In my (prickish) opinion there are too many prudish christian housewives that have nothing better to do than to stick their noses into other peoples business and ruin things for others.
You mean, like telling Americans how they should behave, that the morals they have chosen for themselves (regardless of how you feel about them) are wrong, and that they should change? That kind of sticking their noses where they don't belong? Is that the kind you mean?
I believe you are Australian, right. As in a citizen of? Living there and not here in the USA? So you have exactly WHAT business telling us how wrong our morals are? Please explain that one, I'm fascinated.
I can't recall the last time I thought to myself
"Boy, those Australians just don't live right according to MY standards. I wish they'd change." But ya'll just did that - and somehow WE are the ones ruining YOUR fun? We're invading YOUR turf? We're telling YOU how to live?
Uh-huh.
We get them in Australia as well.
Gee, ya think? I'll bet if you look in a mirror, you'll see one.
The US is particularly strange in that the people of the US like to think they live in a morally correct society but when you scratch that surface you unveil a whole lot of "sinning" going on. It's sort of like a secret shame.
Funny, we're a big polyglot, all of us believe slightly different things, not many of us agree on all things, but we somehow ALL believe the same thing when it comes to boobies on TV, is that right? Odd, I never noticed that before. I guess we all vote for the same person and smoke the same brand of cigarettes, yes? I'm sorry, is that like thinking that everyone from Australian drinks Foster's Lager and says G'Day and wrestles crocodiles and carries huge knives and doesn't know what a bidet is? Like that? Yes, we're all alike here, we all believe boobies are sinful and we'll vanish in a puff of smoke straight to hell if we so much as think of touching one....BAMF. Oops.
OK, I'm back from hell.
How about this - the
majority in this country don't want to see boobies on broadcast TV or on billboards, so we make laws that prohibit that sort of thing. Some localities don't have such a problem, and in those places, there is less resistance to it - some places are more strict. That's called 'community standards' and the way to get those things changed, if one believes they are wrong, is either become the majority and vote them in, or convince others to see things your way and vote them in. Either way, majority rules and that seems to me to be a pretty good idea.
Why should the majority not set the standards when it comes to community affairs that affect everyone? Are your rights in some way being violated because you can't see boobies on broadcast TV in most of the USA? Bearing in mind, of course, what I said earlier - there are boobies galore available to most Americans on demand - just not in public. So no one is denied access to boobies.
As to 'secret shame', I suppose one could argue even if we were all of the same mind with regard to broadcast boobies and billboard butts, none of us are perfect and even those with the highest morals quite often fall short of that goal. It is no sin to aim for high ethical standards and excellent morals, even if few of us can attain them. Of course, that makes those who try to be better people a target for those who don't think anyone can be better than a common animal and therefore should not try. Some of try, fail, and then are held up as laughing stocks for having even attempted it. Perhaps we should just roll around in the mud with the rest of the livestock, eh?
I enjoyed both those nikon ads - thought they were very clever.
I think that sex sells, it always has, and it always will. Local ads are designed for local tastes and standards - which is why these types of ads don't run in the USA. I have nothing against sex, nothing against Nikon, and nothing against the ads. But this thread began as a bash on Americans for being - gasp - Americans; it was never about the ads. Or didn't you get that?
