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Just watched the commercial for Fisher investors/investments. The one where Ken Fisher himself says he would die & go to hell before he would sell annuities .

Most of us here ? Are close to the same age ? give or take a decade would be my guess.

Did ya ever think we would see a day when the pitch man in a commercial would cuss in the commercial to sell anything?

Remember when Ozzie & Harriet had to have on PJ's & robes , and be seen getting into separate beds? If it was a bedroom scene?
 

I remember when Ed Sullivan only showed Elvis from the waist up because his "pelvis" was too scandalous. The language on TV is horrible. Now it seems like everything is blatant, vulgar, violent. I kind of miss the days when the camera would cut away leaving a scene to a viewers imagination, an ad sold a product not a personal opinion. I liked the days when cartoons all had happy endings: The coyote had the dynamite blow up in his hand, the roadrunner beeped, both were back at it five minutes later. The cat never killed tweety.

I still remember some of the commercials from the 50's, the snappy little jingles that still linger in the recesses of my brain.

Where did it start to go bad? Did it begin when Rhett Butler said, "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn?" and suddenly using a forbidden word was OK? Was it the beach scene in "From Here to Eternity" that created the desire that TV producers recognized for what it was-pure gold? Was it when MTV made an appearance? Was it because of the 60's hippie,sex, drugs, rock and roll? Did it begin to happen when Carlin and Pryor made using the "F" word common? My grandmother and my parents would have made me bite a bar of soap if I used any of those words. But of course that would probably be considered child abuse now.

It's a different time for sure. I have more on in my underwear than half the women on TV who are "fully dressed".

I still think there's a lot to be said for separate beds though, preferably in a separate room, in a different house, on a different block etc.
 
dkay said:
I remember when Ed Sullivan only showed Elvis from the waist up because his "pelvis" was too scandalous. The language on TV is horrible. Now it seems like everything is blatant, vulgar, violent. I kind of miss the days when the camera would cut away leaving a scene to a viewers imagination, an ad sold a product not a personal opinion. I liked the days when cartoons all had happy endings: The coyote had the dynamite blow up in his hand, the roadrunner beeped, both were back at it five minutes later. The cat never killed tweety.

I still remember some of the commercials from the 50's, the snappy little jingles that still linger in the recesses of my brain.

Where did it start to go bad? Did it begin when Rhett Butler said, "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn?" and suddenly using a forbidden word was OK? Was it the beach scene in "From Here to Eternity" that created the desire that TV producers recognized for what it was-pure gold? Was it when MTV made an appearance? Was it because of the 60's hippie,sex, drugs, rock and roll? Did it begin to happen when Carlin and Pryor made using the "F" word common? My grandmother and my parents would have made me bite a bar of soap if I used any of those words. But of course that would probably be considered child abuse now.

It's a different time for sure. I have more on in my underwear than half the women on TV who are "fully dressed".

I still think there's a lot to be said for separate beds though, preferably in a separate room, in a different house, on a different block etc.
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WoW!...allot of truth in your post dkay....And that last sentence I agree with completely. Made that decision 46 years ago....:)
 

C'est Moi said:
I guess I don't consider the word "hell" to be cursing. It's not like he dropped an F-bomb or something. :eek:nthego:
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Same here, never thought of the word hell as a curse word. Although I've heard some people on TV over the years say H E Double Hockey Sticks. :D Our way of speaking has become much less formal and relaxed, as long as it's not something that's really vulgar or offensive, I don't think twice about it.
 
George Carlin would definitely need to revise his list of seven words that you can't use on television thanks to the introduction of cable.

I don't find any word offensive if it is used in the proper context.
 
C'est Moi said:
I guess I don't consider the word "hell" to be cursing. It's not like he dropped an F-bomb or something. :eek:nthego:
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Oh I agree, I don't really care what they say. I just never thought I'd see/hear it on TV/radio.

If for example a TV show has cussing in it? And mom & dad don't like it? Don't let the kids watch it. I'd rather our society return to strict parenting, than stricter censoring.............jmo
 
I record what I want to watch and then fast-forward through commercials. I'm too old to waste time watching them.
 
gennie said:
I record what I want to watch and then fast-forward through commercials. I'm too old to waste time watching them.
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I agree with that last sentence....

Besides, even if I do see something that looks good or promising . By the time I get up, put my pants on, find my shoes, put them on, walk out to my truck, and drive down to the store..........they'll have a new product out .......:D
 
The commercials are not only annoying to watch, but they are always louder than the show you were watching. Waste of time, for sure, unless of course you use them to grab something to eat or for a bathroom break:eek:nthego:
 
Interesting topic. I cut the TV cable some 15 years ago & never looked back. For the last several years I have been a big fan for ordering great DVDs from Amazon. Over the years we have watched every show from the following series: 1. All in the Family, 2. Johnny Yuma, 3. The Waltons 4. Hawaii Five-O. I really enjoy the old western such as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Have Gun Will Travel, etc. Don't like cable. I love the old shows from the 50s to 80s. Can't stand the noise, the swearing & the bad taste of modern TV.
 
I never watch commercials. Mostly I watch the streaming channels that come without commercials; it's worth a few bucks to me to avoid them. For the occasional commercials that I have shoved in my face, well, that's what mute buttons were designed for. What would we do without them?

I used to make an exception for the Super Bowl ads, but they aren't that funny any more either.
 
P.S. Times change, and language changes also. In Victorian times, any word remotely referring to a body part or function was considered taboo. Many hilarious substitutes were invented. There are entire books devoted to this subject. Some of the oldies, used as substitutes:

Gadzooks!
Consarn it!
Jeez Louise!
Drat, darn, anything else with a D
Heck
Yikes
Gosh
Limb (instead of leg)
Bosoms

Can you think of any more?
 
My wife hates, really hates, commercials. But, after seeing the commercial for the Shingles shot that Terry Bradshaw done, we both have gotten our first of two shingles shots.

Even though we will tolerate some swearing on tv and in movies, we really, really don't like it. Actually, in another forum, I done a thread about the Netflix Series shows of Grace & Franky and The Ranch. Both have language in them, but both are extremely funny and we love humor. In the beginning, Jane Fonda, who plays Grace, wasn't using any swear words at all, but now she is even saying the "F" word. Funny, but in one scene of Grace & Franky, Grace's daughter says the "F" word and Grace tells her "you know I don't like that word", but now she is using it. In the Netflix Series, The Ranch, Sam Elliott is the only one who is saying the "F" word and some others. If all of this language keeps up, my wife told me we just won't watch anymore episodes of either show. "Fine with me", I said.

Actually, us Seniors can wonder where society has gone with the "F" word language and drugs, but then again, the "F" word and drugs were very much a part of Woodstock and other major concerts back then. Just much more of both today.
 
Probably going to take some flak for this but here goes...Im surprised that the thing that you find distasteful in "Grace and Frankie" is the "F " bomb.
I enjoyed the 1couple of seasons,Lily Tomlin was a hoot,I did have a Netflix break for awhile,I think the whole vibrator business is very distasteful and have stopped watching for that reason,just MHO.
 
Giantsfan1954 said:
Probably going to take some flak for this but here goes...Im surprised that the thing that you find distasteful in "Grace and Frankie" is the "F " bomb.
I enjoyed the 1couple of seasons,Lily Tomlin was a hoot,I did have a Netflix break for awhile,I think the whole vibrator business is very distasteful and have stopped watching for that reason,just MHO.
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For the first few episodes of Grace & Franky, the "F" bomb wasn't used that much, but now...…..very different. Even Grace is saying it now pretty repeatedly. Yes, the vibrator thing was pretty disgusting, but now that Franky has moved out, not much heard about their product anymore. But, Grace is now seeing, in bed and out, the guy who tried to sue them over the product.

I've never heard Sam Elliott say the "F" bomb and other words, like he does in Netflix The Ranch. Funny, he teased his son, who moved back in, about his "city" looks, but never said a thing about his baseball cap turned around backwards. We get Farm & Ranch Magazine and have never seen young or old farm and ranch people wearing a baseball cap backwards.
 
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There used to be strict movie and TV morality codes... but most of those bit the dust in the 1960s.

Local TV and radio in Texas [and most of the Southern states] were also careful not to promote racial miscegenation [because miscegenation was illegal in those states until 1967.]
 
I often view some of my favorite shows online the day after they are broadcast. Quite often, they stream the videos without commercials. Many of these shows can be viewed online by logging in with your TV provider login and password, and if your internet service speed is fast enough...I have 100MB service...viewing the show on the computer is almost better than watching on TV. The average 1hr. show usually lasts about 42 minutes...sans the commercials.

The last few weeks, I've been enthralled with a show called "Yellowstone" on the Paramount network. It stars Kevin Costner, and it's quite a story...albeit a bit violent, with some crude language, etc., but quite captivating..

http://www.paramountnetwork.com/shows/yellowstone
 
I agree about Grace and Frankie. The language doesn't bother me so much, as I watch a lot of HBO and Netflix, and I've gotten used to it. But the story line of that series has become so absurd that it's annoying. I think after the first season they ran out of ideas, and are constantly pushing the envelope farther and farther for shock value. What a waste of these great comic actors.
 
You've all probably heard the saying something about foul words being used in place of the correct (nonfoul) word because the speaker doesn't know what the correct word to use is. (Or they're just foul minded so they don't care)......
 
I agree with Sunny that Grace and Frankie have run out of ideas. About the most offensive thing on that show to me is that someone would name their kid Coyote.

I'd rather hear bad language that to try and sit through violence.
 

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