December 8, 2009

Television/movie censorship is a peculiar thing.It can be explained any which way as long as it serves the story.

What was forbidden years ago is now a totally excepted subject.

Years ago on I Love Lucy her pregnancy was covered up for a long time and I think only at her insistence was it finally showed.

On the Dick Van Dyke show Rob and Laura were not permitted to sleep in the same bed.

Everybody was made to believe babies were brought by the stork or there was immaculate conception.

Kissing was lips on lips, never open. Today they suck each other's face out in the process.

Love making is such an open subject that they are really go to the extremes.

Years ago showing a toilet or somebody using it was taboo. Now, almost an entire show might play out with one or more characters sitting on the toilet.

On the same thought years ago men standing at the urinal was unthinkable. Now it is shown very frequently. They even have women interrupting men in their necessary tasks in the men's room if it serves the storyline.

One can expect certain liberties and go with the times. Moral issues today are different than they were twenty to forty years ago.

We all went through a sexual liberation period. That means we all burnt our bras at least once.

I'm a guy, so this is only a figure of speech.

Now, to me the most disgusting thing shown on TV/movies is brushing one's teeth.

Brushing teeth is a private process. It shouldn't be shown as part of the story. There is no storyline that can not go around one brushing his/her teeth.

Next time it is on TV pay attention. First, the person talks with the toothbrush in his mouth and foaming toothpaste at the same time.

If the argument is heated he uses the toothbrush as a conductor uses his baton while walking all over the house or apartment.

What irks me is what comes next. At the end of the act or conversation the hero spits out what's in his mouth and walks away. He doesn't wash it down with water, I mean the spit; he doesn't rinse out his mouth he just walks away.

I would hate to look into the sink after this. It must look disgusting.

Is this how the majority brush their teeth?

We don't. We use a cup to rinse our mouth and we always wash down the sink once we finished.

But then we are not on TV.

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I have two very important questions. And these are really important ones.

First question:

A chandelier is the lighting apparatus hanging from the ceiling.

What or who is the chandel?

Second question:

If a Jewish man wears a rug on his head does he have to put on a yarmulke in the temple?