They Just Don’t Know When to Stop
Mood : Outrageous
Listening to: Spongebob Squarepants theme song
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Yea, so i’m one of those guys who still watch cartoons in his spare time, wanna fight about it?
Probably most of you didn’t wanna know the reason why i love cartoons but i’m gonna tell you the story anyway because i’m mean and i love torturing people with details.
So… way back then, i was that kind of kid who was given quite a sufficient amount of toys, foods ( i was a little chubby back then), video games, and ofcourse a private tutor in math and english (… what a waste of money)… so what will you do with that huge amount of power and oppurtunity in your hand? Ofcourse abuse it. So yea…. i spent most of my weekends ending up watching cartoons and eating junkfoods… and studied… a lot.
It seems a perfect childhood memories right? Yes and No. Don’t get me wrong- I’m really grateful for all the oppurtinities that my parents had given to me. But, sometimes i wish i could just go out there, spend more time playing with my friends in the field… playing soccer or something.
Unfortunately i was not allowed to go out to play on my own when i was a kid. I must agree that its quite dangerous neighborhood out there. But even if i go out to play…i would find no friends out there. We could only see other in the school…. or in the mall….
So yea… i must say i’m one of the kids who never played soccer with his friends or never try to fly a kite out there…. The only sports that i had was swimming so growing up.. i had a fond memories of being out there in the swimming pool. Fortunately my preeteen years gets better.
Ehhh… enough about that…. Where were we? oh yea.. cartoons.
One of the thing that pissed me off… is… why do people keep banning cartoons?
okay.. i agree.. some of them really are offensive. But banning harmless cartoons like pokemon or even children & toddler shows like teletubbies based on unreliable religious reason or based on the claim that it has sexually explicit content just way crossing the line.
Just when you thought it wouldn’t be weirder than that. Oh wait… it does…
Did you know that this following cartoon was also banned in China?:
Spongebob: too gay to children…
Yes! Banned! Now, why would they do that? China has its own reason. According to yourtv.com Apparently they did that “not because of a particularly aggresive censor objected to the content of his show-rather, it was due to an edict which declared that only locally made cartoon could be broadcasted between 5pm-8pm.”
Okay that’s tolerable.
But wait there’s more… i found out that certain US religious cult also tried to ban this kind of cartoon…”arguing that cheerful sponge was a gay icon who promoted alternative lifesytle to children.”
Reminds me a lot to the article the other day that said that People banned the Simpsons in Switzerland. (Come to think of….. i think there’s no such thing as Switzerland… i mean… come on… have you ever met anyone from Switzerland?) because its not a wholesome “family” cartoons and it has been approved as giving a negative influence to children…… and yet they replaced it with a wholesome family show in the same timeslot where simpsons used to be… the “baywatch”
Sometimes I wonder if adult really is a rational being.
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