" are bleeped out.

Even out of grown-up shows being broadcast into the wee small hours of the night/morning.

Why IS it that just because a few parents can't police their own children properly we all have to treated like imbeciles? Even protected from apparent horrors like someone flipping the bird at the camera or someone's ass cleavage?!

Sure, let's not show a couple fucking in a movie, but make sure we do show shooting, graphic violence and killings on "Cop"-like reality shows. Suuuuuuuure, that makes good sense.

I think the commandments included "thou shalt not kill" NOT "thou shalt not fuck" so why are pandering to the possibility someone might get offended when their religion (and you know this is about religion) actually condemns the thing that isn't banned?!

At least - like most civilised countries, including the whole of Europe - have a watershed, say after 9pm - when kids (if parents have ANY fucking common sense) should NOT be watching, and where a much more relaxed attitude is adopted.

I'm sure people won't be expecting say The Disney Channel to show an unexpurgated version of "Beverly Hills Cop", but at least this would give the grown-up channels a chance to be, oh, I don't know... maybe fucking "grown-up"??