Email reply from CH5... What they had to say... - Page 2

Bart · 10 Jul 2003, 12:34

amen

!
Hallelujah!

CarylB · 10 Jul 2003, 13:13

As FM said, given the soft-porn nature of many of the videos made to accompany popsongs now which all the channels play quite happily at any time of the day, this is preposterous.

And Channel 5's statement is both hypocritical and ridiculous. When Meat was on the Des and Mel show he asked, when he was referring to the false breasts he wore in Fight Club, what word he could use on daytime TV. On Channel 5 he no doubt considered that the word he used (which is commonplace, euphemistic and perfectly acceptable in the UK) would provide no cause for complaint given the first "competition" (clearly aimed at the young, given the admonishment to make sure when texting their entry they had the permission of the person who was responsible for paying the bill) was "Balls in the pants" .. and provided the "presenters" with much seized opportunity for double entendres like "She's going to get the balls out of his pants now" .. "I'm trying to grab the balls in his pants" and "I can now say to him you have no balls in your pants!"

As, according to SueW's report, they did not show Meat singing CHSIB live, but in a recorded piece just afterwards, and certainly AFL was obviously shown thus, there was no reason at all to curtail his performance for the spurious reason he might have contravened some imagined decency standard. And the reporting of the interview strays just far enough from the truth to be misleading and sensationalist.

All this to me smacks of paddling for the shore after they had treated Meat extremely badly and were trying to justify their actions in the face of many complaints received about that, rather than their concern about the use of the word in question.

I remember the dismissive response a few years ago to a friend of mine who had complained about the aardvaark puppet on a children's TV show saying he wanted to recruit a secretary "with big bazoomas". And now a TV company trumpet loudly that the word frig-ging is indecent? What a crock!!

Testify · 10 Jul 2003, 15:02

another example aswell as britany spears and i think that she is worse than britany is christina aguilara (dunno how to spell her name) her video to dirrty!! is faul!! maybe not to some lads but what example is this setting?? i think its appauling!!

n meat cant even say friggin!! for christ sake, what is this excuse for a world coming to!!

original sin · 10 Jul 2003, 18:53

My kids are 13 & 17, they watched the interview and never batted and eyelid. They have asked their friends who saw it and no one had a problem with it.
However interestingly enough they the supposed children this is aimed at described Beyonce as "soft porn"!

well there ya go!

Shadows On The Wall · 10 Jul 2003, 21:06

At least they replied, they nevr bother when i send email

Asha · 10 Jul 2003, 21:33

I remember Meat saying "No F***ing way" in concert at amsterdam, thinking he would get fined for it. Lol we soon convinced him this would not be the case!

Thank goodness the netherlands is more "liberal"

Asha

Bigmomma · 10 Jul 2003, 22:25

maybe if we put meat in a bra and mini skirt and sent him back they
wouldnt give two hells wether he swears or not ,oh sorry maybe
his boobs wont be big enough ...
i tell you it is so aimed at the men these concerts.
and yes i totally agree about brittneys video being aimed at the
perverts and yet there seems to be alot of swearing on childrens tv
these days or maybe thats just on the irish tv channels
channel 5 are just talking through there buttocks to try and save
there necks.
big momma

cerysmeatloaf · 17 Jul 2003, 19:32

just throught i would let you know i was whatching tv and they said friggin ok so it wassent on channel 5 but i think it goes to prove that you can say it on tv

plymboy · 20 Jul 2003, 13:13

kids will pick up bad language from parents,school just about anywhere.its just the age old thing blame the rock star for being a bad influence.in a society where we have perverts,muderers etc and all they have to worry about is meat saying f***.i doubt meat has lost any sleep over this but i think its ridiculous.the problem with britain is that we are a nation of prudes,on sex,swearing etc,i just wish we could be more relaxed about it all.you can have people smoking on tv when kids are watching so what is wrong with this world( or at least england).f*** c5,f*** the censors f*** em all.

CarylB · 20 Jul 2003, 13:29

I agree with most of what you say .. but the thing is that we're NOT a nation of prudes .. our TV has nudity, sex and very explcit swearing, our humour is full of sexual innuendo and double entendres, our soaps shown before the watershed feature strong and sexual storylines .. so why do a small majority whinge on about the use of words which have pretty much passed into the vernacular? .. PITP and their presenters decided to take offence imo .. and for no defensible reason .. and hypocritical given theie own game show "Balls in the pants" which was aimed at the youger viewers and in which the presenters exploited every opportunity for comments lime "I'll now reach into his pants and see how many balls he has"

They fawned over all the young singers/groups and seemed intent on finding fault with Meat imo .. just beneath contempt really

jcmoorehead · 20 Jul 2003, 16:28

Its amazing thought in my opinion. I mean the fact Channel 5 can go on about Decency

I've heard worse stuff on TV during the day. I mean just watch wrestling or something and you'll see what I mean. But some people continue to be hypocrites and complain about the smallest things

jcmoorehead · 20 Jul 2003, 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarylB

hypocritical given theie own game show "Balls in the pants" which was aimed at the youger viewers and in which the presenters exploited every opportunity for comments lime "I'll now reach into his pants and see how many balls he has"

And let me just say that the thing you just mentioned is sick and wrong. And those presenter need several slaps with trouts.

CarylB · 20 Jul 2003, 16:35

jcm wrote:

Quote:

... those presenter need several slaps with trouts.

Tricky one that .. with the silicone lip injections how could you tell what you were slapping from what you were slapping it with?

Never understood why anyone should voluntarily have treatment which makes them look like an aggressive turbot .. lol

plymboy · 20 Jul 2003, 20:48

maybe a nation of prudes was the wrong words.swearing has been around for centuries and if kids hear it they hear it.you can walk down the street and you can here people swearing.what are you going to do tell them not to go out on the streets swearing until all the little kids havebeen cleared off the streets and sent to bed .this issue of swearing has been going on for years,and im sure it will carry on until we realise there is a lot worse things out there than saying f***.i would just like to say to c5 shut the f*** up.

10 Jul 2003, 22:25	#32
Bigmomma Super Loafer Join Date: 07.07.2003 Location: Somewhere in time in my mind......... Posts: 655	ch5 email maybe if we put meat in a bra and mini skirt and sent him back they wouldnt give two hells wether he swears or not ,oh sorry maybe his boobs wont be big enough ... i tell you it is so aimed at the men these concerts. and yes i totally agree about brittneys video being aimed at the perverts and yet there seems to be alot of swearing on childrens tv these days or maybe thats just on the irish tv channels channel 5 are just talking through there buttocks to try and save there necks. big momma

20 Jul 2003, 13:13	#34
plymboy Loafer Join Date: 18.07.2003 Posts: 79	f* em kids will pick up bad language from parents,school just about anywhere.its just the age old thing blame the rock star for being a bad influence.in a society where we have perverts,muderers etc and all they have to worry about is meat saying f.i doubt meat has lost any sleep over this but i think its ridiculous.the problem with britain is that we are a nation of prudes,on sex,swearing etc,i just wish we could be more relaxed about it all.you can have people smoking on tv when kids are watching so what is wrong with this world( or at least england).f c5,f* the censors f*** em all.

20 Jul 2003, 20:48	#39
plymboy Loafer Join Date: 18.07.2003 Posts: 79	ok i was wrong maybe a nation of prudes was the wrong words.swearing has been around for centuries and if kids hear it they hear it.you can walk down the street and you can here people swearing.what are you going to do tell them not to go out on the streets swearing until all the little kids havebeen cleared off the streets and sent to bed .this issue of swearing has been going on for years,and im sure it will carry on until we realise there is a lot worse things out there than saying f*.i would just like to say to c5 shut the f* up.

10 Jul 2003, 12:34	#26
Bart Bald Mega Loafer Join Date: 06.03.2003 Location: Holland, but I prefer Greece Posts: 2,243	amen ! Hallelujah!

10 Jul 2003, 13:13	#27
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	As FM said, given the soft-porn nature of many of the videos made to accompany popsongs now which all the channels play quite happily at any time of the day, this is preposterous. And Channel 5's statement is both hypocritical and ridiculous. When Meat was on the Des and Mel show he asked, when he was referring to the false breasts he wore in Fight Club, what word he could use on daytime TV. On Channel 5 he no doubt considered that the word he used (which is commonplace, euphemistic and perfectly acceptable in the UK) would provide no cause for complaint given the first "competition" (clearly aimed at the young, given the admonishment to make sure when texting their entry they had the permission of the person who was responsible for paying the bill) was "Balls in the pants" .. and provided the "presenters" with much seized opportunity for double entendres like "She's going to get the balls out of his pants now" .. "I'm trying to grab the balls in his pants" and "I can now say to him you have no balls in your pants!" As, according to SueW's report, they did not show Meat singing CHSIB live, but in a recorded piece just afterwards, and certainly AFL was obviously shown thus, there was no reason at all to curtail his performance for the spurious reason he might have contravened some imagined decency standard. And the reporting of the interview strays just far enough from the truth to be misleading and sensationalist. All this to me smacks of paddling for the shore after they had treated Meat extremely badly and were trying to justify their actions in the face of many complaints received about that, rather than their concern about the use of the word in question. I remember the dismissive response a few years ago to a friend of mine who had complained about the aardvaark puppet on a children's TV show saying he wanted to recruit a secretary "with big bazoomas". And now a TV company trumpet loudly that the word frig-ging is indecent? What a crock!!

10 Jul 2003, 15:02	#28
Testify ragamuffin Join Date: 21.05.2003 Location: xxx daydreaming xxx Posts: 5,023	another example aswell as britany spears and i think that she is worse than britany is christina aguilara (dunno how to spell her name) her video to dirrty!! is faul!! maybe not to some lads but what example is this setting?? i think its appauling!! n meat cant even say friggin!! for christ sake, what is this excuse for a world coming to!!

10 Jul 2003, 18:53	#29
original sin Sinner Join Date: 15.04.2003 Location: cyber space Posts: 2,457	My kids are 13 & 17, they watched the interview and never batted and eyelid. They have asked their friends who saw it and no one had a problem with it. However interestingly enough they the supposed children this is aimed at described Beyonce as "soft porn"! well there ya go!

10 Jul 2003, 21:06	#30
Shadows On The Wall Super Loafer Join Date: 17.03.2003 Location: Wales Posts: 278	At least they replied, they nevr bother when i send email

10 Jul 2003, 21:33	#31
Asha Mega Loafer Join Date: 05.05.2003 Location: Somewhere out there Posts: 1,356	I remember Meat saying "No F***ing way" in concert at amsterdam, thinking he would get fined for it. Lol we soon convinced him this would not be the case! Thank goodness the netherlands is more "liberal" Asha

17 Jul 2003, 19:32	#33
cerysmeatloaf Super Loafer Join Date: 20.04.2003 Location: south wales uk Posts: 454	just throught i would let you know i was whatching tv and they said friggin ok so it wassent on channel 5 but i think it goes to prove that you can say it on tv

20 Jul 2003, 13:29	#35
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	I agree with most of what you say .. but the thing is that we're NOT a nation of prudes .. our TV has nudity, sex and very explcit swearing, our humour is full of sexual innuendo and double entendres, our soaps shown before the watershed feature strong and sexual storylines .. so why do a small majority whinge on about the use of words which have pretty much passed into the vernacular? .. PITP and their presenters decided to take offence imo .. and for no defensible reason .. and hypocritical given theie own game show "Balls in the pants" which was aimed at the youger viewers and in which the presenters exploited every opportunity for comments lime "I'll now reach into his pants and see how many balls he has" They fawned over all the young singers/groups and seemed intent on finding fault with Meat imo .. just beneath contempt really

20 Jul 2003, 16:28	#36
jcmoorehead Super Loafer Join Date: 09.04.2003 Location: Edinburgh, formerly Teesside Posts: 672	Its amazing thought in my opinion. I mean the fact Channel 5 can go on about Decency I've heard worse stuff on TV during the day. I mean just watch wrestling or something and you'll see what I mean. But some people continue to be hypocrites and complain about the smallest things