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nvmac [OhFark]  
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2018-12-14 10:44:30 PM  
DNRTA.  Assuming it is because they are terrible.
 
Lucky LaRue [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-14 11:23:06 PM  
This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.
 
Tom_Slick  
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2018-12-14 11:37:34 PM  
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NewcastleBrownAle  
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2018-12-14 11:39:20 PM  

Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.


mmmmmmmmmm
 
some_beer_drinker  
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2018-12-14 11:40:13 PM  
does this mean we won't get anymore dr who? cause that would be great
 
Thong_of_Zardoz  
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2018-12-14 11:40:32 PM  
Holy fark. No wonder the Sun has Set.
 
TheLogicAvenger  
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2018-12-14 11:42:15 PM  
Wow, we need a modernized term for nanny state because nanny seems far too unrestrictive to describe what is happening on the UK.  And also we probably cant say it on tv anymore.
 
fngoofy  
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2018-12-14 11:42:39 PM  

Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.


Nothing to do with "liberals", it's a different breed of cat pushing this.
 
StatelyGreekAutomaton  
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2018-12-14 11:43:27 PM  
Does this mean I can report any ads that depict men who look better/seem smarter than me? Because otherwise this sounds like a complete gong show.
 
whatshisname [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-14 11:44:48 PM  
Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]  
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2018-12-14 11:46:46 PM  

fngoofy: Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.

Nothing to do with "liberals", it's a different breed of cat pushing this.


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Thong_of_Zardoz  
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2018-12-14 11:47:09 PM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


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"If they're not having a go with a bird, they're having a row with a wanker."
 
AverageAmericanGuy  
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2018-12-14 11:50:39 PM  
Peggy Hill will be thrilled.
 
Lucky LaRue [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-14 11:50:39 PM  

fngoofy: Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.

Nothing to do with "liberals", it's a different breed of cat pushing this.


This is what liberals actually believe.. smh
 
DubtodaIll  
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2018-12-14 11:53:06 PM  
Do people really agree with this stuff? It's not like "traditional" gender roles evolved out of thin air.  They're there because they've been incredibly successful.  Oh they're not perfect? What a surprise.
 
trappedspirit  
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2018-12-14 11:53:35 PM  
So women wearing a bikini is a stereotypical role?  wtf?  Seriously, what the blimey fluck?  Is that the right way to use "blimey"?

Adverts will no longer be able to show a person failing to achieve a task specifically because of their gender

Like a man trying to breastfeed?
 
Thong_of_Zardoz  
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2018-12-14 11:54:37 PM  

trappedspirit: So women wearing a bikini is a stereotypical role?  wtf?  Seriously, what the blimey fluck?  Is that the right way to use "blimey"?

Adverts will no longer be able to show a person failing to achieve a task specifically because of their gender

Like a man trying to breastfeed?


Or a woman trying to parallel park?
 
OgreMagi  
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2018-12-15 12:00:34 AM  

Thong_of_Zardoz: trappedspirit: So women wearing a bikini is a stereotypical role?  wtf?  Seriously, what the blimey fluck?  Is that the right way to use "blimey"?

Adverts will no longer be able to show a person failing to achieve a task specifically because of their gender

Like a man trying to breastfeed?

Or a woman trying to parallel park?


My mixed race (asian) niece likes to joke that she is genetically incapable of parallel parking.
 
stevenvictx  
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2018-12-15 12:02:17 AM  
So no commercial with guys peeing standing up
 
2chris2  
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2018-12-15 12:06:36 AM  

TheLogicAvenger: Wow, we need a modernized term for nanny state because nanny seems far too unrestrictive to describe what is happening on the UK.  And also we probably cant say it on tv anymore.


We have a term for it, they're called "social justice warriors".
 
Dead_Cat_In_A_Tophat  
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2018-12-15 12:14:21 AM  
I wasnt aware there was anything good beyond the reruns,
 
lando12310  
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2018-12-15 12:23:14 AM  

Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.


California and NY are already here.
 
lando12310  
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2018-12-15 12:24:13 AM  
FTA:  "The rules will also ban adverts that suggest that transforming your body will make you romantically successful"

So advertising that not being an obese hippo might actually make you more attractive is now illegal.
 
Big Lee  
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2018-12-15 12:27:16 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


You take that back.  Numberwang was brilliant.
 
I want that sauce Morty!  
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2018-12-15 12:27:30 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


Roy: Do you know any woman who isn't shoe mad.

Moss: No, but I only know one woman and she just ran out of here screaming "THE SHOOOOOOOEEEEEEES!"
 
Krieghund  
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2018-12-15 12:32:38 AM  

stevenvictx: So no commercial with guys peeing standing up


No, it's no commercials where women have to pee sitting down.  They can't be limited by their gender.
 
OkieDookie  
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2018-12-15 12:33:19 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


What, you mean you can't see how Friends derived from Heil Honey, I'm Home?
 
lando12310  
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2018-12-15 12:41:31 AM  

Big Lee: whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.

You take that back.  Numberwang was brilliant.


OMFG, Mitchell and Webb are genius. Honestly, so much funnier than any U.S. comedic duo.
 
rjakobi  
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2018-12-15 12:43:40 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


I've just spent the past week watching the complete Are You Being Served and can't find myself to agree with you.
 
lenfromak  
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2018-12-15 12:51:24 AM  

Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.


Since they disarmed everyone in the UK, now the government there can do anything they damn well please.
 
Gordon Bennett [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 12:54:09 AM  

DubtodaIll: Do people really agree with this stuff? It's not like "traditional" gender roles evolved out of thin air.  They're there because they've been incredibly successful.  Oh they're not perfect? What a surprise.


Incredibly successful to whom?
 
scalpod  
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2018-12-15 1:02:58 AM  
When I was a kid and living in England it wasn't sitcoms that were the problem, it was shows like Dallas and Dynasty (or "Din-a-stee", as they pronounced it).
 
Nicholas D. Wolfwood [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 1:06:42 AM  

StatelyGreekAutomaton: Does this mean I can report any ads that depict men who look better/seem smarter than me? Because otherwise this sounds like a complete gong show.


Read the short story "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Read the story, don't watch the TV Movie.

Only thing of Vonnegut's I ever actually liked, or even sorta agreed with.

Wanted to post a link to the complete text of the story, but I'm Farking while monitoring a process for work, and the work systems won't let me get that link.  Wonder if that means something?
 
Doctor Poop  
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2018-12-15 1:09:50 AM  
Ugh
 
gunther_bumpass  
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2018-12-15 1:15:25 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


True, we have such titans as According to Jim and Young Sheldon.
 
gunther_bumpass  
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2018-12-15 1:19:25 AM  

lando12310: Big Lee: whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.

You take that back.  Numberwang was brilliant.

OMFG, Mitchell and Webb are genius. Honestly, so much funnier than any U.S. comedic duo.


Oh come now - Steve Carrell and Rainn Wilson are a much funnier pair. Maybe you just don't get their far more subtle and erudite humor.
 
NephilimNexus  
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2018-12-15 1:31:42 AM  
They'll need to ban American commercials, then, too - they're even worse.

Rules for American TV commercials:

1) All males are completely incompetent at all domestic tasks and require a woman to show them how to do anything right.

2) Only women eat yogurt.

3) All people in dental related product commercials already have perfect, mirror-bright teeth.

4) No fat people allowed in junk food ads.

5) Only sexy people allowed in beer & car commercials.

6) Only buff 1% body people allowed in exercise equipment ads.

etc... basically, advertisers only show people in their commercials that obviously don't use their products and 1950s gender stereotypes.  Unless it's an Apple ad - then it's nothing but hipsters, which is pretty spot on accurate.
 
StatelyGreekAutomaton  
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2018-12-15 1:40:00 AM  

Nicholas D. Wolfwood: StatelyGreekAutomaton: Does this mean I can report any ads that depict men who look better/seem smarter than me? Because otherwise this sounds like a complete gong show.

Read the short story "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Read the story, don't watch the TV Movie.

Only thing of Vonnegut's I ever actually liked, or even sorta agreed with.

Wanted to post a link to the complete text of the story, but I'm Farking while monitoring a process for work, and the work systems won't let me get that link.  Wonder if that means something?


Thanks for the suggestion. I have read it though, and think it's a great short story.

Which reminds me, this law should also provide me my own personal ballerina. For reasons.
 
Nicholas D. Wolfwood [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 1:46:44 AM  

StatelyGreekAutomaton: Nicholas D. Wolfwood: StatelyGreekAutomaton: Does this mean I can report any ads that depict men who look better/seem smarter than me? Because otherwise this sounds like a complete gong show.

Read the short story "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Read the story, don't watch the TV Movie.

Only thing of Vonnegut's I ever actually liked, or even sorta agreed with.

Wanted to post a link to the complete text of the story, but I'm Farking while monitoring a process for work, and the work systems won't let me get that link.  Wonder if that means something?

Thanks for the suggestion. I have read it though, and think it's a great short story.

Which reminds me, this law should also provide me my own personal ballerina. For reasons.


OK, then, you get it.  Glad you liked the story.
 
Special Guest  
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2018-12-15 1:59:37 AM  
Men laughing with salads?
 
Trik  
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2018-12-15 2:15:41 AM  
Will the nanny be feeding, burping, changing their diapers and put them down for their naps also?
 
Kat09tails [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-15 2:17:11 AM  
My friends and I approve.
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aungen [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 2:18:40 AM  

Trik: Will the nanny be feeding, burping, changing their diapers and put them down for their naps also?


Oh what I wouldn't give to be touched like that, for the first time in my Life. You lucky, lucky bastard.

(Hopefully this was read in your head with an English accent)
 
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2018-12-15 2:21:22 AM  

Gordon Bennett: DubtodaIll: Do people really agree with this stuff? It's not like "traditional" gender roles evolved out of thin air.  They're there because they've been incredibly successful.  Oh they're not perfect? What a surprise.

Incredibly successful to whom?


Hunter gatherers, subsistence farmers, working class people with kids... you know mouth breathers.
 
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2018-12-15 2:25:59 AM  

NephilimNexus: They'll need to ban American commercials, then, too - they're even worse.

Rules for American TV commercials:

1) All males are completely incompetent at all domestic tasks and require a woman to show them how to do anything right.

2) Only women eat yogurt.

3) All people in dental related product commercials already have perfect, mirror-bright teeth.

4) No fat people allowed in junk food ads.

5) Only sexy people allowed in beer & car commercials.

6) Only buff 1% body people allowed in exercise equipment ads.

etc... basically, advertisers only show people in their commercials that obviously don't use their products and 1950s gender stereotypes.  Unless it's an Apple ad - then it's nothing but hipsters, which is pretty spot on accurate.


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2018-12-15 2:30:04 AM  
Drank a bottle of wine and fell asleep. Cant believe this POS of a headline got greenlit  

/Stay farky, Fark
 
Lee Jackson Beauregard  
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2018-12-15 3:07:06 AM  

lenfromak: Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.

Since they disarmed everyone in the UK, now the government there can do anything they damn well please.


Yeah, and all the gun nuts here in the Land Of The Free® are going to march on Washington any minute now to remove the wannabe tyrant from the White House.
 
Lee Jackson Beauregard  
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2018-12-15 3:10:36 AM  

Lucky LaRue: fngoofy: Lucky LaRue: This is the kind of nanny state liberals are trying to force down America's throat.

Nothing to do with "liberals", it's a different breed of cat pushing this.

This is what liberals actually believe.. smh


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calufrax  
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2018-12-15 3:37:09 AM  

whatshisname: Many British sitcoms and game shows are far worse than anything ever aired in the US.


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orbister  
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2018-12-15 3:57:56 AM  
Just so you know, this is a move by the Advertising Standards Authority which is a private body, independent of government and funded by the advertising industry. It has no powers to penalize.

So, those of you worried about the nanny state, libruls and SJWs, what have you got against private companies setting their own standards?
 
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