Tom & Jerry censored - for smoking!!

[Flat_Eric]

I can't help thinking that the UK is becoming more and more like Soviet Russia every day, with more and more personal freedoms, lifestyle choices and even attitudes and opinions under attack from the paragons of political correctness, vocal minorities with an agenda, assorted campaign pressure groups and a nannying Government.

"Don't do this, don't do that".

"Ban this, ban that".

"You can't say such-and-such because it may offend this or that group".

In the Great Socialist Utopia that was the Soviet Union, they used to censor films by simply editing movies and newsreels to literally blank out people who had fallen out of favour with the Party. Literally airbrushing them out and pretending that they didn't exist.

Now (I've just seen on tonight's news) the same thing is happening with certain episodes of old "Tom & Jerry" cartoons, with scenes depicting cartoon animals indulging in stylised smoking having the offending scenes edited out in the interests of "protecting children".

It seems that the (mostly self-appointed) "guardians of the most vulnerable members of society" have no problem with all the stylised violence portrayed in these cartoons - for example Tom & Jerry (and that bad-ass bulldog whose name escapes me) bashing each other round the head with saucepans, dropping heavy objects on each other and blowing each other up with sticks of cartoon dynamite etc.

They are, it would seem, confident that as far as the "violence" is concerned, your average primary-schooler will realise that it's just a cartoon and so won't start whacking his or her siblings around the head with kitchenware after watching it.

But apparently they feel that there's a risk that seeing a cartoon cat chomping on a cigar while playing tennis will encourage young kids to take up smoking.

Fucking madness!!!!!

I'm against censorship full stop. But once they start censoring classic cartoons in this way, it seems to me that the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

[planeterotica]

Kids know they are cartoons and that they are not really smoking but the do gooders of this world cannot see it because they are fuckung stupid!wink!

[todge]

Good

They should add it to the arsenal over here as well.

God knows how much NHS money is wasted on avoidable,self-inflicted illness arising from smoking,drink and drugs

I could never be a doctor,because I could never treat a 50 a day lung cancer patient with the same compassion as a 5 year old kid with a brain tumour.

[hattertim]

Apparently only one person complained about this...so now they're not only going to censor Tom & Jerry, but also go back through all the Hanna Barbera back catalogue as well to get rid of any smoking references! What next?

[planeterotica]

Most of the old cartoons contained violence if they cut all of that out there wont be much left, its only a cartoon !sad!

[biffalo]

But what about Jerry being exposed to passive smoking from Tom's cigar?

[AngieRiley]

I'm a Part-Time Smoker and Full-Time Mother, Its About FUCKING TIME they got rid of Cartoon Characters that Smoke!


But EVEN IMPORTANT:

BAN ALL the Re-Mortage, Debt Management and Insurance ADVERTS from the Cartoon Channels!!! If I ever hear another kiddie sing "O 800 DOUBLE O TEN SIXTYSIX" in a Toy Shop or Supermarket I'LL SCREAM!

[Snake Diamond]

You learn to "compartmentalize your feelings".

The same way Medics, Ambulance, Police, Fire Brigade officers do the same.

[Snake Diamond]

Them advertising companies should be SHOT.

Since fucking when do kids have morgages or loans, or how could they get the cash in the first place ?

99% of ALL Adverts are so god-damned fucking irritatiing, I want to shoot them (the makers of the adverts), or beat them with a bloody axe.


AngieRiley wrote:

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>
> I'm a Part-Time Smoker and Full-Time Mother, Its About FUCKING
> TIME they got rid of Cartoon Characters that Smoke!
>
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> But EVEN IMPORTANT:
>
> BAN ALL the Re-Mortage, Debt Management and Insurance ADVERTS
> from the Cartoon Channels!!! If I ever hear another kiddie sing
> "O 800 DOUBLE O TEN SIXTYSIX" in a Toy Shop or Supermarket I'LL
> SCREAM!

[randyandy]

I am an anti-smoker one of those whinging bastards (as the smokers see me) who when people light up say do you have to, if I am around them.

Have to say though that this is one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard.

There is a much chance of a cat and a mouse incouraging kids to smoke because they have seen it in a cartoon as there is of me shagging Kelly Dalgleish, Kirsty Gallagher and the little irish lass that does the weather on Sky News Lisa in one night!