top tivo 'ed scene

[HegemonKhan]

top tivo 'ed scene

janet jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" on/at the super bowl
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i was too lazy to add this, but now i am:

tivo, since it's a private business and u have to subscribe/agree to it, allows it to legally animously to gather the habits of its viewers and the most tivo'ed scene WAS/IS janet jackson's "wardrobe malfunction".

 

[krischan]

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The incident itself caused nothing but a bored yawn in most of Europe. I for myself don't know anybody at all who was upset about it, not even the most conservative people here, but most of them laughed about the attention, bigotry and prudery shown at that. I doubt that it applies to a majority of the US people, however.

 

[trashX]

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Imagine something like that happening at the European Soccer Cup. I doubt anyone in the US would care, but in europe it would be a big deal. Celebritys are caught nude all the time, it's just the when and where that caused the commotion

 

[Johnny]

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Yeah like remember that time Katie Price whipped out a boob at that event? The European press went mad, People where furious about this insult to Jesus and god. They interviewed people who's lives where destroyed by it...

Oh wait that never happened. Because boobs are your friend and over here we appreciate them!

 

[krischan]

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Seriously, that would be nothing but a funny incident. If a celebrity had a little accident with her clothing, the yellow press would have a picture of it on page 1 with a headline like "LOL, look here, hehe !!!" and everybody would smirk about it, that's all.

A couple of boulevard newspapers have pin-up photos of completely nude 20 year old girls on page 1 here nearly every day, nobody raises an eyebrow about them showing their bare breasts and hiding other body parts with nothing but a hand.

 

[trashX]

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Johnny, by "over here" do you assume I don't live in europe? I don't live in the US so i can't guage how people reacted. Also I'm not sure you understand just what how the superbowl is celebrated in the US. But... people can be somewhat prude in the USA

 

[Johnny]

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Switzerland, much like Belgium are European in name only but culture wise they have nothing to do with Europe. Sort of like Canada and America. Meanwhile Canada would actually make a decent European nation so you two can switch places.

 

[trashX]

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Care to elaborate? Besides not being in the EU that is

 

[Rashiminos]

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The prudery is public. Puritans maintain extravagant pretenses for no real reason.

 

[Johnny]

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First of all you're a German subculture so you're only in Europe as "tag along hand luggage" You never did any real work in the second world war. No interesting food culture or alcohol culture. Lacking that Je ne sais quoi that makes a country European.

 

[stephan]

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First of all you're a German subculture so you're only in Europe as "tag along hand luggage" You never did any real work in the second world war. No interesting food culture or alcohol culture. Lacking that Je ne sais quoi that makes a country European.

If those are the qualities you look for Belgium definitely is 'european', whatever that is anyway. Belgium was a major arena for two world wars, and has quite an interesting alcohol culture.

 

[Johnny]

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Belgium fills it's own set of criteria among them being a complete crackpot fascist state.

 

[stephan]

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You mean like Italy has been and is now, and others like Germany, Austria and Spain have been. Belgium has been really without much of a government lately.

 

[Johnny]

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Italy

Pasta, Sicily, nice music and sunny beaches.

Germany

October fest, beer, bratwurst, sausages and lederhosen .

Austria

I got nothing.

Spain

Señoritas and exotic catholic culture.

 

[stephan]

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Belgium: more different kinds of beer than you can taste in a year, chocolate. The problem with Belgium is not that it's not a european country, it's more that it's not really a country at all.

And come on, you object to a little facism here and there and then you come up with the place where they practically invented organized crime.

 

[krischan]

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Austria

I got nothing.

Uhm, perhaps Mozart ? But we had Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Haydn etc. etc. In combination that's most of the King Kongs of classical and romantic music. OTOH, Sweden had ABBA

 

[AeroJonesy]

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Celebritys are caught nude all the time, it's just the when and where that caused the commotion

Couldn't agree more. The Super Bowl is the biggest event on television in the US. The top 9 highest rated TV events are Super Bowls. Is it any surprise that something at the Super Bowl is the "most Tivo'ed"?

 

[HegemonKhan]

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now katie price having a "wardrobe malfunction" would be awesome!!!!! woot woot !!!

PLZ pm me the link for it johnny if u can...

all we got was janet jackson...and no offense to her...but her "chest" isn't that impressive....
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my political science teacher said the most truest thing ever:

isn't it strange that it's perfectly alright for americans to have the most bloody, goriest, gruesomest, criminal, murder, violence, and death on tv shows and movies, but it's not alright to show a girl's nipple.

gasp! a girl's nipple !!! OMG !!! that's soooo much worse than video games like san andreas or any horror movie...... gasp!! (sarcasm)

we have to keep some level of decency..despite that americans and the U.S. has one of the most promiscuist cultures and societies (sarcasm)

(and yet that's the legality of the U.S.)

(maybe now the world understands a bit better why americans/U.S. are so hawkish/war-ish)

 

[krischan]

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Couldn't agree more. The Super Bowl is the biggest event on television in the US. The top 9 highest rated TV events are Super Bowls. Is it any surprise that something at the Super Bowl is the "most Tivo'ed"?

That's similar here with football. All of the 2008 top ten audience ratings here were Europe championship matches, with the top six being those involving Germany.

 

[jmervyn]

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I got nothing.

Truer words were never spoken...

all we got was janet jackson...and no offense to her...but her "chest" isn't that impressive....
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my political science teacher said the most truest thing ever:

isn't it strange that it's perfectly alright for americans to have the most bloody, goriest, gruesomest, criminal, murder, violence, and death on tv shows and movies, but it's not alright to show a girl's nipple.

All this is admittedly accurate. Americans are undeniably wrapped up with an almost fetishistic attitude towards genitalia, and that's saying nothing about the way boobs and butt are treated in the same fashion. Given that we're probably the pr0n capital of the world, it's also quite hypocritical the way that we think being "naughty" is the best thing in the world. Madonna has built a career out of this sickness.

I'm someone who might be construed as a Prudo-American; I didn't (really) bat an eye at breast-feeding overseas on a public bus, but it pissed me off immensely when my wife's cousin did the same... with at least partial intent of having me check out her rack.

So even from that vantage point, I strongly suspect something else was in play for the TiVo result: the rubbernecking phenomenon. The manufactured nature of the episode itself was less than silly, but the hype surrounding it was amazing. When there's that much hype over that small of an item, I think it had more to do with TiVo owners wondering what really happened after having the media screaming at them,
"OMFGYOUGOTTASEETHISJANETJACKSONLIVESEXONSTAGE!!!!ONE!!"