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Offline redrumloa

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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #29 from previous page: January 09, 2003, 11:25:46 PM »
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Out of curiosity, what does these G, PG, etc really mean?


"G" means "general audience", good for all ages

"PG" means "Parental Guidance", some questionable content, not for tiny kids.

"PG-13" means "Parental Guidance 13", not recomended for those under 13

"R" means "Restriced" , very adult content not recomended for anyone under 17.

"NC-17" not sure what the N stands for. No one under 17 permited without an adult. This is the rating that was relatively recently institued to replace "X", because the X rating had become known for porn.

"X" was originaly meant for what NC-17 is today. It became a stigma afterthe porn industry used it as a selling point, and no movie house would dare let a real movie be rated this.

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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #30 on: January 09, 2003, 11:26:15 PM »
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #31 on: January 09, 2003, 11:34:14 PM »
Why 4:20s the time to spark up!  :-D
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #32 on: January 09, 2003, 11:41:18 PM »
@redrumloa
 
So the R is the highest rating (not allowed for anyone
below 17), whereas X and NC-17 are actually somewhat
milder (not allowed for kids under 17 but allowed when with
parental supervision)?
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #33 on: January 10, 2003, 12:25:50 AM »
In the UK we have an 18 certificate in place of R. White numbers in a red circle on all videos, games, dvd etc but only Parental Guidance Explicit Lyrics on our music, odd that. :-o
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #34 on: January 10, 2003, 12:26:48 AM »
super smoothe swirly smokin!

a bit slow tonight- maybe i'll go take a few hits with the miggy- its seems i've reached a dull momemt with very little happening (beside me keeping the flo) ;-)  :-D   :-D  :-)  :-P

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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #35 on: January 10, 2003, 01:19:47 AM »
Well Tarnation!  I can't even use some flibberty-gibbit curse words here anymore???That's a dang fool policy to institute!  I don't know one darned poster here who hasn't blown his cotton-pickin" gasket at someone or other and called him a rectal sphincter (including you, Wayne.)(Except for Billsey). Looks like the whole place is going to heck.  And what about those $*&()!!! X?**#@% who use $*#@*$ characters and punctuation to relace their $%?!!*$ filthy words, like they do in the $%#)**&@? comic strips?  Or those people who like to puzzleize their verbage by ommitting every d_mn_d vowel?  Will this no longer be tollerated as well?
What a flaming crock.
I'm signing the heck off now and getting back to my own whiffing place.

(P.S.  The questions were real, but the comment was light.  I agree with your policy, and know that I have overstepped the bounds on at least one occasion and had, what I thought was a light-hearted thread erased.  But this is not my page.  I am a guest here, and I really do respect the host's authority to make the rules and enforce them.  And I would rather be seen as a good guest than an unwelcome parasite.  Thanks, Wayne.) :-)  :-)  :-)
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #36 on: January 10, 2003, 02:50:01 AM »
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Wayne wrote:
In regards to the average youth of our members, please keep in mind a couple of facts;

1) Most were born in the 80s
2) In the mid 90's as most of our users were reaching puberty, most of their parents (former Amigans) were giving up their Amigas and buying PC's.  Which would you rather give a 10 year old?  A brand new, $2000 machine, or an antiquated, non-standard machine that you'd already paid for which could entertain the kids and allow them to write letters to grandma and play music mods for free?


Hey, I'm 23 (born in late -79) and I've been an Amiga user since -87. My first Amiga was an A1000 that required to boot the Kickstart from floppy disk. However, it wasn't my first computer though, that was an amazing VIC-20 where I managed to create my very first BASIC program. Are we beeing a little prejudiced here, Wayne?
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #37 on: January 10, 2003, 03:53:25 AM »
@samface

Not at all, you're on the back end of the bell curve where age of Amiga.org user is concerned.
 

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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #38 on: January 10, 2003, 04:59:26 AM »
@Mike_Amiga wrote:
> Last time I checked Cuban cigars didn't contain
> contraband (unfortunately).

last time I checked, Cuban cigars _are_ contraband  :-P
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #39 on: January 10, 2003, 07:49:36 AM »
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and a vast majority of our users are under 22 years old. This explains the lack of maturity displayed by some.

Thanks?
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #40 on: January 10, 2003, 09:33:43 AM »
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last time I checked, Cuban cigars _are_ contraband

Only in the USA.
 

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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #41 on: January 10, 2003, 07:29:06 PM »
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SlimJim wrote:
So the R is the highest rating (not allowed for anyone
below 17), whereas X and NC-17 are actually somewhat
milder (not allowed for kids under 17 but allowed when with
parental supervision)?


No, the last three (though technically X does not exist anymore)>

R - "Restricted" noone under 17 admitted without a parent or adult guardian  

NC17 - Noone under 17 admitted  (Very view films are released with this rating, though DVDs with this rating as director cuts are fairly common these days.

X - The old name for what now is NC17, its got very negative history at this time for its use in porn, however one of the first films to get this rating was the 1933 King Kong which had to have several scenes of Kong devouring people removed for the films release in order get a more mild rating.   The film these days would probably get a PG-13 (ie same as Jurrassic Park 3).
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #42 on: January 10, 2003, 07:48:16 PM »
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Tigger wrote:
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SlimJim wrote:
So the R is the highest rating (not allowed for anyone
below 17), whereas X and NC-17 are actually somewhat
milder (not allowed for kids under 17 but allowed when with
parental supervision)?


No, the last three (though technically X does not exist anymore)>

R - "Restricted" noone under 17 admitted without a parent or adult guardian  

NC17 - Noone under 17 admitted  (Very view films are released with this rating, though DVDs with this rating as director cuts are fairly common these days.

X - The old name for what now is NC17, its got very negative history at this time for its use in porn, however one of the first films to get this rating was the 1933 King Kong which had to have several scenes of Kong devouring people removed for the films release in order get a more mild rating.   The film these days would probably get a PG-13 (ie same as Jurrassic Park 3).
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Tig!  I am surprized at you!  You are usually a fount of incontrovertable knowlege and research, but this time, you're wrong!
King Kong was never threatened with an "X" rating!  It couldn't have been because the ratings system didn't begin in the United States until the late 1960's.  Kong DID face censorship, both from the newly established Hays Office, and from the Catholic Church and the Kennedy Family, who could (and did) get films "Banned In Boston" even after the ratings system was established.  The original ratings were:
"G," "M," "R." and "X".  "M," for "Mature," was later changed to "PG," "Parental Guidence," because people thought that "mature" movies were pornography.
The "PG-13" rating was added in the 1980's because of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom".  After its release as a "PG" film (because nothing in it fir an "R" rating), parents complained that "PG" was not sufficient to warn parents that a scene of a man's beating heart being ripped from his chest was coming.
King Kong also had to remove a few scenes of Kong using Fay Wray's top as a PlayStation controller.  (See, now, dad-burn it Wayne!  I'm trying to keep this consarned thing clean!)
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #43 on: January 10, 2003, 08:51:59 PM »
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Marky_D_Sahd wrote:

Tig!  I am surprized at you!  You are usually a fount of incontrovertable knowlege and research, but this time, you're wrong!
King Kong was never threatened with an "X" rating!  It couldn't have been because the ratings system didn't begin in the United States until the late 1960's.  Kong DID face censorship, both from the newly established Hays Office, and from the Catholic Church and the Kennedy Family, who could (and did) get films "Banned In Boston" even after the ratings system was established.


I'll believe you since the MPA didnt start until 1968.  Though I am going to complain to the author of my Kong book, since it says the movie was initially rated X and in actuallity it looks from IMDB that its original movie code was "banned" and then moved to Appoved after certain scenes were removed.   Its too bad the spider scene hasnt ever been found it would have been neat to see what all the fuss was about.
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Re: Language use in the forums
« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2003, 09:26:38 PM »
what about X/XX/XXX ? what do those ratings mean?.... aside from the more X's the better....